I'm pretty sure it's not our personal machines being "zombied" as you
call it -- we both use macs, we use completely different e-mail
mechanisms (POP3 vs. webmail), the addresses that send the mail are
not addresses we use, and the recipients from whom we get bounced
messages are not in our address books.
We do get a lot of these messages -- 50-100 a day, each, maybe? We
use these accounts for everything, including professional
correspondence.
Matt
On Feb 3, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Joel Zysman wrote:
> There could be a couple of things causing this. It could be
> anything from
> someone intentionally spoofing from your domain; to somebody's
> machine being
> zombied and sending emails using addresses from their Inbox (i.e.
> yours).
> Either way, I do not think that there is anything the registrar can
> do about
> it. If your domain is being forged in the headers, it is probably not
> coming off of your registrars' servers. Have there been a great
> many of
> these messages? Are you using these domains for business. I am
> trying to
> figure out corrective steps outsdide of the registrar. But if
> these are
> personal domains, I personally wouldn't worry about them too much.
>
> Joel Zysman
> (I.T. Guy in real life).
>
>
> <SNIP>
>
> My fiancee and I both have our own domains. She has her e-mail
> forwarded to a webmail account; I use a POP3 account.
>
> Recently, we've both been getting messages bounced back to us that we
> never sent. It appears that spammers are spoofing our addresses.
> The domain registration service we use -- who also provides the
> forwarding service and POP3 account -- says there's really nothing
> they can do.
>
> Is there really nothing to do -- or does step #1 involve getting a
> better registrar?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Matt & Julie
>
> </SNIP>
>
> --
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.21/665 - Release Date:
> 2/2/2007
> 11:39 PM
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