Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread dennis
On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Loren Wilton wrote:If that username starts with six digits, it hits that rule, as shown in Loren's example. Ah, here is the From header: From: 360° Skin Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll advise notto start the us

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread Loren Wilton
> If that username starts with six digits, it hits that rule, as shown > in Loren's example. > > Ah, here is the From header: > > From: 360° Skin Care <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll advise not to > start the username with 360°. No, you misun

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:52:26 -0700: > Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll > advise not to start the username with 360°. That degree sign isn't allowed unescaped in there anyway. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Service

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Robert Menschel wrote:header FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS     From:addr =~ /^\d{6,}\S+\@/i The email address used in the From header begins with 6 (or more) digits. it's not hitting on 360SkinCare.com, but on the user part of the email address (doesn't even look at the domain

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
>... > >Been using SA for quite a while and agree it's working great. > >Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to >name a domain? > >Is this related to the "suspicious hostname" flags? Or is that >related to the use of webmail? If the former, then they're getting >

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Duncan Hill wrote:On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2005 21

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: > Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 > - > Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul > 2005 21:00:29 - > >

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote:Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Are you really located in England?  So far as I know PacBell doesn't serve that area. I coul

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to > name a domain? >From the rule name (without looking) I'd say it refers to the from address. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It may be that it refers to the hostname itself starting with numbers, but that seems a little unlikely. Wh

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
Been using SA for quite a while and agree it's working great. Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to name a domain? Is this related to the "suspicious hostname" flags? Or is that related to the use of webmail? If the former, then they're getting dinged at lea

RE: Rule Advice

2005-07-13 Thread Greg Allen
If I am reading this correctly it looks like SA is working perfectly. SA admins generally don't care much for kids sending email to our servers from their mom's computers while she is at work... well u get the idea. But I am guessing your friend already knows that. -Original Message- From

Re: Rule advice please

2005-03-02 Thread Loren Wilton
> Following discussions on this list about obfuscating words to avoid spam > detection, and not being a ninja, I'd like some feedback about the > possible efficacy or pitfalls on rules like the following. [snip] In general, there are three main ways of dealing with these obfuscations: 1. Hand-cra

RE: Rule advice please

2005-03-01 Thread Gray, Richard
nyone wants to talk about this more, mail me privately, and we can hit reply all (if I know who you are :) ) R -Original Message- From: Mike Grau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 February 2005 17:55 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Rule advice please > > >

RE: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Chris Santerre
>Hello. > >Following discussions on this list about obfuscating words to >avoid spam >detection, and not being a ninja, I'd like some feedback about the >possible efficacy or pitfalls on rules like the following. > >As noted in other discussions, words with scrambled letters >between the >fir

Re: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Grau
subject =~ /\b(?!cartoon|croatan|carroon)c[arto]{5}n\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!downloadable)d[ownladb]{10}e\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!dripping)d[ripn]{6}g\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!ejaculating|enunciating)e[jacultin]{9}g\b/i You can't use rules like this. The pattern "can" matches your first exam

RE: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Gray, Richard
subject =~ /\b(?!cartoon|croatan|carroon)c[arto]{5}n\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!downloadable)d[ownladb]{10}e\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!dripping)d[ripn]{6}g\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!ejaculating|enunciating)e[jacultin]{9}g\b/i You can't use rules like this. The pattern "can" matches your first ex