Anyway, why are *web* servers sending out mail at all?
My web servers are sending out mail all the time. From website contact
forms, Forum notifications, pothole reports to local authorities, as well
as sysadmin messages.
In fact I'd be more surprised to find web servers *not* sending out
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 20:18 +, Cedric Knight wrote:
> I noticed some bad false positives on email sent...
>
> Received: from 94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net
> (94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net [94.229.160.4])
ukfast == firewall on site. IME a major source of little more than spam
in the UK. Th
I placed a question with examples of letters on
https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6521 and have
received advice to place the request here. My hosting provider cannot
configurate the spamassasin. As far as I understand, I from my part can
already correct nothing, and the provi
On 12/8/2010 6:26 PM, John Hardin wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote:
Hitting the tarbaby server by itself doesn't get you listed. I have
ways of detecting spambots only.
"tarbaby" has a very different connotation: that it is a TCP or SMTP
tarpit. This will make people nervous to
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote:
On 12/8/2010 6:26 PM, John Hardin wrote:
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Hitting the tarbaby server by itself doesn't get you listed. I have
> ways of detecting spambots only.
"tarbaby" has a very different connotation: that it is a TCP o
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 09:13 -0800, John Hardin wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote:
> [...] but that is distinct from being a tarpit, which is what
> I'm trying to clarify.
>
> Karsten, is this OT enough to be squelched?
A discussion around the definition of tarpit, and why tarbaby
On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 05:18 -0800, an anonymous Nabble user wrote:
> Spam assassin last time worked on November, 15th. I saw the information in a
> subject of the letter ***SPAM*** and properties of the letter:
So something changed that day. Whatever it was, that is almost certainly
the cause.
>
> > [...] but that is distinct from being a tarpit, which is what
> > I'm trying to clarify.
>
> A discussion around the definition of tarpit, and why tarbaby might be a
> suboptimal, though catchy, name?
For the record a "tarbaby":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_baby
is something differen
