Several times over the last few weeks, I have received hundreds of “Undeliverable Mail” notices from all over the world. Some spammers are forging the headers of their emails to put my address in the from line, a process known as spoofing. What bugs me almost as much, though, is the fact that all these bounces and spam-blocker replies come to me, and I have to wade through them all trying to find my legitimate email. Isn’t there some way for postmasters to configure their servers to verify the sender before sending out bounces willy-nilly, which only compounds the traffic problem?
I hate spoofer spammers!
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1. use procmail
2. come up with a method for logging mail
you actually sent
3. come up with a procmail recipe that can
match on messages logged as sent
4. throw everything else away
Implementation is left as an exercise for the spammee 🙂
That would solve my immediate inbox problem, but it doesn’t solve the next guys, nor does it cut down on the amount of traffic. Anytime a mail server sends out a bounce based on a forged header, it has contributed to the spam problem.