Dear Ubuntu Planet,

[jbailey]

I'm on a quest to remove spam from my inbox. I've been killing off GNU mailman lists where the -owners stuff was feeding me spam. Most of my spam now seems to be relayed from @ubuntu.com. Does anyone know if there's a similar solution to what @debian.org has where I can ask it to reply with a bounce saying "Here's my real email address, use that instead pls"?

I suppose I could just set my default email address in LP to something that will do it instead, but I'd rather avoid the WrathOfElmo(tm)

Comments

Spamfighter

[(Anonymous)]

Well, you could just try a simpel spamfighter, theres a very nice plugin for thunderbird called spamato, or are you using another mail client ?

Re: Spamfighter

[jbailey.livejournal.com]

The problem is that using mail relays, I lose alot of information about the sender that I can use for an RBL. spamhaus does alot to get rid of spam for me right at SMTP time.

My @ubuntu.com is an address that I rarely use, but it gets a stupid amount of spam. I use my @raspberryginger.com and it almost all gets caught. So I'm just trying to eliminate those other addresses.

Re: Spamfighter

[(Anonymous)]

See if you can talk @ubuntu.com into greylisting? Works beautifully for fd.o and other places. Also, try a content-based filter like crm114; it'll catch your spam wherever it comes from. RBLs suck anyway.

to get rid of it or not

[robitaille.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

I also noticed recently that probably 2/3 of my spam came from my @ubuntu.com address. Since I very rarely use it, I have been debating to keep it or not. But it would be a shame to drop that email address just because of spam.

I don't have a real solution beside forwarding it from LP into a couple of other mailbox that do good spam filtering.

[antoniamasters.livejournal.com]

You probably have already noticed that I have been slacking like crazy on Bauer-Power. I used to update daily, but recently only a few times a week.

[(Anonymous)]

If you start bouncing the address, any spam you receive will then be bounced to an address that's most likely not the true sender, only making the spam problem worse.

Unless by "bounce" you mean "smtp reject".