On 10 Jun 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/10/2005 04:20 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Since last night my in-box is being filled up by dozens of bounced > > messages. Evidently someone or something is spoofing my address and > > sending out bogus messages. I normally get a few of these and mark them > > as spam, but this is ridiculous. Is there any way to stop it happening? > > > > Anthony > > > Anthony, > > It doesn't appear to be a problem taken too seriously by any authorities. > > http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_spoofing.html > CERTŪ Coordination Center > Spoofed/Forged Email > > That page was most recently updated in 2002. > > My experience in reporting incidents to cert and the offending > originating ISP is mixed. Sometimes the spoofs stopped right away, but > maybe for other reasons. > > Regards, > Ralph >
Thanks for this pointer. The flow seems to be slowing now, down to 32 last night from over 100, so I hope it will go away soon. Meanwhile I'm catching nearly all of it with procmail. Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || http://www.acampbell.org.uk for using Linux GNU/Debian || blog, book reviews, electronic Microsoft-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
