Notes In The Margin » spam

In honor of Pi Day, I built and deployed a Pi-Hole server. Pi Hole is software that acts as a caching DNS server and ad-blocker, by black-holing known advertising sources at the DNS layer. You ca...

https://drbacchus.com/pi-hole/

In the day of elaborately designed phishing messages that genuinely appear to be from my bank, it’s almost refreshing to see spam like the following, which is so naive it’s almost endearing: ...

https://drbacchus.com/preying-on-the-innocent/

Yesterday I switched email for my primary domain over to GMail. I have a dozen email addresses and a few distribution lists, and I moved about a half million email messages over to my GMail folde...

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I just flipped the switch, and pointed the MX records for RCBowen.com at GMail. I’ve been running my own mail server for about 15 years now, and this is the first time I’ve trusted anybody el...

https://drbacchus.com/gmail-for-rcbowen-com/

Fitz notes that his email address appears 960 places on the web. I’m at 2630. This is one of the reasons that I’ll very soon (hopefully tomorrow) switch my primary domain over to the Google f...

https://drbacchus.com/spam-bait/

And, here’s the results. You can, I’m sure, immediately pick out the point where I turned on the greylisting service. It’s not a complete solution – I still get some spam – but you can ...

https://drbacchus.com/greylisting-the-results/

For quite some time, I’ve wanted to implement greylisting on my mail servers. But, to be honest, every time I looked at the greylisting howtos, they just made me feel stupid. Rather than tellin...

https://drbacchus.com/greylisting/

This morning I discovered that most of the email that I’ve been sending from the conference has been /dev/null-ed because I’m coming from t-mobile, which is apparently blacklisted. Great.

https://drbacchus.com/rbls/

For years, I’ve been opposed to email black lists. I think that they unfairly penalize folks who happen to be on the same ISP as soulless spammers. However, this morning, I finally broke down a...

https://drbacchus.com/blacklisting/

Over the last few months, I have increasingly received pornographic images in spam. Various attempts at spam filtering have failed, and now I’m getting several dozen every day. The email in que...

https://drbacchus.com/pornography-in-spam/