Travel Technology - Praise be to GMail - 1001 SPAMs and counting...

Started about 6 hours ago - a dirty rotten spammer has been using my email address (ie a dictionary spammer (http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=50200#)). My sent items is clear - so no nasties on my PC.

So far the bounces, out of offices, verification etc replies are over 1,000 and 2-3 per minute still coming.

Of these - 7 have made it into my Inbox, the rest are in the SPAM folder.

I shudder to think about 1000 SPAMs, in my Inbox, if I was still using my old email provider...

My only concern - will my domain be blacklisted?

Your domain should be OK. Have you set up a SPF record for your domain? That can help reduce the ability for others to send as you.

err SPF? :)

Thanks for the tip. Went to the godaddy control panel, bit of twisting and turning, and added aspmx.googlemail.com in the TXT field.

Currently at 1,206....

I've got 1,000 today as well...

...all from TigerDirect. :p

err SPF? :)

Thanks for the tip. Went to the godaddy control panel, bit of twisting and turning, and added aspmx.googlemail.com in the TXT field.

Currently at 1,206....

If you really want to force no other systems to be able to send as you then you should add "-all" to the end of the TXT entry.

Once you alerted me to this oversight, my choice was hard fail (-all) or soft fail (~all) - the DNS control panel automatically added the ~all, and I'll see how that goes as a starting point.

Here's what Google has to say:

How do I set my SPF records? (http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33786)

Thanks again for your thoughts and time. Despite my best efforts FT always seems to give back more than I can put in!

Despite my best efforts FT always seems to give back more than I can put in!

So True!

Jim