Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Andy Fiddaman
; Marc Grober wrote: ; I am getting pounded by backscatter as a result of one of my addresses ; being used by some major spammers. Are there any solutions available to ; address all the Delivery failure and bounce notices. I would at least ; like to be able to sort between such responses from

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 May 2008 17:38:18 -0700 Scott Likens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish that was really true, However having a spammer recently using my domain and email address to spam viagra. SPF etc don't really work unless the receiver is using SPF checking. If you aren't using SPF, then you

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Dennis Davis
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Andy Fiddaman wrote: From: Andy Fiddaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: info-cyrus@lists.andrew.cmu.edu Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 07:05:06 + (GMT) Subject: Re: Backscatter solutions ... Pretty much the only way to stop this is to use something like BATV to tweak your envelope

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Cathey
On May 9, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Andy Fiddaman wrote: Pretty much the only way to stop this is to use something like BATV to tweak your envelope sender address outbound. That still doesn't stop everything as out-of-office replies are usually sent from a real address. BATV changes the from

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Mike Cathey wrote: ; On May 9, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Andy Fiddaman wrote: ; Pretty much the only way to stop this is to use something like BATV to ; tweak your envelope sender address outbound. That still doesn't stop ; everything as out-of-office replies are usually sent from

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Joseph Brennan
Ian Eiloart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you aren't using SPF, then you can't really complain about backscatter. Forget SPF. Why should any system accept mail for an unknown recipient and then mail a bounce? That's the primary cause of backscatter. These systems are just as likely to accept

Re: Backscatter solutions

2008-05-09 Thread Karl Boyken
We're looking at this as a solution: http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-null/ Karl -- Karl Boyken, system administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303A MLH, Dept. of Comp. Sci. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~boyken/ The U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 319-335-2730 (voice) 319-335-3668 (fax)