Re: [exim] Forged FROM

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Autor: Jeremy Harris
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On 28/07/16 18:48, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm not sure what, if anything can be done about my situation. One
> spambot is forging my email address and IP in their FROM headers,


Actually the envelope from, not the headers from:

> so my
> email server is getting hammered with bounces.


> Any ideas other than suck it up?


Modify the envelope-from that you use, in such a way that
you can tell real bounces for your mails from the backscatter
bounces from the spammer mails, and reject the latter
as early as possible during the SMTP connection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounce_Address_Tag_Validation
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Cheers,
Jeremy