The only way that kind of email offering works is a mandatory quarantine
interface.
I used to use MaiWatch as a front end to Mailscanner. It works very
well in building a personalized trained database per user.
But after a while I realized I was spending as much time building the
database as just deleting the spam.
Ted
On 5/30/2026 9:39 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
Tangent: I am getting this same sort of spam like crazy, so if there's
any tips, secret rulesets, etc., I'm all ears.
It feels so targeted - I add/adjust RBLs in Postscreen to just drop a
ton of stuff at the front door and things let up for a few weeks and
then it all comes back, same stuff over and over again - clearly the
same little spam gang. I guess they just find a new set of
"bulletproof" hosts to switch too whenever they see a certain amount
of rejections across the board? It truly sucks how the spammers are
yet another partner in driving people to put all their email accounts
in the hands of the dozen or so providers that have the resources to
build their own functional internal spam filtering solutions. No
little 2-man shop that just wants to offer email as a bonus for some
other service or a hobbyist has the resources to be cobbling up their
own little special rulesets every day...
/rant
C
On May 30, 2026, at 12:07 AM, Tom Williams via users
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi! A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA, Lowe's
and similar spam. I don't know how they got her email address, but
she's getting flooded. Her email account is on a shared hosting
platform (Hostgator) and while Spamassassin is installed and
configured, it's blocking only so much of this.
Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages
that contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the
spam email. lol
My questions:
1. Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping
Spamassassin detect and filter out AI generated spam?
2. Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for the
prompt text to help in filtering out the messages?
I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested.
Thanks in advance!
Peace...
Tom
