Re: Alan Ralsky indicted

2008-01-03 Thread Tom Ray
I think I know this guy. I think I've actually done stuff for him about 8-10 years ago. Yeah, the ISP I was working with at the time thought that SPAM was a quick buck and supported a few spamming houses. jdow wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/04/0154229 Points to this articl

Bit OT but it's about SPAM

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Ray
I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might be interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has now reached being 95% of all email. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=5545 From the report: * Global spam levels reached an all-time high of 95% of all

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 not catching any emails

2007-09-21 Thread Tom Ray
Dave Addey wrote: Hi all, As part of an “Ensim” (Linux control panel) installation, I’m running the Ensim-provided install of SpamAssassin 3.1.9. Unfortunately, I’m finding that no emails are being caught as spam. Whilst I’m sure that Ensim is doing some non-standard stufff around SpamAssas

Re: charter.net

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Ray
t "I'm sorry sir, I don't know what you are talking about. I just know what my screen tells me" Oh and I'm also am on my 6th request and 3rd month of waiting for Charter.net's upper level support team to contact me so we can figure out why they always seem to defer

Re: is it possible to setup SA in a different machine?

2007-08-24 Thread Tom Ray
sage in queue until the server(s) are responding again. I hold messages for 14 days before thawing and dumping them. Oh and finally, once SA scans email once for the domain it puts the user_prefs file in /home/sa-users/domaincom/.spamassassin Hope this helps. -- Tom Ray Cheif Operations

Includes Question.

2006-08-06 Thread Tom Ray
I have SA set up to run per user, my question is does the user_prefs file support any include commands like Apache's httpd.conf or Bind's named.conf file does? I basically don't want to re-write the maing user_prefs file when a user updates their White or Black lists via the web interface I'm p

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-02 Thread Tom Ray
Tom Ray wrote: Derek Harding wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Ray wrote: Anyone serious about stopping SPAM should not use SpamCop. They have no real checking method, it's like AOL's spam blocking method...they just let users submit what they think is spam and the

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-02 Thread Tom Ray
Derek Harding wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Ray wrote: Anyone serious about stopping SPAM should not use SpamCop. They have no real checking method, it's like AOL's spam blocking method...they just let users submit what they think is spam and then block it. It&#x

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-02 Thread Tom Ray
Marc Perkel wrote: Logan Shaw wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: SMTP passwords go away because SMTP goes away. The idea is that outgoing IMAP would replace SMTP and there would be no SMTP between clients and servers. SMTP would be a server to server protocol. That's all we

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-02 Thread Tom Ray
Anyone serious about stopping SPAM should not use SpamCop. They have no real checking method, it's like AOL's spam blocking method...they just let users submit what they think is spam and then block it. It's pointless. There's not even a way to contact anyone at SpamCop to fix a falsely listed

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-01 Thread Tom Ray
4a) maybe generalize #4 to include various other RFC issues (matching PTR and A records is an RFC requirement, after all), such as the things tracked at RFC-Ignorant Less feasible, too many players. How about: domain registrars are required to block any domain they have registered

Re: Custom .cf files

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Ray
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 03:06:40PM -0400, Tom Ray wrote: Is it possible to have each user have their own 10_misc.cf or any of the other .cf files? Right now all are stored in /usr/share/spamassassin I'd like each user to have their own. Anyone done this b

Custom .cf files

2006-07-26 Thread Tom Ray
I know I asked this before but I believe I asked it wrong. Is it possible to have each user have their own 10_misc.cf or any of the other .cf files? Right now all are stored in /usr/share/spamassassin I'd like each user to have their own. Anyone done this before? -- Tom Ray Detroit O

Re: Editing Question....

2006-06-09 Thread Tom Ray
Martin Hepworth wrote: Tom Depends on what's call SA. SA will only mark the spam, any processing beyond that is up to you.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: Tom Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Editing Question....

2006-06-09 Thread Tom Ray
hosting but I run each domain under it's own user name so the Admin controls their spam rules. I want them to be able to edit that with their own information. Can we do that? -- Tom Ray Detroit Online http://www.detroitonline.com Toll Free: 888-235-6817 x501 Local: 313-887-0805 x501

Re: Virtual Users

2006-06-07 Thread Tom Ray
as the user and group. 4) Am I doing this right? I've laid out my specs before and asked that but no ones said yes or no. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Tom Ray Detroit Online http://www.detroitonline.com Toll Free: 888-235-6817 x501 Local: 313-887-0805 x501

Just installed Spam Assassin and having a little issue.

2006-05-19 Thread Tom Ray
ne this before? I'm kinda new to SA and I'm still getting the hang of customizing it. Thanks! -- Tom Ray Detroit Online http://www.detroitonline.com Toll Free: 888-235-6817 x501 Local: 313-887-0805 x501