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Direct-to-mx mailing can be done from a simple dialup or broadband account belonging to the spammer, or by open proxy machines controlled by the spammer.
An open proxy is a third-party computer that has been configured to serve spammers by untraceably relaying their mail, hosting, or guarding their websites, or performing other tasks.
Typically, the owners of such computers do not know that their machines are open proxies, since the proxy code leaves little in the way of traceable data.
The reverse web proxy takes requests from website visitors and relays them to the protected spam website, returning any data it receives from the protected site back to the visitor.
To the visitor, the proxy itself appears to be the spam website, and there is no good way to tell that it is actually only a proxy.
These are often open proxy machines belonging to unknowing home users.
A computer that has been implanted with open proxy software is called a zombie and can form part of a botnet used by spammers.
A botnet is a term usually applied to a group of open proxy computers ("zombies") used for spam transmission and related tasks.
Botnet: A term typically applied to a group of open proxy computers ("zombies") used for spam transmission and related tasks.
Socks is a networking proxy protocol that enables hosts on one side of a SOCKS server to gain full access to hosts on the other side of the SOCKS server without requiring direct IP-reachability.

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