Spam help!
I'm drowning in spam since we disabled Spam Assassin at blogomania. We were getting blank emails during the day and with the help of the lovely blogomania staff, decided that Spam Assassin was the culprit. Well, now I'm getting tons of spam in my inbox and I hate it.
I know that one of you there recently blogged about a spam tool. Please please please come forward and free me from spams evil clutches!
16 Comments
Good Causes
Silly Stuff
The weather in Boston
Is it the spamihilator? that everyone is talking about? I'm not all that impressed with it, but it is doing the trick in keeping the spam out (it deletes my user groups emails)
I'm not sure if this is the one you were thinking of, but Jennifer pointed out in this post a local solution called SpamNet, and I've been using it since then. Its actually catching quite a bit of it - not as much as SpamAssassain, but no blank email either!!
I have to echo Kristine... I've had good luck with SpamNet. The only down side for some is that it is only compatible with Outlook 2000. I was thinking about upgrading to Outlook 2002 - but I'm not sure I could live without my SpamNet filter!
Good luck against the never-ending battle with Spam...
Ohh. I use The Bat as my mailer and I'm not changing. I love Outlook but I'm not giving up my Bat!
I just did a search in NewzCrawler of my feeds (I *love* this thing!) and found these:
http://solonor.com/archives/001085.html
http://scriptingnews.userland.com/backissues/2003/04/03#obviousIdeaForSpamAvoidance
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001013/2003/04/01.html#a1466
Hopefully those will help a little bit!
I've been getting heaps more spam lately, too. Someone recommended SpamKiller by McAfee to me. From the description, it sounds really good:
http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/msk/
I can feel your anger
I've been using MailWasher for quite a while now (nearly a year) and love it. And... it works with pretty much any mail client you want.
I've got a link to it on my page, feel free to check it out.
I'd recommend either MailWasher, iHateSpam (Recommended by Jennifer, or PopFile (which is what A uses). I neglected to check which of those will work on non-Outlook clients, but hopefully at least one is Bat friendly.
Yes, yes! I was just going to say that I LOVE iHateSpam!! That's what I get for sleeping in, I guess... ;-)
POPFile will indeed work with just about any mail client. I tend to push these things quite hard and it's still accurate.
Yeah, SpamAssasin is great, but it's kinda hard to get going first. You can recommend your web server's system admin to this place which I used to set up SpamAssasin. No blank e-mails...
http://www.jimi.dk/freebsd/SpamAssasin.php
This is assuming that they use sendmail as their e-mail server software.
They could also do what I did first and use a bunch of RBL's to take care of most of the spam mail before it even hits their servers... Here's what I use on my mail server and I only get like 1-2 pieces of spam per week if anything without the help of SpamAssasin. Of course this involves your web server's sys admin knowing how to set up sendmail to do this...
FEATURE(`dnsbl')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`relays.ordb.org',`"550 Email rejected due to sending server misconfiguration - see: http://ordb.org/"')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`blackholes.mail-abuse.org',`"Blacklisted - Mail rejected; see http://mail-abuse.org/"')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`relays.mail-abuse.org',`"Open relay - Mail rejected; see http://mail-abuse.org/"')dnl
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`dialups.mail-abuse.org',`"Dialup - Mail rejected; see http://mail-abuse.org/dul/enduser.htm"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`sbl.spamhaus.org',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://www.spamhaus.org/SBL"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`opm.blitzed.org',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://opm.blitzed.org/"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`www.five-ten-sg.com',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://www.five-ten-sg.com/"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`relays.osirusoft.com',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://relays.osirusoft.com/"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://dnsbl.sorbs.net/"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`spamhaus.relays.osirusoft.com',`"Spam blocked - Mail rejected; see http://relays.osirusoft.com/"')
FEATURE(`enhdnsbl',`bl.spamcop.net',`"Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/"', `t')dnl
FEATURE(`rhsbl',`dsn.rfc-ignorant.org',`550 You do not accept bounces - http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/')
I blogged about it on my web page (with the stats of the spam i'd received). if it was my site I'll forgive you for not blogrolling me. I'm using Popfile where you just need to change the port and username you use to connect with in TheBat (which i also use) and it intelligently checks for spam.
This post should do the trick.
Wow. How magnanimous... Andy forgives you. We should all hope for such leniency.
I've tried several anti-spam software, and found McAfee's SpamKiller the best, because you definitely won't lose any e-mails, you can (in fact you have to) set your own filters or modify the preset filters.
Some might find SpamKiller tedious, because of the number of things you have to do. This is my normal process
1. Load SpamKiller,
2. Click Check All
3. Go through the Killed Mail to make sure legit e-mails don't get killed.
4. Go through Inbox and set any filter for spam not caught.
5. Load Outlook and download the filtered e-mails
Initially 3 and 4 will take a lot of time as you customise it, but after a while it should be pretty easy to scan through 100 subject lines for step 3.
I have tried a number of anti spam products over the last year, but none of them were as powerful and as user friendly as the Spam Inspector. This is truly a great product. In addition to stopping spam it has some pretty cool tools to fight back and prevent the spammer from spamming for good.
http://www.spaminspector.com