Often, we are asked, “I sent an email to someone that I have been emailing for years and it got blocked by their spam filters. Why?”
Or….
“I sent an email to someone and when they replied to me, my spam filters identified them as spam. Why would it do that when I sent the original email?”
What is Backscatter? Backscatter refers to the mass number of e-mails received when a spam message forges the “From” address. You have likely seen them come in to your inbox by the dozens: Messages that indicate the intended recipient does not exist and the original message has your e-mail address in the “From” field. You, of course, did not send out these messages so, why are they bouncing back to you? The issue is not with you or your hosting provider’s mail server. The issue has to do with administration of the mail server that the spam message was sent to originally.
As we are all aware, spam is quickly becoming a crisis, if it is not already. It is currently estimated that spam accounts for more than 90% of all e-mail sent over the Internet. Given that e-mail is the most widely used technology on the Internet, this impacts the productivity of almost everyone who uses e-mail. So, what do you? This article will attempt to outline some of the reasons that you might receive so much spam and ways to mitigate the flow of spam into your inbox.
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