Bounced email storms and RT 3.0.4?

RT Users
1

Last night the ‘MS security patch’ worm finally
found its way to our RT email address. RT
sent out a reply, as expected, but then got
into a bounced email ‘storm’ - that single
instance of the worm resulted in ~200 email
messages on “RT Bounce:”, starting with:

RT thinks this message may be a bounce

Has anyone seen this? Is there something I can
change in my configuration that would prevent
so many bounces?

Thanks!

Steve Wampler sbw@tapestry.tucson.az.us

2

My yahoo mail is getting nuked with the “MS xxx yyy”
messages. Fortunately I’m not using a virus friendly
OS, so I can just delete. However, they still take up
a lot of space, when arriving at 3/minute.

My RT is not getting hit, but I simply added some of
those keywords to my SPAM filter program I wrote (I
posted about it last week). If certain keywords are
matched, the message is dropped before it enters RT.
If you (or anyone) wants a copy, let me know and I’ll
send you a copy.— Steve Wampler sbw@tapestry.tucson.az.us wrote:

Last night the ‘MS security patch’ worm finally
found its way to our RT email address. RT
sent out a reply, as expected, but then got
into a bounced email ‘storm’ - that single
instance of the worm resulted in ~200 email
messages on “RT Bounce:”, starting with:

RT thinks this message may be a bounce

Has anyone seen this? Is there something I can
change in my configuration that would prevent
so many bounces?

Thanks!

–
Steve Wampler sbw@tapestry.tucson.az.us

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