Re: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-06 Thread Per Jessen
LuKreme wrote: On 5-Dec-2009, at 13:58, Per Jessen wrote: No legislation is any good without enforcement. Provided you have both and the enforcement is heavy handed, spam is not a problem. Show where spam is not a problem? Spammers are immune to the law because they are largely

RE: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-06 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 22:12 -0800, R-Elists wrote: frankly, nothing against them, yet if an organization really needs Return Path to get their email through to mailboxes without rejection, then doesn't the originator of the email have problems? Of course they do! That's why ESP's exist -

HABEAS numbers

2009-12-06 Thread Per Jessen
Just for fun, I took a look at my logs for August, September, October and November and looked at the hits on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI: Total hits = 1009. Of those, 45 would have been filtered out without HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI. 5 were most probably backscatter and got filtered out despite

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread Michael Scheidell
Benny Pedersen wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? i dont know if it require code changes to do this, but it make sense for me atleast to make it, no ? objection, flames

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? Sorry, but SPF and DKIM simply don't have the saturation required for

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread Henrik K
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:14:31AM -0600, McDonald, Dan wrote: On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? Sorry, but

Re: HABEAS numbers

2009-12-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.12.09 10:53, Per Jessen wrote: Just for fun, I took a look at my logs for August, September, October and November and looked at the hits on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI: Total hits = 1009. Of those, 45 would have been filtered out without HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI. 5 were most probably

rule_du_jour: AXB_CID_YARIGHT

2009-12-06 Thread Yet Another Ninja
this rule won't work for long :-) ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader mimeheader AXB_CID_YARIGHT Content-ID =~ /^\00\{DIGIT2\}/ score AXB_CID_YARIGHT 3.0 endif score higher if you wish... have a {ENJOY_VAR} Sunday!

HABEAS 'date the UK' accreddited spam figures

2009-12-06 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
My figures for date the UK in the last 72 hours: 118 mails *all* HABEAS accredited. == CHECKING DNSBL WHITE LISTS == 80.75.69.201 NOT WHITELISTED: sa-other.bondedsender.org, resl.emailreg.org, plus.bondedsender.org, ips.whitelisted.org

Re: HABEAS 'date the UK' accreddited spam figures

2009-12-06 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Thusfar 18 reports to abuse@ (despite the fact it's missing from the rdns whois) FYI, abuse@ is specified in RFC2142, and need not be explicitly listed in the whois. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: HABEAS 'date the UK' accreddited spam figures

2009-12-06 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 18:07 +0100, Per Jessen wrote: FYI, abuse@ is specified in RFC2142, and need not be explicitly listed in the whois. Thanks. I knew it was somewhere :-)

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Benny Pedersen wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? i dont know if it require code changes to do this, but it make sense for me atleast to make it, no ? objection,

Re: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-06 Thread LuKreme
On 6-Dec-2009, at 02:24, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: A truly clean company that always uses opt-in and never spams has nothing to fear from any anti-spam measure. Oh, that is CERTAINLY not true. It's not even true of just SpamAssassin, but it is completely disingenuous to claim that for ANY

Re: Suggestion for use by ANY whitelist service....

2009-12-06 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 12:02 -0700, LuKreme wrote: On 6-Dec-2009, at 02:24, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: A truly clean company that always uses opt-in and never spams has nothing to fear from any anti-spam measure. Oh, that is CERTAINLY not true. It's not even true of just SpamAssassin,

Language detection in TextCat

2009-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved. Here's the situation. It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to trigger unwanted falsely. What I'm doing is extracting the language

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? I don't see the relationship that SPF has to

ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0-beta1 available

2009-12-06 Thread Warren Togami
Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0-beta1 is now available for testing. Downloads are available from: http://people.apache.org/~wtogami/devel/ md5sum of archive files: 9b39e4e4fad09cfe9eff974f3d5a01ea Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.0-beta1.tar.bz2 530fb1bd28977271f30b348bc2b68db1

Re: Language detection in TextCat

2009-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved. Here's the situation. It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to trigger unwanted falsely. What I'm doing is

Re: Language detection in TextCat

2009-12-06 Thread Henrik K
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:49:25PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved. Here's the situation. It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the languages you want and it returns many

Re: Language detection in TextCat

2009-12-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06.12.09 11:39, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved. Here's the situation. It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to trigger unwanted falsely.