Re: How to report SPAM?

2024-05-29 Thread Frido Otten
They do if you're offering mail service to a large number of users. They login to a phished mailbox, send new phishingmails to that mailbox and check the headers if they can see which rules are hit. Then they adapt the phishingmail to get a lower score until they are below the spam threshold. T

Re: How to report SPAM?

2024-05-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.05.24 23:10, Thomas Barth via users wrote: for months I have been waiting for the type of SPAM I receive to be captured by the DNS block lists. But nothing is happening. I have long since fed Spamassassin with these SPAMs. What else can I do? I have even activated HOSTKARMA-black/brown. D

RE: How to report SPAM?

2024-05-27 Thread Marc
> for months I have been waiting for the type of SPAM I receive to be > captured by the DNS block lists. But nothing is happening. I have long > since fed Spamassassin with these SPAMs. What else can I do? put your spam score lower? I don't think you will get many false positives when you put it

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-09-11 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 09.09.2014 o 23:53, Jose Borges Ferreira pisze: > Hi Marcin, > > I'm affiliated with Mailspike and just want to say that we have > changed the contact form so you now have a option specify that you are > contacting as Self-employed or private. > > We have also configured ab...@mailspike.or

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-09-09 Thread Jose Borges Ferreira
Hi Marcin, I'm affiliated with Mailspike and just want to say that we have changed the contact form so you now have a option specify that you are contacting as Self-employed or private. We have also configured ab...@mailspike.org if you need to contact directly. Regarding your original problem,

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-09-09 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 09/09/2014 11:39 AM, Marcin Mirosław wrote: > W dniu 29.08.2014 o 23:36, Dave Warren pisze: >> On 2014-08-29 02:38, Marcin Mirosław wrote: >>> So what should I do in your opinion? I'm getting spam to my private >>> spamtrap so I can't fill fields about company - it doesn't matter where >>> I'm h

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-09-09 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 29.08.2014 o 23:36, Dave Warren pisze: > On 2014-08-29 02:38, Marcin Mirosław wrote: >> So what should I do in your opinion? I'm getting spam to my private >> spamtrap so I can't fill fields about company - it doesn't matter where >> I'm hired for reporting spam. What if I would be unemploye

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-08-29 Thread Linda Walsh
Dave Warren wrote: On 2014-08-29 02:38, Marcin Mirosław wrote: So what should I do in your opinion? I'm getting spam to my private spamtrap so I can't fill fields about company - it doesn't matter where I'm hired for reporting spam. What if I would be unemployed? Then I would have to lie about c

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-08-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-08-29 02:38, Marcin Mirosław wrote: So what should I do in your opinion? I'm getting spam to my private spamtrap so I can't fill fields about company - it doesn't matter where I'm hired for reporting spam. What if I would be unemployed? Then I would have to lie about company? IMHO it is t

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-08-29 Thread Marcin Mirosław
W dniu 28.08.2014 o 11:20, Reindl Harald pisze: > > Am 28.08.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Marcin Mirosław: >> I've noticed growing volume of emails listed by mailspike. Usually it's >> spam listed as "good reputation". On his webpage I can see only page >> http://mailspike.org/contact.html , they want to

Re: How to report spam to mailspike

2014-08-28 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 28.08.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Marcin Mirosław: > I've noticed growing volume of emails listed by mailspike. Usually it's > spam listed as "good reputation". On his webpage I can see only page > http://mailspike.org/contact.html , they want to fill many personal > information, I don't want to send

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2012-11-23 at 02:25 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: > Martin Gregorie gregorie.org> writes: > > > > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: > > > > > Notification help raise victims' security > > > awareness, and motivate them to fix vulnerabilites within their computers. > >

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-22 Thread Chih-Cherng
Martin Gregorie gregorie.org> writes: > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: > > > Notification help raise victims' security > > awareness, and motivate them to fix vulnerabilites within their computers. > > > I have my doubts about this. I have friends who help at retiree'

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-21 Thread Lutz Petersen
> It would likely be a good idea to block IP's in this list from using > authenticated SMTP to relay not? Definitely not. We did so one week for testing. And had a lot of trouble with customers espacially using mobile/smartphones. Don't do this. This rbl does only make sense if you have diff

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Axb
On 11/21/2012 01:44 AM, Matt wrote: Spamhaus already do this. It's called the Exploits Block List (XBL): http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/ To quote: The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including open p

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread SM
At 16:44 20-11-2012, Matt wrote: authenticated SMTP to relay not? Is there a way in apache .htaccess to block access based on xbl.spamhaus.org? I want to block exploited IP's from webmail etc as well. http://www.lucaercoli.it/mod_spamhaus.html Regards, -sm

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Matt
> Spamhaus already do this. It's called the Exploits Block List (XBL): > > http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/ > > To quote: > > The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP > addresses of hijacked PCs infected by illegal 3rd party exploits, including > open proxies (HTTP, socks, An

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Robert A. Ober
On 11/20/12 4:51 PM, Dave Warren wrote: Don't get me wrong, outbound spam filtering is a great idea, but it should be done by the MSA, not at the ISP level as ISPs have no clue as to what type of activity is legitimate or not for a particular user.

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/11/12 20:26, Cathryn Mataga wrote: Easy enough to block #25 by default -- turn it on for anyone who asks. Indeed. I think the idea of a botnet black hole list is great, really. Spamhaus already do this. It's called the Exploits Block List (XBL): http://www.spamhaus.org/xbl/ To quo

Re: Stopping abusive machiens (was Re: How to report a spam botnet)

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/20/2012 07:17, David F. Skoll wrote: Would you approve of a Ralph Nader-like approach of suing Microsoft for knowingly producing defective and insecure software? Detroit was shamed, bullied and sued into improving the safety of its cars; do you think that could work with Microsoft? Given

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/20/2012 04:29, Jason Ede wrote: However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... Please don't ever suggest blocking port 587. Using port

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Cathryn Mataga
On 11/20/2012 4:29 AM, Jason Ede wrote: However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... Easy enough to block #25 by default -- turn it on for

Re: Stopping abusive machiens (was Re: How to report a spam botnet)

2012-11-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 11/20/2012 12:37 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Ignorance is no defence, at least in the UK. In Canada, ignorance of the law is no defence, but ignorance of the facts is. In other words, if you're completely ignorant of the fact that your computer is a botnet member, it could be a defence. I woul

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Robert A. Ober wrote: On 11/20/12 6:29 AM, Jason Ede wrote: However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... ___

Re: Stopping abusive machiens (was Re: How to report a spam botnet)

2012-11-20 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:09:27 + Ned Slider wrote: > >> Personally I'd like to see some large corporates go after some > >> infected home users in the courts for wilful damage. > > I think they'd lose. Most home users could make a compelling case > > that they were unaware of the infection an

Re: Stopping abusive machiens (was Re: How to report a spam botnet)

2012-11-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/11/12 15:17, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:10:57 + Ned Slider wrote: Personally I'd like to see some large corporates go after some infected home users in the courts for wilful damage. I think they'd lose. Most home users could make a compelling case that they were

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 10:14 -0600, Robert A. Ober wrote: > Which might block my legitimate server and some of my clients who are on > Comcast Business. This has been brought up frequently but is a bad > idea. Too often folks in larger organizations forget about us little guys. > So you think

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Robert A. Ober
On 11/20/12 6:29 AM, Jason Ede wrote: However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... Which might block

Stopping abusive machiens (was Re: How to report a spam botnet)

2012-11-20 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:10:57 + Ned Slider wrote: > Personally I'd like to see some large corporates go after some > infected home users in the courts for wilful damage. I think they'd lose. Most home users could make a compelling case that they were unaware of the infection and lacked the t

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/11/12 14:30, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:26:49 + Martin Gregorie wrote: Nah, prevent all connections except HTML and SMTP/POP3 to the ISPs help desk and set of 'clean your act up' pages, so they can't ignore the mess their computer is in. And have escalating charge

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread David F. Skoll
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:26:49 + Martin Gregorie wrote: > Nah, prevent all connections except HTML and SMTP/POP3 to the ISPs > help desk and set of 'clean your act up' pages, so they can't ignore > the mess their computer is in. And have escalating charges for reinstating Internet access after

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 12:29 +, Jason Ede wrote: > However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would > help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent > through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... > Nah, prevent all connections except HTM

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Tom Hendrikx
Message- >> From: Martin Gregorie [mailto:mar...@gregorie.org] >> Sent: 20 November 2012 11:29 >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: How to report a spam botnet >> >> On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: >> >>> No

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread RW
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:29:00 + Jason Ede wrote: > However, ISP's blocking smtp ports for suspected spammers would > help... Ideally they'd block all traffic on port 25 or 587 not sent > through their SMTP engine which would do some basic spam checks... They shouldn't (and typically don't) bl

RE: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Jason Ede
.org] > Sent: 20 November 2012 11:29 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to report a spam botnet > > On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: > > > Notification help raise victims' security awareness, and motivate them > > to fix vul

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-20 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 01:26 +, Chih-Cherng wrote: > Notification help raise victims' security > awareness, and motivate them to fix vulnerabilites within their computers. > I have my doubts about this. I have friends who help at retiree's computer clubs and with disinfecting their friend's c

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-19 Thread Chih-Cherng
Michael Monnerie is.it-management.at> writes: > > [crosspost postfix-users and spamassassin-users] > > Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 14:08:08 schrieb Michael Monnerie: > > How should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" > > somewhere? > > Lets concentrate back on the subject, I

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-19 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/11/12 06:18, Michael Monnerie wrote: [crosspost postfix-users and spamassassin-users] Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 14:08:08 schrieb Michael Monnerie: How should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" somewhere? Lets concentrate back on the subject, I got this answer: nor

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-19 Thread Per-Erik Persson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We are probably a little bit off topic here but it is an interesting subject. My experience is that reporting a suspected bot is only effective if the receiver is a larger university or similair institution. If some RBL provider wants to accept my li

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-19 Thread hamann . w
Michael Monnerie wrote: >> > normally it makes no sense to report botnets >> >> And this is what makes me worry. Botnets are todays biggest source of >> spam, and nobody has ever started to fight it really? There are tons of >> tools for every small issue, but nothing to cope with the biggest shi

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-19 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 19.11.2012 07:18, schrieb Michael Monnerie: > [crosspost postfix-users and spamassassin-users] > > Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 14:08:08 schrieb Michael Monnerie: >> How should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" >> somewhere? > > Lets concentrate back on the subject, I got t

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-18 Thread Axb
On 11/19/2012 07:18 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: [crosspost postfix-users and spamassassin-users] Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 14:08:08 schrieb Michael Monnerie: How should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" somewhere? Lets concentrate back on the subject, I got this answer:

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-18 Thread Michael Monnerie
[crosspost postfix-users and spamassassin-users] Am Sonntag, 18. November 2012, 14:08:08 schrieb Michael Monnerie: > How should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" > somewhere? Lets concentrate back on the subject, I got this answer: > normally it makes no sense to report botnets

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 18.11.2012 19:35, schrieb Robert Schetterer: > Am 18.11.2012 14:08, schrieb Michael Monnerie: >> We've got one users e-mail password hacked, and at the sime time a lot >> of different IPs started to use that address. Here is the list. How >> should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet

Re: How to report a spam botnet

2012-11-18 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 18.11.2012 14:08, schrieb Michael Monnerie: > We've got one users e-mail password hacked, and at the sime time a lot > of different IPs started to use that address. Here is the list. How > should we report those IPs, is there a "anti botnet unit" somewhere? > What is the best way to fight it?

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-06-02 Thread SM
Hi Eloise, At 02:07 02-06-2008, Eloise Carlton wrote: We are working with the sender and providing recommendations to secure and monitor account users (such as using captcha to prevent bots from registering and setting rate limits on the user level). Currently there is no historical data on abuse

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-06-02 Thread Eloise Carlton
We are working with the sender and providing recommendations to secure and monitor account users (such as using captcha to prevent bots from registering and setting rate limits on the user level). Currently there is no historical data on abuse from this particular user, they have flagged this accou

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-05-20 Thread mouss
ram wrote: Yes but the invite option may be abused. Like yahoo calendar invites are abused to send spam Mailing-Lists also can be abused (try to subscribe with a forged address). the question is - can the abuser put his text or url inside the message? If so, the site should run the text a

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-05-20 Thread ram
Yes but the invite option may be abused. Like yahoo calendar invites are abused to send spam On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 03:23 -0700, Eloise Carlton wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to report this. We've audited this > sender; they are a social network, where users can communicate within a > n

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-05-20 Thread Eloise Carlton
Thank you for taking the time to report this. We've audited this sender; they are a social network, where users can communicate within a network or users inviting friends to join a forum. The sender also implemented Captcha as part of the registration. We are working to find out more of the how the

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-05-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.05.08 19:11, ram wrote: > I am getting spams on my spamtraps which are coming with > HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI > > Where do I report these try searching the habeas website... -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertis

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120, 000 spams a day

2008-03-12 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sun, March 9, 2008 19:01, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming > to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. this is a ERROR IN YOUR DUMP SENDMAIL :=) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody FIX IT ! Benny Pede

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-11 Thread Joseph Brennan
So then they tell me to push the virtusertable out to the MX's. So I've asked multiple people multiple times how using sendmail on an MX thats not a final delivery server how to use the virtusertable to accept the mail, process against the virtusertable, and then when the final delivery server i

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 3/10/2008 7:15 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: In any case, if someone can explain the mechanics of having a sendmail MX that is not the final delivery server do localized verification against something and then pass it along to the final delivery server please let me know. Its not that

RE: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread SM
At 13:38 10-03-2008, James E. Pratt wrote: No. "Possible mail loss" is really the correct term. Just because I have no backup MX, it does not mean I will lose mail (Mail loss can, and usually is caused by many more issues than just no backup/secondary MX). Yes. At 14:20 10-03-2008, Bob Pro

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Kelson
Sandy S wrote: OK, I admit I haven't been following this thread closely so I may have missed something and maybe my suggestion won't fit your needs. However, we're accomplishing something like what you describe above using Mimedefang. The Mimedefang milter includes a function called md_check

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
James E. Pratt wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > >What would have been the downside of *not* having a backup MX? The > > > > Loss of mail. > > No. "Possible mail loss" is really the correct term. Just because I have > no backup MX, it does not mean I will lose mail (Mail loss can, and > usual

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Sandy S
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Hi, Everyone keeps telling me to push the userlist out to the MX. This isn't possible, since everything is handled in virtusertable. So then they tell me to push the virtusertable out to the MX's. So I've asked multiple people multiple times how using sendmail o

RE: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread James E. Pratt
> -Original Message- > From: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 3:49 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day > > At 11:47 10-03-2008, Bob Proulx wrote: > >What would have been the downside

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Richard Frovarp
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Seriously... How hard is it to setup the MX boxen to only allow 4 email addresses to pass for that particular domain, rejecting all others in the SMTP conversation? Unless the customer is dropping BIG DADDY $$$ with you, tell him policy change and that he isn't losing

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread SM
At 11:47 10-03-2008, Bob Proulx wrote: What would have been the downside of *not* having a backup MX? The Loss of mail. mail would have remained in the mailqueue. Comcast, AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, corporate servers, private servers, etc. would have retried to send the mail to you later. When you

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > Everyone keeps telling me to push the userlist out to the > MX. This isn't possible, since everything is handled in virtusertable. > So then they tell me to push the virtusertable out to the MX's. You are begining to understand why MX relays are recommended agains

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > Seriously... > > How hard is it to setup the MX boxen to only allow 4 email addresses to pass > for that particular domain, rejecting all others in the SMTP conversation? > > Unless the customer is dropping BIG DADDY $$$ with you, tell him policy > change and that he isn't losing any email i

RE: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Robert - elists
Seriously... How hard is it to setup the MX boxen to only allow 4 email addresses to pass for that particular domain, rejecting all others in the SMTP conversation? Unless the customer is dropping BIG DADDY $$$ with you, tell him policy change and that he isn't losing any email if you do not do a

[spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: There are "considerations" in doing this. Right now, all my systems are set up running sendmail, and all with the config of : define(`confCOPY_ERRORS_TO',`Postmaster') As such, true to its name, anytime there is an error, the postmaster gets a c

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread Marc Perkel
SM wrote: At 17:51 08-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: As part of it all, I also want to try to keep disk usage and CPU down to as little as possible. With 120,000 per day, thats a junk mail every 3/4's of a second. Since I have it set to deliver to /dev/null, I reduce the amount of

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-10 Thread Shane Williams
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: But it still remains, I'm looking to find what people think is the best way on an MX host to do the rejecting at SMTP time. I'm coming to this conversation kind of late, so I apologize if I've missed something important earlier in the threa

Re: How to report

2008-03-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > >etc. I have in my sendmail virtusertable: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] nobody > > The above is incorrect as there is still a processing overhead. I > > suggest using: > > > > @example.com error:nouser User unknown On 09.03.08 15:05, Tuc at T-B

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > Bango said that if his mom can't spell his name right, he doesn't > > care if he gets her emails. :) > > > > fair enough (he can also discard delivered mail anyway). but I've seen a > lot of people subscribing to services with a mistyped address (their > own) and then calling us to co

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: If you are proposing some kind of checksums or other types of 'message identifying' techniques on the messages, those few mistyped addresses could certainly make a difference for your site. What if bongo's mom mistypes to bungo, realizes her mistake and resends it to

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> The same argument applies to mail to valid addresses (bingo, bango, ...) > as well. would you like to use all your mail as a spam corpus? after > all, you get only 10 out of 12 messages to these addresses :) > Well, bingo DOES like to hear from his mom, SOMETIMES. ;) I understand yo

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > If you are proposing some kind of checksums or other types of 'message > identifying' techniques on the messages, those few mistyped addresses > could certainly make a difference for your site. What if bongo's mom > mistypes to bungo, realizes her mistake and resends it to bongo a few > min

Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. A

Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming > > > to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user > being > > > fickle, its a

Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
> > Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming > > to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user > > being > > fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY > > EXISTED. About 1 e

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. About 1 ever 3/4 of a second.

Re: [spamassassin] RE: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the reply. In as much as I'd like to help the community, > > I'm under a set of constraints. Starting a whole other server to start > > doing > > this isn't something that fits under those constraints. It looks like > > I'll probably just end up having to /dev/nul

RE: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread Robert - elists
> Hi, > > Thanks for the reply. In as much as I'd like to help the community, > I'm under a set of constraints. Starting a whole other server to start > doing > this isn't something that fits under those constraints. It looks like > I'll probably just end up having to /dev/null them as I hav

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > I see delivery attempts to invalid email address regularly. They get > rejected at the SMTP level. Running such messages through > SpamAssassin doesn't make sense. Your previous message mentioned > that you wanted to report these "spam" messages and my reply was > based upon that. >

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread SM
At 11:01 09-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. About 1

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > Automatic reporting - that's another thing entirely. As was pointed out in > previous replys, the user > community is not always accurate in reporting what is legit spam, and what > is/was requested > or "permitted". I tend to report manually, although I am writing some code > to semi-auto

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > At 17:51 08-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > As part of it all, I also want to try to keep disk usage and CPU > >down to as little as possible. With 120,000 per day, thats a junk mail > >every 3/4's of a second. Since I have it set to deliver to /dev/null, I > >reduce the amount

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread SM
At 17:51 08-03-2008, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: As part of it all, I also want to try to keep disk usage and CPU down to as little as possible. With 120,000 per day, thats a junk mail every 3/4's of a second. Since I have it set to deliver to /dev/null, I reduce the amount of disk usage. I

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > >> >> On 08.03.08 18:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: >> > > Our mail server receives about 128K emails a day. Of >> > > those, 120K are absolutely known spam so I don't even run >> > > them through spamassassin. Of the 8K left, 6K are determined >> > > to be spams, and

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Scheidell
9 -0500 (EST) > To: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day > >> >> On 08.03.08 18:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > I have a feeling that I'm not expl

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > On 08.03.08 18:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > > Our mail server receives about 128K emails a day. Of > > > those, 120K are absolutely known spam so I don't even run > > > them through spamassassin. Of the 8K left, 6K are determined > > > to be spams, and 2K are considered "good". > > > > >

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 08.03.08 18:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: > > Our mail server receives about 128K emails a day. Of > > those, 120K are absolutely known spam so I don't even run > > them through spamassassin. Of the 8K left, 6K are determined > > to be spams, and 2K are considered "good". > > > > I'm wonde

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
> > Hi, > > Our mail server receives about 128K emails a day. Of > those, 120K are absolutely known spam so I don't even run > them through spamassassin. Of the 8K left, 6K are determined > to be spams, and 2K are considered "good". > > I'm wondering if there is some way to help the

Re: How to report FPs to Spamcop?

2004-10-31 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, April 12, 2004, 12:07:19 PM, Alton Danks wrote: > I'm running into some FP's with the RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP rule. We've also just > added SURBL and I wouldn't be surprised to see more. I don't see a good way to > report FP's on the spamcop.net site. Does anyone know how to report them so >