Dave wrote:
I had a auto response
on my mail (which I have now removed) and I was getting 300+ spam over
night.
I have marked it to enable for filtering and enable for incoming blocking is
this correct?
Dave,
First, it is good that you removed the "auto response" because some
argue that this should never be done... and, certainly, no one should
ever use an autoresponder if they don't already have exceptional spam
filtering. A high percentage of spam has the "FROM" address forged, and
many of these forged FROMs are real people who are innocent. If you are
getting much spam past your spam filtering, then many innocent people
will become a victim of your auto-responder as it responds back to them
for spams that they really had nothing to do with. Additionally, you
might have been getting notifications from your own server about these
responders not be deliverable and/or these might have triggered
backscatter from misconfigured servers. Auto-responders are already a
messy business when the spam filtering is working well... but they are
out-of-control bad when the spam filtering isn't up to par.
I have added all the stuff above and am still getting alot of spam,
medication, degree's and stop being floppy in the bedroom.
First, you couldn't have implemented "all" the stuff, because you
haven't implemented my lists! :)
But forget my lists for now... my lists are for going from good spam
filtering to incredibly great spam filtering. But without my lists, you
should be able to go from mediocre filtering to good filtering with only
the "free" non-subscription lists I mentioned.
I'm just not convinced that all those other lists missed so much.
I have a suggestion:
Post the sending IP addresses of 5 recent spams that made it past your
filter... and post the URLs used by spammers within the content of 5
recent spams. (I don't filter SA list mail... but in case others do, put
a space before the "." in the domain names of those URLs so that your
won't get blocked by other's filters when you reply back to the SA list)
I'll let you know which of those DNSBLs I mentioned, if any,
should/would have blocked the spams based on the Sender's IP and based
on the links within the messages.
We need to get to the bottom of what is really happening... are these
REALLY being missed by ALL those lists?? ...Or are these REALLY being
used (and scored?) properly by your filter??
Those questions can't be answered without some examples.
Thanks!
Rob McEwen
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