Undeliverable SPAM-- Please help

[Erik]

My email address/domain is being used as the return address for an apparent
SPAM
operation and I receive thousands of "undeliverable" messages daily for the
past few weeks.
Any suggestions? I would like to keep this domain.

Thank you for any help.

 

[David Webb]

Contact your ISP before they terminate your account.

| My email address/domain is being used as the return address for an apparent
| SPAM
| operation and I receive thousands of "undeliverable" messages daily for the
| past few weeks.
| Any suggestions? I would like to keep this domain.
|
| Thank you for any help.
|
|
|
|

 

[Erik]

Thanks. Unfortunately, not too helpful.

 

[David Webb]

Strange. You appear to have Earthlink as your ISP and they have a policy against
using their servers for unsolicited e-mail (spam). If they believe that it's you
generating the spam, violation of this policy may result in the suspension or
termination of either your access to the Services and/or your EarthLink account
or other actions as detailed in Section 3 of the policy shown in the following
link:

http://www.earthlink.net/about/policies/use/

Section 3 of this policy also provides guidelines for reporting a violation.

If you contacted someone at Earthlink in this matter, it wasn't the right
person, Try again.

If you have an ISP other than Earthlink, check their website for info on this
subject.

| Thanks. Unfortunately, not too helpful.
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| | > Contact your ISP before they terminate your account.
| >
| > | > | My email address/domain is being used as the return address for an
| > apparent
| > | SPAM
| > | operation and I receive thousands of "undeliverable" messages daily for
| > the
| > | past few weeks.
| > | Any suggestions? I would like to keep this domain.
| > |
| > | Thank you for any help.
| > |
| > |
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
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|

 

[Pat Willener]

Obviously you cannot ask the spammer to stop using your email address.
But what you can do is complain about the people who directly send their
spam bounces "back" to the forged 'From' address. Bouncing messages has
long ceased to be a legitimate practice.

Report all these thousands of unwanted bounces to SpamCop
(http://www.spamcop.net/), and maybe some of these mail admins will
start wondering why their IP addresses are getting blocklisted.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Obviously you cannot ask the spammer to stop using your email address.
But what you can do is complain about the people who directly send
their spam bounces "back" to the forged 'From' address. Bouncing
messages has long ceased to be a legitimate practice.

Huh? The RFCs for SMTP still indicate that bounces are required when
messages cannot be delivered.

 

[Pat Willener]

Huh? The RFCs for SMTP still indicate that bounces are required when
messages cannot be delivered.

That may be so, and in the past SpamCop has refused to report bounces.
However, that has changed a few years ago - bounces may now be reported,
and bouncers get blocklisted. Rightly so, in my opinion, as I do not
need spam bounces in my mailbox, in addition to the original spam I get.

I am not very technical when it comes to mail servers, but what I have
heard or read a number of times is that "reject" is the right way to
handle undeliverable mail, rather than "bounce". But this is outside of
my practical experience, so I may be talking BS.