Mike, To stop the sex emails you need a spam filter - we have a linux server and use spamassassin (its free and you can apply it at varying degrees per domain).
It still lets the message through but it changes it (see below) ---------------------------------------------------------- This mail is probably spam. The original message has been attached along with this report, so you can recognize or block similar unwanted mail in future. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. Content preview: The Marketing Effectively How to Grow Your Business [...] Content analysis details: (19.10 points, 5 required) SUBJ_REMOVE (0.5 points) BODY: List removal information REMOVE_SUBJ (0.9 points) BODY: List removal information OFFER (0.1 points) BODY: Free Offer HTML_LINK_CLICK_HERE (0.1 points) BODY: HTML link text says "click here" HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED (0.1 points) BODY: HTML font color is red HTML_MESSAGE (0.1 points) BODY: HTML included in message HTML_FORM_ACTION_MAILTO (4.3 points) BODY: HTML includes a form which sends mail HTML_FONT_COLOR_UNSAFE (0.1 points) BODY: HTML font color not within safe 6x6x6 palette HTML_50_60 (0.5 points) BODY: Message is 50% to 60% HTML MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ_REMOVE (0.5 points) BODY: mailto URI includes removal text MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ (0.0 points) URI: Includes a link to send a mail with a subject MAILTO_TO_REMOVE (0.3 points) URI: Includes a 'remove' email address MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR (0.4 points) URI: Includes a link to a likely spammer email address FORGED_AOL_RCVD (4.3 points) Received forged, contains fake AOL relays MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2 (0.4 points) 'Message-Id' was added by a relay (2) DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24 (2.8 points) Date: is 12 to 24 hours after Received: date CLICK_BELOW (0.1 points) Asks you to click below MIME_HTML_ONLY (0.1 points) Message only has text/html MIME parts FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK (3.5 points) Forged mail pretending to be from MS Outlook The original message did not contain plain text, and may be unsafe to open with some email clients; in particular, it may contain a virus, or confirm that your address can receive spam. If you wish to view it, it may be safer to save it to a file and open it with an editor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------- I then use outlook to send all the messages like this to the deleted items box (sometimes it incorrectly classifies emails) but overall it does a great job of keeping penis enlargement ads from my inbox To provide virus protection at the server there are a few options - try a google search (we are looking at vexira - from central command http://www.centralcommand.com/vexira_mailarmor_linux.html ), but it really should be done locally as well. hth Steve Soars Interactive Redlands www.i-redlands.net Shop 2 Cleveland Town Square Cnr Queen & Bloomfield Sts Cleveland Qld Australia 4163 p: +61 7 3821-5800 f: +61 7 3821-5811 Instant Messaging msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 298661060 yahoo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Kear Sent: Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:39 AM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] OT: Anyone got an effective anti-spam and anti-virus program at the server level? I got a message from one of my clients today, whose web site I host, and here's what he said ... I'd like to know if anyone's got any effective measures to do what he wants ..... [quote] Could you ask your hosting company to virus-detect the emails and stop all these sex emails coming to us almost 10 emails every day. If they can not do this I have to move my hosting from you. In past few weeks we have lost our server due to infected emails and down time has been 30% this is not satisfactory. [/quote] My initial reaction is to tell him he's living in lala-land if he thinks he can stop spam, specially since his website has his email address on it in a dozen places, but before I did that I thought I'd check and see what you guys think .. Only TEN?? Porn emails a day? And how many opportunities a day to share in US$30 million from some corrupt official in Nigeria? (Perhaps he's treating those as serious propositions). Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
