Comments on: Spam Party

By: Leila A.

Leila A. — Wed, 31 May 2006 21:23:56 +0000

I noticed that my yahoo mail bulk folder has been bulging at the seams this week. If I don’t check email for half a day, 150 messages show up in bulk. I never look at any of them, either, just hit the “empty folder” button.

What morons.

Good luck and hope your various protective measures work out…

By: Haitham

Haitham — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:03:23 +0000

Thanks, Jad. I’ll do that too :-D

By: Jad madi

Jad madi — Wed, 31 May 2006 18:39:17 +0000

If you are running apache install mod_security it will really help to stop spammers.

By: Haitham

Haitham — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:40:09 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try this one ;-)

By: ?????

????? — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:06:35 +0000

Try spamassasin if you have your own SMTP, what I would do is have spamassasin handle port 25, then forward these to your mail server on an unknown port, and establish IPSEC between the two when communicating on that port. And accept traffic on that port only from your mail/spam assasin server (think of it as a mail firewall, it’s a firewall, but a little bit more intelligent)
Works like a charm and kills 99.9995% of all spam I’m getting, which still leaves something like 50 or 60 pass through

Hope this helps