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Getting junk mail from yourself

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by cg it

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ok here's a question. you guys ever get junkmail for viagra, prescriptions and the lot from yourself but the header shows that the email originated from some gmail account which seems to be routed through a legitimate company?

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by maniacman

I guess I must have some evil twin running around and spamming me. This is definitely someone spoofing SMTP addresses through an open relay somewhere.

by cg it

like Tigger said, it's gotta be spoofing that your getting email from yourself.

pain in the butt...

by maniacman

and emailing myself at 3:00am, but I don't recall ever doing it.

by tig2

I send anything like that to the Gmail team so they can at least see it.

You can whois the seemingly legitimate company but in all likelihood, the message was bounced off of someone else. You won't track the sender that way.

by cg it

think Beth would get pissed if I do anymore "giving out thumbs" for no legitimate questions... but this one is legitimate...

by tig2

I know. I look at the number and the calendar date and wonder. But Beth WOULD get unhappy with you if you pulled that again.

At least you had a question. And an interesting one. Unfortunately, the spoof and bounce trick defeats many spam filters. It also defeats IP range filters. Seems like every time we get a little ahead, they do something new.

by jaqui

regex content matching in the anti-spam app works.

set for stupid things like viagra, cialis, penile enhancement, "she will love you more than any other man" and you will catch 98% of the junk.

by cg it

it's just annoying ...

Makes me want to spoof their email and send junk to them...

by jaqui

I get that type of garbage from spoofed gmail accounts in comments on my blog.

I'm beginning to think that a content spam function would be usefull for wordpress, have it look for content that is relevant to the blog entry in comments, if not relevant, just dump it as spam.

by tig2

I send those emails to the Gmail team so that they can see them. Unfortunately, the feedback that I have gotten from them is that they can't trace them either. They think that the core message is being bounced off someones mail server before hitting the recipient.

Is it just me or has the whole spam thing gotten out of hand?

by jaqui

I just went looking at the plugins available for wordpress.
I found one that is a use of javascript that I can support, it sends a javascript to the user agent, so bots generating blog spam can't connect to the blog.

found quite a few existing plugins to combat spam in wordpress powered blogs.

by tig2

My blog never generated spam but I have always had a host so just may never have seen it. But it is very cool that there are tools out there to combat it.

One of these days I will need to play with more "toys" and see what new thing I can learn.

Edit: There's a "y" in "may"

by jaqui

that actually is included with wordpress [ akimet ] is an anti spam tool, it found in the data base 243 comments marked as spam.

concidering I'm sporadic at posting on my blog, that is roughly 95% of the comments posted were spam comments.

[ I just actually activated that plugin today ]

none of the plugins actually try to catch off topic comments as spam. having the comment go into a moderation queue to see if it is relevant or not before it gets posted is better than having tons of spam comments.

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