This is the first in a series of articles looking at how spam blights the online lives of so many people. I'll be visiting how spammers operate and what you can do to minimise the grief that spam causes you.
So you think you are suffering because of spam? Well, you probably are. Spammers cause grief in many different ways, not just by filling up your inbox. Here are some scenarios.
- You constantly receive spam in your inbox.
- You get bounced emails from people telling you that the email address you have apparently sent to doesn’t exist.
- You get emails from servers telling you that the message you apparently sent has been flagged as spam.
- You find you can’t send emails to certain addresses because somewhere your email address has been labelled as ‘spam’.
- Your web host sends you a snotty email asking you to cut back on the number of emails you’re sending.
- Unbeknown to you your pc has some processes running which are sending spam emails.
- You don’t receive some emails because your system labels them as spam.
- Your website on shared hosting is slow because the server is sending spam emails.
- You and even your children may be receiving inappropriate emails.
So in the above case the process is
your pc -> server1 -> server2 -> recipient pc
Each email that’s sent contains ‘headers’ which is a block of code that outlines the trail that the email has taken to get from the sender to the recipient, and this lists all the servers it has used in the journey, together with some other information.
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