Techie :: Techno ::: December 2004 Archives
Blog spam is a real pain in the neck. Tom and I have been swapping notes about this over the last month or so.
I had some initial "success" with the builtin filters, which I then augmented with the SURBL plugin, but that still meant having to manually delete all the junk that was being put in the "moderate" queue.
At Tom's recommendation I've now installed "auth image" which acts a bit like the authentication code you need for submitting a link to Altavista or the one I used to use on search.ie.
The install was quite straight forward, but of course I got lovely errors :)
A bit of googling and a couple of minor changes later it seems to be working fine!
Moving mailboxes from one server to another can be a painful experience. Formail is a handy command that makes this a lot easier:
cd /var/spool/mail/;formail -Y -s sendmail -oi $user@domain < $mailbox
replace $user@domain with the real alias you want to send to eg. michele@blacknight.ie
replace $mailbox with the local mailbox name eg. michele1
The only thing to watch out for is that your sendmail doesn't try to deliver the mail locally!
Niall came across this the other week, but I am yet to see it in action. It's a little application that displays a "Hot babe"
As your system load increases the "babe" strips. Kind of silly
Wordpress has much better spam filters than Movable Type, but you can still get hit hard. Considering that we filter email spam effectively I was thinking about applying the same kind of logic as SURBL but to blogs. Someone beat me to it !! :mrgreen:
John Sinteur's plugin seems to do exactly what I had in mind...
