How to prevent crawlers from harvesting your email on a website? [more inside]
posted by paulinsanjuan on Sep 5, 2009 - 16 answers

What is the attack vector on this apparent facebook phishing email? [more inside]
posted by Mitheral on May 26, 2009 - 14 answers

How Do I Get Hosts to Stop Labeling My Email As Spam? [more inside]
posted by darth_tedious on May 1, 2009 - 14 answers

Email address getting tons of spam. Email address then disabled, deleted. Spam still happening. How to stop it? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Mar 17, 2009 - 10 answers

Somebody downloaded a file off my server and now they are getting specific spam. How is this? [more inside]
posted by gonzo_ID on Mar 16, 2009 - 6 answers

Help me figure out why yahoo is auto-delivering emails from my web server directly to any yahoo accounts bulk mail folder. No, I am not a spammer. [more inside]
posted by ChefQuix on Feb 12, 2009 - 3 answers

Has my gmail account really been compromised? [more inside]
posted by roofus on Jan 11, 2009 - 13 answers

Is there an easier way to select a group of emails in Outlook and extract their header information to a file or to the clipboard - together, all at once? An Outlook plugin perhaps? Outlook's method sucks because you can only get one header at a time via right-click and view options. I've got a load of spam that I need to send to my host for investigation.
posted by Jackie_Treehorn on Nov 26, 2008 - 3 answers

I'm using Outlook 2007. It keeps trying to send spam emails! When I start it says that it has 980 messages to send, and once it's done one it'll say it's sent 1 of 981 etc and so on (this happens when I have it offline and let it run for a bit). I've run a few virus scanners and they've all come back saying it's clean. What's even more annoying is that my other computer has also started doing this. [more inside]
posted by kg on Oct 10, 2008 - 14 answers

It's become apparent that my computer may have a Trojan. I just received a Returned Mail notice for mail I never sent, which instead of displaying my name it displayed "jasen kimberly," and was sent to a strange russian email address: munsov@pobox.spbu.ru. I'm concerned that this may be the result of a trojan "phoning home," or using my computer to send spam.
posted by matkline on Oct 5, 2008 - 9 answers

what is this email? [more inside]
posted by mizrachi on Jul 12, 2008 - 11 answers

Which is a better option for controlling spam? Buying the IMail Premium Anti-Spam filter for our existing IMail mail server or migrating our mail to Google Apps for Your Domain? [more inside]
posted by bcarroll on Apr 15, 2008 - 6 answers

How should I respond to syrupy Christian emails? [more inside]
posted by levijk on Nov 24, 2007 - 53 answers

I have an idea for yet another hairbrained social networking website (which paradoxically might hit it big :-) ). I've coded most of it up on a linux server using apache, php, mysql at softlayer.com. The hostname is registered at godaddy (which I can change if desirable). What's the minimum I need to do the following (I'd rather work on the website application logic and learn as little as possible about mail server administration for now): [more inside]
posted by realpseudonym on Oct 23, 2007 - 8 answers

I work at a small company with an Exchange server. We need OK spam protection. In an effort to move them to a more FOSS workcycle, I'm advocating SpamAssassin. Basically, I need it to work in our Windows Environment. [more inside]
posted by TrueVox on Sep 20, 2007 - 7 answers

Can anyone recommend an email whitelist system that works with my existing hosting service? I want to defeat the spam. [more inside]
posted by rolypolyman on Aug 28, 2007 - 6 answers

Is this PHP form to email script safe from email header injection? [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on Aug 11, 2007 - 4 answers

For over a decade I have homed at a Mom&Pop ISP. They used to be good but now they are having frequent outages and seem to be soon to expire. I guess I should move my email identitie(s) somewhere else but what is the best way? [more inside]
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts on Aug 4, 2007 - 6 answers

More than half my outgoing emails wind up in spam folders. I realize that it's inevitable this will happen sometimes, but how can I minimize it? I use gmail, and I do not, fwiw, use words like "mortgage", "refinance" or "penis" in my messages. I sometimes use a sig, but it's non-hypeish. I do often send links in the body of my emails. One solution is to follow up re: unreplied-to emails, but 1. if someone did receive my mail but hasn't had time to reply, I look pushy and 2. chances are that my follow-up will be spam filtered, too.
posted by jimmyjimjim on Jul 12, 2007 - 16 answers

A sick twist on scam e-mails. Is it worthwhile to do anything about this threatening, extorting e-mail? Has anyone else gotten anything like this? [more inside]
posted by The Deej on Jun 28, 2007 - 22 answers

Our webhost keeps getting blacklisted. What can we do? [more inside]
posted by reborndata on Mar 28, 2007 - 10 answers

My SO and I are receiving phishing emails on brand new email addresses. The addresses hadn't been given out to anyone when the first ones arrived. Are spammers just constructing likely email addresses and sending blindly? If not, how is this happening? [more inside]
posted by DarkForest on Mar 21, 2007 - 12 answers

Due to a mail server that was not properly mailed down, about a year ago, some spam was sent through my mail servers. That's fixed but I still seem to be on the blacklist. What can I do? [more inside]
posted by RustyBrooks on Mar 17, 2007 - 11 answers

How can I write a procmail rule that would drop messages with GIF or JPEG attachments under 100kB in size? [more inside]
posted by odinsdream on Mar 10, 2007 - 7 answers

How can I keep spammers from using my sendmail server? [more inside]
posted by danblaker on Mar 9, 2007 - 12 answers

I assume someone has spoofed my domain for spam! I am becoming blacklisted...what to do? [more inside]
posted by UMDirector on Feb 1, 2007 - 19 answers

Why am I getting e-mail that is addressed to my ex-brother-in-law? Is this genuine spam, or something sneakier? [more inside]
posted by IndigoRain on Jan 10, 2007 - 5 answers

For the last few days I've been getting hundreds of "undeliverable email" messages. The sender of the undeliverable email is a garbage name at my domain. I think some bot is just cranking out these names, having found out my domain name. I'm pretty sure there is no virus on my computer; also I've been using only webmail for a while. Is there any way to make this stop?
posted by maggiemaggie on Jan 4, 2007 - 28 answers

Is this a spammer trying to circumvent my website "contact" button? [more inside]
posted by zek on Dec 4, 2006 - 9 answers

What's the state of the art in installable spam filters for Unix mail hosts? Spamassassin has failed me. [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Nov 10, 2006 - 18 answers

Mail Administrators: are you seeing a huge increase in the amount of e-mail? [more inside]
posted by popechunk on Oct 21, 2006 - 19 answers

Has a company given out my email address, or am I at fault? [more inside]
posted by squishy on Oct 19, 2006 - 6 answers

Is there a server based, spam filter that will work with any ISP? I have a friend who cannot change ISPs or email services, he is paying a lot for dial-up time, and he gets about 100 spam: 1 valid email. Is there a spam filter that will check his current email for him and delete the spam, allowing him to keep his current email and ISP? [more inside]
posted by birchhook on Oct 11, 2006 - 15 answers

What is my email doing there? [more inside]
posted by convex on Sep 15, 2006 - 4 answers

Why do I get so much spam addressed to "Kieron Jackson"? [more inside]
posted by The Deej on Sep 11, 2006 - 8 answers

I am getting spam to addresses picked up from a PHP mail script - can I stop this? [more inside]
posted by jontyjago on Aug 20, 2006 - 13 answers

How do I find out if a small, volunteer-run freenet is allowing one or more of its email accounts to send out spam (as compared to, say, being Joe-jobbed)? [more inside]
posted by Tuwa on Aug 7, 2006 - 12 answers

I browse the site at work from time to time. Thing is I don't remember if I've signed up or not. I know if I did I would have done it at work. In any case I did not sign up with my work email address, nor would I have used my real name. The other day I get an email addressed to me by name saying I've got a someone who wants to meet me blah blah. It's kind of fsking me up because I only use the email internally, though I've sent a couple of thing to my personal email account. This is the only external email I've ever received on that account. Can anybody tell me how they could have gotten my name and email?
posted by zorro astor on Jul 29, 2006 - 9 answers

Any tips for keeping email I send out of the recipients' spam folders? [more inside]
posted by Eater on Jul 10, 2006 - 12 answers

An email spammer is using my domain as the from: address for sending out endless amounts of spam. I am receiving all the delivery failure messages in my inbox. I could tell my mail server to dump all unrouted (nonexistent account) mail to /dev/null. Are there any other options?
posted by Argyle on Jun 28, 2006 - 16 answers

I need to post an e-mail address to the contact page of a website. What's the safest way to do this? (Is there a safe way?) [more inside]
posted by jdroth on Jun 4, 2006 - 18 answers

Email and spam question - who is sending this email and how? [more inside]
posted by jonathanbell on Jun 1, 2006 - 14 answers

How can I determine exactly from where or how a server's email queue is being filled with outgoing spam from user 'nobody'? [more inside]
posted by Witty on May 3, 2006 - 6 answers

I want to send a large number of E-mails (like 500) to my customers. This isn't spam; they have definitely opted in and know me personally. I'd like to know if there is anything that might cause a problem here . . . [more inside]
posted by chef_boyardee on Apr 29, 2006 - 10 answers

Recently I have been getting emails from my domain bounced back to me from other peoples' automated anti-spam catchers. The problem is that I am not sending these emails... [more inside]
posted by untuckedshirts on Apr 18, 2006 - 14 answers

Lately I've been getting more and more spams where the content is delivered as an image. There's no keywords to filter; even the image filename and subject are random words. Are such messages unfilterable? [more inside]
posted by zek on Apr 18, 2006 - 14 answers

I am writing an essay (that I plan to dedicate a public website to) about spam. I am looking for surveys about what techniques/software/hardware people use to combat it. I also need to know what proportion of ISPs have built-in spam protection these days. [more inside]
posted by zaebiz on Apr 10, 2006 - 8 answers

I have a website with a feedback form script. Suddenly, over the past week, I've been getting a lot of weird, spam-like mail sent to me via this script. (It doesn't actually sell products--it just contains gibberish, of the sort that might be used to confuse spam filters.) I'm more worried that my feedback form is being used to spam other people. How can I figure out if this is the case? And either way, how can I stop abuse of my feedback form? [more inside]
posted by yankeefog on Mar 15, 2006 - 11 answers

Email from my company's domains aren't making it to AOL users... why is this so hard to fix? [more inside]
posted by o2b on Feb 24, 2006 - 8 answers

Help me deal with email: I have a couple domain names, and I get obscene amounts of spam and garbage email. I'd like to setup a system to help deal with all of it, but I'm not very familiar with server-side email setup beyond the basics. [more inside]
posted by delmoi on Feb 24, 2006 - 15 answers