[opensuse-project] lots of spam on my opensuse.org address
Hi, the spam filter (or rather, lack thereof) on mx1.suse.de and mx2.suse.de which handle mail to opensuse.org addresses has become truly annoying... about 80% of the spam that I get here is hitting my opensuse.org address. And since the junk has already passed through a (poorly configured?) spamassassin, my local spamassassin thinks all is legit o.0 Could someone please bring this to the attention of the right people? Cheers Mathias *Mathias Homann* Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org[1] telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98[2] irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet obs: lemmy04 *gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102 * -------- [1] mailto:Mathias.Homann@eregion.de [2] https://telegram.me/lemmy98 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On 22/08/2019 15.12, Mathias Homann wrote:
Hi,
the spam filter (or rather, lack thereof) on mx1.suse.de and mx2.suse.de which handle mail to opensuse.org addresses has become truly annoying... about 80% of the spam that I get here is hitting my opensuse.org address. And since the junk has already passed through a (poorly configured?) spamassassin, my local spamassassin thinks all is legit o.0
Mine runs again and fully evaluates the email.
Could someone please bring this to the attention of the right people?
mail admin@o.o
Cheers Mathias
*Mathias Homann* Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org[1]
This is how spammers learn your address. They don't spam me that much. Remove your mail address from your signature. We already know it from looking at the headers. If you must put it on the signature, defang it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Carlos E. R. wrote:
This is how spammers learn your address. They don't spam me that much. Remove your mail address from your signature. We already know it from looking at the headers. If you must put it on the signature, defang it.
Way off-topic here, but spammers will learn of your address from many, many places. Some will also be picked up from email archives, but Matthias adding his address to his signature or you not doing so, makes zero difference. Obscuring might make a slight difference, but I doubt it. The people who receive the most spam are the ones with the most private (non-business) contacts. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.8°C) http://www.spamchek.com/ - Swiss leader in email security since 2004. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2019, 19:24:26 CEST schrieb Per Jessen:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
This is how spammers learn your address. They don't spam me that much. Remove your mail address from your signature. We already know it from looking at the headers. If you must put it on the signature, defang it.
Way off-topic here, but spammers will learn of your address from many, many places. Some will also be picked up from email archives, but Matthias adding his address to his signature or you not doing so, makes zero difference. Obscuring might make a slight difference, but I doubt it.
The people who receive the most spam are the ones with the most private (non-business) contacts.
Also, no matter how well you guard your mail address, as soon as you tell it to someone else it's out of your hands. I suspect a good chunk of addresses nowadays is harvested by shady apps from people's address books on their phones. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On 25/08/2019 20.00, Maximilian Trummer wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 22. August 2019, 19:24:26 CEST schrieb Per Jessen:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
This is how spammers learn your address. They don't spam me that much. Remove your mail address from your signature. We already know it from looking at the headers. If you must put it on the signature, defang it.
Way off-topic here, but spammers will learn of your address from many, many places. Some will also be picked up from email archives, but Matthias adding his address to his signature or you not doing so, makes zero difference. Obscuring might make a slight difference, but I doubt it.
The people who receive the most spam are the ones with the most private (non-business) contacts.
Also, no matter how well you guard your mail address, as soon as you tell it to someone else it's out of your hands. I suspect a good chunk of addresses nowadays is harvested by shady apps from people's address books on their phones.
Those tools do not have access to the mail addresses I use on mail lists, and the bad guys still have them. One of the known harvesting method was traversing websites with robots searching for strings that seem to be addresses - a mail web archive or a forum is an excellent site for doing so. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)
Op donderdag 22 augustus 2019 15:12:00 CEST schreef Mathias Homann:
Hi,
the spam filter (or rather, lack thereof) on mx1.suse.de and mx2.suse.de which handle mail to opensuse.org addresses has become truly annoying... about 80% of the spam that I get here is hitting my opensuse.org address. And since the junk has already passed through a (poorly configured?) spamassassin, my local spamassassin thinks all is legit o.0
Could someone please bring this to the attention of the right people?
Cheers Mathias
*Mathias Homann* Mathias.Homann@openSUSE.org[1] telegram: https://telegram.me/lemmy98[2] irc: [lemmy] on freenode and ircnet obs: lemmy04 *gpg key fingerprint: 8029 2240 F4DD 7776 E7D2 C042 6B8E 029E 13F2 C102
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