Uh oh... I might be a guilty party here. What do you mean by "bounce after accepting?" With my own app, it receives the E-Mail, gets as far as the DATA command, does a quick overview of the E-Mail, and if it's considered spam, it returns a 550 - User Doesn't Exist instead of a 250 - Okay.
Is that what you mean? -Aaron -----Original Message----- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:24 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: sender-valid SMTP callbacks (Re: Does "tuxorama.com" sound familiar to anyone?) Matt Kettler wrote: > Realistically, most spam I get seems to be using addresses that are > already in the spammer's database of "valid" email addresses. While I > see a lot of viruses using dictionary based MAIL FROM addresses, I see > very little spam doing this. > > So I don't think this really changes much about spam, aside from > perhaps encouraging spammers to clean their lists. My system would disagree with you for the last 3 days :) We've been under a constant bounce bombardment of bounced spams (from f*cking idiot admins who can't understand that you do not bounce after accepting, sorry for the language) where the majority of user names are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where roger is any valid name). We had one advance MX server that usually ran 32 connections out of 120 and now we've had to bring on 3 additional servers all running 300 connections and we've had to turn off SA processing because the incoming load is just too high. I'd really like to take a bat to the knees of the spammer doing this AND the mail admins who bounce after accepting. Just my $0.02 Rick
