On Friday 21 February 2003 12:20, Francisco Azinsan wrote:
> Someone has sent many emails using randomly generated local parts in
> a domain that I own as the From address. e.g., <random>@<my-domain>,
> and now I'm getting all the returned emails back.
Fun ain't it ?
> such as verify failed for SMTP recipient <random>@<my-domain>
> and hundreds of messages are being queued up on my relay server,
The solution I've adopted for a similar situation was to add aliases to
the relay server for the non-existent recipients like the following :-
uzicz: :fail:
cweqx: :fail:
vdehy: :fail:
jhzyi: :fail:
Or possibly :-
xyzzy: :fail: This address was forged by a spammer.
Or even :-
xyzzy: :blackhole:
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