Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-30 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:14 -0800 schrieb/wrote Richard Hart: (1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM sequestering tools, even deleting offending messages so you never have to see them. I don't, I mark identified Spam,

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Harper
I am using Spam Assassin on my ISP as well as Spam Sieve on my laptop. Spam Assassin is not very aggressive (it flags spam correctly nearly 100% of the time, but lets about 50% of the spam thru). The advantage of using Spam Assassin is that it reduces the amount of spam I have to download when

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-30 Thread Richard Hart
By this do you mean that, if you have been spoofed as the return address, you will receive the bounce warnings from the mailer daemon? Richard Hart Alan wrote: Please don't ever bounce spam--it only adds to the frustrations of us Joes who have been Jobbed.

Re(2): Ultimate Spam

2007-01-30 Thread Alan Harper
I mean that I receive about 10 messages like this per day, and they are serving no-one a useful purpose because I didn't send them because the return address was spoofed: The original message was received at Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:00:07 +0100 from mx01.rrz.uni-hamburg.de [134.100.32.180] -

Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Hart
(1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM sequestering tools, even deleting offending messages so you never have to see them. But what I'd like to do is have my mail server bounce messages from specific IP addresses. For this

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Wayne Brissette
(2) What is the best way to deal with the relatively recent phenomenon of GIF spam. You know the ones. The Subject and body are random text. The attachment is a graphic containing the spam pitch. I haven't been able to derive a common identifier for them in the headers, and they are not easy to

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Geoff Roynon
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:14 -0800 Richard Hart said: (1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM sequestering tools, even deleting offending messages so you never have to see them. But what I'd like to do is have my mail server

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Justin Beek
Have you looked at: http://www.hendricom.com/services.htm from these dudes who make: http://www.emailcrx.com/Welcome.html On Jan 29, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Richard Hart wrote: (1) Does any hosting service or ISP offer you the capability to bounce spam? I know many offer excellent SPAM

Re: Ultimate Spam

2007-01-29 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:16 pm +, Geoff Roynon wrote: I filter GIF and JPG spam before it reaches the Spamsieve filter so they don't pollute the Spamsieve corpus. In my filters, my first filter is called Spam-gif and has two conditions: I really don't think it's neccesary to do anything