From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 17:07:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F83A1065691 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:07:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@casasponti.net) Received: from ns2.bafirst.com (72-12-2-19.static.networktel.net [72.12.2.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3EE28FC20 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:07:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eculp@casasponti.net) Received: from casasponti.net ([201.155.7.3]) by ns2.bafirst.com with esmtp; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:07:21 -0500 id 000D52E8.48F774CA.00002069 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by casasponti.net with local; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:48 -0500 id 00130CC6.48F774A8.000109D6 Received: from dsl-189-190-8-164.prod-infinitum.com.mx (dsl-189-190-8-164.prod-infinitum.com.mx [189.190.8.164]) by intranet.casasponti.net (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20081016120648.17qwm4xcs6kgwg884@intranet.casasponti.net> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:06:48 -0500 From: eculp@casasponti.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20081016090102.17qwm4xcs6f4so8ok@intranet.casasponti.net> <20081016162641.GA16819@ayn.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <20081016162641.GA16819@ayn.mi.celestial.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (5.0-cvs) X-Remote-Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080925 Firefox/2.0.0.17 X-IMP-Server: 201.155.7.3 X-Originating-IP: 189.190.8.164 X-Originating-User: eculp@casasponti.net Subject: Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:07:25 -0000 Bill Campbell escribi=F3: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008, eculp@casasponti.net wrote: >> In the last hour, I've received over 200 legitimate bounce messages from >> email services as a result of someone having used or worse is using my >> email address in spam from multiple windows machines and ip addresses. >> The end result is that I am getting the bounce messages. I'm sure that >> others on this list have experienced the problem and maybe have a >> solution that I don't have. > > Did these come from Barracuda boxes? > > Blowback like this is hardly new or legitimate as the From and Sender > header addresses are often (usually) forged in spam, and it does not do > anything useful to reply to them. The forged addresses may just be > something scraped from the address book of a machine running the Microsoft > virus, Windows, or a deliberate ``Joe Job'' where a spammer is targeting > somebody who may have caused them problems. It had just got up this morning and found my mailbox full of these and =20 lost my cool. I probably sent the email too quickly. Thanks for =20 helping me get it together. ed > > Bill > -- > INTERNET: bill@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC > URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way > Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 > Fax: (206) 232-9186 > > Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. > -- Ralph Waldo Emerson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.or= g" >