GMail’s Spam Filter On Vacation?
Randy has had a very frustrating day. City workers laying sod cut the cables of his internet connection at least a half dozen times, then when it got fixed, he got spammed all over the place, through GMail.
The solution to the *MXON* and ‘viagara’ spam is to start creating your own filter rules :
“I’ve had to start writing my own Gmail SPAM filters today. I’ve received hundreds of SPAM with the phrase *MXON* in it. They are almost identical, except for the number of *’s. This seems to escape Gmail’s SPAM filter and I’ve setup a rule to forward anything with that string to the Trash (you can’t send it to the SPAM bin with a rule). “
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I think gmail spam filter is working pretty good. I usually use alias to register in every site I visit. That let me create my filters when I detect spam comming from one of them.
However I still receive too much spam messages and it’s difficult to analize all of them. So I’ve written a couple of PHP script that connects to gmail and reads spam emails data. It stores it in a database table and you can later review it from a webpage with some nice graphics. Check it out, follow my webpage address. Hope you like it.
Regards,
Jose Canciani.
Comment by Jose Canciani | August 30, 2006