Spam, spam, spam, spam....

[cjsmith]

I got 5870 pieces of spam between about 11pm last night and right now. These are mail bounces; the spammers have now discovered my domain and are sending mail "from" it. I now have to delete all that crap. I also need to move to a system where I throw away everything addressed to my domain by default, and keep a whitelist set of To: usernames.

LJ comment notifications, however, are still intermittent at best. Many of them simply aren't making it (at least not in the last few days). I know of at least one other personal e-mail I'm missing. There are days when I honestly wonder why I bother having e-mail at all.

I think today is determined to make me blow up. I shall have to go find a useful (or fun) way to channel this explosion.

Comments

[mithriltabby]

I have a filter in place on my e-mail client that shunts anything not sent to my own e-mail address into a folder named “Misdirected”. Occasionally, it’s a typo from a human being trying to reach another human being on my domain, but 99% of the time it’s spam or bounce messages from someone spamming using my domain name. Having the filter cuts down on the annoyance a great deal.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I've thought about shunting things somewhere, but honestly, we're talking disk space limitations here. Anything that even triggers a whisker on any level of my spam-traps is deleted completely.