MailChimp allows their clients to send links to MailChimp-hosted zipped malware. This is negligence at best, criminal at worst.
Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:00 PM, David Jones <djo...@ena.com> wrote: > On 10/19/2017 02:38 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 12:32 > PM, Alex wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Reindl Harald > wrote: >>> Am 19.10.2017 um 16:50 schrieb Alex: >>>> >>>> My bayes is trained > such that most marketing emails are bayes99. I've >>>> also now removed > mcsv.net from the whitelist and see it resulted in 70 >>>> messages from > mcsv.net being caught today, all of which were from >>>> marketing@ or news@ > or similar accounts from sites like >>>> news@firma.agency >>> >>> well, your > users will be grateful when you use a biased bayes and reject >>> their > subscribed newsletters - "bayes is trained such that most marketing >>> > emails are bayes99" is idiotic - the only question for traing is SPAM OR NOT > >>> SPAM and if you are not 100% sure don#t train a sample at all >> >> And > yet, it would have stopped the email in question. It also relies >> on other > ham rules to subtract points or trusted senders to be >> whitelisted. I'm > also not convinced all of these are opt-in in the >> first place. > > Third > day, third set of false-negatives (20 this time) whitelisted > through > mailchimp > > https://pastebin.com/6vkxNXxX > > I had removed the mcsv.net > but forgot mcdlv.net. It's still not being > tagged properly without the > whitelisting. > Are all of the recipients the same for the past 3 sets of > junk mail? Are you reporting these to the mailchimp abuse link? I have > generally had good results with the major mass marketers like Mailchimp > handling their rogue customers and blocking the account. If you report this, > then it helps all of us. Blocking things locally only helps your recipients. > You can also safely unsubscribe those senders and provide feedback to > Mailchimp that you never subscribed to that email. Enough strikes will get > that sender blocked by Mailchimp. -- David Jones @thelounge.net> @gmail.com>
