Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-04 Thread Keith Whyte
Kelson wrote: Keith Whyte wrote: i send viruses to /dev/null but i bounce spam, partly in the vain hope that some spammers might actually back off after multiple failures, and mainly in case of false positives, so that the sender knows the message wasn't delivered. And just to stave off the pot

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Steven Stern wrote: > If you can get away with the delay, greylisting does an amazing job. I get > almost no spams with it enabled. Unfortunately, even though it's sent to > request a retry after 30 seconds from the sender, some senders can take up to > three hours before retrying. At SMTP time t

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/03/05 03:16 PM, Kelson sat at the `puter and typed: > Keith Whyte wrote: > > i send viruses to /dev/null but i bounce spam, partly in the vain hope > > that some spammers might actually back off after multiple failures, and > > mainly in case of false positives, so that the sender knows the

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Kelson
Keith Whyte wrote: i send viruses to /dev/null but i bounce spam, partly in the vain hope that some spammers might actually back off after multiple failures, and mainly in case of false positives, so that the sender knows the message wasn't delivered. > > you have total control via configuration

RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Gustafson, Tim wrote: > David, > > I found that option and tried it, but here's what I get now when I run > spamass-milter: > > Jan 3 22:16:09 maze spamass-milter[56478]: Could not extract score from > J_CHICKENPOX_41,SARE_URI_PILLS autolearn=no version=2.64> > > Any ideas?

RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Gustafson, Tim
obile/Emergencies (516) 908-4185 Fax http://www.meitech.com/ -Original Message- From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 5:20 PM To: Gustafson, Tim Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs? On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Gustafson

RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Gustafson, Tim wrote: > Thanks for all the help everyone. I guess the real question for me is > "how do I make spamass-milter block e-mails of a certain score", because > that's how I integrate SpamAssassin into Sendmail. > > Thanks again! > > Tim Gustafson Add the "-r 15" fl

RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread snowjack
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:45:41 -0500, "Gustafson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks for all the help everyone. I guess the real question for me is > "how do I make spamass-milter block e-mails of a certain score", because > that's how I integrate SpamAssassin into Sendmail. I don't use spamas

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Andy Jezierski
Steven Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/03/2005 03:50:22 PM: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:45:41 -0500, "Gustafson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Thanks for all the help everyone.  I guess the real question for me is > >"how do I make spamass-milter block e-mails of a certain score", becau

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:47:44 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >By the way, we reject messages that score above 10 with a 550. We found >that almost 95% of spam scores over 10, and almost zero ham scores above >five. Messages scoring between 5 and 10 are accepted, tagged, and >relayed to their reci

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Keith Whyte
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: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 16:45:41 -0500, "Gustafson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for all the help everyone. I guess the real question for me is >"how do I make spamass-milter block e-mails of a certain score", because >that's how I integrate SpamAssassin into Sendmail. > >Thanks again! > T

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Michele Neylon::Blacknight Solutions
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: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread snowjack
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 13:09:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:49:33 -0500, "Gustafson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > 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) bu

RE: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Thanks for all the help everyone. I guess the real question for me is "how do I make spamass-milter block e-mails of a certain score", because that's how I integrate SpamAssassin into Sendmail. Thanks again! Tim Gustafson MEI Technology Consulting, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] (516) 379-0001 Office (51

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Steven Stern
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:53:21 -0800, Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 12:49 PM 1/3/2005, you wrote: >>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

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread snowjack
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 15:49:33 -0500, "Gustafson, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 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,

Re: Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Evan Platt
At 12:49 PM 1/3/2005, you wrote: 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

Any way to block really bad SPAMs?

2005-01-03 Thread Gustafson, Tim
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 points without BAYES or a