spammers using my email address!!
Hi,
I've been getting loads of returned/undeliverable email notices for emails that I haven't sent in the first place.
Spammers are sending spam emails out using email addresses with random letters/names followed by my domain.
Any idea what I can do about this?
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italianninja posted this at 11:27 — 10th October 2006.
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are you using imap? or smtp to send mail? smtp needs to be locked down. imap uses native intergration.
timjpriebe posted this at 13:30 — 10th October 2006.
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Not much, as they're probably just spoofing your email address. Just make sure you have a good spam/junk email fllter.
Greg K posted this at 15:59 — 10th October 2006.
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It is part of internet life unfortuently. I am currently receiving about 35-50 e-mails a day from delivery failures/"your e-mail was bocked..." messages. I jsut set up filter to look for the common items and trash them when they come in.
This is mild, about 3-4 years ago I was receiving about 150 or so a day for about a month straight. Some spammer just sent out a ton of junk with different names @mydomain I did get a few people e-mailing me thinking i was sending the mail, but nowaday most people and servers have good filters I don't get anything personally from recipients.
-Greg
JeevesBond posted this at 16:33 — 10th October 2006.
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We get about the same number of undeliverable messages from people using the TWF address. Problem is that sometimes there are messages that I've sent that get returned, but they get mixed up with all the other rubbish. Very annoying, there doesn't seem to be a way around it unfortunately.
If you do find a fix, let us know.
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andy206uk posted this at 19:02 — 10th October 2006.
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Hi,
I should imagine your using a catchall email address (*@yourdomain). If this is the case, get your host to disable the catchall and leave just the aliases that you actually use (i.e. sales@ info@ yourname@ etc). Get everything else routed to a trashcan/blackhole/spam account. Then you'll only get emails that are actually addressed to valid accounts.
Andy
garethcbrown posted this at 20:14 — 10th October 2006.
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Thanks everyone. I knew I'd get help here!
So what's the best way to create a blackhole account?
I checked on my hosting service and it was forwarding all email sent to anything@mydomainname to one of my main accounts. I've disabled this but don't know where to look to create a blackhole account to have all those future emails forwarded.
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mr cgi guy posted this at 20:33 — 10th October 2006.
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If you're on Cpanel you just need to set the default address as: :blackhole:
Personally, I use :fail: so that it bounces the email back.
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garethcbrown posted this at 21:01 — 10th October 2006.
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on my hosting service setting for undeliverable email, anything sent to addresses that don't exist, I can either select that it is returned to the sender or forwarded to another valid email address.
should I just have it set to "return to sender"?
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mr cgi guy posted this at 21:35 — 10th October 2006.
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If all it is is spam I'd just bounce it. If you have a custom bounce message, I'd include a url to a contact form or something just in case it's a real email.
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garethcbrown posted this at 21:46 — 10th October 2006.
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no I'm getting the undeliverable mail that has been sent by whoever it is using my domain name to create forged addresses to send their spam.
mr cgi guy posted this at 21:53 — 10th October 2006.
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yeah, in that case i'd just bounce it. or use something like spamarrest.com to filter it if you're worried that some may actually be real.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 13:13 — 11th October 2006.
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Yes, I have this problem as well. At first, I was worried that my email address was going to get blocked by filters, but I'm pretty sure that filters work by the hostname sending the emails and not the email address.
andy206uk posted this at 18:07 — 11th October 2006.
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Don't bounce it. There's no point as the bounce address will be invalid anyway and it's just creating excessive traffic and unnecessary load for your ISP and less load on your ISP = better service for you.
Andy
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