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31 December 2007 - 2:05pm — /BoK (not verified)

You are not specifically targeted

You are not selected!

Being spammed and having your addresses used for spamming is "standard practice" from the spammers. Usually they make up fake addresses though.

So if you can:
as said above, only accept mail to valid addresses and block the others
consider using blocklists (RBL) to not accept mail from known spamsites. You have to be careful in your selection, not to block valid mail.
use greylisting to weed out trojaned PC that are not yet in the RBL's
don't accept mail from senders persenting themselves with your "name" or IP

Don't ever accept a mail and then bounce it! If you do, you just add to the amount of junk, and you might get into blocklists for it.

/BoK

31 December 2007 - 1:43pm — yaph (not verified)

You could also create a white

You could also create a white list of email addresses you want to use, so that the spam mails to all the other aliases won't get to you.

31 December 2007 - 12:26pm — Anonymous (not verified)

Set up SPF

SPF record should help cut down on the people being able to use your domain as a from address.

Of course turning off the catch-all address would help as well - but this depends on your needs.

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