Author: Herb Martin Date: To: exim-users Subject: RE: [exim] Anti Phishing Trick
> 1. Someone who wants it. >
> 2. A spammer.
>
> 3. Poor Joe, which a filter can't help.
>
It almost never hits "a spammer" and Poor Joe
may consider it spam and be both morally and legally
correct in the estimation that YOU sent Poor Joe
that Spam.
Also, there is a fourth category:
4. The Spammee
Of course, this may be another version of "Poor Joe" but
by bouncing a Joe Job off someone's poorly configured
email server, you effectively use that server as a form
of "semi-open relay" to deliver the spam to the Poor Joe
Spammees out there.
It's not an open relay in the traditional sense, but the
effect is similar in many cases, and thus such servers
do play the role of (semi) open relay.
Recently, I have even noticed one or two spams being
embedded in the HEADERS (big, honking multi-line
advertisements) and one must wonder if these are mainly
DESIGNED to spam system admins and postmasters who are
likely the only one's reading such stuff in any volume.
