Re: FN-FORUM: email addy being used for spam

date posted 10th August 2003 22:45

David Eckersall wrote:

>
> has anyone else had their email addy used to send spam from? discovered
> mines being used when i got 'mail delivery returned' messages :mad:
>
> anyone know a way to stop it happening - probably no way i'm sure, but i
> thought i'd see if there was a 'nice' way before i embark on my nasty
> method

You could use something like POPFile (http://popfile.sourceforge.net/)
to filter your messages.

I won't stop them coming in, but it might help stop them clogging up
your inbox if you don't have (say, procmail recipe) control over your
POP server/MUA.

Matt

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