Re: mail2web

Their privacy policy says they don't (only using aggregate data...) 
but who knows...

Even if you keep your email very private, if any of the folks you 
sent mail to has a virus...that could be the source. Some spammers 
use virii for collection purposes.

It's very easy to check up on mail2web if you want to put some time 
into it. Create a pair of "honey pot" accounts on your mail server. 
These are a brand new never-used email accounts that are 
near-impossible to guess: DKOWrandom2873-3Q2Tfjf0mexWk0Htik3J/[email protected], for example.

Then, use www.mail2web.com to send a single message from one honeypot 
account to the other one.

Then, wait for spam. If no spam ever comes to either honeypot, good.

If you do get spam, then there is a problem: either with mail2web, 
your network (sniffers?), or your mail server. Either way, you 
probably want to investigate further.

John

At 12:20 PM 10/16/2007, robb kinnin wrote:
>the web site www.mail2web.com seems to be a plus for many users who want to
>check their email remotely....we have been promoting it for years.
>
>Recently, I ended up using it to check one of my many email accounts that I
>keep quite private.  I have kept the address quite private for over four
>years to prevent it from being a victim of spam.
>
>Low and behold I have started to get spam to that email address now.
>
>Some of our users have started to complain that they, who only use the
>Internet for email, have started to get spam after returning from vacation.
>Those same people would have used a relatives computer to manage their email
>with mail2web as well.
>
>Is it fair to say that mail2web either sells email addresses by capturing
>them from their smtp servers or are spammers somehow harvesting the email
>addresses from mail2web?
>
>Any thoughts are appreciated.
>
>
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