[Wylug-help] Help - domain being used as return address in spam

[James Holden]

lists at mungewell.org wrote:

>Hi all,
>not really a Linux question, but I have a colleague who is having a
>large number of email returns (full mail box etc) for email she has not
>sent.
>
>It appears her domain has been hijacked for the purpose of spam advertising.
>
>Is there a 3 (or 5, or 10) point list of things to do to prevent/minimise
>this??
>
>Simon.
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Not an awful lot you can do about it AFAIK. It happenned to me once when
somebody spoofed the From: address as mine. Other than regular filtering
I don't believe there's many options. It died down quickly though.

James