Sun, 07 Jan 2007
Mail Box Stress and Joe Jobbing
If you've tried to email me recently then you may have noticed that my
mail server has been down a lot (or just that I've not responded). Over
the last 10 days Unixdaemon.net was used as the reply-to and bounce
addresses in a LOT of spam, not an uncommon form of a Joe Job but an annoying one
one the less.
The last couple of weeks have been manic and so, while it was a little drastic, the easiest way to prevent my inbox from flooding (and I mean flooding) was to turn my SMTP server off. And add some countermeasures that'll stop this biting me quite so hard in the future. It's back up and running now (and I'm not getting any more bounces) - so overkill can work.
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