Reduce Spam

Scenario

You are getting a lot of spam emails sent in to your JIRA.

Solution

Using a filter like spam assassin to identify mail as spam will set a specific mail header 'X-Spam-Flag: YES'.  JEMH can be configured to filter such mail and either allow or drop. This will configuration is found within Profile > Message Filters

Example Email

This message is spam, due to the X-Spam-Flag: YES header.

MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.112.12 with HTTP; Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 17:42:26 +1200 Message-ID: <BANLkTinB1mfSh+GwOXGNWoL4SyDvOpdBoQ@mail.gmail.com> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on mx1.kava.be X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: ******* X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=7.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BARRACUDA_BRBL,BAYES_50, DUTCH_LANG,FROM_BE_DOMAIN,HTML_MESSAGE,ING_CLICK_SCAM,SPF_SOFTFAIL, T_KHOP_FOREIGN_CLICK autolearn=no version=3.3.1 some text Subject: This is a starting email template, update as required From: "Andy Brook" <andy@javahollic.local> To: notest@localhost Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 hello

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