Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:42 -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "Martin Gregorie" > > Something like this will match a sequence of two capitalised name words, > > including hyphenated ones, and extract the name words: > > > > /([A-Z][-a-zA-Z]{1,20})\s([A-Z][-a-zA-Z]{1,20})/ > > > > and should be fairly eas

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread jdow
From: "Martin Gregorie" Sent: Monday, 2010/August/09 15:45 On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 07:28 -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: So, you are recommending that he use a plugin to query 70,000 records from a database, and perform 140,000 body matches, for every e-mail message he receives? It should be p

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 07:28 -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: > So, you are recommending that he use a plugin to query 70,000 records from a > database, and perform 140,000 body matches, for every e-mail message he > receives? > It should be possible to write a rule that recognises names (initials + c

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread jdow
From: "Daniel McDonald" Sent: Monday, 2010/August/09 05:28 On 8/9/10 6:58 AM, "Martin Gregorie" wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:17 +0300, Henrik K wrote: On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) wro

Re: spamc REPORT/PROCESS Confusion

2010-08-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 17:16 +0200, Andreas Dunkl wrote: > Box-A: Running Ubuntu 10.04, Spamassassin 3.3.1 compiled from source. > SA is configured to accept remote connections from specified IP´s, which > works perfectly. No special Setup yet, no external rules, no nothing. > > Box-B: Running a Co

spamc REPORT/PROCESS Confusion

2010-08-09 Thread Andreas Dunkl
Hi there, For a Test, we setup the following scenario: Box-A: Running Ubuntu 10.04, Spamassassin 3.3.1 compiled from source. SA is configured to accept remote connections from specified IP´s, which works perfectly. No special Setup yet, no external rules, no nothing. Box-B: Running a Commercia

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet)
On 8/9/2010 8:27 AM, Henrik K wrote: Nope, people constantly underestimate the power of regexes.. of course you can easily make bad ones, but Perl can run huge lists of simple alternations FAST. I downloaded a 1 random name pack, and made a quick hack to regexify it with my favourite Regexp

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 07:28:42AM -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: > > This technique might cut down the number of rules by 93.5%, but then you > have to do database lookups and some fancy parsing to verify the hit. > Don't know if that would be worth it. Nope, people constantly underestimate the p

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Daniel McDonald
On 8/9/10 6:58 AM, "Martin Gregorie" wrote: > On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:17 +0300, Henrik K wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: >>> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) >>> wrote: Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 name

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 14:17 +0300, Henrik K wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) > > wrote: > > > Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 names and always growing. If I > > > gave it suffic

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 11:38:50AM +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) > wrote: > > Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 names and always growing. If I > > gave it sufficient hardware, would you expect that to be practical, or > >

Re: List of "banned" words/bounce to sender

2010-08-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 14:00 -0500, Matthew Kitchin (public/usenet) wrote: > Thanks. We are looking at roughly 70,000 names and always growing. If I > gave it sufficient hardware, would you expect that to be practical, or > is that totally ridiculous? Any options for a database look up here? > I'd