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Have you been inundated with "undeliverable" emails?

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Computer hard drive. (Image from Pacific Northwest Laboratory's website). Starting this past Monday night and running into yesterday morning, I got flooded with a few hundred e-mails -- many from Russia and elsewhere overseas, and many with attachments that I did not open -- proclaiming that e-mails I never sent were undeliverable. I tried setting my webhost's filtering software to reject emails with such titles as undeliverable, postmaster and daemon. Whether or not it was coincidental, the flood reduced to a steady stream and then a trickle.  Did any of you experience the same thing? If so, how did you resolve the problem? A colleague who uses the same sitehost as ours told me it happened to him, and that his spam filtering software had to play catch-up to start filtering out such spam e-mail...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).