[ale] email problems

[John Heim]

I don't have a technical solution for you but I can tell you that the 
technical term for what you're seeing is "backscatter".  Your ISP should be 
filtering those messages for you. I know gmail does a great job of that. I 
admin the mail system for my department and we use a spamassassin module to 
filter backscatter for departmental accounts.

I guess the only way this information would be helpful is if you were 
willing to switch ISPs. Or I guess you could set up a gmail account and 
forward your regular mail there. Also, maybe knowing the term backscatter 
could help you google for a solution. If you do that, you will find procmail 
recipies for dealing with backscatter.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bugy at bellsouth.net>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: [ale] email problems


> Not exactly Linux related ! I did get little stupid and give my email to 
> my sister-in-law. From that day I start to receive spam and other email 
> junk (I guess her PC is infected ... but not sure 100 %, have to check 
> that). Even now I have returned mail. Spammer are  using my email to send 
> spam to other emails. How can I clean the whole mess quick as possible. 
> Thank you all
>


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Not exactly Linux related ! I did get little stupid and give my email to my 
sister-in-law. From that day I start to receive spam and other email junk (I 
guess her PC is infected ... but not sure 100 %, have to check that). Even 
now I have returned mail. Spammer are  using my email to send spam to other 
emails. How can I clean the whole mess quick as possible. Thank you all



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