Thanks for the responses.
 
Since my e-mail account is one of the two being joe-jobbed, I've got lots of samples to look at...
I'll document how I attacked the problem for the mailing archive:
 
The spammer sends out thee subject base64 encoded (Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?).
It also will forge the from line with various displayed names and my e-mail address ("Cute Cultivator" [EMAIL PROTECTED])
So I can use this forged from address as a joe-job filter.
 
I'm being pretty conservative so that legit NDRs don't get blocked...
There still some annoying Joe-Job NDR's that come back. The Earthlink and Spamarrest filters are the most annoying. I almost want to reply to them so they get the original spam. The over-quote messages don't seem to block well either.
 
The filters:
 
sfisher-joe-job.txt (Weight 50 in global.cfg)
TESTSFAILED END NOTCONTAINS MAILFROM-NULL-SENDER
ALLRECIPS END NOTCONTAINS sfisher@
MINWEIGHTTOFAIL 2
BODY  END CONTAINS Scott Fisher
BODY  1 CONTAINS Subject: =?iso-8859-1?B?
BODY  1 CONTAINS a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
BODY  1 CONTAINS b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and so on.

Mailfrom-Null-sender.txt:
MAILFROM 1 IS  <>
MAILFROM 1 STARTSWITH MAILER-DAEMON@
MAILFROM 1 STARTSWITH MAIL@
MAILFROM 1 STARTSWITH spamblocker-challenge@
MAILFROM 1 CONTAINS SMTP_Gateways@
MAILFROM 1 CONTAINS SMTP@
 
And then a punishment combo with the joe-job filters and sniffer and some URL test: (weight 100 in global.cfg)
MINWEIGHTTOFAIL 2
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SFISHER-JOE-JOB
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS DCRUMMETT-JOE-JOB
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SFISHER-JOE-JOB
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS DCRUMMETT-JOE-JOB
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-TRAVEL
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-INSURANCE
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-AV-PUSH
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-WAREZ
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-SPAMWARE
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-SNAKEOIL
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-SCAMS
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-PORN
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-MALWARE
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-ADVERTISING
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-SCHEMES
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-CREDIT
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-GAMBLING
#TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-EXPER-IP    (not doing this one in case legit bounces... just playing it safe)
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-OBFUSCATION
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-EXPERIMENTAL
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS SNIFFER-GENERAL
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS BODY-URL-CURRENT
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS BODY-URL-PREVIOUS
TESTSFAILED 1 CONTAINS BODY-SCSURBL
 

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:40 PM
Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Joe Job Filters

Does anyone have a filter that works well on stopping Joe Job bounces (preferably while not stopping legit bounces...)?

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