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Hi Freeola, is there a blockage on the email servers? there appears to be some delay in receiving emails does Freeola still block mail from Yahoo groups? and if yes any chance you could stop blocking them?
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I thought it was illeagel to send spam? and if the internet as we are to beleive has no where to hide (says that on TV) how come no one ever gets arrested for sending spam! and why call it spam? why was it not called corned beef? or roast pork?
I mean if they can catch all the pedos how cant they catch spammers?
I mean if they can catch all the pedos how cant they catch spammers?
I think it is fairly likely that the delay is due to the large spam load at the moment.
Unfortunately it looks like the only solution at the moment is to delete the effected account and set up a new one so that you have a new address that hasn't been spoofed.
I have an email account with another provider and they have reported that since Christmas the volume of spam they are seeing has risen from 40%-ish to well over 70% every day. So it certainly seems that the spammers have found another way around all the filtering techniques. Spam filtering is a catch up process unfortunately so it takes time to work out how the spam is getting through and to come up with a solution to stop it.
Unfortunately it looks like the only solution at the moment is to delete the effected account and set up a new one so that you have a new address that hasn't been spoofed.
I have an email account with another provider and they have reported that since Christmas the volume of spam they are seeing has risen from 40%-ish to well over 70% every day. So it certainly seems that the spammers have found another way around all the filtering techniques. Spam filtering is a catch up process unfortunately so it takes time to work out how the spam is getting through and to come up with a solution to stop it.
Cheers eccles - I am not (touch wood) getting any spam but certainly delayed mail - could be getting held up by others spam ? am sure it will come right in time though keep up the sterling work
I don't think it's a problem just for us. If you google some of the subjects of the spam emails you receive (as per Hmmm's other thread) you'll find info that a lot of mail service are experiencing this problem.
I will pass this onto the server engineers to see if they can solve this problem.
However from my initial investigations it's proving difficult to determine how these spam attacks are working it appears to be working by spoofing the return address so the messages are sent to an incorrectly setup mail server, which then bounces the mail back to the spoofed return address. Some of these are addresses hosted with Freeola.
I will pass this onto the server engineers to see if they can solve this problem.
However from my initial investigations it's proving difficult to determine how these spam attacks are working it appears to be working by spoofing the return address so the messages are sent to an incorrectly setup mail server, which then bounces the mail back to the spoofed return address. Some of these are addresses hosted with Freeola.
Dragonlance wrote:
> ... Thursday evening he spent 3 hours receiving 4,250 emails
> out of a stated total of over 8,000!!!
See my recent post [URL]http://chat.freeola.com/Web-Development-4-chat/SPAM-Mail-Delivery-failures-from-RU-tld-4138.html[/URL] where I raised this last week...
If he's having trouble clearing the backlog and doesn't mind zapping everything then I would just remove the account and then set it back up again - choose a new name if the account is still being attacked.
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> ... Thursday evening he spent 3 hours receiving 4,250 emails
> out of a stated total of over 8,000!!!
See my recent post [URL]http://chat.freeola.com/Web-Development-4-chat/SPAM-Mail-Delivery-failures-from-RU-tld-4138.html[/URL] where I raised this last week...
If he's having trouble clearing the backlog and doesn't mind zapping everything then I would just remove the account and then set it back up again - choose a new name if the account is still being attacked.
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Hi Digitrader
I was just 'hedging my bets', but I considered it to be snail-mail compared to usual - I would certainly support further investigation from the Freeola Boys.
You can also consider this scenario:
A colleague at work, also with Freeola but dial-up connection, showed me his inbox on last Friday. Now he's not the most regular collector of his emails at the best of times but even I was astonished. His email amounts to about 2 or 3 a week, yet last Thursday evening he spent 3 hours receiving 4,250 emails out of a stated total of over 8,000!!!
Now, all right he hadn't collected since 21st January, but this I think is rather excessive and he was looking for a solution to delete the remaining 4,000 without accessing his account. Ring Freeola and let them delete them from the server was my advice.
The moral of the story is he should access more frequently but on viewing the email glut, 99.9% was spam - bounced emails, postmaster returns etc etc.
So does this shed any more light on what seems to becoming a bit of a problem for the Freeola email servers - 8,000 spam emails times x number of users could cause a large problem pretty soon.
I was just 'hedging my bets', but I considered it to be snail-mail compared to usual - I would certainly support further investigation from the Freeola Boys.
You can also consider this scenario:
A colleague at work, also with Freeola but dial-up connection, showed me his inbox on last Friday. Now he's not the most regular collector of his emails at the best of times but even I was astonished. His email amounts to about 2 or 3 a week, yet last Thursday evening he spent 3 hours receiving 4,250 emails out of a stated total of over 8,000!!!
Now, all right he hadn't collected since 21st January, but this I think is rather excessive and he was looking for a solution to delete the remaining 4,000 without accessing his account. Ring Freeola and let them delete them from the server was my advice.
The moral of the story is he should access more frequently but on viewing the email glut, 99.9% was spam - bounced emails, postmaster returns etc etc.
So does this shed any more light on what seems to becoming a bit of a problem for the Freeola email servers - 8,000 spam emails times x number of users could cause a large problem pretty soon.
Well Dragonlance
this is what I am having trouble with as well its plain slow as normaly its through in seconds, how ever ncrs (staff) says half an hour is not unususal (it is unusual seconds is normal) its still slow today but the status page says no probs (even though there are clearly probs) perhaps if enough folk raise a ticket then they might can trace the delay.
Dragonlance wrote:
> Don't know whether this is of any relevance or not, but I was
> sent email from an other freeola account at 3pm yesterday and
> received today at 6.25am.
>
> Is this quick, normal or just plain slow?
this is what I am having trouble with as well its plain slow as normaly its through in seconds, how ever ncrs (staff) says half an hour is not unususal (it is unusual seconds is normal) its still slow today but the status page says no probs (even though there are clearly probs) perhaps if enough folk raise a ticket then they might can trace the delay.
Dragonlance wrote:
> Don't know whether this is of any relevance or not, but I was
> sent email from an other freeola account at 3pm yesterday and
> received today at 6.25am.
>
> Is this quick, normal or just plain slow?
Don't know whether this is of any relevance or not, but I was sent email from an other freeola account at 3pm yesterday and received today at 6.25am.
Is this quick, normal or just plain slow?
Is this quick, normal or just plain slow?
Hi Hmmm
I have just received some email sent at noon and others sent at 3pm it may be conected with the spam, but I was quicker yesterday again but today is just pants!
RE Crailing village yeah am near it I tought him all he knows all give hima bell and let him know about his win Cheers
does he win anything? and how does he claim?
I have just received some email sent at noon and others sent at 3pm it may be conected with the spam, but I was quicker yesterday again but today is just pants!
RE Crailing village yeah am near it I tought him all he knows all give hima bell and let him know about his win Cheers
does he win anything? and how does he claim?
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