I Hate Spam
Last night, after I got home from the gym (which was late because I had an APO meeting followed by a church meeting), I decided to check my e-mail. I have two e-mail addresses at tim-weston.com: tim and catch-all, which as it indicates, catches any e-mail sent to an address other than tim.
When I opened Mail on my iMac, over 300 messages came in addressed to random addresses at tim-weston.com. Fortunately, they went to the junk mail folder which made it easy to delete. As soon as I deleted them, more and more came in. I checked again this morning and I already have almost 200 “pieces” of junk e-mail. Talk about infuriating.
To those of you who have your own domains (Eric, Aaron, etc.): have you had this happen to you lately? If so, how are you combating it? I’ve thought about just disabling my catch-all e-mail address, but I’m not sure if that’s a good idea. Suggestions?
February 17th, 2007 at 10:35 am
I received a flurry (blizzard?) of “return to sender” e-mails a few months ago, where spammers were specifying bogus e-mail accounts on my domain and using them as the Reply-To or Return-Path values in the messages they sent. As a result, any rejection notices came to my catch-all account and not theirs. Annoying as all get-out, but nothing that could be done about it due to the properties of POP/SMTP. The storm has pretty much subsided now, so all I can say is wait it out…
Welcome back, by the way.