3 posts tagged “email”
Spam can be fun. Got this email today (minus the promised Extrasoft Velour blanket, alas):
[PROMOTION]Extrasoft Velour blanket&cushion
Dear Sir
We, Anhui Light Industries International Co., Ltd, are one of biggest exporters
of kinds of blankets and cushion in China.
Attached pls find Extrasoft Velour blanket&cushion, some of our latest collections.
If they are interesting or you have your own enquiries, pls feel free to let me know.
Looking forward to your kindly reply!
best regards
Fairy
Sales Manager
Textile Dept
UPDATE: I must be in some blanket database somewhere. I just got another one...
Attached pls find Wrinkled blanket & cushion, some of our latest collections.
If they are interesting or you have your own enquiries, pls feel free to let me know.
Looking forward to your kindly reply!
best regards
June
Textile Dept
I'm still suffering some server issues. In particular none of the Leoville email addresses are working. I can see mail in the queue (over 3000 messages) but they're not getting directed to my inbox.
So if you've sent me mail in the past three days chances are good I didn't get it yet. I'm working on the problem and hope to have it solved soon.
UPDATE: After considerable hair tearing, and experimentation, I've figured out (by reviewing the Qmail logs) that Fastmail.fm, my IMAP host, and one I've long recommended, has been greylisting the Leoville.com server. Just in case something like this happens to you, here's what to look for.
My mail follows a somewhat tortuous route. When you send a message to leoville.com it's first forwarded to Mailroute for sanitization. This kills well over 1 million spam messages to me a month. The remaining 30,000 messages a month are sent to my server at leoville.com which immediately redirects it to Fastmail, my IMAP host, where it's stored until I access it. Fastmail has its own anti-spam stuff, including the bit that bit me, greylisting.
Greylisting is a clever antispam technique that tells an SMTP server to come back later. The delay can be anything from 15 minutes (typical) to several days. The theory being that a spammer will move on, but legitmate emailers will try again. Unfortunately Fastmail has set my greymail interval to something like four million seconds, so my mail piles up for several days before it's delivered to me. Fastmail does this if your reverse DNS looks like a home IP address instead of a legit SMTP server. (They discuss what they're doing on their blog.) Makes sense since many home computers are used to forward spam, but it's flummoxed me. I couldn't figure out what was happening.
The fix was to complain to Fastmail and change my reverse DNS to actually say leoville.com. Not sure which worked, but all of a sudden I'm getting a LOT of mail. If you sent me something in the past couple of days I'll get back to you ASAP. Sorry for the delay. Now I've got to go turn off that damn new mail sound.
I got this in my email this morning. Should I be worried??
Subject: Your Computer It Is In Ouer Base Of Dates
Dear Sir,
From your Ip Adress was found at ouer server was made inegality from your computer.
Please send as your Ip and User Acounts.
Example : Ip Adress -- (64.105.196.234).
User Acounts -- (Administrator,Quest....).
Password -- (Your password....).
After you sent this dates ouer operators will acces your computer to fiind out what was the reason was make the inegality. After you sent the dates in time at 2 weeks since we recived your dates will no`t access your computer. After we remake this problem you will change your pasword (at list 8 characters).
Your dates please send at ouer institut or in ouer email adress is : www.admin-ip-adress@hotmail.com
In caz you will no`t send the dates ouer team from intervention will came at your home and will you take your computer for probes and it is the risk to be panegement whit jail. Please don`t make more dificult this situation.
Thank you for understanding.
