Re: Hijacked domain

From: Josh Carlson <jcarlson_at_insurancejournal.com>
Date: Wed 26 Oct 2005 11:29:56 -0500

Bill Rice <bill_at_familycookbookproject.com> wrote:

> I'm hoping that someone can help me. Some Spammer is using my domain as
> the return address for sending dictionary style broadcasts of email. I
> am worried that the domain will be blacklisted and I will not be able to
> have my legitimate emails go through.
> Does anyone know how to stop this and how to make sure the domain is not
> blacklisted?

Anyone can spoof an email's From: address, you can't stop this. Most
systems will use other are ways to determine the email's true origin.

If you run your own mailserver then you might want to have a security
checkup. Also make sure you are not an open relay, which is unlikely.
http://www.spamhelp.org/shopenrelay/

http://www.dnsstuff.com/ has some great tools including their "Spam
database lookup".

Josh Carlson




Received on Wed Oct 26 2005 - 11:29:56 CDT