yellowaircraft Posted December 2, 2004 Posted December 2, 2004 Hi there I am a new member I have a website hosted by TCH and some e-mail accounts... I usually get emails to sales@sariucak.com and info@sariucak.com (sariucak.com is my web site). but these emails do not exist in my email accounts. Can anyone please tell me how can this be? Thanks in advance .... Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 (edited) In cPanel what do you have the default address set to for your domain? If you don't want email coming to you for accounts that do not exist enter :fail: in the box instead of an email account. Moving for organization. Oh and welcome to the family! Edited December 3, 2004 by TCH-Bruce Quote
TCH-Don Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 Welcome to the Family and your new home! We really are like family here. So if you need anything, just ask your new family! We love to help Quote
yellowaircraft Posted December 3, 2004 Author Posted December 3, 2004 Thanks a lot guys for the quick response... I have another question.. how am I getting e-mails to an e-mail address that does not exist? Just curious? Thanx again... Quote
borfast Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 It's cPanel's "catch all" address. Anything that reaches the mail server destined for an @yourdomain address will be droped into your "catch all" address. You can click the "Default Address" link in your cpanel's "E-Mail" section. There you can set the options for the default address. Quote
yellowaircraft Posted December 3, 2004 Author Posted December 3, 2004 thank you for the info.... Quote
Samrc Posted December 4, 2004 Posted December 4, 2004 Spamers and others have a stack of standard email address beginnings that they use and it has nothing to do with anyone having your specific address. They shotgun hoping to find someone with a live address. Here's a few standard addresses they use for ALL domains they find:info@ webmaster@ sales@ service@ contact@ Don't click REMOVE ME, etc from emails. If you have not signed up at that location, then they don't know it's live until you click to remove. Once they know it's a confirmed address, it will be sold and your mailbox will be FLOODED. WELCOME! -Samantha Quote
yellowaircraft Posted December 4, 2004 Author Posted December 4, 2004 These are very helpful for me to understand those spammers.. yet raised another question, how can they find my website or another website that is not a common one (like mine for example mine is sariucak.com and is not a common name or some other thing...) Quote
LisaJill Posted December 4, 2004 Posted December 4, 2004 There are many methods, they can monitor for the registration of new domains for one thing. It's all automated, not manual, at that. I don't think that more details than this is something that we should be posting publically. *winks* Quote
yellowaircraft Posted December 5, 2004 Author Posted December 5, 2004 So they go on fishihg of some kind.... that's weird Quote
MoonFaery Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 Unfortunately, it is really easy to change the 'from' email address in outlook express. I could go into one of my accounts and have an email come from whateveriwant@anywhere.com if I put that as the reply address. I've been getting bounced emails saying that I have been trying to send virus spams from my email address and I know they probably originated from the technique above. It is a pity there is people out there that waste their time making virus' and doing spam. Quote
LisaJill Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 I can almost gaurantee you that they're not using Outlook Express. It's just one of the header details that is easy to fake in almost any method of sending mail. Quote
MoonFaery Posted December 6, 2004 Posted December 6, 2004 That's true, unfortunately. I just use outlook express so I definitely know it is possible with that. But it is probably some mass email producing program. I can tell it isn't from me from the details of the original email. Quote
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