Someone is using my email address to spam

[Matthew Carpenter]

And when you're done, you'll have another email account which will end up in 
people's address book and stolen by another virus/worm and you're no better 
off.  You'd just as easily filter out the MAILER-DAEMON messages than jump 
ship over this.  Gmail is great, but it won't fix this problem.

You would be good to look into SPF, however, where your DNS server tells other 
SPF-compliant MTA's which hosts are allowed to send email for your domain.  
That is, of course, unless you and/or your recipients use ".forward" rules... 
that gets ugly then...  Your domain starts sending emails with other people 
as the From: address...  Doesn't look too good to other SPF-enabled MTAs.

http://openspf.org 
http://openspf.org/dns.html


On Wednesday 30 November 2005 12:45, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:20:25PM -0700, Collins Richey took 18 lines to 
write:
> > Or, just punt. Get a gmail account. They do a superb job of filtering
> > out spam and, I presume, the viruses as well.
>
> I just loathe "punting," though. It is as if I'm being driven from the
> Internet by lowlives, and I refuse to be so driven.
>
> Grmph.
>
> Kurt

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