Okay, so this probably sounds terribly nefarious, but I need such capabilities for my senior project. Essentially I'm tasked with writing something that will cut down outbound spam on a zombified pc through a system of packet interception and evaluation. We have a number of algorithms we'll use on the captured messages, but it's the actu...
I recently received an email from my girlfriend that spamassassin marked as spam, mostly because spamassassin detected a tracker ID... except there wasn't one. I'd like to know what triggered it, so that I can report a sensible bug. ...
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371/how-do-you-make-sure-email-you-send-programmatically-is-not-automatically-marke Initially I planned to send emails from my website as html (i.e. content-type: text/html;) but I just thought about something today, won't it better to send emails as plain text, i.e. content-type: text/pla...
I have a nice and lovely Django site up and running, but have noticed that my error.log file was getting huge, over 150 MB after a couple of months of being live. Turns out a bunch of spambots are looking for well known URL vulnerabilities (or something) and hitting a bunch of sub-directories like http://mysite.com/ie or http://mysite.co...
I want to get on the whitelists for my email system, any recommendations whom to should contact about doing this, do I contact the big email providers directly (Yahoo, gmail, Microsoft hotmail/msn, AOL)? Also besides domainkeys, dkim and SPF records what else is a good way to protect yourself from getting on blacklists and going into sp...
Does anyone know a good tool to test whether your emails are going into spam folders? My web app generates emails to users, and I've been getting a lot of reports back from people saying "hey, no one ever responded to my message". I have SPF rules in place and functioning correctly (email header shows an spf pass). I've also run my me...
Has anyone been able to successfully prevent spam on their site without placing a burden on your visitor (e.g. CAPTCHA) and without using a centralized spam reporting system (e.g. Akismet) I've found this & it looks promising, but doesn't contain detailed deployment instructions. I want to present my web forms without burdening my user...
Hello, in my website i've a PHP script that automatically mails to my customers a confirmation about the order. My website's domain is registered to a company that hosts my website too. I have a lot of problems to send e-mails using mail() function to some e-mails accounts ... a lot of my users contact me saying that they have never rec...
Hi, I am planning to setup spam-assassin in my mail server for filtering out spam mails. I would like to get a detailed report of spam checks performed on incoming mails. This will help me in creating custom rules , so that legitimate mails wont be labeled as spam. Please tell me how to configure spam-assassin so that i get a detailed...
With honeypot, i mean more or less this practice: #Register form <style> .hideme{ display:none; visibility: hidden; } </style> <form action="register.php"> Your email: <input type="text" name="u-email" /> Choose a password: <input type="text" name="passwd" /> <div class="hideme"> Please, leave...
I'm looking for the following service >> When a person emails an individual, the email goes into a temp hold inbox that they do not see. The person who sent the email will receive an auto responder asking them if they are a real person and they have to fill out a CAPTCHA or something along those lines for the message to be released on...
I'm using the phpdug template at http://fantasybookmark.com and there's still spam coming through. What additional steps should I take? Is recaptcha THAT much better than the captcha system in place here? ...