David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The mail was not sent by me, but by someone else, who is apparently
> forging the Return-Path: header, as well as the From: header and
> inserting my e-mail address in those headers.

Your MTA creates the Return-Path: field from the envelope sender
provided by the sending software during the SMTP transaction.  The
spammer is using your email address as the envelope sender.  This is
not uncommon.

> So when TMDA tries to send the confirmation e-mail, it gets sent to
> ME.

If you don't have yourself whitelisted (and you shouldn't), it will
end up in the pending queue.  After a while, it will be deleted.  It
will cause no problems and shouldn't worry you.

> but just the same, I'd prefer to bounce the message at some point to
> prevent my system from even accepting it. I know that that is
> something that should most likely be done from qmail before TMDA
> ever sees it.

You can put your own email address (or your entire domain) into
/var/qmail/control/badmailfrom (man qmail-smtpd).  qmail-smtpd will
then reject that message during the SMTP transaction.


Tim
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