>>> On 11/10/2012 at 7:12 AM, Martin Gregorie <mar...@gregorie.org> wrote: >> After I posted, I went to put them on my local blacklist and saw that >> I had done this previously. I wonder why it was not caught. A >> Cron job does sa-update twice a day, so it is unlikely not to have >> been read. >> > Don't forget that spamd is stopped and restarted during the daily > update. Could the message's arrival coincide with this? > > Is your local blacklist also taken down while it is being updated and/or > backed up?
Guess so, only using local.cf > Mine isn't because I implement it with what I call a > 'portmanteau rule', a single rule with several hundred alternative > patterns. In this case the rule is looking for URI matches in message > bodies because it was written to clean the message stream from a > spam-laden mailing list: blacklists etc simply don't work in this > situation because the headers relate to messages sent from the > listserv. That's something I need to look at, I guess. > > Martin AFA the CANSPAM thing goes, we shall see. I only found a link to a rather generic FTC complaint form, which I filled out, without much sense of fulfillment. joe a.
