Mailing list spam

Fenman · 25 Sep 2020, 06:25 PM

My son has a Fastmail account. Suddenly he has hundreds of emails signing him up to mailing lists. They are in English, French, Swedish and other languages. This is rendering his account unusable.

They have nothing in common with each other and it doesn't seem feasible to set up a filter.

There's no evidence that it's Fastmail specific.

Is there any defence against this sort of spam?

janusz · 25 Sep 2020, 06:48 PM

Try activating "reject messages from people not in your address book". I don't know whether this is possible with Fastmail.

Besides, this is very restrictive so I would keep it on for a couple of days only. Quite often those types of attacks do not last very long.

Fenman · 25 Sep 2020, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by janusz

Try activating "reject messages from people not in your address book". I don't know whether this is possible with Fastmail.

Besides, this is very restrictive so I would keep it on for a couple of days only. Quite often those types of attacks do not last very long.

It is possible and goes a long way to helping. Many thanks, janusz.

25 Sep 2020, 06:25 PM	#1
Fenman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: UK (East Anglia) Posts: 737	Mailing list spam My son has a Fastmail account. Suddenly he has hundreds of emails signing him up to mailing lists. They are in English, French, Swedish and other languages. This is rendering his account unusable. They have nothing in common with each other and it doesn't seem feasible to set up a filter. There's no evidence that it's Fastmail specific. Is there any defence against this sort of spam?

25 Sep 2020, 06:48 PM	#2
janusz The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: EU Posts: 4,943	Try activating "reject messages from people not in your address book". I don't know whether this is possible with Fastmail. Besides, this is very restrictive so I would keep it on for a couple of days only. Quite often those types of attacks do not last very long.