| Is your domain suffering from Spam attacks?| Date posted: Mon, 21st Jan 2008 1:44 pm |
Hello everyone. Has your site recently fallen victim to email spam attacks? Have you opened your email, only to find 2000 returned emails from accounts that don't exist? Are the subjects "failure notice" or "Returned mail: see transcript for details"?
If so you have fallen victim to what is called a "Spoof Email Attack". During a spoof email attack you will likely receive hundreds (possibly thousands) of returned emails from names which don't exist on your server. When you inspect the originating email address, you will see it does indeed originate from your domain name. For example: sally@yourdomain.com, even if there is no sally account created on your server.
If you have suffered from an attack, you can take these steps to prevent it from happening again: 1) Contact Media Mechanic immediately to have an SPF Record set on your Domain. This should drastically limit the issue
2) Go to your account CPANEL and click on "MAIL". Then click "BoxTrapper Spam Trap" to force senders to click a verify message before sending
3) Be sure your SpamAssassin is activated.
These steps should help eliminate the problem.
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