Re: [hampshire] Spoofed from address for emails

James Ashburner wrote:
> 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.

I use thunderbird to filter messages with 'Content-type:
multipart/mixed;' into a Spam-missed folder. By adding other conditions
(i.e. and not this sender or that subject), most of that stuff doesn't
get anywhere near my inbox, and it's very rarely that I encounter false
positives.

Sean