Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-23 Thread David Niklas
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:07:03 +0100 Antony Stone wrote: > How do you know you don't trust them until you find out you can't? Use a vulcan mind meld. :) More seriously, you can try trusting them with less important and unmonitored tasks. If they are trustworthy with those then chances are that

Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-16 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 10:50:58 -0700 Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/16/19 8:50 AM, David Niklas wrote: > > My context was not that email servers were so unique to the internet > > > that there is only one in the world, rat

Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-16 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:31:01 -0700 Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/15/19 7:57 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > If I host my own mail it does not effect your mail if my computer and > > backups are destroyed. > > If I host my mail and

Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-15 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 19:54:00 -0700 Grant Taylor wrote: > On 2/15/19 7:11 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > Let my put forward a wild idea. What if email was a distributed > > system > with no 1 point of failure like it was o

Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-15 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 06:07:23 -0700 "@lbutlr" wrote: > On 14 Feb 2019, at 19:31, Grant Taylor > wrote: > > > > If VFE had backups stored off-site via something like Amazon Glacier > > with no normal in-band connectivity between the main systems

Re: Semi Off-topic: VFEMail destroyed

2019-02-15 Thread David Niklas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:02:31 -0700 "@lbutlr" wrote: > On 14 Feb 2019, at 09:37, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > I blame the hackers so I haven't posted about this when all the > > articles came out because you don't blame the victim. > > Sure, I

Re: (OT) Best spam video

2018-07-14 Thread David Niklas
On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:34:48 -0400 "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: > https://youtu.be/_QdPW8JrYzQ > > Worth a watch. 1 min in: ROFL! Thanks for the video! If the end is as good as the front I'll be LOL for weeks!

Re: Tapping the microphone

2018-07-14 Thread David Niklas
4922 bytes from do...@mail.com (tor anomalized): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=24090 ms 1 emails transmitted, 1 received, 0% email loss, time 24190 ms All rites reversed :)

Re: Attachments with no Content-Type mime header

2017-08-16 Thread David Niklas
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:28:56 + (UTC) Pedro David Marco wrote: > Hi everybody... > When an email has a MIME part with no Content-Type header, is there any > way to force SA "guess" the format based on other criteria... file > extension, for example? Example:

Re: OT - Possibly some good news

2017-08-11 Thread David Niklas
On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 08:45:09 -0700 Marc Perkel wrote: > However ... > > I have no hard information and I don't actually know what happened but > something extraordinary occurred and it is so easy to want to declare > victory, but the easiest person to fool is myself

How to undo ham-ing a message

2017-03-31 Thread David Niklas
Hello, I accidentally learned a single message as ham from the menu of my MUA claws-mail. I immediately re-learned it as spam, but I want to know if there is anything else I might want to do to reverse the ham-ing process. Thanks, David

Great spam filtering, until now

2017-02-20 Thread David Niklas
Hello, I have had a wonderful experience filtering spam with spamassassin. However, within the past few weeks (since feb 7th, I think), I have gotten a number of messages that have been normal but marked as spam. It may be those that I am speaking with and what they do to their mail, then again,

spamd will not bind to ipv4 localhost when network is unconfigured

2016-10-28 Thread David Niklas
Hello, Sometimes I start my computer when the internet is not available and I've found that smapd will not bind to 127.0.0.1. I'm having it bind to localhost only. It instead binds to localhost's ipv6 address. I don't know why it *must* connect to router to acquire an ipv4 connection to localhost.

Re: Possibly some good news - OT

2016-10-21 Thread David Niklas
On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:49:36 -0700 Marc Perkel wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Well, maybe there's some good news. Traditional solutions for stage 4 > lung cancer are not good but on the cutting edge of technology it looks > much better. Below is a letter I sent to a

How to use sa rules?

2016-09-01 Thread David Niklas
Hello, I run sa-update but I want to know if any additional configuration is needed to tell sa that I want it to use the rules. Thanks, David

Re: I have some bad news

2016-09-01 Thread David Niklas
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 22:22:47 -0700 Marc Perkel wrote: > Well, this is kind of hard to say so just going to say it. I have stage > 4 lung cancer and the probably spectrum is not good. I've been fighting > spam for the last 15 years and I'd like to keep fighting spam

Re: Disabling spamcop plugin

2016-04-12 Thread David Niklas
Am 07.04.2016 um 22:55 schrieb Ian Zimmerman: > My high-level goal here is to get rid of as many configuration changes > as I can in the system-managed area (/etc in my case) and achieve the > same effects by other means. This is because I'm learning that I > cannot trust my distro not to screw

Re: Permissions for home dir .spamassassin

2015-09-28 Thread David Niklas
On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:41:10 +0200 Antony wrote: > On Tuesday 22 September 2015 at 22:35:55, David wrote: > > > Hello, I decided to store users personal filter rules > > in .spamassassin in their home dir, but I'm not sure how to set the > > perms. > > How does spamassassin get invoked for each

Permissions for home dir .spamassassin

2015-09-22 Thread David Niklas
Hello, I decided to store users personal filter rules in .spamassassin in their home dir, but I'm not sure how to set the perms. Thanks, David