On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote:
> Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> >     If your user login is "smith", you could have all mailing
> >     list mail sent to "smitty" and keep an open mutt or other reader 
> >     a click away.  Spam could be easily flagged ... .
> 
> Yes, there are several things you could filter on. 
> 
> However the traplist activities are really about identifying spam
> sending hosts.  If a machine we have not exchanged mail with in recent
> times tries to deliver mail to something bizarre like
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (which looks like it was actually
> based on a GNUS message-ID), the message is either spam or in some
> very rare cases a bounce message triggered by an attempt to deliver
> spam.  


        I run my sendmail out to a number of filter sites, and have the
        greylist filtering.  /etc/mail/access catches at least several
        thousand spam messages a day; a tail -f maillog tells me that
        much. I just snagged your list of IP's and catted|awk'd the bunch
        into my access list.  TY, TY. STILL--and this really makes me 
        angrier than it should--still, I get dozens of spams/day.  Would it 
        be possible to filter on both the ^Subject: "A friend has sent you
        a Greeting card!" as well as the body? HTML or plaintext?  As
        soon as I see one (usually different) spam I know there well be
        several other similar or identical messages.  How difficult would
        it be to flag spam on "you"  "sent" "greeting card", for example?

        Plus the hundreds of variations on "Are  you enough of a man?"
        and the ones for some kind of pills?  Or home loans at 5.1%!!!
        (*mumble*) 

> 
> >     I'm bcc'ing this to my account with evolution to check out your
> >     blog info.  I've run into problems with spamd and other suites.
> 
> I would be interested in hearing what the problems were.  It's worth noting
> that spamd from OpenBSD 4.1 onwards differs in several important ways from 
> earlier versions.  And also, it's important not to confuse this spamd with
> the program with the same name out of spamassassin.


        It's been years since I looked at spamassassin.  > 5.  Maybe
        three since I last got into a Snit, :), over this and checked out
        spamd?  It just  seemed like at least days of studying, followed
        by more days of integration. 

        Is there any spamd documentation that follows a cookbook model?
        Do A, B, C, and you're done!  I've found that a couple examples
        are worth ten thousand words.  

        thanks again,

        gary




> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team
> http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/
> "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic"
> delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.

-- 
  Gary Kline  [EMAIL PROTECTED]   www.thought.org  Public Service Unix

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