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On Tuesday 10 October 2006 20:40, Robin Cornelius wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I've started to get a load of spam warning messages to one of my mail > > addresses. It seems that the 'catch-all' feature of Orange (nee > > Wanadoo/Freeserve) is allowing mail servers on the internet to send out > > delivery failed notifications to my e-mail address even though they > > didn't originate from me! > > Yea its called backscatter. I no longer run a catch all for this very > reason. Its amazing how much spam is directed at <random>@somedomain so > only allowing genuine usernames cuts out quite a bit. > > There is little you can do with backscatter, some spammer has found your > email address and is sending forged from headers. Then the stupid server > at the other end is believing the from header and trying to return the > mail. > > I don't know what the real solution is. Funny - I was just trying to sort this same problem for my dad. Tried setting up filters in Thunderbird but got stuck when I couldn't figure out how to put in an OR clause. Thought I could filter on the To address and if it didn't include any of the ones he uses then it could be deleted straight from the POP server. Let me know if you mange to fix this. Cheers, Matt. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html