Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-14 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 07:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It seems my email appears on one of those "millions of emails" cdroms Egads, are those things still out there? I used to get spammed with offers for them. Of course, I don't get spam any more (thanks, SA team)! Thomas

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-14 Thread mouss
jdow a écrit : > > The real problem here is that it is a unique solution for every user. > The not quite so nasty problem is the number of different ways to render > my name, especially if I allow for most of the common fsckups. > agreed. I have many contacts who add me to their own addr book wi

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-14 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > and I also consider to reject mails that have a random > display name added to my email How do you do that? I'd sure love to reject e-mail that says To: Joe Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but what about mail where they don't enter any name? Baby, bathwate

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> > and I also consider to reject mails that have a random > > display name added to my email > > How do you do that? > > I'd sure love to reject e-mail that says To: Joe Smith > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) but what about mail where they don't enter any > name? > > Baby, bathwater... You do it with a *rea

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread hamann . w
Hi Evan, it is currently an addition to qmail-scanner As for whielisting: if the envelope from matches @spamassassin.apache.org or @lists.sourceforge.net or my username (yes, I sometimes bcc me a copy) let it through. Otherwise if none of my possible names appears in either to or cc, it must be

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Evan Platt
On Mon, February 13, 2006 2:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have just started to reject mails where the sender does not care to put > my email addy into > To or Cc field, Wow.. So if someone sends a message where you're on the BCC, you simply delete it? I get a number of e-mails from friends

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread hamann . w
> I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... > > But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are > getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. > > Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply turfing th

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Niek
On 2/13/2006 7:16 PM +0100, Peter Marshall wrote: I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Greg Allen wrote: > Using some good RBLs at your MTA should help, also make sure you are running > current version of SA with everything enabled (bayes, urbl, etc) True, spamcop and some other RBLs have recently started blacklisting sites that emit backwash.

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Evan Platt wrote: > On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:59 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > >> That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note >> that >> this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, >> so be >> sure to check for it on other lists you subscrib

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Greg Allen
ssassin list > Subject: User getting spammed to death > > > I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... > > But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are > getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. > > Do any of you have

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Greg Allen
st > Subject: User getting spammed to death > > > I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... > > But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are > getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. > > Do any of you have a s

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Evan Platt
On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:59 am, Matt Kettler wrote: > That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note > that > this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, > so be > sure to check for it on other lists you subscribe to. > > > list-unsubscri

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Evan Platt
On Mon, February 13, 2006 11:20 am, Michael Di Martino wrote: > please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin > site. In the headers of every message: list-unsubscribe:

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Di Martino wrote: > please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin > site. > That's because it's in the headers of *EVERY* message on the list. Note that this is the RFC standardized method for telling users how to unsubscribe, so be sure to check for it on other l

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Michael Di Martino
please send unsubscribe address. I cannot find it on the spamassissin site. Thanks Mike

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Rob McEwen
al Message- From: Kristopher Austin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 2:01 PM To: Peter Marshall; SpamAssassin list Subject: RE: User getting spammed to death Are the messages coming from the same sending server? If so, I'd blacklist it at your MTA until

Re: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Marshall
ry 13, 2006 12:16 PM To: SpamAssassin list Subject: User getting spammed to death I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you h

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Kristopher Austin
ubject: User getting spammed to death > > I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... > > But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are > getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. > > Do any of you have a suggestion othe

RE: User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Shawn R. Beairsto
: Peter Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 1:16 PM To: SpamAssassin list Subject: User getting spammed to death I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour

User getting spammed to death

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Marshall
I am not sure if there is anything that I can do ... But our marketing email address is getting spammed to death. We are getting about 2000 messages an hour. It is getting to be a problem. Do any of you have a suggestion other than simply turfing the email address ? Thanks Peter

Re[2]: Spammed to death

2005-02-23 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello David, Nate, Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 3:07:41 PM, David wrote: >> Here is the typical email I get from these morons. Notice the missing >> letters "Vicodin", "Viagra", "Xanax", and "Cialis". In my email client >> Microsoft Outlook displays all the letters. However, if I copy and paste

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 22, 2005, 8:42:17 AM, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:58 AM 2/22/2005, Marc Perkel wrote: >>First I would recomment you upgrade to Spam Assassin 3.x - It's much better. > Good point Marc, that's a better solution in general. I do recommend that > over my previous advice of just a

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Nate wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. > > My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam. The messages seem > to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is not > picking them up. [snip..] > Here is the typical

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:58 AM 2/22/2005, Marc Perkel wrote: First I would recomment you upgrade to Spam Assassin 3.x - It's much better. Good point Marc, that's a better solution in general. I do recommend that over my previous advice of just adding antidrug.cf. However, if they are stuck on 2.64 due to perl versi

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:34 AM 2/22/2005, Nate wrote: I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam. The messages seem to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is not picking them up. Looks like a job for antidrug.cf: http://mywebpages

RE: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Kristopher Austin
9:35 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Spammed to death Hello, I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam. The messages seem to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is not picking

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Andy Jezierski
"Nate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/22/2005 09:34:51 AM: > Hello, > > I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. > > My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam.  The messages seem > to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is not > picking them up. >

Re: Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
First I would recomment you upgrade to Spam Assassin 3.x - It's much better. Nate wrote: Hello, I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam. The messages seem to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is n

Spammed to death

2005-02-22 Thread Nate
Hello, I'm using spamassassin 2.64 on Debian Woody. My clients emails are getting clobbered by "Pharma" spam. The messages seem to be using different encoding on words like Viagra, Cialis and sa is not picking them up. I've tried setting up header and body tests, but the bastards at "Pharma" ke