Re: tmda, yet still getting spamed

alexus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.tmda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
here is a good example of what i was talking about...

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:41:19 -0500
From: "Edwina Hodges" <[email protected]>
  To: [email protected]
Subj: Re: Edwina
Actn: CONFIRM action_incoming                                           (1549)

Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:41:19 -0500
From: "Edwina Hodges" <[email protected]>
  To: [email protected]
Subj: Re: Edwina
Actn: CONFIRM pending 1199907652.71672                                  (1549)

even though this shows like this in here... i still end up with this
email in my INBOX.


On Jan 9, 2008 12:46 AM, Todd A. Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:46:23PM -0500, alexus wrote:
>
> > i do have [email protected], but i though tmda would look at
> > "Sndr", not "From", as From: is really easy to spoof
>
> AFAIK, TMDA looks at the envelope sender, which *is* easy to spoof. You
> have a couple of choices:
>
>    - Use a more thorough headers recipe, rather than a from recipe.
>
>    - Use a procmail recipe with SPF support before tmda to filter out
>      joe-jobs.
>
>    - Use bogofilter on all tmda-accepted mail.
>
> I include both of the following in my own procmail recipes before tmda:
>
>    http://www2.codegnome.org:59321/scripting/showscript.php?script=spf.proc
>
>    http://www2.codegnome.org:59321/scripting/showscript.php?script=hashcash.proc
>
> and feed all results to bogofilter afterwards. TMDA solves one *type* of
> spam problem; it is not really a standalone solution.
>
> --
> "Oh, look: rocks!"
>        -- Doctor Who, "Destiny of the Daleks"
>
> _____________________________________________
> tmda-users mailing list ([email protected])
> http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
>



-- 
http://alexus.org/
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.