The last week has seen a spate of Irish spam hitting our inboxes. One this evening that got my attention had the gall to include the following line in their footer: Notice: Notice: This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of XXX XXXX (the "Company"). Opinions and views expressed in this message may not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the … [Read more...] about Irish Spammers Attempting to be Legal
Spam Filtering
Annoying Irish Spammer
If you want to sell to me you need to market to me effectively. Sending me and most of my staff an email without a subject line but with a 3 megabyte attachment is not the way to do this. So shredit.ie / dmg-services.com welcome to my killfile … [Read more...] about Annoying Irish Spammer
Improved Phishing Protection
Julian has announced the release of MailScanner 4.52 stable, which brings some more improvements to the phishing filters: There is now an option in the Phishing Net settings that will make it slightly less strict. If you have a web server email.domain.com pretending to be www.domain.com it will not complain as the "domain.com" strings match. It also knows a pretty complete list … [Read more...] about Improved Phishing Protection
Paypal Stupidity – Email Bugs Galore
Over the last couple of weeks Paypal have made a number of changes to their emails. In what has to be the dumbest move by a company of their calibre they have started embedding Javascript in their emails!! The Javascript is obviously part of their web analytics being provided by DoubleClick, but why they think that any sane person will even be able to view their emails is … [Read more...] about Paypal Stupidity – Email Bugs Galore
Don’t complain about spam
Unless you have a real problem! One of our clients was sent over 53 thousand spams today. Puts it into perspective, doesn't it? … [Read more...] about Don’t complain about spam