No spam.

[jlockley]

Odd thing to worry about. I have absolutely no spam. It's Columbus day Monday, and instead of the usual 200 messages, maybe 20 of which are pertinent, I got 7. Since a god deal of my spam is from Asia, I doubt that the feds have anything to do with this. I recently changed servers, but the new one (Godaddy) has been sending the usual salad of Spam and valid stuff for me to muddle through with the help of Spamnis (with Eudora..it kind of works).

I had initially thought that Godaddy was filtering it out, but I notice that the valid messages coming in are neatly marked [SPAM], so not the case, and there are no messages in the junk mailbox.

I am beginning to worry, since almost no mail is coming in today (a holiday, sort of, but people mail me over holidays and a lot of my clients are not in the US)- and the weekend mail was so sparse.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Does anyone have a clue what could be going on either specific to my server/Godady or on a much wider level? Has somebody shot all the spammers, has ARPA steped in with a new narrow meshed net (netting some of my desired mail? New federal law?--WHAT???

I don't want a new mortgage, I don't want anything enlarged, I don't want c*h*e*a*p V*1*a*q*r*a* , and I don't read Korean, but I need to know what my guy in Dubai is doing and whether Chicago got my invoice and my resume.

Curious as all get out.

 

[Jovah]

I had a similar issue a few weeks back. Our SPAM volume dropped WAY off, and some people claimed their e-mails weren't going through - but only occasionally. The cause turned out to be the company that hosts our web site. They don't host our Exchange server (we do) but they DO host the MX record for our Exchange. There was a pretty major fire in downtown Baltimore around that time which cut the power to the server farm hosting that MX record. So, as mail servers around the web refreshed their DNS our mail server's name was nowhere to be found, so mail sent to us went into limbo. Once the server farm came back up, all the missing mail (and SPAM, thank God) arrived as intended.

This probably isn't the problem you're having, but it might help for you to look first to external causes b/f assuming it's a prob with GoDaddy... I worked on ours for 3 hours before I thought to contact our ISP & web hosts...

Good luck,

Matt

 

[jlockley]

And what would you do without the spam, right?
Sounds about right, although everything hostable is now with Godaddy. At 5:00 on Monday all the mail came in (I hope) but the spam level was low and has remained insignificant.

I don't miss it, but I am a little concerned that things of some importance (anyone know a chef who wants to go to Dubai) may be waddling around in the aether with it.

I have turned off all spam filters, so it's not the server. I'd feel a lot better if someone knew that the feds or some other government took some of the larger players out of action last weekend.

Thanks. JLL