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ruarc
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« on: November 05, 2011, 05:35:08 PM »
Hey all,

I've been experiencing a recent spam issue and I was wondering if someone could help me figure out a solution for it.

Recently one of my accounts has been getting a lot of spam. I've tried blacklisting the sender's address(es) on SpamAssassin, and that has helped a bit, but then the spam just starts again from a new email address.

The subject line is almost always the same :

"Your friend ______ has recommended this great product from _____".

Is there a way I can configure SpamAssassin to block emails where the subject contains a certain string?

Thanks in advance!
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altoidboy
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« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 10:22:01 PM »
Yes, it's very easy to do this with LunarPages, but you don't do it through SpamAssassin.

Go to your cPanel, and click on Account Level Filtering. Then click Create A New Filter, and fill it in with SUBJECT CONTAINS "has recommended this great product from"

That should take care of it easily!

You can add unlimited filters like these; just be careful that you're grabbing the most unique portion of it. I would not, for example, recommend blocking SUBJECT CONTAINS "Your friend" because that might be in the subject of a legitimate mail. But the chances of "has recommended this great product from" being a legitimate mail are extremely unlikely.
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danhague
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« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2012, 12:23:17 PM »
Hi. Can the system also identify a spam through its sender email? I mean like auto identify them.
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« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2012, 02:42:51 PM »
Yes indeed. If you go to Account Level Filtering, you can choose almost any discernible trait about the incoming mail and teach the server to auto-delete. Go see it for yourself.
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« Reply #4 on: April 26, 2012, 06:25:29 AM »
Quote from: altoidboy on April 16, 2012, 02:42:51 PM
Yes indeed. If you go to Account Level Filtering, you can choose almost any discernible trait about the incoming mail and teach the server to auto-delete. Go see it for yourself.
Neither of these tips work if you're on a LPCP server. Only if you have cPanel.
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