I just received a few email messages that were spam, yet they were not flagged by POPmonitor. Thanks to that, I paid closer attention to the spam, and the reason they were not flagged, and were actually identified as "good" email (vs. spam or potential spam) was because they came from my email address.
Could this be a negative side-effect from using Sp@mX? I use or have used other forms of reporting, but those have been anonymous (Spamcop for example).
I have forwarded those spam emails to my ISP. Thanks for any input you may have.
Full Version: Negative side-effect(s) of using Sp@mX?
No, this is a common spammer practice. I don't think that this has anything to do with your reporting, and Sp@mX doesn't use the envelope information to track spam, so it also will not affect your reporting... 
Eddie, when you say:
1) your computer is misconfigured so that it is acting as a relay or more likely
2) your e-mail address has been forged in the From: or Reply-To: header. You can verify 2 by looking at the bounced message, it will most likely have a header similar to:
From: Chris G <eddie@his.email.address>
That is the most basic forgery that spammers use and 99.999% of the time, with a bounced e-mail saying you have sent an undeliverable spam message, the originator's IP address and <senders e-mail> don't even remotely match.
In the case of 2) the headers need to be analysed to identify the real culprit. SpamX obviously can do this automatically for you BUTbe very sure you have included your e-mail address in the donotsend list . If you process the mail through SpamX and you have not excluded yourself, then your ISP will be told that you are a spammer! %-)
If you care to post the headers but *** your actual e-mail address so that it isn't harvested from here, the very helpful folk (and me
) around here will be happy to look at them I'm sure, if your ISP hasn't got back to you yet
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they came from my email address
there are 2 ways from there:1) your computer is misconfigured so that it is acting as a relay or more likely
2) your e-mail address has been forged in the From: or Reply-To: header. You can verify 2 by looking at the bounced message, it will most likely have a header similar to:
From: Chris G <eddie@his.email.address>
That is the most basic forgery that spammers use and 99.999% of the time, with a bounced e-mail saying you have sent an undeliverable spam message, the originator's IP address and <senders e-mail> don't even remotely match.
In the case of 2) the headers need to be analysed to identify the real culprit. SpamX obviously can do this automatically for you BUTbe very sure you have included your e-mail address in the donotsend list . If you process the mail through SpamX and you have not excluded yourself, then your ISP will be told that you are a spammer! %-)
If you care to post the headers but *** your actual e-mail address so that it isn't harvested from here, the very helpful folk (and me
) around here will be happy to look at them I'm sure, if your ISP hasn't got back to you yet
Thanks for the replies.
Yes Tifferg, I'm pretty sure that my address was forged, and last night I checked the sender's IP address (just to make sure). Another odd thing is that the emails were only addressed to me. Usually the spam I receive is addressed to many users from my ISP, but these were only addressed to me.
I checked 4 of the spam emails that used my address, and they came from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. I just did a Whois search here http://apnic.net/
My ISP is included in Sp@mX's do not send list.
Thanks again for the replies. I feel a bit better now, but it was odd to suddenly receive 6 spam mails from my address.
Yes Tifferg, I'm pretty sure that my address was forged, and last night I checked the sender's IP address (just to make sure). Another odd thing is that the emails were only addressed to me. Usually the spam I receive is addressed to many users from my ISP, but these were only addressed to me.
I checked 4 of the spam emails that used my address, and they came from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China. I just did a Whois search here http://apnic.net/
My ISP is included in Sp@mX's do not send list.
Thanks again for the replies. I feel a bit better now, but it was odd to suddenly receive 6 spam mails from my address.
QUOTE (Eddie @ Mar 6 2005, 12:59 AM)
Another odd thing is that the emails were only addressed to me. Usually the spam I receive is addressed to many users from my ISP, but these were only addressed to me.
I checked 4 of the spam emails that used my address, and they came from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China.
I checked 4 of the spam emails that used my address, and they came from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China.
When you send an e-mail, if the recipient is in the BCC: field, then any e-mail received will show only their address as the To:
I noticed earlier a comment about Spamfire having a threshold trigger based on the number of addressees. BCC addressing in Spam is common now so I would think that trigger level is pretty superfluous
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