Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

On 7/26/20 6:06 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: On 7/24/20 7:41 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On 24/07/2020 23:26, Benny Pedersen wrote: Noel Butler skrev den 2020-07-24 14:57: because it shits trolls like you off https://imgur.com/pHlUeZY?fbclid=IwAR2l8HBDnXST5-adnmyIbBAsq16sZeGNhfqHwBNM8I kQZsir2

Re: Why the new changes need to be "depricated" forever

On 7/24/20 7:41 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On 24/07/2020 23:26, Benny Pedersen wrote: Noel Butler skrev den 2020-07-24 14:57: because it shits trolls like you off https://imgur.com/pHlUeZY?fbclid=IwAR2l8HBDnXST5-adnmyIbBAsq16sZeGNhfqHwBNM8IkQZsir2aUw-H919hk dunno what you referenced benny I

Re: Can't Get Removed From List

On 3/1/18 3:58 PM, Luis E. Muñoz wrote: On 1 Mar 2018, at 11:54, Miles Fidelman wrote: [...] and sometimes turn on VERP to narrow things down to an individual. It's all made so much worse by morons who confuse the "spam" button with their "delete" key when using web

Re: Can't Get Removed From List

On 3/1/18 3:02 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Mar 1, 2018, at 2:54 PM, Miles Fidelman mailto:mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>> wrote: On 3/1/18 2:45 PM, David Jones wrote: On 03/01/2018 01:01 PM, Kevin Viner wrote: The following text is not SA "advice" nor report. You

Re: Can't Get Removed From List

ot; button with their "delete" key when using webmail from a big provider. Sigh...) Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

ee it." :-) Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: FROM header with two email addresses

f the message.  Hacks abound. But basically, DKIM is just broken. Miles Fidelman On 9/27/17 12:16 AM, Jakob Curdes wrote: Hello all, I recently stumbled onto a mail with a Spam link where the FROM header field looked like this: From: "Firstname Lastname@" sendern...@real-senders-doma

Re: List of legit mass mailers

as well as legitimate mail. On the other hand, private email lists are almost never going to make it onto such a lists. Miles Fidelman On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Marc Perkel mailto:supp...@junkemailfilter.com>> wrote: Just wondering if anyone has - or in interested in - a l

tuning the interface between spamassassin and a list manager

sy way to set a different threshold for rejecting mail to lists. Can anybody suggest an easy place and mechanism for intercepting mail destined for the server and rejecting based on the spamassassin score? Thanks Very Much, Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory a

Re: dealing with mail not yet listed in network tests

opies of the same message. Queuing messages for a little while, seems like a good start. Miles Fidelman Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.11.2014 um 13:04 schrieb David F. Skoll: On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:39:13 +0100 Matthias Leisi wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:35 AM, John Hardin wrote: if y

might explain the spam with large headers...

--- Begin Message --- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 - - Debian Security Advisory DSA-3019-1 secur...@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso Se

Re: discard high scoring spam?

Mark Chaney wrote: I sure I hope I didnt fail to bad on searching for this answer, but when simply using spamassasin with postfix as an incoming smtp relay server and not using anything like amavis or mailscanner, is there still a way to discard high scoring spam (lets say 25), yet still marki

Re: Recently inherited a mail gateway, need some assistance

Deku42 wrote: We recently had an employee leave who maintained our mail gateway, which has now been pushed on to me. Very little instructions were left, but I need to whitelist an address via SpamAssassin. I added the domain into the local.cf file, but then the instructions say to restart /etc/in

Re: Microsoft brings down major fake drug spam network

Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Bill Landry, Am 2011-03-18 15:11:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: No wonder I have seen such a huge drop in spam the past few days: ??? I get 18-26 mio spams (36 servers with 96.000 users) per day and nothing has changed. Please read the news (no

Re: Constant Contact

Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Just to add another data point -- There is a local network of small tech entrepreneurs in my region. They have an email list for discussing various aspects of running small businesses (sometimes just one person out of their home), and one of the questions that frequently

Re: unsubscribe

Terry Carmen wrote: A better solution would be to automatically handle the request as it was intended. unless, of course, someone happens to be writing a message with the word "unsubscribe" in it, and DOESN'T want to unsubscribe to the list let you think this is picking a nit I run a lis

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

Am 2009-07-28 04:07:23, schrieb snowweb: I don't know about anyone else, but I'm getting a bit hacked of with this 1980's style forum. I'm trying to get to the bottom of an SA issue and this list/forum thing is giving me a bigger headache than SA! Based on the reactions so far, it seems

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

LuKreme wrote: On Jul 28, 2009, at 9:20 AM, John Rudd wrote: Besides, usenet/nntp is getting to be a vanishing backwater of the net these days ... and the only _decent_ nntp reader was "nn", which never really made its way to the GUI era, much less the web era. In fact, if you know much about n

Re: Check to see if my server is on Blacklists?

Don Ireland wrote: Is there some place I can go and see if my email sever is on a blacklist? I just received a msg that it's on at least one--psbl. Thanks. I always use www.dnsstuff.com - lots of useful tools. Keep in mind, though, that there seem to be more and more private systems that

Re: Who is emaildirect.com and CIHost?

jdow wrote: I was recently on the receiving end of an ssh attack (which had less chance of success than a nitrocellulose cat in a traditional hell of succeeding) from CIHost. And now I received a spate of low scoring DKIM identified spams from emaildirect.com, which is hosted in CIHost's address

Re: Just a general question

maillist wrote: I've been on this mail list only for a few months now, and am wondering if I am the smallest guy here. I often have questions, and usually find the answer just by browsing in past mails, which is really cool. I see most of the folks that are questioning/replying are admins of

Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham

Dan wrote: I've developed a new approach to scoring that I want to 1) share with everyone and 2) make into a working system thats as accurate as what I've already built, but easier to use. First, the theory: NEW ASSUMPTION All messages are spam unless x,y,z score says they're ham. NEW APPROA

Re: Spamassassin Integrating first step problems

Tom wrote: Hi there followed the steps layed out on the wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratingSA First Step page followed the link http://onetforum.com/fourm/viewtopic.php?p=27 Now when I check my email the new messages are now in the postfix mail que When I check the /var/log/maillog I

help needed with sa-update

uggestions on how to figure out and fix what's going on? Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman

Re: mapping dynamic IPs to specific accounts

ming) and then impose our own rules of behavior on those users by blacklisting them mike On 12/27/06, *Miles Fidelman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Mike Kenny wrote: > A client of mine provides an email service to a number of mobile > users

Re: mapping dynamic IPs to specific accounts

owtos. Miles Fidelman

Re: question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

Not as easily done as said. Matthias Leisi wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Do you *really* need to pass locally generated mail through Spamassassin? Most likely not. I prefer to, since I have a number of users who use my machine as their SMTP route to the world - and you never know when a

Re: question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

Matt Kettler wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to whitelist control messages generated by our list manager (Sympa) - which are generated on the localhost and sent to addresses on the localhost. In particular, here's a specific example: *From:

Re: question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

Matt Kettler wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to whitelist control messages generated by our list manager (Sympa) - which are generated on the localhost and sent to addresses on the localhost. In particular, here's a specific example: *From:

question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to whitelist control messages generated by our list manager (Sympa) - which are generated on the localhost and sent to addresses on the localhost. In particular, here's a specific example: *From: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject: * **

scoring question

Hi, I got the following in a message from our list management software: *X-Spam-Status: * Yes, hits=9.7 tagged_above=0.0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, BAYES_20, NO_RELAYS *X-Spam-Level: * * *X-Spam-Flag: * YES Basic configuration: Debian Sarge Postfix amavisd-new spamassassin 3.001003 stand

Re: question re. SPF checks

hich host it arrives from when using Thunderbird et al. The host from which it arrives changes, but that's not part of the envelope. And yes, you can disable anything with a network profile. rtfm. Miles Fidelman wrote: I starting to set up SPF records for the domains I manage, and have r

question re. SPF checks

ail coming from authenticated clients, without turning off all the other checks (as, for example, would happen if mail was submitted via port 587)? Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman

Re: new question

Miles Fidelman wrote: - A fairly sizeable percentage of spams that come through as false negatives, ending up in my normal mailbox (I was hoping for better). Well... one key discovery: I run a lot of virtual domains on my site, so... I had to add all of them to @local_domains_acl -- something

Re: Running on Debian stable

Johann Spies wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 04:52:24PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: Thanks Gary! Any advantages to installing from testing? Seems like backports would be just a bit safer. After trying out backports' 3.1.3 I have gone back to 3.0.3. I had regular entries in

new question

Thanks everyone who helped with upgrading on my new Sarge box. Now that I have a relatively current spamassassin, and up-to-date rules, I realize two things: 1. I need to turn on Baysian filtering - too much stuff still gets through. But that's another topic. 2. A whole LOT of stuff that go

Re: Running on Debian stable

Gary V wrote: Found it, changed it, seems to work like a charm. Now let's see if the new rules actually catch more spam than the basic stable install. :-) Thanks again Miles I never took the time to set up RulesDuJour or study which SARE rules might be the most appropriate for me. Th

Re: Running on Debian stable

Found it, changed it, seems to work like a charm. Now let's see if the new rules actually catch more spam than the basic stable install. :-) Thanks again Miles Gary V wrote: The patch is for newer versions of amavisd-new. You can manually add the necessary line. edit /usr/sbin/amavi

Re: Running on Debian stable

Hi Folks, So far, so good - thanks for all the input! I did the basic upgrade from backports, reloaded amavis and postfix, and all seems to be working just fine (note that I discovered that I also had to upgrade spamc, separately, from backports). One follow-up question: Gary V wrote: If yo

Re: Running on Debian stable

plugin is disabled). And.. if I go the cpan route, anything else to watch out for (e.g., does it install in different places that the .deb package)? Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman I would advise against installing from CPAN or source unless you --purge remove spamassassin before you d

RE: Running on Debian stable

install in different places that the .deb package)? Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman