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Tony Sumner wrote: > > I am experiencing the same problem. A few days ago I started getting > mail addressed to <garbled>@whittycat.me.uk and containing a random > collection of phrases about all sorts of stuff. Then today I got a > failure report from mailer-daemon about a message supposed to come > from pgfmi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Oh, well; David Johnson says there is > nothing we can or need do. If you have email from the source of the problem, you can find the IP address of the offending box and report it. Sometimes you get this from the bounces. Of course it may be a bot net doing this, in which case expect to find they all are generated by different PCs. In theory you can publish an SPF (or other records) to persuade people to reject spoofed email, but the reality is most people who reject on SPF are smart enough not to bounce messages, but merely refuse them. As such SPF probably isn't that effective at reducing the backscatter. Although it might marginally reduce the number of people who see the junk. -- 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