Re: Curious phenomenon with 9-repetitions of each spam...

2011-09-02 Thread Peter Nitschke
Greylisting would just mean the first one would be delayed - the rest would go through as they are identical emails. I would be looking to use Fail2ban as a solution depending on what your logs show. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/09/2011 at 12:14 PM John Hardin wrote: >On Fri,

Re: Curious phenomenon with 9-repetitions of each spam...

2011-09-02 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Steve wrote: I wonder, would it be possible to reject an email identical (same originating IP; same addressee; same subject) to an email received in the last minute, say, that had a spamassassin score of over 30? If I could find a way to do that, I could reduce the volume of

Re: Curious phenomenon with 9-repetitions of each spam...

2011-09-02 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:13:32 +0100, Steve wrote: Does anyone do this already? spamassassin is not currently designed for this kind of sender tracking, but it could be in next version if one make the needs plugins :=) currently only option you have is to use policyd v2 to make what you lik

Re: Curious phenomenon with 9-repetitions of each spam...

2011-09-02 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 9/2/11 10:13 AM, Steve wrote: could find a way to do that, I could reduce the volume of spam I have to process/store by a factor of about 8. Rejecting only emails with credentials identical to known recent highly scoring spam would make the risk of false positives minimal. Does anyone do thi

Curious phenomenon with 9-repetitions of each spam...

2011-09-02 Thread Steve
There is something curious I've noticed... I'm wondering if I'm unique, and if there's an obvious way to improve my setup. I was thumbing through my spam folder, and noticed that the bulk of my spam conformed to a very obvious pattern... On a time period from minutes to hours, I receive nine ident