Spoofed address

[Clair]

Over the last couple of days, I have received well in excess of 1000 bounced emails and bounce notifications, all sent in reply to messages seemingly originating from my website domain name.[:@]

All the mail addressed to the my website is redirected to my Gmail account and with Mailwasher added, I can filter, blacklist and delete all these messages before downloading my real mail.

The messages are being automatically bounced by the recipients and enter a cycle of several more' resent / bounced' rounds until the mailing system finally gives up and the whole thing gets binned.

I don't think I have had it quite this bad before...[:'(]

Is there anything else I could do?

[Bugsy]

I've had a similar problem Clair, but not with the same number that you've had. I'm actually getting emails sent from me to me and I have no idea how to deal with that (I can't blacklist myself).

Help anyone..............................

[Clair]

Well, according to my Gmail Spambox, I have received 450 messages between 18:00 and 21:00 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Clair]

Gary,

You might be interested in reading this article.

As far as your own address being used to send you spam, you can create a rule from within email program:

from: your address AND to: your address  => ACTION: delete

Gmail is very good as seeing my messages as spam and a quick glance down the list confirms there is no real mail being binned before I hit the DELETE button.

I am still getting about 20 of the bounce notifications every 5mn or so, even in Spanish and Japanese ![:)]