Stop this before it goes any further (was Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave)

2020-07-14 Thread Kurt Fitzner
cial what was not. This is wrong because the connotations you giving the words are factually and historically incorrect. This is wrong, and that should be self evident to every single one of you. Kurt Fitzner On 2020-07-10 01:00, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > IMPORTANT NOTICE >

Re: Rule for non-DKIM-signed messages

2019-05-12 Thread Kurt Fitzner
On 2019-05-11 23:25, David Jones wrote: Is this for a single mailbox? If that is the case, then it's fine to make a decision like that for a single mailbox. For those of us running mail filtering plaforms for customers, this would be a very bad rule. Not a single mailbox, no. Not nearly t

Re: Rule for non-DKIM-signed messages

2019-05-10 Thread Kurt Fitzner
On 2019-05-10 12:42, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I wanted to comment OP's mail, but since I don't have DKIM set up, I wasn't sure it would pass :-) I actually didn't have DKIM signing set up myself until a couple weeks ago. I had been lazy in setting it for a while, but I had to because

Rule for non-DKIM-signed messages

2019-05-09 Thread Kurt Fitzner
I've noticed on my mail server that DKIM signing is almost diagnostic of spam. Almost no legitimate sender is without DKIM, and about 90% of my spam is unsigned, so I want to bias non-DKIM-signed heavily towards spam. To that end I was wondering if there are any built-in rules I can activate

Further on DNS_FROM_RFC_*

2006-10-28 Thread Kurt Fitzner
I just received some email from Spamcop, and thought to check the spamassassin scores on it: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00=-2.599, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME=0.001,DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA=1.593,SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no version=3.1.7 I was quite amused t

Re: Concerned with scores for from rfc-ignorant.org

2006-10-13 Thread Kurt Fitzner
Justin Mason wrote: > OTOH, DNS_FROM_RFC_POST, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE, and DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS will > likely not make it into the next release going by those rates. Thank-you very kindly for your work. I apologize (to all) for any overzealousness on my part. I realize I addressed the issue on a vari

Re: Concerned with scores for from rfc-ignorant.org

2006-10-12 Thread Kurt Fitzner
John D. Hardin wrote: > That said, many times I have been annoyed by a filter on somebody's > abuse@ address bouncing an abuse notice that I sent *with evidence*. I > do not recommend a rejecting spam filter on the abuse@ address, it > will keep people from reporting abuse of your systems to you.

Re: Concerned with scores for from rfc-ignorant.org

2006-10-12 Thread Kurt Fitzner
John D. Hardin wrote: > But if the stated purpose of the BL is "this domain does not have a > working postmaster address" then it's unreasonable to ask them to > exclude a domain that does not have a working postmaster address, no > matter how large or popular that domain is. My concern is the sc

Re: Concerned with scores for from rfc-ignorant.org

2006-10-12 Thread Kurt Fitzner
Benny Pedersen wrote: > why do you care about it ? > > after all its not your domain :-) I care because: A) All mail into my domain is filtered through SpamAssassin with a milter - including mail that goes to postmaster and abuse. Not that my little domain gets much on either address, but from w

Concerned with scores for from rfc-ignorant.org

2006-10-11 Thread Kurt Fitzner
I just upgraded from 3.0.2 to 3.1.7 today, as I noticed the amount of spam getting through was increasing lately. Very soon after my upgrade, I received email from someone on yahoo and checked the spam score to see what the new version was doing. Here it is: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.1 required=