Virtual Imager Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Hello all... it's been a long time. Every day I receive about 50 emails from various "post offices" telling me that emails which I never sent failed to arrive. Obviously someone is sending emails from my account. These failure notices come to various initials @ mydomian.com like ergyz@**** or xbeype@****. And they come in all different languages. I also receive several autoreplies per day from people these emails get sent to who are out of their offices.... people I never heard of and never sent anything to. I know that last time I checked into this (a couple of years ago) I was told there is nothing that can be done about it. Is that still the case? Also, is this going to become a problem for me in terms of my real email account (me@****) getting blocked or anything like that? Is there anything I can or should be doing about this? Thanks in advance for any help you can give... VI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makaveli Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 spam assasin is good, but most people have that enabled already. this topic may be useful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Andy Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 You only usually get most of these if you have all email addresses going to your main account. I'd suggest setting your default account to :fail: and then setting all the accounts you really want up (or just set up forwards to a genuine account) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual Imager Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Thanks for the reply. I know spam blockers or setting my catchall to :fail will keep these failure notices out of my inbox and that is good, but it begs the question of how to stop the spoofing of my account or what to do about it so that my real email account (me @ ****) doesn't get blocked by major ISP's. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Andy Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 You can't stop the spoofed emails I'm afraid. They don't go from our servers, and hence there is little that can be done. Major ISP's are unlikely to block your real address - because there is so much spoofing on nowadays, they tend to look at the headers, and the IP address to determine where it really came from - not the "from" address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtual Imager Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Well that's a relief (not the part about not being able to stop it, but about my real address being unlikely to be blocked)! I've set my catchall to :fail: and will stop worrying now. Thank-you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 Also FYI...there is a colon before AND after the word "fail" as in :fail: Some people forget to put in both of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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