Re: Posioned MX is a bad idea [Was: Email forwarding and RBL trouble]

2007-08-27 Thread Dave Mifsud
all my MX as ?.mx.$my_domain and there is no reason > why this should be indicative of anything. > he literally means *.mx.*, not something.mx.something: > dig yheweathernetwork.com mx ;; ANSWER SECTION: yheweathernetwork.com. 9807IN MX 0 *.mx.*. dave -- Dave Mifsud Syste

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Mifsud
t;pre SA", reject filtering only, or full content > filtering with SA. A surprising number prefer to use just the more > basic checks and deal with what gets through with their mua. > > -Aaron > What's the default option for users? Dave -- Dave Mifsud Systems Engineer Computin

Re: debug returns misleading information (dns/async)

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Mifsud
nefit of others trying to find out what I was referring to) :) dave -- Dave Mifsud Systems Engineer Computing Services Centre University of Malta CSC Tel: (+356) 2340 3004 CSC Fax: (+356) 21 343 397

Re: debug returns misleading information (dns/async)

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Mifsud
Bug 5581 / patch attachment 4081 seems to solve my problem BTW Mark, very nice DNS timings in debug output :) cheers, dave On 11/08/07 14:25, Dave Mifsud wrote: > Hi guys, > > The following is an excerpt from a "spamassassin -D" output or an actual > spam message: &g

debug returns misleading information (dns/async)

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Mifsud
371] dbg: dns: success for 0 of 24 queries Although all DNS queries were answered (logs says so, and message gets tagged with some RBLs), it still claims that none of the queries were successful. That said the async part says that it got 24 completed queries without starting any! any pointers?

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-10 Thread Dave Mifsud
for its name service. > You're planning on moving soon. > > In both of those cases, it would be pretty strange to have more than > two or three A records. > So one or the other of short-TTL and many-As is legit, > but together they're good enough spam-sign that a lot of f

Re: Number spam (grey listing)

2007-08-08 Thread Dave Mifsud
On 07/08/07 11:18, John Andersen wrote: > Ok, what is this stuff. > All it contains is 6 digit numbers. What's up with that stuff? > my guess is: just to break grey listing... seems the real stuff was a mailshot of "ecards" a few hours later dave -- Dave Mifsud Sy

Re: DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME

2007-08-07 Thread Dave Mifsud
On 06/08/07 12:52, Rob Sterenborg wrote: > ... I'm wondering: when exactly does an email > hit this rule? > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5485 -- Dave Mifsud Systems Engineer Computing Services Centre University of Malta CSC Tel: (+356) 2340 3004