Re: Bounce notification

2007-12-21 Thread Rick Mallett
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: dvesely wrote: My server manager tells me that my Windows version of SpamAssasin cannot reject email at the SMTP level. This is only possibble in the Unix version. True or False? False but for a different reason. False because the Unix version of SpamA

X-WUM Header Question

2007-12-03 Thread Rick Mallett
I've noticed that a lot of the lottery spam and nigerian scam messages that slip by SA (3.1.9) unscathed (i.e. score < 5) at my site contain the following headers X-Wum-Nature: EMAIL-NATURE X-WUM-FROM: |~| X-WUM-CCI: |~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~||~|| X-WUM-REPLYTO: |~| and I'd

Re: sa-update

2006-12-06 Thread Rick Mallett
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Duane Hill wrote: Thomas Bolioli wrote: when I run sa-update it puts new copies of the tests in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001005/updates_spamassassin_org which I understand from the docs is the correct location. However, the default tests remain in /usr/share/spamassassin/

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Rick Mallett
What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I've got the entire newsletter that resulted in the "Nigerian Scam" FP I reported but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to include it in the posting. Its only about 3 pages long but its got both a plain text and an HTML component a

Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Rick Mallett
We run a centralized spam filtering filtering facility using SpamAssassin and Mimedefang and we bounce (refuse receipt of) messages that score higher than 10 and we've been doing this for several years and never had any complaints of FP's from our users. However, one of our users was having troub