No more spam
[lang_en]Yay! I received a _lot_ of spam on my hoysater.net domain and I’ve tried lots of different attack angles against the spam. My mom on her 56k modem struggled when she popped the mail account, not fun to watch the counter reading ‘downloading 3 of 754’ unread mails. I’ve tried server based mail washers, whitelists, blacklists, blacklist services, dictionaries but none of them have solved the problem entirely.
A few days ago I talked with someone who recomended Google Apps, I researched a bit and dived into it. Now I have changed my MX records to Google’s and activated mail hosting. Google’s spamfilter is working very well and now all of my family have 2.8GB, and still counting upwards, mailboxes. The calendar is pretty fun too.
I wish we soon can organize mailservices a bit better than now, too many open relays, bad configured mailservers out there. And those who have proper configured mailservers, well – many of those are spammers…[/lang_en]
[lang_nb-no]Yay! Vi mottok _masse_ spam på hoysater.net domenet vårt og vi har prøvd en mengde forskjellige løsninger. Min mor stakkar på sitt 56k modem kunne bli sittende i flere timer og laste ned mail, meldingen “laster ned mail nr 3 av 754” er ikke noe pent syn. Vi har prøvd server basert mail-vasking, hvitlister, svartelister, svarteliste-servere og filtrering vha ordlister men ingenting har løst problemet skikkelig.
For noen dager siden snakket jeg men en som anbefalte Google Apps, jeg testet litt og hoppet i det. Nå har vi aktivert Google Mail hosting og endret MX postene på DNS slik at de peker på Google. Googles spam filter fungerer kjempeflott, og alle i familien min har fått en 2,8GB (stiger fortsatt) konto hver! Kalenderen er ganske morsom også.
Jeg håper snart vi kan gjøre noe med mailsystemet på internet, det finnes altfor mange åpne servere der ute som kan misbrukes, rett og slett for dårlig konfigurerte servere. Mange av de som har satt opp serverne sine skikkelig, ja de er ofte spammere…[/lang_nb-no]
Lucky me, I have never experienced such a nightmare with spams. I have an assumption though; by and large, the internet user in third world country are not exposed to such a threat because they tend to communicate (via email) with friends othen than US or Europe, where spam becaome quite an issue.