On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 10:55:09AM +0200, Michael Raff wrote:
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>
> I own the pobox.co.za domain and am having the same problem. Someone is
> spamming faking a rubbish source address from the @pobox.co.za domain. The
> first line in the headers that gives any smtp info is
>
> Received: from excite.com (209.203.247.83) by adv-www.advancedgroup.co.uk
> (Worldmail 1.3.167); 1 Apr 2000 07:52:43 +0100
Ok. Ignore the excite.com part, that is fake. 209.203.247.83 is actually
some host at lightrealm.com.
adv-www.advancedgroup.co.uk is an open relay, listed in ORBS.
> I am just getting the rejected emails that are sent to non-existent address
> on the spammers send list, and that alone is in the hundreds of emails.
Well, redirect all mail for that garbage address to #
> Can anyone suggest a way I can prevent this? Maybe it is time we blacklist
> all free email domains.
That would have no effect in this case.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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