http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/spam/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/spam/comment-page-1/#comment-38674 Sat, 08 Mar 2014 22:32:41 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=10136#comment-38674 I know the feeling. For years I had used an email address as the one I handed out to people who were going to send me stuff from their “carefully selected partners”. Then all of sudden I found I could only receive mail, not send it. Turns out that, like you, someone had spoofed it so I was getting deluged with undeliverable mail. So the mail host had shut down outgoing mail to prevent “me” from sending any more. I just set up filters for the download to dump the garbage and carried on just receiving mail until finally the host decided the server was being retired. Maybe there is still loads of undeliverable mail shuttling back and forth between servers trying to find a home.

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