Email blocking my list of annoyances...
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I have trouble with a huge amount of unwanted email traffic on my spouse's computer. She is a victim of curiousity, and winds up subscribing to a plethora of daily junk. She cannot control the urge to look, but I could control the incoming barrage of BS if a list of them could be created and blocked.
Is this doable ?
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@dhenzler said in Email blocking my list of annoyances...:
Is this doable ?
Not via pfsense. Now if your email server was behind pfsense, you could filter what smtp hosts could talk to your server and block some spam that way.
Who does your wife use for email? gmail, yahoo, hotmail? Your isp, Your best bet for filtering her inbox is on via your email provider, or in your email client.
Are you wanting to block your wife from going to websites where she signs up for these emails?
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@johnpoz I use sonic.net in CA. Was just looking at some recent spam and noticed that although it may originate in uk, once the mail server has it, I will get it via that...
Setting up Snort ? Will that do anything for me ?
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@dhenzler so you want snort to look inside the transfer of email from the email host your client pulls email from and filter if there is spam links or the emails is specifically from some host?
For starters your client should be pulling email through a ssl connection so IPS isn't going to be able to see anything anyway..
Again if you want to filter spam do it on sonic.net or in your email client. Pfsense is not a email filtering device..
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@dhenzler If your wife is using an @sonic.net email address (?) then it's out of your control, and they would handle all spam filtering. I haven't seen any email service that doesn't have filtering of some type nowadays, though I have had people claim they don't have one because they don't know they do.
If you had your own domain then you can put a spam filter service in front of it, like we do for our clients. Or if you had your own mail server you could control what block lists it uses, e.g. Spamhaus Zen.
Snort is designed to look for malicious network traffic. Useful if you host your own mail or web server, to block hacking attempts.
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@steveits Thanks for the input...
I've got the latest version, and while playing with a test scenario I used some stuff from the addin that was supposedly updated.... crashed the whole mess...
I built my own pfSense box... using an DL360pGen8 server:
System pfSense
Serial: USE42208M5
Netgate Device ID: a5c89be807563baa5ef5
BIOS Vendor: HP
Version: P71
Release Date: Mon Feb 10 2014
Version 2.6.0-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Mon Jan 31 19:57:53 UTC 2022
FreeBSD 12.3-STABLEThe system is on the latest version.
Version information updated at Wed Jun 22 18:25:56 EDT 2022
CPU Type Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630L 0 @ 2.00GHz
12 CPUs: 1 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes (inactive)
QAT Crypto: No
Hardware crypto
Kernel PTI Enabled
MDS Mitigation Inactive
Uptime 44 Days 05 Hours 19 Minutes 53 SecondsMany have said it is overkill and a power waster, but I'd rather have the speed and power when necessary. Complete updates take only seconds...
I really need to figure out a way to end the SPAM. alas pfSense isn't it. But glad for all that it does.
