Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-27 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/25/06 10:30 AM, "Ian P. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that message-id without a FQDN for the latter part is > reasonably common. Yes, it is very common. It is what Outlook Express does on a machine that doesn't know what domain it is in (most non-organizational Windows m

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:44 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > So > instead of rewriting msgids (they are already out, anyway) I block them: > > condition = ${if match > {$local_part}{\N(?i)^[0-9a-f]{8}\.[0-9a-f]{7}$\N}} Do you actually have valid local users with localparts like that? Wouldn't th

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-26 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Quoting Dave Evans: > As it happens I'm currently trying to concoct a recipe for rewriting Message > IDs - not to make them more FQDN-ish, but to make them less > spammer-harvestable. Thunderbird (and other MUAs too for all I know) > generates Message IDs that end in "@", which > spammers like to

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-26 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006, Ian P. Christian wrote: > A user on a server of mine recently forwarded me this: > --- > Your message triggered a spam alert on my system (i.e. it didn't show as > definitely spam but it contained warning signs). > Checking, t

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-26 Thread Dave Evans
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:53:37AM +, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > I'd strongly advise against rewriting message-IDs > generated by MUAs, since users might be expecting their > MUAs to be able to identify their messages using them Point taken, but in this case I am the one and only user in que

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:43:22PM +, Dave Evans wrote: [...] > As it happens I'm currently trying to concoct a recipe for rewriting Message > IDs - not to make them more FQDN-ish, but to make them less > spammer-harvestable. Thunderbird (and other MUAs too for all I know) > generates Mess

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-25 Thread Dave Evans
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 06:30:35PM +, Ian P. Christian wrote: > > If the message was outright rejected because of lack of an FQDN in the > > Message-ID, I wouldn't say that's /wrong/, but I would say it's inadvisable. > > I'd like to draw attention to your message-id here: > > Message-ID: <[E

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-25 Thread Ian P. Christian
Dave Evans wrote: > Whichever SMTP client said "HELO James" is in the wrong for violation of > RFC2821 (that command does not match the HELO command's syntax). This was over authenticated SMTP, from an end user using outlook express, whilst I know that's wrong i think it's pretty normal - howeve

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-25 Thread Dave Evans
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 06:02:33AM +, Ian P. Christian wrote: > The problem is therefore twofold: > - your mail software is using the name "James" in the HELO instead of >"james.custdomain.com" or some such; > - you (whether on "James" or mail.domain.co.uk) aren't inserting a >legal mes

RE: [exim] Message ID

2005-06-06 Thread Andrew Johnson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:44 PM > To: exim-users@exim.org > Subject: [exim] Message ID > > Hi all, > > I'd like to know how message ID is generated by exim. > > Ex: 1DeJiO-0008B7-Oh > > I will mount a load

Re: [exim] Message ID

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Lugo
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'd like to know how message ID is generated by exim. > > Ex: 1DeJiO-0008B7-Oh > take a look at spec.txt: 3.4 Message identification -- Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]LC