plk
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|  [spammer hunt] Hotmail spam all has MX as part of address
I have noticed almost all my spam on hotmail all has MX as part of it's domain. I suppose the spammer uses it to track. The rest of the domain changes, but always has mx as part of it. Why hasn't hotmail caught on to this and used it to trace it or block it.
Are you folks seeing this?
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pleekmo
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| Re: [spammer hunt] Hotmail spam all has MX as part
Have you checked to make sure that MX is part of the domain of legitimate e-mail as well?
For instance, here is a "Received" line from one of my pieces of legitimate e-mail:
from imo-d06.mx.aol.com (imo-d06.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.38]) by flpvm23.prodigy.net (8.12.10 083104/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3TL7hLn028371 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:07:47 -0700
If I recall correctly, "MX" refers to a mail server.
If even legitimate e-mail contains "MX" then obviously you cannot use this string to filter for spam. |
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
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Re: [spammer hunt] Hotmail spam all has MX as part of address
Oh, thank you. I did not know MX was part of a string. I had not noticed it in other e-mails from the past. damn the bad luck. If I get more, I will post them just to see if others are getting these same variations.
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DrStrange
Technically feasible
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West Hartford, CT | reply to plk
MX = Mail eXchanger |
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