[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a spammer using my free e-mail service. I've tried deleting their
> account, but since I have a online signup they just signup again. Below is a
> header that was sent to me by one of many people reporting spam from my
> domain. As you can see the return address is
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CoolPeople.net is one of my mail domains
> but I don't offer any subdomain addresses (the vmwnl was their addition). I
> disabled web access for this account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I've
> changed their password. So I don't believe they are actually spamming from
> me or even relaying across my servers, but they are using one of my addresses
> in the return address. How can I tell whether or not this message somehow
> originated from my machine? How can I stop this abuse of my service? I
> don't want to get my domains blacklisted for spamming. Help.
>
> Headers from SPAM sent apparently by one of my free e-mail users FOLLOWS
>
I don't know of anything that you can do other than kill the account.
(This happens to us several time a year) The one other suggestion that I
can make is to create a rule for CoolPeople.net that sends any mail for
this account to the bit bucket. (Send it to "nul" in the rule) This will
save your server some work, and will eliminate return messages adding to
the spam on the Internet.
Bob
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