email bombs on host, what can I do?

[bradyj]

My companies website keeps getting email(spam) bombed on accounts that are none existent... something to the tune of 64,000 in one night! This happens every few months, and our host says they can't do anything...

So, it eats our bandwidth, and we have to then pay more. There's got to be some way to either track these guys and call someone, or block them from doing it.

Do any of you guys know of anything that can be done? :confused:

[oracleguy]

Do you have IP addresses or a domain name from any of these emails? If they are using the same domain name each time, see if you can block the domain name from the mail server.

[bradyj]

They are going to emails which do not exist, so I don't have any way of getting their IP's -- could that be done on my hosts side? I would think so...

[oracleguy]

Yeah if they have any sort of logging turned on for their mail server, it might log the information you need.

[Nightfire]

Your host should have anti-spam software installed. Mine uses spamassassin which has a 'blackhole'. The email addresses that aren't created by me, I've had to get sent to the 'blackhole'. This blackhole deletes the email before it even gets to me and doesn't touch my bandwidth quota at all.

[bradyj]

Your host should have anti-spam software installed. Mine uses spamassassin which has a 'blackhole'. The email addresses that aren't created by me, I've had to get sent to the 'blackhole'. This blackhole deletes the email before it even gets to me and doesn't touch my bandwidth quota at all.

Ah, our new host as of today has this, is there something special I need to do to configure it to dump everything? If it doesn't come to a verifiable address that I've created, I want it to go into the black hole, thanks for the help guys:)

[Nightfire]

There should be an email address you can send email addresses to, example for me is blackhole@domain.com. In my control panel there is an option to send all email there and you can choose which email addresses are the real ones by filling in a box. Hardly ever get spam anymore, that goes to me anyway

[bradyj]

I only see a catch all spam address I can create -- not what I was hoping for. Hmmm, I'll look a little further, it's gotta be here in Cpanel somewhere -- lots of blacklist and whitelist is all I see. I'll drop the new host a line and ask them, they wouldn't mind I imagine. thanks :thumbsup: