Using gmails spam filters I normally don’t have a problem with spam. However my one email that does receive a lot of spam is my Ubuntu email address. Interestingly enough a few open source members have droped there open source email addresses due to this exact problem. Jeff Bailey has disabled his @gnu.org email address, and talked about doing the same to his Ubuntu address. Daniel Robitaille has also posted on the problem. Now I like my Ubuntu email address so I’m not about going to delete it but I did receive three rather “great” bits of “email” to it today (Ill only include screen shots of two).
What I thought was “great” about these messages was that they where “sent” to Colin Watson and Corey Burger. Yes they got the emails wrong but I recognized the name instantly. I did find it funny that I had “antecedently” received personal emails to the both. It would be great if we where to use google apps, to run the Ubuntu emails that way we could take advantage of google great spam filters but I know that wont happen. I guess for now I’m stuck reading emails about the sexual prowess of Colin Watson and Corey Burger.
My ubuntu.com email es redirected to my gmail account and works fine both for receiving and sending.
I just click the “Report Spam” button and seldom does another similar spam come by.
@Jani Monoses, I do the same thing, but I still seem to get spam.
@Vadim P, ya I click the report spam button and I really don’t get that much spam its just the only spam I get is from my ubuntu address
I don’t understand why Ubuntu admins would not install one of many FOSS anti-spam solutions? In my experience and in my humble opinion Mailscanner http://www.mailscanner.info/ is by far the best one and uses many solutions all rolled up in one nice package, and works just as well or if not better the gmail’s spam filters. Also another solution would be to setup a .forward or similar and forward all your Ubuntu domain emails to your gmail account.
Cheers,
Eric
@Eric Peters Ubuntu emails do get forwarded in fact thats all they do but its something to do with forwarding that confuses Gmails (and many others) spam filters
The other day I looked again at my spam stats in my gmail account (where my @ubuntu address forwards to). On average over a 1-month period in late Dec/early Jan I got 88 spam emails per day. And nearly half of them (47%) came from my ubuntu address. So the situation have changed a bit since I posted in my blog (when 75% of my spam where from my ubuntu address)
The large majority of them get automatically moved to Gmail spam folder, but the odd ones don’t. I got 2 like that today, but the average is probably one daily.
On the other side of the pictures I have noticed that I usually get a couple of emails per month sent to one of the Ubuntu mailing list who are tagged false positive by Gmail.
It is sad, but you have to accept… collin’s email is pretty funny too.
I also have no problems with the spam in my account, redirected to gmail.
Ya the email is funny hence the post and I think i’m in the same situation as Daniel Robitaille about 1 a day, maybe less.