Comments on: How to Stop Email Spam with SpamAssassin http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/ Web Site Design, Hosting and Marketing Tips and Tricks Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Velnet http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-219607 Velnet Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:31:06 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-219607 It is not possible to stop spam mails completely, but using SpamAssassin will only reduce the number of spam mails that will come to your mail box. Regards It is not possible to stop spam mails completely, but using SpamAssassin will only reduce the number of spam mails that will come to your mail box.

Regards

]]> By: Herman http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-201400 Herman Fri, 27 Jun 2008 03:14:47 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-201400 Perry..does spam assassin come with your hosting account? If so activate it. Other things you can do: Don't use live email links on your web pages Make sure your contact forms are secure Create spam filters in your email client Ask your web host what tools they have to combat spam on the server. Cheers Perry..does spam assassin come with your hosting account? If so activate it.

Other things you can do:
Don’t use live email links on your web pages
Make sure your contact forms are secure
Create spam filters in your email client
Ask your web host what tools they have to combat spam on the server.

Cheers

]]> By: Perry Matlock http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-201164 Perry Matlock Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:54:39 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-201164 Please help me find a way to block spam from my e-mail. Thank You Perry Matlock Please help me find a way to block spam from my e-mail.
Thank You
Perry Matlock

]]> By: Thirumal http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-162462 Thirumal Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:29:23 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-162462 How to configure SpamAssassin to delete a spam email? How to configure SpamAssassin to delete a spam email?

]]> By: Designer Handbagsm http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-41296 Designer Handbagsm Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:27:21 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-41296 Nice site. Very useful contents. I've been looking for information for a long time, and I've found it exactly here. Thank you Nice site. Very useful contents. I’ve been looking for information for a long time, and I’ve found it exactly here. Thank you

]]> By: Huck http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-17676 Huck Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:29:41 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-17676 We use SA on all our servers and we can accurately mark 90-95% of spam... with very few false positives. The only problem is still the image spam issue... and even OCR doesn't get them as they tweak the images to avoid that as well... Still very happy with SA - even though it takes constant rule writing to stay on top of things... Can get lots of rules for SA from rulesemporium - just google it... We use SA on all our servers and we can accurately mark 90-95% of spam… with very few false positives.

The only problem is still the image spam issue… and even OCR doesn’t get them as they tweak the images to avoid that as well…

Still very happy with SA - even though it takes constant rule writing to stay on top of things…

Can get lots of rules for SA from rulesemporium - just google it…

]]> By: Superhero http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-17658 Superhero Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:54:31 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-17658 This is really fresh idea of the design of the site! I seldom met such in Internet... Good Work dude! This is really fresh idea of the design of the site! I seldom met such in Internet… Good Work dude!

]]> By: juan http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-15710 juan Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:41:05 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-15710 May somebody tell me how to make spamassasin to keep emails containing certain words in subject to not be filtered as spam? Most of the legitimate mails I get shares some similar words in subject. My hosting has spamassasin but just see some fields to fill there, besides blacklist or whitelist, there are one thay says "score"... Can I enter something there? I'd like to tell: if subject contains the word "bla" then is NOT spam That way I might lower the requiered_score value to 5 or 4 instead using 8, without fear of loosing good emails. May somebody tell me how to make spamassasin to keep emails containing certain words in subject to not be filtered as spam?

Most of the legitimate mails I get shares some similar words in subject.

My hosting has spamassasin but just see some fields to fill there, besides blacklist or whitelist, there are one thay says “score”…

Can I enter something there?

I’d like to tell: if subject contains the word “bla” then is NOT spam

That way I might lower the requiered_score value to 5 or 4 instead using 8, without fear of loosing good emails.

]]> By: Grieg Pedersen http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-13920 Grieg Pedersen Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:58:55 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-13920 Sadly, I find that this does not work. Most of the spam I get is scored somewhere between 0.3 and -2.5. The problem is that the authors os SpamAssassin posted on their website exactly what to do improve the score of a given message, and the spammers have read it. I have my threshold set at 1.7 and it only catches 2 or 3 a month of the hundred or so a day. I'v ehad to implement BoxTrapper. Sadly, I find that this does not work. Most of the spam I get is scored somewhere between 0.3 and -2.5. The problem is that the authors os SpamAssassin posted on their website exactly what to do improve the score of a given message, and the spammers have read it. I have my threshold set at 1.7 and it only catches 2 or 3 a month of the hundred or so a day. I’v ehad to implement BoxTrapper.

]]> By: EveryDigg » Blog Archive » How to Stop Email Spam with SpamAssassin http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-6307 EveryDigg » Blog Archive » How to Stop Email Spam with SpamAssassin Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:56:57 +0000 http://www.drostdesigns.com/how-to-stop-email-spam-with-spamassassin/#comment-6307 [...] One highly effective method how to stop spam email using SpamAssassin. A good tutorial about how to configure the SpamAssassin settings in your hosting account, as well as Outlook’s filters. I configured my account using this tutorial, for example.read more | digg story Links [...] [...] One highly effective method how to stop spam email using SpamAssassin. A good tutorial about how to configure the SpamAssassin settings in your hosting account, as well as Outlook’s filters. I configured my account using this tutorial, for example.read more | digg story Links [...]

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