Re: SpamCop and false positives from Yahoo

2011-04-07 Thread Matthew Kitchin (usenet/public)
Excuse the top post, on a blackberry. They have a list/newsgroup where you can email the 'deputies'. If it is still the way they used to be run, they aren't really false positives. Those servers really are sending spam. I think all listings are automatically removed after a few days or so. ---

Re: please unsub uppermohawkinc.com

2011-04-01 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 4/1/2011 5:31 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: numnuts at uppermohawkinc.com doesn't know how to run a mail server, and should not be 'backscatter' bouncing email. I just got 6 bounces (not smtp reject) but bounces from them for email sent to users@spamassassin.apache.org anyone that does th

Re: ups.com virus has now switched to dhl.com

2011-03-31 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 3/31/2011 1:34 PM, Ned Slider wrote: I'd go a step further and say no way you should be accepting executables at the smtp level, so no reason to be passing them to SA for scanning in the first place. These should be rejected or quarantined elsewhere in the mail chain. Agreed. One of my o

Re: Spamassassin,clamAV and Clamsmtp

2011-03-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 3/5/2011 3:36 PM, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: Hello All, I trying to set up an anti-spam and anti-virus proxy solution with spamassassin, clamav and clamsmtp. I have currently setup postifix,spamassassin,clamav, and clamsmtp and everything is working fine but I do not want the postfix in

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-03-01 Thread Matthew Kitchin (usenet/public)
, Matthew Kitchin (usenet/public) wrote: > Sorry for top posting, on a bberry. So, you would say someone can > send me a letter in the mail with the condition I am only allowed to > read it one time? Yes. Nobody ever said the law isn't stupid. But in fact the newest Blue Ray sp

Re: Should Emails Have An Expiration Date

2011-03-01 Thread Matthew Kitchin (usenet/public)
Sorry for top posting, on a bberry. So, you would say someone can send me a letter in the mail with the condition I am only allowed to read it one time? I call BS too. The movie example is completely different. The purchase of a ticket is an agreement to watch the movie one time. No agreement e

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/9/2010 8:27 AM, Henrik K wrote: Nope, people constantly underestimate the power of regexes.. of course you can easily make bad ones, but Perl can run huge lists of simple alternations FAST. I downloaded a 1 random name pack, and made a quick hack to regexify it with my favourite Regexp

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/5/2010 2:10 PM, Noel Jones wrote: Use your database to generate rules for clamav. You could even remove the stock clamav rules if you want. Matching the body for 70,000 names would probably take less than 0.1 seconds. That sounds like a really good idea. I do use ClamAV but have never w

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/5/2010 2:05 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: I would tend to say that something that large would not be practical. On the other hand, there's no way to really know until you try it. A database lookup is possible, but the problem is determining what to look up. You would have to somehow identify po

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/5/2010 1:52 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: My approach to doing something like this would be to have a rule that matches the names (however you implement it), and then have the MTA check for that particular rule hit and bounce the message if it exists. This is the same way you generally use the VB

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/5/2010 1:19 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On tor 05 aug 2010 19:47:37 CEST, "Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)" wrote Is this a realistic setup? postfix will love it if done right with local smtp auth senders, eg no sender sends unauthed then its just add smtpd_sender_bcc_naps fr

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/5/2010 1:03 PM, Evan Platt wrote: Spamassassin can't handle this - it has no capability to reject mail, however you need to think - are you going to have a database of patients names, or is your intention to block anything with a "Name"? Are you really going to want to manage a databse

List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-05 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
Hello all. I have been a loyal users for years, but have never had to do much more than make a few custom rules. I work for a healthcare company, and I have been asked to implement a mechanism to search for patient names in outgoing emails an bounce them back to the sender if one is identified

Re: The Future of Email is SQL

2006-06-10 Thread NM Public
Sur 2006-06-09, Marc Perkel skribis: Perhaps the headers and other information that you would index be kept in the database and the body of the message stored somewhere else, perhaps even as files. It seems that this is what Zimbra does. Check out my blog post here: For IMAP, "SQL just

Re: End-user (not administrator) question

2006-05-26 Thread NM Public
Sur 2006-05-25, Evan Platt skribis: Umm... Switch to a different mail provider? I just blogged about this yesterday. If your university uses IMAP, which is the case for almost all universities these days, they can set things up so that each user has the option to have his/her spammy message

Re: Delete spam or move to a folder?

2006-05-17 Thread NM Public
Sur 2006-05-17, Yusuf Ahmed skribis: Couldn't find a thread like this hence this new one. Just wondering what strategy people are using when it comes to dealing with email that gets enough points to be considered as spam. Eg. being deleted and quarantined, or delivered and quarantined etc.

Re: Re: Mail not fully scanned

2005-10-08 Thread public
Hi > Does this happen on all mails or just specific ones? It does happen on all mails and aswell on the samples of Spamassassin > Do you have custom plugins loaded or is the install a default one? No, I just installed the default one by # perls Makefile.PL # make # make install regards,

Re: Scanning and deleting my probably-spam folder

2005-03-23 Thread NM Public
On 22 Mar 2005 Robert Markin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This should probably be obvious, but I cannot seem to come up with an easy way to quickly scan and delete the email that makes it into my spam trap folders. RH9 machine (accessed via SSH, Webmin, IMAP or POP3). Procmail sends all mail detec

Re: kinda OT procmailrc

2004-11-17 Thread NM Public
On 17 Nov 2004 Alex Pleiner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * ChupaCabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-16 17:11]: #:0: #* ^Subject:.*[SPAM] #$HOME/probably-spam/ Consider quoting the brackets: * ^Subject: \[SPAM\] Hopefully that will solve the problem, but in addition I recommend that you change these

Re: {02.8} Re:spamassassin and web based mails !

2004-11-13 Thread NM Public
On 12 Nov 2004 Cigan Segun ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: To be specific on my question, I want to be able to scan all messages or mails sent to & fro using yahoo or hotmail or any of these known web based addresses! I do not have a mail server in my local network yet. We all use web based mails. Can

Re: Usability. Spamassassin.

2004-09-08 Thread NM Public
On 7 Sep 2004 Bob Apthorpe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] If the answer is 'a WinXP user who retrieves mail via POP3 with Outlook and who does not use the command line and does not program, not even a little bit, and who wants a button to press to make spam go away' then the answer is probably no

Re: Rs: SpamAssassin 3.0.0-rc3 RELEASE CANDIDATE available!

2004-09-08 Thread NM Public
On 7 Sep 2004 Joe Emenaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: By the same token, the point was never to be able to spot spammers by noting who isn't using SPF. Rather, the point is to make the blacklists more reliable. It is *only* when you use SPF in *conjunction* with blacklists/whitelists that you se