Posted on Tuesday, 9th January 2007 by Patrick Dorwin
My email has been hijacked by the only thing in the world lower than whale dung… A SPAMMER! In the past 10 minutes, I have had over 300 bounced emails, blocked by spam blockers.
So until I get this straightened out, i suggest anyone needing to contact me use one of my alternative contact sources (not the @badgerblogger.com address), you can select one from my Contact Policy page.
I HATE FRIGGEN SPAMMERS!
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January 10th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Since I am an email administrator, this is a source of MAJOR consternation for me, and my coworkers. You see, we HAVE a solution to FIGHT this battle, yet due to politics and a fear of change there are many who fight STILL against the full implementation of this product.
It works BEAUTIFULLY! My mailbox is virtually spam free. All the spam is trapped in a reviewable online space where YOU, the user can make a decision on whether or not to blacklist permanently or, in the very ODD instance, whitelist an email or two…I have VERY rarely had to do that.
Bottom line is my real mailbox is virtually spam free, and even IF some spam slips through, I can forward it as attachments to a special “is-spam” address to the appliance so that it can “learn” to trap that spam in the future.
Sigh…..a NEVER ending battle it is.
I will say this….the amount of SPAM over the last few months has increased exponentially, based on our appliance statistics. I don’t have the numbers at hand, but I know it’s in the 10′s of thousands per day, and perhaps more.
And that’s with an email base of about 5,000 accounts.
January 10th, 2007 at 9:15 am
I’m not concerned so much with receiving spam, I get some, but not much. This problem is that someone seems to be sending spam using one of my domain names, so in the past 12 hours I have received about 500 emails returned to addresses like [email protected]
I know I could redirect all of these bogus emails to a black hole account where they are automatically deleted, but what I am angry about is that someone is using MY email server, in effect, My Name to send SPAM. If I have gotten 500 spam emails bounced back to me, how many people like me have received emails about penis enlargements and they guy from Africa that has $25 million for you, all he needs is your bank account number.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Unfortunately domain spoofing is a fact of life. Given the openness of the SMTP protocol and how it operates it is very easy to spoof a domain. Your server may or may not even be used in the spoofing process. I can telnet to your smtp server and send you an email message from [email protected]…spoofing is that simple and that’s how spammers and their spamming software work.
There have been pushes in recent years to utilize DNS entries to harness a protocol known as SPF or Sender Policy Framework. This has been pushed by Microsoft and is indeed actually implemented by Hotmail and other major online services.
Other services such as Yahoo had a competing technology known as “Domainkeys” that worked similarly, though I am not familiar with it and don’t even know if it is stil around. I do know that people are still trying to actively push SPF.
January 10th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Can’t we just castrate all spammers with a dull butter knife?
January 10th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Sounds like a good idea to me…think I have one or two lying around myself….