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Old 08-02-2007, 12:20 PM
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I'm just wondering if there is any way to successfully set-up a vacation message on your email without opening up the possibility of spammers getting a response from the address.

I've noticed in the past that sending an automated response just asks for trouble and a flood of spam starts arriving. This is the first auto-response I'll have to use on my new email address and I'd rather not open it up to spammers.

I'll be away for 10 days and I can't be 100% sure that I'll have access to my mail so I need some sort of message for my clients. Any suggestions?
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I'm on a Mac using Thunderbird to collect my POP3 mail. I can also access my mail on the web through my hosting control panel with SquirrelMail. Any help?
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I think I do... my info@ address is a catchall I think, and it forwards everything to my address. How will this effect things?
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Old 08-02-2007, 03:30 PM
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Turn it off ....

If you have a catchall on you will be raped with spam
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Ah, yes. Will do thanks. (EDIT: I just checked and I don't have a catch-all set-up thank god. Just a forwarder.)

But I heard that if you have an auto-responder, and a spammer sends you an email, and they are sent back a reply, it's pretty much like a verification that your address is alive and well and the spam starts flooding in. Is this true, or just an old wives' tale?
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The majority of spam you see coming in would be automated using an invalid senders address or a spoofed address. Any spammer using their own email account to send/receive email needs their head checked.

Spammers would have used a reply as way to validate an address some years back but now they have better methods helping to cut down on manual work.

Personally I would not worry about it.
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