I guess the only solution here is that u configure your mail server to
reject bounces sent to non existant mail addresses!!! This shud be possible.
Though i don't think that anything can be done to stop a person from using
mails sent from your domain! The only thing that one can try is to find out
if any open relay is being used by the spammer, and get the relay shut
down..
Bye,
/\ |\/| |3 /\ r
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raju Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 7:46 PM
Subject: [ilugd]: Serious Mail Problem
> >>>>> "Kapil" == Kapil Sethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kapil> Hi, I am facing a serious mail problem, I hope I can find
> Kapil> some Sendmail expert on this list. Can Mr. Raju help.
>
> Kapil> The situation is:
>
> Kapil> A person from somewhere in US configures his mailclient
> Kapil> with name as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and with the same
> Kapil> return address. This mail address
> Kapil> i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist. He then
> Kapil> sends hundreds of mails mail to nonexistent Yahoo
> Kapil> mailboxes. Almost all of these mails bounce and are
> Kapil> forwarded to Bharatconnect mailserver. which again rejects
> Kapil> the mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not
> Kapil> exist. But as the double bounce messages are forwarded to
> Kapil> Postmaster my precious bandwidth has been wasted.
>
> Kapil> Is there any way to stop this type of attack. Today I have
> Kapil> received over 3000 bounced mails from yahoo for 10
> Kapil> different nonexistent bharatconnect mail addresses.
>
> Sorry, you're out of luck. There's no way to prevent any random
> e-mail sender setting his return address to any random user@any random
> domain.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raju
> --
> Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
> It is the mind that moves
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