Jim Wilson wrote: > "Curtis L. Olson" said: > > > David Megginson wrote: > > > > > I'm under a serious spam attack from an infected computer of someone > > > on the list. Here is where the spam is originating: > > > > > > user-24-214-247-18.knology.net > > > > > > Many of the spams are arriving with Curt's e-mail address spoofed on > > > them, and unfortunately, baron.me.umn.edu seems happy to relay them > > > for the infected computer. In fact, baron is relaying *all* of the > > > spam, even the stuff return addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Going on the defensive here. mail.flightgear.org is *not* an open > > relay. It only accepts mail for addresses @flightgear.org. It does > > *not* accept email from an arbitrary location and forward to any other > > arbitrary location. > > > > The big problem is that these viruses can leverage the user's address > > book to spoof plausible to/from addresses and they get lucky far too often. > > > > The spammers/viruses are nearly making email useless.... :-( > > > > I average receiving a new spam mesage about every 5 minutes. > > > > We're getting creamed here but not seeing most of it. SpamCop which we've > been using for a while, does a good job of blocking those idiot virus spams > from misconfigured mail servers. Of course this has started producing some (a > very small number) complaints as "legit" servers get listed. It is currently > getting 25 per hour (based on prior 5 weeks average) and that is double what > it was a month ago. > > Also I've added a slew of procmail rules to filter out the stupid subjects > they use (e.g. "re: Thank You!"). After all that I still end up manually > clearing about 25 a day. > > On the Postgres list someone mentioned that he discovered a signature in the > HELO that he was able to use to trap most virus emails.
I use popfile under windows and I must say that it is able to filter nearly 100% of junk mail and viruses popfile is multi platform and can be found at sourceforge -Fred _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
