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    So you say you have a problem with Spam?

    This is just from 8:42am since I last cleared our spam catching inbox.

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    lol, fuck that. I thought the 50 odd spam emails I receive a day on my home account was bad! On our work system we are now getting 'undeliverable email' from addresses we have never seen, used, or heard of before. Any ideas? (got virus software etc with regular updates).

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    You need to do a philosophical del *.* < Y
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    lol, fuck that. I thought the 50 odd spam emails I receive a day on my home account was bad! On our work system we are now getting 'undeliverable email' from addresses we have never seen, used, or heard of before. Any ideas? (got virus software etc with regular updates).
    I always thought it was someone using our server to send emails out, but after the firewall was installed and all or antivirus/spyware software is well up to date and we still get it, Im not sure. I have a theory that it could be some sort of spam program having a similar return address to mine (or yours) so it comes to us.

    Damn annoying none the less
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper View Post
    Damn annoying none the less
    Just like:

    SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0
    0 rows returned
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    Just this week, we've been getting a heap of those oil and gold stocks spam messages. I get them at home all the while but have never had them at work before.

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    that reminds me of the KIUK days! haha ( www.keepitupkeep.com )
    "Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity"

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    Quote Originally Posted by GR81 View Post
    that reminds me of the KIUK days! haha ( www.keepitupkeep.com )
    What about it? There's nothing there... (?)
    Keep it rubber-side down...

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    it's one of those "ya had to be there" things!
    "Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sniper View Post
    I always thought it was someone using our server to send emails out, but after the firewall was installed and all or antivirus/spyware software is well up to date and we still get it, Im not sure. I have a theory that it could be some sort of spam program having a similar return address to mine (or yours) so it comes to us.

    Damn annoying none the less
    I've checked into this, because I've been getting about 10 a day, 100% picked up by SpamBayes.

    The messages that were sent were not coming from my mail server, they were coming from a Russian IP. However the from address had used my domain. Cheeky bastiges.

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    I never had spam emails at my personal email account until the ISP implemented spam protection ... since then it's been getting some Either way, Mailwasher takes care of the junk
    90% of the time spent writing this post was spent thinking of something witty to say. It may have been wasted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    lol, fuck that. I thought the 50 odd spam emails I receive a day on my home account was bad! On our work system we are now getting 'undeliverable email' from addresses we have never seen, used, or heard of before. Any ideas? (got virus software etc with regular updates).
    It will be someone out there using your company address in reply address for their emails. This is usually caused by a person out their with your email address on their PC being infected by a virus. Their is not alot you can do about it. A company I worked for was in a similiar position but a SPAMMER was using out address as the reply address as a result we were getting something in the vacinity of 10000 NFR responces an hour for a few weeks - it came close to killing out mail system
    I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

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    LIL_Byte .. you should look into SPF (Sender policy framework)
    check this link out:
    http://www.openspf.org/why.html?send...ith.loudas.com

    this URL was generated by my mail server (asmith.loudas.com)

    On another note: Have people read the news about spamhaus getting shut down?
    http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/sec...9283978,00.htm

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    We've had 1276 identified spam in the first 9 hours and 38 mins of today, spread across around 36 users. No one has yet told me of any that have gotten through, since updating the version of MailMarshal we are running (about 3 months ago) I have only been told of 4 spam emails that have managed to get past it.

    Vast improvement over the old version, where the detection rate was less than 80%.

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    we've jus moved moved to dspam, as an extra weighting for amavisd-new and spamassassin to scroe against.

    so far after running dspam for 4 weeks we've had about 300 spams get through.

    stats:
    approx 1500 domains (can't be arsed counting "select count(distinct(domainname)) from domains")
    35,000 emails per day roughly

    edit: .. got nothing better to do
    Code:
    interspeed=# select count(hostingid) from dbt_hosting_domains;
     count
    -------
      2559
    (1 row)
    
    interspeed=#
    Code:
    mysql> select count(domain_id) from domains;
    +------------------+
    | count(domain_id) |
    +------------------+
    |             7694 |
    +------------------+
    1 row in set (0.00 sec)
    
    mysql>

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