Host4Profit email spam

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People have been sending me email spams from my Host4Profit email alias account or username, they have properly been spaming other people using my username and account too. How can I stop that?
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  • Profile picture of the author floatingatoll
    Originally Posted by noixglacee View Post

    People have been sending me email spams from my Host4Profit email alias account or username, they have properly been spaming other people using my username and account too. How can I stop that?
    If they're sending mail using your email address, but they're not sending it through Host4Profit, then they're just pretending to be you. There's no technical solution available to solve that problem. I used to receive thousands of bounce emails a day as a result of spoofing.

    If they've actually hacked into your account or are somehow using a security weakness on your website to send emails as you from the Host4Profit servers, then you need to audit your applications (check for updates, inspect outbound mail audit trails, check http access logs) and your hosting account (login times and source ip addresses, secure passwords, ssh keys).

    You can tell the difference between these two cases by comparing the full headers of a legitimate email sent from your hosting account to the full headers of a spam email sent by the spammer. Focus on the Received headers - they're ordered from newest (top) to oldest (bottom) in the email. If you need further help, consider pasting one set of Received headers from a legit message, and one set from a spam message, here for inspection.
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  • Profile picture of the author Executiveincome2you
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    • Profile picture of the author radhika
      Ask your host to setup SPF and rDNS for your site. Though it is not an ironclad solution to stop spam, it stops spoofing of your domaing by others.

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