[BUGS] incoming mail since about begining of april

[Andrew Reilly]

Hi Jonathan,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 03:03:26PM +1000, jonathan michaels wrote:
> i have noticed an increase of incoming "spam" reports, stuff
> addressed to mailer-deamon, postmaster etc, etc, a whole lot of
> similar type 'admin' addresses.
> 
> it is like somebody turned on a mains faucet, many, many, hundreds
> per day .. grrr.
> 
> is anybody else seeing something like this ?? it started as a
> small trickle on teh 1st april and by teh 3rd/4th it was
> flooding in.

Yep, me too.  My spam has bumped up to about 10000/day, and most
annoyingly, about five or six an hour are getting past my spam
filter and into my inbox.

Most of it that I'm seeing seems to be bounce messages from
badly configured (even though it would have been "correctly
configured" ten years ago) MTAs, to spam messages with one of my
e-mail addresses as the forged sender and/or From address.

It's very annoying.  In the past, this sort of thing just went
away by itself after a while, but it doesn't seem to be slowing
down this time.

> it looks like i'm going to have to find a decent bit of
> hardware that is freebsd v7 compliant and enough grunt to run
> some sort of a spam trap/stutering/rfc-2??? to stop this from
> getting here at all.

Your current mail system isn't up to it?

> comments/ideas/pointers appreciated.

I'm open to suggestions myself, but I don't fancy changing my
mail addresses and domain names just to get off someone's spam
list.  That's not a long-term solution.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew