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Renewal of spam attacks
- 4 years ago
Good morning nitaclay,
Thank you for your patience while our e-mail folks looked into your concern. They have located and blocked the offending IPs from sending again and the issue should slacken now if not completely stop. Please continue marking any suspicious e-mail as spam to help strengthen our spam controls.
If you have any other concerns, please feel free to reach out again.
Your cooperation, patience, and understanding are much appreciated.
Thanks,
Liz
I am getting a bunch of spam from Zedline. They use ramdon letters like fstv@zedline.com. I block them but they just keep changing the random letters and more still come.
Some get to my email even though they are not sent to my email address. Can hughes.net block all emails from Zedline?
Jim Adler
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Jim, the email admins are working on the spam issue, but there's likely only so much they can do, as spammers get around counter-measures soon after they're deployed. Your best bet is to keep marking messages as spam or just delete them.
adlercpa wrote:I am getting a bunch of spam from Zedline. They use ramdon letters like fstv@zedline.com. I block them but they just keep changing the random letters and more still come.
Some get to my email even though they are not sent to my email address. Can hughes.net block all emails from Zedline?
Jim Adler
- MarkJFine4 years agoProfessor
When it's fixed, you should be able to block by the domain name, e.g. *@zedline.com. That should stop it for a week until the domain changes.
Admins may want to relay this to the engineers: Majority of spam will come from web servers that have been compromized by hacked web site plugins as a means to get around checks to the RBL, but it doesn't last long. That said, it's best for the email server to check the HELO IP of incoming messages against an RBL and reject as appropriate. It's one of the best defenses to kill this beast. The current checker they have in place doesn't seem to be doing this.
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