Help! I'm getting mail from MAILER-DAEMON@(various domains) with subject lines like: Delivery Status Notification (Failure), failure notice, Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender…
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As I have talked about before, backscatter is an annoying menace . Backscatter messages are sort of "ghost" bounces that come back to you, from sites that you've ne…
Quick Link: Looks like Backscatter , the annoyance of bounces you receive in response to something somebody else sent (usually spam), has finally made its way into the public ey…
Backscatter has long annoyed me . But, I've been even more annoyed at the lack of comprehensive information online explaining exactly what backscatter is, and why it sucks. W…
I ran across this interesting press release the other day. It's from McAfee, talking about how their Secure Internet Gateway appliance compares to a similarly-positioned dev…
I hate blowback . Or call it backscatter , or outscatter , if you prefer. Either way, it's no fun. If your mail server sends it, you're contributing to a growing proble…
What is it? Backscatter is a certain kind of mail you receive that you didn't ask to receive. If you've ever received a “Your mail could not be delivered” bounce notific…
John from the UK writes: We have recently -- the last 2 weeks -- become victims of a spamming outfit. They have borrowed our domain name and are sending out emails from random fi…
