Faulty bounces are "confirming" spam
Chris Johnson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.misc.pape.general |
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| Message-ID | <20040505165201.84850.qmail@669169258aae26.e01ba3ee4a6096.palomine.net> |
A spam or so a day has been getting past qconfirm recently. It happens when someone sends spam with an address that has a valid domain but an invalid user name, and the mail exchanger for that domain bounces the confirmation message to the address in the From header rather than the envelope address. This "confirms" the message, and the spam ends up in my inbox. Would it make sense to ignore confirmations that have an empty envelope sender? Would it break anything? Chris