my web application supposed to send email reminders in some point it will send large scale but i do not what that the email servers that receive the email from my site will be marked and put to the black / spam list . how can it be avoided ? ...
For the purpose of identifying [possible] bot-generated usernames. Suppose you have a username like "bilbomoothof" .. it may be nonsense, but it still contains pronouncable sounds and so appears human-generated. I accept that it could have been randomly generated from a dictionary of syllables, or word parts, but let's assume for a mom...
Hi, What are the risks, if any, of sending out massive amounts of emails over SMTP? Specifically, this question is regarding the risks of being labelled/blacklisted as spammers of spoofers. Our mails are legitimate, however. Our system needs to send out reminders to our corporate users on a daily basis, which may number into the thousa...
I have an application that I need to debug on a target system. All the relevant TRACE macros are in place to send messages to the debug window, however, I'm having difficulties in finding a way to prevent the spam there. You see, this application is regularly creating & terminating threads, so I am getting a large amount of "The thread...
I have a simple .NET app that is sending out email using SMTPClient. I am sending from an authenticated account on the local server with an SPF record, and the host (gogrid) is unsure what else they can do to solve the problem. Any email from my simple app is flagged as spam, but any other email sent using that smtp server, or through ...
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...
I have an English language forum site written in perl that is continually bombarded with spam in Russian. Is there a way using Perl and regex to detect Russian text so I can block it? ...
Hey everyone, I run an image hosting website and I'm designing an API for it. My concern is that I don't want anyone to be able to do something like: while(true) { Upload(); } and spam/DoS the site. My current solution is to limit all IP addresses to a certain amount of uploads per day/hour. I believe this will work fine for des...
Is there software that can give an email, with full headers, a spam score? What do most people use? I've seen places like mailchimp.com show a spam calculator. What do they use to determine this score? ...
I have spam assassin on my hosting server. Is there any way to plug into it and calculate the spam score of an e-mail, before it is sent out? Preferably not invoking spam assassin directly. ...
My website's comment function is being constantly bombarded with spam posts from these two IP addresses: 94.102.63.11 83.233.30.42 I am currently blocking them at the text level since they all have: weebly.com in them, and I would think that if I block them by IP address then I might also block authentic users. Is it true tha...
I'd like to "diff" two IMAP folders (on two different servers) to compare spam filters, I'd like to have a command line tool (linux) to get just the headers (not the whole dir, e.g. using 'isync' or similar), something like this: $ imapget --subjects -p=password user@server or this: $ imapget --format "$DATE - $FROM - $SUBJ" -p=passwo...
What are some non-captcha methods for blocking spam on my comments? ...
Hi, I'm currently creating mail application for my project, and I'm currently trying to figure out, how mail application like gmail, moves all the messages of particular email address, which I clicked as spam into the spam folder at runtime whenever that marked spam address send messages again. What configuration they do? I want to enab...
I'm looking for good spam and ham corpora (this is the plural for corpus). I want those to use them with a bayesian spam filter developed in-house. The only one I found so far is the trec07 corpus but this won't be very useful in my case as I want it for a forum-based website and the trec07 corpus was created from email messages and the...
Hello, I want like to enhance spam protection on my site. I've found out that after being banned by ip bots don't change the Accept-Language and Accept-Charset http headers (so most of spam comes with windows-1251 accept-charset). I understand that there may be normal users with unordinary preferences, but anyways, how can I determine wh...
As a spam filter I want to block any comments that contain djgalkgjlkdg or any other excessive amount of consonants in a row. I thought of maybe having an array of consonants and then check the comment with it, but seems too long and cumbersome. Do you know of any way I can do this without guzzling memory? ...
Here's my regex newbie questions: How can I check if a string has 3 spam words? (for example: viagra, pills and shop) How can I detect also variations of those spam words like "v-iagra" or "v.iagra" ? (one additional character) ...
When replying to a post (for example on Craiglist) that asks for sample code, is there a way to be (reasonably) sure of delivery? Here's the problem, stated as possible options and the negative outcomes: Link to the source code on an external site. In this case, there's a spam score metric based on number of external links that you co...
I am looking for a .NET/ JAVA free or opensource SPAM detectors accesible via an API that yield good results. I would consider paying for a good service that accomplishes this as well, but ideally, I would like to go open source. Does any one have any good experiences with any or recommendations? Ideally, I would get the text/markup to ...