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At work we have over 500 sites, and most have email addresses. We run Plesk 8 which uses qmail and spam assassin, but we still get a ton of spam. Even blatantly obvious spam, like there the sender uses fake headers to match the recipients name gets through. Any idea how I can combat this? Is there a better way to handle email hosting for a large amount of people? Should email be moved to its own server?

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I've found that the best protection from spam is to never get it in the first place.

 

One of my email addresses was posted on a web site for a year or so, and I get about 20 spam messages a day on it.  (I'm not even exaggerating.)  But, my other few email addresses get maybe 1 spam message a year.  So, ever since then, I've been very careful to not have my email anywhere in bot-readable form.

 

 

But, with 500 sites, that could be a bit of a problem.  You could always adjust spam filters.  Maybe Spam Assassin has some built in header spoof detector.

 

 

As for the better way to handle email for a large amount of people part....  Can the server handle it?  If the server can handle it fine and has a little room to grow, I wouldn't worry about moving servers.  In the case that it eventually starts to get stressed, I don't know if I would move the email stuff to a bunch of different servers (the servers that each web server was on), or if I would have a dedicated email server.  I guess a dedicated email server would be easier to manage.

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One of my email addresses was posted on a web site for a year or so, and I get about 20 spam messages a day on it.  (I'm not even exaggerating.)

 

I wish I only got 20 a day. My gmail account gets several hundred a day and sometimes upwards of 1k.

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One of my email addresses was posted on a web site for a year or so, and I get about 20 spam messages a day on it.  (I'm not even exaggerating.)

 

I wish I only got 20 a day. My gmail account gets several hundred a day and sometimes upwards of 1k.

 

Mine gets quite a lot too. However, i find gmail's spam filtering pretty damn good so it's not really a problem.

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Based on the fact that I never touch the spam folder and that Gmail removes messages that are over 30 days old, I've had 898 on my @gmail.com and 47 on my @phpfreaks.com the last 30 days. Strangely, it seems that a lot of the spam mails I get on my @phpfreaks.com are specifically addressed at both me and thorpe at the same time... There is a contact email on phpfreaks.com, which just forwards to all admins, and it gets spam as well even though I actually never told anyone about it. I guess that 'contact' is just a very generic email that's likely to exist.

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