Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Matija Nalis
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 10:04:18PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > pass > fail > So, it fails SPF, but DKIM passes. Meaning, your mail would pass normally modern servers which check both. If you do not want to receive such status messages, you should update your DMARC records (currently _dmarc.c

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Grant Taylor via users
On 7/15/23 10:04 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I'd love to do this, but see below. I get TONS of warnings every time I send email to lists (even this list) that make me hesitant to do hard fails. I understand and appreciate what you're describing. I do, as well, but mailing lists outside of my sph

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread jdow
On 20230715 20:20:03, Thomas Cameron wrote: On 7/14/23 23:59, Loren Wilton wrote: I am suddenly getting hammered by a BUNCH of spam that appears to be from me. It scores low, and even though I keep feeding it to Bayes, it's still not hitting the threshold to be marked as spam. When I

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/14/23 23:59, Loren Wilton wrote: I am suddenly getting hammered by a BUNCH of spam that appears to be from me. It scores low, and even though I keep feeding it to Bayes, it's still not hitting the threshold to be marked as spam. When I check the headers, it's coming from multiple random e

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Thomas Cameron
On 7/14/23 20:30, Grant Taylor via users wrote: On 7/14/23 6:06 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to block this stuff. Something like "if it appears to come from me, but it's not actually coming from my email server," block it. SPF with hard fail in your own domain /and/

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Cathryn Mataga
Oh well, this was my own goof then I guess. I run sendmail, and I'm a programmer, but I don't do email for a living, so I only learn things as I pick them up slowly. On 7/15/2023 5:05 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On 16/07/2023 04:44, Cathryn Mataga wrote:   Someone has figured a way to use  gmail

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Noel Butler
On 16/07/2023 04:44, Cathryn Mataga wrote: Someone has figured a way to use gmail to spam from their servers, looks like to me. huh? They have been doing this for YEARS, google don't care because they get to scan (inspect) all the mail, even in transit, that's not "tinfoil hat" rubbish eith

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Cathryn Mataga
I just fixed a problem like this. I checked my headers, and the email was spf approved from google. I had included google so I could get some mail forwarded by them back awhile ago, but it's not worth getting this spam.  Someone has figured a way to use gmail to spam from their servers, looks l

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-15 Thread Grant Taylor via users
On 7/15/23 2:00 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: SPF don't care about the visible From-header I agree that SPF doesn't (SHOULDN'T) care about the RFC522.From header. However my experience has been that the vast majority of messages that are spoofing the RFC522.From header are also spoofing the RFC52