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The mozspam

Welcome to the Mozspam Mozilla Spam Mail Filter Project

First let me make one thing clear: up to now there is no working code at all for this project. Not even one line. The only thing that is being developed right now is the design of the project. If you would like to join me (us?) and help to create a spam filter please drop me a line.

HELP!

It would be nice if you would join me in my effort to program this. You don't need to be a professional, cause me too I'm a hobby programmer and have almost no idea of XUL.

How it might work

One of the most effective ways to stop spam is to filter out every mail that comes from a host that allows relaying. I.e. a host that allows unauthorized people (e.g. spammers) to send mail to everybody with an e-mail address.
Nowadays there is absolutely no need why a SMTP server should allow relaying. There are other ways, e.g. SMTP-Auth or POP before SMTP to access SMTP servers from outside a certain subnet.
the mozspam package will link itself into the Mozilla mail client. It will check every incoming mail against a public Open Relay Database, reject mails coming from hosts listed inside such a database, and allow mails from hosts not listed there.

Information about Relaying

There are at least two large open relay databases. ORBD and relays.osirusoft.org (only for commercial users). I'm thinking of using ORDB for the beginning. Both pages contain extensive information about relaying and spam blocking. See also this page.

Proceedings

Before we start coding we have to have a clean design. That's what I will work on in the next few days.
We also have to become familiar with the Mail Client and XUL. See also requirements.

You can contact the only developer at this project (at least for now...) at gullc at stud dot phys dot ethz dot ch.

This is a page with user notes on it.

User Notes: [?]

If you do not get a response to a question posted in this forum, please try sending a message to the project's mailing list or to the project owner directly.

[1] Submitted by: Minh on Tuesday July 30th 2002

May I suggest you look at for ideas. Mailwasher has a bounce feature, download only headers, and heuristic scanning (predicting spam by reading the content of the email email). Good luck.

[2] Submitted by: Nobody on Wednesday August 7th 2002

Or just try to integrate the SpamAssassin into Mozilla: /

[3] Submitted by: Dan on Thursday August 15th 2002

Another idea is to let the user specify mails to be rejected based on the FROM header using a filter interface or pattern matching. Rejected emails wont be downloaded (and so wouldn't trigger biff). Or do something similar to procmail.

[4] Submitted by: Glint on Sunday September 1st 2002

Or maybe try the bogofilter, which uses statistical probabilities to decide if a given email is spam or not.

[5] Submitted by: Steve on Thursday September 5th 2002

Very, very innovative ideas about filtering spam and it is a SHORT read

[6] Submitted by: tundra on Wednesday September 11th 2002

A remarkably simple feature that would make SPAM managment much simpler would be to add a new type of filter selection:

If sender is not in the Addressbook do <whatever>

See: /

for some thinking about this

[7] Submitted by: Wolfgang Lenhard on Thursday September 19th 2002

There is a great tool for Outlook which is called Spamnet (/). It relies on the feedback of users. When enough Users mark a special mail as spam, then it is automatically removed.

[8] Submitted by: Eric de Ruiter on Tuesday September 24th 2002

Maybe it's pretty easy, if we only have an option to filter all mail (or just make it an fiterrule, exec or something) through an external program .. the only problem i see is how to let these programs interact with moz mail, so your mail/attachments gets deleted/filed. But I have an idea to do this: if the program gives some sort of commands as a result to moz-mail (like delete_attach 1, delete_mail, file inbox ..) The commandline app could be given some parameters like spam-folder, virus-folder ..

just my 2cents ..

[9] Submitted by: Jon on Saturday October 5th 2002

My preference would be an auto-bouncing protocol. Basically, you could set up (and on a regular basis *change*) a simple question that has to be answered by a real human being in order for the sender to be considered for inclusion on the MozMail user's whitelist. All email from addresses NOT on the whitelist automatically goes in a Spam folder that is automatically cleaned out after a given number of days. For example, someone writing an email to a user of MozSpam would get a response like this:

The user xyz@foo.com is using Mozilla Spam filtering:

1. If you are not explicitly added by xyz to their email WHITELIST, your email WILL NOT BE READ.

2. You only need to get on xyz's WHITELIST once to be able to send them mail in the future without seeing this message ever again.

3. You can always be removed from xyz's WHITELIST in the future if they so desire.

4. If you are sending unsolicited advertising or other Spam, PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE.

5. If you are quite sure that xyz wants to receive your email, please answer the following personal question in your reply and you will be considered for inclusion on xyz's WHITELIST.

Thankyou for helping us to STOP SPAM.

The Question:

What 3 letter primary color begins with "R"?

[10] Submitted by: Jon on Saturday October 5th 2002

I should have added this too:

When going through whitelisting requests (which must be limited to the above text and a single CORRECT word or phrase in response (i.e., the user had to have replied to the above query)), there should be a choice for what to do with future (correct) requests:

- Block all future requests from spammer@foo.bar.com - Block all future requests from foo.bar.com - Block all future requests from bar.com

[11] Submitted by: Derek Shaw on Tuesday October 15th 2002

I highly recommend reading (and re-reading) this site. It has more promise than anything I've used so far (and I've used a lot).

[12] Submitted by: Richard Kirkcaldy on Tuesday November 19th 2002

Also, there is www.spambouncer.org - a load of procmail filters which I have found to work fantasticly.

Is this anything to do with the junk mail filters added to recent builds?

[13] Submitted by: dirk on Thursday December 12th 2002

(-;

dl

[14] Submitted by: Anonymous on Thursday December 19th 2002

This project is dead. It has been superceded with the new spam filtering in Mozilla 1.3. Mozilla 1.3alpha is now available for download.

[15] Submitted by: michael on Friday January 3rd 2003

good job! mm

[16] Submitted by: Posicionamiento en b on Sunday March 16th 2003

Hi from Spain!!

[17] Submitted by: buscadores on Friday March 21st 2003

great work, keep it up please

[18] Submitted by: Diseño web on Thursday April 3rd 2003

Good site!

[19] Submitted by: jonh on Friday April 11th 2003

the pre filtered headers on mails is a good idea

[20] Submitted by: Thomas on Friday April 18th 2003

Thanks you for the web, it is what I needed to complete my work.
You do a very good work and you must feel proud of it.

[22] Submitted by: L.B.S. on Thursday May 22nd 2003

SpamWeed professional anti-spam filter can work with Outlook, OE, Eudora, Moz and more...

[23] Submitted by: intercronos on Thursday May 22nd 2003

do you want a tool for submitting url's to mozdev? look here:

copyright:

intercronos

[24] Submitted by: complejo on Friday May 23rd 2003

good site

[25] Submitted by: motilla on Friday May 23rd 2003

hi from spain

[26] Submitted by: shilmar on Friday June 27th 2003

really great

[27] Submitted by: walter on Saturday June 28th 2003

how about

if there´s only html do .....

regards

[28] Submitted by: Ulrich S. Kapp on Monday June 30th 2003

I am making webdesign and often send emails via the PHP mail function.
Is it always granted, that the emails sent by the PHP application are not filtered by the mozspam filter?

Regards

Ulrich S. Kapp

[29] Submitted by: Alta en Buscadores on Thursday July 3rd 2003

Le registramos su página web en principales buscadores.

[30] Submitted by: Busca Inmobiliarias on Thursday July 3rd 2003

/
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[31] Submitted by: Hosting y dominios on Thursday July 3rd 2003

Alojamiento de paginas web..

[32] Submitted by: no spam on Wednesday July 9th 2003

it's time to protect mozspam itself: l

[33] Submitted by: anna on Thursday July 10th 2003

great pictures tossie. Congratulations for site.

[34] Submitted by: Frank on Tuesday July 15th 2003

Hi from Denmark

[35] Submitted by: Matthias on Saturday July 19th 2003

The spam filters I have tried integrate the feature "add to whitelist if the mail is sent by xyz". What I have not found is "add to whitelist if it contains the string xyz". This would allow a user to supersede strict blacklisting rules.

Matthias

[36] Submitted by: alta buscadores on Wednesday July 23rd 2003

very very good site

[37] Submitted by: Diego on Wednesday July 23rd 2003

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[38] Submitted by: Espahosting on Friday July 25th 2003

This site is very useful. Good luck on your project.

[39] Submitted by: Todocompostela on Friday July 25th 2003

Useful site! Good luck with your future endeavors.

[40] Submitted by: Carina on Friday July 25th 2003

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No chance without you...
Go on like this !

[41] Submitted by: hi on Saturday July 26th 2003

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[42] Submitted by: Jessy on Saturday July 26th 2003

Hey, thanks a lot for this great website.
Go on like this. I will come back

[43] Submitted by: educación formación on Tuesday July 29th 2003

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[44] Submitted by: Diseño web on Friday August 1st 2003

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[45] Submitted by: Svenja on Friday August 1st 2003

Hi,
I like the style of your site,
enjoying to surf within your site.
til then

[46] Submitted by: James on Saturday August 2nd 2003

I hope it works.

[47] Submitted by: Alfons on Wednesday August 13th 2003

Congratulation - it works!

[48] Submitted by: DAM on Friday August 15th 2003

Really great!

[49] Submitted by: MandO on Monday August 18th 2003

In regards to anti spam software, there is an excellent solution developed by Syntegra. They just won top honors in the CRN Anti-Spam contest. More info here: /

[50] Submitted by: Diseño web español on Thursday August 21st 2003

Congratulations for your great job.

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[51] Submitted by: Richard on Monday August 25th 2003

Another idea is to let the user specify mails to be rejected based on the FROM header using a filter interface or pattern matching. Rejected emails wont be downloaded (and so wouldn't trigger biff). Or do something similar to procmail.

Regards

Richard Landa

[52] Submitted by: A. Sanchez on Tuesday August 26th 2003

Congratulations for your great work.

[53] Submitted by: i-une.com on Tuesday August 26th 2003

Thanks you for the web, it is what I needed to complete my directory.

Thanks

[54] Submitted by: anna on Tuesday August 26th 2003

Thanks you for the web! is cool!

;-)

[55] Submitted by: rosa on Tuesday August 26th 2003

Congratulations for your great job! Greetings.

[56] Submitted by: rosa on Wednesday August 27th 2003

Congratulations for your great work, greetings.

[57] Submitted by: ferreteriasolano on Wednesday August 27th 2003

Congratulations for your great work, greetings

/

[58] Submitted by: yamil on Wednesday August 27th 2003

great work

/

[59] Submitted by: trescantos.net on Wednesday August 27th 2003

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[60] Submitted by: arcaynoe on Wednesday August 27th 2003

great work

/

[61] Submitted by: Teodoro on Saturday August 30th 2003

Gracias por la web!

[62] Submitted by: Reyes on Saturday August 30th 2003

Very nice site, congratulations friends!

[63] Submitted by: John on Sunday August 31st 2003

It works very well, congratulations for your great job!

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[64] Submitted by: Alex on Sunday August 31st 2003

Nice project!

[65] Submitted by: Peter on Sunday August 31st 2003

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[66] Submitted by: Thalea on Sunday August 31st 2003

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Go on like this and enjoy !

[67] Submitted by: spump on Monday September 1st 2003

Great work even if it is ambigious ;-)

spump
--

[68] Submitted by: Gloryhole on Tuesday September 2nd 2003

Nice project.

[69] Submitted by: Stefan on Tuesday September 2nd 2003

Thanks for this Proggy :)
regards from

[70] Submitted by: Pert on Tuesday September 2nd 2003

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best gegards from

[71] Submitted by: consultoria on Thursday September 4th 2003

Congrats for the site

/comex
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[72] Submitted by: Diseño web on Thursday September 4th 2003

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/host

[75] Submitted by: Peter on Thursday September 4th 2003

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[76] Submitted by: Diseño web on Friday September 5th 2003

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[78] Submitted by: Educoweb on Friday September 5th 2003

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[79] Submitted by: Urbe on Friday September 5th 2003

Hello, I just wanted to say you have a very informative site which really made me think, Thanks !

[80] Submitted by: Stefan on Friday September 5th 2003

I agree with "Stefan" some posts above (cool name)
Stefan

[82] Submitted by: Max on Saturday September 6th 2003

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[83] Submitted by: bkt on Saturday September 6th 2003

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[84] Submitted by: Jaime on Sunday September 7th 2003

La web tiene buena interfaz y es muy completa sobre el tema. Y por si a alguien les interesa aquí pongo mi web, trata de temas de diseño, hospedaje y promoción web entre otras cosas, la web es Gracias por el servicio!

[85] Submitted by: Tom on Monday September 8th 2003

greetings to the mozdev team from Toms Versicherungen

[86] Submitted by: Andrea on Monday September 8th 2003

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[87] Submitted by: weber on Monday September 8th 2003

greetings

[88] Submitted by: 3D Gott on Monday September 8th 2003

viele Grüße an das Team von

3d Visualisierung

[89] Submitted by: andreas on Monday September 8th 2003

/

[90] Submitted by: ronni on Tuesday September 9th 2003

is the project still active?
/

[91] Submitted by: Ed on Tuesday September 9th 2003

Very nice website. Congratulations
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[92] Submitted by: Ed on Tuesday September 9th 2003

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[93] Submitted by: Sandy on Tuesday September 9th 2003

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[94] Submitted by: camping españa on Wednesday September 10th 2003

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[95] Submitted by: Sue on Wednesday September 10th 2003

Very useful site !! Mozilla should be more used on many computers ! Keep up the great work !

[96] Submitted by: web marketing on Thursday September 11th 2003

I like this site too

[97] Submitted by: Jose on Thursday September 11th 2003

Muy buen sitio

[98] Submitted by: Mary on Thursday September 11th 2003

Good site

[99] Submitted by: Satrialex on Friday September 12th 2003

Only Lunix/Unix compatible?
great site.

[100] Submitted by: Urbe on Sunday September 14th 2003

Hello, I just wanted to say you have a very informative site which really made me think, Thanks !

[101] Submitted by: JB on Monday September 15th 2003

Great project.
/
/skins-en.htm

[102] Submitted by: Omar on Monday September 15th 2003

/
/vacaciones-estudiantiles-ubicacion.htm
/granja-educativa-actividades.htm
/escuelas-primarias-servicios-colonia-de-vacaciones.htm
/fotos-establecimiento-recreativo-escuelas-primarias-cordoba.htm
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[104] Submitted by: Damian on Monday September 15th 2003

features.htm
pictures.htm
screens.htm
technical.htm
contact-us.htm
contacto.htm
caracteristicas.htm
fotos.htm
pantallas.htm
info-tecnica.htm
contacto.htm

[105] Submitted by: Albert on Monday September 15th 2003

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[106] Submitted by: SUe on Wednesday September 17th 2003

wow.....nice site about this cool mozilla !!!

best wishes,
Sue

[107] Submitted by: Frank Miller on Wednesday September 17th 2003

very informativ and well developed website !

frank

[108] Submitted by: Doreen on Wednesday September 17th 2003

cool page ! i like the mozilla soft !

regards,
Doreen

[109] Submitted by: Silvia on Wednesday September 17th 2003

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[111] Submitted by: Abel on Wednesday September 17th 2003

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[112] Submitted by: Jesus on Thursday September 18th 2003

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[113] Submitted by: Trabajo on Thursday September 18th 2003

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[114] Submitted by: camping guide world on Friday September 19th 2003

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[115] Submitted by: fotos on Friday September 19th 2003

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[121] Submitted by: Auktion Tipp on Saturday September 20th 2003

/versteigerung/

[123] Submitted by: normas ISO on Saturday September 20th 2003

Good job!

[124] Submitted by: Peter on Sunday September 21st 2003

Hello people!

[125] Submitted by: Grito.net on Sunday September 21st 2003

I am really interested in an anti-spam project. I am currently a hosting and web design provider, and receive a lot of spam emails. I have tried spamassasin, but i think it is a bit drasticall. I will keep an eye on this project.

Diseño web grito.net

[126] Submitted by: Florencia Sarasola on Monday September 22nd 2003

good idea, please contact me if you need voluntaryes
flor@hostingdelsur.com

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[127] Submitted by: Ajemalaga on Monday September 22nd 2003

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[129] Submitted by: Markus on Tuesday September 23rd 2003

Very good page.

[131] Submitted by: A. Sánchez on Tuesday September 23rd 2003

very useful

[132] Submitted by: A. Sánchez on Tuesday September 23rd 2003

Very useful

[133] Submitted by: A. Sanchez on Tuesday September 23rd 2003

Very useful

[135] Submitted by: Harald on Wednesday September 24th 2003

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[136] Submitted by: annas on Wednesday September 24th 2003

great site

greetings!

[137] Submitted by: Acciones de mercado on Wednesday September 24th 2003

Good job!

[139] Submitted by: Lara on Thursday September 25th 2003

You can get some ideas from spamasasin, some of my friends say it work fine.

[140] Submitted by: Adan on Friday September 26th 2003

Congratulations to your fantastic Site. Thanks

[141] Submitted by: Ines on Friday September 26th 2003

I would like to use this soft to control the spam in my Outlook :(

Maybe in the future :)

Our page only for adults:

[146] Submitted by: Flohmarkt on Sunday September 28th 2003

Al the best

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