Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-25 Thread Jay Plesset
Timeout should not be a problem. My SA seems to take 3 to 6 seconds to scan a message.  SMTP timeout should be 10 minutes, for any server that's compliant with rfc. jay John Andersen wrote: On Friday 24 December 2004 06:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I have set up my

RE: Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1

2004-12-25 Thread Paul Grenda
> -Original Message- > From: Steven Stern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 26 December 2004 9:18 AM > To: Paul Grenda > Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1 > > > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:34:14 +1100, "Paul Grenda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Unfortunately I still

RE: Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1

2004-12-25 Thread Paul Grenda
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 26 December 2004 8:43 AM > To: Paul Grenda > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1 > > > Paul Grenda wrote: > > I recently upgraded to SA3.0.1 but I stil

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-25 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 24 December 2004 06:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recently, I have set up my account to reject with a 554 SMTP error > code anything that spamassassin flags as spam, using the default > threshold of 5.0, From your web page: "Bodytest" support - allows you to run filters like spamass

Re: Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1

2004-12-25 Thread Neylon:
Paul Grenda wrote: I recently upgraded to SA3.0.1 but I still only seem to be able to catch between 55% and 70% of spam. I read a thread started by Florian Effenberger and there was advice that he should upgrade Net::DNS. So I ran spamassassin -D --lint and it said debug: Net::DNS version is 0.26

Problems with upgrade to SA 3.0.1

2004-12-25 Thread Paul Grenda
I recently upgraded to SA3.0.1 but I still only seem to be able to catch between 55% and 70% of spam. I read a thread started by Florian Effenberger and there was advice that he should upgrade Net::DNS. So I ran spamassassin -D --lint and it said debug: Net::DNS version is 0.26, but need 0.34. S

Re: How do I disable spews?

2004-12-25 Thread SA
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 17:42, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > Didn't SPEWS shut down and blacklist the world? > > Thomas No. -- Robin Lynn Frank Director of Operations (0 0)Paradigm-Omega, LLC V http://www.paradigm-omega.com/ =

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-25 Thread Neylon:
Tim B wrote: Bouncing spam is IMHO just as big a problem as the spam itself. Agreed. It seems a certain appliance named after a fish likes to bounce spam by default which has caused our server to receive over 30,000 false bounces to legitimate email addresses in less an hour yesterday. Consideri

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-25 Thread Tim B
1. Generate a bounce message to the envelope sender of the message, and 2. During the SMTP session, refuse to accept mail from the client, by returning a 500-series SMTP error code. Option 1 is almost always a terrible idea, unless perhaps the sender has published an SPF record and the result o

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-25 Thread mazieres
I think people are missing an important point in this discussion about bouncing spam. Really, "bouncing spam" can be used to mean two different things: 1. Generate a bounce message to the envelope sender of the message, and 2. During the SMTP session, refuse to accept mail from the client, b

Re: How do I disable spews?

2004-12-25 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 20:29 -0500, Brenda Bell wrote: > I upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 this morning and all of a sudden, > I can't send myself email from work because spews blacklisted an > entire block of uunet addresses and my company is in the middle > of the block. (side note: we do not spam