Spam - the downside of domains

I've noticed a steady increase in the Spam emails I receive lately. A lot of it comes from temporary hotmail address, but an increasing number are coming from my own domains!

Spammers (or at least the robots they use), use fake headers on their emails and make their Spam as though it's coming from a different email account than the one they are actually using.

They can use information mined from domain records to send Spam in your domain's name.

Whilst most web hosts know that headers are faked, mail delivery systems with automated rules (for example auto-repsonses), don't.

What that means is that hen a Spammer uses your domain name, you get a ton of "undeliverable email" messages bounced back to you.

I get an average of 400-500 Spam emails per hour through my various email accounts and these undeliverables can add thousands to that total, so it's no joke when your domain name is abused in this way.

Until today, I have been using a great program called Cloudmark (www.cloudmark.com) to control my Spam, but for some time now, it has not worked properly.

I use Outlook Express for my mail and since Spetember, Cloudmark has not been able to prevent Spam in cases where an Outlook Express mail rule moves any mail to a folder other than the inbox.

Friends tell me that this didn't happen with Outlook - until this week. Now they understand my frustration.

Reluctantly therefore, I went off in search of a similar product and found SpamFighter (www.spamfighter.com).

It's faster, more accurate and a lot easier to use than Cloudmark. My Spam problems are solved. At least for now.

I recommend it, so if you are suffering from ever-increasing Spam levels, go and grab the free 30 day trial. I used the trial edition for 5 minutes before buying. It was that good.