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Increase Spam

Over the past month or so I have have noticed an increase of spam I recieve.
Granted I only have "Confirmed SPAM" being Quarentined and other spam just set to "Warn".

Maybe it is nothing, but I wanted to see if anyone else has noticed this as well. Could be my email address is getting popular, lol.

BTW, I have not changed/modified any spam settings in a year.

Thanks in advance,

Joe


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  • Joe, I'm not seeing this.  Are you sure you don't have an infected machine inside your firewall?  Check the headers for the IP of the mail server that supposedly delivered an email.  If you don't find that IP in the SMTP log, then the email came from inside.

    Cheers - Bob
     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • The mail is coming from other sources, nothing inside my network.
    Astaro is marking it as *SPAM*, but not "confirmed Spam" so its not being quarentined.

    I dont know if the spam logic has been changed that Astaro does.

    My mail host also does Spam/AV scanning. When it detects Spam it marks it [POSSIBLE-SPAM] the subject. (I have it set not to block).
    Then when Astaro gets it and thinks it is spam, it adds *SPAM* to the subject line.
    It use to be my quarentine spam report would have 90% of the emails with:
    *SPAM* [POSSIBLE-SPAM] in the subject line.
    I would occasionaly get a few in my inbox.

    But now I am getting more in my inbox than on the spam report.

    Here is a sample header of on I got earlier.
    Return-Path: 
    Delivered-To: "blocked to protect the innocent"
    Received: (qmail 7336 invoked by uid 399); 9 Jun 2010 14:50:57 -0700
    X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on
    sa-xen1.hosting-advantage.com
    X-Spam-Flag: YES
    X-Spam-Level: **********************
    X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=22.7 required=4.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,
    DKIM_VALID_AU,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02,HTML_MESSAGE,
    HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_3,KAM_MXURI,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,
    RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,
    RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,SARE_HTML_HTML_TBL,SARE_SUB_MONEY,SC_SPAM_1,SC_SPAM_2,
    T_REMOTE_IMAGE,URIBL_DBL_SPAM,URIBL_OB_SURBL shortcircuit=no
    autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1
    X-Spam-Report: 
    *  3.9 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net
    *      [Blocked - see ]
    *  3.0 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL listed in the OB SURBL blocklist
    *      [URIs: catchwrecks.com]
    *  1.7 URIBL_DBL_SPAM Contains an URL listed in the DBL blocklist
    *      [URIs: catchwrecks.com]
    *  0.6 SARE_SUB_MONEY subject has likely spammer phrase or word
    *  2.5 KAM_MXURI URI: URI begins with a mail exchange prefix, i.e. mx.[...]
    *  0.7 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20 BODY: HTML: images with 1600-2000 bytes of words
    *  0.8 HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_02 BODY: HTML has a low ratio of text to image area
    *  0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
    *  1.1 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts
    *  2.4 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 Razor2 gives engine 8 confidence level
    *      above 50%
    *      [cf: 100]
    * -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's
    *       domain
    *  0.4 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 Razor2 gives confidence level above 50%
    *      [cf: 100]
    * -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature
    *  0.5 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100 Razor2 gives engine 4 confidence level
    *      above 50%
    *      [cf: 100]
    *  0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily
    *      valid
    *  2.2 RAZOR2_CHECK Listed in Razor2 (Vipul's Razor: home)
    *  0.6 SARE_HTML_HTML_TBL FULL: Message body has very strange HTML sequence
    *  0.3 HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_3 HTML is very short with a linked image
    *  1.0 SC_SPAM_2 SC_SPAM_2
    *  0.0 T_REMOTE_IMAGE Message contains an external image
    *  1.0 SC_SPAM_1 SC_SPAM_1
    X-Virus-Scan: Scanned by ClamAV 0.94.2 (no viruses);
      Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:50:57 -0700
    Received: from mail.catchwrecks.com (8.17.250.211)
      by mail3.hosting-advantage.com with ESMTP; 9 Jun 2010 14:50:57 -0700
    X-Originating-IP: 8.17.250.211
    Received-SPF: pass (mail3.hosting-advantage.com: SPF record at catchwrecks.com designates 8.17.250.211 as permitted sender)
    identity=mailfrom; client-ip=8.17.250.211;
    envelope-from=;
    DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=default; d=catchwrecks.com;
     h=Date:From:Subject:To:Message-ID:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; i=governmentgrants@catchwrecks.com;
     bh=NeNvNIct8jUQAiIyp0fm2vT+x4s=;
     b=fisD4YzgN/giP878sxH1ujfsleBPWWHsqQ8Ub2P9Nl7SlFKr33zqTADB7HuxSRBv+NYN1/65u4ee
       rFZucnz38Ve8borKm7Sughgo41kosCy9s6unUr3yYRCU2GtC2X+amPj35aam51Q0YZwyHUOZreDY
       lDEgzxcwdBWYfIX/zXg=
    DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; q=dns; s=default; d=catchwrecks.com;
     b=QByBzf+/tjfT7GMU2HG3f0Yzzi2YhmWncVFwkCAeH+unGIsa1a9uPAzmYq69bvWFQPuzmoNDnRwj
       /xej+eCSHLiFFNK+xUdp8rIKprVKkXb0xZc4iJe3Agk9eAtlvv2YA9sMEK52u6BRYjbkrdNjSYhc
       qjlXd8I2RXC2K82bQVk=;
    Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:50:39 -0400
    From: "Government Grants" 
    Subject: *SPAM* [POSSIBLE-SPAM] Federal grant money is available
    To: 
    Message-ID: 
    X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Federal grant money is available
    X-Proxy-Ident: 0/27273-1-1276120427
    X-Spam-Result: Spam
    X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A02020A.4C100CD0.01A7,ss=3,sh,fgs=0
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
  • Is this the POP3 proxy?
     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • Yes, all my mail passes thru the pop3 proxy.
    Most of the info added to the header comes from my mail host spam & AV checking.
    I am not sure if Astaro modifies the header with any information when it does its spam/AV checks.