>For the last day I have been getting emails into my mailbox continuously
>round the clock - at the rate of 10-20 a minute. I am trying to work out
>why it's happening.
car to share with us how far have you got ?
>Can anyone give me any hints?
you're being abused?
>It's a plain commercial message - earn $15000 a month working at home doing
>no work at all kind of thing and the messages are identical. What I can't
>figure out is why the spammer is sending me so many messages?
he�s trying to convince you to take up his offer?
>Would he have somehow got hold of my mail server and is passing the
>messages through
If your mail server has its pants down around its ankles, expect the worst,
or, uh, der wurst.
>Any other reasons you can think of why he's sent me hundreds of identical
>spam messages?
you are a difficult customer? he loves ya so much?
What are you running for mail-abuse defense?
Does your border router allow packet filtering? then block his Class
C. If he�s spoofing his source address all over the park, this won�t work.
Does your mail server have any string filtering or other defense? It�s not
the best place to do filtering, esp against SMTP DoS like harvesting or
mailbombing (your case), but when it�s all ya got ...
Check out my free IMGate in my sig if you�d like to prevent/limit this and
other abuse in the future.
Len
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