OT: Spam problem

[Charles Kenyon]

I don't know where else to turn. I have a website and use a general address
that lets me get any mail sent to the domain. I do not send mail from the
site. It is a POP-3 server.

The problem is that one or more spammers is using my address for their spam
and I am receiving hundreds, sometimes thousands of bounced emails a day.
This is often in excess of 3MB of garbage and I am on a dialup connection.
My real email gets lost even though I have rules in Outlook that move most
of these messages into junk folders. Is there any way that I can let common
spam filters know that this is a domain that should be blocked without
notice?
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Charles Kenyon

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[Chuck Davis]

Stopping the bounced e-mails won't solve the problem of wasted bandwidth.
Change the domain e-mail address. Then use a Form for the world to fill in
and send you messages. Your host must have the FrontPage Server Extensions
installed. Place a simple text image (not real text) in the form containing
a silly string of no more than six letters that the person completing the
from must enter into a text box. Verify the letters before accepting the
message. DON'T put your e-mail address on your web site. The spammers
crawlers will have it within hours and you will be right back where you are.
See my site: http://www.anthemwebs.com/contact_us.htm

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You gave good advice, but not about the problem I'm having. I receive all
email sent to my domain, regardless of the name. The spammers are not using
any email address that I've given out. They are making them up. I do not
ever send email using that address. They aren't sending the spam to me, but
to others. I am hoping that there is some clearing house for the spam
blocking programs to let them know that any email from that domain is spam.

And no, I don't care to change my url.
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[Brian Tillman]

You gave good advice, but not about the problem I'm having. I receive
all email sent to my domain, regardless of the name. The spammers are
not using any email address that I've given out. They are making them
up. I do not ever send email using that address. They aren't sending
the spam to me, but to others. I am hoping that there is some
clearing house for the spam blocking programs to let them know that
any email from that domain is spam.

You can get your domain added to the RBLs that people use to filter their
mail, if that's what you mean.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

But that means that all mail to that domain will be blocked by systems that
rely on RBLs, including legitimate addresses.

Charles may just need to accept that getting NDRs from mail you didn't
actually send is one of the unpleasant facts of Internet life.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Thoughts on where I would go to do this?

No legitimate email comes from this domain.

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[Charles Kenyon]

I may have to accept it, but I don't have to like it. My email can take more
than an hour to download and 99% of it is bounced messages! No legitimate
email goes out from that address. I sometimes use that domain for the
reply-to address. I would be fine with having all email from the domain
blocked but would also prefer that I not receive messages that it has been
blocked.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

http://www.email-policy.com/Spam-black-lists.htm has a list of RBL sites.
Contact each one.

 

[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

I may have to accept it, but I don't have to like it. My email can take more
than an hour to download and 99% of it is bounced messages! No legitimate
email goes out from that address. I sometimes use that domain for the
reply-to address. I would be fine with having all email from the domain
blocked but would also prefer that I not receive messages that it has been
blocked.

You could decrease your download time by downloading only headers, going
through and marking all the NDRs and spam for deletion, marking all the
real mail for download, then do another send/receive. More work, but it
should save download time...

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Thank you.


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[Charles Kenyon]

Good idea since the bounces often include the original email (with viruses,
etc. as attachments). Thank you.
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[Charles Kenyon]

How do I set up Outlook to only download headers on this account? It is easy
to do with news articles in OE but I've never tried in Outlook. Outlook
2003.

TIA

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Charles Kenyon

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[Jeff Stephenson [MSFT]]

How do I set up Outlook to only download headers on this account? It is easy
to do with news articles in OE but I've never tried in Outlook. Outlook
2003.

TIA

Tools -> Send/Receive -> Send/Receive Settings -> Define Send/Receive
Groups... Select the account, then pick the "download headers only"
option.