On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 21:00 -0700, oldman wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >I have long had a catchall box for my domain without too much issue - > >spamassassin has handled the load. > > > >Apparently - starting at some point today, I am getting several hundred > >rejects an hour with apparently random_name@xxxxxxxxxxx as the sender > >and thus the bounce backs/rejects are coming to me. > > > >I can filter them with sieve but I am wondering if there's a way to know > >how/where these things are originating from and if there's likely any > >reprecussions from this mess. > > > >Craig > > > > > > > As I'm sure you realize this is probably some acquaintance of yours, > who has your E-Mail address in Outlook and has some nasty Adware or > virus on his system as well. Unfortunately, unless you want to collect > all of your bounces and try to figure out who you know that collects > bazillions of e-mail addresses, it is unlikely that you will ever find > out. I got lucky once when I received a bounce from the Navy and from a > distant relative, so the person had to know both of us and have both our > e-mail addresses (luckily (?) I don't have a lot of family that I talk > to regularly and it was relatively (no pun intended) to figure out the > culprit and get his box fixed. Good Luck --- I've had that before (other windows users that had me in their address books when they got some Windows worm/virus) but never has the consequence been rejections in terms of several hundred per hour. Also - the sender is not my return address but some_apparently_random_sender@xxxxxxxxxxxxx which comes to me because of the catchall aspect - and I now have sieve siphoning this all off - which I have never had to do before because it was never anything close to this extreme. Craig
