At 18:26 +0200 2003-07-27, Tony Earnshaw wrote: >Vicki Brown wrote: > >> Today two pieces of nasty x-rated spam came through the filters with >>negative >> scores because the spammer spoofed the From address to be _my_ address (the >> address part only; the "real name" is not mine, they don't have that >> information). > >Solve this at your MTA level. Only you know what mailserver you're >running, only you know what SA version you're using, only you know how >you are calling SA. And only you refuse point blank to tell others.
Excuse me... refuse? REFUSE? Refuse _point blank_??? What are you on ?! SA version=2.43 - very evident from the email I sent; I clipped all of the SA headers How I'm calling - procmail. As several docs recommend. Why does it matter? Why should it matter? Mailserver - FreeBSD. Again, why does this matter? How could it possibly matter? MTA -sendmail. What some 80-90% of installations probably use. Again, why does this matter? And why should I try to "solve this at my MTA level". It's SpamAssassin that's doing the AWL check, not sendmail, not FreeBSD, not procmail. It's SpamAssassin that's assigning an x-rated piece of spam a score of -6.3, apparently because the From header was spoofed to contain MY email address. It's SpamAssassin I need to convince. And if not, perhaps you could be a little more polite and a little more helpful. I R'd TFM; I found auto_whitelist_factor; I asked a list of supposedly knowledgeable people if this was the best and most recommended way to fix the problem. I'm still asking. -- - Vicki Vicki Brown ZZZ Journeyman Sourceror: P.O. Box 1269 zz |\ _,,,---,,_ Scripts & Philtres San Bruno, CA zz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Perl, Unix, MacOS 94066 USA |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' http://philtres.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] '---''(_/--' `-'\_) http://www.cfcl.com/vlb ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
