Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: [videoblogging] help needed with spam identity theft !! (offtopic,
but...)
I seem to have a serious problem that needs some heavy duty geek
advice, so I ask forgiveness for this off-topic
There's actually a few things that could cause this ... but assuming it is in fact unauthorized use of your mail server there are a few things you should do:First off, make sure your mail server is not an open relay. An open relay is where a mail server will forward on email even when nither
Aloha Jen,Shane here (Rox's secret cameraman). We have 14 servers around the country and manage thousands of accounts for our clients. All the suggestions above are great and definitely what should be done, if you have the know-how to do them and your hosting provider allows it. :-)
Right now
I'm not sure how to know if I've got an open relay or not. I think Shane is going to help me figure that out -- I tried the spamlinks.net adress, but its not working.
I think I've got an authentication thing-a-ma-gig in place (i hope). I'm always wrestling with smtp servers and getting through
Shane is awesome.
I've send some emails with the headers to help figure out what's happening...
Thanks!
- jen
jenSimmons
http://www.jensimmons.com
On May 18, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Shane Robinson wrote:
Aloha Jen,
Shane here (Rox's secret cameraman). We have 14 servers around the country and manage
On 5/18/06, Jen Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was guessing the spammers are just using mydomainname.com to slap on their email, not that they were actuallyusing my server. Is that possible?Yes that's possible. Its easy to spoof the from address. (However for this to work they need to have
David's correct, Jen. I checked and you don't have a SPF record and it would definitely help. Do you know how to do that in your Go Daddy/DomainsByProxy DNS interface? We use DNS Made Easy (
http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com) to manage several hundred domains and thousands of sub-domains and it's very
around the 18/5/06 Jen Simmons mentioned about [videoblogging] help
needed with spam identity theft !! (of that:
I have my own server (Redhat Linux) which hosts jensimmons.com among
other sites. I do not have Spam Assassin installed ('cause I don't know
how to do it / I don't know UNIX), so I
I'm pretty sure I do not have an opern mail relay -- but instead the
mail is coming from other servers, with labels as if it's from my
server. Shane Robinson has been a huge help today read the headers of a
bnuch of reject notices and confirmed that yes, those spam emails were
being sent to
