On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 01:31:37PM -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Igor Chudov wrote: > >> I get plenty of these also, and cannot get them to score well. >> >> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam008.txt >> >> Any ides what I can do? > > Do you have administrative access to ak74.algebra.com? That looks like > it's your MX host.
Yep, it is my MX host. I have root access, it is a 5 year old Fedora 3 server. > If so, a MTA rule that rejects any message from the internet having a > HELO without a period may block a lot of that. I'm seeing an increase in > the number of messages with that particular flaw: > > 217 Mar 23 > 129 Mar 24 > 208 Mar 25 > 212 Mar 26 > 207 Mar 27 > 149 Mar 28 > 143 Mar 29 > 138 Mar 30 > 135 Mar 31 > 172 Apr 1 > 155 Apr 2 > 83 Apr 3 > 121 Apr 4 > 123 Apr 5 > 126 Apr 6 > 141 Apr 7 > 124 Apr 8 > 151 Apr 9 > 125 Apr 10 > 144 Apr 11 > 139 Apr 12 > 199 Apr 13 > 332 Apr 14 > 197 Apr 15 > 249 Apr 16 > 279 Apr 17 > 385 Apr 18 > 440 Apr 19 > 355 Apr 20 > 419 Apr 21 > 531 Apr 22 > 326 Apr 23 > > If not, a SA rule that looks for such a HELO in the Received: header that > ak74.algebra.com adds might help. > Do you have examples of both kinds of such rules? I am especially interested in the mailserver side, as I have a lot of accounts handled by that server. i