Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu
Hello I trace route to the smtp.mail.yahoo.com and get the IP address of the server along the way as one of the hops but when I tried telneting to smtp.mail.yahoo.com I get the following   C:\Documents and Settings\ceetelnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 25 Connecting To smtp.mail.yahoo.com...Could not

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 8/27/10 10:54 AM, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: trace route to the smtp.mail.yahoo.com and get the IP address of the server along the way as one of the hops but when I tried telneting to smtp.mail.yahoo.com I get the following /C:\Documents and Settings\ceetelnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 25/

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu
Hello Micheal, But I am the ISP here. I provide internet access for subscribers and I have   redirected their smtp port 25 traffic through the smtp server, but the response sent earlier when I want to connect as a test subscriber. which forum can assist?   Thanks   Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu ---

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
Go and ask on the postfix users mailing list. Joining details are on the Postfix website. Martin On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 11:58 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: it its a postfix problem, postfix. but if you can't telnet to yahoo on port 25, and you are the ISP, there are more problems than

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
it its a postfix problem, postfix. but if you can't telnet to yahoo on port 25, and you are the ISP, there are more problems than that. On 8/27/10 11:56 AM, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: which forum can assist? -- Michael Scheidell, CTO o: 561-999-5000 d: 561-948-2259 ISN: 1259*1300 *|

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
Thus, based on my own observations, it looks like the value of rules in this particular area is going to be in scoring stuff that arrives before the domains show up in the various SURBLs. Quite possibly, though it seems to have been selectively targeted to some extent: at least it doesn't

Re: russian spam with only two lines in the body

2010-08-27 Thread NFN Smith
Martin Gregorie wrote: Alternatively, using a meta rule that combines the above pattern as a sub-rule with two like this: /[a-z]{7,8}[0-9]{4}/ that match against From: and Reply-To: headers would appear to be fairly specific and worthy of a big score, but of course you'll have spotted that

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: Hello Micheal, But I am the ISP here. I provide internet access for subscribers and I have   redirected their smtp port 25 traffic through the smtp server, but the response sent earlier when I want to connect as a test subscriber. which

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 27 aug 2010 17:15:40 CEST, Michael Scheidell wrote side affect is you can't run a smtp server either. what stopping him from add relayhost=his.isp.tld into postfix with a smtp_sasl_password_maps ? :) -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 27 aug 2010 17:56:05 CEST, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote Hello Micheal, But I am the ISP here. I provide internet access for subscribers and I have  redirected their smtp port 25 traffic through the smtp server, but the response sent earlier when I want to connect as a test

Re: Whitelist question

2010-08-27 Thread Alex
Hi, I'm still having some difficulty with trusted_networks, and believe it may be a result of a DNS issue? Yes, but it is among the relays in the Received: headers, so I thought this is how it determines the last external server, or the first trusted server, as the case may be? Well, lack

Re: Whitelist question

2010-08-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On fre 27 aug 2010 23:47:54 CEST, Alex wrote Hi, I'm still having some difficulty with trusted_networks, and believe it may be a result of a DNS issue? trosted_networks on hostnames ? just kidding right ? Yes, but it is among the relays in the Received: headers, so I thought this is how

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread Raul Dias
On 08/27/2010 11:54 AM, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: /C:\Documents and Settings\ceetelnet smtp.mail.yahoo.com 25 Connecting To smtp.mail.yahoo.com...Could not open connection to the host, on port 25: Connect failed/ I get connection failures and timeout to some yahoo servers from time to