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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 2007 23:00:00 -0500
From:      Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mail being sent from my domain...
Message-ID:  <459F1EC0.6020707@tandon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070105213605.B8808@tbbqjvyy.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
References:  <00bb01c73134$b061fa60$0a32a8c0@rob>	<20070105212536.G8738@tbbqjvyy.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>	<002301c73142$ce57c690$0a32a8c0@rob> <20070105213605.B8808@tbbqjvyy.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>

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Lars Eighner wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Rob W. wrote:
> 
>> Ok, and I suppose by chance there is no way to prevent this from 
>> happening or a way to stop it huh?
> 
> No, not from your perspective.

You cannot stop others from spoofing your address, but you can prevent 
some backscatter from clogging your mailbox.  For users of Postfix:

	http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

However, because you're using qmail, you should post your question on 
that mailing list.

--
Sahil Tandon <sahil@tandon.net>



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