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Read my lips: No new bouncing!

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Subject: Read my lips: No new bouncing!
From: Peter Serwe <peter@infostreet.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:55:04 -0800
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I have this one particular box that I don't run anything sexy like SpamAssassin or anti-virus on,
and all I do with it is use it as a mail-reflector using fastforward.

Basically, I have a huge list of aliases in /var/qmail/alias/aliases.cdb, my .qmail-default is:

|/var/qmail/bin/fastforward -NP /var/qmail/alias/aliases.cdb

It seems like spammers have been sending mail to nonexistent addresses on this box, spoofing the senders so that my box tries to deliver the 'bounce' to the addresses they
are trying to spam.

What I think I want to do, is just blackhole all the bounces so they absolutely cannot 'reflect' spam off my host. Don't tell them, don't do anything with it, just send bounces
to /dev/null.

Towards that end, I created a few .qmail files, like '.qmail-devnull', '.qmail-bounce', with nothing more than a "#" in the files. I'm not sure that this is doing what I expected.

Anyone interested in jumping in and telling me how to do what I'm attempting, slap me upside the head for trying to do something I shouldn't, and/or offer me an alternative to
deal with this issue?

Peter

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