Re: FN-FORUM: Someone is using my email address for spam purposes

date posted 30th April 2007 11:52

Hi Gina,

To ensure this doesn't happen, setup a SPF record for your domain. SPF
is the Send Policy Framework, and it basically ties your outgoing email
to a specified smtp server.

Any mail coming from your domain that DOESN'T come from this smtp server
will be classed as spam by virtually all spam filters.

More info is here:
http://www.openspf.org/

Hope that helps,


Tom.


[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Hi....
>
>
> We have a project website running alongside our design agency, which is a
> website for women in sport. Our email addresses are set to the same as the
> domain name. [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Somebody is using my email address in particular and other email addresses
> @domain.com to send out spam email. Because we have a large database of
> subscribers to the website, those also seem to be receiving spam and it says
> it comes from our domain.
>
> Of course we don't send out spam email, but I need to sort this asap because
> otherwise it'll give us a bad name. Who do I approach? The domain name
> provider? The server providers?
>
> And how the heck did this happen....??? Does anyone have any ideas, I would
> really appreciate some input if there is somebody out there who knows!!!
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Gina
>
>
>
>


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