Spam question

[Remco Barendse]

Nice list, thanks! Maybe something to add to the default MS configs?  :)

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Jerry Benton wrote:

> reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org,
> reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
> reject_rbl_client ix.dnsbl.manitu.net,
> reject_rbl_client rbl.megarbl.net,
> reject_rbl_client dnsbl.inps.de,
> reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
> reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
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>       On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:55 PM, Tiago Meireles <tmeireles at electroind.com> wrote:
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> Any RBLs that you recommend?
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> From: MailScanner [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jerry Benton
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2015 1:50 PM
> To: MailScanner Discussion
> Subject: Re: Spam question
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> - Use RBLs at the MTA level
> - Use greylisting
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> Jerry Benton
> www.mailborder.com
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>       On Aug 6, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Sean M. Schipper <sean.m.schipper at lawrence.edu> wrote:
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> Since last November I’ve been getting inundated with spam (yesterday just under 7,000 just in the am) from coming from 3 or 4 IP addresses on the same
> subnet in the morning starting like clockwork just after 9am.  Then sometimes I’ll get a similar rush of spam in the afternoon coming from a separate IP
> range.  Countries of origin include US and Bulgaria mostly but also have come from Brasil, Romania and S. Africa.
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> I’ve been able to train MailScanner to correctly identify these as spam since the content is very similar -- tons of links to websites with .php
> extensions.  Examples of subject lines:  Situations for 2015 that forgive your Student-Loan, 12 month MBA programs, accelerated...
>  
> To cut down on the processing/traffic on my server I’ve been just blacklisting these IP subnets at smtp with a deny bounce message.  Does anyone have
> any other suggestions on actions I can take to rid myself of this annoying daily routine?  Does anyone else have similar battle stories like this?
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> Thanks for any suggestions on this.  
>  
> Sean
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