On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:07:54 -0800
Tom Emerson
On Friday 20 December 2002 6:21 am, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
Due to spam, I have changed my email on the server that hosts my domain. Its not here, but many miles away.
unwanted (spam) is, rather unfortunately, becoming a way of life here on the net -- best advice (at the moment) is "just ignore it [if you can -- if you can't, get spamassassin...]" I and many others are working on ways to reduce and/or eliminate spam -- one day the internet will be a better place after all... :)
You are right.
But even if I have done that I still get mails sent to my @domain.dk.
I'm not sure what you're saying/implying here -- what exactly do you mean by "changed my email on the server that hosts my domain"? I'm guessing here, but that could be a few possibilities:
Well I can call my domain server by remote from here. Then I can administrate my accounts -Put a new account, delete an account and so on-.
1) you changed the "administrative contact" for the DNS record -- this information is "public knowledge", so anyone who regularly scans whois/dig output would get your new address instantly
I can see your point.
2) you changed the address of a "webmaster" contact on a page within your "website" -- congratulations, you are getting mail at that new address -- again, this is "publicly displayed/available" information [in other words, people are reading & using that new address and it works]
Yes :-(
3) you changed a name "internally" with the hosting service so that they can continue to reach you "here" -- two possibilities: -- they used this is a forwarding address for information going to the "old" address [not what you intended -- a talk with a live human at their site might clear this up] -- they published this information [sold it directly to a spammer]
4) changing a name doesn't neccessarilly "remove" the old name at your local ISP -- when you say "I still get mails sent to my @domain", what address are people using [the new one or the old one?]
The domain name is the same, but if you just write a mail 12344eee@domain.dk, it arrives here. The whole effort was not of ANY value :-(
I tried a random name in the front of the @domain.dk, and it arrived here.
this may be because you are the "postmaster" of "domain" -- any "incorrectly" addressed mail [can] be forwarded to a catch-all address, usually postmaster, and postmaster in turn tends to be forwarded to a "real" address [yours] This is it what it sounds like has happened from the description so far...
Yes right I'm the postmaster.
I use SuSE 8.1 and sendmail.
How can I get rid of that ?.
if that last item is the winner, change the "default" recipient [catch-all, or whatever you want to call it] and actually create another "account" for that recipient rather than forward it to root/postmaster/yourself -- periodically check that address's mailbox for messages [and throw them away...] You'll find that "spammers" may try the "shotgun" approach -- my address is "osnut" at pacbell, I've never used "osnut" with any other service provider, but because "osnut" is indeed a legit address "somewhere", I'm sure spammers have tried "osnut@earthlink", "osnut@aol", "osnut@msn"... and so on... [this is a way some spam-promotors sell lists of "millions" of addresses -- they harvest 10,000 users from 10 ISP/domains and cross-complete each set of names with the other ISP domains...]
Ok will have a more carefull look at what you write.
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