Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-06 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:50:29 +0100 Axb wrote: > URL blacklists should be named *domain blacklists" No, I think they should be named URL blacklists. A "domain blacklist", in my opinion, refers to the blacklisting of an email sender's domain. Regards, David.

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-06 Thread Axb
On 2011-12-06 16:39, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 12/6/2011 12:59 AM, Dorian Chan wrote: Hello all, I've attached a newer version with Windows info. Thanks Daniel, Patrick, and Ted. A few comments: 1) There are multiple types of blacklists and whitelists. IP blacklists, URL blacklists, and address

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/6/2011 12:59 AM, Dorian Chan wrote: > Hello all, > I've attached a newer version with Windows info. Thanks Daniel, > Patrick, and Ted. A few comments: 1) There are multiple types of blacklists and whitelists. IP blacklists, URL blacklists, and address blacklists. IP and URL blacklists (an

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-04 Thread Tom
Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 21:30 -0800 schrieb Ted Mittelstaedt: ... is that really so clear ? > under 'what is spamassassin' you need to clarify that SA is not run > on e-mail clients like desktops, that it is run on mailservers. -- Peace, Thomas

RE: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-02 Thread Support SpamAssassin
4296 Trier * Germany Phone: +49-651-1456530 * Fax: +49-651-14565329 Commercial register number HRB 4920 (AG Wittlich) http://www.jam-software.com From: Kevin A. McGrail [mailto:kmcgr...@pccc.com]<mailto:[mailto:kmcgr...@pccc.com]> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:21 AM To: antiamoeba; Danie

RE: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-12-01 Thread R - elists
> > It's not always just branding. It's also, giving proper attribution. > Organisations and people should be credited appropriately for > their contributions. It's the respectful thing to do. > "GNU/Linux" is the best example of this IMO. > > At least you said "free software arena" and not "o

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/30/2011 4:32 AM, spamassas...@lists.grepular.com wrote: "GNU/Linux" is the best example of this IMO. IMO, that is the most controversial example you could have picked. I believe Debian and FSF are the only people that recognize that branding for Linux. Not arguing one side or the other

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-30 Thread spamassassin
On 30/11/11 07:17, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without >>> all the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and >>> some cleaning up. Again, I would really enjoy feedback! >> >> Everywhere you say "SpamAssassin"

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-30 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
Dorian, * Dorian Chan : > Hello again, > I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without > all the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and > some cleaning up. Again, I would really enjoy feedback! I've attached an edited version that adds puts SA

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
On 11/29/2011 10:58 PM, Michael Parker wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Dorian Chan wrote: Hello again, I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without all the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and some cleaning up. Again, I would really

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/30/2011 1:58 AM, Michael Parker wrote: Everywhere you say "SpamAssassin" you should probably be saying "Apache SpamAssassin." Michael PS Kevin, this also applies to the listing on the Google Code-In site, is that something that can be fixed? Good call. Editing the GCI site would be pa

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Parker
On Nov 29, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Dorian Chan wrote: > Hello again, > I've attached version 2.0 with this email (it's the clean version without all > the comments :) ). I've pretty much finished up the definitions and some > cleaning up. Again, I would really enjoy feedback! > Everywhere you say "

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
symantec doesn't use spamassassin and does not use the name mailscanner. mailscanner is an open source program. It uses spamassassin to scan mail. I would also suggest that at the top of the document that you put in something along the lines of "this document is intended to be read by [insert y

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread antiamoeba
KAM did that in the first reply. Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > * Dorian Chan : >> Sorry, I don't really think the nabble attachment option really worked, >> so >> I'll actually attach it. Sorry for that! > > It worked both times, but the document is almost unreadable because its > filled > wit

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Ah, that would make a difference. Carry on! Ted On 11/29/2011 3:02 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: A note for those unfamiliar with GCI that these are 13 to 17 year old kids getting an introduction to open source. Thanks for the feedback! Regards, KAM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Well, here's m

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
A note for those unfamiliar with GCI that these are 13 to 17 year old kids getting an introduction to open source. Thanks for the feedback! Regards, KAM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Well, here's my $0.02 For starters, is it realistic to think that someone charged with implementing spamassassin on

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-29 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Well, here's my $0.02 For starters, is it realistic to think that someone charged with implementing spamassassin on a mailserver does not know what spam is? The first 2 sections are fluff and would be best replaced by a link to wikipedia's spam entry, along with the warning "if you need to re

Re: A SpamAssassin Crash Course for Admins

2011-11-28 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Dorian Chan : > Sorry, I don't really think the nabble attachment option really worked, so > I'll actually attach it. Sorry for that! It worked both times, but the document is almost unreadable because its filled with comments. Can you post a clean version? p@rick -- state of mind () Digitale