Re: Fwd: failure notice

In message <[email protected]> (on 12 May 2005 22:30:59
-0400), [email protected] (Bob Puff) wrote:
>Its stupid qmail generating backscatter.  I had one guy go nuts on me because
>his qmail box sent him a bunch of the probe bounces.
>
>Boy, you're pretty gutsy using your email address as the FROM: on the probe
>messages!

[email protected] would seem to work better, unless the formatting that
qmail does is too messed up. After all, qmail backscatter could be used to
relay viruses that will look like a bounce message, as many do nowadays...

>Bob
>
>
>---------- Original Message -----------
>From: Simon Shapiro  <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:04:24 -0400
>Subject: [DSBL-Discussion] Fwd:  failure notice
>
>> Dear black-listers;
>> 
>> I test about 700 messages a week.  The attached message is the first
>> of its kind I see.  Is this an indication of a defficiency in the 
>> test software?  My setup?
>> 
>> [ I test that many because this is the amount of spam that bypasses
>> my dnsrbl pre-filter.  The most hits seem to come from spamcop... ]
>> 
>> ------ Forwarded message ------
>> From:  [email protected]
>> To:  [email protected]
>> Date:  12 May 2005 23:40:34 -0000
>> 
>> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at MediaSoft.ro.
>> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
>>  addresses.
>> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>> 
>> <[email protected]>:
>> Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>> 
>> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>> 
>> Return-Path: <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Received: (qmail 27992 invoked from network); 12 May 2005 23:40:34 -0000
>> Received: from adsl-065-013-001-095.sip.asm.bellsouth.net (HELO
>>  simonshapiro.net) (65.13.1.95)
>>   by media-gw.planet.ro with SMTP; 12 May 2005 23:40:33 -0000
>> Message-ID: <kTghQ/[email protected]>
>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 00:21:06 +0000
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Open Relay Test Message
>> 
>> DSBL LISTME: smtp 194.176.162.181
>> kTghQ/8zQmO0J8uotxhgwSI+YtSRdTxJ
>> MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
>> RCPT TO:<listme.dsbl.org!listme>
>> DSBL END
>> 
>> This message is a test of your mail server to determine if
>> it will perform relaying (re-sending) of e-mail messages
>> for unauthorized outside parties.  This capability, if
>> enabled in your mail server, is widely considered to be
>> serious flaw in mail server security.
>> 
>> Your mail server is being tested for relaying capability
>> because we have received mail from it and wish to determine
>> its likelihood to be abused by spammers.
>> 
>> We protest the inhuman, dishonest, and downright
>> awful way the SSA is treating our famlily.
>> 
>> We support total privatization of Social Security.
>> As five years victims of this organization,
>> we know!
>> 


-- 
Allen Smith			         http://cesario.rutgers.edu/easmith/
There is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument
that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men,
and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it. - H. L. Mencken

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