On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As, for the last three weeks or so, I've gotten a *bunch* of bounced
> emails, or notifications that something couldn't be delivered, because
> some scumbag has forged my email, putting it into the Reply-To: for their
> spam.
Yes, me too.
It seems a regular thing here for my email addresses.
I did have a catch-all email address, ie
whatever@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, but that is just *asking* for
spam!
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
> <snip>
>> The important headers in question are the 'Received:' headers, paying
>> close attention to the one that identifies where the mail entered
>> a legitimate server -- eg one's inbound mail server.
>
> Yep. Look at the chain of them, and mostly at the bottom, or the bottom
> two, and the Message-ID. If the IP's bogus (as in, 355.x.x.x, or the
> MessageID is something completely different than where it claims to be
> from, that's your givaway.
>
> mark
>
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