All my Spam email has disappeared

[Bazzaman]

I have quite a few virtual hosts on my server and regularly have to suffer about 300 spam emails daily.

Since last Thursay night until now I have not received ONE SINGLE SPAM. I have a colleague also with the same host who is also experiencing the same thing.

This seems unbelievable and on the face of it I should be a happy man. However, I think that I am also not receiving some legitimate emails and this is very worrying indeed.

I have been onto my hosting company who could not give an immediate expanation and are "looking into it" - I hate that expression which generally means "Go away"

Has anyone had a similar experience to this or have an explanation as to what might be goiung on?

Any advice greatly appreciated.

[edited by: phranque at 8:35 pm (utc) on May 13, 2009]
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[bill]

Can you receive any mail at all?

[tangor]

I presume you already asked the host if they installed any new blocking software.

There are days, oddly enough, where no spam is sent anywhere by anybody. Not often, but sometimes does happen.

[Bazzaman]

I have just had the hosting company come back to me to tell me that they have put spam blocking filters in across their servers. Which is all very well but you would have thought that they would inform their clients that they were going to do it first.

It seems that we as clients will have no control over how aggressive the filters are which give me another problem. I now have to decide whether to have them on and risk losing customer emails or off and suffering all that spam.

Life is never easy!

Thank you all for your time.

[edited by: phranque at 12:52 pm (utc) on May 14, 2009]
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[piatkow]

If the filtering happens before presenting the mails to your own filters and safe list then its time to look for an alternative email provider.

[penders]

If there were no spam filters in place previously then you would no doubt see a massive drop in spam afterwards. For a particular host I use, which offers very little in the way of spam filtering and also gets close to 300 spams a day (sometimes more), I send it all through a Googlemail account which I must say does a grand job in filtering out the dross. Every few days I might get 1 in my inbox. But I can still check the Spam folder if need arises. (However, I believe that Google now filters out completely non-legit Paypal and eBay emails, based on DKIM. Such emails no longer appear in the Spam folder.)

If the filtering happens before presenting the mails to your own filters and safe list then its time to look for an alternative email provider.

I'm sure many email providers filter a great many emails it thinks are 100% spam, without many of us knowing. However, 300 to nil does sound a bit extreme for something like this?!

[Baruch Menachem]

I don't get spam mails very often, but my email address isn't out there much. I don't have an "admin" email account. There is no need. I have a web form for soliciting emails.

By and large the only spam I get is where they make a random hit by sending mails to the entire dicitonary @myaccount.com

The place does offer a spam filter, but you have to pay extra for it.

I have heard that there is a newer very effective spam filter that makes for almost no false positives and is good at catching 98% of the bad guys. It watches for accounts that get lots of spam and filter that way. The nice thing is, the bad guys build their own blacklists against themselves.

I have noticed that in my universe spam is a very small problem. It has been two years since I got my last nigerian email. I got my last phish two weeks ago, but it was for a bank in a foreign country. :,

I get very few hits at my site, mostly direct request. I don't think Google knows I am out there.