The trouble with that is, I would have to try and register all 10 PN accounts that I am responsible for and if the right one's don't get selected then it would be a total waste of time.

Dave.

I just checked by email address that PN had/has.In the junk folder is had over 100 messages.
In the other 9 combined I have 5.
Luckly hotmail catches most of it, but think I might end up shutting that one down.
(would be the first time I had to do this in 10 years).

what period are the 100 over david?

over a week, but most of them is the last 2 days

Shows a marked increase then...

difficult to tell on mine.... a lot of spam - mainly self inflicted by members of my family... grrrr

And again the spam hit, not so many, but a few between 01:11 and 05:10 this morning. As it seems to be happening at roughly the same time every morning, perhaps PN should have a quick look to make sure they dont have something going on every morning which is interfering.

Hi there,

Our monitoring doesn't suggest anything untoward. I suspect this is due to the seasonal increase in spam that we see in the run up to Christmas.

If you check our graphing, you'll see that there's been a gradual increase in volumes over the last couple of weeks. These are our mx.last secondary mail servers where most spam gets sent...

http://www.plus.net/support/displayImage.php?strImageFile=MxlastMailQueues1Month.gif

Incidentally this is also being discussed over on our Community Site forums:-
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,57646.msg470147.html#msg470147

Rgds,

Well I think something must have changed, I'm getting 50+ spams every day now, getting through all the PN filters and they are all very similar to the ones I used to get a few months ago.

Because I monitor several work related PN accounts I suppose I notice it more than most, but I would still say it is a 10 fold increase on previous levels !

Dave.

Dave,

I'm still of the belief that it's just a different wave of spam and part of the seasonal increase in volumes.

Having said that, I suspect that Postini will sort this out for you when it's rolled to the live platform.

As a short term measure try setting up an IMAP folder on your account and move all the unmarked stuff into it. If you don't mind PM'ing me your username, the name of the mailbox, and the name of the folder then I can see if I can make sure your mails go through the training filter.

Rgds,

OK I'll PM you ALL my account names if you like, but we are talking about 6 or 7 that are currently being hit, plus a few of my spare ones that I have created over the years.

Not tried setting up an IMAP account before so it might take me a while to work out what I need to do.

Guess I could just pick one or two accounts for now.

I am currently using Mail Washer to intercept the emails and BOUNCE them before downloading them from your server, that would not have any effect on training would it ?

I know the spammer has probably hijacked someones account but it makes me feel better bouncing them !

Dave