Increased Volumes Of Spam

[Jeramy Eling]

My Mail Scanner and Spam Assassin are both kept up to date with any new
releases as for the checks at this moment in time we don't do Pyzor or
DCC but I will look into them as I have heard of them. I've not heard of
ImageInfo so I need to look into that one and FuzzyOCR. As for rejecting
unknown recipients I do this at SendMail level as MailScanner is just a
gateway for my Exchange 2K Server.

Thanks for input.

Jez

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Steen [mailto:glenn.steen at gmail.com] 
Sent: 16 January 2007 09:10
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Increased Volumes Of Spam


On 16/01/07, Jeramy Eling <Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> 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.
>
> Any thoughts/ideas/comments would be much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks
>
> 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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