Re: User getting spammed to death

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems my email appears on one of those "millions of emails" cdroms Egads, are those things still out there? I used to get spammed with offers for them. Of course, I don't get spam any more (thanks, SA team)! Thomas

Re: User getting spammed to death

jdow a écrit : > > The real problem here is that it is a unique solution for every user. > The not quite so nasty problem is the number of different ways to render > my name, especially if I allow for most of the common fsckups. > agreed. I have many contacts who add me to their own addr book wi

Re: User getting spammed to death

From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and I also consider to reject mails that have a random > display name added to my email How do you do that? I'd sure love to reject e-mail that says To: Joe Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but what about mail where they don't enter any name? Baby, bathwate

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> > and I also consider to reject mails that have a random > > display name added to my email > > How do you do that? > > I'd sure love to reject e-mail that says To: Joe Smith > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but what about mail where they don't enter any > name? > > Baby, bathwater... You do it with a *rea

Re: User getting spammed to death

Hi Evan, it is currently an addition to qmail-scanner As for whielisting: if the envelope from matches @spamassassin.apache.org or @lists.sourceforge.net or my username (yes, I sometimes bcc me a copy) let it through. Otherwise if none of my possible names appears in either to or cc, it must be

Re: User getting spammed to death

On Mon, February 13, 2006 2:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just started to reject mails where the sender does not care to put > my email addy into > To or Cc field, Wow.. So if someone sends a message where you're on the BCC, you simply delete it? I get a number of e-mails from friends

Re: User getting spammed to death

> I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... > > But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are > getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. > > Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply turfing the email > address ? > > Thank

Re: User getting spammed to death

On 2/13/2006 7:16 PM +0100, Peter Marshall wrote: I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply tu

Re: User getting spammed to death

Greg Allen wrote: > Using some good RBLs at your MTA should help, also make sure you are running > current version of SA with everything enabled (bayes, urbl, etc) True, spamcop and some other RBLs have recently started blacklisting sites that emit backwash.

Re: User getting spammed to death

Evan Platt wrote: > On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:59 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > >> That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note >> that >> this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, >> so be >> sure to check for it on other lists you subscrib

RE: User getting spammed to death

Using some good RBLs at your MTA should help, also make sure you are running current version of SA with everything enabled (bayes, urbl, etc) > -Original Message- > From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:16 PM > To: SpamAssassin list > Subject

RE: User getting spammed to death

Using some good RBLs at your MTA should help, also make sure you are running current version of SA with everything enabled (bayes, urbl, etc) > -Original Message- > From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:16 PM > To: SpamAssassin list > Subject:

Re: User getting spammed to death

On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:59 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note > that > this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, > so be > sure to check for it on other lists you subscribe to. > > > list-unsubscri

RE: User getting spammed to death

On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:20 am, Michael Di Martino wrote: > please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin > site. In the headers of every message: list-unsubscribe:

Re: User getting spammed to death

Michael Di Martino wrote: > please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin > site. > That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note that this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, so be sure to check for it on other l

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please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin site. Thanks Mike

RE: User getting spammed to death

al Message- From: Kristopher Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:01 PM To: Peter Marshall; SpamAssassin list Subject: RE: User getting spammed to death Are the messages coming from the same sending server? If so, I'd blacklist it at your MTA until

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nope .. unfortunitly, that is not the case :( Kristopher Austin wrote: Are the messages coming from the same sending server? If so, I'd blacklist it at your MTA until the storm is over. Kris -Original Message- From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13,

RE: User getting spammed to death

Are the messages coming from the same sending server? If so, I'd blacklist it at your MTA until the storm is over. Kris > -Original Message- > From: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 12:16 PM > To: SpamAssassin list > Subject: User getting spammed

RE: User getting spammed to death

I had this problem a couple years back with our education email address. While the account got moderate levels of spam, it was absolutely inundated with virus backscatter. After a few months of trying to block the majority of it, we deemed the effort futile and abandoned the address. It was a nu