To those of you who were unfortunate enough to receive one of the millions of emails "I" sent out last night ... yeah, sorry about that. As you might have guessed, I am not interested in selling you replica watches, Russian brides, various sexual enhancing products, cut-price versions of popular software or crediting you with my late-husband-who-just-so-happened-to-be-the-president-of-Nigeria's secret millions (sorry). Despite having an SPF record on my server, some spammer thought they would send a load of emails in my name and email address (but not from my server - the SPF should have blocked anything that doesn't come from my server but it didn't. Ho hum), with the result that I am now blocked from writing to many of the major email providers. Blah. Thanks a lot, spammers. *Grumble*
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Christine
25/03/2008 at 19:39
eeek. don't you love those guys? i get a warm fuzzy feeling myself ~_~
./hugs
Rachael
25/03/2008 at 19:59
You're not blocked by me. Feel free to email me. Or text me. :P
Dee
25/03/2008 at 21:40
Just as an FYI, SPF does almost bugger all to stop spam because it relies on the recipient's mail server to check that an email has a legitimate originator. Most don't; the adoption of outbound SPF is a lot more prevalent than the number of mailservers that check it on the 'business' end.
So it's not that your SPF failed to 'block' the spam emails, it's that the recipients failed to check properly (or that your SPF is implemented incorrectly, I guess).
Peter Green
25/03/2008 at 22:57
Maybe you could check who blocks your servers I.P. using http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx then mail them to see if they will unblock you.
I had my mail server blocked by a South African mail server and they replied to my mail and unblocked me straight away!
It might also be possible to change your I.P. I did this, but for other reasons.
Hope it works out.
valerie
28/03/2008 at 15:41
Eh, good luck with it all, that stinks. Part of the reason I finally gave up on domain mail and just switched most of my stuff to Gmail.
Good luck!
Chien Yee
30/03/2008 at 16:24
That sounds horrible! O_O If that happened to me, I'd freak out >.< Plus I super hate spam x(
Niki
31/03/2008 at 13:00
Everyone change their name to Moby Mobison! OMGz!
O_O
Horrid spammers need a life.... Hmm... Have you ever come across a spammer called Anita Life?
*random*