I think this argument is sort of odd. Here is my take:
You have a right to say what you want.
I have a right to ignore you.
Spam filtering allows me to exercise my right to ignore you.
jay plesset, IT director. D. P. Design
On 11/20/2020 3:59 PM, Eric Broch wrote:
It's a given peop
is to say what charset the
rules in the file were in (which is probably best since it would
facilitate custom rule sharing across sites). That's off the top of my
head with no thought so it may be dumb. :-)
Jay
On 7/29/2014 9:33 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
On 7/28/2014 4:17 PM, Jay Plesset wrote:
My church decided to go with O-365, without even evaluating any
alternatives. We have an unemployed IT person that talked the staff into
this, even though I've offered to implement a "real"
uot; was the biggest draw, then "no administration". *sigh*.
jay plesset
IT, dp-design.com
On 7/28/2014 3:49 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:57:38 -0400
"David F. Skoll" wrote:
David> 1) Gmail is actually pretty good at filtering spam. I can't
s, normalizing to UTF8 is almost certainly what we
want if it's reasonably safe.
Jay
--
Jay Sekora
Linux system administrator and postmaster,
The Infrastructure Group
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
ased) spam filter.
j.
--
Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support, Sr. System Administrator
Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224
University of Texas at Austin
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:45:40 +0100
From: Karsten Br?ckelmann
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: dependency hell
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1
On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 13:27 -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> I have a machine on which I'd like to run spamassassin.
> But it's behind an ai
should I do item (1) above and then tar up the
perl tree? Is it going to go to a different perl tree?
FWIW the box is (or will be) running linux.
(I'm ready to give up on this, frankly.)
j.
--
Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support,
o
see what you come up with, too. :-)
Jay
age is kind of ambiguous.
(I will note that ok_languages and ok_locales are pretty useless here,
at least for site-wide use, since we have users with correspondence in
pretty much any language we've ever seen spam in.)
Jay
--
Jay Sekora
Linux system administrator and postmaster,
The Infras
yes, saw both the scanner ones and the new ones, too.
jay plesset
IT, dp-design.com
On 6/21/2013 10:40 AM, David F. Skoll wrote:
Hi,
We're seeing a huge rash of viruses with malformed payloads. They're
supposed to contain a ZIP file, but the MIME part supposedly containing
th
If each message is indeed a separate message, then no sane MTA could
find them the "same" message. Each will have a unique message ID, and
will have different envelope addresses. I certainly would not use an
MTA that would combine such.
jay plesset
Oracle Messaging Server suppor
n, and also using compiled
rules, which did *not* see the problem. So it's puzzling.
At first I commented out the rules and recompiled, but then I discovered
that adding
meta __PILL_PRICE_1 (0)
meta __PILL_PRICE_2 (0)
meta __PILL_PRICE_3 (0)
to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf as suggested by Karsten Bräckelmann worked
fine
--Jay
ically "expire" their
inbox at whatever time period I want If they want to keep something
forever, move it to the "archive" folder..
jay plesset
IT, dp-design.com
Sr. Support Engineer, Oracle
On 2/28/2011 1:51 PM, Matt wrote:
Looking at top 8 newest messages from m
it bounces, I remove the bogus entry from the db.
jay plesset
IT, dp-design.com
Jason Bertoch wrote:
On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote:
Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for
someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data.
My gues
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Jay Plesset wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
What is the point of a quota system that does not limit the
received mail? And if it does limit it then we get irate calls from
people complaining that sally sue sent them a message and got it
returned. Of course, sally
rming. It's not something they can see and
their brains are (apparently) incapable of imagination so they cannot
imagine that Global Warming is real, that's why they make silly
arguments like "global warming must not be happening because
we are having a pretty cold winter" It
7;ll run on the same hardware you're running now. On Redhat 4 or
5, or Solaris.
jay
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Jay Plesset wrote:
Geez, unless your users are into the millions of messages, maybe you
need a more scalable mail server. My day job is support of the Sun
comms suite. I only
Geez, unless your users are into the millions of messages, maybe you
need a more scalable mail server. My day job is support of the Sun
comms suite. I only get these when there are litterally tens of
millions of messages in an inbox.
jay
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Sean Leinart wrote
ow
to make them better. I will be happy if I can get below 2.0. For
example, how do I get the body of the text out of the objectionable HTML
format?
Thanks, Jay
>From my Report:
...Your spam score is: 2.4 points Score Details: pts rule name
des
At home. 1 domain, 5 users.
At work? I do tech support for Sun mail servers. . . . . . .
jay
John Rudd wrote:
Jonathan M Metts wrote:
Count me in. 1 domain, 1 user. Why? Just because I can.
Evan Platt wrote:
At 01:06 PM 3/23/2007, Gary V wrote:
I've been on this mail list onl
ion at all.
Preventing Joe Jobs. Past that, you're right. However, that's a very
useful function in and of itself. If you don't like it, don't use it,
but for god's sake please take your zealotry elsewhere. You'd fit right
in over in nanae.
--
Jay Chandler
N
nect to me? A dynamic IP address? Looks spammy to
me. REJECT!
--
--
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today's Excuse: sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support
oaches.
No one solution is going to be the silver bullet against the spam problem.
--
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today's Excuse: The mainframe needs to rest. It's getting old, you know.
It never fails to amaze me now many mail server admins ask for ways to
break the RFC's in the interest of "security". I do tech support on
mail servers, and get requests to configure out server for this kind of
thing weekly. . .
jay
Philip Prindeville wrote:
Well, I tried
es include CentOS,
Gentoo, Debian. I'm not a big Linux head, others may have stronger
opinions on that front.
Have a look at Solaris 10. It's free, and very well tested. SA runs
very, very will on it. It handles multi cpu well, and gets patched well.
jay plesset
sr. support engineer, sun microsystems.
-- Clifton
be more secure if it has the patches. If Linux for example restrictedit's seurity patches to only licensed users they would have the sameproblem. I'm not saying either that MS should be compelled to distributeany upgrades for free. Just secutiry fixes. -- Jay ChandlerNetwork Administ
do I have to run SA as a separate program? -- Jay ChandlerNetwork Administrator, Chapman University714-628-7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here." -- Peter Da Silva in a.s.r.
r as I know, FuzzyOcr doesn't use bayes: it relies on its own
database >to store image hashes.
>Giampaolo
I think what the original poster was asking was how to make the
gibberish bodies not get Bayes scanned, so as to not pollute the
database with text that isn't spammy.
--
me. Doing this intentionally is a horrible idea.-- Jay ChandlerNetwork Administrator, Chapman University714-628-7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]"Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here." -- Peter Da Silva in a.s.r.
Jess Mooers wrote:
I have 2 email addresses that I would like only local domains to be able to
send messages to. Is there a way to do this with SpamAssassin 3.1.1?
SA is really the wrong tool for this, you should look at setting up a
filter via your Mail Server...
Jay
begin:vcard
fn:Jay
will have that kind of performance.
I regularly use a mail server capable of handling that kind of load.
It's free, and will eventually be open sourced. Sun Java System
Messaging Server. Runs on Solaris, Soaris X86, Linux.
Uses individual files for each message.
jay plesset
sr. tech s
means
I'd have to open a port on my firewall just to get updates, sigh...
Jay
John D. Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Jason Haar wrote:
Has anyone done this, and if so, what sort of tools allow it?
A Linux mail relay in front of the Exchange server. :)
That wouldn't allow messages to be put in a subfolder instead of inbox,
just to do the h
27;t seem to be firing on certain things it should,
do you have the DNS BL's working? Are you using Razor or DCC? Are you
on the latest 3.1.1?
Jay
n autolearn=ham won't kick in unless it's below a
certain score (not sure if this counts bayes or not). But yes, the
real question is why are no rules triggering... Is DNS working? Are
you using the blacklist rules, etc? What does the spam look like?
Jay
d than done when you have a paying customer who wants this specific
mailing.
Have you tried lowering the score of the spamassassin rules that are
getting hit?
Jay
Interesting answers.
I'm using Solaris 10/X86. Sun Java Enterprise Messaging Server.
Integration is built in. easy to set up. Dead stable, but,then I
work for Sun.
jay
Bowie Bailey wrote:
Ask List wrote:
We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating s
echnique too. I've not seen a SA
rule that triggers on this specifically. Any thoughts?
Jay
begin:vcard
fn:Jay Lee
n:Lee;Jay
org:Philadelphia Biblical University;Information Technology Department
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
title:Network / Systems Administrator
version:2.1
end:vcard
y in
the user's mail or mailAlternateAddress.
jay
Loren Wilton wrote:
Differentiating between personal accounts and company email systems, how
do
you all classify OOO messages?
Personally if they are a reply to a mailing list I consider them spam, but
tage
while being more tolerant of the occassional false negative. To each his
own I guess, but I agree with the first respondant that your missing out
by turning off negative scoring...
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
. It's really the only option when processing this
much mail. Switch and watch your load drop dramatically.
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
, many MTAs
are capable of blocking based on the declared helo or dns lookup of the
connecting server.
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
#x27;m not sure where you question is. To test this out, disable spamd...
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
well as more generic
scams. I did bump the scores for these rules up somewhat to help them
along...
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
a
550 5.1.1 unkown alias rejection, right there. Then the message goes to
SA for processing...
Sun Java Messaging Server runs on many OS's, and is a free download, to
try. They'd like you to pay for a license...
jay
Greg Allen wrote:
I have recently been working on the Exchan
aught
anymore and what does the SA report say? We need more details to help you.
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin
Have I missed something obvious? Googling hasn't helped...
thank you!
jay plesset
mail admin for D. P. Design
day job: Tech Support (Messaging Server, Sun Microsystems)
the bayes db
needs before it starts scoring with these two rules in local.cf:
bayes_min_ham_num 100
bayes_min_spam_num 50
be careful about setting it to low though, the less bayes knows about
your org's email characteristics the more likely false positives are.
Jay
it being called
within your mail path?
We can't help you if you don't help us.
I think you meant "Help me, help you!"
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
"obvious spam" score is stored in
a database and retreived for comparison at local delivery time rather
than being hard coded, but anyway, I get the ability to have multiple
spam categories without source code modification to SpamAssassin.
Jay
hmm after pasting that in I wonder
uot; spam.
Just filter based on X-Spam-Level headers. If 8 is certainly spam then
have your server side filter or client filter look for 8 *s, then look
for 5 *s for probably spam. Very simple, no code changes needed.
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology De
What file do I need to edit to change the score on
ALL_TRUSTED?
Thank you
headers based on the "rcpt
to:" so you should assume that recipients bcc or not on the same remote
server may be able to discover each other. But if you're confident your
mail server/client isn't doing something stupid then there should be no
way for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to discover the message was BCCed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jay
--
Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
--
--
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: Bayes issue
Jay Ehrhart wrote:
> The Bayes score is not being used in the overall spam score.
...
> I did a rm bayes_* and it removed the files.
> I have had over 3,000 emails through since I di
The Bayes score is not being used in the overall spam score.
My MailScanner/SpamAssassin has been working fine. I wanted to wipe out the
Bayes files and have them recreate and learn again. I did a rm bayes_* and
it removed the files. I restarted MailScanner and the files were recreated
and the
Matt Kettler wrote:
At 10:43 PM 3/1/2005, Jay Levitt wrote:
Why would the HELO_DYNAMIC_* rules trigger on these headers? Surely
it's ok to have a dynamic IP as the *source* of a message, just not
in a relay..?
It looks like it might be a trust path issue.. are the brandeis.edu
hosts tr
gt;
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:25:30 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Jay Levitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wow, now I really don't know what to say
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8
Jay Levitt wrote:
A quick test shows that indeed, an awful lot of domains are repeatedly
failing in lookup_ns, but that different domains fail at different
times - the domains that repeatedly fail right now were fine last
night in the SA logs.
So it looks like this is something (intermittment
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Wednesday, February 23, 2005, 8:38:31 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:
I tried to create a test harness to see if I can replicate this outside
of SA, but for some reason, even though I double-checked the code I
copied from Dns.pm, I'm getting weird results -
Jeff Chan wrote (quoting Jay Levitt):
Nope, that's not it. I've been throwing debug code in bit by bit.
(More accurately, I've been re-copying the dbg statements as "warns",
because while there's plenty of useful output, there are just too many
un
Kelson wrote:
Jay Levitt wrote:
I have SA 3.01 running under mimedefang 2.43 with sendmail 8.13.1.
At some point, SA seems to stop doing lookups on the DNSBLs; spam
gets through that is listed in multiple BLs; if I check manually with
spamassassin -t, it detects the BL entry, even if I run it
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Friday, February 18, 2005, 8:35:35 PM, Jay Levitt wrote:
I have SA 3.01 running under mimedefang 2.43 with sendmail 8.13.1. At
some point, SA seems to stop doing lookups on the DNSBLs; spam gets
through that is listed in multiple BLs; if I check manually
received.
I don't see anything obvious in the logs. What can I do to troubleshoot
this?
Jay Levitt
Timeout should not be a problem.
My SA seems to take 3 to 6 seconds to scan a message. SMTP timeout
should be 10 minutes, for any server that's compliant with rfc.
jay
John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 24 December 2004 06:59 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently, I have set
Does your local server also do reverse lookups?
Jon Dossey wrote:
As per Matthew Romanek's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) recommendations, I
re-pointed my resolver to a different nameserver (from resolving
locally), and can successfully scan a message in a little under 2.5
seconds (2.3 - 2.4 seconds).
I al
e resources for some
tests, it must be slower at least at times, while Brightmail simply
updates an internal database to refer to.
jay
Gray, Richard wrote:
Brightmail seems to be getting a lot of good press on the SPAM front.
So I'm wondering, why do people running large mail systems choos
You might also look at Solaris X86. I've just brought up such a box,
and am impressed with the performance relative to Linux on the same box.
jay
Jeff Chan wrote:
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 4:28:35 AM, Ronan Ronan wrote:
Hey list,
I am in the quite sureal situation of being
und?
Any ideas what I might be doing wrong with the blacklists?
Thanks for all your help.
Jay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jay Hall wrote:
I am experiencing a problem with one of my rules that I
cannot seem to find.
I have the following rules defined.
rawbody __RAW_EXE_ATTACHMENT/filename=\".*\.exe\"/i
rawbody __RAW_VBS_ATTACHMENT/filename=\".*\.exe\"/i
rawbody
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jay Hall wrote:
I am experiencing a problem with one of my rules that I
cannot seem to find.
I have the following rules defined.
rawbody __RAW_EXE_ATTACHMENT/filename=\".*\.exe\"/i
rawbody __RAW_VBS_ATTACHMENT/filename=\".*\.exe\"/i
rawbody
al rule that checks for an .exe attachment, that
is not part of the meta rule, and I receive the same results. This
leads me to believe there is something wrong with my test for .exe
attachments.
I am running SA 2.64, spamd, and it is invoked from q-mail.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
Jay Hall
but
they were able to set an outside email address so sendmail began delivering
the emails.
Thanks
- Original Message -
From: "Lucas Albers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jay Ehrhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
s are coming from my Linux apache user.
Non-deliverables usually come from root. I am running apache on the server
with forms. The forms software is the latest version and patches.
Can anybody help on this?
Thanks,
Jay
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