Spammers Relaying Through Bounces

[jjohnson at sunrise-linux.com (miah)]

Then the fix is simple, quit sending out bounces for users that don't
exist.  The fix involves replacing the smtp of qmail, which basically
means replacing qmail.. 

http://www.pycs.net/lateral/stories/11.html

just ditch qmail and start using a MTA that's less of a unmaintained
chunk of code, and start using one that people actually care about
(postfix, exim, even sendmail is better).

-miah

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:00:13PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 02:50:41PM -0400, Matthew Valites wrote:
> > Right, but a spammer for what reason?
> 
> Actually, they consider me a relay: as I sort of am.  The spammer
> forges e-mail, sends it to me, I bounce it to the spammer's intended
> recipient.
> 
> -kb
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