On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > On 6/27/2011 6:54 PM, jeffrey j donovan wrote: >> greetings >> does anyone have a good current header check they would be willing to share, >> specifically Im looking for correct fundamentals like date and time? >> >> -j > > Years ago this used to be useful, but not anymore. The false positive rate > is fairly high -- nearly 50% last time I tried it here with a WARN. Not very > many messages were caught, but about half of those caught were not spam. > Seems the spammers have gotten better and the legit mail clients and mail > list software have gotten worse. > > Much better to use a scoring system such as SpamAssassin for header checking. > > If you're having trouble blocking spam, show your "postconf -n" and some > samples of what you'd like to block to trigger a long-running discussion of > the best way to block whatever it is. (post spam samples to pastebin.com or > similar, not to the list). Or just search the archives for many similar > discussions. > > -- Noel Jones
thank you thats exactly what I was looking at. I had some very old lines in my header checks. are there any that are still useful prior to spamassassin? This systems relays to an internal system running amavis. -j
