Topic awaiting preservation: spam killing on the domain

how do you fix it so that people can't just make up a user-name@my.domain.name and spam me with it?

i know i read something about this somewhere, but i don't even know where to start looking for it now...

thanks

signed: frustration getting murderous

That could be directory harvesting. In MS Exchange, there are tools for that. Not sure about other mail servers.

It could be purely spoofing. If the mail headers show that it came from another IP than your mail server, that's what it is. Nothing you can do about that, as far as it happening.

It sounds like you have a catch-all email address. Who is your host? Do they offer some sort of control panel web page?


 

spoofing > THAT's the term i read about before. yes i figured it was one of those things i couldn't fix. i DO get some spam that looks like it came from our own IP, though. hhmmm...

Slime, we're with a NZ-based (i think) company called Pop Media. on their admin pages, they offer the ability to create unlimited user names and email aliases... and now that you mention it, i do believe the main 'admin' account is catch-all - i'll have to confirm that. what's the alternative to catch-all? how do we go about changing our email options?

thanks for the help. perhaps its time for me to have a chat with our webhost, too.

basically the other option to having a 'catch-all' adress is that your mail server will reject anything that's not going to a known address

catch-all literally does that... whatever your mail server gets, if it doesn't know the destination adress, will be funneled to the one specified account.


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