I am receiving lots of "delivery failiure" messages

sallen2

Hi
It looks like someone is using my email address to send emails which then are not getting delivered so I get the failure reports.
I have a domain like @myname, and anything before the @ comes through to me.
Can I stop someone sending emails which appear to come from something@myname ?
Thanks

superscaper

sallen2 wrote: »

Can I stop someone sending emails which appear to come from something@myname ?
Thanks

No. Anybody can manually (or program to automatically write in) anything they want in the "from field" in emails. But you may want to change your email host's setting so you don't get everything sent to your domain, only specified addresses. It can be a pain, I've got a list of about 300 addresses on my domain but I get zero spam and nobody has happened to use any of those specified addresses as their "from address".

SoozyJ22

Are you on orange/wanadoo/freeserve? I suddenly started getting lots of those during the week but they seemed to have stopped now.

superscaper

SoozyJ22 wrote: »

Are you on orange/wanadoo/freeserve? I suddenly started getting lots of those during the week but they seemed to have stopped now.

It's their own domain, so it doesn't make a difference who their ISP is. For all I know exactly the same may be being sent to my domain but because of my above method I'll never receive them.

pinkfluffybabe

I get this quite a lot in my hotmail - I just delete them

ManAtHome

Some more detail here (how to block random names before the @) http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=461284

superscaper

Although you may be better doing it on the email server and simply switching off the "catchall" option. Adding rules to your email client still means that you are downloading unnecessary email.