Comments on: A Mail.app rule fix for image spam

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:41:04 +0000

Shahzad, Google tells me that MDaemon is a mail server package. I don't know the first thing about it, but my guess is that you need to apply the criteria outlined in this post using MDaemon's support post on creating content filters .

By: Shahzad Yousuf

Shahzad Yousuf — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:35:49 +0000

How can i block image containing email in Alt MDaemon Pro 7.1.0?

Please reply?

By: SAM

SAM — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:32:59 +0000

I’ve been getting hit my Image spam like the rest of you, its getting damn annoying and every time I get a mail, I get excited and only to see that its JUNK !

The “Multitype/related”is not a good solution, I get mails with that and its not junk. The headers changes, the image *.gif filename changes too (sadly).. BUT.. there is one thing that does not change. ITS THE IMAGE SIZE (507×423), and again sadly, most mail filters can’t detect image sizes. I’ve yet to check if ALL the image spam has the same file size (12.5KB)

Filtering is ONE thing, it simply filters the junk and sends it to the rubbish chute but the only true way (IMHO) to fight them back is for (1) sysadmins, abuse teams in ISPs to start waking up and do something (2) users must report it (i use spamcop.net to send reports to the ISPs involved)

If we have enough people to start reporting it to the ISP, maybe… Just Maybe… we’ll be able to get that S-hole who has been sending it, and hang him/her. So PLEASE start reporting it with SpamCop.net or some thing similar. (please)

By: MILE

MILE — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:15:02 +0000

I wish I knew some great secret about how to recognize that garbage…especially since I have always been quite satisified with Mail’s spam filtering…until that nasty image smap came up…! :(

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:47:29 +0000

You would think so, but I don’t know of anything. Do you?

You’re quite right about Tolstoi. I am such a linguistic imperialist :(

By: MILE

MILE — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:01:18 +0000

Although I wouldn’t consider Tolstoy English literature, I see your point. ;)

But I still think that’s an exception anyway…?! Most of the spam mails I get contain loads of text like this excerpt here:

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Burn images allsep quicktime qt mov need xpsep shrink.
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Topsearch raquofind booksign up title, emails newest receive offers.
Peoplefrom human openerthis rebecca opener crazy opening chick goal. Hao, atlanta spirit, google searchsign inbook maps. Many bigname studios universal.
Encode decode xpdec iconcool manage extract enlarge.
Start freefront matterix top, authoring, df board.
Popular mobile devices adventures jimmy vargo verinox views.
Openerthis rebecca opener, crazy!
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Shouldn’t there be some way to recongize that kind of gibberish and sort it out…?! :(

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:54:09 +0000

Much of these text doesn’t contains the words of the combination of words that trigger a Junk filter.

Some of it is drawn from English literature classics (I’ve seen text I recognise from Tolstoy and Dickens) or other “harmless” sources.

By: MILE

MILE — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:52:19 +0000

I’m a bit confused here…almost all those image-spam mails also contain a huge paragraph of garbage text below the inline picture — how come the regular spam filters can’t work with that to sort that crap out…?!

By: Thomas Riggs

Thomas Riggs — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 20:09:22 +0000

Very helpful – I’ve been getting tonnes of this junk daily lately. Thanks!

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