Getting lots of reports failed email delivery - What can be done?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by meditang, Feb 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    I have been getting lots of mails to a couple of my domains saying that the emails sent from the domains could not be delivered or was filtered due to spam or virus. Many of them has attachments containing viruses.

    An example is

    domain.com is my domain

    Many such mails have come from different IP's.
    The addresses on my domain seem to be randomly generated.

    Is this due to some security flaw?
    Is there a way to stop this?
    Is there a risk for my domains getting blacklisted for spam or viruses for this?

    Please help.
     
    meditang, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  2. dburdon

    dburdon Peon

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    Meditang,

    looks like spam. You need a spam filter.
     
    dburdon, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  3. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    Sounds like a someone is sending spam emails with your email address as the return address. It happens from time to time and there is not really anything you can do. The "undeliverable" emails should die off after a couple of days.
     
    ViciousSummer, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  4. meditang

    meditang Well-Known Member

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    It does look like someone is sending spam emails with my domain email address as the return address
    But it does not seem like lying down - it has been there for a month!
     
    meditang, Feb 9, 2007 IP
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    They are spoofing your domain, very common.

    Disable 'catch all' on your domain email account.
     
    cormac, Feb 9, 2007 IP
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  6. meditang

    meditang Well-Known Member

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    Thanks, that's a good idea.
    At least I won't have to download all the crap
     
    meditang, Feb 9, 2007 IP
  7. imkane

    imkane Active Member

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    Winning.Email will be able to analyze your domain and see if there's things you can do to improve your email delivery. Should help reduce those delivery failures.
     
    imkane, Jun 7, 2014 IP