Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to
block these idiots. I'm running a postfix
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 14:08 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
However, I understand that this is precisely what SuSE server does. You
know, _I_ would be rejected otherwise ;-)
The Suse server is not exactly high-volume. It may
On Wednesday December 20 2006 3:32 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email
address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my
inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to
be able to
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:10, Joachim Kieferle wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email
address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my
inbox. I don't want to spend a lot
Joachim Kieferle wrote:
[RBLs listed]
Well, I'm still getting mail from this list, so it's not blocking
everything. It will take some time to determine if I've blocked
things I don't want blocked. So far I have no new spam in the inbox
in over an hour. That is very good. Far better than
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Joachim Kieferle wrote:
[RBLs listed]
[... more info about blocking mails]
A lot of spam is rejected by helo checks and greylisting.
Sandy
Hi Sandy,
two questions about that:
1. could you please point to some info about how to implement helo
checks (maybe a snippet
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:37, Joachim Kieferle wrote:
IF BY ACCIDENT a mail is blocked, the positive effect from that is, that
the senders are informed about blocking (e.g. Blocked - see
http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=82.197.44.218), whereas
SpamAssassin just marks the spam and
Joachim Kieferle wrote:
Sandy Drobic wrote:
Joachim Kieferle wrote:
[RBLs listed]
[... more info about blocking mails]
A lot of spam is rejected by helo checks and greylisting.
Sandy
Hi Sandy,
two questions about that:
1. could you please point to some info about how to implement helo
John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:37, Joachim Kieferle wrote:
IF BY ACCIDENT a mail is blocked, the positive effect from that is, that
the senders are informed about blocking (e.g. Blocked - see
http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=82.197.44.218), whereas
SpamAssassin just
On Thursday 21 December 2006 11:26, Sandy Drobic wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:37, Joachim Kieferle wrote:
IF BY ACCIDENT a mail is blocked, the positive effect from that is, that
the senders are informed about blocking (e.g. Blocked - see
Daniel Bauer wrote:
I am not at all an expert, but I dislike the option of rejecting emails due to
a blacklist. I prefer to have spam in my spam-folder (after it has been
marked by Spam-Assassin), where I can quickly overview the subject lines.
This is only possible if you do not receive too
On 21-Dec-06 Daniel Bauer wrote:
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I am not at all an expert, but I dislike the option of
rejecting emails due to a blacklist. I prefer to have
spam in my spam-folder (after it has been marked by
Spam-Assassin), where I can quickly overview the subject
lines.
[...]
Using blacklists for
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The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 11:18 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
2. is there greylisting available out of the (OpenSuSE 10.2) box?
Not that I am aware of. But Postgrey is not difficult to implement.
Yes, it is.
There is a sample in (2.1)
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The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 12:35 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Using blacklists for warning/marking purposes seems ok to me, but letting a
blacklist make decisions can be dangerous. Just my opinion.
Spamassassin and consorts do that kind of
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 12:35 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Using blacklists for warning/marking purposes seems ok to me, but letting a
blacklist make decisions can be dangerous. Just my opinion.
Spamassassin and consorts do
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The Thursday 2006-12-21 at 14:08 +0100, Sandy Drobic wrote:
However, I understand that this is precisely what SuSE server does. You
know, _I_ would be rejected otherwise ;-)
The Suse server is not exactly high-volume. It may receive some ten
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to
block these idiots. I'm running a postfix mail server. Is there an
On 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy was to thwart spam? I use the filters built into
KMail, but they seem almost worthless.
Install, train and use either spamassassin:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/
or
bogofilter:
http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
On 12/20/06, Steven T. Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to
block these
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 15:32, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email
address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my
inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to
be able to block
such as:
1. drop all mails that include attachments.
or drop all attachments. not mail itself.
2. drop all mails that include HTML/Javascript/ActiveX/Flash.
so only plain text is allowed.
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On 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Spamassassin - good but in my view a lot of maintenance
This what cron is for. I use a script to train SA with the mails in my
spam mailbox everyday and a weekly script to train SA for HAM.
Charles
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Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to
block these idiots. I'm running a postfix
Joachim Kieferle wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email
address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing
my inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just
want to be able to block these
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The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 15:32 -0500, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot
On 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One (relatively) recent problems with Bayesian filters is that many
SPAM messages are constructed in such a way that they poison your
filters. If you train such messages as SPAM, they contain enough
good text, which is irrelevant to the SPAM itself,
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:10, Joachim Kieferle wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email
address, but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my
inbox. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I
they poison your filters
given a not-dissimilar question i'd asked, a helpful comment was
provided here (by Matt K),
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general/92524
that, i think, correctly names that presumption as fiction. at least,
it bears consideration ...
hth.
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Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It just keeps getting worse. I really don't want to change my email address,
but it's all over the Internet, and the spammers are killing my inbox. I
don't want to spend a lot of time on this issue, I just want to be able to
block these idiots. I'm running a postfix
On 20/12/06, Steven T. Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to thwart spam?
I let the clever chaps at Google do all the hard work for me, and pass
all my mail through GMail. There are very few false negatives and even
fewer false positives.
Mike
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Michael Leuty wrote:
On 20/12/06, Steven T. Hatton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there an easy way to thwart spam?
I let the clever chaps at Google do all the hard work for me, and pass
all my mail through GMail. There are very few false negatives and even
fewer false positives.
Mike
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The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 16:16 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
BTW, and maybe somebody can tell me this, is there some sort of mindset
of the spammer which justifies sending out all these e-mails. Something
Business... from their point of view.
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Wednesday 2006-12-20 at 16:16 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
BTW, and maybe somebody can tell me this, is there some sort of mindset
of the spammer which justifies sending out all these e-mails. Something
Business... from
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