Spam is one of those problems that you can’t do much about, so you might as well try and find a little humor.
Perfect example. I just got an email to moderate a comment here that was a spam ad for software to spam forums, blogs, and guestbooks. Were I looking for such software, [...]
I stupidly didn’t set the default email address to :fail: on a couple of accounts on my cPanel server and found, while running a remote backup, that there were a few gigs of spam emails that were just sitting in those accounts.
But after going through about a dozen of the 500+ pages in Horde to [...]
Just a warning for those that may not be well versed in how to tell if an email is a phishing attempt. I’ve noticed over the past day or so that there have been a lot of emails coming in that appear to be coming from CareerBuilder.com asking me to update my account information. [...]
The humor on this was just too good not to post about it. I’ve got a spammer that has sent me the following email about 2 dozen times in the past week.
Good day,
My name is different names on each one and I am looking to buy links from good websites as yours (mydomain).
I [...]
If you’re running a server with cPanel and using exim as your mail server you have two semi-unlisted options for handling mail that’s not to a specific address.
cPanel calls this a catch all address and it’s useful if you want to have mails addressed to incorrect addresses on your domain still get to you. [...]
