[Mimedefang] [OT?] Random Word Spam
Richard Laager
rlaager at wiktel.com
Wed Feb 8 09:59:16 EST 2012
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:03 +0100, Juergen Kleff wrote:
> Do you use greylisting?
Yes.
> Do the mails indeed come from real mailservers or do they come from
> compromised dial-in computers?
Real mail servers
> Feeding the mails to spamassassin's bayes database could perhaps help, in
> spite of the random words. But you should keep an eye on it for the risk of
> false positives.
>
> Everything in the headers is different? Nothing common in them?
As far as I could tell, nothing was common. They were incredibly
minimal. The X-Mailer field was full of random (real mail client)
values.
--
Richard
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