Re: Cyrillic charsets normalization

2009-02-15 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, February 15, 2009, 11:19:17 PM, Makoev Alan wrote: > So my question is: Is it just due > to developers' time shortage, or there are some reasons for > avoiding using the charset indicated in the header field as a > source charset for normalization? Perhaps spammers set that field decep

Re: OT: RE: URI with spaces are not recognized

2009-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.02.09 08:57, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > "plenty of people are greedy, gullible, uninformed, overly trusting, > stupid, or some combination of the above" > > This also means: "Anyone that doesn't use a computer as much as an > E-Mail administrator" > > You can't expect everyone to know en

Cyrillic charsets normalization

2009-02-15 Thread Makoev Alan
Here was recently a discussion on "charset normalization" feature (see e.g. http://markmail.org/message/hvdtbca6lm5tsjtm?q=list:org.apache.spamassassin.users+date:200901+&page=42) I ran a simple check on results that Encode::Detect::Detector facility yields. I selected manually a set of 39 spam me

OT: RE: URI with spaces are not recognized

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
"plenty of people are greedy, gullible, uninformed, overly trusting, stupid, or some combination of the above" This also means: "Anyone that doesn't use a computer as much as an E-Mail administrator" You can't expect everyone to know enough about Spam to not be fooled by it. The reason people

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Dave Funk wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:06 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: Dave Funk wrote: Yes, it -is- that simple. ;) Not recommended for normal use but if you understand the risks involved, it does work that way. Thanks

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Dave Funk wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Dave Funk wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Hi, I have a quick bind question. I want to set the MX records on a domain to something normal but I want to set the MX for all subdomains to somethi

Installing under windows

2009-02-15 Thread Jim
I'm trying to install Spam Assassin on Windows Server 2003 Active Perl 5.8.8.820 is installed. In section 1 of the instructions http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/InstallingOnWindows The following commands fail: ppm install Win32-Registry-File ppm install failed: Can't find any package that pr

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 02:05 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > Lindsay, if you end up doing some benchmarking, please let us know. I > wouldn't be surprised if you're actually the first one to do this across > the Internet. :) > Just a thought. Since getting message sizes and counts on traffic be

Re: sagrey meta's ???

2009-02-15 Thread Len Conrad
>we have noticed that sagrey has roughly 95% effective re: % of spam hits in >our environments We find that bad recipients, then selective greylisting kills 90%+. >is anyone here that is using sagrey come up with some really effective meta >rules using it?? greylisting after DATA seems so ineff

sagrey meta's ???

2009-02-15 Thread RobertH
greetings we have noticed that sagrey has roughly 95% effective re: % of spam hits in our environments is anyone here that is using sagrey come up with some really effective meta rules using it?? would you mind sharing on list? - rh

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread John Lundin
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:12:40PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > Dave Funk wrote: > >On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: > >>I should be more specific. I asked the question wrong. > >> > >>*.example.com blackhole.example.com > >> > >>What I need is that any subdomain point to blackhole. > > > >Th

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Funk
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:06 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: Dave Funk wrote: Yes, it -is- that simple. ;) Not recommended for normal use but if you understand the risks involved, it does work that way. Thanks Dave, but I already

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:18 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > > See and in particular > > the quote from RFC 1912. > > > > > > Is that going to tell me what I need to know to do what I asked to do? Possibly. It may explain exactly why it didn't wo

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Dave Funk
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Dave Funk wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Hi, I have a quick bind question. I want to set the MX records on a domain to something normal but I want to set the MX for all subdomains to something else. example.c