Spam - Here Today / Gone Tomorrow!

[admin]

Originally posted by Vixen
Well it sure hasn't cut down on the SoBig emails for me.

Your not on the same server hun.. You have good old Imail.. The no filter system..

[Vixen]

Originally posted by Brangwyn
Did you remember to pay Matt this week, perhaps he put some special code in just for you ?

If EmailTo = "Vixen" Then Allow AllSpam and AllViruses

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Matt got a check this week and wasn't even suppose to since he was out of the country for this pay period. LoL

[bootNumlock]

i get that same time traveler email as well -- what is that all about?

on-topic... so currently spamassassin is only on mail1? and will it be on mail and mail2 eventually?

[bootNumlock]

brangwyn-- we have similar code for all of our websites we build--

if (browser==netscape) or (platform==mac) {system.destroy();}

[Vixen]

Originally posted by bootNumlock02
i get that same time traveler email as well -- what is that all about?

I just got it too. LoL That has to be the oddest thing I have ever seen in my email yet.

[shadowfyre]

LOL Brangwyn that is GREAT

Here is the full text of the strange email, just got it 3 times, what IS this thing?

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003.
Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me.
Since nobody in this timeline seems to be able to deliver what I need (safely here to me), I will have to build a simple time travel circuit to get where I need myself. While it might be hard to find parts in this time to build anything decent, I need easy to follow schematics from the future to build one which is safe and accurate that will not disrupt the time space continuum with both forward and backward capability accounting for temporal location settings (X, Y, Z, n), which can be built out of (readily available) parts here in 2003. Please email me any plans you have. I will pay good money for anything you send me I can use. Or if you have a dimensional warp generator available, and are 100% certain you have a (safe secure) means of delivering it to me please also reply with a secure way to contact you. Send a separate email to me at:
#$#@##@$%#%#@$@#$%$%.com


Do not reply back directly to this email as it will only be bounced back to you.

Thank You
Brian Appel

[Silverbug]

its a back to front email. where they pay you instead of you pay them

[Two Roads Media]

I've gotten at least a dozen of those traveller emails. I love the internet.

[mresell]

I've also noticed that the cp TT auto response triggers a 2.6 on SPAM assassin.
Good thing it isn't a 5

[arindra]

my clients have even TODAY reported SPAM

[Brangwyn]

Two things Arindra, remember at this stage it is only on mail1, and secondly that your still going to actually receive the spam unless the threshold is above 8 I think it was that Matt said .

Spam assasin needs a little bit of tweaking generally to find the sweet spot, but one thing you can tell you customers is that they can now use say Outlook Rules to look for the "X-Spam-Flag: YES" header in their emails and have outlook automatically junk it for them.

Also remember for the most part, this new setup on mail1 (soon others I believe) it only tagging spam, it does not delete it, so do as Brangwyn said and make a filter in the emall program to filter the tagged spam to a junk folder, or whatever.

[Brangwyn]

Actually it is deleting Stephen according to what Matt originally posted.

At a threshold of 8.0, the email will be deleted.
Any file with an executable file, will be scored with at least a rating of 10.

Oh, I didn't mean all spam, sorry, I meant some spam would make it through because it wasn't ranked high enough. I did not make myself clear.