Following a sudden and very large increase in spam mail to a previous address used here, I've changed it slightly and of course, in doing so went to the lists web site. Just one question, why is the language set to English USA? As far as I know, they don't speak English, certainly it's not any English I recognise and I spent some time working over there ;-) As an aside, has anybody else noticed a large increase in spam to what was, a previously 'clean' address?
On 27 Mar 2014, at 15:38, Chris Walker wrote:
As an aside, has anybody else noticed a large increase in spam to what was, a previously 'clean' address?
I've got catchall emails setup for several domains and I was getting about 300 spam a day. A few months back that started to creep up to a normal day of about 5000 and a bad day of 31000. Needless to say, the poor little server was spawning exim4 and spamassassin so fast that the out-of-memory killer kept on taking out the mail system. I ended up changing the MX DNS records to: 10 spam.example.com, 20 smtp.myrealserver.co.uk, 30 tarbaby.junkmailfilter.com First day there were 15 spam and about the usual 60 valid emails. It's nice and I hope it lasts. Bill
On 28/03/14 12:00, William Hill wrote: []
I ended up changing the MX DNS records to: 10 spam.example.com, 20 smtp.myrealserver.co.uk, 30 tarbaby.junkmailfilter.com First day there were 15 spam and about the usual 60 valid emails.
I can see that myrealserver.co.uk is a placeholder for your mail server. I can see what tarbaby... does, in theory. Googling it though, I think it should be telnet tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com - there's an e in it that you didn't have. Are you really using spam.example.com? As far as I can see by telnetting to it, it does nothing - the address does not resolve. example.com is a valid domain that you can use for example or testing, but I don't know that using spam.example.com will do anything except add a non-existent mail server to the mix. Steve
On 28/03/14 22:30, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Are you really using spam.example.com? As far as I can see by telnetting to it, it does nothing - the address does not resolve. example.com is a valid domain that you can use for example or testing, but I don't know that using spam.example.com will do anything except add a non-existent mail server to the mix.
Note to self: Google before posting. I've found out why you've done it... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolisting Steve
On 27/03/14 15:38, Chris Walker wrote:
Following a sudden and very large increase in spam mail to a previous address used here, I've changed it slightly and of course, in doing so went to the lists web site.
Just one question, why is the language set to English USA? As far as I know, they don't speak English, certainly it's not any English I recognise and I spent some time working over there ;-)
As an aside, has anybody else noticed a large increase in spam to what was, a previously 'clean' address?
Not noticed any. -- Tony http://www.girolle.co.uk/
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