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    • momurdaM
      momurda
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      I have spam filters. These messages go through with a spam score of 0, and get delivered.

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      • JaredBuschJ
        JaredBusch @momurda
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        @momurda said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

        I have spam filters. These messages go through with a spam score of 0, and get delivered.

        Buy a new service then because the one you have is obviously not working.

        Spending any time at all manually adding domains to a blacklist is just crazy.

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        • IRJI
          IRJ @JaredBusch
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          @JaredBusch said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

          @momurda said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

          I have spam filters. These messages go through with a spam score of 0, and get delivered.

          Buy a new service then because the one you have is obviously not working.

          Spending any time at all manually adding domains to a blacklist is just crazy.

          I agree

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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender
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            Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @Dashrender
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              @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

              Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

              Users subscribing to things is not spam. That is stupid user tricks.

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              • travisdh1T
                travisdh1 @Dashrender
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                @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

                They've been finding volunteers to send their spam emails. Each person will only send a very few out, which is one way they're breaking through the spam filters. Even my gmail account gets them, and that's the best filtering I've been able to find for the price.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @travisdh1
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                  @travisdh1 said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                  @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                  Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

                  They've been finding volunteers to send their spam emails. Each person will only send a very few out, which is one way they're breaking through the spam filters. Even my gmail account gets them, and that's the best filtering I've been able to find for the price.

                  Which actually makes it not SPAM, SPAM is a term for UBE. The B is bulk. If it stops being bulk, it stops being actual SPAM.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @JaredBusch
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                    @JaredBusch said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                    @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                    Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

                    Users subscribing to things is not spam. That is stupid user tricks.

                    A subscription that comes from a different email address every time? Not likely. And even if it was, that's spam behavior on the part of the sender at which point I consider them a bad actor.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                      @JaredBusch said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                      @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                      Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

                      Users subscribing to things is not spam. That is stupid user tricks.

                      A subscription that comes from a different email address every time? Not likely. And even if it was, that's spam behavior on the part of the sender at which point I consider them a bad actor.

                      I know one of the big media spam shops in NYC has just thousands of accounts and domains. Block a domain, they always have another.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                        @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                        @JaredBusch said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                        @Dashrender said in What to do about misconfigured email servers from other orgs:

                        Unfortunately Spam filters aren't perfect. I had one user who was being spammed daily with political ads, nothing we did could stop them, the filters were worthless.

                        Users subscribing to things is not spam. That is stupid user tricks.

                        A subscription that comes from a different email address every time? Not likely. And even if it was, that's spam behavior on the part of the sender at which point I consider them a bad actor.

                        I know one of the big media spam shops in NYC has just thousands of accounts and domains. Block a domain, they always have another.

                        exactly - this was the problem this user had. It felt more like what Travis was mentioning - not specifically directed at her, but small enough batches that the filters don't get triggered. It was a bunch of political crap she didn't care about.

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                        • momurdaM
                          momurda
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                          I spend about 5 minutes a week adding a few domains to a blacklist. Not a big deal. My spam service is just fine, I'm talking about a few emails a week getting through. I would like to get it to 0 though I doubt that is possible. Gmail seems to be the best at spam blockage, wonder what they are doing.

                          This email address has existed since the mid 90's(company around since 1984) honestly every single spammer in the world probably has it. [email protected]. The fact that less than 10 spam messages/week get through mean the filters work well I think.

                          The big spam shops(NYC mostly as SAM says, if you believe their addresses in the sig) do send out emails with slightly different email address domains, all the time.
                          Had one that was always getting through, baddomain.com, I blacklisted it, two weeks later it was bad-domain.com

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