[Mimedefang] Testing and dictionary attack..

WBrown at e1b.org WBrown at e1b.org
Fri Jul 9 15:15:07 EDT 2004


mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 07/09/2004 02:44:10 
PM:

> I was recently at an anti-spam conference.  I met an e-mail admin
> who ran a domain that had been inactive for two years.  That is, for
> two whole years, the domain "xxx.ca" had NO published MX records, and 
any
> e-mail to anyone at xxx.ca would fail.  (xxx.ca is not really the domain;
> I obscured it for privacy reasons.)
> 
> Out of curiosity, the admin published an MX record for that domain.
> He was *immediately* flooded with 100,000 spams/day.
> 
> I believe this settles the discussion as to whether spammers clean
> their lists.

I'll second that!  I had a subdomain that went dead.  Early this year, I 
resurected it to test Mimedefang and then later CanIT four years after it 
went dead.  Boy did the spam start rolling in!  At least it gave me 
something to test against. 



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