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This is for Gmail users. I use this to get a little more proof against spam. Turn on “Ask before displaying images”. With it turned on, when you get an email from someone new, Gmail will ask if you want to view images from them. I find this to be a nice, little reminder to […]
TLDR; When sending email to a new person, make sure the email is more than just a sentence or two, and that it has some actual content. Otherwise, it may be marked as spam. I just got a new Outlook 365 email account for a new job. When I emailed myself 3 one-sentence emails from […]
Ok, I think I finally fixed it. Since 2017, I’ve been having outgoing email spam problems. At one point, I’m sorry to say, malicious actors were sending 50,000 emails per day from @lee.org. I’ve been wrestling with the tools that stop stuff like that from happening. How did I finally fix it? Until last month, […]
I’m still trying to make it so my emails from lee.org don’t fall into people’s spam folders. When I send email to new people it often goes to spam. I’ve checked headers carefully and it shouldn’t but gmail receivers see a notice “emails from lee.org have been spam in the past”. Ugh. Dreamhost tech support […]
In the past 2 days, I’ve gotten some 40 spam calls and 10 spam texts about getting medical care. I’m thankful that my phone is filtering most of it out but… yow, is this going to be the new normal?
I review my Gmail spam folder monthly, do you? How many spams do you get a month? I get about 2,000 spams/month and there’s always about 20 legit emails in that fetid pile. I’ve always got to wash my eyeballs after my monthly review session. It may have something to do with me owning such […]
TL;DNR: I was getting 50,000 spam email bounces per day. I enabled SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. I made an email filter at Dreamhost to stop the email forwarding madness from Dreamhost to my Gmail account. Problem solved! (for now) Tens of thousands of people have been getting spam claiming to be from Lee.org. (Update 8-4-18: […]
Short form: Â Dreamhost showed me how to implement a method of decreasing spam at the domain level called SPF. They implemented another domain level method of reducing spam, DKIM, a few months after I showed them that they hadn’t set up their system properly. Long Form: Until recently, there was nothing stopping someone from […]
I just had to gush about NoSpamNX. It’s been my only spamproofing on lee.org for 6 months now and it’s worked exceptionally. I set wordpress to moderate unknown user comments I installed NoSpamNX I set the NoSpamNX Local Blacklist to block “http://” and “https://” I removed the URL field from my comment interface I put […]
Over the last 4 months or so, I have gotten about 2 comment spams total on my blog. This is down from about 5 per day with Akismet and a number of other anti-spam measures. I am very happy with this solution. Here is how: I installed NoSpamNX I set NoSpamNX to Match Substrings “http://” […]