I've been using SpamAssasin that my mail ISP(ASP) provides me with - and it seemed to be working really well. I trust it so much that anything now goes to/dev/null - however - it all seems to have broken down with what appears to be a new improved spam attack: Over the last week or two I've been getting 50+ mails a day that appear as "Mail returned" messages where they are obvisouly bouncing mail back to me - often using random_username@mydomain.com as the fake from address which then hits my postmaster@mydomain.com and is forwarded to me.
This is a major PITA, as whilst I now filter these too it makes it more difficult to see when _my_ real legitimate mail didn't make it somewhere because of a problem.
How long can the spam filters hold all this back !
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I've been using SpamAssasin that my mail ISP(ASP) provides me with - and it seemed to be working really well. I trust it so much that anything now goes to /dev/null - however - it all seems to have broken down with what appears to be a new improved spam attack: Over the last week or two I've been getting 50+ mails a day that appear as "Mail returned" messages where they are obvisouly bouncing mail back to me - often using random_username@mydomain.com as the fake from address which then hits my postmaster@mydomain.com and is forwarded to me.
This is a major PITA, as whilst I now filter these too it makes it more difficult to see when _my_ real legitimate mail didn't make it somewhere because of a problem.
How long can the spam filters hold all this back !