1,000+ Spam Emails Per Day
I waste lots of time each day wading through the spam I receive. I don't tend to delete them, just leave them in my mail box. In fact I never delete emails - I'm VERY disorganised.
In July I took some measures to reduce the number of spam emails I was getting through. I created a new email account and added, as 'aliases', email addresses that spam was frequently being sent to ('abbey@' for some reason was receiving a lot of spam email!?!)
I checked this account yesterday and it has stored 87,420 emails since last July. WOW… and they're the ones that DIDN'T get through!
I worked out that's an average of just over 500 emails blocked per day. I then counted the amount of spam I was sent yesterday and you can add another 600 to that total. So call it 1,100 spam emails a day.
I’m going try and reduce that number. Spam is getting out of control!
I've enabled an option in MailEnable, my servers email software, to check a DNS Blacklist which will basically prevent any emails getting through from reported open relays and the like. I'll have to see how that goes.
I'll also be adding more aliases to the list I already have and I'll re-report in a week or so on the level of spam continuing to get through.
Is everyone sent this much spam or is it just me?
I waste lots of time each day wading through the spam I receive. I don't tend to delete them, just leave them in my mail box. In fact I never delete emails - I'm VERY disorganised.
In July I took some measures to reduce the number of spam emails I was getting through. I created a new email account and added, as 'aliases', email addresses that spam was frequently being sent to ('abbey@' for some reason was receiving a lot of spam email!?!)
I checked this account yesterday and it has stored 87,420 emails since last July. WOW… and they're the ones that DIDN'T get through!
I worked out that's an average of just over 500 emails blocked per day. I then counted the amount of spam I was sent yesterday and you can add another 600 to that total. So call it 1,100 spam emails a day.
I’m going try and reduce that number. Spam is getting out of control!
I've enabled an option in MailEnable, my servers email software, to check a DNS Blacklist which will basically prevent any emails getting through from reported open relays and the like. I'll have to see how that goes.
I'll also be adding more aliases to the list I already have and I'll re-report in a week or so on the level of spam continuing to get through.
Is everyone sent this much spam or is it just me?
January 18th, 2007 at 7:10 am
I get plenty of spam but not as much as you describe… maybe I should keep a tally for a few days… but 1,000 spam emails a day is a ton!
I think it has definitely increased in the past few months. I get a lot more image spam trying to sell stocks.
January 20th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I kind of do a similar thing in gmail. I don't empty my spam folder and google empties it automatically every 30 days, so shows me how many spams I've received over the last 30 days.
At the moment it's saying 14,371 so that's 479 per day. We must be getting spammed by the same people!
Before Christmas it hit 180000 or 600 per day - very scary
February 16th, 2007 at 1:57 am
That amount of spam is not too uncommon now-a-days, sadly it is a fact propelled by a lack of interest by users to secure their machines from being used as relay points to deliver unsolicited bulk mail to the masses.
From what I can tell, you seem to accept mail for your domains via mail.therockstargame.com which is running MailEnable. This product hasn't had much success from strong programming ethics by its developers and it shows in the amount of security flaws discovered by third parties for it.
It has already garnered two high-level security flaws which can be remotely triggered in February 2007 (http://www.frsirt.com/english/vendor/2030), of both which your installation seems to be capable of having applied to it (your server reports version 1.981 which these two flaws effect and below).
My view is biased (I provide, among other things, commercial email administration), but I highly recommend the use of qmail, it is a lightweight, high performance and highly configurable SMTP server with third party additions which extend its functionality to provide IMAP and POP3 support.
It is often used under Linux and BSD, but it seems you opted for MailEnable because it runs on Windows, if you cannot access a Linux/BSD based production server for your mail needs, then you can install CYGWIN on Windows to 'emulate' a *nix based environment for Linux/BSD server applications such as qmail to run under confidently in Windows.
The amount of email you noted you receive seems to be dramatically high if it bypasses basic filtering, it sounds like MailEnable was not setup or cannot support various mechanisms which exists (SPF, DK, HELO greet-delay, RBL, SpamAssassin, etc') that can be used to detect a high level of bulk unwanted commercial mail and reject it before it wastes server resources getting handed to you via your POP3/IMAP account.
If it helps, I currently handle 176,000~ emails a day via mail.nfwebsolutions.com of which only a few (450-500~) are accepted and are legitimate mail I am or other users are interested in. The mail server's for some of my clients handle higher loads than his and fair well considering the spam-to-legitimate ratio.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:41 am
I have a gmail account which I've been using for like a year now. I've used it to register in like dozens of sites and such, but never make it public much. But I use that for msn too, with a .net passport. So far to be honest, I don't get a single spam mail a day. It's almost unbelieveable.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:47 am
what sites gives you all of this spam
May 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
I have 2500 spam e-mails in my inbox now …
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 am
This site is put together well!
January 20th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I have a problem with spam! This is a big problem …