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[fhunter]

Since I "own" the server, I have to figure out how to deal with it.

--LTHave you seen/tried spamassasin? http://spamassassin.apache.org/ (I haven't used it, but it is supposed to be learning spam filter, also free).

[talula]

I get 250,000 to 300,000 spam emails a day at the mail server my day job chains me to. Any spam can be a major bummer/problem.

[kristoff]

I get 250,000 to 300,000 spam emails a day at the mail server my day job chains me to. Any spam can be a major bummer/problem.

Do you keep a separate, private email for the regular customers? Or just wholesale delete?

[talula]

No. We have a barracuda spam filter that takes care of it pretty well. Graphs are off the scale at times. Best investment we ever made.

[Losethem (imported)]

The spam filter I have worked great for two days. Now I'm getting bounce back messages from servers that can't deliver the spam that the spammers are using my e-mail address for. Since my own server is whitelisted, I'm now getting about 20 of those a day, so far.

This is getting trickier than I ever imagined. I've now told my server to ignore bouncebacks, let's see if that works.

--LT

[Riverwind (imported)]

To bad there is not a return to sender button/option, can you picture a spammer getting his system crashed because of returned emails he sent?

River

[talula]

Greylisting?

[Dave (imported)]

To bad there is not a return to sender button/option, can you picture a spammer getting his system crashed because of returned emails he sent?

River

Back in the late 1990's when the business I worked at merged with a second office (this is like 600 people in each location) there were a few people so enamored of email (the new wonderful thing for them to stay in touch because they were indispensable) that they setup their work email to forward everything to their home email. Then, of course one day when they decided to go away for a day or two, they ordered their home email to forward any special emails from their bosses back to work. It took seconds for the loop to grow and both email systems were flooded with automatic replies.

The home email box quickly filled but the work email was on a special server and it went into spasms and sheer convulsions of glee (ok a little too dramatic there) attempting to deliver one email and one reply. The server would fill up and block all other email. So a computer operator needed to manually sever the link. This happened several times before an order was issued on paper to prevent it.

There's no other point to this.