[gameprogrammer] Re: Offtopic: Antispam


>>> On 11/6/2006 at 4:31 PM, in message
<1162852296.5017.8.camel@localhost>, Bob
Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:42 -0700, Ken Johnson wrote:
>> The best option is to talk to your ISP and get them to install
>> something server side. Server side
>> they can employ rules (spamassassin), greylisting, rbls, etc on
>> incoming mail.
> 
> I run my own mail server :-) and I do most of that already. I found
that
> grey listing only seems to block poorly configured legitimate email
> servers. Rbls are good, but the current crop of spam defeats them.
> Spamassassin is good, but it too is not working on a lot of spam. I
get
> about 300 spams a day, about 15 get into my in box. Without spam
filters
> I would have to give up using email.
 
>       Bob Pendleton

I don't know if this will help any but I made it through this past
weekend virtually spam free with the exception of one piece of image
spam.  I don't know what your capabilites are with regards to filters
but Symantec had me put in a block on any message that had a MIME header
entry for Content-Type: that included a .GIF file AND had the string
"cid:"; in the message body (HTML tag).   The one that got through was
had an embedded JPG file.  Not enough to make me filter all of them.

Lilith

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