Increased Volumes Of Spam

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Well worth setting up FuzzyOCR http://fuzzyocr.own-hero.net/ we block a huge amount of Image SPAM using this.

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:26:10 -0000, "Jeramy Eling" <Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com> wrote:
> 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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