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xoggoth replied

29 August 2006, 22:51
It's really got awful. Spam killers just ain't working. Suddenly getting loads addressed to anyoldname@myurl and it got delivered to me as default.

Just gone through the exercise of redirecting - now only specific addresses come to me, rubbish gets bounced and there's an intermediate category I can just check headers of in freeware mail thing.
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Baobab replied

29 August 2006, 13:48
Originally posted by Ardesco

reminds me i must put some anti spam stuff on my mail server. This weekend I got sent 14,000 of the buggers! however it is now back to the usual 50 a day odd.

I have used this a couple of times to implement filtering as mail comes into the domain.There are a few good step by step tutorials on the site I preferred the Mr88Talent one.All free and open source and the server will run fine on a low end machine.Support from the forums was really good too IIRC.

http://www.freespamfilter.org/
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loki replied

25 August 2006, 11:58
recommendation for free anti spam tool

I heartily recommend K9, a pop3 utility from keir.net for windows

Originally posted by oraclesmith

I get them too. The clever ones are where the real text is an image and the text is just random rubbish. The e-mail addresses are spoofed. I switched off McAfee Spamkiller because it was refusing some legit e-mails too, so I just delete them without reading them nowadays.
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Fleetwood replied

25 August 2006, 11:01
What I've never understood is how this spammers seem to know that I've got a small penis...
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Ardesco replied

24 August 2006, 15:35
reminds me i must put some anti spam stuff on my mail server. This weekend I got sent 14,000 of the buggers! however it is now back to the usual 50 a day odd.
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oraclesmith replied

24 August 2006, 15:26
I get them too. The clever ones are where the real text is an image and the text is just random rubbish. The e-mail addresses are spoofed. I switched off McAfee Spamkiller because it was refusing some legit e-mails too, so I just delete them without reading them nowadays.
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MrsGoof replied

24 August 2006, 15:15
Originally posted by gingerjedi

plus russian dating sites

SKA is working after all
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gingerjedi started a topic new spam help!

24 August 2006, 15:08
new spam help!

Anyone else noticed spam on the rise again? Just as i thought i had it under control its started again, over the last few months i'm getting spam for various financial tips maybe 5 times a day plus russian dating sites? I cant just block them because they seem to be coming via genuine email addresses probably without the owners knowledge and the subject lines are completely random.

Is this happening to everyone or has someone stitched me up?
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