Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, May 13, 2011 17:09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 5/13/2011 1:58 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: Not quite - Google's retry may come from another server in a different range. if it did then mail from Google would be delayed significantly, like 12-24 hours for example. Yes, exactly, this is

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.05.11 18:50, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2011-05-15 18:08:36, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: You are late! so far, every RFC defining SMTP yet released. They all (821, 2821, 5321) say at least 100 must be accepted. ...and what if your Mailserver can not handel the threatment

mime-encoded subject ?

2011-05-16 Thread Per Jessen
Is there a way to write a header test on the mime-decoded contents of Subject: ? AFAICT, a test such as : header __BLURP Subject =~ /[^\s]{60}/ works on the mime-encoded Subject, not the decoded version? /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: sendmail + spamassassin and SQL prefs

2011-05-16 Thread Matt Elson
On Fri, 13 May 2011 10:59 -0600, Scott sst...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Sendmail and SQL prefs with SA. The problem I am having is that Sendmail seems to only send the username to SA when filtering so our aliases only use the default settings. What glue are you using to have Sendmail call

Re: Can I classify just a few messages from the same yahoo newsgroup?

2011-05-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
I'd say that manual training of spam and ham in such group is needed in such cases. manuel training is sign of to much whitelistning with default score of -100, most ham here does not even need it, so bayes is here is more passive on this here, and this makes more sure that ham that is ham is

Re: Can I classify just a few messages from the same yahoo newsgroup?

2011-05-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
I'd say that manual training of spam and ham in such group is needed in such cases. On 16.05.11 14:45, Benny Pedersen wrote: manuel training is sign of to much whitelistning with default score of -100, most ham here does not even need it, so bayes is here is more passive on this here, and

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Sunday, May 15, 2011, 5:49:39 PM, you wrote: MUf The original claim was done Ted Mittelstaedt. On 15.05.11 18:34, Niamh Holding wrote: Indeed, and it is that blanket claim I an refuting. too late then. I think we agree that Yahoo has problems with 4xx although not in all cases. And I think

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Matus, Monday, May 16, 2011, 3:28:04 PM, you wrote: MUf well, are you an yahoo employee? ROFL A bit of playing with whois might reveal a bit :) -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpNtyfzvCXfn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sendmail + spamassassin and SQL prefs

2011-05-16 Thread Scott
Hi Matt! Thanks for the hints... I currently use spamass-milter which seems to send the email address to SA but excludes the domain. For example on a email like sa...@domain.com it seems to check the DB using sales. This generally wouldn't be a problem on a small corp server however I have

Re: sendmail + spamassassin and SQL prefs

2011-05-16 Thread Matt Elson
Ideally if spamass-milter could pass the entire email address to SA I could deal with this in my control panel. I haven't used spamass-milter at all so take this with a grain of salt, but the following from the man page seems hopeful for your environment:

Re: sendmail + spamassassin and SQL prefs

2011-05-16 Thread Scott
Thanks again! I updated my /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter config with the following: EXTRA_FLAGS=-r 20 -u defaultuser -e defaultdomain I also set the SQL query in SA's local.cf back to the default and it now filtered by email address instead of just the username. Scott. On Mon, May 16, 2011 at

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Matus UHLAR - fantomas, Am 2011-05-16 10:51:26, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: Nobody requires you to execute 100 spamassassin processes and nobody It happen automaticaly if... requires to run them them in parallel. However, the RFCs DOES require you accepting at least 100 recipients

100 RCPTs in one session (was Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April)

2011-05-16 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:19:26 +0200 Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net wrote: Nobody requires you to execute 100 spamassassin processes and nobody It happen automaticaly if... ...the system accept 100 messages at once for 100 different recipients. Sending to 100 recipients is

EL5 and EL6 Packages of spamassassin-3.3.2-rc1

2011-05-16 Thread Warren Togami Jr.
http://people.apache.org/~wtogami/rpm/3.3.2-rc1/ I made test packages for EL5 and EL6. I began using both in production just now with no apparent ill effects. We need more people to test this and provide feedback. Warren On 05/14/2011 10:34 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote: Hey folks, This is