I did something I've never done in years of owning my own domain: Check the postmaster mailbox. My webhost suggests that I set up a postmaster address for every domain I plan to send mail from, since some spam filters won't accept mail from a domain without a postmaster@____.___ mailbox.
Seven thousand messages. All of them bounced message notifications or auto-replies sent to various names @ my domain. Spambots are using my domain as their reply-to recipients as in "micheletusutherland@[my domain]."
This shouldn't piss me off, but it does, especially since my NAME is my domain. I don't need my personal and professional name to be associated with spam, and yet there it is. And I can't think of a single thing to do about it. You can set your reply-to address as anything you want.
As far as I know, I haven't had legitimate mail blocked because I've been blacklisted as the result of some spambot who got there before me, but I wonder how far down the line that is, and I wonder if I'll know.
Anyone have any ideas at all about how I might become, once again, master of my domain?
Seven thousand messages. All of them bounced message notifications or auto-replies sent to various names @ my domain. Spambots are using my domain as their reply-to recipients as in "micheletusutherland@[my domain]."
This shouldn't piss me off, but it does, especially since my NAME is my domain. I don't need my personal and professional name to be associated with spam, and yet there it is. And I can't think of a single thing to do about it. You can set your reply-to address as anything you want.
As far as I know, I haven't had legitimate mail blocked because I've been blacklisted as the result of some spambot who got there before me, but I wonder how far down the line that is, and I wonder if I'll know.
Anyone have any ideas at all about how I might become, once again, master of my domain?
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