Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Duane Hill wrote: Sorry for blowing this thread way off its topic. :-| alt.spamassassin.recovery? -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-05 Thread Robert Menschel
Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting From:jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:43:46 -0700 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org From: Evan Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: IncrediMail (5002253) is not a real e-mail client. You'll find yourself

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread spectacularstuff
Thank you everyone for your quotes, efforts and time involved. We actually have this issue resolved now. Created a batch to interface in with Smartermail to bypass the SA checking. Wayne -- View this message in context:

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread WFGB Team
: 06/04/06 13:28:48 To: spectacularstuff Subject: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting That is not solved.. All you did was mask the symptom!! Your DNS is screwed up and screwed up bad. Thank you everyone for your quotes, efforts and time involved.We actually have this issue resolved

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Knuth
Heute (04.06.2006/19:35 Uhr) schrieb WFGB Team, Yes, we have someone looking into that this Wednesday to give us a quote on that. However the original issue was SPAM assassin detecting our own emails as SPAM. That issue has been resolved and therefore closing out the thread. Wayne

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread WFGB Team
---Original Message--- From: Jim Knuth Date: 06/04/06 13:58:51 To: WFGB Team Cc: Peter P. Benac; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting Heute (04.06.2006/19:35 Uhr) schrieb WFGB Team, Yes, we have someone looking

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:43 AM 6/4/2006, you wrote: The HTML must be from my email client. It doesn't send out any other way. There is nothing I can do about that. Top posting... I can only presume that means replying to one of the emails that were sent before?? Do I have control over where they post to? How

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Knuth
Heute (04.06.2006/20:43 Uhr) schrieb WFGB Team, The HTML must be from my email client. It doesn't send out any other way. There is nothing I can do about that. Top posting... I can only presume that means replying to one of the emails that were sent before?? Do I have control over where

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jo
WFGB Team schreef: Hi, Please reread some of the comments you got. Your mails are delivered to other mail servers. These servers may also employ SpamAssassin. If your mails were being stopped or flagged on their way out by your own setup, think about their fate on the other side...

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jamie L. Penman-Smithson
On 4 Jun 2006, at 18:35, WFGB Team wrote: Yes, we have someone looking into that this Wednesday to give us a quote on that. However the original issue was SPAM assassin detecting our own emails as SPAM. That issue has been resolved and therefore closing out the thread. All uppercase

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread jdow
Wayne, it would be heartily appreciated if you stopped sending the cutsie-pie trash to this mailing list. Use plain text. You have NO IDEA how much I despise those incredimail smilies and the trash they usually accompany. {+_+} - Original Message - From: WFGB Team [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread jdow
-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting The HTML must be from my email client. It doesn't send out any other way. There is nothing I can do about that. Top posting... I can only presume that means replying to one of the emails that were sent before?? Do I have control over where

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread jdow
From: Evan Platt [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:43 AM 6/4/2006, you wrote: The HTML must be from my email client. It doesn't send out any other way. There is nothing I can do about that. Top posting... I can only presume that means replying to one of the emails that were sent before?? Do I have

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Duane Hill
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, jdow wrote: Wayne, it would be heartily appreciated if you stopped sending the cutsie-pie trash to this mailing list. Use plain text. You have NO IDEA how much I despise those incredimail smilies and the trash they usually accompany. {+_+} That's why I love Pine. Strictly

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Knuth
Heute (05.06.2006/02:42 Uhr) schrieb jdow, And YOU are trying to be a system administrator, Wayne? Give me a BREAK! {+_+} You are right @jdow - LOL -- Viele Gruesse, Kind regards, Jim Knuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ #277289867 -- Zufalls-Zitat -- Man umgebe mich mit Luxus.

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Knuth
Heute (05.06.2006/02:52 Uhr) schrieb Duane Hill, On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, jdow wrote: Wayne, it would be heartily appreciated if you stopped sending the cutsie-pie trash to this mailing list. Use plain text. You have NO IDEA how much I despise those incredimail smilies and the trash they usually

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread jdow
From: Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, jdow wrote: Wayne, it would be heartily appreciated if you stopped sending the cutsie-pie trash to this mailing list. Use plain text. You have NO IDEA how much I despise those incredimail smilies and the trash they usually accompany.

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Duane Hill
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, jdow wrote: From: Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, jdow wrote: Wayne, it would be heartily appreciated if you stopped sending the cutsie-pie trash to this mailing list. Use plain text. You have NO IDEA how much I despise those incredimail smilies and the

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-04 Thread Evan Platt
At 05:43 PM 6/4/2006, you wrote: Top Posting is putting the textAnd fubars who complain of your reply above the quoted text. excessively about top posting Bottom posting (as I am doing) is get replies that are side putting your reply below the original posted.

RE: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread Greg Allen
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting If you are going to make remarks, please state all of the facts, 1. We do not require onsite service. 2. Guarantees are accepted. 3. Trying to justify the cost because propagation will take 2-3 days (which

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 6/2/2006 11:44 PM, spectacularstuff wrote: We already have SA setup and working with Smartermail. We would like to hire someone that is familiar with SpamAssassin and a Windows 2003 server system in order to come set this thing up so that our own emails are not being detected as SPAM. Is

RE: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread spectacularstuff
I understand the issue of troubleshooting and repair. How long I have worked on it is irrelavant as I have alreayd said, I don't know what I am doing. If I did have the knowledge I would be able to fix it and more than likely, quickly. I personally work in computer repair, not in Server Setup

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread Jo
spectacularstuff wrote: We already have SA setup and working with Smartermail. We would like to hire someone that is familiar with SpamAssassin and a Windows 2003 server system in order to come set this thing up so that our own emails are not being detected as SPAM. Is anyone interested in

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread WFGB Team
Message--- From: Jo Date: 06/03/06 03:01:36 To: spectacularstuff Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting spectacularstuff wrote: We already have SA setup and working with Smartermail. We would like to hire someone that is familiar

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread Sanford Whiteman
We already have SA setup and working with Smartermail. Well, not really. I'd say part and parcel of any SA-MTA integration is finding a way to whitelist messages _before SA is launched_, thus (a) saving you SA's CPU and disk time (esp. since you're using process-based spamassassin

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread WFGB Team
A Database using that method, then what good is SA? Thanks again for the advice on that. I will check into the SM forums to ask about that. Wayne ---Original Message--- From: Sanford Whiteman Date: 06/03/06 04:51:00 To: spectacularstuff; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Hirin

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread Stephen Sloan
@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting We already have SA setup and working with Smartermail. Well, not really. I'd say part and parcel of any SA-MTA integration is finding a way to whitelist messages _before SA is launched_, thus (a) saving you SA's CPU

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread WFGB Team
: Stephen Sloan Date: 06/03/06 13:20:48 To: WFGB Team Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting If SMFilter adds its own headers, couldn't you just write a custom rule for SA that gives any message with those headers a negative score? - Original

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread WFGB Team
To: WFGB Team; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re[2]: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting I have talked to the SM tech support and have searched through their forum but they believe this is SA issue. Itisanditisn't.The fact that they don't have a simple way of skippingtheirexternal test

SPAM: Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-03 Thread WFGB Team
telling me communication error so I figured I would wait until later to see if it was an issue on my end or on their end. Wayne ---Original Message--- From: Sanford Whiteman Date: 06/03/06 20:09:26 To: WFGB Team; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re[2]: Hiring for Spam Assassin

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-02 Thread List Mail User
You have a bunch of problems; You have no PTR record for your MXs except to the dead end of worldfamousgiftbaskets.net - That domain has bogus Whois/registration data (i.e. Not Given is invalid). Also that domain has no 'A' or 'MX' records. Your NS records in the TLD zone files don't

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-02 Thread spectacularstuff
Thanks for the reply. Most of that is greek to me. I have spent the better part of 3 weeks not knowing what I am doing attempting to get this fixed. I don't have anymore time left. We are looking to hire someone to come in and do this. This is not a very complicated setup. There is no

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-02 Thread jdow
OK, I take it SpamAssassin is running on Windows and not an ix box? I hope you have some good luck tracking it down. Finding the expert you need may be difficult. Can you modify whatever is running SpamAssassin so that it adds a -D to the invocation of spamassassin or spamd as appropriate? Run

Re: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-02 Thread spectacularstuff
I am using the GUI interface for SA. I can also modify local.cf myself if that is where you are talking about modifying it so the -D is in there. Yes, our users are using their dynamic IPs from their comcast accounts, etc etc etc. I do understand that but what I am most interested in is the MX

RE: Hiring for Spam Assassin Troubleshooting

2006-06-02 Thread spectacularstuff
If you are going to make remarks, please state all of the facts, 1. We do not require onsite service. 2. Guarantees are accepted. 3. Trying to justify the cost because propagation will take 2-3 days (which you and I both know, usually takes 24 hours or less in most of the places. 72 hours is a