newbie: getting rid of spam with spamassasin

2003-10-23 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I have installed spamassasin rpm off the redhat cd and looked at the documentation at spamassasin's official site but I'm not getting it. I'm looking to use spamassasin with kmail if possible but I'm not sure where to start now. I've looked at online documentation and getting a little

Re: newbie: getting rid of spam with spamassasin

2003-10-23 Thread Thomas Smith
Geoffrey Lane wrote: I have installed spamassasin rpm off the redhat cd and looked at the documentation at spamassasin's official site but I'm not getting it. I'm looking to use spamassasin with kmail if possible but I'm not sure where to start now. I've looked at online documentation and

Re: newbie: getting rid of spam with spamassasin

2003-10-23 Thread Ross Cooney -- Cyber Sentry Ltd
I'm looking to use spamassasin with kmail if possible but I'm not sure where to start now. I've looked at online documentation and getting a little fustrated. Spamassassin is best used with sendmail or qmail, which are mail servers...not email clients. check out the docs section of the web

Re: newbie: getting rid of spam with spamassasin

2003-10-23 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I set up Spamassassin with sendmail and set a crontab entry to run fetchmail every 5 minutes. Then I set kmail to use whatever you named your machine as a pop3 server. -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbie: getting rid of spam with spamassasin

2003-10-23 Thread Gerry Doris
should go to the SpamAssassin site and download an rpm of the latest version. Also, SpamAssassin is intended to work with your MTA. You are probably using either sendmail or postfix if you installed RH 9. It will apply a header to suspected spam that you then filter on using procmail or your

Re: Postfix Spam Control

2003-10-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
Brett Franck wrote: Postfix 2.0 is the MTA. How can I allow a host of 63.111.163.37: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname to be allowed to transfer mail IN to my server but still use the reject_unknown_hostname recipient restriction? Looks like you should create an alternate

Postfix Spam Control

2003-10-14 Thread Brett Franck
All, I have my Postfix locked down pretty tight for spam, and have come across a small problemI have a host that I want to receive mail from but the "hostname is not found". Here's a piece of my Postfix Main.cf(applicable) snip smtpd_helo_required = yesstrict_rfc821

Re: [SPAM] Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
, discussed and closed? Check the archives. It wasn't too long ago, and some very valid pointers and tips were made. Oh, and just something unrelated - I get so much junk mail from yahoo, that I've simply blacklisted yahoo.com. I have no-one legitimate I need to speak to at that spam haven. Maybe

Re: [SPAM] Why My Mouse do not work on RH9

2003-10-06 Thread Harry Schroeder
? Check the archives. It wasn't too long ago, and some very valid pointers and tips were made. Oh, and just something unrelated - I get so much junk mail from yahoo, that I've simply blacklisted yahoo.com. I have no-one legitimate I need to speak to at that spam haven. Maybe a lot of people here

Re: Updated perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 breaks spam assassin?

2003-09-25 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 09:34:03 +1000 (EST), Michael Mansour wrote --- Ben Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent update to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 broke spam assasin on my RH8 mail server. All mail that would normally be scanned by spam assassin was being rejected until I reverted

Re: Updated perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 breaks spam assassin?

2003-09-25 Thread Michael Mansour
The recent update to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 broke spam assasin on my RH8 mail server. All mail that would normally be scanned by spam assassin was being rejected until I reverted to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-55.i386.rpm. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? I run

Re: [SPAM] Re: NAT Problems/Neighbour Table overfow

2003-09-24 Thread Edward Dekkers
Harish wrote: Hi Ed, Really appreciate your speedy resonse,pls find below the errors that I got, this was after I had written the eniries in the rc.local file and then rebooted the machine yestrerday night.Will try giving the full path and let u know. Thanks Once Again Harish Sep 23 23:54:49

Fighting those MS spam mails

2003-09-23 Thread Didier Casse
I noticed that these MS spam mailers do not know how to generate good message id's... which is cool because the simple procmail recipe below got rid of 99% of all these annoying mails! And most of them get caught by the message id's. :-) I know that the Subject line is a bit aggressive

Fighting those MS spam mails

2003-09-23 Thread Didier Casse
I noticed that these MS spam mailers do not know how to generate good message id's... which is cool because the simple procmail recipe below got rid of 99% of all these annoying mails! And most of them get caught by the message id's. :-) I know that the Subject line is a bit aggressive

Re: Fighting those MS spam mails

2003-09-23 Thread Didier Casse
Well modifying the first part would be nice! __ * ! ^From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { * ^Subject: .*(MS|Microsoft|support|admin|Patch|Windows|Internet|Inet) |formail -b -f -AX-spam-check: bad words

Updated perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 breaks spam assassin?

2003-09-23 Thread Ben Holt
The recent update to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 broke spam assasin on my RH8 mail server. All mail that would normally be scanned by spam assassin was being rejected until I reverted to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-55.i386.rpm. Has anyone else experienced a similar problem? - Ben -- redhat-list

Re: Updated perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 breaks spam assassin?

2003-09-23 Thread Michael Mansour
--- Ben Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The recent update to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 broke spam assasin on my RH8 mail server. All mail that would normally be scanned by spam assassin was being rejected until I reverted to perl-suidperl-5.8.0-55.i386.rpm. Has anyone else experienced

Re: Updated perl-suidperl-5.8.0-88.3 breaks spam assassin?

2003-09-23 Thread Ben Holt
rpm was definately my problem with spam assassin. - Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: [SPAM] Re: Felix?

2003-08-29 Thread Edward Dekkers
Dont be so rude. we linux users need to stick together, and if friendships are formed over linux than it is a good thing! So, reconsider your comment, please Felix Felix, Jason wasn't being rude at all. He is in fact correct. Meeting linux friends is not what this list is about. I personally

[OT] Having SpamAssassin automatically delete SPAM?

2003-08-25 Thread Mike Pelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks - A friend of mine wants to set up SpamAssassin so that it will automatically delete anything categorized as spam at the server level (e.g., send it to /dev/null). I've mentioned several times that this might not be a good idea as false

Re: [OT] Having SpamAssassin automatically delete SPAM?

2003-08-25 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:18, Mike Pelley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks - A friend of mine wants to set up SpamAssassin so that it will automatically delete anything categorized as spam at the server level (e.g., send it to /dev/null). I've mentioned several

Re: [OT] Having SpamAssassin automatically delete SPAM?

2003-08-25 Thread Mike Pelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry - How do I configure the SpamAssassin rules to automatically delete mail identified as spam at the server level (e.g., send it to /dev/null or whatever). Thanks! Cheers, Mike Jason Dixon wrote: |On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:18, Mike Pelley wrote

how I can remoce the spam?

2003-08-25 Thread Ravi Narwade
hello everybody, I am getting spam bye different names how I can recover it, i am using redhat 7.3 and the sendmail version is 8.11.6. so please help me... and what spam command does? regards -- ravi -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com

Re: how I can remove the spam?

2003-08-25 Thread Didier Casse
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Ravi Narwade wrote: hello everybody, I am getting spam bye different names how I can recover it, i am using redhat 7.3 and the sendmail version is 8.11.6. so please help me... and what spam command does? This is rather vague. You should be more specific on the type

Re: [OT] Having SpamAssassin automatically delete SPAM?

2003-08-25 Thread Alan Harding
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:55:11 -0230 Mike Pelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - How do I configure the SpamAssassin rules to automatically delete mail identified as spam at the server level (e.g., send it to /dev/null or whatever). First of all, its worth remembering that no Spam Blocker

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread David Hart
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:41, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone tell me if it's possible

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread Aly Dharshi
Or with the use of Exim, which has is builtin to their configure file, you just have to uncomment it ! Cheers, Aly. On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 09:54, David Hart wrote: On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 11:41, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread MKlinke
On Monday 11 August 2003 11:39, Gordon wrote: Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block

Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon
I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone tell me if it's possible (any prefereably how) to have sendmail reject

spam filter

2003-08-14 Thread Simon Tischer
hi c can anyone tell me a got spamfilter for linux, which can be installed on a router? -- --- be blessed Simon -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread MKlinke
On Monday 11 August 2003 10:41, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone tell me if it's possible

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone tell me

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread David Hart
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:29, Ed Wilts wrote: Please note that if you implement this, you have the potential to block a *lot* of legitimate e-mail. For example, this e-mail is coming to you from the redhat.com domain, yet it's got my From: address on it. It's quite possible for a legitimate

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon
Ed Wilts wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone

RE: spam filter

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon McDowall
By router I presume you mean SMTP mail server. If that's what you mean then SpamAssassin is very good www.spamassassin.org Gordon -Original Message- From: Simon Tischer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August 2003 09:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: spam filter hi c can anyone

Re: Stopping spam before it gets to you

2003-08-11 Thread Gordon
MKlinke wrote: On Monday 11 August 2003 10:41, Gordon wrote: I've noticed that in most of the spam that makes it through the sender uses a from address of something legitimate like aol.com or msn.com or whatever. I already block email if the domain doesn't exist at all. Can anyone tell me if it's

symantec spam message

2003-07-28 Thread Rizzuto, Alan
Sorry for all of the issues I just turned off the return message when it thinks it has spam problems this has been a pain I HATE SPAM! Alan Rizzuto IS Administration Sturman Industries Inc. One Innovation Way Woodland Park, Co. 80863 (719) 686-6269

Re: symantec spam message

2003-07-28 Thread James Gibbon
it has spam problems - this has been a pain - I HATE SPAM! Personally, I hate HTML mail - can't you send plain text to the list instead? IS Administration Sturman Industries Inc. One Innovation Way Woodland Park, Co. 80863 (719) 686-6269 =20

RE: symantec spam message

2003-07-28 Thread Rizzuto, Alan
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gibbon Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: symantec spam message Rizzuto, Alan wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C3552A.C765E8B5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-09 Thread Gordon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options to deal with this problem so I can

RE: Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-06 Thread Cowles, Steve
-Original Message- From: MKlinke Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Some results of the anti-spam testing On Sunday 06 July 2003 03:02, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 7/2/2003 16:30 +0100, you wrote: Didn't mean to send this to the RH list but what the heck! As I

Re: Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-06 Thread MKlinke
On Sunday 06 July 2003 14:38, Cowles, Steve wrote: Your setup is very similar to what I have setup here. I too, frontend an exchange server with sendmail/spamass-milter/spamassassin. Your document is not a bad start for people wanting to frontend another mail server using SA. i.e. procmail

Postfix Spam Filter Kit

2003-07-06 Thread David Hart
We get about 4,500 emails per week for and see five or six spams. We use NO RBLs nor additional software. I thought I would share our Postfix setup. YMMV. Since none of our staff are tech-types, our approach is process oriented. ftp://ftp.tqmcube.com/pub/postfix/postfix_spam_kit.tar This is

Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread hanfamily
Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options to deal with this problem so I can start learning what I

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options to deal

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
On Sunday 06 July 2003 16:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in an attempt to be witty and informative: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:16:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 06:04, Robert P. J. Day wrote: start with procmail, and create a .procmailrc file. slowly, as you learn how the rules work, you'll get rid of more and more spam. I've posted my /etc/procmailrc for example at: http://thor.prohosting.com/~kilgoret/files/ Great way

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Gerry Doris
Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options to deal with this problem so I can start learning

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Ryan McDougall
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 15:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
On Sunday 06 July 2003 19:24, Ryan McDougall wrote in an attempt to be witty and informative: The new mozilla mail app has a Statistical spam filter, supposed to work well. I havent used it though... Good luck, Ryan It's actually very good, I used to use it until I learned I could bounce

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

2003-07-06 Thread hanfamily
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:16:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see

Re: Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-05 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 7/2/2003 16:30 +0100, you wrote: Didn't mean to send this to the RH list but what the heck! As I said to my office mates, let me know if you have any questions! Yes. Since you've come this far, how about a quick Mini-HOWTO message on what you did? That way the rest of us can compare notes.

Re: Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-05 Thread MKlinke
on what you did? That way the rest of us can compare notes. I wanted to set up a frontend spam filter for a MS Exchange box and put together this test configuration. We can start with my notes, which may be a little terse, but readable, I hope. Let me know if something isn't clear enough. You

Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-02 Thread MKlinke
the anti-spam mail server I set up has intercepted a little over 3300 spam messages that would have been normally delivered to our email accounts. About 500 of these have been passed along to our regular mail server but marked with the *SPAM* Subject: and the X-Spam-Level Header entries

Re: Some results of the anti-spam testing

2003-07-02 Thread MKlinke
been a resounding success! In the past 30 hours the anti-spam mail server I set up has intercepted a little over 3300 spam messages that would have been normally delivered to our email accounts. About 500 of these have been passed along to our regular mail server but marked with the *SPAM

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-26 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 24-Jun-2003/12:59 -0500, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:36:22AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: That is unfortunate. I use filters and a homegrown challenge/response system that operates like this: A combination of procmail, perl, and formail. I've done

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
. Filter mail from mailing lists. 2. Filter mail from my scripts. 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). 4. Delete mail in character sets which I cannot read. 5. Delete mail from unwanted senders (blacklist/killfile). 6. Filter mail from known senders (whitelist). 7. Filter

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
and a homegrown challenge/response system that operates like this: 1. Filter mail from mailing lists. 2. Filter mail from my scripts. 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). 4. Delete mail in character sets which I cannot read. 5. Delete mail from unwanted senders (blacklist

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Gerry Doris
and a homegrown challenge/response system that operates like this: 1. Filter mail from mailing lists. 2. Filter mail from my scripts. 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). 4. Delete mail in character sets which I cannot read. 5. Delete mail from unwanted senders (blacklist

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
mail sent to /dev/null. That is unfortunate. I use filters and a homegrown challenge/response system that operates like this: 1. Filter mail from mailing lists. 2. Filter mail from my scripts. 3. Delete mail marked by my ISP as spam (scored 10/10). 4. Delete mail in character sets which

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
, or any of the specialty anti-spam companies, but my own system has been setup with the limitations of those systems in mind. I have learned from the mistakes and misadventures of others. I can (and do) quickly respond to any unforeseen mishaps. I have been running mail servers and mailing lists

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread tomh
: Great - just another spam block... Sent by: redhat-list-admin

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 24-Jun-2003/09:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you know which character set the mail is using? Do you read the body of the email until you find some number of ascii characters that are outside of your acceptable ascii character range? Or is there a header entry that you look for?

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:36:22AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: That is unfortunate. I use filters and a homegrown challenge/response system that operates like this: A combination of procmail, perl, and formail. I've done some very generous snipping... Can you make your code public so

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
Gerry Doris wrote: I've cranked up the RBL's score to 4 from whatever the defaults are and dropped my threshold to 4 from the default of 5. I'm also using Bayes scoring which isn't appearing in your list. OK Gerry - I just added: score RCVD_IN_RBL 4.00 the default appears to be 0.00 That

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:03:19PM -0400, Matthew Galgoci wrote: I've removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I think using such a service on a list is about the most obnoxious thing I've seen in a long time. Please send reports to the redhat-list-admin email address, I only check the list about

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:16:15PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: snip One could always get an email client with spam filtering capabilities built in (like Mozilla) It just takes a while teach mozilla that all of your mailing lists aren't spam;-) The other way

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: I've cranked up the RBL's score to 4 from whatever the defaults are and dropped my threshold to 4 from the default of 5. I'm also using Bayes scoring which isn't appearing in your list. OK Gerry - I just added: score

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 18-Jun-2003/21:27 -0500, Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 17:21, T. Ribbrock wrote: Just got another one of those SpamBlock: Please register to be allowed to send mail to me mails - this is just plain stupid! Running list mail via such a mail address is rude at the

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-19 Thread Edward Dekkers
Gerry Doris wrote: I'm not sure that works. I believe RBL may be a service that costs you $$$ to use? What I actually have is score RCVD_IN_SPAMCOP_NET 4 score RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG 4 score RCVD_IN_SBL 4 score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4 score RCVD_IN_NJABL

[LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread T. Ribbrock
Just got another one of those SpamBlock: Please register to be allowed to send mail to me mails - this is just plain stupid! Running list mail via such a mail address is rude at the least, IMO. Anyway, apparently [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not want to receive any mail from this list, hence, I suggest

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
T. Ribbrock wrote: Just got another one of those SpamBlock: Please register to be allowed to send mail to me mails - this is just plain stupid! Running list mail via such a mail address is rude at the least, IMO. Anyway, apparently [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not want to receive any mail from this

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 00:21 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Just got another one of those SpamBlock: Please register to be | allowed to send mail to me mails - this is just plain stupid! Running | list mail via such a mail address is rude at the least, IMO. [...] | I wonder, is there a way for

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
experience, i'm going to be at least a little understanding. it's the symptom of people who are (like many of us) sick to death of spam, and are trying anything they can to deal with it. and, sadly, what they're getting in terms of help from their ISPs like earthlink/mindspring is, quite simply

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:42:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 00:21 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | I wonder, is there a way for the list software to recognize and | unsubscribe such folks? No, because the report goes directly to the poster. The list

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Res
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote: Just got another one of those SpamBlock: Please register to be allowed to send mail to me mails - this is just plain stupid! Running list mail via such a mail address is rude at the least, IMO.

Re: Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:42:08AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 00:21 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] | I wonder, is there a way for the list software to recognize and | unsubscribe such folks? No, because the

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
] does not want to receive any mail from this list, hence, I suggest he unsubscribes... in all fairness, i just tried to set up something like this through earthlink (AKA mindspring) and was thoroughly frustrated with how useless it was. snip One could always get an email client with spam filtering

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Gerry Doris
at the least, IMO. Anyway, apparently [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not want to receive any mail from this list, hence, I suggest he unsubscribes... What a hoot! Look what my SpamAssassin thought of this idiot's challenge message...it decided it was SPAM and junked it!!! snip... From: Rajeev Jain

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Samuel Flory
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: snip One could always get an email client with spam filtering capabilities built in (like Mozilla) It just takes a while teach mozilla that all of your mailing lists aren't spam;-) -- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Matthew Galgoci
I've removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I think using such a service on a list is about the most obnoxious thing I've seen in a long time. Please send reports to the redhat-list-admin email address, I only check the list about once a day. On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote: Just got

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Edward Dekkers
Gerry Doris wrote: What a hoot! Look what my SpamAssassin thought of this idiot's challenge message...it decided it was SPAM and junked it!!! Kewl - now why didn't mine? No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,EXCHANGE_SERVER,MAILTO_WITH_SUBJ, MIME_NULL_BLOCK,MONEY_BACK

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Bret Hughes
to receive any mail from this list, hence, I suggest he unsubscribes... I wonder, is there a way for the list software to recognize and unsubscribe such folks? I was wondering what you were talking about until I dug into my spam folder. Funny thing is that Spamassassin flags it as spam so

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 20:07, Edward Dekkers wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: What a hoot! Look what my SpamAssassin thought of this idiot's challenge message...it decided it was SPAM and junked it!!! Kewl - now why didn't mine? No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Gerry Doris
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote: Gerry Doris wrote: What a hoot! Look what my SpamAssassin thought of this idiot's challenge message...it decided it was SPAM and junked it!!! Kewl - now why didn't mine? No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,EXCHANGE_SERVER

Re: [LISTADMIN] Great - just another spam block...

2003-06-18 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
Samuel Flory wrote: Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: snip One could always get an email client with spam filtering capabilities built in (like Mozilla) It just takes a while teach mozilla that all of your mailing lists aren't spam;-) I've not had that problem actually, although there are times when

off topic- spam arrest verification request

2003-06-11 Thread Randy Perkins
lines of this message, i believe this message in itself could be considered spam. i agree that spam is a problem, and due to spammers some mail servers wont even accept mail from my cable modem. It is necessary to route it through my isp. my own personal solution to spam is to use spamassassin

Re: off topic- spam arrest verification request

2003-06-11 Thread alan
well, if at all. At this point, I will be adding SpamArrest messages to my spam filters. If someone is too clueless to set up a mail filter that does not require human intervention for every sender, then they just won't get my messages. Besides... I expect the fake spammer address collection

Re: off topic- spam arrest verification request

2003-06-11 Thread Martin Moss
I agree, smacks of 'Lets jump on the band wagon' approach! Marty - Original Message - From: alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:19 PM Subject: Re: off topic- spam arrest verification request On 11 Jun

RE: Spam killing with Redhat7.3 before e-mail reaches Exchange.

2003-06-03 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, We have Sendmail running on RH 7.3, forwarding mail to an Exchange server. Installed SpamAssassin and have not yet found *details* on how to successfully integrate it with Sendmail.Would like toconfigure SpamAssassin toadd "*SPAM*" tothe Subject line of each suspe

RE: Spam killing with Redhat7.3 before e-mail reaches Exchange.

2003-06-03 Thread Steve Cowles
*SPAM* to the Subject line of each suspected email and still forward it the user's inbox on the Exchange server. Once there, setting rules to redirect the spam is not a problem. Can someone point me to more explicit documentation or provide a run-through of how to get these two apps

Re: *SPAM-FILTERED* Programming Network subsystem

2003-06-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mohammed Awad wrote: Hi all, I need someone to tell me about some good reference to push me into the field of programming of the Linux Network subsystem. I need to write a code to implement some additional functionality for the NAT protocol. http://www.netfilter.org/ Specifically, you want to

RE: Spam killing with Redhat7.3 before e-mail reaches Exchange.

2003-06-03 Thread MW Mike Weiner (5028)
We have Sendmail running on RH 7.3, forwarding mail to an Exchange server. Installed SpamAssassin and have not yet found *details* on how to successfully integrate it with Sendmail. Would like to configure SpamAssassin to add *SPAM* to the Subject line of each suspected email

Re: *SPAM-FILTERED* GTK+2.2 update?!?

2003-05-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Pauly wrote: - I don't wanna use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, due to the known reasons. What known reasons? And even as I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in /etc/profile, gnome isn't starting correctly, cause it can't find the old gtk 2.0 libs then. Then only set the variable for the program, when you run it. It

RE: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see most people are telling you to use some tool besides sendmail, which does not answer your question. Yes, sendmail can block spam for you. go to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc Add the following lines (if they're not already there) FEATURE

RE: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Jason Cordes
I'm using a rbl on my sendmail server here for my company but that has only lightly cut down on the amount of spam some of my users get. Is spamassasin only used to protect a single persons email or can it be used to protect a site? I'm thinking of checking it out but if it cannot really be used

RE: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread christopher cuse
hi, you may also want to check amavis (www.amavis.org) it combines virus scanning and spam (using spam assasin) with a milter filter. requires some knoweldge of perl, patience during install, and bit of coffee. you'll need virus scanning software (it supports many common ones). cheers

Re: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:02:19AM -0600, Jason Cordes wrote: I'm using a rbl on my sendmail server here for my company but that has only lightly cut down on the amount of spam some of my users get. Is spamassasin only used to protect a single persons email or can it be used to protect a site

Re: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 05:32:56PM +0200, christopher cuse wrote: ... scanning and spam (using spam assasin) with a milter filter. requires some knoweldge of perl, patience during install, and bit of coffee. you'll need Hi Chris - to paraphrase your text back at you :-) - Could you please

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