Spam seems to be getting worse...

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Spam seems to be getting worse...

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Maybe it's just me, but the amount of spam I'm getting on various different email addresses (some barely even shown on web pages) seems to have rocketed in recent months and my spam checker software is giving it negative scores (as in, less than zero and impossible to block). They're all coming through with stupid, meaningless subjects like "congealed monkey" or "fruity disembowelment" or whatever other stupid two word meaningless phrases you coud make. A I just imagining it?

Anyone know any better server-side spam software than SpamAssassin? The reason I'm convinced there's got to be something else is that SA is giving it low or negative scores, whereas in AppleMail (my mail client) it's detected as spam... it should never get through the MX imho.
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Post by neel_basu »

I am Also Getting So many Now a Days
But Sujects Are About Fake lotery
Even Some of Them are Going To Inbox
And Notice:
ALL THE SENDERS USE YAHOO.COM ADDRESS
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We have just got MailFoundry installed on our servers...it has eliminated 100% of our spam!!! Absolutely awesome!!!
MailFoundry use a layered approach to maximise kill rates and minimise false positives. MailFoundry does not use any 'scoring' or rating systems for identifying spam - those systems are plagued by high false positive rates and are really only 'guessing' at spam.


MailFoundry uses signature files or definitions, much like your virus checker on your PC uses. Those spam signatures are created and managed by human spam editors who look at spam 24x7x365, and new updates are released every 5 minutes to ensure that our customers have the latest rule sets to defeat spam attacks as they happen.
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Post by Jenk »

My emails are quite the contrary. Up until a few months ago I was receiving nearly 50 spam mails daily. It was until I reaslised that my email address was on a public and high google ranking page (and removed it) that this was always the case. Now I only receive one or two a week, and my googlemail account which I am yet to use for anything other than registering on devnetstore, and a few personal mails, has not received a single spam mail thus far :)
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Post by superdezign »

Our filter gets rid of about 80% of our spam. The majority of the spam sent to my address is from our webdesign address. Everything says "WEB DESIGN, want some [insert drug]" or something saying "This is the [whatever] that you requested."

If it's not directly to my address, I usually end up deleting it. I may have missed a customer or two, but I blame the spam.
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Go google. It blocks all my spam so thankfully I never really have to think about it.
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Charles256 wrote:Go google. It blocks all my spam so thankfully I never really have to think about it.
I'd rather not thanks :) I run my own mail server for the flexibility of it. Having all my private emails in the hands of a third party company isn't something I want, nor would I easily port them elsewhere if I needed.

I'll check out MailFoundry... sounds good.

I only just realised how easy it is to write custom rules for SpamAssassin too.
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d11wtq wrote:
Charles256 wrote:Go google. It blocks all my spam so thankfully I never really have to think about it.
I'd rather not thanks :) I run my own mail server for the flexibility of it. Having all my private emails in the hands of a third party company isn't something I want, nor would I easily port them elsewhere if I needed.

I'll check out MailFoundry... sounds good.

I only just realised how easy it is to write custom rules for SpamAssassin too.
you're welcome paranoid boy ;)
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Nah, it's not paranoid... Just once you start hosting and maintaining your own web services you become a bit evangelical about keeping it that way :P

Looked at MailFoundry... very odd with the hardware stuff - which I can't afford with the amount of saving I'm (trying) doing. The hosted option sounds good, although I don't have 10 mailboxes that I actively use... $0.99/mo isn't half bad though :) I couldn't find anything that says how you configure the hosted option to be more/less leniant nor how you recover wrongly blocked spam.
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d11wtq wrote:Nah, it's not paranoid... Just once you start hosting and maintaining your own web services you become a bit evangelical about keeping it that way :P

Looked at MailFoundry... very odd with the hardware stuff - which I can't afford with the amount of saving I'm (trying) doing. The hosted option sounds good, although I don't have 10 mailboxes that I actively use... $0.99/mo isn't half bad though :) I couldn't find anything that says how you configure the hosted option to be more/less leniant nor how you recover wrongly blocked spam.
I understand, was just giving you a hard time. :)
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Post by matthijs »

Spam has been fairly steady for me the last year. Just 5-10 per account per day. However, gmail and thunderbird filter nearly 99.9% out so it's no problem for me.
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Post by alvinphp »

I get very little spam, I don't know why. Not complaining though!
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I have used the same email account for registering and shopping and the thing is so saturated with spam, I have no Idea were to track down the link. My comcast email gets zero spam because thats how much I use it.
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Post by nickvd »

I love hearing the complaints from our clients about the 5-10 pieces of spam they see every day... The look on their faces when we tell them that the main office account regularly receives much more than 1500 per day is just priceless.
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After reading this post I got curious and googled my email account that I receive spam from so much. First the whole thing then just the domain after the at symbol. There are cached pages with my email address all over the place. Pages I have taken down from my site and pages that contain archived threads from years ago when I used to post my email like a twerp. All up naked to any spider ready to crawl through. There are sites that I have never seen before that have a complete archive of threads that I had posted to in other forums. Are they selling this stuff??

I think its time I changed my email handle and forwarded a phony mailer daemon to every person or spider that uses it.
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