was a good idea or
not. Sounds like it's not.
At 04:02 PM 1/14/04 -0800, Kelson Vibber wrote:
At 03:30 PM 1/14/2004, Dragoncrest wrote:
Just curious, but I've never noticed once where someone sent me
legitimate mail from a .biz domain name. How about you guys? Would you
think that it
Just curious, but I've never noticed once where someone sent me legitimate
mail from a .biz domain name. How about you guys? Would you think that it
would be safe to go ahead and just outright block all email coming from
.biz domain names? Are there any other domain names or TLD's I should a
In recent efforts to stop the flow of spam that's somehow getting through
my best attempts at blocking it, I've been studying the spam that does get
caught and have found something dreadfully scary. On several messages that
are obviously blatent spam, I've been seeing things like this:
-4.5 A
Hi there. Just wondering something. My little leak of spam is back
again (*sigh* filty spammers.) and I've noticed something I think may
help curtail that once again. In one of my spam messages I noticed
something that said "RCVD_IN_SORBS" and in another it said
"RCVD_IN_DSBL" complete with a sc
Bayes database location defaults to ~/.spamassassin
The Bayes files are named such that they begin like, bayes_. Those are
the ones you want to remove.
Well, I tried that and interestingly enough my spam leakage became
a flood. So just for grins and giggles (I had no other ideas at the
That's cool. So, which file do I need to nuke or edit or whatever
to reset everything back to day one values? I don't want to delete or edit
the wrong thing and end up with a total mess. :)
By, "setting things back to zero," I assume you mean defaults.
Probably not a bad idea. Setti
Though his friends and family getting scored sounds very possibly like
some Bayes corruption going on because of the false negative
autolearn(ing) -- not a good thing.
Granted though, as the scoring from friends and family was not posted,
Bayes may not have had anything to do with it.
Hmm,
Not sure what to make of this, but for some reason lately I've been
getting some emails getting through with either zero points or very low
points scores that are obvious spam. Here's an example of the header on
one of these emails.
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=4.5 tests=BAYES_50 auto
Unfortunately the problem with SpamAssassin is that all the spam we
should be complaining to ISPs about we are simply silently accepting and
ignoring (perhaps reporting to DCC, Pyzor, Razor and Bayes...) and
/dev/null, that's it. For spammers, SA, it "only makes them stronger"
so to speak.
Maybe
Actually, now that you mention it, I did mention about vi,
er...niagara spam that was getting through. :)
Hmm, I'll have to be a little more alert to that in the future
then. Thanks.
At 09:08 PM 9/30/03 +0100, Martin Radford wrote:
At Tue Sep 30 03:21:09 2003, Dragon
I got a message back today on a question I posted that says "this message
matches blacklisted regular expression."
Is there something I'm missing that my question got blacklisted?
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Friend of mine and myself got into an argument about the website
GameSpy. In my past experience I've been spammed by GameSpy and have a bit
of a beef against them. They didn't do the spamming directly but instead
sold their registered user lists to a number of high volumn spamhaus groups
aft
Have you considered using Procmail to filter the mail once its
tagged or not tagged? That's what I use and it's awesome. Does everything
I need. If you need a good working example procmailrc file, let me know
and I'll pass along mine.
Now if you had something else in mind lik
Quite. They got pummelled to death by a DDoS. See:
Yeah, stupid pathetic cowardly spammers (I can think of some much
more colorful choice words for this, but I'll save those for later) are now
fighting back by DDoS'ing all the blacklists off the planet just so they
can continue to propa
I thought as much. That's why I asked to be sure.
At 05:16 PM 8/5/03 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote:
At 04:22 PM 8/5/2003 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
Just started hearing about something called a Distributed Mail
Server blacklist today. Never heard of it before. Apparently if
Best of luck. I would seriously suggest NOT /dev/nulling suspicious e-mail.
I've seen a fair number of false positives.
And... well, as for 'viewing' the e-mail - I for one would not give my
services to a company that will read e-mail based on the content. If I send
a message and somehow put some
Not sure if this is a procmail thing or an SA thing, so I'm asking the
procmail people the same thing just in case. :)
What I'm wanting to do is to start filtering all of our outbound mail for
spam and viruses sometime soon. We're getting enough of our clients who
work off our SMTP server f
I fully agree. In fact this email has inspired me to start
filtering all of our outgoing emails as well. I personally think it's a
good idea. If more companies would actively filter their outgoing email
servers, I think spam and viruses would be drastically cut in half at the
very le
Just started hearing about something called a Distributed Mail Server
blacklist today. Never heard of it before. Apparently if your mail server
is part of a distributed mail server cluster, it's blacklisted until you're
no longer part of one? Don't know a whole lot about this cause I only go
Since it is sporadic, I suspect that it is related to connectivity
and/or congestion issues at (a/the) razor2 server(s). This suspicion
is strengthened in my mind by the comment in the code about providing
a better diagnostic than "Bad file descriptor" when the server is
unavailable.
Well,
Erm ... _no_, actually. What's in the vicinity of line 420 of
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm
on the machine with the problem?
I've got the same thing you do on like 420 that you have on Line
407. In fact what you have and what I have (I've got SA v2.55) are
Nobody knows anything about this error?
At 04:22 PM 7/14/03 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
Just viewing my mail logs today because i started getting fetchmail
errors saying I had duplicate processes running which usually singals
that I've got a stuck email somewhere. In the proce
ed as spam.
Jul 14 15:18:46 dragoncrest spamd[6040]: razor2 check skipped: Bad file
descriptor Died at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 420,
chunk 1.
Anybody know what this is? I'm guessing it has to do with DNS
resolution, but I'm unsure. Can anyo
Is there a way to apply blacklists in SpamAssassin? If there is, would
there be a way to apply them if mail is being delivered via Fetchmail
rather than through port 25 like a normal mail server? Cause I'm trying to
filter mail on a machine that sits tucked behind a firewall and retrieves
ma
I just saw something weird today. I'm running SA 2.55 and I hit a spam
message that scored as low as 2.1 and I still have yet to figure out
how. It was a blatently obvious spam, but it scored very low. I know that
a number of members talked about this not too long back, but I didn't
really
I heard just recently that v2.6 was either in final release or was just
about to be released or something along those lines. Anyone know if it's
out yet and if so, would this be a required or a recommended upgrade or
just a patch upgrade? (aka a patch upgrade would be one that would fix
know
hi all. I've got a little proof of concept idea I want to do and I was
looking to get some advice from some of the CGI experts on this list to
help me with it. What I want to do is simple. I have like 3 users I want
to track and retrieve the following stats on.
1. Total number of total me
Just curious what the preferred spam threshold is for spam these days. In
my user prefs I'm running at a spam threshold of 5.0 and not having many
problems with it save for the occasional 1 or 2 missed spam messages. I
don't believe it's getting any false positives as I haven't seen any
late
> > > I have this in there already but it is still not filtering.
> Any
> > > ideas on what I might have missed??
Ok, I kinda got this fixed. Silly me, I was forwarding things
wrong. The only issues I still have is getting all the filtered mail into
the right mail boxes. SO
i do something similar to what you're trying, namely, fetchmail off of
several accounts, and then spamassassinate it before delivering it to my
final clean mailbox.
so, it's fetchmail --> procmail --> mbox
[snip]
Yep, already doing something similar to that. Here's the recipe
I'm usi
At 05:33 PM 6/18/03 +0100, Peter Campion-Bye wrote:
> Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's
mail for
> spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh
> yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my
> server and of
Hi all. Trying to use my home mail server to filter my dad's mail for
spam. What I'm doing is I'm pulling it in off of his netzero account (oh
yeah, spam heaven) and it's supposed to be filtered as it goes through my
server and off to the dumping account I have setup for delivering all mail
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