Re: email address probes

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From: Ned Fleming <ned@kaw.us>
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 09:07:05 -0600

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:54:19 +0000, Andy Bastien
<lists+incidents@yuggoth.net> wrote:

[snip]

>I'd like to be able to stop these attempts, but I can't think of a way
>to do it. All of the attempts are coming from valid servers from some
>domains that we can't block. They do all have null reverse-paths
>(MAIL FROM:<>), but I don't think that we can reject on this criteria

Maybe you're being joe-jobbed. To wit: A spammer is using your domain
name as the "From: xyz@yogguth.net" or "Reply-To:" address on the spam
he's spewing.

        http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml#joe_job

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