Spam

Guys (& Girls (are there any?))

Does anyone else receive a lot of Spam from [email protected]****here.biz??

On some days I will get upto 20 odd

Nope - never (so far)

I spoke too soon! Today I did get one spam email offering to email my site to over 3.5 million email addresses for free! Naturally I took them up on the offer - how very kind and thoughtful of them!

You just can’t turn offers like that down can you. So far I have submitted mine to 3.5 Billion :smiley:

Did it come from yourdomain.com@m****here.biz ?? How can that happen JH? Are they spoofing the emails? Should it be allowed to happen? I am starting to see an increase in emails coming from [email protected] sent to [email protected] as well now. These have only started within the last 3-4 weeks - has anything changed?

Thanks
Greg

PS - Don’t panic, I have really taken them up on the 3.5 Billion emails, i thought the offer was too good to be real - I went for the 5 million instead :smiley: :smiley:

The email came from my [email protected] to [email protected] I haven’t got round to looking at the headers of the msg yet.

Knowing that you went for the free 5 million option, I’m rather miffed! I think I’ll complain and ask for 7 million!

Here’s part of the header…

Message-ID: <[email protected] >
Received: from 111 by g5-u8.lbshx0.mail2world.com with DAV;
Sun, 21 Aug 2005 01:46:19 -0500

They are definately spoofing the headers. Just one of the many tricks employed by spammers.

You can make your spam filter more aggressive

Thanks Yash - I’ve changed the spam filter to “Aggressive”. Is there a FAQ or something which explains the spam and virus features of the control panel ?

Will using SPF stop this?

If you have a SPF record for your domain, and Jodo’s mailserver has SPF implemented ..then yes, it should avoid this.

You’ll still get SPAM, but not from *@yourdomain.com, at in theory :stuck_out_tongue: