Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mit, 2011-02-23 at 18:48 +, RW wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:30:20 +0100 [...] > That's true for person to person mail, but there are kinds of mail > where loss is inconsequential and no-one is going to read the DSNs > e.g. newsletters. Sounds like a spammer? SCNR And that's a dec

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Mit, 2011-02-23 at 11:08 -0800, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Mahmoud Khonji wrote: > > > It is against best practices to have a send-only domain. > > > > A sending mail server should accept ab...@example.com, and number of > > other IDs according to best practices. > > And postma

Re: Decisions on how to handle mail from some domains

2011-02-24 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:17:47 -0500 Alex wrote: > While some of the mail from that sender seems legitimate, other mail > clearly isn't, but it has the same header as a legitimate mail, making > it very difficult to properly train bayes or otherwise accurately > determine that it's indeed spam and

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:49:43 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch >> And postmas...@example.com is _required_. > So all sender-only domains should simply put on rfc-ignorant.org. not really a fault of rfc-ignorant that it will be disabled default in upcomming next version of spamassassin, but mx scoreing is

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread RW
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:48:21 +0100 Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Mit, 2011-02-23 at 18:48 +, RW wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:30:20 +0100 > [...] > > That's true for person to person mail, but there are kinds of mail > > where loss is inconsequential and no-one is going to read the DSNs

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Joseph Brennan
Multiple comments ... I just want Spamassassin to check if there is a MX Record in DNS for the sender. I have no sense of how productive this would be. Have you looked up a good sample of sender domains and found that spammers are significantly less likely to have an MX? That would make it

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Mahmoud Khonji, Am 2011-02-23 23:03:46, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > A sending mail server should accept ab...@example.com, and number of This is wrong because, only public ISP offering MAILSERVICES must have an addresses. The only one required, is the which is clearly writte in

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Joseph Brennan, Am 2011-02-24 09:43:24, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I have no sense of how productive this would be. Have you looked up > a good sample of sender domains and found that spammers are significantly > less likely to have an MX? That would make it interesting to check. D

Re: Decisions on how to handle mail from some domains

2011-02-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Alex, Am 2011-02-23 22:17:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Hi, > > I'm wondering what people's opinion is on domains like > verticalresponse.com and vresp.com, and others, that seem to > distribute mail to anyone who wants to spend the money to buy a list > from them. Constantcontact m

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-24 Thread Dominic Benson
On 24 Feb 2011, at 20:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Mahmoud Khonji, > > Am 2011-02-23 23:03:46, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >> A sending mail server should accept ab...@example.com, and number of > > This is wrong because, only public ISP offering MAILSERVICES must have > an addres

new rules - where do i activate them?

2011-02-24 Thread tr_ust
Hi Everyone, sorry I'm a super Newbie on Spamassassin...my stupid question is this: I've created a rule for a blocked URIs - where do I tell spamassassin to use that rule? The only thing I see in the documenation is to not put the cf file in a certain directory because it will be overwritten dur

Re: new rules - where do i activate them?

2011-02-24 Thread Leveau Stanislas
Hi You create a file.cf with your rules and you place it in spamassassin folder and restart spamassassin Regards Hi Everyone, sorry I'm a super Newbie on Spamassassin...my stupid question is this: I've created a rule for a blocked URIs - where do I tell spamassassin to use that rule? The

Re: new rules - where do i activate them?

2011-02-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/24/2011 5:04 PM, tr_ust wrote: > Hi Everyone, sorry I'm a super Newbie on Spamassassin...my stupid question is > this: > > I've created a rule for a blocked URIs - where do I tell spamassassin to use > that rule? The only thing I see in the documenation is to not put the cf > file in a certai

Re: new rules - where do i activate them?

2011-02-24 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:04 -0800, tr_ust wrote: > I've created a rule for a blocked URIs - where do I tell spamassassin to use > that rule? The only thing I see in the documenation is to not put the cf > file in a certain directory because it will be overwritten during an > upgrade. > Put it i

Re: Decisions on how to handle mail from some domains

2011-02-24 Thread Alex
Hi, >> While some of the mail from that sender seems legitimate, other mail >> clearly isn't, but it has the same header as a legitimate mail, making >> it very difficult to properly train bayes or otherwise accurately >> determine that it's indeed spam and it should be discarded. > > I wouldn't o