Comments on: SPAM Update

By: The Internet Entrepreneur » My Ongoing Fight Against Spam

The Internet Entrepreneur » My Ongoing Fight Against Spam — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:07:34 +0000

[...] It is time for another SPAM update! I posted the first one on November 29, 2006. At that moment I received an average of 1.346 spam messages per day and I just started using SpamSieve, for two days, to filter out all of it. [...]

By: Uri L.

Uri L. — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 23:23:13 +0000

today I deleted 4 email accounts I’ve been using, cause I couldn’t handle the spam anymore. It wasn’t at the level of 1000’s per day, but I missed too many important messages over time because of this, not to mention how outlook hangs the computer .

Btw, why not installing server-side spam blocker?

By: Johannes de Jong

Johannes de Jong — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:49:58 +0000

Boris,

With SPAM figures like that I’m amazed you replied so fast to my emails.

Thanks

Johannes

By: jcvangent

jcvangent — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:08:22 +0000

the only problem with bayesian is that those spam with gif images almost everytime gets through, because they don’t use random words in their mails but random sentences so bayesian is very hard to train with these mails…but if you configure it right MailScanner + spamassesin + FuzzyOCR is the way if you ask me, talk to you in 28 days ;)

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:58:20 +0000

I’m using SpamSieve which implements a Bayesian algorithm to “learn” what spam looks like. It is supposed to be even better than MailScanner with spamassassin and free for the first 30 days. I’ll decide in 28 if I want to go on with it…

By: jcvangent

jcvangent — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:48:01 +0000

Maybe it is time to start using MailScanner with spamassassin, works like a charm here, especially with the FuzzOCR plugin, which scans the content of images for spam (handy with all the incoming spammails with gif images attached to it)…turned my clean my from 20% down till 10%, and the only false positves are maybe 5 spammails a day nowadays (with around 600 mails being processed every day)…could have saved you the money for the Mac OS X spam filter ;)