powermail-discuss Digest #2591 - Thursday, March 29, 2007
Powermail/SpamSieve success story
by "Alan Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Powermail/SpamSieve success story
by "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Powermail/SpamSieve success story
From: "Alan Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:40:06 -0700
Just a story to share. I was the victim of a "Joe Job"--in which a
spammer uses random addresses at my domain as return addresses. I
received about 2,800 emails--mostly saying "Returned Mail" in various
ways--over the course of an hour. Between SpamSieve and some hand-
crafted filters in PowerMail, all but about 20 ended up in my spam box.
I can only imagine the havoc this could have caused if they had ended up
in my In-Box.
Alan
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Subject: Re: Powermail/SpamSieve success story
From: "Matthias Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:01:59 +0900
Am/On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:40:06 -0700 schrieb/wrote Alan Harper:
>Just a story to share. I was the victim of a "Joe Job"--in which a
>spammer uses random addresses at my domain as return addresses. I
>received about 2,800 emails--mostly saying "Returned Mail" in various
>ways--over the course of an hour. Between SpamSieve and some hand-
>crafted filters in PowerMail, all but about 20 ended up in my spam box.
>I can only imagine the havoc this could have caused if they had ended up
>in my In-Box.
I know, PM and SpamSieve are really good tools, but in your case the
mailserver is set up poorly.
It should reject mails for unknown users.
Thanks and all the best
Matthias
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