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  • Re: Mail Delivery Failed messages

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Iain on Sat May 25 08:32:42 2024
    On 25/05/2024 in message <v2s721$2plve$[email protected]> Iain wrote:

    One of my mailboxes is being inundated with Mail Delivery Failed >messages.(over 200 overnight).
    I've made a filter in Thunderbird to delete them on delivery but is there
    a way to stop them before delivery? My ISP (A&A) sets a limit for messages >delivered to my domain and that limit is fast approaching.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    Iain

    Are they in response to email you have sent or is somebody using your
    email address for spam?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    This joke was so funny when I heard it for the first time I fell of my dinosaur.

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  • From Daniel James@21:1/5 to Iain on Sat May 25 14:02:54 2024
    On 25/05/2024 09:21, Iain wrote:
    One of my mailboxes is being inundated with Mail Delivery Failed messages.(over 200 overnight).
    I've made a filter in Thunderbird to delete them on delivery but is
    there a way to stop them before delivery? My ISP (A&A) sets a limit for messages delivered to my domain and that limit is fast approaching.

    I think A&A only limit outgoing EMail, not incoming, but if in doubt
    talk to support. They may also be able to filter the bounce messages so
    they don't get to your inbox.

    Do you have SPF and/or DKIM enabled on your EMail account? If not it
    might be a good idea to enable them with a policy to just discard any
    EMail appearing to be from you that comes from the wrong server. That
    should ensure that you don't get bounce messages from any spammers who
    might be using your address (unless they're also using A&A, of course,
    in which case they'll be kicked off pretty quickly!)

    --
    Cheers,
    Daniel.

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Iain on Sun May 26 07:12:13 2024
    On 25/05/2024 in message <v2t414$2utqs$[email protected]> Iain wrote:

    On 25/05/2024 09:32, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 25/05/2024 in message <v2s721$2plve$[email protected]> Iain wrote:

    One of my mailboxes is being inundated with Mail Delivery Failed >>>messages.(over 200 overnight).
    I've made a filter in Thunderbird to delete them on delivery but is there >>>a way to stop them before delivery? My ISP (A&A) sets a limit for >>>messages delivered to my domain and that limit is fast approaching.
    Any help would be appreciated.

    Iain

    Are they in response to email you have sent or is somebody using your
    email address for spam?

    Sorry for the delay in replying.
    My address is not being used to send spam as far as I can determine. The >messages are definitely not in response to anything I have sent.

    Iain

    May be worth looking at the raw text of one of them. I go through phases
    where somebody uses one of my domains for spam, I've never understood why
    but presumably there's a mechanism to get response to where they want them?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not
    expect to sit.

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  • From Daniel James@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Sun May 26 17:03:03 2024
    On 26/05/2024 08:12, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    I go through phases where somebody uses one of my domains for spam, I've never understood why but presumably there's a mechanism to get response
    to where they want them?

    Usually a disguised link to a website sane people wouldn't visit.

    You know: <a href="http://pwn-me.com">Kitten videos here</a> or
    something of the sort.

    --
    Cheers,
    Daniel.

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