Spam Assassinations

I’ve been struggling to kill spam-emails everyday and there was a day where i was thinking this should be ended. It does not mean that i give up even after I created “Junk” rules in my Entourage (migrating back to Mac mail today). Those spammers are really clever, unfortunately for not a good reason, yeah as usual. They change the sender of the email every-time they send spams. If you think you can filter some suspicious words in the message such as “Save”, “Cheap”, “Viagra”, etc, they also rewrite those suspicious words to “S ave”, “Ch3ap”, “V1agra”. So my spam filter on the client side wasn’t enough.

A couple days ago i decided to use a server side spam filter. This should block spams before they come to my email client. I host my web site and the email at http://www.bluehost.com, I would say that the service offered by this company is great, mainly the instant applications on demand such as: Wiki, Project Management, Blogs, and also spam blocking application. , which i can activate anytime. For my purpose I’m using the SpamAssassin from Apache foundation. It is an open source software, so if your mail provider does not include this application, you can still get it for free. SpamAssassin filters incoming emails using a scoring system that should be difficult to be fooled.

The other preventive action I took to make me less vulnerable is by removing all email link from my web site. This should be done a long time ago, but I was too lazy to do that. Now I have an contact form on my web site a communication tool.