Category: spam

Very worrying article in today’s Guardian technology section. We all know that spam levels are constantly increasing but this article says that 91% of email is now spam. It then goes on to put at least some of the blame on the people who connect completely unprotected PCs to the internet. These PCs then get… Continue reading Why Spam Is Out Of Control

A few months ago I changed the way my email server works. Instead of using POP3 to download the mail and then filtering it on the client side using procmail, I configured the system to filter the mail on the server side so that I could read mail using IMAP. At some point during that… Continue reading Filtering Spam

(This is me using what limited Googlejuice this site has to get personal revenge) Last June I bought a t-shirt from SIDStore. It was a nice t-shirt. It had a dalek on it. Here’s a picture of me wearing the t-shirt. I was happy with my purchase. All was well with the world. Of course,… Continue reading SIDStore are Spammers

I moved my email handling to a new server a month or so ago and since them I’ve noticed a larger than usual amount of spam getting into my inbox rather than being caught by Spamassassin. Today I decided that enough was enough and that I’d investigate further. My first theory was that in moving… Continue reading Configuring Spamassassin