Re: IPv6 email reflector

[Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>]

On 2010-07-14 09:48, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> 
>> Congratulations, you have just set up an automatic spammer for the
>> millions of spammers out there, they spam you, and you spam back the
>> spoofed email address.
> 
> Well, actually as far as I could see the email one gets back doesn't
> really contain any subject/body from the original email, so the use for
> spammers is limited (?).

It is another mail in your mailbox that should not be there in the first
place.

Same issue as with DSNs, mails should be rejected at DATA time so that
the sending SMTP server has the handle the issue, not by the receiving
SMTP server which then accepts it and then decided it doesn't want it.

Greets,
 Jeroen