Bret Hughes wrote: <snip>
Looking through my spam folder to which procmail sends all stuff tagged
by spamassassin I see a lot of stuff from various names but niether the
the originating machine or the first server if it did not go straight to
verio (my webhosting co) have nothing to do with yahoo bigfoot or aol
even though return email address indicates that is where the user is.
If you check the IP in the headers, I've found 99% of my spam doesn't come from yahoo.com (or any other ISP (and I've seen a few spoofed email addy's)), which is based in the US, but from some ISP in either South America, Eastern Europe, or Asia (less so then the other two)
This leads me to believe that they are either using someone else's open
relay or sending direct and that is exactly what aol is trying to stop. The open relays get blacklisted sooner or later :) and aol is being
proactive in stopping the direct guys.
What they should do is shut down their relay's. If that much spam is getting passed through AOL's servers, I'm left to wonder if they are using open relay's themselves. What they should do is stop spam originating from AOL accounts.
Is this horse dead yet?
I think so.
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