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The current shit I'm dealing with is people using my email address to send spam to others (fake headers etc) and then I get the "you can't send here" or "this e

The current shit I'm dealing with is people using my email address to send spam to others (fake headers etc) and then I get the "you can't send here" or "this email address is dead" responses... that sucks, I have thousands of them and I read every email so it gets old fast.

charliesome 14y ago
Glad to know I'm not alone. It seems there's a spammer who's latched onto my domain. They're sending out emails to thousands of people from <some random alphanumeric string>@<my domain>. Every email sent to my domain ends up in my inbox so I get all the bounces. I've mitigated this somewhat by setting up SPF on my domain. I use Google Apps so this article was handy: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723&topic=2683865&ctx=topic http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1...
- citricsquid 14y ago
  Thanks for the link! I've reconfigured my domains DNS, if this works I am forever in your debt. I'll pass this on to a friend who also has the same issue, hopefully I can stop wasting my time getting rid of all this spam now.
bri3d 14y ago
I had the same opinion of your parent poster, so I tried my unobfuscated mail, and now I've got the same issue as you. While I've trained Gmail to mark delivery status notifications as spam automatically, it's frustrating to go from maybe 5-10 real, actual emails a day and no spam at all to over ten thousand delivery status notifications a week (spammers have started using thousands of 8-character hex@domain combination addresses, and everything from my domain directs to me to catch real people I meet making typos). I also sometimes worry that I may have to deal with some form of poorly-orchestrated vigilante retribution and/or potential blacklisting even though it's clear that the mail is not actually coming from me.
- sbierwagen 14y ago
  As your thread-sibling notes, Sender Policy Framework solves this by using DNS records to state which mail servers are permitted to send mail from your domain.
- sejje 14y ago
  I had someone forge my AOL email address into the headers somewhere around 1999 and send out lots of spam. A "vigilante" confronted me on AIM, we chatted about it, and he's now one of my best friends. Not that you want it happening, just an anecdote.

charliesome 14y ago

Glad to know I'm not alone. It seems there's a spammer who's latched onto my domain. They're sending out emails to thousands of people from <some random alphanumeric string>@<my domain>. Every email sent to my domain ends up in my inbox so I get all the bounces. I've mitigated this somewhat by setting up SPF on my domain. I use Google Apps so this article was handy: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=178723&topic=2683865&ctx=topic http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1...

citricsquid 14y ago
Thanks for the link! I've reconfigured my domains DNS, if this works I am forever in your debt. I'll pass this on to a friend who also has the same issue, hopefully I can stop wasting my time getting rid of all this spam now.

bri3d 14y ago

I had the same opinion of your parent poster, so I tried my unobfuscated mail, and now I've got the same issue as you. While I've trained Gmail to mark delivery status notifications as spam automatically, it's frustrating to go from maybe 5-10 real, actual emails a day and no spam at all to over ten thousand delivery status notifications a week (spammers have started using thousands of 8-character hex@domain combination addresses, and everything from my domain directs to me to catch real people I meet making typos). I also sometimes worry that I may have to deal with some form of poorly-orchestrated vigilante retribution and/or potential blacklisting even though it's clear that the mail is not actually coming from me.

sbierwagen 14y ago
As your thread-sibling notes, Sender Policy Framework solves this by using DNS records to state which mail servers are permitted to send mail from your domain.
sejje 14y ago
I had someone forge my AOL email address into the headers somewhere around 1999 and send out lots of spam. A "vigilante" confronted me on AIM, we chatted about it, and he's now one of my best friends. Not that you want it happening, just an anecdote.