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200 emails telling me I'm a spammer

Today, I received over 200 messages in the form of mailer-daemons, challenges, and spam notifications, all of them listing non-existent users of my domain.  

I don't see anything in the header that makes it look like they came from the hostingrails IP, but even if they are spoofed, it's a bit much.  Anything I can do about it?

Just to be sure -- the SMTP daemon hardened against spammers?  It's not an open proxy?  

2008-01-04 01:13 PM

Please find below, the steps you can follow to minimize the amount of spam you receive to your inbox:

1.You can discard mails to users mailbox that don't exist i.e.., disable
catch-all. You can find the option in your cPanel->Mail->Default Address. In
the to: field - enter:
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:fail: no such address here
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2.Filter your emails. You can find this option in cPanel->Mail->E-mail
Filtering->Add Filter. By doing this, you can move unwanted mails to get
deleted or moved to a separate mail folder.

3.Accept mails from trusted senders only be enabling "BoxTrapper Spam Trap".
This option can be found in cPanel->Mail->BoxTrapper Spam Trap

4.You can flag a mail as spam using SpamAssasin. This option can be found in
cPanel->Mail->SpamAssassin



2008-01-04 01:29 PM

Okay.  How do I create aliases for my primary email account in cPanel?

2008-01-04 02:15 PM

You can create the forwarders for your email accounts from cPanel-->Forwarders .

2008-01-04 02:32 PM


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