Spam Blocking Software

Help, the spammers are winning the battle

[jdancing]

I am sure many webmasters are having the same problem.

If you run a web business, your email gets on just about every evil spam list out there. I have a spam blocker that I use for my personal email, which works fine because I can add my friends to a buddy list. But I am afraid it would block customer emails if I used it with my web business emails. I need something more robust.

I searched the web, and I can't seem to find anything that is the overwhelming choice. Please PM me your favorite spam blockers.

Thanks,

John

[vrtlw]

Since most spam comes with a faked sender address nowadays, you're harrassing an innocent person for every spam you receive. You're effectively doubling the amount of unwanted mail in circulation.

Bird, I think you are missing the point... My post said that I have spamassassin trained and operational. It is well enough trained to behave responsibly, the only Email I have that a challenge response is sent out are like [e-mail] if you can tell me someone owns that email address, well fair dues, or they might be a mailing list or two that I forgot about (really they dont mean much to me anyway). As for the majority of other mail, the bayesian filter forwards it to my inbox.

I am quite happy to bounce mail from one side of the Internet and back if it is so obviously SPAM. Perhaps the ISP's and MTA's might get a grip on things then.

[dhatz]

This may be of some interest... [hostedscripts.com...]
No idea if it really works, but it's a shot. Interesting concept.

I would also like to hear views on this subject, i.e. creating "poisoned webpages" to corrupt the spammers' email databases. Pro - Cons? I make limited use of another similar software from [downlode.org ]

I'm generally against any kind of "retaliation", e.g. "harassing the spammer" (sending back big attachments, etc) that tends to create collateral damage, and usually just hurting innocent people, unless one really knows what he's doing.

If you're technically inclined, I like VERY MUCH the idea of a teergrubing

[iks-jena.de ]

that eats up spammers' resources by holding his connection up as long as possible.

And educate everyone about SPF in their domains.

[spf.pobox.com ]

Wrt SPF setup: when you only send email via your local server and your ISP's server, it takes A FEW MINUTES to enable SPF for your domain, so that someone else trying to impersonate you gets rejected. And you can implement the spf filter to inbound mail (which takes a few hours of work) later.

And I look forward to the other SPF-variants from M$ and Yahoo, to also support them.

Spread the word on these please!

[AsleepATheWheel]

K9 is a good program, you have to teach it what is and isn't spam. I finally gave in and installed it about a week ago and it's catching 99.4%, I'm still having to have a quick check through my spam folder, but it's already saving me a LOT of time and it's accuracy should carry on increasing.

Paul

[jdancing]

Thanks for all the suggestions. Since I use Outlook 2000 I installed spambays and with very little training it seems to be catching all the spam. In a few days, I won't even bother scanning the "junk folder" but once a week.

Thanks!

John

[satinder]

thx for all that info

[denisdekat]

sorry if someone mentioned this, but consider this:

SpammAssasin + MailScanner + ClamAV + Pyzor + Razor

Hopefully SMTP will be reritten, cause as it is, it is tooo easy to send anonymous emails...