Using sender e-mail address or message content data in WHOIS search

2008-11-06 Thread FractalBob
Can SpamAssassin be configured to use the domain in the sender e-mail address or in the message content itself as an input parameter to, say, a WHOIS search, in order to locate either the sender or his ISP? I know this would be expensive, since it would require going out to the network, but it cou

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread SM
At 15:00 06-11-2008, Joe Dragotta wrote: Not being very experienced in SA administration, I didn't know if SA would process the same email twice, or if it kept track of message IDs and only processed them once. Thusly, I needed to know whether or not my originally described scenario would send

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Joe Dragotta wrote: However some email was making it through for processing by the user level procmailrc file, being again forwarded to SA, and then SA was rewriting the subject to ID it as spam (the user_prefs file was not set to send spam to /dev/null). Thusly, I was rece

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread Joe Dragotta
SM wrote: At 07:22 06-11-2008, Joe Dragotta wrote: I would presume that if the global procmailrc file, in /etc/, forwards mail to Spamassassin, and the users have individual .procmailrc files, in their home directories, which also forward mail to Spamassassin, any mail destined for such a user

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread SM
At 07:22 06-11-2008, Joe Dragotta wrote: I would presume that if the global procmailrc file, in /etc/, forwards mail to Spamassassin, and the users have individual .procmailrc files, in their home directories, which also forward mail to Spamassassin, any mail destined for such a user would be

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Joe Dragotta wrote: Greetings, My apologies re: HTML encoding. I've set Thunderbird to send this message plain-text-only; hopefully that will work. Top posting is also discouraged. I don't wish to become involved in a long debate, and get off topic, but how are methods o

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread Joe Dragotta
Greetings, My apologies re: HTML encoding. I've set Thunderbird to send this message plain-text-only; hopefully that will work. I don't wish to become involved in a long debate, and get off topic, but how are methods of invoking SA are not SA business? To me that seems like an integral part

Re: problem with RDNS_NONE: false positive

2008-11-06 Thread mouss
derHummel wrote: nik600 hotmail wrote: I'm experiencing a strange problem with RDNS_NONE. On the same sender host, sometimes it is marked with RDNS_NONE, and sometimes not. The host has a reverse dns! Example: Received: from dadosoftware.com (dns2.dadosoftware.com [217.199.13.2]) -> OK Rec

Re: Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.11.08 09:22, Joe Dragotta wrote: >Greetings, Hello, please post plaintext messages to the list. >Being fairly new to Spamassassin administration, I have a fairly basic >question about host resource usage. > >I would presume that if the global procmailrc file, in /etc/, for

Accidentally Filtering through Spamassassin Twice

2008-11-06 Thread Joe Dragotta
Greetings, Being fairly new to Spamassassin administration, I have a fairly basic question about host resource usage. I would presume that if the global procmailrc file, in /etc/, forwards mail to Spamassassin, and the users have individual .procmailrc files, in their home directories, which

Re: problem with RDNS_NONE: false positive

2008-11-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, November 6, 2008 14:22, derHummel wrote: > /etc/postfix/master.cf: > smtp unix - - n - - smtp > -o smtp_bind_address=yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy -o smtp_helo_name=relay.blablabla.net > It helped me. it aint windows :) -- Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? ht

Re: problem with RDNS_NONE: false positive

2008-11-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> nik600 hotmail wrote: > > I'm experiencing a strange problem with RDNS_NONE. > > > > On the same sender host, sometimes it is marked with RDNS_NONE, and > > sometimes not. > > > > The host has a reverse dns! > > > > Example: > > Received: from dadosoftware.com (dns2.dadosoftware.com [217.199.1

Re: problem with RDNS_NONE: false positive

2008-11-06 Thread derHummel
nik600 hotmail wrote: > > I'm experiencing a strange problem with RDNS_NONE. > > On the same sender host, sometimes it is marked with RDNS_NONE, and > sometimes not. > > The host has a reverse dns! > > Example: > Received: from dadosoftware.com (dns2.dadosoftware.com [217.199.13.2]) -> > OK