[SOLVED] Mail Filter to block spammers

[emcampos]

My Zimbra's antivirus and antispamming are enabled but today i am getting spam attack from "info@rzb.ro" or that the sender is "info@rzb.ro".

How can force Zimbra to block this domain or email address?



My Zimbra version:

Release 5.0.13_GA_2791.UBUNTU8 UBUNTU8 FOSS edition

[dwmtractor]

Originally Posted by emcampos

My Zimbra's antivirus and antispamming are enabled but today i am getting spam attack from "info@rzb.ro" or that the sender is "info@rzb.ro".

How can force Zimbra to block this domain or email address?



My Zimbra version:

Release 5.0.13_GA_2791.UBUNTU8 UBUNTU8 FOSS edition

You can blacklist it manually by editing /opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin/local.cf and inserting the following line:

# Blacklisting
blacklist_from *@rzb.ro

Stop & restart zimbra and you won't see it again.

[emcampos]

thanks.

i was able to edit the file.

weird though since the spammer has disappeared even before i editted the file. is it maybe because a spamlisting that is being referenced by Zimbra has already updated the list or this is just coincidental?

with what happened, I am not sure yet if the code works. but if i wont be getting the same spam mail within the next few days then i will assume it worked.

or if another spammer pops up, i'll take it from there.

thank you very much, Mr DWMTRACTOR

[dwmtractor]

Either your Zimbra server figured out he was a spammer, or perhaps, if you have any RBLs enabled, they did. Either way, having the ability to manually blacklist (or whitelist) a particular domain or user is still handy. Even handier, of course, would be having it in our admin gui, but we walk before we run, eh?

[emcampos]

i agree on that, Sir.

By the way i tried launching the "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" to learan more about spamassassin

but i get this error message instead;


noel@zimbra:/opt/zimbra/conf/spamassassin$ perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
No documentation found for "Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf".



Is the file missing or I am just wrong here?

[dwmtractor]

The Zimbra spamassassin installation is somewhat non-standard, not least in that it goes to a nonstandard installation path. I don't think the perl documentation is there.

[emcampos]

Thanks.

Anyway, i googled and got some good links. here is one;


Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf - SpamAssassin configuration file

[phoenix]

If the message ends up in your Inbox you should just highlight it and mark it as Junk, doing that for a couple of messages usually stops any spam from those messages. If you want some further tips on improving the ant-spam system then search the forums or use this wiki article.

[emcampos]

in my inbox?

but will that be a global setting affecting all users or it will only take effect on my own inbox?

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by emcampos

in my inbox?

but will that be a global setting affecting all users or it will only take effect on my own inbox?

It trains the anti-spam system and it will affect that spam when it next arrives in your system.