re: Getting lots of Mail delivery failure emails?
Friday, September 30, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3936 messages posted)
|I am getting about 50 different "Mail Delivery Failure" emails every day.
| Ian
If you make your email address easy to guess, it
will be easy to spam
or to use as a spoof address.
Any combination of common names will be susceptible to a "dictionary attack"
as will something like John23.
If your
email provider does not run SpamAssassin,
get a
new mail provider that does.
You shouldn't even be aware of 99.9% of this junk.
The problem is that your
email address has gotten out into the wild.
Set up a new email account and abandon the old one.
Then:
1) Never publish your
primary email address on the Internet.
2) Before you give your
primary email address to someone,
have that someone explain the
difference between CC and BCC.
3) Never give your
primary email address
to someone whom you would not trust with your wallet.
Set up throw-away
email accounts for contact with everyone else.
http://www.spamgourmet.com/
http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_web.htm
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