{"id":175,"date":"2007-03-14T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/hijacking-spammer\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T08:00:17","slug":"hijacking-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/hijacking-spammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hijacking Spammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some dirty little spammer appears to have used valid mjtnet.com email addresses for the reply-to address of a recent spamming campaign.  We&#8217;re getting dozens of mail failures for emails we didn&#8217;t send out, many of which are advertising a certain men&#8217;s pharmaceutical product.  Nothing to do with us.<\/p>\n<p>What can be done?  Not a lot.  We already have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openspf.org\/\">SPF<\/a> records set up for our domain.  SPF defines which mail servers are allowed to send mail for a specific domain.  Unfortunately the vast majority of mail servers don&#8217;t bother to do SPF checks.  Any that do will be rejecting those spam messages as they were sent from a different mail server to the one our domain permits to be used.  But most won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess all we can do is wait for this to die down, filter out the mail failures and hope that this recent hijacking doesn&#8217;t get us unfairly blacklisted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some dirty little spammer appears to have used valid mjtnet.com email addresses for the reply-to address of a recent spamming campaign. We&#8217;re getting dozens of mail failures for emails we didn&#8217;t send out, many of which are advertising a certain men&#8217;s pharmaceutical product. Nothing to do with us. What can be done? Not a lot. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}