Image spam

[Martin Hepworth]

Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>> Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>>> I have not seen any talk about the image spam that is going 
>> on.  I am 
>>> guessing that it has not been a problem.  Sophos reports that "mage 
>>> spam accounts for over 35 percent of all spam seen today".
>>> http://s579.link.sophos.com/dozjul06?pl_id=9
>>>
>>> Any thoughts or added rules that people have done to combat this?
>>>
>>>
>> Billy
>>
>> I find the SARE rules and the URI-RBLS tend to get most of 
>> this (<1% getting through)
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Martin Hepworth
>> Senior Systems Administrator
>> Solid State Logic
>> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>>
> 
> I have had only one person prompt me about these emails.  I have
> MailWatch but I don't really know how to see how much of the image spam
> that it is catching and letting through (other than just looking at each
> email).  How are you able to get your statistics so that I can do the
> same?
> 
> Thank you

What I see in my shared imap folder that it used for sa-learn.

If people see spam that got through they drop it into the shared spam 
folder - same for ham.

I normally presuse/clean this every few days...

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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