Welcome to email hell.
There are four major
posibilities for you.
1. People who have your email address
in their address book have been infected by a virus and are sending at
random. This is your best hope as it may someday be fixed.
2. You're
screwed. Domains and names
get used by spammers. We did for a while. The best you can do
is craft a one page email about what is happening and refer angry people to it
when they send you email. Your hope of tracking them done is small.
Email servers can claim to be someone else. Easily. This is why spam
is easy. There is no real method to identify someone as who they say they
are. There is a movement to establish SPF records as an identifier.
An SPF record is essentially a DNS TXT record listing the IP Addresses that are
authorized to send email on your behalf. Not a lot of people are using SPF
records at this time for various reasons, but it can't hurt for you to set one
up for your domain just to reduce the amount of email. More overview infomration on SPF is http://postmaster.aol.com/spf/details.html
3. Give up and change your domain
name or at least have a new one you use for email and keep the website but turn
off your MX records and make sure there is no SMTP server at your A
record.
4. You have pop/imap mail and someone
has cracked/stolen a password and is sending through your mail server.
This happens more often then you think and at least you need to look thorugh
your logs. :D
There are additional caveats and details I
am skipping over but those are the four
major ones. Note: softhome.net
does not seem to be an Open Relay and you are tarpitting incoming port 25
connections with a connection delay.
I am an email administrator for a
company. We receive approximatly 3 million messages a month. We
block as spam, automatically deleted with no review, a little over 90% opf
all messages. An additional small fraction of a precentage is grey listed
and the recipients have to release them manually.
In any case, your use of Drupal has nothing
to do with email except raise your visibility to others as a potential real name
people recieve email from.
-sp
Hello,
I wonder if anyone else has experienced
the
following phenomenon, and whether or not it is
Drupal-related, and might possibly have an idea
as to the next course
of action to take...
The following did not occur until AFTER
I
started using Drupal (a few months ago), though
I have had
my site and domain name for several
years.
Essentially,
what I keep getting on a
more-than-daily basis is emails
with
SUBJ: Delivery Status (failure)
FROM:
postmaster@
Following the @ would be the domain of
NUMEROUS
domains that were hit, with attempted delivery
to
hundreds of email addressees. And that's just
the bogus ones--who
knows what actually got
through.
My domain is now being
filtered by MSN's
anti-spam and who knows how many others. I
am
angry enough to offer any interested lawyer 100%
of the
awarded fines in return for assistance in
tracking these people down
and filing a
lawsuit.
As to Drupal... at first I thought
it might be
that one of the add-on modules I'd installed was
insecure. Before diving into the code, I simply
disabled
Email-This-Page module and Subscribe
module. And the problem still
persists. My next
idea would be to pull down the entire site
and
put up a simple "Down for Maintenance" page and
see if
the problem persists.
Any ideas, folks?
PS if you
feel this is too off-topic and not
Drupal related, go ahead and email
me privately
instead.
--
Best
regards,
Gunther
mailto:storysmith@softhome.net
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