Re: I need professional help

Thanks, Bob. I've implemented a couple of your suggestions immediately and will read through some of the other ones, as well as Jim's article for ideas on further improvements. --pat-- On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Pat Traynor wrote: I've pastbin'd the firs

Re: I need professional help

ing. --pat-- On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Matthew Newton wrote: Hi, On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 05:44:41AM -0400, Pat Traynor wrote: Thanks, Bob. I've added zen.spamhaus.org to my list. For what it's worth, looking at the last 7 days of logs here, of the total rejections: 75% was rejected du

Re: I need professional help

ess. I deleted them all. btw - if it helps any, here is my postfix main.cf file, with the comments stripped: http://pastebin.com/kpJehe3Z Thanks again for all your help! --pat-- On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Pat Traynor wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: but you can pastebin the rejec

Re: I need professional help

Thanks, Bob. I've added zen.spamhaus.org to my list. --pat-- On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Pat Traynor wrote: I'm using Postfix for mail. I've done some research and implemented several changes in my main.cf file with directives such as smtpd_recipie

Re: I need professional help

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Antony Stone wrote: It's absolutely not from MY customers. I don't let anyone relay their outgoing email through me. On Sunday 13 July 2014 at 16:35:14, Pat Traynor wrote: I run a web server, and for many of my hosting customers, I'll forward their emai

Re: I need professional help

cept spf pass in mta stage, from that point you can begin whitelist if needed, but keep the whitelist in spf since a single ip can have a million domains :) I'm sorry, this is the "beyond my level of expertise" that I was referring to. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Re: I need professional help

spam email hits me multiple times from a domain name that sounds completely unrelated to the subject. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

I need professional help

e a difference. So my question is - are there any trustworthy Linux administrators out there that I could hire that could look over my setup and figure out what I'm doing so wrong? --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Re: Which IP is tested by the RBLs?

Thanks, everyone for all the good info. Lots to digest, but I now have a few options to persue. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Which IP is tested by the RBLs?

al IP address of my Verizon-connected PC, or does it test the IP address of my linux server? --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Re: Getting scores for non-spam

Thanks all for the good info! --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Getting scores for non-spam

there an option that would allow me to see how each of these tests affected the total score? A way to see the individual scores of those tests? Thanks. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Where is plugin directory on a personal install?

? I can't find a "Plugin" directory anywhere in my home directory, aside from the one in the folder where I initially extracted Spamassassin to do the make and install. It doesn't use *that*, does it? --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/1/11 8:43 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: See, this is why I really shouldn't be left alone in front of a keyboard. My perl installation is 5.12.3, NOT 5.3.12. Sigh... it should be 'safe' to backup the ../site_perl* and ../lib/perl5*

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/1/11 7:37 AM, Pat Traynor wrote: My perl installation is at the latest version as of about a month ago (5.3.12), and I'm comfortable installing modules. I believe for current versions of SA, the minimum perl is 5.8.8 See, this is

Re: Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

x27;m comfortable installing modules. Why wont you try on a Virtual machine first? Install the old Fedora and try it out. Well, THAT is probably well beyond my capabilities - getting a server completely installed to the point of it accepting outside mail. Thanks for the ideas! --pat-- -- Pat Tray

Can I install upgraded Spamassassin without uninstalling old?

y that it's working properly before burning my bridge on the outdated (but working) version I've currently got installed. Thanks for any advice. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Re: Learing spam/ham with Pine

Thanks, John. I'm teaching spamassassin now! --pat-- On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Pat Traynor wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, John Hardin wrote: Take a look under http://www.impsec.org/antispam/ for some scripting for user-directed training in that so

Re: Learing spam/ham with Pine

d" at that address. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Learing spam/ham with Pine

ot; file. I'm not looking for something that's site-wide. This is just for my account. Thanks for any help. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor p...@ssih.com

Outsource my mail?

e services with Spamassassin? What I'd like is that if I'm hosting xyzzy.com, I'd like to have mail.xyzzy.com point to this 3rd party provider and have them handle everything. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Shouldn't this porn be flagged?

sbian Babes sharing a stud Nude Short Haired Amateur Fucks Doggystyle On Sofa Drunk blowjob in toilet This seems like a lot of relatively standard porn terms that haven't been recognized. Is this normal? Do I have to add my own rules to catch this sort of stuff? --pat-- -- P

connect(AF_INET) to spamd failed

after 3 retries Mar 22 07:30:00 ssih spamc[390]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Might spamd be loading my machine?

I have 13 users using spamassassin to filter their mail, if that matters. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Attachment size rule?

Does anyone know how I could write a rule based on an attachment size? I'm getting a lot of spams with this specific file attached. It's always named differently, the the size is exactly the same each time. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 80K file attachments

s themselves. As far as I'm concerned, this is spam, and I'd like SA to intercept them. --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]

80K file attachments

attached file was scanned for viruses and none were found, etc. The files are always named differently. Is anyone else seeing this, and is there a rule set that I could put into place to take care of it? --pat-- -- Pat Traynor [EMAIL PROTECTED]