[SLL] [Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)] - joe jobs

[Kurt Buff]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Paul Franz <paul at eucleides.com> wrote:
> I'm getting deluged with thousands of these joe jobs due to some spammer using my
> e-mail address in his "reply to:" header. Most come from qmail and Exchange servers.
>
> What is the proper way to fix this problem? I could treat each of these joe jobs as
> spam and automate a reply to them using procmail. It started happening a few days ago
> just getting a few hundred of these joe jobs a day but now the problem is growing to a
> few thousand just today alone.
>
> Maybe I should make an effort to go after the spammer who caused the joe jobs in the
> first place.
>
> Comments?

Assuming you're using postfix as your MTA. this is good stuff, though
a bit out of date:

http://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html

The wikipedia article has a good reference in it:

http://www.sitepoint.com/print/sabotage-coping-joe-job/

Kurt