SpamHalter & Mailing Lists
Hi, first i have to apologize for my bad english. I activate the SPAM filtering(SpamHalter 4.3.1.383) on my mercury mailserver (4.52).If i receive an email sent direct to my emailadress, i can see the...
View ArticleSpamHalter Word Database Download
I have just installed Mercury and SpahHalter for the first time. The directions state that I need to download a word list database from the SpamHalter website but I keep getting a timeout error. Is...
View ArticleChange in spammers tactics
We are seeing a substantial drop (down about 70%) in connections with bad/unresolvable hostnames or listed at Spamcop and a huge increase in attempts to deliver mail with our own forged domain...
View ArticleCan you share your experience with PSBL, SURBL, URIBL or ivmURI?
I've had excellent results using SpamCop and Spamhaus (reject matches to both) and think I will include PSBL today. If you have any comments pro or con regarding any of these, I'd be most interested to...
View ArticleSpamHalter in Mercury help needed
Hi all, my SpamHalter 4.5.1 doesn't want to work (if this isn't the right venue to ask for help, please direct me to the right place). I've had to re-install mercury onto a new server, and ever since...
View ArticleSMTP connection from and how to stop them?
I have MercuryS debugging turned on and have noticed the following connection information: Connection from 114.111.32.72, Tue Oct 6 07:12:11 2009EHLO rcvmail2.nm2.naver.comMAIL FROM: <>RCPT...
View ArticleMercury filter
Is there a filtering rule I could put in that would filter out mail from local user accounts that haven't authenticated? This would eliminate spam I get that has a local email address as the sender.
View ArticleI am very unsure as to what is going on - please help!
I have been using Mercury now for some time to relay my domain accounts and it has been working very well but today my account has been going crazy - I think someone has been relaying spam through...
View ArticleContent Control/Filtering rules on BCC
Greetings all,I've been using Mercury for a while now and have never really found time to play with the content control and filtering abilities. After a recent influx of spam I decided now was the time...
View ArticleEvent daemon for MercuryS
The spam fighting RcptCheck daemon has been replaced by the SmtpEvt daemon, that has some additional features. Please have a look...
View ArticleWhitelist email servers that are Blacklisted by NJABL?
I receive some email from legitimate servers that appear to be in the NJABL blacklist. Is there some way to WHITELIST these server addresses? Thanks for any assistance you can provide! Charlie ~~~
View ArticleAnti-spam concept
There is an application Peer Guardian (http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/) that is an excellent IP blocker. My idea was to install the app on the server that runs Mercury. In the list of blocked ports, I...
View ArticleSpam; Block IP Address
Hey, Is it possible to block the IP address for a spammer if they keep changing their details but their IP remains the same? Thanks
View ArticleSpammers Using Amazon
I've received quite a few emails from spammers saying "Amazon Order Cancellation" And when you click it is spam.
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Block messages with more of 10 addresses ...
Due a compromised account, spammers gained access to my Mercury server to send thousand mails around the world with the result that my server has been blacklisted. A common characteristic of all...
View ArticleMore Spam than usual...
Anybody else noticed a huge increase in spam in the last week?My SMTP rejections & Spamhalter classified spam are both up by about 50% on the last 3 months average.
View ArticleSpamers problem Mercury 4.73
Hi All, Im new here and have some problems wyth installation of Mercury 4.73. Well I'm getting lot of inn connections from spammer strying to send mail by my mailserver or something like that? I got...
View ArticlePhishing and PayPal's success with digital signatures
PayPal is encouraging ISPs to support digital signing, and dropping emails that claim to come from PayPal but do not have the proper digital signature. This is an attempt to combat phishing, which...
View ArticleSpamhaus + Google DNS
Hello,This is just to help anybody who falls in the same problem that I had.I had my DNSs pointing to Google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.I had Mercury server with spamcop in spam control running fine.I added...
View ArticleSpamHalter forwarding problem
I am using Span Halter 4.3.1.383 and it works well with my Novell 4.1 system and Mercury. I have set up a directory called "rawspam" where I catch all the emails coming in. This is in case the sender...
View ArticleSetting up spam halter
Guess I'm either confused or getting old-----or bothbut is there a "simple" step by step process to set up the spam halter and folder?I'd like to give it a shot but uncertain. Think a step by step...
View Articlespamhalter errors
I have a problem with Spamhalter. It has worked reliably nearly forever but recently has gone AWOL for short periods and nothing would be filtered at all. The last time I went looking in the logs and...
View ArticleSpamhalter
Please could someone help? I first of all had great difficulty finding where the spamhalter web site actually is (www.ararat.cz/doku.php/en:start (?)). Then on the site I can't find anywhere to...
View ArticleSpamhalter red (spam) classifications reset themselves to green
System resets Spam red signals to non Spam green! I am trying to make Spamhalter work on my laptop.My Spamhalter version embedded in Pegasus Mail is V 4.5.2.180I have a corpus of about 100 spammy...
View Articleenabling spam filtering for the first time
Hi,I have been asked by relatives to set them up with new emal addresses because they are getting too much spam. It has got to the point that wading through it takes longer than reading their 'real'...
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