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Ubuntu Spam

Using gmails spam filters I normally don’t have a problem with spam. However my one that does receive a lot of is my address. Interestingly enough a few members have droped there addresses due to this exact problem. Jeff Bailey has disabled his @gnu.org email address, and talked about doing the same to his Ubuntu address. Daniel Robitaille has also posted on the problem. Now I like my address so I’m not about going to delete it but I did receive three rather “great” bits of “” to it today (Ill only include screen shots of two).

Ubuntu Spam 01

Ubuntu Spam 02

What I thought was “great” about these messages was that they where “sent” to Colin Watson and Corey Burger. Yes they got the emails wrong but I recognized the name instantly. I did find it funny that I had “antecedently” received personal emails to the both. It would be great if we where to use google apps, to run the emails that way we could take advantage of great but I know that wont happen. I guess for now I’m stuck reading emails about the sexual prowess of Colin Watson and Corey Burger.

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My ubuntu.com email es redirected to my gmail account and works fine both for receiving and sending.

Comment by Jani Monoses on January 31, 2008 10:27 am


I just click the “Report Spam” button and seldom does another similar spam come by.

Comment by Vadim P. on January 31, 2008 11:15 am


@Jani Monoses, I do the same thing, but I still seem to get spam.

@Vadim P, ya I click the report spam button and I really don’t get that much spam its just the only spam I get is from my ubuntu address

Comment by earobinson on January 31, 2008 12:17 pm


I don’t understand why Ubuntu admins would not install one of many FOSS anti-spam solutions? In my experience and in my humble opinion Mailscanner http://www.mailscanner.info/ is by far the best one and uses many solutions all rolled up in one nice package, and works just as well or if not better the gmail’s spam filters. Also another solution would be to setup a .forward or similar and forward all your Ubuntu domain emails to your gmail account.

Cheers,
Eric

Comment by Eric Peters on January 31, 2008 6:17 pm


@Eric Peters Ubuntu emails do get forwarded in fact thats all they do but its something to do with forwarding that confuses Gmails (and many others) spam filters

Comment by earobinson on January 31, 2008 6:19 pm


The other day I looked again at my spam stats in my gmail account (where my @ubuntu address forwards to). On average over a 1-month period in late Dec/early Jan I got 88 spam emails per day. And nearly half of them (47%) came from my ubuntu address. So the situation have changed a bit since I posted in my blog (when 75% of my spam where from my ubuntu address)

The large majority of them get automatically moved to Gmail spam folder, but the odd ones don’t. I got 2 like that today, but the average is probably one daily.

On the other side of the pictures I have noticed that I usually get a couple of emails per month sent to one of the Ubuntu mailing list who are tagged false positive by Gmail.

Comment by Daniel Robitaille on January 31, 2008 8:17 pm


It is sad, but you have to accept… collin’s email is pretty funny too.

I also have no problems with the spam in my account, redirected to gmail.

Comment by luisbg on February 1, 2008 4:46 am


Ya the email is funny hence the post and I think i’m in the same situation as Daniel Robitaille about 1 a day, maybe less.

Comment by earobinson on February 1, 2008 10:12 am

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