A Russian Affair | How to stop all of that Russian Spam Email

Been getting lots of spam emails with funny looking characters in it?

Do a little digging and you might find there from Russia with love…..

If you're suffering from an abundance of spam emails, why not have a look at exactly where they're coming from? Recently we had a vast quantity of spam emails coming through to a particular generic email address. We suffered with it at first, moved on to using a desktop anti spam product which did filter them straight into the Junk email folder, but there was still a stupid amount of spam emails sat there.

So when I had a few minutes to think about this conundrum, there had to be a way of blocking these emails completely.

Having inspected these emails I found that they were all coming from Russian domains in one form or another.

How to ban a top level domain in Microsoft Exchange 2003………

To block the Russian emails I used Microsoft Exchange to reject anything involving .ru

1. Head into the Exchange System Manger

2. Locate your Global Settings

3. Right click on Message Delivery and click on Properties

4. Select Filtering on the tabs that appear

5. Click on Add

6. Add *@*.ru

7. Make sure you have filtering turn on, on your SMTP connector to apply this!


You will then be living in a spam free world!!!

About the Author...

Gavin Moorhouse isn't Top Gear's 'The Stig', but could give him a run for his money......

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Lucid Computer Solutions Ltd provide IT Support and Computer Maintenance in Worcestershire and the surrounding areas.