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Death by spam

I admit it. Spam has me beat.

A few weeks ago, I got around 1000 spam a day.

Two weeks ago, I got 2000 spams a day.

Last week, 3000 per day.

Are you picking up the pattern yet? As of today, I got 4500 spams. By next week, I'll be over 5000, I just know it.

Does anyone out there have any suggestions about how to tame this problem? I have spambayes in the middle of my mailtool chain, so I don't see very many of these, but I still have to deal with the bandwidth they take up. And I still see over 100 per day.

My requirements are that I want to be able to read my mail on any of my machines, and I want to have the email backed up safely nightly. I also have to control the mailboxes that I use. I currently have 100 or so active email addresses on my domain, so I need to be able to create and delete addresses at will.

Any advice? Please? I'm begging here.

UPDATE — My predictions were far too conservative. I got 7500 spams yesterday. I gotta get some help. This is email spam, and I want to get rid of it so I never see it. I really want something to sit between fetchmail on my linux box and my POP account to sift through and get rid of my spam before I download it. I really don’t want challenge/response solutions, because that places an undo burden on people sending me business email. I’d also be happy with a different mail service that still looked like agilestl.com, but did all the filtering for me server side. Suggestions are most welcome…

-- bab

posted on Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:11 PM

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# re: Death by spam 1/27/2005 4:49 PM Sahil Malik

Is that comment spam? Disable comments.

Is it email spam? There are third party services which need people to validate their email address before any email reaches you. It takes a bit to teach it .. but they are quite effective.

# re: Death by spam 1/28/2005 1:03 AM Peter Provost

In my experience, you can't really beat SpamBayes as a free solution. If you're willing to pay, you might want to consider an MX record redirection service like SpamSoap or MXLogic.

# re: Death by spam 1/28/2005 8:46 AM Mark

You might also consider mailshell.com. I use them for approx. $30 dollars per year. You get e-mail accounts, 50 MB of space, filtering, etc

# re: Got Spam? 1/29/2005 11:10 AM @baz

# re: Death by spam 1/30/2005 10:22 PM Adam Esterline

You might look into this tool. It seemed different and interesting to me. I don't know how good it is, but it seems to meet most of your requirements.

http://assp.sourceforge.net/

# re: Death by spam 2/1/2005 1:43 AM John Sextro

Brian,

I use popfile but it does not meet your reqs. Although if you are interested you can check it out on SourceForge.net.

What about forwarding all of your mail through a gmail account? Your mail is accessible from anywhere, it is backed up (theoritically), messages are not downloaded locally and gmail has built-in spam filters. If you want to try it out let me know and I can send you an invitation for gmail.

Regards,
John

# re: Death by spam 2/12/2005 8:40 AM Peter Shirley

Sadly, http://www.death2spam.net doesn't meet your need to handle multiple email addresses (at least not cheaply -- I think it's $35/yr per address). But perhaps it might help if there are one or two addresses which are especially spamified.

I've been using them for a couple of years, and *really* like the service -- so much so that when I switch to gmail I'm still going to pull my mail through death2spam.

Good luck.

# re: Death by spam 2/13/2005 11:44 PM Dave Hoover

Use GMail. I get around 100 spams a day and only get one or two in my inbox a week. I've got plenty of invites left, so if you're interested, email me: dave.hoover@gmail.com

# re: Death by spam 12/24/2005 10:29 AM BigFurryMonster

Same problem here! I use Gmail, but their spamfilter is no good. I still get 300+ spams per day.

Which bayesian spam filter can be combined with gmail so that I can read spamfree email =online= ??

# re: Death by spam 1/23/2006 4:55 PM Jeff Buehler

ASSP is great. It closes the SMTP connection if an email is determined to be SPAM, so very little bandwidth is used. I think it might solve your problem.

# re: Death by spam 9/28/2007 2:41 AM biseo

Spam is spam, need to live with it, butI know there are great tools out there for this spam.

# re: Death by spam 6/17/2008 8:19 AM blog

haha...if ypu can't beat them join them..hehe

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