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Re: bounced spam



 David Kramer wrote: 
> Mike Gorse wrote: 
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008, Nathan Meyers wrote: 
>> 
>>> Same boat here - started happening a few weeks ago. I added some 
>>> .procmailrc filters that capture the vast majority of this 
>>> voluminous bounce spam: 
>> 
>> I thought about trying something like that, but it would catch 
>> legitimate bounces, too.  Maybe there's no other way around it and 
>> the benefits would outweigh the cost, though. 
> 
> I'm getting hit hard too. 
> 
> What I was thinking of doing was flagging subject lines like Nathan, 
> but add anout test to see if one of my domain names or IP address 
> appears in any of the Received lines, and if not, then it's probably 
> fake. 
> 
> I say "probably", because sometimes the "from" clause is not included 
> in the Received line. 


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