[Mimedefang] Spammers who won't take no for an answer

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Oct 21 09:02:17 EDT 2003


On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Joseph Brennan wrote:

[David Skoll]
> > Is anyone seeing a new trend (maybe a new ratware package?)  I'm seeing
> > spammers repeatedly retry the same message, even after a 5xx failure code.

> Outlook does that.  It can go on for more than a day.

Really??  But surely spammers don't use Outlook to connect directly
to the victim's MX host.  I doubt Outlook even knows about MX records.

Regards,

David.



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