Several weeks ago I posted a problem I was having with NDR's bouncing back to bogus random email accounts in my domain (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) These are coming from a variety of advertisers and I have been grouping them as they arrive and there are currently 12 different organizations. Because they are all different I believe that some bulk email company is handling the mail for these companies. Today one our consultants forwarded me this email.
>I am not sending out email to this address... I have got a couple of these just yesterday. Could someone be sending stuff >using my account as a starting point? >Me >-----Original Message----- >From: Mail Administrator >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 2/26/2003 9:18 PM >Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail >This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: >The following destination addresses were unknown (please check the addresses and re-mail the message): >SMTP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Please reply to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >if you feel this message to be in error. ><<ATT11670.TXT>> <<(ADV)time share >> Someone now seems to be doing bulk emailing but now using a legitimate address from our domain. This is getting to the point of being ridiculous. Any spammer, it would seem, can take any legitimate address and begin an email campaign and let that domain worry about any of the bounces as well as disgruntled users receiving the email and thinking it was from us. If we decide to change our email domain to something else can both old and new email addresses be resolved to a single individual/mailbox for some period of time then drop the one being used by bulk mailers. I am also in the midst of upgrading to AD in order to move to E2k so am unclear of all the impact this may have. Also is there anything that can be done to try to mitigate this issue in the future. Thanks -Dave Vantine _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
