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Regex Question (detecting spam)

Hi all, I'm getting strange kind of spam, where the email body only contains this: 4606142 5801100 2704743 How can I grep this with regex? It's 3x7 numbers, separated with space. thx ...

How can I lower the spam score of my email message?

I am sending a new logon and password to a user, however when I do on a test version of our site on the internet the Spam score is 4.6 by spam assassin. Which means it gets trapped. The Email is HTML (so the marketing dept have their nice fonts and colours) with a linked image. The MailMessage() object does not appear to give me a lot...

cakephp form getting spammed - how?

I have a simple cakephp form WITH validation that submits to a database. It doesn't require a logged in user. No using the form normally via a browser and not filling in all required fields causes validation errors and the form is not submitted. However, I seem to be getting spammed by someone/something. They are filling the generic na...

Decoding eval gzinflate base64_decode (Anyone Know of a Decoder I could Use for This)

I want to make sure that this code is not harmful but everytime I try to decode it it doesn't actually do anything but give me even crazier looking symbols. Any suggestions would be helpful. Below is the actual encrypted code... eval(gzinflate(str_rot13(base64_decode('FZnHDoRVElF/cmE7Kw5rpx3tCO+95zLCe3Uaz9diL9cCFVZSc7wQf//3r7//qM55...

Domain Keys fail (bad sig) problem

Hi, We are using PHP Zend framework to send the mail. When we sent mail to yahoo, Yahoo headers says that Domain Keys fails (bad sig). We have set up the DKIM, DomainKeys in our server. We configured our server in outlook and sent the mail to yahoo via outlook, at this time yahoo headers says that domainkeys=pass (ok);. Why yahoo trea...

Class not displaying attachment message

I've a class(Which I've written in Java), which is I'm using to display attached file messages from spam and inbox folder. The class successfully displaying attached file messages from inbox folder, but it is not displaying the same attached messages from spam folder. The class although successfully displaying other part of the message. ...

Website (asp.net) to send emails via remote mail server, and not end up in spam folders

So, the setup is this, 2 separate servers... Web server, has IIS7, MS SMTP Mail server has MailEnable On the web server, I'm sending an email from an ASP.Net app, via the mail server, and it is getting marked as spam If I send an email through the mail server, just from a normal mail client, it doesn't get marked as spam. I'm sure t...

Is encoding email links in unicode still useful ?

Many sites advise to encode email links in Unicode, to prevent robots from getting your contact email address. You get something like : <a href="&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#116;&#111;&#58;&#109;&#121;&#101;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#64;&#103;&#111;&#111;&#103;&#108;&#101;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;">&#109;&#121;&#101;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#64;...

PHP: Anti-Flood/Spam system

Hello, I'm actually working on a PHP project that will feature a user system (Login,Register,Send lost password to email,..) and I think that this may be very vulnerable to Brute-Force attacks and/or Spam (Send a password to someone's email like 1000 times, etc. use your fantasy) . Do today's webservers (Apache, IIS) have some sort of...

local.cf spamassassin

actually i am trying to write one rule in local.cf spamassassin what i need is to block all Viagra emails. as you know in these emails some time thay write Viagra,VIAGRA,VIAGRA(c) and some time it is in Subject, some time Name, some time Body of message can you please tell me what will be rule exactly to stop all these emails. Thank...

Google marks seemingly perfect emails as spam

Hi! First post, have found many answers here, so hopes are high. The problem: Google marks seemingly correctly formatted emails from my apache/postfix server as spam. Sample email as follows; (I have replaced my domain with mydomain.com.au and the IP with a pretend IP) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by 10.150.216.21 with S...

anti spamming in php

hey guys , today i visited my website and i saw someone insert more than 1000 query in my story table my script is in php/mysql and i have captcha enabled and i wonder how he can do such a thing a simple form and in another function , it checks $vars and validate them and then insert in database im sure he is using a bot to do ...

More then filtering, less than captcha

I've set up a PHP standard contact form asking for name, email, comments. The processing part of the form sanitizes the data and makes sure only a single email is entered, etc. Still, I tend to get data filled out like so... // ------------------ GARBAGE STARTS Name: PQctQCulKkDyDIWrFsP Email: [email protected] Message: 5DPKep qbkb...

How to prevent robots from automatically filling up a form?

I'm trying to come up with a good enough anti-spamming mechanism to prevent automatically generated input. I've read that techniques like captcha, 1+1=? stuff work well, but they also present an extra step impeding the free quick use of the application. (I'm not looking for anything like that please). I've tried setting some hidden fiel...

spam check, spam score how to?

Hi. I am doing a app that is sending email and need to have a spam checker on the outgoing email. I have been looking for this a while now, I can not seem to find a good solution. I would like to use something like the spamassassin. Do you guys got any examples how to do the spamassassin with asp.net (coding example, not example to setup...

Django comments being spammed

Hi, I am using the built in comment system with Django but it has started to be spammed. Can anyone recommend anything I can use to stop this such as captcha for django etc. I'm looking for something that I can use along with the comment system rather than replacing it. Thanks ...

Simple way to do SURBL lookup from Java?

I am reading about SURBLs (known spam hosts), for purpose of classifying spam, as a batch process. Main access method seems to be via DNS lookups. I was wondering what's the usual way to do such lookups from Java code. Since this is a batch process with no strict performance requirements, I think most important feature would just be simp...

Checklist for good email delivery in php

I have a PHP application that sends email using the pear Mail function. Unfortunately all my emails end up in the junk folder. Can i get a checklist for things i should do to make sure my emails are recieved correctly. Thank you ...

saving appengine mail from spam filters

One of my clients uses Trend Micro InterScan Messaging Security to protect their internal mail services. Suddenly InterScan decided to filter out all messages coming from Google App Engine. Unfortunately they haven't been able to whitelist the sender address as each e-mail gets a different one. For example, *3ckihSOVMMHlZHSL.JSMMHlZHSL...

How does MSN filter spam?

I am trying to create a newsletter for our business. The last few days have been spent testing, and one of things I have noticed is that MSN seemingly randomly filters out some of my test messages. This is super-frustrating. I like the PEAR Mail MIME-package, and have been using that. I may send one email from one of our servers, resu...