Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-24 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, July 21, 2005, 7:28:53 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hello, > I've been watching some of the misses that have passed through > spamassassin (3.0.4) lately and they are pretty clean; no DNS BL hits, > etc. > One thing I did notice is that many of them have a fairly contorted URL >

Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-22 Thread List Mail User
>... >On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: > >> Sounds like an surbl problem if spamsite.com isn't listed. > >That's just an example I made up... :) >... Bad choice of example: spamsite. com is an actual "spamsite". The domain "example.com" is reserved for exactly this type of usage a

Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-22 Thread Loren Wilton
> OK, so that's supposed to happen. Is there any way to have the entire > host checked? I've seen a good volume of junk where the domain is clean, > but if I do a manual lookup on the entire hostname in the spam it is > indeed listed. I *suspect* what is happening here is that the domain isn't i

Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: Sounds like an surbl problem if spamsite.com isn't listed. That's just an example I made up... :) The leading subdomains are supposed to be trimmed off, since they are usually identifying strings for a given spam target rather than an actual part of

Re: URIDNSBL and subdomains

2005-07-21 Thread Loren Wilton
Sounds like an surbl problem if spamsite.com isn't listed. The leading subdomains are supposed to be trimmed off, since they are usually identifying strings for a given spam target rather than an actual part of the target name. There are a few cases where things go to three levels rather than jus