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Since midnight, I have been receiving a "Mail Delivery System"-type email at the rate of 1 to 3 a minute. That's well over 1800 so far today. I can't keep up trying to delete them from my server. It's an email address I haven't used in awhile, but it's linked to one of my domains, so I can't just close it.
Someone or something obviously got the address and has been bombarding hyperspace. I don't understand to what end, however.
I don't know if I can stop it or not.
Any ideas?
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If it's one particular address that you don't use, you can just create a filter and not worry about missing anything important.
I've been having a bad spam day too, mostly to a listserv admin addy (XXXX-owner)-- betcha we're getting the exact same crap.
What's your mail setup?
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[quote Black Landlord]If it's one particular address that you don't use, you can just create a filter and not worry about missing anything important.
I've been having a bad spam day too, mostly to a listserv admin addy (XXXX-owner)-- betcha we're getting the exact same crap.
What's your mail setup?
I use Mail with a bunch of accounts. The address that got hit is an "info@" sort of one that is linked to a domain I use. I was going to call my provider in the morning and have that one blocked, is there another way to do that at my end here now?
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That is not a mail attack on you - that is a mail attack using your email as a return address.
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[quote ztirffritz]Gmail was hacked to turned in to a relay server.
Does that just affect gmail? This is not a gmail account.
Thanks for the info.
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Ooh, don't call your provider and ask for anything blocked, you'll open a pandora's box best left closed.
Funny, mail isn't in the doc on my new iMac .. .
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[quote mstudio][quote ztirffritz]Gmail was hacked to turned in to a relay server.
Does that just affect gmail? This is not a gmail account.
Thanks for the info.
No, it means someone used one of gmail's servers to send spam throughout the internet.
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[quote ADent]That is not a mail attack on you - that is a mail attack using your email as a return address.
Yeah, actually, I know that. I'm trying to stop the flow if possible. Are they linking my address to theirs somehow? Otherwise, what's the purpose?
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OK, I just set up mail on my 'book (nice automatic configuration, good work Apple)-- here's what it looks like.
From the mailbox pulldown select "new smart mailbox."
You'll get a dialogue box with options.
Set it so that "to" "contains" "info@yourdomain.com".
Now all the bounce messages to that address will go in that mailbox. You can check it poeriodically to make sure nothing you really want gets in there. And empty it periodically as you wish.
