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  • March 11, 2008 at 7:12 am #2230867

    Net Spam Filters ?

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    by andy · about 16 years, 1 month ago

    Any one have any experience with gwa3.webcontrolcenter.com? I am getting emails bounced with standard business correspondence (.pdf’s and .docs attachments)the delivery failure says: Site msn.com (65.54.244.8) said in response to MAIL FROM (550 SC-001 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy reasons. I am not sending from or to windows live hotmail.

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    • March 11, 2008 at 7:12 am #2554518

      Clarifications

      by andy · about 16 years, 1 month ago

      In reply to Net Spam Filters ?

      Clarifications

    • March 11, 2008 at 7:22 am #2554513

      When you look at the mail headers

      by dumphrey · about 16 years, 1 month ago

      In reply to Net Spam Filters ?

      do they actually trace back to a real server? (MX record lookup etc, public dns registration etc.) is the bounce coming to you directly or to a group of names in the domain (see headers again). it sounds to me like either a spammer used your domain to send some spam, or this is reverse spam, used to harvest good addresses. Another option is to actually look at the attachment (I would be very caution here of course). Either way it sounds like spam, based mostly on the fact that you never sent mail to the address.

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