Theories on blocking OUTGOING spam

2011-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Just sharing some ideas on blocking outbound spam. Maybe these ideas will make it to the big freemail companies because most of the spam that manages to get through my filters comes from AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail. I've found outbound spam filtering to be very different than inbound filter

Re: For any URIBL sort here

2011-08-16 Thread Chris Owen
On Aug 14, 2011, at 8:49 AM, jdow wrote: > Out of addlepated curiosity why is scientificlinux.org listed? Looks like it got moved to white list. Chris -- - Chris Owen - Garden City (620) 275-1900 - Lottery (noun):

spamassassin rule not firing

2011-08-16 Thread Geert Haustraete
Hello, I'm running 2 mail servers where one is a backup server in case the primary is unreachable. Both are set to include the SPF result in the mail header. I have put these rules into my local.cf file. #Check for SPF headers header LOCAL_SPF_PASS Received-SPF =~ /^pass/ header LOCAL_SPF_NE

Re: Inconsistent spam scores between spam headers and rewritten subject line.

2011-08-16 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 22:29 +0930, Rodney Baker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:02:20 John Hardin wrote: > > Just as a test, if you comment that bit out of your personal .procmailrc > > does everything work they way you'd expect (i.e. one SA pass, the correct > > score in the X- headers)? > > Yep

Re: Inconsistent spam scores between spam headers and rewritten subject line.

2011-08-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/16/2011 8:55 AM, Rodney Baker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:36:05 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > >> After you fixed your mail processing chain to not have SA chew twice on >> the spam -- you should manually train Bayes, feeding it a lot of hand >> classified spam, and possibly ham. Check your

Re: Inconsistent spam scores between spam headers and rewritten subject line.

2011-08-16 Thread Rodney Baker
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:02:20 John Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Rodney Baker wrote: > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > > : > > | spamc > > Just as a test, if you comment that bit out of your personal .procmailrc > does everything work they way you'd expect (i.e. one SA pass, the correct >

Re: Inconsistent spam scores between spam headers and rewritten subject line.

2011-08-16 Thread Rodney Baker
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:36:05 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 01:07 +0930, Rodney Baker wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:48:13 Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > >* ^Subject.*SPAM\([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]\).* > > > >$HOME/Maildir/.Spam// > > > > > > > > I'm attempting to filter on the

Re: How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-16 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/15/2011 10:04 AM, John R Levine wrote: PS: I don't suppose there's any chance you might consider paying the rather modest price for a Spamhaus datafeed, rather than leeching all your DNSBL queries for free. As I remember spamhaus is rather expensive. ... Hmmn. Is there some reason you