Cybertoad
join:2001-11-08
Houston, TX
| reply to nightdesigns
Re: Spammers getting around Spam Assassin
quote:
My web provider is using Spam Assassin which for years has worked great, but I see companies have figured out how to get their "score" low enough to get around the filters.
I am not sure who you are hosting with but the hosting provider where I work uses a lot more than just Spamassassin and continuously monitors and updates the spam protection to adapt to all spammer changes on
a daily basis.
quote:
I'm already running a score threshold of 3.
I would be a little leary reducing the score even that
low because it sets up the possibility of trapping HAM
(non-spam) messages by mistake. There are other much
better ways of doing that without reducing the score.
I would leave the spam trigger score higher and adjust
the scoring values on the individual rules themselves.
quote:
I'm hesitatnt to open the spam e-mails to see what the scores are, because it loads the images in the e-mail, and guess what, more spam!
I use Mozilla Thunderbird for my POP3 email client and it
has the ability to block images until you approve that
they be displayed so that you are able to view messages
without anything being reported back to the spammer. It
also isn't vulnerable to a lot of the security problems
that are common to Outlook and Outlook Express. Plus
there is a "Junk" mail feature with Bayes learning built in
that can sort spam out of your inbox immediately upon
checking your mail.
If you are not using Mozilla Thunderbird, you might want
to seriously consider switching over. |
