At 16:33 26/09/2003 +1200, PhoneNet wrote:
At 11:23 26/09/2003 +1200, you wrote:
At 10:38 26/09/2003 +1200, Steve Withers wrote:
Further comments on IP and domain blocking for *personal* mail servers: Just checked my maillog from yesterday.
70% of rejected mail connects came from hotmail, yahoo, earthlink and aol.
Umm, are you sure about that ?
If you look at the message headers you'll find that nearly all of that (well for hotmail and yahoo anyway) is just spammers forging hotmail and yahoo addresses, the messages wont actually be passing through hotmail and yahoo servers...
Anyone in the world can send an email through any server in the world and make the From and reply addresses seem to be a hotmail address....
or any address or so it would seem going by the sheer volume of bounced email I'm receiving on my phonenet (at) xtra.co.nz account (an account that doesn't post email or newsgroup messages but is there as a leftover from my former business) - I'm assuming they harvested the address somehow from the old websites.... and I'm not smart enough to know what to do to stop this spam going out under ficticious names but with my email address showing as the sender and reply-to :-(
The short answer is that there is nothing you can do. If someone out there in internet land somewhere wants to send an email with your address as the "From" address, they can do so. Unless the recipients are clueful enough to check the message headers they're likely to fall for it too... I get quite a few bounces from spam that has supposedly been sent "from" some of our contact addresses which we *never* send email from, I just take it in stride and it just fuels my determination to fight spammers even more :) Fortunately we havn't had any complaints for quite some time about spam comming "from" us, so maybe people are now generally aware that the "From" address of Spam is usually bogus... Regards, Simon