Hijacked email

[dkl]

I seem to be suffering from someone using my email to send spam. It doesn't effect what I want to send or what I receive but since I am getting 20 or so out of office replies or undeliverable replies per day (in several languages) I assume loads must be getting through.
It seems to use the end of my email but various (and I imagine none are the same)accounts that don't exist.
So the returned ones come from adfe@*************.fsnet.co.uk or fetd@*************.fsnet.co.uk etc etc.
So any ideas how I stop this. Someone somewhere must be getting loads of sh1t supposed;ly from me.
Cheers
David

[falcemob]

Do you have a web site? I am getting the same emails constanly being sent to my site, these then come into my inbox. One good thing is the company results spam has stopped.

[puggit]

I tried to sort this out for my next door neighbour - also with freeserve...

There's nothing you can do. It's possible to send the emails from anywhere, with spoofed from addresses (ie someone puts [e-mail]). The problem is that they all bounce back to .dkl.com, and with freeserve, any email to .dkl.com gets routed to any computer reading any emails to xyz.dkl.com.

Sorry Only suggestion is to quit freeserve/orange

[ThePassenger]

Bulk mailing software, is the devils spawn.

You're simply caught in the cross-fire and other than perpetually hopping providers their is not a lot you can do. However, remember, most ISP's are charging you for access to the public network, web space, e-mail, newsfeeds and stuff are just incentives to sign up. They'll do spam filtering and stuff but they have no real commercial incentive to get them working as good as is possible.

Now, someone like Jamie (as an example) probably has an e-mail hosting solution. I'd wager that £9k dedicated spam killer machine sat in front of his mail servers does a rather good job...

You pay for what you get and buyer beware are as always worth considering.