Need Spam Help

[icode]

I get TONS of SPAM. I have the Spam Assassin enabled but a few questions:

 

 

1. I have it sep up so that SPAM ASSASSIn should discard (or delete) SPAM but it doesn't.

 

2. I have many filters trying to get rid of the same type of email (foreign spam) that includes the same type characters "=?GB2312?" in the from, the header everywhere and no matter how many times I add a new filter it still gets through??

 

3. Is there any way to refuse ALL FOREIGN email?

 

 

[DaemonLee]

I get TONS of SPAM. I have the Spam Assassin enabled but a few questions:

 

 

1. I have it sep up so that SPAM ASSASSIn should discard (or delete) SPAM but it doesn't.

 

2. I have many filters trying to get rid of the same type of email (foreign spam) that includes the same type characters "=?GB2312?" in the from, the header everywhere and no matter how many times I add a new filter it still gets through??

 

3. Is there any way to refuse ALL FOREIGN email?

 

 

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If you think a 'machine' is doing it, feel free to enable BoxTrapper which is in your Cpanel near the bottom. Then it'll auto send back a verification letter and if the machine doesn't return it, the letter is deleted.

[icode]

I get TONS of SPAM. I have the Spam Assassin enabled but a few questions:

 

 

1. I have it sep up so that SPAM ASSASSIn should discard (or delete) SPAM but it doesn't.

 

2. I have many filters trying to get rid of the same type of email (foreign spam) that includes the same type characters "=?GB2312?" in the from, the header everywhere and no matter how many times I add a new filter it still gets through??

 

3. Is there any way to refuse ALL FOREIGN email?

 

 

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If you think a 'machine' is doing it, feel free to enable BoxTrapper which is in your Cpanel near the bottom. Then it'll auto send back a verification letter and if the machine doesn't return it, the letter is deleted.

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There is no Box Trapper on my Cpanel. I was told also that it didn't work well yet and is not on all Cpanels and may be removed in the future. Any other ideas?

[TCH-Bruce]

You could check out http://spamassassin.org and look for language rules that you can add to your user_prefs file

[icode]

You could check out http://spamassassin.org and look for language rules that you can add to your user_prefs file

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Where is the user_prefs file to be able to edit it?

[TCH-Don]

If you use file manager or an ftp program that can see hiddend files

you will see a folder in the root folder labeled .spamassassin

inside there you will see user_prefs file

[icode]

If you use file manager or an ftp program that can see hiddend files

you will see a folder in the root folder labeled .spamassassin

inside there you will see user_prefs file

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Do you know what version of Spam Assasin we are using because if I try to modify the language files from the SpamAssassin site I get a local.cf file which I assume I would just add to the spam assassin folder rather than try to edit the user_prefs file?

[TCH-Don]

Its SpamAssassin 3.0.2

 

hope that helps

 

you can view the headers in your e-mail to see that.

[icode]

Its SpamAssassin 3.0.2

 

hope that helps

 

you can view the headers in your e-mail to see that.

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Thanks. According to the Spam Assassin site the configuartion changing they offer is for an older version 2.5 but I tried it anyway on 3.0.2 and although they say it wouldn't work on older or newer versions it seems to have worked for me (all I did though was accept only english emails (no foreign).

 

Now my next question is how I get all this SPAM 600+ this morning to just be trashed rather than me having to manually do it.

 

Would enabling Spam Assassin but NOT enabling SPAM mailbox do the trick?

[TCH-Bruce]

Well, you are going to have to delete them manually I think. But for future ones I would trun off the Spam mailbox and add an email filter to trash them automatically.

 

Set up a filter:

 

Select Spam Assassin Header in the filter box

Select Begins with in the contains box

Enter Yes in the 3rd box

Enter Discard in the last box

[TCH-Tim]

Speaking of spam...

[TCH-Bruce]

[icode]

Well, you are going to have to delete them manually I think.  But for future ones I would trun off the Spam mailbox and add an email filter to trash them automatically.

 

Set up a filter: 

 

Select Spam Assassin Header in the filter box

Select Begins with in the contains box

Enter Yes in the 3rd box

Enter Discard in the last box

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I will try that but I have tried to specifically delete some other mail by following the above instructions with specific items like

 

header contains

 

whatever

 

and Discard but there still seeems that much of the specifically targeted mail got through if not to the main mailbox but to the Spam mailbox.

 

I will try it. Thanks.

[TCH-Bruce]

I've been using this on 3 different accounts hosted here at TCH for over a year and they do get discarded. I've never had one come through.

 

I also don't have my SA configured to rewrite the subjects. However if you do change your filter accordingly.

 

See this help page

[icode]

I've been using this on 3 different accounts hosted here at TCH for over a year and they do get discarded.  I've never had one come through.

 

I also don't have my SA configured to rewrite the subjects.  However if you do change your filter accordingly.

 

See this help page

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To Discard Spam the instructions say this:

 

In the third box, enter: *****SPAM*****

 

which doesn't work but your third box you said "Yes" which worked which is probably why I had a problem in the first place.

[TCH-Bruce]

I will pass along the info to our webmaster.

 

This post is what I used when I first configured my Spam Assassin.

 

I razn it that way for a few months until I was sure it wasn't catching any good mail. Then I changed it to Discard instead of sending to an email address.

 

Now when I set up a new account (domain) I create a spam@mydomain.ext and forward all spam messages to it until I am certain nothing I want is being filtered. Then I change it to discard.

 

I use PopTray to check the spam account and delete the messages.