Hi, Let's take this very slowly...
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Mike Anderson wrote: > Because of you I am changing ISP's. 'You' is an ambiguous term. Who specifically is this 'you' that has coerced you into changing ISPs? > There is no such thing as a whitelist that works. That is a false statement. For example, when properly configured by an end-user procmail does a fine job of sorting mail, killfiling, whitelisting, etc. > Even if I receive valid mail and you have targeted it as spam I cannot > read it because you control freaks have altered the e-mail. Unless your ISP's mail administration staff is subscribed to this list, 'we' (the subscribers of this mailing list) have nothing to do with your mail. Nobody here wants to control anything but our own inboxes and unless someone's breaking into your ISP, nobody here has altered your email. Calm down, have a cup of cocoa, call your ISP and ask them to stop filtering your mailbox. > Anyone else having similar problems? Not here. SA seems to be doing its job swimmingly, tagging garbage as garbage fairly accurately. > Why not let us have control of what happens at the PC level as opposed > to the network level? Presuming there is some 'we' that controls things at the network level, one generally drops spam at the earliest opportunity to save system resources to handle legitimate mail. SpamAssassin doesn't work at the network level, at least not as far as rejecting mail during the network connection phase or SMTP transaction phase. SpamAssassin generally is applied after mail is accepted for delivery and then only to tag mail, not to delete it. Anything beyond that needs to be configured by your ISP. In your specific case, you need to talk to your ISP. Venting at this mailing list will not solve your problem, it doesn't make you look particularly intelligent, and will probably just garner you a bunch of unnecessarily snotty replies telling you to talk to your ISP and explaining that nobody here has any ability or interest in mangling your personal inbox. Now, if you're objecting to your mail being tagged or dropped by other ISPs who use SpamAssassin, that's another issue. Maybe you need to reevaluate how you send what you send. We *still* can't help you, but the type and quantity of slightly-less-unnecessarily snotty replies will change. Talk to your ISP; they're more likely to solve your problem than 'we' are. hth, -- Bob Apthorpe ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore. Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
