Spam can refer to: Junk e-mail Unwanted posts on a website Unwanted comments on a post on a website A large number of spam posts designed to crash a system
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Config Server Firewall: Spamming my email | lfd on localhost: Suspicious process running under user www-data
I have just installed and configured CSF and I am getting 100s of spam emails containing this message.
lfd on localhost: Suspicious process running under user www-data
Time: Wed May 23 01:05:52 ...
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Mediawiki mass user delete/merge/block [closed]
I have 500 or so spambots and about 5 actual registered users on my wiki. I have used nuke to delete their pages but they just keep reposting. I have spambot registration under control using ...
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PTR OK, SPF, DKIM passed but email messages are marked as Spam by Google?
# host 1.2.3.4
4.3.2.1.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mail.domain.vn.
# dig +short txt domain.vn
"v=spf1 a mx ptr -all"
# dig +short txt mail.domain.vn
"v=spf1 a -all"
Here's an email header ...
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Postfix and Sendmail restriction for Spam
I have Postfix mail server. The mail server was spamming from an unexisting mail address so i used sender_restrictions in main.cf and sender_access (to discard mail from that mail address). Now the ...
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FROM: header is forged, SENDER: is legit , spam is delivered. how to detect?
In short:
What happens: FROM: header is forged, SENDER: is legit , spam is delivered.
What i need: Detect forged FROM: when possible, block delivery
Explained:
I have a exim server (on cpanel ...
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Is the sending mail address a factor when evaluating for spam (not blacklisted)
We are having some reports that mails send from our domain sometimes ends up in receivers spam folder - Ive seen one of the actual mails and nothing indicate that it should be interpreted as spam.
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Emails forwarded via postfix get flagged as spam and forged in Gmail
I'm trying to setup a forwarding only email server. I'm running into the problem where all messages forwarded via postfix are getting put into gmail's spam folder and getting flagged as forged. I'm ...
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Bulk email prevent blocking
We are going to send huge bulk emails (It's an invitation to our site). I setup an instance on Amazon and installed zimbra on that along with phplist which is configured. DKIM and Domain keys are ...
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Configuring postfix to fight spam, 2012 edition [closed]
EDIT: This question was poorly asked, later I found another question which answers what i wanted to know: Spam prevention tips for Postfix
I'm running a small (20 users, 30 mailman-lists) server with ...
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Sending multiple emails and not marked as spam using Domino
I would like to send mass emails to about 2,000 addresses.
However, if I send them at once, then antivirus engines mark them as spam suspects
Is there a functionality or feature that we can provide ...
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Track spammer Exim
hello i have a exim server , and have a lot of spam last 24 hours , i watch exim_mainlog and see this
1SDcCZ-0005DX-JQ-H
mailnull 47 12
<contact@xxxxxxxx.com>
1333115355 0
-helo_name ...
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Managing e-mail and spam?
Running a CPanel server and just wondering what would be the best way to monitor incoming and outgoing e-mail to check for spam and other related attacks.
Currently, I am using exim
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Configuring mailzu in ClearOS to send daily spam reports
I recently implemented ClearOS as a mail filtering solution and I am aware that it uses the program MailZu to handle quarantine of email. However, by default, it does not seem to allow you to navigate ...
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SpamAssassin sending legit emails to spam, despite sender being whitelist
I can not for the life of me figure out why emails from a "white-listed" sender are still getting very high scores from SpamAssassin and not being delivered.
The email headers are:
From ...
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Does the server hostname need to match the domain name of the email address you are sending from? Does the hostname need to be verifiable with DNS?
I am trying to diagnose why email won't send from a new RHEL v5.8 server. Sendmail is up and running, but everything is stuck in the queue (confirmed with mailq) with connection timed out errors.
If ...
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What I can do to achieve this kind of smtp proxy
I'm providing VPS services and I don't want my IP addresses spoiled by spammers. What I want to achieve here is to route all the outbound traffic to some sort of smtp proxy server which will just let ...
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Emails are regularly blacklisted due to being hosted on a shared (blacklisted) server. What can I do besides moving away from this shared server?
My client's emails are blacklisted because his account is on a shared server which gets blacklisted from time to time. The hoster wants him to move to an expensive dedicated server.
What could I do ...
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Will using google apps emailhosting get rid of blacklisting caused by a shared server account?
a client`s email addresses are constantly blacklisted due to other users who share the same server. the hoster does want him to switch to his own dedicated server, so he gets his own ip.
my question ...
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Any way I can send Spam to my mail perimeter in a controlled way for testing?
I just set up a Postfix/Procmail/SpamAssassin server but I am not convinced that it is really doing much filtering. I have gotten it to recognize the SpamAssassin special Spam code that produces a ...
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Why do these emails from amazon SES keep getting marked as spam?
Right now I am sending emails using the php mail() function. I am setting the From: header to an address corresponding to the hostname and also reverse-dns of the server sending the email like this:
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My e-mail is recognized as spam Microsoft Exchange server
E-mail of one user in my organization is recognized as spam. I looked up few things and I realized that my SPF record is v=spf +all. Do I have to change my spf record to something else like v=spf mx?
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Clean out a large MediaWiki text table
I just discovered that an old MediaWiki of mine was infested with spam, and the database table named "text" (which contains the page content) is 3GB large. I've deleted all the spam pages manually, ...
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Postfix - Block email from non-existent local addresses
My question is very similar to this one, but for postfix.
We keep getting emails from addresses like "accounting@ourdomain.com" delivered to other "@ourdomain.com" addresses. From my google research, ...
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My datacenter is unable to add PTR/rDNS record, then how can I prevent the mail outgoing from going to spam folder?
I am having problem that mail sent out from my server all goes to recipient's spam folder.
I am running Drupal sites on Linux server. CentOS w/ cPanel.
Our users cannot receive email as the mail ...
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LAMP server being used to send SPAM [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
My server's been hacked EMERGENCY
I have a LAMP server running that has suddenly started trying to send out spam email. I wonder would anyone have any suggestion to ...
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sendmail is using return-path instead of from address
I have a customer that is complaining about emails marked as spam.
I'm looking at the header. It shows the correct From: reg@company.com
However, it doesn't like the return-path.
Return-Path: ...
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After sending our newsletter out AOL deferrs out email
Hi I hope someone can help, a while ago for some reason AOL has taken upon itself to defer all email from ourselves after we send our newsletter.
We get the error code DYN:T1 and then after like 8-12 ...
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Virtualmin with Postfix configuration is insecure
I'm still learning using linux, so please bear with me.
I have a setup on a debian server, with Virtualmin using Postfix for mail.
It's just a standard Virtualmin setup and everything has basically ...
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every email marked as SPAM or not even delivered?
I am having a very serious problem!
I registered the domain http://codepigeon.com a while back (2 months) and have dev. an app to easily make changes to ones source code across multiple webpages or ...
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Spamassassin? update channels?
I know this was asked here: but things seem to have changed. It appears that the old SARE rules are listed as broken
The recommended SOUGHT channels seem to be down and DNS is broken for ...
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Postfix and myhostname/mydomain
I currently have Postfix running on a box that also hosts a number of websites. Although the website domains' DNS all have an A record pointing to this server, the server has no hostname of its own. ...
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Communigate: writing rules
We have Communigate on our mail server. Recently we moved to Dr.Web antivirus + antispam. When it checks mail for spam it writes spam score in 'X-Spam-Level: ', where number of '' signifies the spam ...
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Gmail rejects emails. Openspf.net fails the tests
I've got a problem with Gmail.
It started after one of our trojan infected PCs sent spam for one day from our IP address.
We've fixed the problem, but we got into 3 black lists. We've fixed that, ...
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Automatically reject any mailman mailing list posts that contain Russian?
I'm running a small mailman-based mailing list on a Linux server, and the only spam posts we seem to get are in russian. They are automatically moderated of course, since they're not subscribed to the ...
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Server sending spam, Im unable to catch the user
Alright, I'm tired of spam being sent out from my server.
I've installed CSF as a firewall and it keeps on saying Local Host Relay for user 127.0.0.1
Received: by 10.50.183.228 with SMTP id ...
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How do I adjust the Microsoft Small Business Server email spam protection filters?
How can I get the Exchange in SBS to be less strict in filtering spam?
Most clients emails go directly into the spam folder.
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Our VPS server is sending spams [closed]
We are using a VPS server in our company. We realized that our server sending spam mails for 2 days from an account like anonymous@hostname which doesn't exist.
What can we do or how can we track it?
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Linux spamassassin spam filter
How to import exchange user into Linux (spamassassin) I keep getting a hard bounce. Administrative Prohibition
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In Exim, is RBL spam rejected prior to being scanned by SpamAssassin?
I've recently been battling spam issues on our mail server. One account in particular was getting hammered with incoming spam. SpamAssassin's memory use is one of our concerns.
What I've done is ...
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Worth deleting email account due to SPAM?
We have a system here in which several accounts get a ton of SPAM and spamd (SpamAssassin) is constantly using a ton of memory. Our machine is used for both our website and our email. Our LAMP based ...
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Proper configuration for Windows SMTP Virtual Server to only send email from localhost, and tracking down source of spam emails
We manage a server that is hosted on Amazon EC2, which has web applications that need to be able to send outgoing email. Recently we received a notice from Amazon about possible email abuse on that ...
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smtp 554 rejected - poor reputation
My SMTP (e-mail server) do not send e-mails for 99% of the tries.
Log SMTP server hMailServer:
"SMTPD" 1092 17 "2012-02-09 12:55:20.328" "173.44.33.116" "RECEIVED: DATA"
"SMTPD" 1092 17 ...
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My debian server is sending spam, and I don't know why :(
I got my first dedicated server a couple of months ago, using it to learn Linux and server admin, and to host a couple personal sites. I'm very new to Linux, so I used examples and tutorials found ...
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SMTP filtering proxy
I provide SSH shells to a lot of people and block port 25, 465 and so on by default via iptables to avoid that some people send spam messages.
Is there some kind of SMTP filtering proxy or -gateway ...
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Setting SCL value on emails in exchange 2010
Emails on my Exchange 2010 server do not have a SCL value or X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SCL: in the email header.
Does anyone know how to enable this so I can filter spam from my users
Thanks
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Configure exim4 (or other MTA) to prevent sending duplicate emails
How can I configure exim4 (or another MTA) to avoid sending duplicate emails?
For my purposes a duplicate email can be defined as: same recipient and subject (or same recipient, subject and body)
I ...
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Media Temple, SPF, and Changing IP Addresses
OK...so I have a hosting account with Media Temple and recently had problems with mail servers marking my sent emails as SPAM. I looked into the issue and read it's a good idea to implement SPF which ...
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Common ways of spam files ending up in a web directory
A friend discovered a bunch of spam files in his web directory on his web host the other day. He has no idea where they came from, and I'm not quite sure either.
What are common security breaches ...
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Barracuda tagging email with 'date grossly in the future.'
I have a Barracuda 300. Granted it's running on some old firmware and the Energize updates are quite outdated. I'd like to update them, but, not my financial decision to do so.
Starting around the ...
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Figuring out spam source
Few months ago, my host reported spam going from one of the 3 ips on our server. The host null routed the ip and all was good. We didn't have anything hosted on that ip so it wasn't a big deal.
The ...
