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

[davidlevine]

What I finally had to do was turn off the catchall email address on all my domains. Anything not specifically addressed to a defined user gets bit-bucketed.

I found that what I was getting on the catchall was 99.99% spam (mostly bounces "from" my domain, as you got today) with one or two typos and perhaps a dozen non-spam shots-in-the-dark (e.g. "complaints@mydomain.com" which, well, might conceivably be the complaints address, but as it is not and we never told anyone it is, you really had no reason to expect a reply) over five years. Removing the catchall has eliminated those bogus bounce messages and probably reduced the remaining spam by 5-10%.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's basically what I meant by throwing away everything addressed to my domain by default, and keeping a whitelist set of To: usernames. I could specifically define those and turn off the catchall, or I could run procmail and enter my whitelist into its filters, but either way, this is definitely a step I need to take.