My in-box is filling up with rejection emails from various places because some asshole spammer decided to use my domain name to send their spam. Trust me, there’s only three addresses that send out mail from littlehart.net and HolliscezanneMorse is not one of them.
My apologies to anyone who’s gotten spam from someone claiming to be at the littlehart.net domain. It isn’t me.
Tags: spam
Maybe you should take a look at SPF, might help a bit at least (all you can do really).
@Oscar
I don’t think that SPF will help much, as my mail for this domain is done through Google Apps (best thing I ever did in terms of ease of configuration).
SPF has the disadvantage of blocking proper emails that were created on the fly FOR you. For instance, assuming you wanted to send someone an eCard greeting card. They ask for your email address and the service fills in your email address as the FROM header/field. As their server is obviously (most likely) not running the same email host as your domain, that email could potentially be blocked.
I’m running in to that issue at work. Email rules from my web server (webmaster@) are being blocked by our company’s email administrator’s AD lookup rules. That’s a potentially bad situation. I’ve had to have business emails forwarded on to my Hotmail account (much less stringent, but still decent spam protection) and set a rule to forward those emails to my business account. Definitely not optimal.
This is a really big problem and SPF will not help. I know several people that suffered big from this… All you can do is wait and see if they stop.
What I probably should do is configure my mail stuff via Google to simply kill or delete any mail that’s not intended for any of the accounts I’ve already setup. That will stop me from ever seeing all those bounces by the spammers using email addys that don’t belong to anyone at littlehart.net