RE: filtered by mass hosters

2008-04-12 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: mouss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:31 AM > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: filtered by mass hosters > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > HI, > unfortunatly lots of our legitime mails are filtered by mass >

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James E. Pratt
> > Do your own queries and whois lookups...but these address blocks are > INCORRECTLY LISTED BY SORBS and they refuse (yes, I've heard from them) > to remove them. Apparently because our inbound and outbound MTA's > don't > use the same addresses! I have no idea what crack-monkey at SORBS > wro

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-26 Thread James E. Pratt
> > > > Why? Can you remove them from the SORBS_DUL? No, then it's not > really > > relevant then is it ;) > > I was trying to help you find the real problem. If you don't want help, > stop > bitching. > > I have seen more requests here to stop using some blacklists because of > the > requestor

RE: Why two spam assassins rank the same message so differently?

2008-03-24 Thread James E. Pratt
> > by dgw218.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with smtp (Exim 4.62 We've been blocking adsl.tpnet.pl for over a year yet they still barrage our servers daily with bot-infested clients. Some sites block the whole .PL tld, but that's a bit evil IMO.

blogspot spam

2008-03-19 Thread James E. Pratt
Hi. I'm seeing lots of these get by: http://pastebin.com/m8520d64 anyone have a rule for these? The last one I put up is at: http://pastebin.com/m159c02de Thanks, Jamie

RE: Why can't I change value of required_score ?

2008-03-18 Thread James E. Pratt
Apologies, I meant to send this to the qmail-toaster list... :( > -Original Message- > From: James E. Pratt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:38 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: Why can't I change value of required_score ? >

FW: Why can't I change value of required_score ?

2008-03-18 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: James E. Pratt > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:36 PM > To: 'Yavuz Maslak' > Subject: RE: Why can't I change value of required_score ? > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Yavuz Maslak [mailto:

RE: ways to react faster to spam attacks

2008-03-17 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:43 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: ways to react faster to spam attacks > > greetings. > most of the spam we get (like 90%) is the usual internet noise. sa > fi

RE: Whitelisting PayPal "Notification of payment" Messages

2008-03-13 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:27 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Whitelisting PayPal "Notification of payment" Messages > > James E. Pratt wrote: > > Well, if

RE: Whitelisting PayPal "Notification of payment" Messages

2008-03-13 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: Rob McEwen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:40 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Whitelisting PayPal "Notification of payment" Messages > > Michael B Allen wrote: > > I really have my HTML rules cranked up and

RE: new version always trusts 127.0.0.1

2008-03-12 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:14 AM > To: dougp23 > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: new version always trusts 127.0.0.1 > > dougp23 wrote: > > Hi. Running SA 3.1.8 > > > > Would like to move to a n

RE: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day > > At 11:47 10-03-2008, Bob Proulx wrote: > >What would have been the downside of *not* having a backup MX?

RE: SV: "Nice girl like to chat" spam

2008-02-22 Thread James E. Pratt
> > In general, any rules you see posted to the list that you want to use > > should be pasted into any .cf file in your main SA site-rules > directory > > (usually either /etc/mail/spamassassin/ or /etc/spamassassin/). Not > > all > > of them are formally distributed as rulesets - these are an >

RE: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-19 Thread James E. Pratt
-Original Message- From: Francesco Abeni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 11:12 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Spamassassin Subject: Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions > Something else that can be useful is using an MTA blacklist. I use the > zen.spamhaus.org b

RE: upgrading is just like installing

2008-02-12 Thread James E. Pratt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:26 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: upgrading is just like installing KB> User? SA is for administrators, not for users. Also, there is *nothing* KB> special about SA

FW: [Mimedefang] MD tries to open /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs(was Re: mimedefang-multiplexor and bayes_path)

2008-01-29 Thread James E. Pratt
-Original Message- From: James E. Pratt Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:34 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] MD tries to open /root/.spamassassin/user_prefs(was Re: mimedefang-multiplexor and bayes_path) > Kelson wr

RE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.4

2008-01-07 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: James Lay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:54 PM >> To: Spamassassin >> Subject: Re: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.4 >> >> New upgrade is running GREAT here :) >> >> James >> Not so great here with MimeDefang/Sendmail. Imageinfo pl

RE: Botnet why?

2008-01-03 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: Dan Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 4:00 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Botnet why? >> >> Why'd baddns hit? I'm confused. >> >> Dan >> >> Report: >> >> Content analysis details: (5.9 points, 5.6 r

RE: How often is the main rules channel updated?

2007-12-19 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: Dan Grossman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 7:21 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: How often is the main rules channel updated? >> >> I'm worried that my cronjob for sa-update is not working correctly, as >>

RE: How to trust my "domain"?

2007-10-17 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: maillist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:12 PM >> To: Skip >> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: How to trust my "domain"? >> >> Skip wrote: >> > Guess this would help: >> > >> > Using sendmail 8.13.8 with SA 3.

RE: Bit OT but it's about SPAM

2007-10-17 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:58 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Bit OT but it's about SPAM >> >> On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I just thought if anyone hasn't

RE: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-09 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: Skip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:26 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Advice on MTA blacklist >> >> > Well, in the real world, many of us who would have to scan >> > over 150,000 inbound emails a day,

RE: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-09 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: Skip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:17 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Advice on MTA blacklist >> >> None. I'd rather bump up my system resources than allow a system >> completely >> out of my control t

RE: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!)

2007-09-28 Thread James E. Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: hanz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 4:31 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: RE: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!) >> >> >> Thanks for confirming how botnet works. This is exactly the problem! >> >>

RE: List of 600,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-11 Thread James E. Pratt
I think I speak for many when I ask you that you please take your remarks off-list. I definitely don't want or need this type of garbage in my inbox. Thanks, jamie -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:30 AM To: users@spamassa

RE: Newbie, Has Questions

2007-03-30 Thread James E. Pratt
>My email server is Scalix, which appears to use Sendmail as its engine. >My SA is already tagging messages as Spam (fast learner), but like I said, >rather than deliver them, I want to just throw them out. No, I don't think >Sendmail supports maildir. > > >I run on FC3. Sorry, I can't help

RE: whitelisting yahoogroups.com

2007-03-28 Thread James E. Pratt
rs this may not work anymore anyhow, since I'm seeing stuff like: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED] ahoo.com> in the maillog lately... :\ Regards, Jamie -Original Message- From: Ilya Vishnyakov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:42 PM To: James E. Pratt Cc

RE: whitelisting yahoogroups.com

2007-03-28 Thread James E. Pratt
But, wouldn't that allow a spammer spoofing using that address "full-spammer-access"? I use: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo.com regards, jamie -Original Message- From: maillist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:34 PM To: Ilya Vishnyako

Pyzor issue since upgrade to 3.1.3

2006-06-06 Thread James E. Pratt
Hi. ever since I updated a test relay to SA 3.1.3 from 3.1.2, pyzor (0.40) has stopped(?) working ... spamassassin -D --lint [7207] dbg: pyzor: pyzor is available: /usr/bin/pyzor [7207] dbg: info: entering helper-app run mode [7207] dbg: pyzor: opening pipe: /usr/bin/pyzor check < /tmp/.spamas

RE: Re[2]: problem with using SARE rules, names longer than 22 chars

2006-05-18 Thread James E. Pratt
-Original Message- From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 12:22 AM To: James E. Pratt Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re[2]: problem with using SARE rules, names longer than 22 chars Hello James, Wednesday, May 17, 2006, 6:09:51 AM

RE: problem with using SARE rules, names longer than 22 chars

2006-05-17 Thread James E. Pratt
-Original Message- From: Jo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:05 AM To: Matt Kettler Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: problem with using SARE rules, names longer than 22 chars Matt Kettler wrote: > Jo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We're using spamassas