Tangent: I am getting this same sort of spam like crazy, so if there's any tips, secret rulesets, etc., I'm all ears.
It feels so targeted - I add/adjust RBLs in Postscreen to just drop a ton of stuff at the front door and things let up for a few weeks and then it all comes back, same stuff over and over again - clearly the same little spam gang. I guess they just find a new set of "bulletproof" hosts to switch too whenever they see a certain amount of rejections across the board? It truly sucks how the spammers are yet another partner in driving people to put all their email accounts in the hands of the dozen or so providers that have the resources to build their own functional internal spam filtering solutions. No little 2-man shop that just wants to offer email as a bonus for some other service or a hobbyist has the resources to be cobbling up their own little special rulesets every day... /rant C > On May 30, 2026, at 12:07 AM, Tom Williams via users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! A friend of mine is getting hammered with Costco, AAA, Lowe's and > similar spam. I don't know how they got her email address, but she's getting > flooded. Her email account is on a shared hosting platform (Hostgator) and > while Spamassassin is installed and configured, it's blocking only so much of > this. > > Anyway, I'm writing because tonight, she started getting messages that > contain the text of a prompt for an AI engine to generate the spam email. lol > > My questions: > > Is having access to the prompt text useful in helping Spamassassin detect and > filter out AI generated spam? > Would it be worthwhile to create any kind of rule to look for the prompt text > to help in filtering out the messages? > I have a few samples of these if anyone is interested. > > Thanks in advance! > > Peace... > > Tom >
