Morning SPAM

Question asked by John Marx - 2/3/2015 at 5:09 AM

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I know we went to this new forum as it made it easier on SmarterTools but I vaguely remember that in the old system we had so much "spam" in the mornings that the forum was becoming unusable. Each morning around 6am or 7am I log in and have nothing but "spam" in my feed. Am I the only one or is this something that we need to suggest they fix?

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Steve Reid Replied

2/3/2015 at 6:15 AM

There are tons of spam... Seems like better captcha is needed or something.

Bruce Barnes Replied

2/3/2015 at 7:08 AM

I've been deleting 15 to 20 spam messes PER DAY, and it just keeps coming. We took iur portal down, pending a new server, abd soam solution from SmarterTools. I can control the e-mail spam, but not the portal spam.

Bruce Barnes ChicagoNetTech Inc brucecnt@comcast.net Phonr: (773) 491-9019 Phone: (224) 444-0169 E-Mail and DNS Security Specialist Network Security Specialist Customer Service Portal: https://portal.chicagonettech.com Website: https://www.ChicagoNetTech.com Security Blog: http://networkbastion.blogspot.com/ Web and E-Mail Hosting, E-Mail Security and Consulting

Grady Werner Replied

2/4/2015 at 1:02 PM

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We just rolled out our new spam changes for track 11 beta to our server here, and we're going to see how it goes. We're using several different methods to detect spam including honeypots, calculated server side fields, form timers and some others.

Feedback on this is welcome, but please use the Track 11 beta category so the right team sees it.

Grady Werner SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

John Marx Replied

2/4/2015 at 1:44 PM

Awesome. I hope it works. If it works here will you be incorporating that functionality into SmarterMail as well?

Grady Werner Replied

2/4/2015 at 3:15 PM

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Since SmarterMail doesn't have any non-authenticated user creation, nor any non-authenticated email submission forms, these methods won't really work to prevent email spam. These are intended to block people from automatically submitting community posts or creating users using a bot.

Grady Werner SmarterTools Inc. www.smartertools.com

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