Oh, joy. Not.

[gerisullivan]

I'm on a dial-up connection, trying to get on the road, scooping up email...only the spammers have grabbed my domain and there were over 5,500 messages piled up in my inbox. The webmail service is way too slow at dial-up speeds to do anything useful, and even logging in via my shell account has proved of limited usefulness. I managed to clear out about 1,500 spam bounces, but with 15 hours of driving ahead of me, I'm just not going to spend any more time dealing with it now.

markiv1111, I received your voicemail message last night. It's going to be a week or more before time exists in my world. Sorry.

Onward, all.

Comments

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

Oh joy. Well, Merry Christmas anyway. My email address was gacked by spammers about six months ago. For a while, it was all bounces, all the time. Most tedious.

[johno.livejournal.com]

This has happened to me too.

If you can set up filters in your mail client, I set a rule to trap messages to ME, which gets the most important mail into a seperate folder.

Then I build up another filter with my mailing lists and other wanted mail.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

really sorry to hear it. Drive safely.

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

You need a program like Mailwasher (http://www.mailwasher.net/) which will retrieve only the headers of your mail, automatically mark known or likely spam, allow you to mark anything else you consider to be spam -- and delete them from the mail server so that you don't have to retrieve them at all. It's a great time saver!

[sfrose.livejournal.com]

A suggestion: give the Panix office a call (or quick email) and explain the problem to them. They should be able to clear out the spam bounces or at least sort them into a separate mail folder to be checked later.

Voice: (212) 741-4400

I've always found the staff to be friendy, helpful and understanding. When I was in the ER 2.5 years ago, Seth contacted them for me so that I wouldn't lose mail by being close to over quota.

Let me know if I can help.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Have a safe journey, monkey girl!