On 11 Jan 2002 at 10:26, Boryan Yotov wrote: > I know this doesn't concern not the firewall neither the netfilter > news group but I don't know what to do at all.
I've had exactly the same - over the past few days about 10 bounces for spam that has used my address, plus I've had colleagues in other companies tell me they've had the same. There's nothing you can do about it - the mail doesn't originate from your mail server, but the From and Return-Path headers are set to your address. You could try tracing the originating mail server in the headers and report the spam to their abuse dept (if they have one) but in the bounces I saw most of the headers had been stripped so I couldn't trace it. I had a lot of this 3 or 4 years ago and spent time explaining to the 5 or 6 people that emailed me and complained that it wasn't me and that they could verify it by checking the headers - I'm just waiting for complaints again this time around, but I just know it'll be much harder to convince them I didn't send it as it's more likely to be "newbies" that complain, the "techies" will probably have spotted the from address was a fake. This is just another of those problems you have to live with - it's extremely easy to fake a from address, and unless you can determine the actual originating IP you'll have trouble getting any action taken. Dan --- D.C. Crichton email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Analyst tel: +44 (0)121 706 6000 Computer Manuals Ltd. fax: +44 (0)121 606 0477 Computer book info on the web: http://computer-manuals.co.uk/ Want to earn money? Join our affiliate network! http://computer-manuals.co.uk/affiliate/ _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
