Spam!!

[Express]

Hi,

I never thought it but we're getting spammed around 60 - 100 times a day in the helpdesk and normal pop3 accounts.

I have enabled the spam feature cpanel and it does not work that well. Is there anything else i could do to stop this. Its a joke now!

[kobra]

Express,

You might have a look at these (For Dedicated Only)

http://spamlinks.net/filter-server-addon.htm#exim

http://www.junkemailfilter.com/spam/how_it_works.html

http://www.sput.nl/software/exim.html

Cheers

[meltingcube]

spam is something you can never really avoid, although the best thing that you can do is never display the email address in plain text on the page. spam bots always look for certain patterns to use. The way I avoid that is by using a script that creates an image of the email (ie. showemail.php?id=1), it looks just like normal text but it hides the email from the spam bots.

[Gene]

I have a shared server package and with my old host got tons of span even though they had a "spam filter". When I moved here I turned on Spam Assassin with the subject rewrite to add [SPAM] to the subject. I then had all that delivered to junkdrawer@mydomain.org so I could check for false positives. After a month nothing was falsely tagged spam so I set it to just delete the spam. I now get 2 or 3 spams a week where I used to get 40 to 50 a day. Spam Assassin works for me on a shared server. I am MUCH happier here that my old host.

[Express]

Thanks to blake i think i now have this under control!! yeeeeeha

[kobra]

Express,

Mind sharing the solutions?

[Express]

Sorry...


I Never had spam assassin setup correctly.

[McCarthySites]

Every domain I setup, enabling Spam assassin is one of the first things, then configuring it to add [SPAM] to the subject line.

Host9 is keeping up with those filters (lots more messages being marked even with a lower threshold being set than my prior hosting company).

Brian

[DaveyC]

What i always find works a treat is to make your e-mail address something that a spammer wouldnt think of adding to their attack list.

For example, dave@mydomain.com, whenever i set up an e-mail address like this, i'd get spammed big time, even though my e-mail address wasn't listed anywhere. So now, when i set up an e-mail address, i tend to go for something like : dave.contact@mydomain.com etc etc..

Plus, as meltingcube said, don't put the e-mail address in plain text anywhere.



Dave

[gspark]

all of our h9 emails got snatched up by spambots and none were visible in web pages, this all happen via day to day email, perhaps due to us being forced to use unsecure email like smtp 25 and such, what sucks is once an email gets grabbed you have to delete that one and create a new one, i've only experienced this with h9,