Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
> but ignoring mails containing a > "X-Spam-Flag: YES" > couldn't hurt, don't you think? But that was just an idea :) It certainly seems unlikely that a spammer would add that to a message themselves. :-) Charlie> You using procmail for delivery? Just include that logic Charlie> there - don'

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:44:44AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > couldn't hurt, don't you think? But that was just an idea :) > > You using procmail for delivery? Just include that logic there - don't > pass it through spamassassin again if that header exists. nope, using qmail-scanner, which

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Olivier M. wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > As others have mentioned: It's hard to reliably be sure that a message > > has((n't)?) been scanned before. My system might scan the message before > > forwarding on to your system, for ins

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Olivier M.
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 10:42:41AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > As others have mentioned: It's hard to reliably be sure that a message > has((n't)?) been scanned before. My system might scan the message before > forwarding on to your system, for instance. > > What I'd recommend is -NOT- using th

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-19 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Olivier M. wrote: > Now a little suggestion (but maybe it's already corrected): I have > messages which are travelling twice on the server, and it's then scanned > twice, so spams are getting two or event three *SPAM* in their > Subject. Shouldn't SA check if there is

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Justin Mason
"Olivier M." said: > not if a md5 hash or any ID field that identify a spamassassin copy > would be added to the X-Spam-Flag field or anywhere... What do you > think? wouldn't work -- the spammers could just run SpamAssassin, get the hash, and then do the mail-out. However it would be possible

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: | On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:42:30PM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: | > Now a little suggestion (but maybe it's already corrected): | > I have messages which are travelling twice on the server, | > and it's then scanned twice, so spams are

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Olivier M.
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:53:09PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:42:30PM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: > > three *SPAM* in their Subject. Shouldn't SA check if > > there is already a "X-Spam-Flag" line in the headers, and > > skip the mail if it's the case ? :) > >

Re: [SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:42:30PM +0100, Olivier M. wrote: > Now a little suggestion (but maybe it's already corrected): > I have messages which are travelling twice on the server, > and it's then scanned twice, so spams are getting two or event > three *SPAM* in their Subject. Shouldn't

[SAtalk] repeated-scanning

2002-01-18 Thread Olivier M.
Hello and thanks for spamassassin! :) I discovered your package yesterday on the vmailmgr mailing list, and I'm now using it with qmail+qmail-scanner: works great! Now a little suggestion (but maybe it's already corrected): I have messages which are travelling twice on the server, and it's then