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Thread ID: 60862	2005-08-16 00:11:00	swamped with "undeliverables"	bruce666 (8727)	Press F1

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381516	2005-08-18 22:36:00	2/ they have stopped for now, as abruptly and inexplicably as they started . Perhaps the villain has run through his/her/its full list of email addresses and has gone off to steal more . This is good news, but it may not be how it will stay . The fact that your "undeliverables" came with an attachment suggests that this is indeed the result of a virus . I suspect someone who has your domain on thier computer had a virus that allowed some spamming ******* to use thier machine as a zombie . They've either sorted it out, or aren't using the net at the moment . 1/ they are being "returned" to an-infinite-bunch-of-other-dumb-names@mybusiness . co . nz OK, sounds like you'd benefit from a system not unlike what i run for the millerton . co . nz mail . I don't know who handles your email before you get it, so the exact details of how to set this up for you are difficult to define . I can only post how i've done this . My email and domain registration are handled by www . registerdirect . co . nz they allow me 10 mailboxes per domain, and infinate aliases . My email is split into three mailboxes . -One mailbox for private addresses This takes the form of address for "trusted people at www . millerton . co . nz" (obviously i'm not going to write the real address here) This is for the people i deal directly with . the actual address is given out on a one to one basis to those i can trust with it . Anything sent here is direct to my inbox . Theres a spam filter that deals out the occational email that comes to this address, but spam is rare . -One mailbox for public addresses . This is wildcarded, so you could write to "anything you like at www . millerton . co . nz", and it will arrive at this mailbox . This box does get read, but not with the priority of my inbox . This is where addresses on my website will go, or random attacks similar as to what you had would end up . Once i get more spam coming through from the address listed on my website than i can be bothered with, i change the address, and move the old alias address to the third mailbox . If i suscribe to anything, such as www . pressf1 . co . nz the address given is specific to that forum . That way if i were to start getting spam on that address, i'd know why, and only block mail sent to that address . I wrote off "bravenet" for that very reason, i got a lot of spam arrive at an address i only ever gave to bravenet . The address i gave them is now in the third mailbox . -one mailbox for junk@millerton . co . nz This is for addresses that are well and truly in the hands of spam inc . Send an email to chris@millerton . co . nz, and it will end up here as that is an address that gets 20-30 spams a day . I have it collected by an email client that puts it in a box called "trash@millerton" and every month or so i delete a few hundred items of junk . As you can see, i'm quite happy to run anything in the third mailbox as a honeypot . Anything sent here is one less thing sent to a real address . Your email provider may be able to bounce bad email addreses for you, so if you were to get 10 spams a day for debbie@businessname . co . nz , you could have that configered so future email for debbie bounces back and you'd never see them . (i'm assuming that there's no-one called debbie who might want her mail ) HTH	personthingy (1670)
381517	2005-08-18 22:45:00	All you need to do is configure it so any email not sent to a specific email address is deleleted automaticlly at the server end. Its a snap to make the mail.domainname.co.nz address a black hole.	Metla (12)
381518	2005-08-18 23:01:00	Its a snap to make the mail.domainname.co.nz address a black hole. Not allways... i have the choice of sending all nonspecified addresses to a blackhole, or an exsisting mailbox. I do not have the choice to send specific addresses to a blackhole, unless i create my own, hence mailbox 3, see above.	personthingy (1670)
381519	2005-08-18 23:06:00	The mail.domainname.co.nz is the catch-all address,meaning it recieves all emails ending in your domain name......	Metla (12)
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