Re: URIWhois plugin

other thing is that a LOT of registrars and registries rate limit whois lookups, so it won't work after you've done X lookups in a 24 hour period .... -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/

Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

ou want to go slamming registry and registrar whois servers in an automated fashion you will get blacklisted by them all and blocked Registrars don't use whois to check availability anyway ... -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.bla

Re: R: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: -Messaggio originale- Da: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That refers to pretty much all TLDs and ccTLDs If you want to go slamming registry and registrar whois servers in an automated fashion you will get blacklisted by them all and

OT: The Funny Side of Spam

http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Black_Knight_and_the_Monster Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.eu/ http://blog.blacknight.eu/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1 4811

RE: OT: The Funny Side of Spam

UxBoD wrote: > Well done Michele :) That is pure class. > :) Some of the comments on my blog are hilarious ... Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.eu/ http://blog.blacknight.eu/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Locall: 18

Re: Score all emails and delete some of them

that (http://www.mailscanner.info) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ Tel. 1850 929 929 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1

RE: Spam abuse report plugin

As long as you whitelist MailScanner.info I am sick to my teeth of receiving abuse reports about a domain that never sends email and is used to block spam /me wanders off to rant elsewhere -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection

RE: Spam abuse report plugin

Jari A LOT of clueless mail server admins send us reports about mailscanner.info We have a standard reply telling them to get a $clue, but I'd prefer that my staff's time was spent dealing with proper issues :) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Br

Re: Greylisting

chele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239

Re: Good source for IP addresses by country

You could simply use Geoip scoring using this lot: http://countries.nerd.dk/ It's pretty effective.. http://www.mneylon.com/blog/archives/2005/01/15/geo-specific-scoring/ Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protec

RE: Filtering THIS list (Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan)

Maybe they're better suited to one of the other lists such as spam-l? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Direct Dial: +353 (0)5

RE: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

Regards Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239

Re: Detecting the Registrar of the sending host?

On 7 Jul 2008, at 14:40, Richard Frovarp wrote: Fortune 500's suffer from botnet infections as well. Exactly Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213

Re: Detecting the Registrar of the sending host?

On 2 Jul 2008, at 17:30, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Even EUrid is happily supporting pillz spammers on .eu Eurid is a registry NOT a registrar Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ Intl. +35

senderbase rating - how to appeal?

Does anyone know how you can appeal or query a senderbase rating? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213-233-1612 UK: 0844 484 9361 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct

Re: senderbase rating - how to appeal?

so you get one free clue: You must be new to the net as well or maybe you think you're "clever"? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213-233-1612 UK: 0

Re: senderbase rating - how to appeal?

Joseph Thanks :) Our main issue wasn't with the listing but with the total lack of appeals procedure or delisting, as several large corporates seem to trust Senderbase and block based on its score Thanks again Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & C

Re: How to send spam ?

Jarek wrote: Hello! I've a problem with specific stock offers. I tried to send sample to the list, but it looks, that post was filtered out. How to do it ? Use pastebin ? -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight

Re: Any rules to catch EXE's?

hment g5si5192165wra error None of the rules indicate that it had any exe or zip attachment Why would they? SA is a spam filter, not a virus filter. You could try MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protec

Re: Web user interface

Johnson, S wrote: Has anyone written a web interface for end users in which they could go through quarantined spam and release/whitelist on their own? There is mailwatch for MailScanner -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknigh

Re: Where is stored information to delete from server or deliver?

nformation stored? That sounds like a cpanel plugin / extension. It's not SA -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239

Re: Does exist a public database of spam content?

How much spam do you want? /me stares at the millions of emails in his quarantines -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Fax. +35

Re: DKIM / DomainKeys

just too unripe for serious use at the moment? Cheers, -- A. Why don't you keep an eye on the activity for those scores and then decide? -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 185

Re: MTA for Windows

ok it into SA and AV They've a variety of versions available -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239

Re: domain has been refused (why?)

it's a private DNSBL it won't appear in most of your public checks -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Fax. +353 (0) 59 9164239

Re: New server - which rulesets?

ble question to answer -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1 4811 763

Re: Question about Spam Assassin and Google Analytics

. Has anyone encountered this issue? Regardless of that issue, you do realise that putting Javascript into emails is _wrong_ ? Though I guess that actually answers your query You can't put Javascript into HTML emails without facing the consequences -- Mr Michele N

RE: Spamassassin: Best Practices

implementing and running > Spamassassin. That's a "how long is a piece of string" type of question... You'd probably be better off studying the mail list archives Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

The problem with automated reporting is that we get loads of spurious abuse reports from idiots who report mails with a link to mailscanner.info in the footer (ie. the default install) So, unless you build some kind of sanity into it you just annoy people like us -- Mr Michele Neylon

Re: Spoofed from address but matched my whitelist -- please clarify

s are permitted to send mail from borland.com as they haven't published an SPF record. -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 06

Re: How To Kill Spam Dead?

Sendmail as my MTA. Thanks, Eric. You could use procmail rules I guess, though a simpler method would be to use something like MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http:/

Re: How To Kill Spam Dead?

Dennis Kavadas wrote: most, if not all spam have spoofed addresses headers that do not resolve to a valid account on any host Tell that to the thousands of our clients who have to deal with the bouncebacks and other junk -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, B

Re: How Do I Enable RBLs

entirely about spamcop. Some people use it for spam marking, which I am also leery about ... but it seems to me to be absolutely insane to use spamcop for an actual block list. It's fine for scoring against, but blocking is insanity! -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colo

Re: How Do I Enable RBLs

you are handling mail for several thousand users over several thousand domains, then blocking based on it will cause you severe headaches. Please bear in mind that I'm looking at this from an ISP perspective not as an individual user Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight

Re: RDJ AUTOBAN

ly makes one attempt every 24 hours. Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Tel. 1850 927 280 Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090

Re: Botnet over aggressive?

all to see how many hits they were getting. This is one of the reasons why using SA is so cool - you can customise it to suit your needs! Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

1 11:30:37 mail mimedefang.pl[31610]: filter_relay rejected host 194.250.131.236 (smtp-wifi.orange.fr) Jul 11 11:30:37 mail sendmail[32044]: l6BHUb3j032044: Milter: connect: host=smtp-wifi.orange.fr, addr=194.250.131.236, rejecting commands No joy. How long ago did you report it? -- Mr Mich

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

Philip Prindeville wrote: No joy. How long ago did you report it? Which time? It happens regularly, and it's been going on over a month. Ok. That changes things, but you didn't say anything in your post about it going on for a month -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight

Re: Any mailbox-challenge plugin?

her reasons too (i.e.: the mail hits some other SA rules). Thanks, Giampaolo Giampaolo There are a number of milters that can help with this, such as milter-ahead and milter-sender Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.

Re: yet another uribl evasion example

Niek wrote: > Eer, no. You can keep 0.49. Only if you upgrade netdns to the b0rked 0.50, > you'll run into trouble. So either keep netdns @ 0.49 or upgrade to 0.51. > Upgrading is not needed for sa 3.0.4 afaik. > > Niek Baakman > 0.51 gives me the same problems :)

Re: Anyone else getting slammed with eBay & PayPal Phising not getting tagged?

Have a look at MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info). It has builtin phishing checks

Re: spamassassin --lint ....how long does it take?

Dr Robert Young wrote: > I am just becoming familiar with SpamAssassin, so I am sure this may > appear to be an "obvious" issue to those familiar with the tool. I am > just learning the ins and outs however. > > I downloaded many of the SARE rulesets (not bigevil however), and I am > running "sp

OT: Setting Up DNSBL using RBLDNSD

7;t appear to exist on Ubuntu Any tips, thoughts or even flames are welcome TIA Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions http://www.blacknight.ie/ http://blog.blacknight.ie/ Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 UK: 0870 163 0607

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

ory itself... I > guess this is a bug - even tough the plugin seems to run fine I dont > like any errors spit out. > > Matt Matt Are you specifying the path or the full path? I've got mine in a $random directory and it's working fine Michele Mr Michele Neylon Bla

RE: submit to spamcop

Jean-Paul Natola <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on 06 December 2005 14:36: > How does one, if possible, submit a domain/IP address to spamcop? Spamcop lists Ips - SURBL lists URIs You can sign up for a reporting account at spamcop.net HTH Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight

RE: Using SpamAssassin to fight comment spam?

assin in this setting? > - Settings > - Thresholds > - &c? > > > After testing this a bit on comments, I hope to expand to blog posts > and forum posts as well, so that moderators gets a heads-up when > people post spam. Ole Have you had a loo

OT: Misuse of spamcop

Some "intelligent" individual decided to report two emails that were sent to this list including my signature and URI to our company website. The email was obviously not spam and reporting it as such to spamcop is extremely irresponsible. If you have an issue with my email signature feel free to

RE: [SURBL-Discuss] Re: Applying SURBL against blog comment spammers

Which blogger are you using? I moved my own blog over to Wordpress a couple of months ago and I haven't had any issues with comment spammers since. Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101

Re: What's changed since 2.61?

not 100% sure about 2.61, but I know that older versions of SA do not recognise Outlook 2003 as a valid MUA and score accordingly -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions http://www.blacknight.ie 059 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://w

Re: Spammer using my domain name in FROM field

> Hi! > >> Spammer apparently is using [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the FROm field >> of >> the emails he is sending out. Domain is one of my customers virtual >> domain, >> spammer made up the username in the email address. Now I am getting >> burried >> by mail notifications returning to sender...obvi

Re: Subject line

would not be hard to implement. Maybe I'm missing something -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location & Domain Registration http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 (0)59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blac

Re: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:52 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:33 PM +0100 "Michele Neylon::Blacknight > Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having a simple prefix in the subject line makes life a lot > > easier. &

Re: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:52 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 9:33 PM +0100 "Michele Neylon::Blacknight > Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Having a simple prefix in the subject line makes life a lot > > easier. &

RE: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:14 -0700, Bret Miller wrote: > > I don't expect the policy will change, so I'll eventually find another > visual way to deal with it. And who decides the policy? -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location & D

RE: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:14 -0700, Bret Miller wrote: > > I don't expect the policy will change, so I'll eventually find another > visual way to deal with it. And who decides the policy? -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location & D

Re: Subject line

uot; Choice is always best -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location & Domain Registration http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 (0)59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

Re: Subject line

uot; Choice is always best -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location & Domain Registration http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 (0)59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

Re: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:53 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:00 PM +0100 "Michele Neylon::Blacknight > Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I already said, other lists allow people to choose. > > What list softwa

Re: Subject line

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:53 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:00 PM +0100 "Michele Neylon::Blacknight > Solutions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As I already said, other lists allow people to choose. > > What list softwa

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RE: 2 drug emails low scores SA2.63 0.0 & SA2.64 0.1

second was to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I do get other drug emails but the low score on these 2 worry me. > > Mark Mark Are you using SURBL? Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101

RE: 2 drug emails low scores SA2.63 0.0 & SA2.64 0.1

I thought i was but i am getting > > /usr/bin/rules_du_jour: line 121: [: too many arguments > > So no updates it seems :( > > Mark Run it directly from the command line: ./rules_du_jour If you get a "too many arguments" error there is something either wrong with y

Re: RBL scores on dynamic IPs

ive them low scores, but I don't > know what all of them are, and that just seems the wrong way to go about it. > > What to do here??? > > -Quinn > You should increase your spam threshold instead of trying to adjust the scores assigned to dynamic IPs. > -- Mr M

RE: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 information

s from Rules Emporium with rules du jour previously, so I'd like to know which ones I can remove and which ones I should keep. Thanks in advance Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

RE: Re(2): RBL scores on dynamic IPs

Bayes brings the potential FPs back into line with reality We use a much higher threshold than you do and block very effectively :) Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

RE: Re[2]: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 information

> overhead, but it's better for 3.0 installations to avoid the > x30 files. > > Bob Menschel Bob Thanks for the clarification :) Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353

RE: SA 3.0 and Bigevil

body using SA 2.6* should use spamcop URI :) Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

RE: Install 3.0 issue

; > Andy Type this before running MCPAN: export LANG=C Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

Re: everything autolearn=spam after 3.0 upgrade?

) Which version of MailScanner are you using? The more recent releases have been patched to address this anomaly -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions http://www.blacknight.ie 059 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

Re: Build problems on RH9

vendorlib='/u > INSTALLSCRIPT = /usr/bin > PERL_LIB = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 > PERL_ARCHLIB = /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi > SITELIBEXP = '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl' > sit <-- is this right ? > SITEARCHEXP = /usr/lib

RE: Spellcheck plugin?

we get from clients, prospective clients, suppliers etc., I would be very wary of penalising anyone due to spelling - we'd all lose business!! M Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

RE: dnsbl test not working

ADMIN_miki wrote: > > this machine is located inside DMZ > any ideas why are these problems ? > Thank you > Miki The obvious question I would ask is are you allowing connections outgoing ? ie. Is your firewall open on the required ports? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Interne

RE: New blacklist with URI

SpamCopURI version, and the latter matches the SURBL > back-end behavior more closely. However, this is really a > subject for Jeff Chan. The SURBL data contains domains as far as I can see from looking at our local copies M Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hostin

RE: downgrading

grading back to 'working' version > should anything go wrong > It's possible - I've done it :) Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight

Re: Configuration Problem

ersions, you could probably do this with a plugin.) > If you used MailScanner you could achieve this without any headaches at all :) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions http://www.blacknight.ie 059 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous content. Visit http://www.blacknight.ie for more information

FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 2.17 in 20_ratware.cf

ion of our clients. Can anyone suggest a temporary remedy for this? Regards Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses and dangerous conte

RE: FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 2.17 in 20_ratware.cf

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Add > > FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 0.00 > > in your local.cf file Thanks - exactly what I needed :) /me kicks himself I really *should* have seen that Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.black

RE: Installation issues

test whatever steps on the clean machine and > then apply the same steps to the production server. In the > worst case I'll end up with a new machine for handling all of our > email (not a bad thing). > > Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post... > > Kevin When

Re: Question on using SpamAssassin at a college?

deas? I'd recommend you look into MailScanner (http://www.mailscanner.info) It uses SA in combination with a number of other technologies and is used by quite a few academic institutions > -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions http://www.blacknight.ie 059 9137101 -- Email scanned b

RE: Remove BigEvil :)

cy" in realising that they were gone I'd err in favour of almost breaking the ruleset so people actually read the error message... That's just me though :) Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 913

RE: Announcing SURBL support in SA 2.63 and 3.0 plugins

ck spam >> server IP addresses, but instead to block messages based on > > Ouch, seems Jeff has problems with his setup. This is really old mail. > > Bye, > Raymond. I was wondering! Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http

RE: Rules List

Get rid of bigevil immediately!! It is no longer updated and kills servers :) If you are still running the 2.6* series use spamcop uri to add support for SURBL Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 913

RE: Rules List

On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 13:57 -0600, Anton Krall wrote: > Im using 3.0.. How do I get a hold of SURBLs ? Im still getting a lot of > the vicodin and medicine spam mail :( SURBL is a plugin. Look in your init.pre -- Mr. Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting, Co-location &a

OT: Badly formatted HTML- best practices?

nform them that their mails are likely to be caught be email filters or should we let them live on in blissful ignorance? Any input would be appreciated. TIA Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +

RE: OT - How often to reboot?

We only reboot: - when we absolutely have to ie. Machine is not behaving properly or has to be physically moved - when there is a kernel upgrade (same as above) If the machine is behaving and you don't need to patch/upgrade the kernel why reboot it? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Int

RE: mail server monitoring services

Rob McEwen wrote: > RE: mail server monitoring services > Rob I don't know about services, but the software we use for all our servers is called uptime. You can contact them on http://www.uptimesoftware.com/ HTH Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd

Re: sa database transferable?

Andy Hester wrote: I have just built a new spam filter with postfix/amavisd/spamassassin to replace our old sendmail/mimedefang/spamassassin spam filter which was buckling under the load. Can I copy the sa databases over to the new filter to help my new filter learn? If not, any ideas on ho

RE: OT Boincing Spam

n there as well, so you run a higher risk of FPs if you are not careful. Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 9137101 http://www.blacknight.ie/specialoffers.html -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

Gustafson, Tim wrote: Hello I know that it's generally frowned upon to actually "block" SPAMs (as opposed to marking them as SPAM and letting the user decide) but my company has some instances where we get things that are blatantly, absolutely, unequivocally SPAM (think scores in excess of 100 poin

RE: DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24

to get that many. A score of 2.3 seems a bit severe just for having > your computer clock wrong. > > thanks I would disagree. On one server here I've got 1948 hits on that since the first of January and none of them could be possibly mistaken for FPs. Mr Michele Neylon Bl

RE: maintaining the 2.6 branch (was: [2.64] FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOKbuggy)

Although we have upgraded on most of our systems I am not too enthused with the idea of touching our main gateway. It works, so I don't want to break it. Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd Hosting, co-location & domains http://www.blacknight.ie/ Tel. +353 59 913

Re: Implicit trust of surbl and sbl

Scott Wertz wrote: I think this is an easy question, but I haven't been able to find an answer. If I'm using spamassassin 3, invoking it via procmail as just 'spamassassin' and testing for the result, and I trust that any message carrying a URL that's listed on surbl.org or spamhaus.org is 100% sp

Re: RelayCountry

Bill Landry wrote: Indeed! Better to look at something like http://countries.nerd.dk/more.html for adding weight based on message source country. Here is a sample of how to implement these in SA as RBL tests: How accurate and up to date is that data? -- Email scanned by Blacknight for viruses a

RE: SA restarting problems, Address already in use

> /usr/bin/spamd -c -u spam >/var/log/test_spamd. > `/bin/date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log 2>&1 & > > The problem occured again, and I catched the following from > spamd output >> What is the output of netstat? Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Internet Solutions L