Re: [hampshire] Spoofed from address for emails

Peter Salisbury wrote:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 23:51, john lewis wrote:
>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 23:15:42 +0000
>>
>> Mat Grove <mjeg@???> wrote:
>>> I went from me@??? to mjeg@??? and
>>> wrote a script to allow email from known addresses to the old
>>> address for a while, then I just deleted it.
>> and within a few days, if they've not already done it, the bots
>> will have trawled the LUG archive and found your 'new' address from
>> this email.
>>
>> :-(
>>
>> --
>> John Lewis
>> Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application
>
> Copied from the archive:
>
> I went from me@??? to mjeg@??? and wrote
> a script to allow email from known addresses to the old address for a
> while, then I just deleted it.
>
> Should be safe!
>
> Thanks for all the info folks, looks like I just have to keep training
> spamassassin and paying for bandwidth to download the rubbish.
> Grrr.
>
> ATB, Peter
>

Spam at my hantslug address is a huge problem compared to my other
addresses (lug for the surrey lug, james for my personal mail) and I
can't see any reason why. The address is never given out for anything
other than the Hantslug mailing list or in direct correspondence with
members (usually arranging collection of bits of hardware).

Admittedly Spamassassin does a good job of ensuring I don't get most of
it (I don't get anything with a score of 2 or more now) and most of what
gets through now is images. Thankfully, ClarkConnect are introducing OCR
for Spamassassin very shortly which may help to cut this out.

Unfortunately, I'd like X on the server and I've not been able to get it
running on CC. This means I'm probably going to install <distro not
decided upon yet> and then run CC in VMWare, mostly because I don't feel
I could set up spamassassin to be nearly as effective as CC have.

Hmm... not entirely certain what my point was now :)

James