ISP spam filter mercilessly goes after MT & other legit emails

This is probably a thread suited for both this subforum and Webmastering/programming.

We use a custom webapp for online training that has a feedback page built-in, all written in PHP. Whenever an email is made from the site the app uses the user's email address as the From address in the email header and sends it to our organization's email server. However, none of the emails come through. After a few months of back and forth with our Network Management Office, I realize the problem. Since the email is given a From of, say, [email protected], and comes from a private server on a static IP (no domain name), our local email server can't verify the domain to the sender and trashes it as spam. Our techs refuse to white list this, so I've been forced to BCC all the email to my personal account, and manually forward it in.

The server runs Red Hat Linux and sendmail. I'm not very comfortable with sendmail, and don't even know where to start. Basically, I need it to send emails that can legitimately enter our network. I tried setting From: to [email protected]<ip> and that didn't work. The email came through as "Apache <[email protected][hostname].local>".

There are critical emails, and I'm breaking a few regs by having my personal account in the mix, so I'm trying to find a good solution.
 

I have these 2 contacts to whom I can never send emails together. My email to them is always returned and undeliverable. I can successfully send them emails separately. I am not sure if they have spam programs installed in their email system or not, but I am just wondering if spam program can block the emails for multiple receivers.

Or what else is a possibility of blocking my emails to them? Thanks
 

Today when using the internet on my phone, I got a pop-up message saying that I had accessed child pornography (which I was not viewing, never have done and never will!) and it asked me if I wanted to reload a page. It had the United Nations logo in the background and outlined the legal aspects of this in the UK, ie fines and prison sentences. Obviously I kept selecting "Don't reload" but it kept coming up. I don't know if this is fake or real, and that if it is real, I was being redirected to a website with that sort of content on it. I've done a scan on my phone and nothing's come up so I don't know what's going on! I'm really worried about this and don't know what to do.

i am currently using "Lotus Notes Release 5.0.8 June 18, 2001" I cannot upgrade this becuase I use it for work, and they distribute the new software. So.. what is THE BEST FREE spam blocker on the net? becuase this is for work, i dont want the spam blocker to block important e-mails, mistaking them as spam. any help is greatly apreciated!
 

I am Science Computer student.For last year project/thesis I need to build a spam filter using Artificial Immune System technique.Use C# programming tools.

So,can anybody propose to me suitable website/sources regarding to that topic?

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New user, first question:

We have installed Exchange 2000 a few months ago. I know, better late than never though.

Anyone have a good SPAM blocker to point me to? Something where all outgoing emails automatically have recipients added to a "white list" of okay domains and such?
 

Iam trying to find a free Spam Filter that actually works, anyone have any suggestions? I am on Outlook Express an keep getting those repepition e-mails,examples= Viagra, an low interest rates e-mails. I keep putting them on the block senders list but they keep coming. I know their is a lot of others recieving the same thing. Any help will be appreciated
 

I'm getting more spam than usual in my email, can someone suggest freeware spam blocker that has a good reputation?

I use Outlook Express to recive my Mail however in the last few months I have been reciving alot of unwanted spam about Invest ments I canot unsubscribe as each time the mail comes back or I get the site is unavailable is there a spam filter in Outlook I can set

hi i have spamfighter installed for outlook expresswhile i find i don't get any spam it seems to lengthen the time outlook express opens i also have nod32 anti virus which checks for viruses can anyone recomnend a spamfilter that checks the mail faster Chippy

Hi I used to use Mailwasher to filter spam from my outlook express but it stopped working and caused some problems so I uninstalled it. Can anyone recommend any other good, free spam filters for outlook express? Thanks in advance.

Appreciate some assistance.

Read somewhere that much of the spam received is not addressed to you personally. Therefore, you can set up a filter through OE Message Rules for the content of the 'To:' field in a message.

How can I get an e-mail message if my e-mail address is not used? Do not quite understand. Would apppreciate an explanation or a good article regarding this specific issue.

Thanks for your help.

 

I use a web account to access most of my mail.

But some of my friends are having severe problems with SPAM MAIL.

One of them even purchased Norton Internet Security 2005 package, which includes:
Firewall (I like ZoneAlarm better)
AntiVirus (I use AVG... better)
Privacy control ?
Spam Filter - which hooks into the email client (Eudora, Outlook)

The Spam Filter doesn't seem to be doing a good job... anything that works better? Or is there a setting in Norton that may help?

These idiotic spammers are making email bloody useless!
PS: Also, Perfered "child" filtering program... I've heard of such names as cyber nanny and cybersitter... It would need to block sites, but also log attempts to sites.
 

I did think about posting this topic under the Web & Email section of the forum, but I've had a lot of help from you guys involved in the Security section, so I value your opinion.

Recently, I have had a marked increase in the amount of spam email (I don't need another watch; I don't need any medications; I don't require an online degree in less than 2 weeks, and I don't want to see my next door neighbours daughter try out her new webcam!)

I am running Win XP and using Outlook Express 6.

Anyone recommend a good filter?

Rhynos
 

I saw an update for the built in Outlook Spam filter in the latest Windows Update batch, and it seems to have made a HUGE difference.

I don't know what they did, but my mailbox is much improved since installing it (way more so than other updates in the last few years).

If you use MS Outlook 2007 I'd strongly recommend installing the latest junk mail filters as they are excellent this time round it seems
 

Currently, I use Spamfighter for my email filter and love it. However it causes problems on my wife's desktop. I use the free version of spamfighter. Now I'm looking for a replacement for such a filter. I am looking for recommendations for a commercial filter that shows up in outlook. The software needs to be user friendly and easy to use.

I have been with Lineone.net/Tiscali for years. I've had lots of spam which Mailwasher has managed easily. Now, all of a sudden there is virtually no spam (good news)but nowt on the TT website about what has been removed. How do I know whether TT's filter has removed something it decides is spam but which, for me, is not?

I've been using ThunderBird since the beginning of time and have loved the program. I do have an issue that has popped up that maybe you guys can help me out with. Ok, lets get to the issue.

Just recently I formatted my PC but wanted to keep my old mail. I had read that you can save the Mail folder located at :

C:\Documents and Settings\User\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\

This will save all your old mail / Filter Setting / Subfolders / Ect. After you install Thunderbird you can just overwrite the default mail folder and replace it with the Mail Folder you save. Everything works fine and all my mail, Filters & Sub-Folders are just as they were before I formatted the PC.

The Problem:
It seems now everytime I get Spam, it moves it to the Junk folder just as I configured it to but for some reason it marks it as read during the move. Before it would be labeled as Unread after the move to the junk folder. From what I have heard some Spam is intelligent and can send a " I've been open " back to the sender via an HTML Link. I'm not sure if automatically marking it as read will do this. I never open spam, I just hit the Junk Button at the top and send it to my Junk Folder. Any ideas how to switch it back to it not showing as read.
I'm using ThunderBird ver. 1.5.0.2

Thanks guys........
 

I use outlook express as my mail client at home and my inbox is becoming overrun with spam about viagra and penis enlargement pills. I'm so freakin sick of it I just want to strangle the bastards wasting my time. Any recommendations on something that works well w/ Outlook Express?
 

I have been using Thunderbird for well over a year now and in general like it very much.

The problem I have is the spam filtering. It is only doing a so-so job.

I am not having any false positives but the adaptive filtering does not seem to detect 60% of the junk.

For example, I have been constantly marking as junk "Watch Replica Spam", but I keep getting five or more of this type of mail every day. If I could just filter out the word "replica", I could eliminate most junk of this type.

In addition much of the Vallium, Cialis and other unwanted "pharmaceutical" mail is not being filtered (although about half of it is being filtered).

To sum it all up, I am still getting much mail that is almost identical to mail I have previously marked as junk.

I believe I have set the Junk Mail control settings and adaptive filter properly. Is their anything else I can do?
 

Hello, I'm lookng for an enterprise anti-spam filter/server.

I've already checked out the Barracuda ones, but they're a little expensive. Have any good ideas??

thanks
 

Anyone know of a good spam filter for Exchange 5.5 running on Windows NT 4?
 

Can anyone tell me how to deactivate Googlemail's own spam filter?I was away from my own PC this morning and went into Googlemail's webmail to check my mail,only to find several messages had been marked as spam and not sent a new messages - great you my think, but not when when they are news letters I want or much worse email failure notifications (and I was wondering why I hadn't got an answer back).Is it possible to turn filtering off entirely and let my email client handle it?Thanks.

My email account is with a local ISP, ie. not one of the majors
like gmail or hotmail. I use Thunderbird on Linux as my email
client. The ISP uses Postini for email security.

I am being flooded by spam emails, which I suspect have the
same source. All are from hotmail addresses, with the sender
name a somewhat garbled combination of letters. The "to" address
does not appear to be my own, but I receive the emails anyway.
Since neither the "from" or "to" addresses are constant, I have
been unable to filter them out in either Postini or in Thunderbird.

I'm more than a novice but less than an expert, and I think I
understand that the sender address can be spoofed, tho I'm unclear
on how my own address can be spoofed such that I receive emails
that do not appear to be addressed to me.

Certainly my basic question is how can this happen and how can
I put a stop to it. Beyond that, what I'd really appreciate is a
pointer to some article, website, etc that would help me understand
the mechanics of this type of spamming, and the methods or options
to filter it out.

Thks, Gus

Hi, can anyone recommend a decent one for Thunderbird 3.1.6 please? I'm new to using Thunderbird and I seem to be getting loads of spam email.

I did downloadSPAMfighter, but when I clicked on it it wouldn't open! Just kept saying: The directory name is invalid

Thanks

Since Virgin Media moved me from ntlworld.com to virgin.net, many of my emails have been siphoned off by the spam filter. This means every day I have to access web-mail, and then the spam filter, in order to deal with emails that previously appeared in Outlook Express as expected. What can I do about this?

Hi all
I've been using Spamihilator for some while now and I was wondering whether there are better ones out there.
Spam'tor used to filter out many spam emails and put them in the 'Training Area' but it's put nothing in there for a few weeks now.
This itsself is very unusual but, at the same time, I've noticed that I've not received several emails sent to me by known and trusted sources.
I've now lost confidence in Spam'tor and would like to use another recommended programme.
Thanks in advance,
 
Slime.

There seems to be an explosion of junk mail recently within our own ofice and that of clients to teh point where built in Junk Mai filters dont seem to be able to handle it anymore.

Can anyone recommend a Spam filter that is easy to setup, easy to use and most of all effective.

Open source would be nice but if it takes cold hard cash to get something that works then so be it.
 

Please can any body recommend a free spam filter for my sister-in-law to use, like me she is NOT very techie so an easy to use one would be preferable, Many thanks for any replies I may receive, Brian.

Has anyone tried this Spam Filter … and have any comments ?
http://www.spamfighter.com/Product_Info.asp
 

Hello, I was wondering if anyone knew of some signup sites or such to completely blast an email account with spam.
I just set up [email protected] so I could train my thunderbird filters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

I bought this new spam filter, paid good money for it, and want to test it. Its a new email address and I can't tell if the filter works. Spam me as much as you can, and if I don't get anything I'll know it works. Don't hold back I really want to test this, and if the spam gets through I can just create a new address, so its no problem.

Heres the address, Thnks.

[email protected]

Is there any spam filters for Thunderbird mail? All the ones I have found are for Outlook or Ourlook Express. Probably 85% of my mail is spam and I am tired of creating message filters for each one.
 

I have some questions about spam in emails.

What is the best program to use against spam via a pop email account? Best freeware one and best pay for one.

How do you stop gettings hundreds of emails in per day that are just plain junk? Got a client with this problem and I'm not very experienced when it comes to emails since I don't use email much. No viruses or spyware are on his system. We called her isp too and they said she had a virus and it wasnt thier problem and I checked her system and she had 0 viruses or spyware with the latest versions of AVG and spybot.
 

On my 2006 version of Norton internet security I had the option to create an anti spam folder in outlook express. When I right clicked a spam message I was given the option to say "This is Spam" and all future messages were sent to the anti spam folder. I am now running Norton Internet security 2007 and cannot find this useful facility, any suggestions

I'm getting more and more spam on Outlook after years of it being minimal and I can't find any filter. Anyone out there any suggestions?

I use Thunderbird to read my AOL accounts. I've always been pretty satisfied with AOL's spam filter; even when it lets something through that's spam, I could let Thunderbird's spam filter catch it.

But what about the reverse problem? If see that AOL has marked something as Spam that I think is valuable, I have to log in to AOL's webmail site, go into the Spam folder, and mark the message as "Not Spam". Otherwise all similar mails in the future will be caught too.

Is there a way to use AOL's "Not Spam" button while still in Thunderbird?

Does anyone know a good spam filter for Outlook? I downloaded a couple of them, but they cost $39. It seems like a lot to pay for a plug in to an existing application. But the free stuff I have looked at was lame.

I would like to have the ability to bounce a message as undeliverable, to appear to the spam sender as if my email is not valid. Also, it is nice to be able to flag which messages are spam and which are not, so the filter can learn what my valid messages look like.

Anyone have a cheap or free favorite?

Thanks in advance,

FingerDemon
 

I’m looking for a cheap solution to filter SPAM on a small network for a nonprofit organization.
They’re running Exchange 2003 on Windows Small Business Server 2003 with about 20 XP clients and Outlook 2007.
The current built in filter rules in Exchange do not catch the majority of SPMAs.
They’re getting on average 50 to 100 SPAM per day. Not all users are getting spammed so I’m not sure if a desktop solutions is suitable for that environment.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 

I need your help to tackle a corrupt Council and the Microsoft Spam filter is the key to this.

Long story short. My Email address was blocked to Councillors, complaints departments and every department at a UK Council. This happened after I started contacting departments to object to a council application. I only found out because an employee told me they had stopped receiving Emails from that address. I also never received any acknowledgments from the Council that my Email address had been blocked.

Anyway I made a complaint and the council stated that the Microsoft Spam filter had blocked my email address and put my emails into quarantine and then deleted them 14 days later because I used prohibited words. So I provided them with all my Emails from that address so they could find the prohibited words.

Months pass by and now I'm informed that the Council has contacted Microsoft to find out how my Email Address became blocked.

The reality is that I know it was blocked by Council staff because I was disrupting a council planning application. I know they haven't found any prohibited words and to make matters worse they almost certainly blocked me when no Email was sent.

Please help me by providing me with information about the Microsoft spam filter and how plausible or in-plausible their excuse is? I need to send a well written technical insight into the Microsoft spam filter to the borough solicitor and then my local MP.

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Current network set up :-

SBS 2003 Exchange server with 4 email accounts.
Client computers are WINDOWS XP Pro.

Email come directly into the sever as it not hosted by any ISP.
It needs a spam filter.

Please recommend me some thing.

Like most, I've been inundated with spam recently. "Adding to Blocked senders list" doesn't help - I must have hundreds of these, and imagine they only serve to slow the system down.Can I configure Outlook so that an eMail is posted to my Inbox ONLY if my Inbox already contains mail from that sender? And divert all other mail to another folder that I can peruse at leisure.That way I could at least know anything in my Inbox was welcome.ThanksPhilip

Hi All,Is there a Spam Filter that can filter Hotmail....I keep getting smut in my inbox. Preferably one that does not involve a third party knowing my hotmail password.thanksD.

Can someone recommend one that actually works on android well?
 
thx

 

Hey Guys, 
 
Long time lurker here... 
 
I'm having issues with a specific domain. The company has about 15 e-mails that are all getting about 40-60 spam e-mails a day. I was wondering if there is a recommended program free or paid that you gurus can recommend me. 
 
All computers are equipped with Avast but they are not the paid versions with no e-mail filtering options. We could switch over to a new AntiVirus program that has exceptional e-mail filtering embedded or a 3rd party stand alone software. 
 
Thanks in advance.