Re: [binc] Spam Filters, etc.

"Marcus D. Hanwell" <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:51:40 +0000
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On Monday 09 January 2006 19:13, Kenneth Lyons wrote:
> We've all been through this discussion. Like other users, it's the REPLYS
> that are filling my inbox. --which is why this email  is from scratch. I
> must have deleted at least 50 messages already.
>
> We use CLAMAV and it does a good job of bouncing  phishing emails like
> this, as well as email viruses. The list needs to have  *SOME TYPE*  of
> filtering. It's insane to run a  nearly open relay, (subscribing can be
> done with automated tools now a days).
>
Well the emails on the other thread do seem to be bouncing around still,=20
whereas this thread remains unaffected so far. Very strange. I would have=20
thought you could have blacklisted the address or even the entire domain -=
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why would paypal even need to email the list?

I use a combination of ClamAV, spamassassin and razor on my mail servers to=
o,=20
but I took to allowing fairly high scores onto mailing lists due to some of=
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the senders apparently using bad ISPs with no rDNS on mail servers etc. May=
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be I should change that, but it would be a good idea to improve the=20
infrastructure that binc is hosted on. At least the server seems to have=20
calmed - hopefully we can get back to discussions of development and bug=20
fixing now ;)

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