someone is using my email address to spam, is there a way to stop this ?

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Aug 9 22:42:24 UTC 2008


Dave Cramer wrote:
> 
> On 9-Aug-08, at 5:43 PM, James Knott wrote:
> 
>> Dave Cramer wrote:
>>> subject is self explanatory,
>>>
>>> I'm getting all the bounces, any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> I know it will stop eventually, but in the meantime it's a PITA.
>>>
>>
>> Are you referring to spam bounces?  If so, some spammer got your 
>> address from somewhere and is using it to send out their garbage.
> 
> Yeah this is what it is, I am grasping at straws.--

Look into Sender Policy Framework. If you run the mail server and you 
(and any other users) send your outbound email through it, it will cut 
down on the bounce backs very effectively.

Madi
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