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

[brooksmoses]

Thanks! I've had the same problem (though, luckily, with an order of magnitude fewer bounce messages) and may need that someday.

That's a rather ugly regexp, though! :)

[hanov3r.livejournal.com]

That's why "^FROM_MAILER" is useful. :-)

I wouldn't route to /dev/null off the bat. I spent two or three months routing that to a "not_my_bounce" folder and checked it every few days; what I found is that there are legit bulk mailers out there that send from addresses like Admin that catch that regexp and, since I give commercial entities unique addresses that I never send from, their mail was going into that folder. Other filters sent that mail to where I could see it and, once I had all of it nabbed, the bounces and other junk started going to /dev/null