[thelist] Mail hijacking

[Edwin Horneij]

On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 04:54  PM, The Lists wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some little so and so is sending out emails with a reply address using 
> my domain name. I have managed to find out who it is, and it appears 
> they are one of the big spammers :o(
>
> I realise that there is nothing I can do to stop him from sending 
> these messages, but what I would like to know is, is there anyway I 
> can stop receiving all the 'undeliverable' mail messages I keep 
> getting back? The only thing in common with the messages is that they 
> are all from the AOL postmaster, at the moment anyway, as he is 
> concentrating on AOL account users. I know I could just block any 
> messages from that postmaster, but what if he starts changing to other 
> ISPs?
>
> Has anyone else had any experience with this sort of thing? If so, 
> does it tend to peter out after a while, or am I stuck with it? And 
> what have your solutions been?

This happened to me a few months ago. I didn't really know what to do, 
but I sent an email explaining what was happening to the company that 
hosts my domain. I never got a reply, so I don't know if there is any 
connection, but shortly afterward I stopped getting delivery failure 
notices.