WTF?? Was: AOL email concerns for pil.net (fwd)

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I just received 2 copies of this email from AOL's Postmaster, and it looks
genuine. We filter via SpamAssassin, but do not bounce spam or virii, but
divert them to separate folders.

The only strange activity I've seen lately is spammers getting past SA by
sending spam to everything@customersdomain via their formmail.pl scripts.
Note that they're not relaying via formmail.pl; we're using a hacked
version of formmail.pl that only allows recipients of domains we host,
which is where they're going. This could be unrelated, though.

I sent back a reply requesting a copy of an offending bounce, one of the
complaints, and for their postmaster to wrap his lines at something less
than the 110 characters they're wrapping at now. I've never gotten a
response from an AOL postmaster in the past...is there a better way of
contacting them?

TIA,

James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am

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up@3.am wrote:

I just received 2 copies of this email from AOL's Postmaster, and it looks
genuine. We filter via SpamAssassin, but do not bounce spam or virii, but
divert them to separate folders.

2) Total percentage of bounces accepted by pil.net (lower than 90% acceptance): 74%

I think this one is cute. Do you reject AOL bounces or is someone doing a dictionary attack spoofing your domain with random usernames and the AOL system is unable to deliver the bounced email to your system. You'd think they'd filter out the "User unknown"'s.

-Jack