A lot of spam getting through this weekend

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 15 21:49:09 IST 2008



Daniel Straka wrote:
> Over the past 4 day sooo much spam is getting through my MailScanner installation that I'm beginning to wonder if the spammers have figured out a way to get around it. A lot of *exually related messages, bank phishing attempts and more.
> MailScanner / SpamAssassin appear to be working ok yet everyone is getting about 10x the usual amount of spam making it into their mailboxes.
> Is anyone else seeing an issue like this?
>   
I'm seeing a huge amount of phishing spam, but I'm catching all of it 
okay. My setup is basically still the one I posted in my HOWTO I posted 
last July 2007, but with the addition of BarricadeMX to take most of the 
load. But MailScanner is catching this lot okay.

Jules

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