Just for your amusement, here is my latest exchange with Comcast (read the
Comcast email first, then my response).
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Dear Mr. Jones,
It does not surprise me that refuse to provide any further help. Your
previous emails displayed a dismissive and
I should add that the number of erroneous emails sent to the old mail server
has decreased. From Thursday through Saturday it went down to zero and I
was hoping the problem had gone away. Then it started up again on Sunday,
but at lower volume than before. Interestingly, most of the emails now
Hi All,
This isn't specifically a Declude question but I thought I'd ask anyway as
its still of interest to the group, I think.
I have one domain that is being referenced in a Joe Job. Essentially, a
spammer sends out thousands of emails using various compromised computers.
In the FROM field,
Hi Dave,
A firm SPF policy generally does help, but it depends on the receiving
servers implementing SPF in order to block messages that violate your SPF
policy.
Aside from that and filtering that blocks any original included message
content, there's nothing I know of that can stop bounces and
I should add that the number of erroneous emails sent to the old mail server
has decreased. From Thursday through Saturday it went down to zero and I
was hoping the problem had gone away. Then it started up again on Sunday,
but at lower volume than before. Interestingly, most of the emails
Ben,
Thanks for running your questions by me. Feel free to forward this
message to your Comcast rep. Even if he is unwilling to help you
further, there is information below that will help him be more
accurate in future cases, since he currently lacks sufficient
understanding of DNS.
Mr. Jones is
