Hello all,

I am getting atleast 50 emails per day with gif images. Every time these guys send from different domains and GIF file in embedded in the mail. Am tired of locking these mails using domain name. Is there any way to block these mails. Please find the headers of 2 mails below.

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Return-Path: <lrxtpylzxh@netvisao.pt> Wed Dec 06 04:57:32 2006
Received: from lx-217-129-144-164.netvisao.pt [217.129.144.164] by vps10018.mysite4now.com with SMTP;
Wed, 6 Dec 2006 04:57:32 -0800
From: "score Billiards" <lrxtpylzxh@netvisao.pt>
To: j2@julphar.net
Subject:
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 12:57:37 +0000
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0003_01C71936.1ACC3F30"
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
Thread-Index: AccZNhrMwa6goG6ATf2YHmfmM4pIEw==
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869
Message-Id: <F87215DF63D42A2.F88545CD19@netvisao.pt>
X-SmarterMail-Spam: SPF_Neutral
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Return-Path: <into@florina.com.pl> Wed Dec 06 04:35:35 2006
Received: from adsl-87-190.37-151.net24.it [151.37.190.87] by vps10018.mysite4now.com with SMTP;
Wed, 6 Dec 2006 04:35:35 -0800
Received: from QKWMF (unknown [169.199.110.166])
by florina.com.pl with ESMTP id AE3FB94B772E
for <tender@julphar.net>; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:35:57 +0100 (GMT)
Message-ID: <000701c71933$04c1ba60$00000000@mancinidb7ec7f>
From: "actively fileshare" <into@florina.com.pl>
To: tender@julphar.net
Subject: hifi cant
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:35:31 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
type="multipart/alternative";
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0003_01C7193B.66862260"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
X-SmarterMail-Spam: SPF_Neutral
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Please, can anyone help me??

Regards,

Our domain has had quite a few of these as well. At this point we're at nearly 4-500 a day of this type. What I have done is set up an extensive list of custom filters for words and such that catches most of it. But where I've had the most success is just redirecting any email with a pic attachment (jpeg jpg gif tif etc.) to a special email account. This does have some overhead though, and many people send HTML enabled emails and a lot of these get filtered by this. So I pull down this junk about once ever 5 minutes and when I have a free minutes I delete it and do a ocne over for anything legit. I've compensated for a lot of it by whitelisting clients who use this. Like I said it's a good bit of overhead, and it's basically worthless if your a home user, but for my company I manage to keep a further 2-300 spam a day out of their inbox.
I also contacted hostmysite tech support via email to see if they had any recommendations, and from what I was told there some new stuff they are getting ready to do which will likely help out with this.

Hope it works for you
Tyras

Hi Tyras.

Thank you for your reply. But the issue here is, the spam uses common words in subject and also, ther is no much texts in the body. Even am not able to block GIF, as my cleint use GIF files a lot. There are around 200 Email accounts for this cleint, so re-directing the mails with GIF also won't work.

Does anyone have some idea how to block these?

Regards,

There's a service that our company utilizes called Postini (http://www.postini.com) which catches a good portion of all garbage (spam, viruses, etc). I'm not exactly sure how much it costs, but I'm sure we're paying less than $1 per account. It's pretty effective and definitely worth looking into.

Better late than never on this posting, I suppose.

1. The problem with .gif files embedding causing messages to be bounced has been resolved (a few weeks ago). The problem happened when our Barracuda servers received an update from barracuda that weighted those emails too heavily.

2. HMS will begin offering a postini add-on for our clients shortly - look for it in the next 30 to 60 days.

Unfortunately, I too began getting these gif emails.. Yesterday I got one from "Angelina Jolie" about marketing... Looking forward to Postini... Can I Beta test?

Hi Comprug,

You sure can... once we are ready .

The final touches on the beta service are being added now, and as Jamie indicated, it will be released very shortly.