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thibodeaux
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This weekend my hotmail account's junk mail folder started filling up with "bounces." You know, notifications that I've sent undeliverable mail. I wonder if some jackass spammer is using my address as his reply-to.

Anybody ever encounter this, and if so, is it bad news and how do I fix it?
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Oh, sorry, didn't think you'd mind.
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I didn't know you were funny.
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Yeah, it happens. Nothing you can do about it, really, other than tracking down the spammer and killing him.
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thibodeaux wrote:I didn't know you were funny.
I watched that DVD 2 nights ago.
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It's tough having children.
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Someone started doing this with my domain a while ago. I routed all my catch-all email through Gmail, and its filters killed them.
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It's not bad news. Someone's just faking the email address.
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The weird thing is that someone randomly chose Thib's "ilovecock@hotmail" email addy.
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TheCatt wrote:It's not bad news. Someone's just faking the email address.
I just was thinking that occasionally spammers get arrested. I figured The Authorities had the brains to arrest the actual guy who sent the email, not the poor schlub whose name is in the "reply-to" field. But trusting The Authorities to know their rectum from a hole in the ground is not a safe bet these days.
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They do.

The only downside is that sometimes domains will be flagged as spam senders even though they are not by certain black lists.
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TheCatt wrote:They do.

The only downside is that sometimes domains will be flagged as spam senders even though they are not by certain black lists.
Happened to dtman.com during the run-up to the 2004 election.

I have to send my personal email through gmail smtp.
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