emptybody's Journal: How to battle a joe-job?

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Today I have been assaulted by spam.
It turns out that my email address is being used by spammers both as a destination AND as a forged from line.

To compound the problem, well meaning postmasters have set up their mail systems to bounce back to the "sender" mail that can not be delivered.

This includes email marked as SPAM for whatever reason.

The problem that I have with this is that I did not send these messages. Looking at the headers it is clear that the listed address is not from the same domain as the actual system that the email came from.

I see no way to stop this onslaught.

I have even taken the outlandish step of .forward-ing all incoming messages to /dev/null

Any better Suggestions?

this spam fest started coming in at 1 per minute.
I am now, 3 hours later, running at 4 per minute.