Thomas_B Posted April 7, 2011 Share Posted April 7, 2011 An ongoing spammer related issue is that the dots in a gmail address are ignored by the gmail server. In effect, the following addresses are all the same to gmail: johndoe@email.com john.doe@email.com john.d.o.e@email.com j.ohndoe@email.com joh.ndoe@email.com j.o.h.n.d.o.e.@email.com etc. The spammers know about this, so all they do is move the dot around to fool IPB's spam filter. The solution is to add an option where the filter can be set to ignore the dots on gmail accounts. Also, the spam reporting system should be updated to recognize this gmail issue too. That way we don't have to keep reporting the same offenders that slip through just because they moved the dot in their email address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted April 8, 2011 Management Share Posted April 8, 2011 We will update the spam service to recognize that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted April 16, 2011 Management Share Posted April 16, 2011 Service logic updated to catch these spammers :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexWright Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Wow that was amazingly fast Charles. I have to say I'm highly impressed with the Spam Service. How many months has it been going, and I've only had to mark one user as "Spam User" that wasn't caught by the service. Amazing rates, thank you guys so much for this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phpony Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 And what about this aliases? Are they fitlered too?example@gmail.com example+test@gmail.com example+test2@gmail.com example+anything@gmail.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 And what about this aliases? Are they fitlered too? example+test@gmail.com example+test2@gmail.com example+anything@gmail.comexample@gmail.com Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Ian Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 will this also work with googlemail.co.uk/com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 will this also work with googlemail.co.uk/com Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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