fscking spammers

[redbird]

Someone appears to be faking a "from" address in my redbird domain on spam--I've deleted something like 150 error messages from postmasters in different places in the last half hour. As a short-term measure, I have removed the catchall address for email sent to users other than my and cattitude's known addresses here. This is annoying because it means that some of my email will bounce: I've given names like theircompanyname at redbird dot org for some mailing list signups. But I'm not in a mood to try to delete that much stuff by hand, and I really don't like the idea of trying to do it on the webmail interface while I'm traveling. (Were I not going on vacation, I might have tried handling it with Eudora filters. I may do that when I get home; I may try reenabling the catchall sooner, and see what happens. Or I may do something weird like send it to Yahoo or gmail.)

My @livejournal address should still work.

Comments

[beginning.livejournal.com]

Ack, I've been dealing with that, too. It fortunately seems to only come in waves.

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

I've been getting that sort of thing for a while now. Someone suggested it might be a "joe job" (ie. intentional and targeted disruption) but that seems unlikely to me, given that [anythingatall]@[mydomainname] comes through to me, and I've yet to see any of them with an actual address that I've ever used. Most of them appear to be random collections of letters, or "admin", @[mydomainname}.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

I use gmail now to get all my mail from my pop server on stardel. It works great, and no worries about filling up my account while I am on vacation.

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

Forwarding your email to gmail will strip a lot of junk out, otherwise what I do is use MailWasher.

I've set up "autodelete" rules for bounce messages (anything with "unable to deliver" or similar in the subject line etc.) and it runs every 10 minutes (that's what I've set) deleting rubbish out of the POP3/IMAP server and can then launch your own email download if you wish, but I do that manually every few days instead and just read stuff either via a webmail or through the MailWasher screen.