Which is a better option for controlling spam? Buying the IMail Premium Anti-Spam filter for our existing IMail mail server or migrating our mail to Google Apps for Your Domain? [more inside]
posted on Apr 15, 2008 - 6 answers
How should I respond to syrupy Christian emails? [more inside]
posted on Nov 24, 2007 - 53 answers 
I have an idea for yet another hairbrained social networking website (which paradoxically might hit it big :-) ). I've coded most of it up on a linux server using apache, php, mysql at softlayer.com. The hostname is registered at godaddy (which I can change if desirable). What's the minimum I need to do the following (I'd rather work on the website application logic and learn as little as possible about mail server administration for now): [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 8 answers
I work at a small company with an Exchange server. We need OK spam protection. In an effort to move them to a more FOSS workcycle, I'm advocating SpamAssassin. Basically, I need it to work in our Windows Environment. [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 7 answers
Can anyone recommend an email whitelist system that works with my existing hosting service? I want to defeat the spam. [more inside]
posted on Aug 28, 2007 - 6 answers
Is this PHP form to email script safe from email header injection? [more inside]
posted on Aug 11, 2007 - 4 answers
For over a decade I have homed at a Mom&Pop ISP. They used to be good but now they are having frequent outages and seem to be soon to expire.
I guess I should move my email identitie(s) somewhere else but what is the best way? [more inside]
posted on Aug 4, 2007 - 6 answers
More than half my outgoing emails wind up in spam folders. I realize that it's inevitable this will happen sometimes, but how can I minimize it?
I use gmail, and I do not, fwiw, use words like "mortgage", "refinance" or "penis" in my messages. I sometimes use a sig, but it's non-hypeish. I do often send links in the body of my emails.
One solution is to follow up re: unreplied-to emails, but 1. if someone did receive my mail but hasn't had time to reply, I look pushy and 2. chances are that my follow-up will be spam filtered, too.
posted on Jul 12, 2007 - 16 answers
A sick twist on scam e-mails. Is it worthwhile to do anything about this threatening, extorting e-mail? Has anyone else gotten anything like this? [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2007 - 22 answers
Our webhost keeps getting blacklisted. What can we do? [more inside]
posted on Mar 28, 2007 - 10 answers
My SO and I are receiving phishing emails on brand new email addresses. The addresses hadn't been given out to anyone when the first ones arrived. Are spammers just constructing likely email addresses and sending blindly? If not, how is this happening? [more inside]
posted on Mar 21, 2007 - 12 answers
Due to a mail server that was not properly mailed down, about a year ago, some spam was sent through my mail servers. That's fixed but I still seem to be on the blacklist. What can I do? [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2007 - 11 answers
How can I write a procmail rule that would drop messages with GIF or JPEG attachments under 100kB in size? [more inside]
posted on Mar 10, 2007 - 7 answers
How can I keep spammers from using my sendmail server? [more inside]
posted on Mar 9, 2007 - 12 answers
I assume someone has spoofed my domain for spam! I am becoming blacklisted...what to do? [more inside]
posted on Feb 1, 2007 - 19 answers
Why am I getting e-mail that is addressed to my ex-brother-in-law? Is this genuine spam, or something sneakier? [more inside]
posted on Jan 10, 2007 - 5 answers
For the last few days I've been getting hundreds of "undeliverable email" messages. The sender of the undeliverable email is a garbage name at my domain. I think some bot is just cranking out these names, having found out my domain name. I'm pretty sure there is no virus on my computer; also I've been using only webmail for a while.
Is there any way to make this stop?
posted on Jan 4, 2007 - 28 answers
Is this a spammer trying to circumvent my website "contact" button? [more inside]
posted on Dec 4, 2006 - 9 answers
What's the state of the art in installable spam filters for Unix mail hosts? Spamassassin has failed me. [more inside]
posted on Nov 10, 2006 - 18 answers
Mail Administrators: are you seeing a huge increase in the amount of e-mail? [more inside]
posted on Oct 21, 2006 - 19 answers
Has a company given out my email address, or am I at fault? [more inside]
posted on Oct 19, 2006 - 6 answers
Is there a server based, spam filter that will work with any ISP? I have a friend who cannot change ISPs or email services, he is paying a lot for dial-up time, and he gets about 100 spam: 1 valid email. Is there a spam filter that will check his current email for him and delete the spam, allowing him to keep his current email and ISP? [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2006 - 15 answers
What is my email doing there? [more inside]
posted on Sep 15, 2006 - 4 answers
Why do I get so much spam addressed to "Kieron Jackson"? [more inside]
posted on Sep 11, 2006 - 8 answers
I am getting spam to addresses picked up from a PHP mail script - can I stop this? [more inside]
posted on Aug 20, 2006 - 13 answers
How do I find out if a small, volunteer-run freenet is allowing one or more of its email accounts to send out spam (as compared to, say, being Joe-jobbed)? [more inside]
posted on Aug 7, 2006 - 12 answers
I browse the site at work from time to time. Thing is I don't remember if I've signed up or not. I know if I did I would have done it at work. In any case I did not sign up with my work email address, nor would I have used my real name.
The other day I get an email addressed to me by name saying I've got a someone who wants to meet me blah blah. It's kind of fsking me up because I only use the email internally, though I've sent a couple of thing to my personal email account. This is the only external email I've ever received on that account.
Can anybody tell me how they could have gotten my name and email?
posted on Jul 29, 2006 - 9 answers
Any tips for keeping email I send out of the recipients' spam folders? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2006 - 12 answers
An email spammer is using my domain as the from: address for sending out endless amounts of spam. I am receiving all the delivery failure messages in my inbox. I could tell my mail server to dump all unrouted (nonexistent account) mail to /dev/null.
Are there any other options?
posted on Jun 28, 2006 - 16 answers
I need to post an e-mail address to the contact page of a website. What's the safest way to do this? (Is there a safe way?) [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2006 - 18 answers
Email and spam question - who is sending this email and how? [more inside]
posted on Jun 1, 2006 - 14 answers
How can I determine exactly from where or how a server's email queue is being filled with outgoing spam from user 'nobody'? [more inside]
posted on May 3, 2006 - 6 answers
I want to send a large number of E-mails (like 500) to my customers. This isn't spam; they have definitely opted in and know me personally. I'd like to know if there is anything that might cause a problem here . . . [more inside]
posted on Apr 29, 2006 - 10 answers
Recently I have been getting emails from my domain bounced back to me from other peoples' automated anti-spam catchers. The problem is that I am not sending these emails... [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2006 - 14 answers
Lately I've been getting more and more spams where the content is delivered as an image. There's no keywords to filter; even the image filename and subject are random words. Are such messages unfilterable? [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2006 - 14 answers
I am writing an essay (that I plan to dedicate a public website to) about spam. I am looking for surveys about what techniques/software/hardware people use to combat it. I also need to know what proportion of ISPs have built-in spam protection these days. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2006 - 8 answers
I have a website with a feedback form script. Suddenly, over the past week, I've been getting a lot of weird, spam-like mail sent to me via this script. (It doesn't actually sell products--it just contains gibberish, of the sort that might be used to confuse spam filters.) I'm more worried that my feedback form is being used to spam other people. How can I figure out if this is the case? And either way, how can I stop abuse of my feedback form? [more inside]
posted on Mar 15, 2006 - 11 answers
Email from my company's domains aren't making it to AOL users... why is this so hard to fix? [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - 8 answers
Help me deal with email: I have a couple domain names, and I get obscene amounts of spam and garbage email. I'd like to setup a system to help deal with all of it, but I'm not very familiar with server-side email setup beyond the basics. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2006 - 15 answers
Why have I suddenly started receiving a TON of spam - all with the subject line "Software" from what sounds like Groucho Marx characters (ie Unknowing G. Bottomfeeder)? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2006 - 10 answers
An AskMefi question today about joe-job spam has me interested in setting up a preventative SPF record for my business server, which is a hosted domain at Dreamhost. However I do all my mail through my home DSL, connecting via SMTP to my domain at Dreamhost. Is an SPF record a viable solution? Can I put in a range of my ISP's addresses to whitelist them in SPF? [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2006 - 4 answers
Someone has been masking my domain name and started to bulk spam. Now when I send an email to a client 9 times out of 10 it will be in their Spam Filter. How can I resolve this. [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2006 - 10 answers
I have been looking for a way to analyze the spam I get. [more inside]
posted on Jan 16, 2006 - 3 answers
My Gmail account has been Joe Jobbed... anything I can do about it?
posted on Jan 14, 2006 - 9 answers
I want to forward mail from "mydomain.com" to "mycurrentisp.com" forever. I'm currently using MailShell to do this but they seem to suffer performance problems. What's the best way to accomplish this? [more inside]
posted on Dec 27, 2005 - 14 answers
Miss Mefi Manners: What's the proper way to respond to a relative who has sent you a hoax email? [more inside]
posted on Dec 9, 2005 - 27 answers
Can anyone recommend a challenge-based spam filtering system with good usability? mailblocks.com recently shut down. [more inside]
posted on Dec 8, 2005 - 16 answers
Can anyone recommend a secure form mail script? [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2005 - 8 answers
This might sound like a stupid question, but I have heard of techniques that advanced users might use to foul up the spammers method of harvesting email addresses. It involves creating web pages and using bait or something, but I'm not sure how it works. And I can't concoct a google search that gets me the advice I am looking for. So webmins, how do you create a network of webpages that will have spammers getting so fed up with a specific email address that they will drop it from their list?
posted on Nov 14, 2005 - 11 answers
Help me find mail software or filters to manage temporary email addresses on my linux server. [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2005 - 5 answers
A sudden increase in spam making it past my email client's filters. I'm on a Mac using "Mail" for my email program. Up until three days ago, my junk filter caught all but a couple of spam emails. Now, for some reason, about ten times more spam emails seem to be making it past my filters. Any ideas why this is or how I can get back to a better signal-to-noise ratio?
posted on Oct 29, 2005 - 15 answers
I've noticed a dramatic (like 80%) reduction in spam on Sundays. Am I alone? Any ideas why this would be? Might this reveal anything useful for the eternal battle against the hideous stuff?
posted on Oct 10, 2005 - 21 answers
*Qmail* - I have a server that seems to be having a spamming issue. It's a Plesk/linux box. I'm not convinced that one of the accounts on the server is directly responsible. So I ran a test looking for open relays. I seem to have found one. [more inside]
posted on Sep 9, 2005 - 3 answers
I am responsible for setting up and maintaining a mail server for small web-hosting type business. We currently host about 75 domains, around 100 mailboxes and due to the efforts of our sales team, we are wanting to get ready for some great increases in those numbers. I am worried about my current configuration and ease of administration. More importantly (well, at least to the customers) is email deliverability -- it seems that messages delivered to some big players are being marked as SPAM or disappearing altogether. I am asking for insight and advice on 1) if my current choice of software/configuration is a good match for this situation and 2) if there any additional measures I might take to ensure email deliverability?
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posted on Aug 26, 2005 - 1 answers
what's the deal with gibberish spam that doesn't sell you anything? [more inside]
posted on Jul 17, 2005 - 11 answers
E-mail obfuscators. Is it even worth it? Surely spam harvesters have evolved to the point where almost nothing is a sure thing, but what's the safest way to put a clickable e-mail address on the web? [more inside]
posted on Jun 25, 2005 - 27 answers
Someone tries to phish me every day. Until recently, I have dutifully FWDed these attempts to spoof@whatever.com. As phishing has become even more ubiquitous, it occurs to me that there's no way that the target companies can possibly wade through it all. Should I bother FWDing the attempts?
posted on Jun 6, 2005 - 9 answers
My emails to various AOL addresses get rejected... [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2005 - 11 answers
In the last couple of weeks Gmail's normally-astute spam filtering has totally given up the ghost in one specific area: stock spam. It seems like every single stock spam slips past the filter and ends up in my inbox. At the moment every other time I get a new email it comes with a subject like "Leading auth0rity On l0w priced st0cks". Anyone else having the same issue? Has Gmail's spam filter started to show cracks?
posted on Apr 13, 2005 - 12 answers
I have a domain hosted through a pretty reputable hosting company. The associated email that I check about once a week and usually yields no more than five to ten offers to refinance my home now has 1,378 "Delivery Status Notification: Failure" emails in it. Is this bad? What should I do?
posted on Mar 7, 2005 - 7 answers
A large client i do some work for is considering sending out a targetted 20k unsolicited email. I need some good arguments and facts against it. [more inside]
posted on Feb 19, 2005 - 14 answers
What is a decent, free spam filter for Outlook Express? Suggestions that I use another mail client are not necessary.
posted on Feb 5, 2005 - 11 answers
A spammer is sending out spam using MY email address and name as the sender. I am getting hundreds of bounced emails now. Is there any way to stop this from continuing, or happening in the first place?
posted on Jan 8, 2005 - 18 answers
I get a phishing e-mail on a daily basis. It probably accounts for 10% of my spam. The FTC and private industry groups are up in arms, but the problem keeps getting worse. Given the little old ladies who are losing their pensions by clicking on these links, why can't anyone catch these guys? What's the technological barrier?
posted on Dec 15, 2004 - 15 answers
I have taken specific care not to let my gmail address fall into the hands of anybody besides people I deal with in person- friends and family and such- and after several months of having this account be spam-free, today I finally got a few. How on earth do they find me?
posted on Dec 5, 2004 - 34 answers
SpamFilterFilter: Like you, I hate spam. I put together a system to deal with it by forwarding my e-mails through multiple accounts. It seemed to work, but somehow I'm getting other people's spam now. How is this possible, and how do I fix it?
posted on Dec 4, 2004 - 11 answers
My Knowspam.net subscription expired, good riddance. The lack of updates to the system made it rather annoying to use for most of this past year. I got about 75k spam emails this past year including the ones Knowspam couldn't catch, and spam assassin on it's own is not enough. Is there a better alternative?
posted on Dec 2, 2004 - 18 answers
GmailFilter: Is it just me, or does Gmail's spam-filtering engine occasionally (and sometimes regularly) just give up the ghost? I have a legacy personal email account dating back from the dark ages which receives over 300 emails a day, 95% of which is spam. I used to pull this mail down into Outlook and use SpamNet to filter it, but I recently set the legacy account to redirect through my Gmail account, which normally catches all but about 5% of the spam - Result! However, I find that Gmail regularly (about once a week) decides to let another 5-10% of the spam through - and in the last couple of days it seems to have fallen over completely (i.e. I am getting new spam every minute or so). Anyone else notice anything funny going on?
posted on Nov 25, 2004 - 12 answers
How do scammers who send email claiming to be from my bank and needing my account info know which banks I use? [More Inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2004 - 15 answers
Perhaps a useless and/or redundant question, but... Sleazoid off-shore prescription drug pushers are spamming using faked addresses on my domain. Is there anything I can do to stop this practice, or am I just another cog in the great wheel of spam?
posted on Sep 13, 2004 - 7 answers
spamfilter - whats the latest hot ticket... i've tried cloudmark - and liked it.. what else do people recommend these days?
posted on Sep 9, 2004 - 9 answers
ObfuscationFilter: I know putting a unobfuscated email address on your website is a bad idea these days, mmmkay. So I was wondering how can I put my email address on my website without being spammed to hell and back.
posted on Aug 15, 2004 - 15 answers
Spam-a-lot: Are there spam filters that can reject phony "Mail returned" virus e-mails by comparing the "failed" address to what you've actually sent? Such hoaxes are dominating my daily spam quotient, despite my use of spam-blocker Razor. But it seems like these would be easy enough for a program to detect.
posted on Jul 28, 2004 - 3 answers
SpamAssassin is, like, not working. I am dying under the weight of spam. I lie awake at night, crying, wounded. I love my e-mail address. I run my own e-mail server (using qmail and vpopmail). What's a boy to do?
posted on Jun 1, 2004 - 24 answers
Someone is spoofing email -- making it look like it's coming from me -- and offering to sell people computer equipment. It looks like this is a scam to collect ebay ids. I know about this because one of the guy's emails was returned to me (it couldn't get through to the person he was sending it to). I have his email address. Can I do anything? [more inside.]
posted on May 19, 2004 - 6 answers
In the last three days I've had 150 emails - 140 of which have been message failures from AOL. They think I've been sending spam emails from random addresses on my domain to random addresses on their domain.
Strangely, I've had no complaints from people about how I am spamming them, but the domain is non-obvious and not advertised on the web. What the hell is happening?
posted on May 15, 2004 - 6 answers
Can someone explain to me how to use Mozilla Thunderbird's junk mail controls in 30 words or less? [mi]
posted on May 8, 2004 - 12 answers
A client wants to send bulk email. What's the best software? Is there a way to get address lists of people who might be interested in the product (shrink film), or do you just buy lists wholesale somewhere? Will I be lost to the Dark Side and land in the spammer's circle of hell if I set this up for them?
posted on Apr 7, 2004 - 16 answers
Where the hell did spammers get my email address and what can I do to stop it? (more)
posted on Mar 3, 2004 - 17 answers
ok, so I've had it up to here with nefarious spammers and other lowlifes spoofing my email addresses, causing my inbox to be filled with bounces and besmirching my and my company's good name. since we're all relatively smart and tech savvy, what exactly has to happen in order to get an authenticating email system to replace what's currently out there? is it an impossible dream?
posted on Jan 28, 2004 - 22 answers
Is anyone keeping an updated list of "referral spam"-vertized websites? My referrer logs are being overrun - it's hard to keep up with all the new spammer sites that seem to pop up.
posted on Dec 11, 2003 - 9 answers
When administering websites and email accounts for the average Jose (hinternet tourists, the lot of them), what's a good FAQ to cc: to them for information on spam and scams?
posted on Dec 8, 2003 - 2 answers
