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On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:55:05AM -0800, Isaac Close wrote:
> Personally, I always configure my email services to reject unknown
> recipients, don't really need to elaborate why.
>
> Is it becoming common practice to sliently drop messages instead of
> bouncing them (because of forged return-paths) ?
Yes. If you send a bounce message for unknown recipients, you get
used for backscatter attacks, where the spammer forges the source
address, sends mail to a false destination address at your site, and
the bounce ends up where they want it to go.
If you send bounce messages arbitrarily, without some fairly heavy
anti-spam checking, you're a part of the spam problem (unwittingly or
not).
Hugo.
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