----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A client today received 11,000 copies of the same item of spam! > > Some clueless piece of sh*t had generated an email to every random > permutation of three letters @hisdomain.org - and sent them off through > an open relay at 80.179.102.58 - run by 012.net.il > > The filtering system I'd set up last week (qmail-scanner with > SpamAssassin and Clam AV) worked fine and tagged all 11,000 as spam, but > because all of them forwarded to his catch-all email account, his email > client software couldn't pick them up because it kept timing out. > > I really think this is malicious behaviour. Hasn't the time come for > qmail-scanner to at least offer the facility to trash messages which are > identified as spam, rather than leaving it up to client software? This > user is begging me to let the server delete his spam, even if the filter > isn't 100% accurate. So far, I have to say, there's been one false > positive, and a handful of false negatives out of several thousand > messages, so the accuracy rate is well above 99% already. > > Has anyone else noticed this kind of spam-bombing? What can I do? > > Thanks, > > Nick The problem with deleting the messages is the chance of deleting that one important message a customer has been waiting for. If you really want to rely on spamassassin's accuracy then you would need to edit the sub-spamassassin.pl. Brad ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
