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Re: [LUG] bad returns from spam

 

Steve Marvell wrote:
>
> Another problem is this:
> 
> A script has been compromised and the box is being used to send spam.
> 
> I'd quite happily dumpy anything that looks like a return to
> sender. Since it's coming back to www-data, I'll just blackhole that,
> unless you have another strategy.

For as long as you've stopped the spam at source, I've usually just
delivered any bounces from things like this and used my mail clients
"sort" feature to pick it out.

But I'm pathological adverse to "blackholing" any email.

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