SPAM on the increase

[kat]

I've a few clients keep sending messages saying they are up to 120 -150 spam email per day.

Has CAT2 got any spam filters on the server? I've been lookng in the merak settings and there does appear to be some bits to do with spam, but I am a bit stumped as to how to set it up.

Any ideas???

Kate

[Jacob]

Hi Kate,

The spam filter is not currently enabled on the server as it causes the server to become unstable. At the moment, we would suggest a client side filter however we are investigating other server side solutions at the moment.

Regards,

Jacob

[kat]

Hi Jacob

Do you know if there are any good freebie ones about?

Thanks

Kate

[paulredpath]

Ive always found the ones in outlook and thunderbird to be ok

[kat]

Yes, I use thunderbird. My client however uses Outlook Express and apart from setting up filters based on the subject line or sender periodically I don't know of any easy way to get over the issue.

[Chris Locke]

K9 is meant to be quite good, and works with any email client, so should work with OE.
It does require 'training' though, so don't expect 100% success rate just after installing!

http://keir.net/k9.html

[dredger]

Seems wierd that after several months of absolute quiet I'm starting to get Spam coming through. I guess it really is the downside of making an emaill address public

I'm, thinking of making a standard ASP "Email Me" page
so that users can enter a subject and simple text and their reply email address and hit a Post button that emails me, that way my address remains hidden.

I can try and make this generic so that a simple change to a config file will allow it to be used by anyone.

[Phil]

What I have noticed concerning some recent spam emails :

1. they appear to come from various IPs: 60.176.201.15 85.219.236.12 71.113.208.126 (probably either spoofed or open relays)
2. they connect directly to orange.active-ns.com (i.e there isn't the usual list of several mailservers that its been thru)
3. they don't have genuine email headers i.e. no 'to', 'from', 'subject' or indeed any 'body'

Could the cat2 mailservers be configured to detect the 'blank' headers and bin the emails please?

[Stephen]

My customers are also complaining that they are now receiving 50-100 more spam emails per day after moving to Cat2!

Can we have an eta on the spam filtering?

[paulredpath]

Moving to us wont produce more spam

You may find your customers are now using catch all email accounts, and so emails to addresses other than their own are now being downloaded into their account.

[GrahamN]

The lack of server side spam filtering is a big issue for some of my clients too. I'm doing my best at the moment with client side filtering but its not scaleable.

G.

[paulredpath]

The problem with widespread server side filtering on this scale is you cant keep everyone happy, and currently the control panels dont allow for us to turn this feature on and off as needs be.

We had a meeting with an anti-spam vendor on friday who have some very exciting products, however this would be an additional cost to protect each domain.

[DaveLegg]

Previously I would setup server-side blacklists through IceWarp, and they seemed to do the trick for most of the stuff. Do these still work?

[Stephen]

It's nice that you're having meetings, I'm happy for you, but this doesn't answer our questions regarding spam?

[Jacob]

Hi Stephen,

As I said earlier in this thread:

The spam filter is not currently enabled on the server as it causes the server to become unstable. At the moment, we would suggest a client side filter.

When we have an eta on the new solution, we will let you know.

Regards,

Jacob