RE: [PHP] Re: Spamming bastardly problem, please help

Did you get the following; ---------------<snip>-------------------------------- From: spam@pandasoftware.ca [mailto:spam@pandasoftware.ca] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:32 PM To: Vail, Warren Subject: Mail rejected I'm sorry but your email with subject SPAMWARNING:RE: [PHP] Re: Spamming bastardly problem, please help addressed to "'Eric Bolikowski'" <eric@broadpark.no>, "php-general@lists.php.net" <php-general@lists.php.net> could not be delivered because forbidden keyword viagra ----------------<snip>------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Vail, Warren Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:32 PM To: 'Eric Bolikowski'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Spamming bastardly problem, please help http://spamassassin.org/index.html you might also try filtering on the body looking for a common phrase. Spam assassin looks for phrases like "you opted" and instructions on how to stop receiving these emails, a single source will often use the same opt out phrase. hang in there, you can lick this Warren -----Original Message----- From: Eric Bolikowski [mailto:eric@broadpark.no] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:27 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Spamming bastardly problem, please help "Ryan A" <ryan@coinpass.com> wrote in message news:002501c3bb7b$ae0c0260$f081aa51@l2zcaxu7emppqh... > Hi, > Some son of a ***** is spamming people and using one or our websites as a > return address, so all the emails that get bounced are coming right back to > us, as you can imagine thats quite a lot, plus we are getting angry people > writing to us. > > I had a look at the emails and I see its the usual crap: viagra, > prescription meds and getting collage degrees etc > > What can I do about it? complaining to the sites that the spam is promoting > is stupid since they are using this method to promote their crap.... > > Problem is we have a catch all address as the site is large and we have been > using differient email ids all around the place which basically goes into > one, so turning of the catch all can/would result in us missing some > important stuff... > > ANY ideas? > > Thanks, > -Ryan have you checked ALL possible information in the mail headers for some info? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php