29th Jun 2004
It aint me, babe
For the last few days I’ve been getting all sorts of bounced emails, supposedly from my domain. I hate it. As any sendmail/MTA-aware person knows, someone’s forging addresses from one of my domains, sending out a bunch of email, and hoping some of it makes it through.
And as a mere owner of a domain, there’s nothing I can do about it. The email has nothing to do with my colo server (which isn’t even configured to send/receive email), or any of my systems. I can point people to articles, such as this one at ask-leo.com, but it’s still frustrating. I mean, in a perfect world, the only email coming from one of my domains would be something I actually wrote! Imagine that!
So it aint me, babe. The open nature of mail transfer agents designed in the 80’s doesn’t work in the 00’s. Perhaps Yahoo has an answer with their DomainKeys proposal.
