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How's everyone fighting the new image spam?
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CrackRabbit
Lifer
Gmail seems to do a good job of catching the stuff.
sourceninja
Diamond Member
I do not allow images in my email.
BrunoPuntzJones
Lifer
I've found it easiest to use this little picture program.
Spammer sends me an email
My client sends them an email back asking them to identify how many kitties are in a picture
If they click the right number, their message is allowed through and added to the ok list
Then I set the client to delete all mail that has a "Delivery failure"/"mail daemon" or whatever error in the subject
This ensures I only get the emails from actual people. Then if it's junk I just block their domain, or ok a domain if I want to receive mail from everyone at an organization.
Out of about 4500 emails a week, I may get 2 that show up in my inbox that are spam.
Spammer sends me an email
My client sends them an email back asking them to identify how many kitties are in a picture
If they click the right number, their message is allowed through and added to the ok list
Then I set the client to delete all mail that has a "Delivery failure"/"mail daemon" or whatever error in the subject
This ensures I only get the emails from actual people. Then if it's junk I just block their domain, or ok a domain if I want to receive mail from everyone at an organization.
Out of about 4500 emails a week, I may get 2 that show up in my inbox that are spam.
BrunoPuntzJones
Lifer
Desktop wise it's Mailfrontier (Think it was called Matador at one point).
It has the regular email filtering for junk, but I think it does a pretty poor job. Well ok, maybe not poor. I mean it lets through tons of stuff, even on the most aggressive setting, but almost 1000 emails a day, I doubt anything will kill all the bad ones.
The subset of the client is the Challenge. That's where you tell it what settings to use to do the picture guessing part.
I bought a site license for work a couple of years ago, was like $12 each for a year and it worked great. It has since gotten less good at filtering, but I keep it for the Challenge part. They make servers as well so it can be done at the email server level, but we only have a few dozen employees and our mail is hosted by our domain host so was just easier to have a desktop level client.
Edit: It looks like Sonicwall has purchased MailFrontier. Here's a link though:
http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Support.html
It has the regular email filtering for junk, but I think it does a pretty poor job. Well ok, maybe not poor. I mean it lets through tons of stuff, even on the most aggressive setting, but almost 1000 emails a day, I doubt anything will kill all the bad ones.
The subset of the client is the Challenge. That's where you tell it what settings to use to do the picture guessing part.
I bought a site license for work a couple of years ago, was like $12 each for a year and it worked great. It has since gotten less good at filtering, but I keep it for the Challenge part. They make servers as well so it can be done at the email server level, but we only have a few dozen employees and our mail is hosted by our domain host so was just easier to have a desktop level client.
Edit: It looks like Sonicwall has purchased MailFrontier. Here's a link though:
http://www.sonicwall.com/us/Support.html
I've seen something like that, how would it work if I still need to receive emails from other places that are not physically sent by a "real person"? Such as emails from local retailers or online shops that I visit? Is there an option for me to add those emails to the "acceptable" pile?
BrunoPuntzJones
Lifer
Yup you just click on the "Add company" button and put in the hp.com or momandpop.com or whatever you need it to allow
BrunoPuntzJones
Lifer
Well if it doesn't let AOL users send me email, mission accomplished 😉
Raduque
Lifer
I haven't seen any of this.
I've gotten maybe 4 spam emails in recent memory in my inbox. Also, pictures aren't displayed unless you specifically allow pics from that domain/email. Gmail, ftw.
Problem is most (i'd say around 97%) of all spam comes from zombie mailers. The address your client is sending the challenge email back to, doesn't exist, so you're wasting a lot of bandwidth on this.
I've gotten maybe 4 spam emails in recent memory in my inbox. Also, pictures aren't displayed unless you specifically allow pics from that domain/email. Gmail, ftw.
Problem is most (i'd say around 97%) of all spam comes from zombie mailers. The address your client is sending the challenge email back to, doesn't exist, so you're wasting a lot of bandwidth on this.
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