[LINK] Question re spoofing with bad reply address

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Wed Jul 9 16:58:06 AEST 2014


On Wed, 2014-07-09 at 16:44 +1000, JanW wrote:
> What is interesting is that when this happens, I seldom get any 
> complaints to me about the original email, so at least that's 
> something positive. I just get the mailbox full, dead address results.

You'll only ever get a complaint if the spam actually makes it through
to a human recipient.

The vast majority of spam these days is both sent and destroyed by fully
automated systems. All bounces are from automated systems.

Regards, K.


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