[SAtalk] Help needed with spam deluge...is internet email being totally swamped?

2003-09-23 Thread Mike Klein
Er...not quite on topic, but I need a sanity check bad...real bad. I try to keep my system clean. I run a firewall, spybot, and a good/updated virus scanner...and hey! SA on my linux server...although I don't get much if any spam on this account. My ISP account is another matter entirely. I also

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Klein
ed subject, but so be it. I won't have missed anything important, no? thanks everyone who responded... mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Abigail Marshall Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:05 PM To: Mike Klein Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Sp

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Klein
ammy email and can't do it? http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html Break a few more tests and you'll get over the threshold. Or run some of your REAL spam through it. Of course, you could write your own rule to make PEN*S 5.0 points if you like. But it's been tested thoroughly and it

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin filters seem too weak out of the box...

2003-09-22 Thread Mike Klein
After some dyslexia in running the tests in USAGE (which passed/failed as they should)... I decided to send some really annoying spam to myself. Basically email consisted of an all caps subject "INCREASE YOUR PEN*S SIZE NOW!!!" and several lines in the body with same text and a url to go to. BTW,

[SAtalk] Running spam/nospam tests just sits there/hangs...what is required?

2003-09-21 Thread Mike Klein
I have installed SpamAssasin on a pretty much stock RH9 system (using sendmail, procmail?). A caveat...I'm not a sendmail jock...I've been able to make simple adjustments to my sendmail.mc/.cf files but by no means really 'understand' what the %$#^%$ I'm actually doing...sendmail is quite complex