Once that is done just login to your webmail or IMAP and create a “Junk” folder which all of the spam will go into. Take in mind, this will need to be created without the quotes and since DH’s Junk Folders are housed somewhere else we have to create one of our own.

Detailed instructions are available here:
http://kevin.hatfieldfamilysite.com/?p=20

For experienced users the .procmailrc is located here:
http://www.projectstuff.org/procmailrc

Since I have added this, I haven’t received a single spam message in my inbox. Good luck — Email me at: khatfield@projectstuff.org if you have feedback or questions.

Better now than later eh ?

You have duplicate MX records. This means that mailservers may try delivering mail to the same IP more than once. Although technically valid, this is very confusing, and wastes resources. The duplicate MX records are: fltr-in4.mail.dreamhost.com. and fltr-in3.mail.dreamhost.com. both resolve to 0.0.0.0.

I could not complete a connection to one or more of your mailservers:
fltr-in4.mail.dreamhost.com: Could not connect without glue or A record.
fltr-in3.mail.dreamhost.com: Could not connect without glue or A record.
fltr-in1.mail.dreamhost.com: The mailserver terminated the connection before the transaction was complete (state 1). This is not RFC compliant, and therefore either due to an error, or it may be the result of a non-RFC-compliant mailserver or non-RFC-compliant anti-spam program.

One or more of your mailservers is claiming to be a host other than what it really is (the SMTP greeting should be a 3-digit code, followed by a space or a dash, then the host name). If your mailserver sends out E-mail using this domain in its EHLO or HELO, your E-mail might get blocked by anti-spam software. This is also a technical violation of RFC821 4.3 (and RFC2821 4.3.1). Note that the hostname given in the SMTP greeting should have an A record pointing back to the same server. Note that this one test may use a cached DNS record. fltr-in2.mail.dreamhost.com claims to be host godfather.dreamhost.com [but that host is at 10.3.44.139 (may be cached), not 208.97.132.72].

One or more of your mailservers does not accept mail to abuse@topsailcruises.com. Mailservers are expected by RFC2142 to accept mail to abuse. fltr-in2.mail.dreamhost.com’s abuse response:
>>> RCPT TO:
: Recipient address rejected: User unknown.

Your domain does not have an SPF record. This means that spammers can easily send out E-mail that looks like it came from your domain, which can make your domain look bad (if the recipient thinks you really sent it), and can cost you money (when people complain to you, rather than the spammer). You may want to add an SPF record ASAP, as 01 Oct 2004 was the target date for domains to have SPF records in place (Hotmail, for example, started checking SPF records on 01 Oct 2004).

On the plus side, it’s been a couple of days since I’ve had a problem getting mail through to earthlink. [Though I did break down and set up a real mailbox on Dreamhost instead of forwarding my own mail through to earhlink.]