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Excessive spam 2 years 8 months ago #84671

RobynF Topic Author Offline Junior Member Posts: 31 Thank you received: 3	Hello. Two of my clubs are recently seeing excessive spam emails. We keep adding the email addresses to the black list. Is there something else we could do? Thanks! Robyn
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Excessive spam 2 years 8 months ago #84672

SteveTheTechie
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Since you did not provide any club #s for us to look at, I just presumed you are referring to those in your forum signature text.

For club # 2309983, I do see that the Spam Assassin Threshold has been adjusted down from the default of 5 (means it was made to be more aggressive in combating spam)... Good! However, the Crowd-Sourced Blacklist is disabled. I would recommend re-enabling the Crowd-Sourced Blacklist.

For club # 1526154, I see that the Crowd-Sourced Blacklist is enabled... Good! However, the Spam Assassin Threshold has been adjusted *up* from the default of 5 (means it was made to be *less* aggressive in combatting spam). I would never recommend making the Spam Assassin Threshold higher than 5. In your case, I would probably recommend setting it to 4 for this club and seeing if that has a good effect.

Note that some clubs take a knee-jerk approach and set their Spam Assassin Threshold immediately to 3, and they later wonder why they are not getting emails. A value of 3 is usually too aggressive, and will cause the Spam Assassin code to block some normal emails as spam. For this reason, I strongly recommend that you reduce the threshold below 5 in small increments and evaluate it after each change.

Regards,

Steve James, DTM
FreeToastHost System Developer
Officer Emeritus, Mindful Communicators (Club 1966, District 52) A President's Distinguished Club for each of the last 10 years.

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Excessive spam 2 years 8 months ago #84681

RobynF Topic Author Offline Junior Member Posts: 31 Thank you received: 3	Thank you Steve! I've made your recommended adjustments. Hopefully it decreases the spam. And yes, it was for those two clubs. The following user(s) said Thank You: SteveTheTechie
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