On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jonas Petersson wrote:
> Although email addresses are reasonably mangled, the message IDs are not
> and as they typically resemble email addresses, we see a fair amount of
> spam being sent to message IDs that are part of this list...
It sounds as if you're considering every possible address under your
domain to be a valid address. In the long run, this is going to kill you
independent of the message-id problem you described. One quick check
run by a spammer and you'll be recieving spam to tens of thousands of
"e-mail addresses" on your server.
Just MHO, of course, but you're much better off immediately rejecting
e-mail to addresses not known to be valid. Then you will never have to
deal withh it.
(This is getting a bit off-topic, so if you have technical questions
relating to this, please contact me off-list.)
cjs
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Received on Thu Dec 11 07:22:56 2003