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Spam assassin. Disclaimer: Antispam software will block or mark a small percentage of legitimate mail. -Original Message- From: Brien Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Spam Question We are using sendmail as our

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do you have a link to this -Original Message- From: Baker, Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:05 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question Spam assassin. Disclaimer: Antispam software will block or mark a small percentage of legitimate

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I tried that already. Page can't be found. -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question LOL http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=spamassassin -Original

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http://www.lib.de.us/help/howdoi.shtml -Original Message- From: Brien Mayer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question I tried that already. Page can't be found. -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier

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: Spam Question is this free? If not around how much is it -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:13 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question LOL http://www.google.com/search?hl=enie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=spamassassin

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Check this out. http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamassassin/ Jeremiah Thank you. -Original Message- From: Baker, Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question It's free. Apparently

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Thank you. -Original Message- From: Baker, Jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 10:34 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question It's free. Apparently the site is experiencing problems. If it doesn't respond by the eod, email me directly

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And attempted to give free fishing lessons. http://us.spamassassin.org/ -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 9:41 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spam Question Yes, Tom posted the link for free. -Original

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Why not patch sendmail ? Brien Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:277188@exchangelist... We are using sendmail as our front end server to an E2k server. It seems someone has found a hole in our sendmail server are able to spam us. I received 4300 e-mails over the weekend. My

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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 5:13 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I understand the issue, and yes relaying can be handled at the firewall. What I was questioning was the idea of filtering spam (or house, whatever) at the firewall. I had

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outgoing or incoming. David White -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 7:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question Depends on what your firewall does. Many can act as a store and forward device. In this set

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I wouldn't think so, unless the spammers are coming from your own Exchange Server. All I know is that whenever someone from the outside world requests a read receipt, I'm usually asked if I want to send it or not. Of course, that is with Outlook (Internet Mail Only) and Outlook Express at home.

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Not necessarily. If they have that option set and it's something that works via internet mail, then... maybe. -- Drew Visit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity. -- Robert Anthony, American

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OutL2000 never asked about sending read receipts, but OutL2002 does. Steve -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I wouldn't think so, unless the spammers

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If they are using an app that knows how to leverage Outlook's object model, it is *possible* they could see such. Read receipts are a client function though. Not exchange, nor any spam software I've seen. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

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question OutL2000 never asked about sending read receipts, but OutL2002 does. Steve -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I wouldn't think so, unless the spammers

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If the spammer requests a read receipt AND the user responds, then yes, they get a receipt. if not, then NO. Thanks! Joe Irvine The Business Office, Inc. http://www.tbopayroll.com 609-597-1155 -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday,

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://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now! Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -Original Message- From: Joe Irvine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:22 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question

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: Anthony Getor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:15 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question In Outlook 2000, this option is set by going to Tools--Options--E-mail Options--Tracking Options. Tony -Original Message- From: Ropiak Steve - NAO

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Title: RE: spam question Depends on what you are running. With my system, I drop mail that is spam, not return it. In such a case, they do not get an NDR, because I am deleting their mail. This is a great tool against relay freaks. They think their relay is getting through, when in truth, I

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Title: RE: spam question Doesn't that violate RFCs? :P -- DrewVisit http://www.drewncapris.net! Go! Go there now!Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent

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Not all messaging servers are RFC compliant. Those Sendmail boxes are easy to configure to not return NDR's. -Original Message- From: Eldridge, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:50 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question Another

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a receipt anyways. That would give me a way to go after them directly rather than try to get the open relay to shut his hole. -Original Message- From: Drewski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:09 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question

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Issues Subject: RE: spam question It's also a waste of resources as the mail still has to travel through the firewall, into the IMC, get routed to dev null. Better to block them at the firewall (if possible) and return them a 5xx error. Dropping the request (as some do) returns a 4xx

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Title: RE: spam question I have never heard of filtering spam at the firewall. How could a firewall possibly do that? Unless of course you know who the culprit senders are, but that changes continuously. -Original Message- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday

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Title: RE: spam question Content. SMTP header info. It would be imperfect as all spam filters are. -Original Message-From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:54 AMTo: MS-Exchange Admin IssuesSubject: RE: spam question I have

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Title: RE: spam question I have never heard of filtering spam at the firewall. How could a firewall possibly do that? Unless of course you know who the culprit senders are, but that changes continuously. Depends on whether your firewall is also your mail server. That's what those

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message to the internet just as if the message came in through your own Domain? John Majetic -Original Message- From: Allen Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 10:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I wouldn't think so, unless

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these weasels the most. -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 2:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: spam question I have never heard of filtering spam at the firewall. How could a firewall possibly do

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: RE: spam question Content. SMTP header info. It would be imperfect as all spam filters are. -Original Message- From: Matthew Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:54 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject

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Title: RE: spam question I understand the issue, and yes relaying can be handled at the firewall. What I was questioning was the idea of filtering spam (or house, whatever) at the firewall. I had not heard of a firewall examining headers, subjects and bodies for spam type information

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Dear all, Please ignore this message, just realised the spammer got the addresses from our website. Doh! Cheers, James. Dear all, more of a curiosity question than an outright problem, we received a big spam mail last night, most of you have probably seen it, it's the one where the

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It sounds like the perp used an Email address generator program. -Original Message- From: James Gosnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:48 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Spam question Dear all, more of a curiosity question than an outright