Horn, John wrote:
My wife and I have registered the domain name "cleaver-horn.com". Some enterprising spammer out there has discovered that domain and started using it as the return address on their spam. So our inbox is filling up with return mail, mail failture and anti-spam messages all supposedly sent from email addresses like "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and such.. This, obviously, is very annoying. Other than setting up some filters that send anything without a certain "valid" email prefixes to the great bit bucket, is there anything we can do about this?
Get a good spam filter. A spam filter will filter out the anti-spam spam just as easily as the normal spam.
Is this something that is inevitable for anyone with a domain name? Is it only a matter of time?
Yes and yes, sadly.
One of my greatest worries is that some ISP or spam-filter out there will decide that all mail coming from my domain must be spam and will block it all. Does that happen? Is that something I should even worry about?
Yes, it happens all too often. You really can't stop an ISP from deciding that your domain name is only used for spam; all you can really do in this day and age is to keep several back up email accounts just in case. Sometimes if you (or better, your intended recipient at that ISP) email an ISP and say "my domain isn't spam" they will listen, but most ISPs really don't have any decent policies for dealing with this.
A really good ISP is often going to be able to tell the difference between spoofed and real spam domains, but there aren't that many good ISPs left in the world. Too many hire cheap hourly workers with itchy trigger fingers.
Even worse, this goes beyond just domain names, but mail servers as well. If your host isn't that large either, you are going to end up fighting people claiming your host is a spammer, too.
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