Hi all, I'm getting literally hundreds of returned undeliverable emails. The are addressed to random names at my domain name, ie [random name]@[my name].co.uk, so I'm getting everything that is sent from that domain. Now I know it's not originating from my computer - I got about 160 returned emails while my machine was turned off for two days - but it is VERY inconvenient to come in to that volume of junk every day. My question is this: what can I do to stop getting all these emails? My junk filter won't pick them up because they are legitimate emails telling me about a legitimate problem. Any ideas? cursum perficio

Hi, 1st of all I noticed you have your e-mail address listed on your website homepage. That invites TONS of spam. If you are using outlook express, I would suggest you try Spam Terrier as there are tons of good reviews on it and it's free. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the whole point of having a website is to drum up a bit of business and enable people to email me and then give me money. The email address is a graphic, however: it's just a picture of my email address. My email address itself does not appear on the website in a form that can be parsed by a machine (I think! I hope?). I'll try the Spam Terrier thing though... cursum perficio

Spammers often attack all the addresses together on one domain. When I had spam many were at the same end of the alphabet as my name, are yours? Fortunately I had a very rare server name (it had been taken over) so I was able to filter all of them out except mine with little risk of losing email. The spoofed "returned emails" were not unusual. DerekW

What Derek notes is how I spot the spam from possible legit emails. Annoying but the delete key works fine.

Once your email address has been harvested by whatever means it's on spam mail lists forever. I still get spam to addresses I haven't used in 15 years. With a good email client and clever filters (the definition of a good email client is you can create clever filters - Outlook, btw, is not a good email client) you can catch & bit-bucket most of these. If you run a mail server you can add a PGP authentication header line so you can catch & bit-bucket 100% of these forgeries but that's a little more work than most people want to deal with. If you're using your email address for business purposes, though, it might be worth the investment of time and money.

I use MailWasher Pro with good results. Takes about two weeks to train the system, but it works like a charm. Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness