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On Sunday 24 January 2010, Simon Waters wrote: snip > > The main delivered spam issue I see is spam from big email providers > (Gmail and Yahoo). Also see a fair bit from forwarded accounts, as all > my spam prevention is via IP based trust, or hosts not behaving list > proper email servers, and I clearly do better than those groups > forwarding me email (although the FSF have sorted out most of their spam > issues these days). > > Of course Icedove's Bayesian filter eats most of the spam gets through, > but recently seems to be missing lots of 419 scams. > > I think the bigger issue than spammer bypassing greylisting, or > nolisting, is credential theft. Hence the issue with emails from Yahoo > and Google. I had my Yahoo email account taken over last week. Someone got in, changed my password and "secret" questions, removed my contacts list and spammed it. I got a new password (through my google account) and retook my Yahoo account and told Yahoo by email. They initially said it must have been a worm on my computer which sent out the spam to which I remonstrated with a few choice words (how does that change my account password?). We now seem to be in an exchange of emails where they are trying to establish whether I am the account holder. It does not give me a lot of confidence when they ask me via my googlemail address what my alternative email address is. I may have to rethink my email strategy. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html