Hi. Just joined up the list. I started using SpamAssassin about a week ago. Seems to be working well, but still a few false positives and false negatives (more of the latter).
Anyway, I wanted to see if I could get help dealing with one repeating annoying spam message. Actually, I think the message is coming from a virus (i.e. machines that have been infected with the virus), but it seems the message can be dealt with as if it were spam. I'm talking about the "goldfish" message, as the subject states. I've been getting these repeatedly for a while now (and it was one of the ones I was hoping SpamAssassin would help me deal with). I have two saved copies of it, to use to see what's common among the messages. Both contain "goldfish" in the subject, one is just plain "goldfish" and one is "Fw: goldfish". Both come from hotmail addresses. Both have attachments, one is application/octet-stream, one is audio/x-midi. Both say: Hi Dear Check the attach See u in the body of the message (in HTML). I was thinking that these messages would already be covered by existing SpamAssassin rules, since it seems like a fairly common spam message that people are getting. But apparently not. I did web/newsgroups search at google on "spamassassin goldfish" (and also "procmail goldfish", since I'm using procmail, and spamassassin in conjunction with procmail) and didn't turn up anything relevant. I was thinking perhaps someone on this list has already figured out a way to catch these messages, or would have an idea how within the existing SpamAssassin framework -- i.e. no need for new rules. One perhaps complicating factor is I don't have direct access to SpamAssassin on the machine where I read my email. That's because mail processing (including running SpamAssassin) is done on some backend machines, and they don't have SpamAssassin installed on the frontend machines. Thanks for any help/suggestions you can offer. Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v?http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
