spam explosion

[gusl]

I'm hosted by buydomains.com. Since yesterday, my domain has received about 300 spam messages (most of which are bounces), up from ~ 15 / day. About 92% of them are caught by GMail's spam filter, but a lot still gets through. Is this happening to anyone else today? There's no reason why the spammers should target just my domain.

Does anyone know a way to script my server, so that only email addresses beginning with "gus" make it through? I might have to ask the folks at buydomains.com, but this sounds like it would be extra work, not included in my $16/year.

I might have to change hosts. peamasii, would this be a good time for you?

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[peamasii.livejournal.com]

On the domains I host, I offer spamassassin filtering and it's configurable per domain and per mailbox. You can also bounce mail to non-existent addresses on your domain and you can also set up auto-responders and auto-forwarders (email aliases). I have to set up SPF records too, although those are only useful if the sender makes use of them (is that right ernunnos?...). Another feature I plan to add is backup MX records on a different network, but we're waiting on some bigger clients before getting servers at other locations.

Are you currrently getting emails processed on your domain or are they just getting forwarded to your gmail account?

Anyway the basic hosting I provide is 8 EUR per month, I just can't be bothered to set anything up for less than that ;-)