Re: SPF's helo identity as a reporting target

Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon 14/May/2012 10:34:06 +0200 Chris Lewis wrote:
> 
> Whoops, I meant:
> 
> _smtp.spammerdomain.com IN MX 0 wmail.tana.it
> 
> The spammer says "helo spammerdomain.com".

More or less.

> Postmaster sends complaint to abuse@_smtp.spammerdomain.com.
> 
> Where does that go?

That's plain abuse, though.  There must be loads of national laws that
the owner of that zone openly breaks.  Isn't that too much risky from
a legal POV, considering its effectiveness is probably less than other
kinds of DDoS?

   220 wmail.tana.it ESMTP
   HELO goofy.example
   250 wmail.tana.it Ok.
   MAIL FROM:<>
   250 Ok.
   RCPT TO:<[email protected]>
   513 Relaying denied.
   QUIT
   221 Bye.
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