Nick Murtagh writes:
> Brian Foster wrote:
> > them now!). I believe this is known as “backscatterâ€.
>> It's called a Joe Job, and there's not much you can do about it, short
> of disabled the email account or waiting till it stops.
No, it's probably not a joe job, it's backscatter alright.
SpamAssassin 3.2.x has a ruleset to get rid of it -- the "VBounce"
ruleset.
see also http://taint.org/tag/backscatter
--j.
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