Hi! I am "Newbie", using SuSE 9.1. DSL from T-Online. Xmain Evolution 1.4.6. Last weeks, I am experiencing mails from unknown people to my email-adresses. Sometimes two or three mails within a few seconds. These are accounts with T-Online, Ginko, Web.de. I looks as "they" knew all may emailadresses. I'm asking myself, if there is a general(?) procedure how to get rid off these potential parasites? These scheme should follow these steps: - analyse - evaluation - proof of solution QUESTIONS: 1.) Is there a (simple?) way to deciffer... 1.a) who is doing what on my system, 1.b) how do they come there 2.) Does anybody know, how I can "clean" my system, in ideal case without changing Email-Adresses (printed an business cards). Thereby, I mean: how can I reject unwanted mail? A simple "How-To", Tutorial or so preferable. 3.) For future, I like to prevent from re-establishing those trash-mails again: how can I prevent unknown people from using "my adresse"? 3.a) My fear is, that my emails addresses "travel" uncontrolled. Is there a way to control? (I know, this seems to be naiv) 3.b) How can I reject unwanted mail? 3.c) Do I need to create positive liste following the thought: who may send me an email (filtering)? A simple "How-To", Tutorial or so preferable for the above mentioned questions. Thank you for all useful hints! (P.S.: as I said: I am newbie) -- Dr. Axel Krebs <Axel.Krebs@T-Online.de>