Mailwasher returning my bounces a lot lately

NeedKarma · Oct 5, 2006, 06:40 AM

I haven't experienced it but I had seen elsewhere as your #2 point: spoofs getting bounced back. They usually die down after a short while since the spammer does one big run per spoofed email address.

If it continues then I'm not sure what it could be. Turning off Mailwasher for a test period is certainly something I would do. Doesn't your ISP have a good spam filtering software at the server level?

RickJ · Oct 5, 2006, 08:45 AM

I use RoadRunner, so truth is, I bet they do have something...I've just never checked it out before since Mailwasher does such a wonderful job.

...and there is a little thrill involved in bouncing spam back to spammers

NeedKarma · Oct 5, 2006, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by RickJ

...and there is a little thrill involved in bouncing spam back to spammers

That may have worked in the old days but now pretty much all the replyto addresses are spoofed/fake. For the 419 scams and the fake lottery ones I look for the contact email provided in the body of the spam and forward the mail to abuse @ "ISP Name" and tell then to shut down their drop box. Often I get a reply back that says that the subscriber has breached his TOS. Hehe. Yes, I also take some pleasure in shutting them down.

Mailwasher returning my bounces a lot lately

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