Re: Cold emails are not considered spam?

2025-05-09 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
nd cold email (thinking the GDPR loophole here). Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 Creator of the term 'deliverability'; Co-Founder of the deliverability industry Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange Dea

Re: Ways to reduce calls to Validity BLs (was Validity (return path blocklist))

2025-04-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
a little bit less heavy lifting, and can focus their resources on >> actual spam? >> That is the *entire* reason for our being > > with the new limits your beeing has no longer any reason We are not Validity, we are the other guys, we have no limits, never have, never will. We

Re: Ways to reduce calls to Validity BLs (was Validity (return path blocklist))

2025-04-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
, to help keep email usable and to better identify good email versus spam so that receivers have to do a little bit less heavy lifting, and can focus their resources on actual spam? That is the *entire* reason for our being. Anne CEO ISIPP SuretyMail (the IADB Good Senders List, a/k/a "t

Re: Welcome to the new Chair of SpamAssassin PMC

2025-04-05 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
; voted in by PMC and approved by the ASF Board of Directors. Congratulations, Giovanni! And congratulations to you, Sidney, on passing the crown! Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) CEO Inst

Re: Fake paypal email triggers -7.5 USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL From: address is in the default DKIM

2025-01-30 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
(so far at least) is that the 1 prefix of the phone number is actually an uppercase i (so "I" not "1"), so that spam filters can identify the scams by filtering on "Call-I(" Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author:

Re: All RCVD_IN_VALIDITY rules being applied to every email.

2024-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
month that Scott Weiss started Bonded Sender). All we ask is that if you are going to do a ton of querying, that you transfer the zone to a local copy instead of querying directly. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPA

Re: ATTENTION: DNSWL to be disabled by default.

2024-09-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
fact that we charge a relatively small monthly sum to the senders makes firing them pretty painless. Thus it has always been - best practices over money *always* - we can take this stand because we are, always have been, and always will be, privately held, and the buck stops with me). Anne -- Ann

Re: Lots of FN because of VALIDITY* rules

2024-06-14 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
B tests) not doing the right thing! Thank you, Anne --- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Internet Law & Policy Attorney CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Creator of the term 'deliverability

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2022-02-19 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
ubject line of the test email. Anne --- Outsource your email deliverability headaches to us, and get to the inbox, guaranteed! www.GetToTheInbox.com Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. CEO Get to the Inbox by SuretyMail Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) Au

Re: netflix phishing emails forwarded via sendgrid

2021-02-02 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
Does anyone have a copy of the netflix phishing that they could forward to me at amitch...@isipp.com, including the body of it? TIA! Anne > On Feb 2, 2021, at 1:04 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On 2021-02-02 03:25, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> Since it's already hitting 8.9, why do more? > > t

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
rule-provision-under-can-spam-act The more in-depth version is here: https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/federal_register_notices/definitions-and-implementation-under-can-spam-act-16-cfr-part-316/080521canspamact.pdf Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecur

Re: Technically not spam

2020-05-29 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
mailings, each of which you have to > seek out individually) is … well, not going to work with many users, > especially the less technical. Not to mention that it is a violation of Federal law. Federal law requires a "one-step" unsubscribe method. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-08 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
The offending sender has been terminated by the ESP. > On Aug 7, 2019, at 3:06 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > Hi David! > > We are the IADB, and if you are getting spam from an accredited IP address, > we definitely want to know about it. The reason that em

Re: who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-07 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
l take the responsible party to task for it, and asap. Can you please forward a copy, with headers, directly to me, and I will personally make sure that it is taken care of, and with haste. Thank you. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public Poli

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> > I don't want to weigh in on the perceived worth of your signature, but > are you aware of the signature convention that has been around for > decades? It is mentioned in RFC 3676 and many other places: > > There is a long-standing convention in Usenet news which also commonly > appears i

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-25 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
th you...however when discussing things actually having to do with the law, I have found that establishing my expertise and authority up front tends to ward off lengthy discussions that take up way more mailing list bandwidth than the signature. Much like this email, really. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Atto

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
> On Nov 21, 2018, at 12:03 PM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2018, at 13:03, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: > >> Except for the private right of action provided in GDPR, and small claims >> court in the U.S. > > Are you saying an EU law can create an ac

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
tty damned gutsy. It will almost certainly be sorted out through lawsuits, and that will definitely be popcorn time. > On Nov 21, 2018, at 11:03 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. > wrote: > > > >> On Nov 21, 2018, at 8:48 AM, Bill Cole >> wrote: >> >> T

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
ere that it applies to EU residents or citizens, only the vague and ambiguous "in the EU") the language in GDPR that states they will go after anyone, anywhere in the world. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant Author: Sec

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
oupled with the private right of action suggests that you'd at least have a shot. The reason that political spam is exempted in the U.S. is because of the 1st Amendment..which of course does not apply outside the U.S.. ;-) Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO

Re: semi-OT - reporting an organization that ignores unsubscribe requests

2018-11-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
il is exempt from most Federal law relating to email, email marketing, etc.. But THAT said, a word to their provider can (and sometimes does) still have the desired (individual) effect, because providers care about their IP space reputation (more so than most political campaigns). Anne An

Re: Bayes overtraining

2018-08-24 Thread Anne P. Mitchell, Esq.
oportionate benefit to the sender.” Anything less is grounds for immediate termination. So, again, if you ever find anything that triggers an IADB rule that is not something for which you/your user affirmatively opted in, we want to know about it. The buck stops right here: Anne Anne P. Mitc

Re: IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-01 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
ally means the "you don't get to run an affiliate program and look the other way while you profit from your affiliates spamming - we're looking at you Gevalia" section." (*For those of you who are also law/policy wonks, text of Section 6 available upon request. :-)

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
smission and reception of the message appears to the recipient to give a disproportionate benefit to the sender.” I think that it still holds up. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, I

Re: Tone of emails with subject: 'hey'

2018-02-06 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Ironically, Gmail's spam filters have filtered every single one of the emails in this thread. :-\ Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law) Legislative Consultant CEO/President, Institute for Social Internet Public P

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > My sense is that ESPs engage ISIPP thinking they are getting an advocate and > ambassador to mailbox providers when in fact they get a teacher/evangelist > for sender best practices. ITYM 'schooled in best practices. ;-) ;-) Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/Presi

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
rified sign-ups such as through web page" (which is one of our codes) ...they are never actually going to get certified (unless we can educate them and they actually change their wicked ways). You can see the full list of codes here: http://www.isipp.com/email-accreditation/about-the

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
already has tighter laws. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance http://www.SuretyMail.com/ http://www.SuretyMail.eu/ Attorney at Law / Legislative Consultant Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (th

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
ated for SA because SA *can* take advantage of that level of granularity)). Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification and Inbox Delivery Assistance http://www.SuretyMail.com/ http://www.SuretyMail.eu/ Attorney at Law / Legislative Consul

Response from ISIPP (was Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org)

2017-11-15 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
he *receiving* community (for those who don't know, I came to this by way of being in-house counsel for Paul Vixie and MAPS, so I am seriously anti-spam, and part of the receiving community); but we can't address any issues if they aren't brought to our attention. That just happene

MailChimp Update (Was Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware)

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
MailChimp has said that they believe that they have terminated all accounts that were responsible for this. BUT, they say, this is a group that keeps cropping up (think whack-a-mole), so to please report any more of these that anyone receives. Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
Sorry for top-posting, but just to let folks know, our contact has just let me know that he is on this; I'll report back with anything I hear that I can share. Anne > > Hi, > >>> Another email from a whitelisted mailchimp address that contains malware. >>> >>> https://pastebin.com/ay83iWjC >

Re: Off-topic, was: [Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware]

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
> > On Friday 20 October 2017 at 19:29:31, Anne P. Mitchell Esq. wrote: > >> Anne P. Mitchell, >> Attorney at Law > > I'm intrigued as to what the "Esq." in your From address indicates? > > Please feel free to reply offlist if appropriate

Re: MailChimp with link to javascript/zip malware

2017-10-20 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
; Complicating things, it's in Italian. > > I've reported it to MailChimp and also removed mailchimp (mcdlv.net > and rsgsv.net) from the local whitelist. Alex, may I share this, confidentially and directly, with our abuse czar contact at Mailchimp? And if so, can you please gi

Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org

2017-09-21 Thread Anne P. Mitchell Esq.
than happy to do that - that's *always* been how we do things - whatever makes it easiest for the *receiving* community, with whom, at the end of the day, our allegiance lays. ;-) Anne Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)

Re: dns*.registrar-servers.com as a rogue registrar?

2013-05-07 Thread Jan P. Kessler
> For this particular case it would be better to write a DNS plugin that > would do a DNS lookup for the domain nameservers and return that in a > matchable form. Going via the registrar to get the nameservers incurs > far too much overhead. Two examples with postfwd: # hard version id=REJECT_BA

Re: Samples?

2010-08-26 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Am 25.8.2010 22:47, schrieb Karsten Bräckelmann: > > Jan, any chance you could provide the paragraphs or text parts > corresponding to the seeks? > > Just to clarify: We do *not* require the full message, even though it > makes things simpler. In fact, no headers (other than Subject) are ever > u

Sought False Positives

2010-08-20 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Hi, we use spamassassin with the sought ruleset since several years at our company. After the upgrade to from 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 we notice tons of false-positives hitting on the rules JM_SOUGHT_1 and JM_SOUGHT_2. Unfortunaley I can not give examples as these messages contain confidental customer data

RE: Updating spam signatures file

2010-08-16 Thread Suhag P Desai
I gone through http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates Below is my version.. SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.5 running on Perl 5.8.8 with SSL support (IO::Socket::SSL 1.31) with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.024) I have two directories.. under /var/lib/spamassassin 3.002005 3.003

FW: how to configure tcp.smtp

2010-08-05 Thread Suhag P Desai
Simscan is compulsory to use in tcp.smtp ? as I want both attachment filtering and content filtering for mails From: Suhag P Desai [mailto:spde...@gnvfc.net] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 2:46 PM To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' Subject: how to configure tcp.smtp I

how to configure tcp.smtp

2010-08-05 Thread Suhag P Desai
I am running qmailtoaster-plus on my centos box with below spamd version. [r...@spd ~]# spamd --version SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.5 running on Perl 5.8.8 with SSL support (IO::Socket::SSL 1.31) with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.024) can anyone let me know how to configure

RE: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

2010-08-04 Thread Suhag P Desai
, 2010 12:08 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use Suhag P Desai wrote: > > spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in > use > S

server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

2010-08-03 Thread Suhag P Desai
I have installed qmail toaster plus latest version. When I run the spamd it appears with below output. [r...@spd ~]# spamd [25502] warn: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [25502] warn: server socket setup fail

RE: spamassassin or simscan ???

2010-07-27 Thread Suhag P Desai
(Of course both incoming and outgoing). Thanks, Suhag. -Original Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:ri...@ummm-beer.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:24 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin or simscan ??? On 27/07/2010 1:41 PM, Suhag P Desai wrote

RE: spamassassin or simscan ???

2010-07-27 Thread Suhag P Desai
LIST $SMTPD $VCHKPW /bin/true 2>&1 -Original Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:ri...@ummm-beer.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:03 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin or simscan ??? On 27/07/2010 1:21 PM, Suhag P Desai wrote: > Thanks Rick

RE: spamassassin or simscan ???

2010-07-27 Thread Suhag P Desai
;/var/qmail/control /domainkeys/%/private" But still spam detection is not done.. I am trying to scan internal mail i.e from same domain to domain Please help Thanks.. -Original Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:ri...@ummm-beer.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:43 P

spamassassin or simscan ???

2010-07-27 Thread Suhag P Desai
Hi all, I can scan all the attachment as per rule define in simcontrol and tcp.smtp. But I am not able to detect the spam mail as define in rule set of /etc/mail/spamassassin/ ..please help My simcontrol file looks like below [r...@spd tcprules.d]# cat /var/qmail/control/simcontrol hi.com

RE: SA scan internal to external / internal to internal

2010-07-26 Thread Suhag P Desai
Anyone has any comment ? -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:bowie_bai...@buc.com] Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:16 PM To: Suhag P Desai Subject: Re: SA scan internal to external / internal to internal courier-authlib is the authentication database that stores userids and

SA scan internal to external / internal to internal

2010-07-24 Thread Suhag P Desai
Hi Mailing List users, This is my first message in this mail community and I am evaluating SA very first time. I have few question in my mind regarding working of SA. I gone through a FAQ and some documentation from official SA websites. 1. Is SA for external to internal mail only

correction: was: WARNING CENTOS USERS! BEWARE AUTO YUM INSTALL OF 3.3.1!

2010-03-24 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Charles Gregory wrote: Had a nice HEART-STOPPING moment this morning! Logged in and found my mailbox had no new mail! WTF!?? Checked the logs and discovered that my nightly automatic updates via YUM had pulled in the new SA 3.3.1-3. WARNING: Centos does NOT run t

RE: Upgrading to SpamAssassin 3.3

2010-03-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Kaleb Hosie wrote: I do have a test VM so I thought I would go ahead and try out 3.3.0 for now. I ran into a bit of an issue with the NetAddr::IP module. I've installed it but when I try to install the built RPM file it gives me this error: error: Failed dependencies:

SA 3.3.0 spamassassin taint issue

2010-01-21 Thread R P Herrold
I have not gotten this into the bugzilla, but ... as it appeas a 3.3 release is imminent, I though I should mention seeing this in my log files: I am getting this: Jan 20 18:17:40 vm049244181 spamd[14023]: spamd: Insecure dependency in chown while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/v

Re: How to tell if sa-update is actually running

2010-01-09 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, mouss wrote: you can query DNS to get the "version" of the rules. for example: $ host -t txt "*.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org" *.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org descriptive text "895075" (2.3 is the "reverse" of 3.2, which corresponds to the SA version you use). Looks like 3.

RE: OT bad news

2009-10-05 Thread Peter P. Benac
Glad I don't live in Virginia!! I hate to see my tax dollars wasted because people don't understand OpenSource.. Especially in these troubled times. From: Thomas Mullins [mailto:tsmull...@wise.k12.va.us] Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 15:42 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: OT bad ne

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Martin Gregorie schrieb: > What makes you think I'm using URI tests or that any of these would be > recognised as a URI? My tests are simple body tests with {1,n} limits on > repetitions to keep things under control. > So you want obfuscated urls to be recognised as urls but not treated as urls

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Is SAW a valid TOPLEVEL domain? > > SA could use a list of valid TLD's. > Ok, let's change that (do not forget that there's more than .com) the www seems to become the primary source of information these days (->www.seems.to?) And I think we agree, that it wo

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Martin Gregorie schrieb: >> ... go to WWW EVIL ORG for new meds ... >> >> and >> >> ... digging through the WWW HE SAW this link ... >> > Both IMO should be caught and given a positive score. I've never seen > legitimate mail containing URLs written this way. Maybe I was not clear: The last one is

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Jason Haar schrieb: > All this talk about trying to catch urls that contain spaces/etc got me > thinking: why isn't this a standard SA feature? i.e if SA sees > "www(whitespace|comma|period)-combo(therest)", then rewrite it as the > url and process. How would you distinguish between ... go to

Re: How many people are still using perl 5.6.x?

2009-06-25 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Henrik K schrieb: >> sorry, just missed the "relatively recent" statement ;-) >> > > When the system gets old enough that it's not supported officially and you > are forced to manually CPAN fresh modules (and possibly wreak havoc on the > OS), there is no reason not to compile your own perl (o

Re: How many people are still using perl 5.6.x?

2009-06-25 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Jan P. Kessler schrieb: > Justin Mason schrieb: > >> For the upcoming release, we're considering dropping support for that >> interpreter version. If you're still using 5.6.x, or know of a >> (relatively recent) distro that does, please reply

Re: How many people are still using perl 5.6.x?

2009-06-25 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Justin Mason schrieb: > For the upcoming release, we're considering dropping support for that > interpreter version. If you're still using 5.6.x, or know of a > (relatively recent) distro that does, please reply to highlight > this > > --j. > Don't know if it's still relevant: Solaris 8 #

RE: Email from myself to myself

2009-05-28 Thread Peter P. Benac
-Original Message- From: hateSpam [mailto:khwaja_a...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:11 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Email from myself to myself I got it thanks. Yes i am not whitelisted but in spamassassin I put the domain of all spams to be marked as sp

RE: Email from myself to myself

2009-05-28 Thread Peter P. Benac
-Original Message- From: hateSpam [mailto:khwaja_a...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 09:48 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Email from myself to myself What is white_list and how can I check it. sorry about all these question I am new in Linux specially on server

RE: Whitelist_From Woes

2009-05-13 Thread Peter P. Benac
/var/log/maillog output: May 13 10:53:46 cerberus MailScanner[3309]: Message n4DFrTip004779 from 63.93.193.30 (a...@easymatch.com) to saintjoe.edu is spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=68.739, required 4, AWL -33.17, BAYES_50 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14, HTML_30_40 0

RE: mcafee sees drop in spam?

2009-05-08 Thread Peter P. Benac
-Original Message- From: Randy [mailto:rramsd...@livedatagroup.com] Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 11:13 To: SpamAssassin Users List Subject: Re: mcafee sees drop in spam? Michael Scheidell wrote: > looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? > > wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a dr

Re: dnsbl checks time out

2009-02-27 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Elsa Andrés schrieb: > OTOH, that server cannot be dead as I can perform any "host" or "dig" > queries with it: > Just a guess: Is /etc/resolv.conf readable by the uid you run sa/amavis?

Re: Individual SURBL lists to be shut down on public nameservers February 28, 2009. Use multi.

2009-02-08 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> > > There are a very few queries to the individual lists. I suppose > > > it could be some very old installations of version 2.6. They > > > should almost certainly upgrade to something more recent. > > On 08.02.09 11:23, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Sorry t

Re: Individual SURBL lists to be shut down on public nameservers February 28, 2009. Use multi.

2009-02-08 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 11:43 -0800, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 9:14:58 AM, Andre Andre wrote: > > > Does that require changes to spamassassin or is it using multi already > > (3.2.5 used here)? > > > My stats report those: > > URIBL_JP_SURBL > > URIBL_AB_SURBL > > URIBL_

Re: Novice Installation Help

2009-01-08 Thread Jan P. Kessler
dave_c00 schrieb: > I have run the 'perl Makefile.PL' in the correct directory but the 'make > install' isn't working. > Something is going wrong! So, you think my comment is not very helpful? Maybe your desciption of the problem is not that helpful, too. If you don't provide more information

FIXED: sought rules update fails

2008-12-12 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Karsten Bräckelmann schrieb: On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 15:03 +0100, Jan P. Kessler wrote: sa-update currently fails with: http: request failed: 403 Forbidden: [...] Any permission issues on yerp.org? Just tested, works for me. Did you try again? Jep, it's workin

sought rules update fails

2008-12-12 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Hi, sa-update currently fails with: http: request failed: 403 Forbidden: HTML 2.0//EN"> 403 Forbidden Forbidden You don't have permission to access /rules/stage/320725913.tar.gz on this server. Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.4.6 PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.3 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.8 Ope

Re: hostkarma junkemailfilter

2008-11-24 Thread Jan P. Kessler
mouss schrieb: Micah Anderson a écrit : "Benny Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Tue, November 18, 2008 22:16, Henrik K wrote: postfwd and trusted_networks msa_networks is what i do use here, then minimal dns lookups is needed olso, facebook have random helo so need to be white

Re: Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Sorry... I posted this to the wrong list !!! On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 13:37 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Everyone, > > I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum > updates. > > unname -a results in : > > Linux .Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #

Yum Failure with mirrors unavailable

2008-08-17 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have an FC8 unit that for some reason has stopped allowing yum updates. unname -a results in : Linux .Domain.com 2.6.25.10-47.fc8 #1 SMP Mon Jul 7 18:31:41 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux When I tried to do so manually with the command : yum update I receive the foll

Re: Enable Spamcop only

2008-01-25 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Mofo_Jones schrieb: Just Postfix. In postfix and I believe Sendmail. John D. Hardin wrote: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Mofo_Jones wrote: One more question. This site has multiple domains that it does a MX backup for and there are a few domains that I do not want SA to scan and add any heade

MySpace

2007-10-02 Thread Peter P. Benac
Greetings, More and more of my clients are using MySpace. The spam filters put them in the 4-5 point range. Your opinions are needed. Is it worth white listing MySpace? Regards, Pete Peter P. Benac, CCNA Emacolet Networking Services, Inc Web and Mail Hosting. Phone: 252-657-9591

Re: R: Inappropriate use of E-Mail addresses

2007-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 16:19 +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > -Messaggio originale- > > Da: Gregory P. Ennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 15:16 +0200, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > > > -Messaggio originale-

RE: Inappropriate use of E-Mail addresses

2007-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 09:53 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Gregory P. Ennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:50 AM > > To: jdow > > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > > Subject: Re: I

Re: Inappropriate use of E-Mail addresses

2007-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
n that I have pledged to NEVER EVER find in favor of > a spammer if I find myself on a jury with him as the plaintiff or defendant. > > Besides, I'd probably jump over the jury box railing and gouge his eyes out > before the trial was over. > > {^_^}Joanne > - Or

Inappropriate use of E-Mail addresses

2007-05-13 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have used spamassassin on our mail servers now for over 4 years and have nothing but high praise for what it has done for us. However, recently we have been hit by bounced e-mail that is related to the inappropriate use of some of our e-mail addresses. It appears that some spam art

Re: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 using older version of ImageInfo

2007-05-06 Thread r p
On 2 May 2007 at 15:32, Rose, Bobby wrote: > The ImageInfo packaged with 3.2.0 isn't the latest version from SARE as > it's missing the image_name_regex method. > > -=B > > I can not even get the 3.2 to run cleanly due to ImageInfo. When I leave the ImageInfo in the init.pre and in the plugin dir

Re: SpamAssassin and Horde

2007-02-21 Thread J . P . Kelly
regarding the problem where mail from horde gets hit with HELO_DYNAMIC_DHCP rule due to sender's IP address. see below... do you mean SA 3.1? On Apr 14, 2005, at 3:08 PM, Justin Mason wrote: check the bugzilla -- I'm pretty sure this is fixed for 3.1.0. - --j. This is the IP from th

Spam assasin query

2006-11-10 Thread Ramdas P. Prabhu
v-0001BG-82 > > " I shall be highly obliged if you could let me know how the same can be enabled again. Thanx & Rgds., Ramdas P. Prabhu

Re: Postfix Add Header Question

2006-11-10 Thread p
> I know some of you out there use Postfix and I have a quick question > that is a little off topic so I will apologize in advance and beg > forgiveness. > > I was just wondering how in Postfix that someone could add a header > indicating the IP address of the connecting host. I'm asking for someon

[FOLLOW-UP] End-user (not administrator) question

2006-05-29 Thread Ricardo P. Jasinski
de 2006 16:32 Para: Ricardo P. Jasinski Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Assunto: Re: End-user (not administrator) question Most certainly. Ask to be put on the "Spam Lovers" list. Spamassassin is (IMHO) the best tool for dealing with SPAM. And the ability to give any user the freed

End-user (not administrator) question

2006-05-25 Thread Ricardo P. Jasinski
Hi all, the system administrator in our university recently started using spamassassin in our mail server. Unfortunately, I can't say this has been a good thing for me and for many other users, and I'll try to explain why. First, for each mail that the tool assumes to be a spam, I receive an ema

Re: OR NOT Logic

2006-05-02 Thread Peter P. Benac
> > A && (B || C || D || E || F) > > equivalent to?: > > A && (!B && !C && !D && !E && !F) > > as in: > > meta __FORGED_OUTLOOK_DOLLARS (__OUTLOOK_DOLLARS_MUA && ! > __OUTLOOK_DOLLARS_MSGID && !__OUT

RE: /etc/shadow access from SA

2006-02-27 Thread Peter P. Benac
d(0); > print "name=$name uid=$uid\n"; > > # perl test.pl > name=root uid=0 > > # strace perl test.pl 2>&1 | grep passwd > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 > open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY) = 3 > > # strace perl test.pl

RE: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
Don't tempt me, though that would pay for the goodmail payments. > Peter P. Benac wrote: >> Confirmation elimates bad addresses. The major problem comes >> from people too lazy to unsubscribe from a list. They just hit the >> spam >> button. AOL refuses to a

RE: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
s link to verify your > registration." > > If AOL complains about that reply, you pull up your logs and ask them "how > could it be spam when THEY emailed ME first??" > > -- > Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 > Hispa

Re: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
> In a mailing list manager app I wrote, I simply put a MD5 hash of the > address in the headers. Then I have something to check against the > subscriber list that AOL would never remove from the headers. Now if only > I > could make Mailman do the same thing... > > P

RE: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
I tried that Matthew. It too was changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I haven't tried is removing the @aol.com. > Peter P. Benac wrote: >> Very true.. I went around and around with AOL over this every issue >> for three days. > > After inspecting some TOS reports...

RE: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
AOL members addresses then I'd like to know what you did to receive them, because you appear the only one is several list I belong to that are discussing this very issue that is seeing those addresses. > Peter P. Benac wrote: >> AOl will send you what they refer to as a TOS alert w

Re: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
applied for AOL's > whitelist program. For my own edification, why is the whitelist program a > joke? > > Dimitri Peter P. Benac, CCNA Emacolet Networking Services, Inc Providing Network and Systems Project Management and Installation and Web Hosting. Phone: 919-618-2557 W

Re: (OT, but relevant) Playing with AOL?

2006-02-23 Thread Peter P. Benac
om their lists. All the lists I host have already done that. In the mean time you could try using AOL's whitelist program, but it is a joke. Regards, Pete Peter P. Benac, CCNA Emacolet Networking Services, Inc Providing Network and Systems Project Management and Installation and We

Re: SA ignores mail from outside of the domain

2006-01-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 13:36 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > > My configuration: > > Quad Opteron 2GHz with 8GB RAM. > RHEL 4 > spamassassin-3.0.4-1.el4 > procmail-3.22-14 > > My version of spamd does not recognize option --round-robin > Frank, Looks like I was not much help. I have not had any

Re: SA ignores mail from outside of the domain

2006-01-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 11:31 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 09:40:27 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > >On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:32 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: SA ignores mail from outside of the domain

2006-01-05 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 10:32 -0500, Frank Bures wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 07:11:42 -0800, Loren Wilton wrote: > > >Probably you haven't set trusted_networks and/or internal_networks > >correctly, and you are getting ALL_TRUSTED firing on the in

Re: primary nameservers

2005-12-13 Thread Peter P. Benac
o back to one set of > nameservers, and it would probably be pretty close to a 100% hit rate if I > could check that. > > --Russell > > -- > > Russell Miller - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Agoura Hills, CA > Peter P. Benac, CCNA Emacolet Networking Services, Inc Providin

Upgrade to 3.1.0 and spamd

2005-10-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I upgraded from 3.0.4 to 3.1.0 on two Red Hat 8.0 machines; everything seems to be working on the faster mail server, but I am having problems with the slower server. On the slower machine spamd seemed to quit working allowing the mail to go through the system without being filtered.

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