Increased Volumes Of Spam

[Glenn Steen]

On 16/01/07, Jeramy Eling <Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> We've been running Mail Scanner here for a few years now and it's brilliant,
> however more recently we are starting to see more and more spam getting to
> our desktop users. The spam seems to be made up of random subjects and have
> a random string of words at the bottom of the messages. I'm just curious to
> see how other people are dealing with this sort of spam and stopping it from
> getting through to their desktops. Currently we receive about 2800 emails a
> day into our company and about 50% of that gets stopped as spam but still a
> lot gets through to our users.
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> Any thoughts/ideas/comments would be much appreciated.
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> Many thanks
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> Jez
Have you kept current with MailScanner and SpamAssassin versions?
sa-update?
Do you employ the digest checks (Razor, Pyzor and/or DCC)?
Bayes?
Have you implemented ImageInfo (form www.rulesemporium.com (or any
other SARE rules, for that matter...)?
FuzzyOcr?
Do you reject unknown recipients at the MTA level?
...

These are all more or less standard recommendations, especially for
relatively low-volume sites like yours (and mine:-).

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