Comments on: 1,000+ Spam Emails Per Day

By: mani

mani — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:33:41 +0000

i want to receive 100 mails per day

By: sarpeet

sarpeet — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:17:19 +0000

plz send me mails.

By: seoalligator

seoalligator — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:47:04 +0000

I have a problem with spam! This is a big problem …

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By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 14 May 2007 22:43:37 +0000

I have 2500 spam e-mails in my inbox now …

By: tom

tom — Wed, 09 May 2007 00:47:17 +0000

what sites gives you all of this spam

By: ozzy

ozzy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:41:32 +0000

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.

By: Zeeshan Muhammad

Zeeshan Muhammad — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:57:39 +0000

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.

By: Everton Blair

Everton Blair — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:24:45 +0000

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

By: Webomatica

Webomatica — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:10:23 +0000

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.