Spam

[Jacques]

I don't understand, I hosted my new web site 1 week ago. And today, I
received a commercial email. I didn't advertise my web site anywhere because
it is not finished. I also spam proofed my web pages (I used a ASP page for
my Contact us page). So what's wrong ?
Also the spam I received was sent to (e-mail address removed) where mydomain
is the name of my domain but I never created an email for accounting.
How is it possible ?

 

[AMysticWeb]

Well, if you have a public domain registration, they could have gotten you
domain name from there.

Although you didn't create an account called accounting, it probably just
went automatically through Postmaster.


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[Jacques]

Thanks. Do you know if there is a way to configure the email server so it
doesn't go automatically ?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to contact your web host regarding the mail server.

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[Andrew Murray]

I'm assuming here, but you probably have a "catch-all" email account on your
hosting service, as well as the ability to set up specific individual
accounts - so '(e-mail address removed)' will send to your main catch-all
account regardless of what the prefix to the domain name is (prefix in this
context meaning the "accounting" bit of the address), and whether the email
account exists of not, but I think this is something the host has to
configure, if you want emails to bounce that are sent to an email address
that doesn't exist - or there might be a way you can do it through your
cPanel or whatever.
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I just checked one of my linux-hosted accounts that uses cPanel: this is
what it says about unrouted mail as is your situation.

From the main cPanel menu, select "Mail",
Go to "Default Address" and then
"Set Default Address".

Then dependin on what you want to do, enter a default address for all
unrouted mail, or the following:

You can enter
:blackhole: to discard all incoming unrouted mail or
:fail: no such address here to bounce it.

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Therefore any mail going to (e-mail address removed) will not be routed to
your default account.

Check with your own hosting account (if you have cPanel) and check the
settings, or ask your Host about this.

If it's a Windows hosting account then "HELM" control panel or whatever your
host uses might have similar settings.

Hope this helps.

 

[Windsun]

I found that using the ":fail" option you show cut down our spam email by
95%. The only one I have enabled is webmaster and "real" email addresses.