Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-08-13 17:47, Steve Bergman wrote: On 08/13/2014 01:06 PM, Dave Warren wrote: In short, yes, it is unproductive. The quasi-legitimate stuff does go away, but the rest doesn't. This was confirmed just recently by Laura on Word To The Wise, who posted about this just 5 days ago: https://

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/13/2014 01:06 PM, Dave Warren wrote: In short, yes, it is unproductive. The quasi-legitimate stuff does go away, but the rest doesn't. This was confirmed just recently by Laura on Word To The Wise, who posted about this just 5 days ago: https://wordtothewise.com/2014/08/unsubscribing-sp

Re: spamassassin at 100 percent CPU

2014-08-13 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2014-08-13 at 11:20 -0700, Noah wrote: > This is a new machine with rules copied over from another machine. How > about this? I just start new. Is there a good page out that explains > setting up spamassassin from scratch and getting the sa rules set up > well and cleaned up nicely?

Re: spamassassin at 100 percent CPU

2014-08-13 Thread Noah
Hi there, This is a new machine with rules copied over from another machine. How about this? I just start new. Is there a good page out that explains setting up spamassassin from scratch and getting the sa rules set up well and cleaned up nicely? I am happy to start from the beginning with

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-08-13 07:14, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: call an unsubscribe-hook _and_ train as spam. Should be viable for both solicided an unsolicited mail. Or, does anyone think that unsubscribing spam is counter-productive still? In short, yes, it is unproductive. The quasi-legitimate stuff

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 13, 2014 11:25:26 AM -0400, David F. Skoll is alleged to have said: I believe that unsubscribing is safe. If the list owner is legitimate, unsubscribing will work. If the list owner is a spammer, he/she already has your email address and I don't believe spammers track the valid

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:11:32 +0200 Axb wrote: > On 08/13/2014 05:04 PM, Antony Stone wrote: > > For the Nigerian 419 spam, the last thing you want to do is reply > > to it :) > unsubscribe doesn't mean "reply" The point is that any unsubscribe mechanism must of necessity inform the list owner t

PseudoHeaders

2014-08-13 Thread skeeved
SA provides an EnvelopeFrom pseudo header for the SMTP mail from value. Does it also provide an EnvelopeTo pseudo header?

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Axb
On 08/13/2014 05:04 PM, Antony Stone wrote: For the Nigerian 419 spam, the last thing you want to do is reply to it :) unsubscribe doesn't mean "reply" where I sit, if you can't unsubscribe with ONE click, they get the hard block >That's true, but a lot of users (I've done it myself) forg

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/13/2014 10:04 AM, Antony Stone wrote: Which is why we can't rely on them to unsubscribe, and need another way of stopping it coming in. When they complain, why not tell them to unsubscribe? Perhaps my view is clouded by the fact that I have 1 mail server and 100 users, and not 100 mail

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 at 16:14:06 (EU time), Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: call an unsubscribe-hook _and_ train as spam. Should be viable for both solicided an unsolicited mail. Or, does anyone think that unsubscribing spam is counter-productive still? On 13.08.14 16:43, Antony Stone wro

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 at 16:51:28 (EU time), David F. Skoll wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:43:29 +0200 > > Antony Stone wrote: > > - spammers who get unsubscribe responses will use that to confirm > > the address and send more, therefore unsubscribing to them is a bad > > idea > > I won

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/13/2014 09:37 AM, Axb wrote: the so called "legit" will set your addr flag as unsubbed I see a significant amount of "spam" to my users from truly legitimate sources. Where "truly legitimate" doesn't mean that they are legitimately the USDA or Merrill Lynch. These can be fire arms ads f

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:43:29 +0200 Antony Stone wrote: > - spammers who get unsubscribe responses will use that to confirm > the address and send more, therefore unsubscribing to them is a bad > idea I wonder how often this happens. This implies that spammers actually care about the quality of

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Antony Stone
On Wednesday 13 August 2014 at 16:14:06 (EU time), Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >> Bowie Bailey wrote: > >>> But you still have to consider point 1. If a user starts complaining > >>> that he's getting spam from Amazon, I'm not going to mess with SA, I'm > >>> going to tell him to click the u

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Axb
On 08/13/2014 04:14 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: But you still have to consider point 1. If a user starts complaining that he's getting spam from Amazon, I'm not going to mess with SA, I'm going to tell him to click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. (Ass

Re: Opinions needed on what to consider spam

2014-08-13 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Bowie Bailey wrote: But you still have to consider point 1. If a user starts complaining that he's getting spam from Amazon, I'm not going to mess with SA, I'm going to tell him to click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. (Assuming that it actually is from Amazon, of course) Al

Re: FPs on KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC

2014-08-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
On August 13, 2014 4:46:31 AM David B Funk wrote: Who should I report this stuff to? add to local.cf uridnsbl_skip_domain example.com where example.com is the fp domain, or report to the uribl owner this domain is not spam

Re: FPs on KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC

2014-08-13 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/13/2014 12:24 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Both of those are recent, I believe and both have reasons to blacklist. Reporting here is fine. Joe will look at moving them to our marketing list but in the end you might have to consider a custom score because we consider places with convicted sp