Misconfigured mailservers keep on bouncing
I found multiple attempts to reach nonsense addresses on one of our domains this morning. It was so weird, I just had to blog it. I’ve redacted the domain, but kept the attempt count.
As far as I can tell, that domain was used as the from address in a spamrun. These message counts represent the MAILER-DAEMON bounces from misconfigured mail servers. When mail is rejected, they just keep on trying.
And no, I don’t accept bounces for non-existing addresses.
36 dang.anything
34 concocter.breadroot
34 Millerbodhisattva
33 cedillaacademe
30 biconcavecircumvent
24 complyambrosial
18 conantcybernetics
14 barnyarddeneb
10 biconcavecannonball
9 acetate.attention
September 1st, 2006 at 7:38 pm
I’ve been seeing piles of similarly-titled emails all over the place the last few days. The emails contain a GIF file of text advertising pump-and-dump stock schemes and the ever-ubiquitous online pharmacy drugs.