On Thursday 22 March 2007 18:20, steve szmidt wrote:
> On Thursday 22 March 2007 16:24, Larry Brown wrote:
> > Has anyone dealt with this? I don't see how it can be dealt with other
> > than retiring the domain name, but what kind of %$#@! is that? I guess
> > I could outsource my mail only and let someone else deal with the
> > bandwidth...
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Yes. There's only one thing that I know that will handle it. Give up on
> email! Just kidding! See if you or your ISP can support white lists.
Why not do that for real.
I have set up 3 email addresses with my ISP. One is the master account level
name and address which I never use for anything. It is used so seldom that if
fact if I want to use it I have to look it up.
Next I have 2 user level accounts. One is used for critical personal items
with a usage rate of once or twice a month. If you are a friend or some
person that I believe will not abuse the account that is the address you get.
Then I have the other account which is used for everythin one can thank of.
Mail is in the 2 to 3 hundred level per day with most of it being various
list that I subscribed to but really do not participate in. Much of this is
piped deleted with out reading except when I for one reason or the other
decide to do so. In the past the level of trash picked up as Paul indicated
reached such level that the only way to continue was simply change email
addresses. Surprisingly this usually takes a week or two to do but then my
mail volume drops back to around 100 messages per day.
SOTL
>
> Anyone not in the list is refused by the server. The first time each one
> who sends an email gets a reply where they have to say who they are and why
> they want to get through, or some such.
>
> There's the thing of making sure the mailserver does a verify of the IP to
> match the name used. I.e. DNS lookup.
>
> 800-1000 a day sure is a bunch.
>
> I got ten domains but I don't have my address fully typed out so I don't
> get as much, maybe 50-100/day. I used to have catch-all but they are all
> gone.
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