DirkNiblick Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 For a few months I've noticed a gradual influx (1-3 messages a week) of spam received in my account that is not being caught by spamassassin. As of the last 3-4 weeks, I've been getting 4-5 messages a day. I use my own version of squirrelmail and using the "View as HTML" plugin, I can see that the text portion of the email looks like a friendly letter, however the HTML portion is selling ****, Cialis, etc. The spamassassin scores are way too low to be caught. I never give my email address out except to friends or family (I don't even have it anywhere on my website). The addresses are different all the time so I can't filter them. Is anyone else seeing this? How can I stop them? Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted October 5, 2005 Posted October 5, 2005 Welcome to life in cyberspace. Owning a domain will get you spam. You can try lowering your threshold level that you are using to capture spam in spamassassin. This is one of the reasons I POP my mail. I have a client side program called K9 that catches 99.9% of what spamassassin misses and trashes it. Quote
DirkNiblick Posted October 5, 2005 Author Posted October 5, 2005 POP mail would negate the value of having webmail. Lowering the Spamassassin threshold wouldn't work since most of the emails end up with a very low or even negative score. Doesn't spamassassin scan the HTML part of the email? Quote
DirkNiblick Posted November 7, 2005 Author Posted November 7, 2005 Did someone at TCH do something? For the past couple weeks, I haven't received hardly any spam in my normal mailbox and a lot more HTML spam is ending up in my spam mailbox. Just curious about the change. Quote
stevevan Posted November 7, 2005 Posted November 7, 2005 It's probably just the ebb and flow of spam. It happens to me from time to time. Quote
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