Re: Fw: failure notice / spaassassin.apache.org

2006-09-29 Thread Mark Samples
Comcast has their own blacklist, I do not know how they arrive at what is spam and what is not, in my experience, it is questionable. Your hosting company is the one that is blacklisted. This can be effecting many or just effecting you, it depends on whether they assign individual ip number to

Re: How to filter these spam messages

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Samples
I have adopted the following policy, I run commercial free email. If it is unsolicited it gets blacklisted. If they want to run commercials through my email site, I will let them, provided they use a mailing list and the user can opt out. Random, unsolicited emails go in the blacklist. This

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-19 Thread Mark Samples
I get junk from these guys all of the time, others that have followed the 'opt-out' IMO just use it to confirm an email address for sale to others, such as themselves. Maybe I am just extra paranoid, but marketers should just stick to a web search for people that want to purchase from them. Uns

Re: A New Approach: Find the Ham

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Samples
Is that the same as whitelisting, maybe I do not understand, but a very rigorous approach would be a whitelist methodology which, once a new account is created, they send email to everyone they want to communicate with, and it 'autowhitelists' those addresses, so you can only receive from those

Re: extract message-id's from logfile

2007-03-23 Thread Mark Samples
PERL: #!/usr/bin/perl while() { if(/mid=<(.*)>/) { print "$1\n"; } } cat spamd.log | will give you all of your 'mid' (message ids) from the spamd.log file (or whatever you call you spam log file for SA). Starckjohann, Ove wrote: Hi! bit offtopic, but maybe it's easy and some

Header / Plugin / Ruleset, etc.

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Samples
Question I will be a little vague, as I am sure spammers watch this list, so bear with me... I have observed certain emails coming thru spamassassin, the one thing peculiar is the existance of an IP address that is not a valid address, i.e. it has certain peculiarities that in text, comp