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The following is a list of articles tagged 'anti-spam'.

Blocking Spam Comments Using a Honey Pot

Posted by Stoo on 1st November 2009

Everyone who uses the internet is familiar with spam and the problems it causes. Most people's familiarity is through its intrusion on email, and I've already outlined how I use gmail to block email spam. Since running this site I've had to deal with a lot of comment spam. It goes in phases but I receive about 2–3 spam comments per week and sometimes as much as 20. And this is a low traffic site. My initial strategy was to delete spam comments as they appear. I receive a notification... more »

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

Posted by Stoo on 11th June 2009

For some months now I've been running Exim4 as a mail server on a linux box. It's been running well since I set it up but I never managed to set up a spam filter. My knowledge of Exim4, and mail server config in general, is limited, so I've been avoiding changing anything unless I have to. Of course, the constant run of spam (in the region of thirty or forty emails per day) finally annoyed me enough to do something about it. I didn't want to set up and configure SpamAssassin, or similar... more »