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Increased spam on low-cost DirectAdmin emails from Hostbrr since 2026
Hi all,
Since January 1st, 2026, we’ve noticed a significant increase in spam hitting our low-cost DirectAdmin email accounts from Hostbrr. I haven’t contacted the provider yet, and since I don’t have any production domains on these accounts, I’d like to try to handle it myself.
I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced a similar spike in spam lately. If so, I’d really appreciate it if you could share any effective configurations, filters, or best practices you’ve used to mitigate it.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
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I haven't noticed a huge spike in spam (or at least spam that got through @jar 's filters), maybe spam filtering at hostbrr is having some issues?
Any chance this is on storage line?
Disable emails.
Everything comes via Slack and Discord.
It all depends on how obscure the email addresses being spammed are.
If it's contact@, abuse@, info@ domain (anything common or generic), then it's common.
If it's an email address that's not easy to guess and hasn't been signed up to anything where that email may have been sold on, then that's worthy of investigation.
Is there a theme to the spam? Even if Hostbrr were compromised or selling your data (I am not saying they are at all), what's the angle?
When you say hitting, are they going into spam? Or going into your inbox? If the latter, you need better filters, a better solution or a specialised email service. If they're hitting spam and you're just getting a lot of spam...well...