I think I need to give up my main email address after 6 years. Why? SPAM! I get 400+ spam messages a day, and thanks to spamassassin I can manage that quite well ...
But now, spam has entered a new phase ... I get a lot of bounced and rejected mail from mail that got sent with my email address. These mails seem to contain virusses and who knows what else ...
This all started one week ago ... maybe I'll let the storm pass by, but I think it is better to bounce all spam mail for a short period, including the bounced ones ...
If this does not help, I'll need to shut down my old email address ...
Does this phenomenon sounds familiar to anybody? I wonder if I would shut it down for a month, that I would get back to the old - 5 messages a day - state ...
johan
Also, do you have any catch-all addresses? MANY joejobs were coming to me at "garbagestring@petdance.com", so I turned off my catch-all address.
Re:Joe-jobs
johanvdb on 2004-03-02T22:29:02
Hmmm... They contain mail seamingly sent from my email address to others, like e.g. the php mailing list, graphviz and such. I get bounces from them because e.g. the mail sent to them seems to contain a virus or got sent to an unknown account at that host.
I'm not sure if this falls under the category joe-job also?
johan
Virus bounces were a bit more of a problem. Fortunately, SA to the rescue! Unfortunately the scores on those aren't tweaked very well and the recommendation that you just chuck anything that matches one of these rules is equivalent to tossing all bounces. I'll send you my own rules if you like.
Meanwhile, I hold out for SPF.
You're fed up with people bouncing spam to you and your solution is to bounce spam to other people? That doesn't seem very useful.
Re: Bouncing Spam
vsergu on 2004-03-04T13:37:02
I hope he really means "reject" rather than "bounce".
