e-mailLast week I started receiving about 10 spam emails a minute addressed to random names at the domain based on my real name. Most looked like undelivered mail notices. I was worried that my primary email at that domain would get blocked as spam but fortunately, that’s unlikely to happen as far as my research tells me.

Here’s the best explanation I’ve dug up from Ask MetaFilter:

What to do about someone spoofing my email?

I would kill the catch all account and only forward the addresses that you actually use. Everything else should either bounce or drop at the server. This will at least minimize the number of bounces that you have to look at.

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Agree about the catch-all; it should be disabled. It is also vulnerable to a dictionary spam attack where the spammer simply tries sending email to every word in the dictionary at your domain. I once received over 100,000 pieces of spam in a single day from some spammer who tried this and I had a catch-all in place.

So my catch-all at the domain is now off and hopefully that’s the end of that worry! Hope this helps anyone else who’s encountered the same @#! spam email problem.