someones using my domain name

espresso

isofa wrote: »

I've had a commercial website since 1997, (and other websites before then in 1993) I've been using contact forms since around 1998 time too - I work in IT (run an IT company among others) and it is impossible to find an e-mail address on my site this is totally deliberate - I would never advertise my e-mail address as plain text anywhere. This doesn't affect anyone, in my experience. New customers can contact direct via the form, which is passed by a secure PHP script and then forwarded out to an account. It logs the persons IP and ensures they type a valid e-mail address, enter the required fields etc. All my actual clients have full e-mail, contact, telephone etc, so I can't see the issue. Real clients contact me directly via phone/e-mail, potential ones have to use a form, unless they have obviously been recommended by a colleague (which accounts for the majority of our business). Business is successful, never had any issue with this approach.

By law you must publicised your company address on your website (was only for Ltd companies, but could even be for sole traders now too), but I'm Ltd so have to. We get virtually no spam, except for a few wasters who occasionally go to the site and go through the form entry procedure, but it's filtered out by anti-spam anyway.

The OP's very basic website does have an enquires page making use of a script form but then on the home page there is a mailto: along with their phone number! No company address either.

Silly stumper.

:rotfl:

bordercars

espresso wrote: »

The OP's very basic website does have an enquires page making use of a script form but then on the home page there is a mailto: along with their phone number! No company address either.

Silly stumper.

:rotfl:

so do i remove my email address. albiet a little late.
sole trader address or not.

back to the first question.

when i recieve an incoming E, how can it show it's from [EMAIL="***@mydomain"]***@mydomain[/EMAIL]

isofa

bordercars wrote: »

when i recieve an incoming E, how can it show it's from ***@mydomain

Because the sender can put anything in the From address, I could send you an e-mail which said it was from: Queen@Windsor.com and you'd think it was from Brenda...

Looking in detail at the headers will show more detailed tracking info.

Essentially you can change the From to anything in a mailer application in most cases. Hence it's not unheard of to get spam which looks like it was from your address or your domain.

espresso

bordercars wrote: »

so do i remove my email address. albiet a little late.
sole trader address or not.

Save-a-lot has explained here that having a mailto: on your home page is not a good idea, so you should definitely remove your e-mail and point them to your enquiries page. If you must display your e-mail address, display an image of it as suggested.