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Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam

said by joako See Profile :

It is called Backscatter

You should treat it as any other spam and report the sending server.
From the link you provided......

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The judgement call for what to do with undelivered mail is not simple. Best practice is, wherever possible, to reject the spam at the boundary and be done with it. The alternative is to discard spam that has already been received, and try to report non-delivery only to plausible senders.
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Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam

It doesn't negate the fact that the OP is receiving unwanted and unsolicited email messages (aka spam).

You can A) sit around and do nothing B) try to do something and maybe one day administrators will be persuaded to correctly configure their email servers.
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Re: [Spam] when someone fakes your email address to spam

Actually they are getting bounced spam which is different. Very likely the same message hundreds of times with the "from" being the only difference. Easy to filter/delete by subject.
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