Magic spam bullet

I would estimate that at least 2/3 rd's of the emails I get are spam. It can take anywhere from 5 mins to 20 mins a day to go through an delete it. And it is infuriating.

I realise there is no magic bullet, I have tried many things to reduce the spam such as hiding email address's on my sites but the torrent continues.

Recently some spammers have used my domains as a reply address for there spam so now the torrent has turned into something this is not even manageable.

How do you manage spam and email hijacking, is there any way to manage this problem.

 

One of the best anti-spam solutions on the planet: www.borderware.com

But if you can't afford something commercial, you may want to look into boxtrapper

 

Thanks for the reply Frankcow.

I am looking for something I can do to prevent spam nearer the source rather than dealing with it as it arrives in my inbox.

I have rules set up in outlook and that removes about half the spam but at the end of the day i'm still going to get spammed.

Does anyone know of anything I can do on my servers (Web Host Manager/cPanel) to stop it closer to the source so at least I won't reach my inbox.

For example could I block all email addresses except specific one ie. only allow and blackhole webmaster@ sales@ etc.

What can I do about spammers using my address as the replyto?

 

i don't have much problems with spam. my primary email screens for spam effectively, and my secondary one is gmail.

 

You cannot stop spammers from using your email address in their messages. I sometimes think they make look spams look like bounces in the hope you will investigate the message to see why it bounced and read their spam.

You should be able to configure your email system to simply dump messages which are not destined to a legitimate email address at your domain. This does not cure the dictionary attack problem, whereby a list of common aliases are sent messages at each domain.

Fo my own part, I use Exim as my first stage inbound mail server and I dump messages with potentially viral attachments and I employ some anti-dictionary attack strategies, whereby the IP address of the sender is blacklisted. Most of those senders are trojaned computers, which should not be sending email directly. My second stage is Mercury32 on Windows with the antispam system filtering. It pollls all POP boxes that I use to pull down mail and then filters it.

It does not stop the deluge. But, it does a better job of sorting it.

I get upwards of 75,000 spam emails per day. And the volume has been increasing more rapidly in recent months.

 

You can use BoxTrapper on your cPanel domain

 

Thanks for everyones help. It has given me a few things to look into.

 

We are currently using FI on the Exchange 2003 server. It does help a some. Everytime I sign up on a forum, I usually create a unique email address so that in case that is forum is hacked or they decide to sell my email address, I can easily block it.

A good example was what happened on this forum about a month ago or so. It seemed that if you had something checked in your profile, it showed your email address. So someone created a program to get all of these email addresses. I changed my email address on this site specifically to stop that spam.

 

best antispam out there and i tried around 40 , online and not..

i use SPAMBULLY

 

wahts up with the warning on "HIJACKED THREADS.." this is not hijack i simply responded that spambully worked for me.. and a link to it.. whats your problem ?

Oh an my other post you deleted because it conflitcts with your merchant account selling services ? no competition ?

 

You posted an affiliate link. Stop spamming your crap

 

right. a clickbank link. how very honest.

problem is it's not allowed in the forum rules.

 

I have started using SPAMfighter, a free tool that removes almost all spam from my email account.

It's very easy to install and use SPAMfighter, and it works with Outlook and Outlook Express.

One of the nice features is that you can report a spam mail with one click, and have the good feeling of removing it from all other SPAMfighter users. The more people who use SPAMfighter, the less spam everybody gets. By now, more than 95 % is filtered.

Get free SPAMfighter here:

http://www.spamfighter.com

I ended up buying the commercial version, because it worked so great.