Re: How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
to not send them queries. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-15 Thread Marc Perkel
calculate what it would cost. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-12 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/11/2011 7:44 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:46:57 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Kind of getting tired of spamhaus hitting me up for money and trying to find all the places where I need to change to get rid of spamhaus queries. What do I need to do to get rid of spamhaus

How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Kind of getting tired of spamhaus hitting me up for money and trying to find all the places where I need to change to get rid of spamhaus queries. What do I need to do to get rid of spamhaus? Thanks in advance. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http

Re: How do I disable all spamhaus calls?

2011-08-11 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/11/2011 11:28 AM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 08/11, Marc Perkel wrote: Kind of getting tired of spamhaus hitting me up for money and trying to find all the places where I need to change to get rid of spamhaus queries. What do I need to do to get rid of spamhaus? I expect more from

Re: Lots of Chinese Spam with attachments

2011-08-09 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/6/2011 8:41 PM, Jared Hall wrote: mimeheaderFOREIGN_ATTACH1 Content-Disposition:raw =~ /filename\=\\=\?(GB|gb)2312\?/ Thanks - I'm going to give this a try. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot

Lots of Chinese Spam with attachments

2011-08-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Been getting a LOT of Chinese language spam lately with Chinese named attached spreadsheets or .doc files. Anyone else seeing this? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

MySQL Bayes - can slow MySql cause other tests not to run?

2011-08-02 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm wondering if bayes is slow and causing SA to time out and not run other tests? Or does bayes run in parallel? I'm beginning to wonder if bayes is killing other tests allowing more spam to get through? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com

Re: MySQL Bayes - can slow MySql cause other tests not to run?

2011-08-02 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/2/2011 11:26 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 10:54 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm wondering if bayes is slow and causing SA to time out and not run other tests? Or does bayes run in parallel? I'm beginning to wonder if bayes is killing other tests allowing more spam

Issuing rollback() due to DESTROY without explicit disconnect() of DBD::mysql::db handle

2011-06-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi everyone, Now I'm seeing these error messages in the logs: Issuing rollback() due to DESTROY without explicit disconnect() of DBD::mysql::db handle I'm beginning to wonder if MySQL bays actually works. I'm just geeing too many strange errors. Thanks in advance for any help. -- Marc

High Performance Bayes Database Configuration?

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
in advance. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: High Performance Bayes Database Configuration?

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
real time updating and it's spread across multiple servers. So need PostgreSQL or MySQL. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

rules: failed to run BAYES_99 test, skipping

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Weird error. Interesting part is that BAYES_00 seems to work. What's going on? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

MySQL Errors

2011-06-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Started getting these: Issuing rollback() due to DESTROY without explicit disconnect() of DBD::mysql::db Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Thanks in advance. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

MySQL bayes setup question

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
I must be blind but I can seem to find the files or instructions for creating the mysql databases to set up bayes. Thanks in advance -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: MySQL bayes setup question

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/14/2011 10:19 AM, Morgan Bishop wrote: On 6/14/2011 1:03 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I must be blind but I can seem to find the files or instructions for creating the mysql databases to set up bayes. Thanks in advance I'm not sure, but I believe you are looking for bayes_mysql.sql

Re: MySQL bayes setup question

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/14/2011 10:40 AM, Morgan Bishop wrote: On 6/14/2011 1:23 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 6/14/2011 10:19 AM, Morgan Bishop wrote: On 6/14/2011 1:03 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I must be blind but I can seem to find the files or instructions for creating the mysql databases to set up bayes

Re: MySQL bayes setup question

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
- that's what I was looking for. You might also find this helpful: http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/debian-spamassassin-sql.html Regards, Dave Thanks Dave, that was useful. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415

Bank Phishing Rule - please improve

2011-03-20 Thread Marc Perkel
+ __BANK_PHISH_31 + __BANK_PHISH_32 + __BANK_PHISH_33 4) describe CT_BANK_PHISH Wants your account information score CT_BANK_PHISH 8 -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: Bank Phishing Rule - please improve

2011-03-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/20/2011 9:57 AM, Ned Slider wrote: On 20/03/11 16:29, Marc Perkel wrote: Just throwing this out there to see if people like this rule and if you would like to improve it. Bank phishing usually involves a lot of phrases to get you to give up your information. This rule looks for 5 matches

Re: Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-19 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/18/2011 11:19 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 22:52 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Just upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and when I run Spamassassin (spamd) I get this: spamd: accept failed: Transport endpoint is not connected at /usr/bin/spamd line 1212 $ grep -rl

Another Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and getting this error message: /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Term/ReadKey/ReadKey.so: undefined symbol: Perl_pad_sv when running sa-compile or spamassassin -- Marc Perkel

Re: Another Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-19 Thread Marc Perkel
drives it is worth and saved me many headaches... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Thanks - I figured it out. I'm not sure what but there was some perl libs under /usr/local and I deleted those and the problem went away. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp

Spamassassin upgrade problem

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Just upgrading from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and when I run Spamassassin (spamd) I get this: spamd: accept failed: Transport endpoint is not connected at /usr/bin/spamd line 1212 What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com

Spam bot Spam seems to be decreasing

2011-01-09 Thread Marc Perkel
-20100109.html Are we winning? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Automatic Rule Combination Generator

2011-01-02 Thread Marc Perkel
and useful results. Then do 3 rule combos. I'm betting that new useful rule combos will be discovered Someone could write a perl script hat would generate the rules. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992

A new paradigm for DNS based lists

2010-12-29 Thread Marc Perkel
to process thousands of domains for tens of thousands of email accounts. My 2 cents ... -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: A new paradigm for DNS based lists

2010-12-29 Thread Marc Perkel
. The IP tells you nothing. That's why I suggest the yellow listing. I would skip test if they have SPF because spammers often set their SPF correctly. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: A new paradigm for DNS based lists

2010-12-29 Thread Marc Perkel
yahoo server is listed it's a waste of resources. If it's a yahoo server of any flavore why look it up on the blacklists? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

DNSBL for email addresses?

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Are there any DNSBLs out there based on email addresses? Since you can't use an @ in a DNS lookup - how would you do DNSBL on email addresses? Is there a standard? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: DNSBL for email addresses?

2010-12-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/14/2010 2:38 PM, Big Wave Dave wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: Are there any DNSBLs out there based on email addresses? Since you can't use an @ in a DNS lookup - how would you do DNSBL on email addresses? Is there a standard

Re: Two newish RBLs; NXDOMAIN question

2010-12-13 Thread Marc Perkel
, and is fully automated (no user submissions). I'd hazard that a starting score of 2.0 might be appropriate. Very good. I just set it up and it seems to be doing well for me so far. Thanks for the tip. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com

Re: Fake MX

2010-12-10 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/8/2010 6:26 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: Hitting the tarbaby server by itself doesn't get you listed. I have ways of detecting spambots only. tarbaby has a very different connotation: that it is a TCP or SMTP tarpit. This will make people nervous

Re: Fake MX

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Perkel
, perhaps randomly. I get millions of hits every day on the highest numbered MX when there are at least 2 and sometimes as many as 7 lower numbered MX records. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: Fake MX

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/8/2010 12:34 PM, Chris Owen wrote: On Dec 8, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Virus bots tend to hit all MX records, perhaps randomly. I get millions of hits every day on the highest numbered MX when there are at least 2 and sometimes as many as 7 lower numbered MX records. We

Re: Fake MX

2010-12-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Hitting the tarbaby server by itself doesn't get you listed. I have ways of detecting spambots only. On 12/8/2010 4:02 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 12/8/10 6:52 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: punish the spammers. and, punish any senders who follow the RFC's. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support

Do we need a new SMTP protocol? (OT)

2010-12-01 Thread Marc Perkel
I've been thinking about what it would take to actually eliminate spam or reduce it to less than 10% of what it is now. One of the problems is the SMTP protocol itself. And a big problem with that is that mail servers talk to each other using the same protocol as users use to talk to servers.

Re: SPF technical problems (was Re: email address forgery)

2010-11-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/18/2010 9:55 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:00:48 +0100 Benny Pedersenm...@junc.org wrote: On tor 18 nov 2010 12:59:38 CET, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote On 16.11.10 07:48, Marc Perkel wrote: Spammer can and do use SPF so it's not a good white list either. If SPF is correct

Re: SPF technical problems (was Re: email address forgery)

2010-11-16 Thread Marc Perkel
also allows me to detect what servers are forwarding email to me. Other than that - it just plain doesn't work. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
domain. If you have a finite number of working addresses then they are less likely to use your domain. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
that are sources of forwarded email. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

How do I get delisted from SORBS? [OT]

2010-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
and there doesn't seem to be a removal tool. Anyone else having this problem or can give me some insight as to what is going on? -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How do I get delisted from SORBS? [OT]

2010-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/7/2010 6:42 AM, Per Jessen wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Got this listing on sorbs: SORBS DNSBLhttp://www.de.sorbs.net/ 127.0.0.2 Aggregate zone See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?65.49.42.106; http://www.de.sorbs.net/overview.shtml host 106.42.49.65.dnsbl.sorbs.net

Re: How do I get delisted from SORBS? [OT]

2010-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
been removed from DUHL years ago got there again. Probably old records re-appeared because of something... Sure is screwing me up. Got several customers whose email is bouncing when we are forward it as good. I'm disabling all sorbs tests on my end to prevent false positives. -- Marc Perkel

SORBS is definitely hosed today

2010-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what is happening but they appear to be down and when they are up they have a lot of people blacklists that shouldn't be. I noticed that this list uses sorbs and the admins might want to disable it. I don't know what's happening but I wish them the best.

Re: Need God/Christian rule sets

2010-10-04 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/3/2010 8:10 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: As I said in my original message. The rule itself would have no points. It would be combined with other rules like large sums of money and transfer and I'm someone you don't know. You mean, like

Re: Need God/Christian rule sets

2010-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
, and how to mitigate false positives? Naïve Bayes deals with words independently. If we want to link between words, I think we are into Natural Language Processing (NLP). If you have any good thoughts please share. --- Mahmoud Khonji -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com

Re: Need God/Christian rule sets

2010-10-03 Thread Marc Perkel
. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Need more combination rules

2010-10-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Many times rules that don't score high, when combined, are often nearly 100% accurate. Here's an example. I am surname Christian Large sum of money And you could throw in private email as an enhancement. SA could catch a lot more spam with more combined rules. Spam is a business model. The

SA should have a contact form rule

2010-09-14 Thread Marc Perkel
To trigger on text like this: 1.YOUR FULL NAME, 2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS__, 3.YOUR PHONE AND CELL NUMBER__, 4.A COPY OF YOUR PICTURE___, 5.YOUR COUNTRY___, AGE,

Lot of .info spam lately

2010-09-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Anyone else seeing an increase in .info spam?

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/23/2010 2:31 AM, Raul Dias wrote: On 08/18/2010 10:14 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: [...] They were discussing ways to reduce spam and I mentioned it. [...] I believe, that 95% of the discussion in this list is about reducing spam in a way or another. -rsd Agreed. Seems to me that any

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
and white lists and it seems to work fine for me. Putting the issue of political correctness aside. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
also scan IPs in received headers. I don't reject on that by itself but it is a factor when combined with other conditions. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
free too. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false positives when you send email. If you want to reduce spam however you could add this MX record as your highest numbered

Re: How the hell barracuda behaves?

2010-08-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 8/18/2010 9:24 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 8/18/2010 6:14 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 8/18/2010 4:46 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Registering with a white list doesn't reduce spam. It reduces false positives when you send email

Re: Writing an MTA

2010-07-26 Thread Marc Perkel
, please notify us immediately by return e-mail to the sender and delete from your computer. Although we attempt to sweep e-mail attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. -- Marc Perkel

Re: Writing an MTA

2010-07-26 Thread Marc Perkel
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Marc Perkel supp...@junkemailfilter.com mailto:supp...@junkemailfilter.com wrote: I don't know if uou have looked at Exim but it interfaces with SpamAssassin and it talks to MySql. Write something as versitile as Exim and I'm interested. Have you

who is sbg-rbl.org ?

2010-07-23 Thread Marc Perkel
The have my IP space blacklisted on my main server cluster. I never heard of them before.

Re: who is sbg-rbl.org ?

2010-07-23 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/23/2010 3:45 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 23-Jul-2010, at 16:06, Marc Perkel wrote: The have my IP space blacklisted on my main server cluster. I never heard of them before. They appear to be a scum sucking maggots, but that is just my impression based on the fact that they hide

I need MORE SPAM - You get less spam

2010-07-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Still trying to build my black list (hostkarma) and looking for more spam. The way it works is that any of you can add this as your highest numbered MX record. http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Project_tarbaby It returns a 421 error after the DATA command. Anything that comes to us

Re: I need MORE SPAM - You get less spam

2010-07-19 Thread Marc Perkel
on the Internet that isn't even us, cuts us off for 10 minutes and 500 pieces of legitimate mail end up going to your server? Domains these days are really, really cheap. Just setup some honeypots, man. Ted On 7/19/2010 12:48 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Still trying to build my black list (hostkarma

Re: How not to implement SPF (nationwide.co.uk)

2010-07-05 Thread Marc Perkel
that if they don't tell you? I suppose they are being realistic about spf - that it's only really useful for whitelisting purposes. It's not even useful for white listing as spammers can set up SPF too. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http

Re: How not to implement SPF (nationwide.co.uk)

2010-07-05 Thread Marc Perkel
On 7/5/2010 1:10 AM, Kelson Vibber wrote: On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: It's not even useful for white listing as spammers can set up SPF too. That's not how whitelisting on SPF works. You don't whitelist *solely* on the presence of SPF. You whitelist

Detecting mailing list servers / email

2010-06-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering about what people are using to detect if email is coming from a mail list discussion server like yahoo or google groups. Does anyone have good discussion list detection rules?

List of cell phone company hosts

2010-06-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Also - I'd like to make a list of host names where email from celll phones comes from. Does anyone have a list of domain name or host names where cell phone email is sent from?

Re: Scanning Outbound emails

2010-05-05 Thread Marc Perkel
domain. If they send as gmail.com or yahoo.com they are blocked. I'm definitely looking for other technologies to accurately filter outgoing spam. It's clearly a whole different problem than incomming spam. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-07 Thread Marc Perkel
' .. Amen on the UCEPROTECT. What a bizarre company. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter dot com 415-992-3400

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-06 Thread Marc Perkel
of comparisons out there so this gives me some clue. But it doesn'y say anything about the quality of the lists as it has apews listed highly. If I created a list that blacklisted everything I would be first. -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp...@junkemailfilter.com http://www.junkemailfilter.com

Re: Blacklists Compared 17 October 2009

2010-04-06 Thread Marc Perkel
leading, but is that also everyone's experience? Can anyone provide details on how Jeff computed this information and is it as cut-and-dried as this makes it seem? IOW, barracuda, the free service, is better than all the rest... Thanks, Alex -- Marc Perkel - Sales/Support supp

Re: Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Lucio Chiappetti wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. Hmm ... how dead is dead ? :-) We had for some time three domains (our institute was moved

Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-01 Thread Marc Perkel
For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. That gets rid of the spam coming to you and it helps block spam for everyone using my blacklist. Set the MX to a single entry: tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com Good

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.02.10 15:22, Marc Perkel wrote: I'd like to find a way to get people to get their FCrDNS correct. The way I see it if they can't get RDNS correct they aren't going to get SPF correct. Unfortunately I get a lot of ham from IPs with no RDNS

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sat 27 Feb 2010 12:15:58 PM CET, Marc Perkel wrote but you constantly refuse to use SPF the same way... Yep - fcrdns doesn't break email forwarding. spf works as designed, but it does not help domain owners to make the right spf record on dns to support forwarding

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Jason Bertoch wrote: On 2/25/2010 8:08 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: The forward issue is definitely an annoyance. But SPF has a problem in that as the supporters admit, it doesn't block spam, and it can't be used as a white rule because spammers often use SPF correctly. I'm not sure what you

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.02.10 15:22, Marc Perkel wrote: I'd like to find a way to get people to get their FCrDNS correct. The way I see it if they can't get RDNS correct they aren't going to get SPF correct. Unfortunately I get a lot of ham from IPs with no RDNS

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: LuKreme wrote: Here's where spf is useful. On 25.02.10 15:31, Marc Perkel wrote: Except that it breaks forwarded email. Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have never seen any occurence of SPF breaking forwarding

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Jason Bertoch wrote: SPF wasn't meant to block spam, please stop asserting that. http://old.openspf.org/howworks.html Quoting the page: And as a user, SPF can help you sort the good from the bad. Reject mail that fails an SPF check.

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Rick Cooper wrote: The anti-SPF bandwagon is not ego driven but results driven. Than you for admitting that SPF in not a spam filtering solution. However it is also not a white listing solution because as many people have said here - spammers are the ones who are using SPF correctly.

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Marc Perkel wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:29:48 -0800: The anti-SPF bandwagon is not ego driven but results driven. Than you for admitting that SPF in not a spam filtering solution. However it is also not a white listing solution because as many people have said here

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Jeff Koch wrote: At 02:31 PM 2/25/2010, you wrote: Marc Perkel wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:29:48 -0800: The anti-SPF bandwagon is not ego driven but results driven. Than you for admitting that SPF in not a spam filtering solution. However it is also not a white listing solution because

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
LuKreme wrote: On 25-Feb-2010, at 10:29, Marc Perkel wrote: The anti-SPF bandwagon is not ego driven but results driven. Than you for admitting that SPF in not a spam filtering solution. However it is also not a white listing solution because as many people have said here - spammers

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jeff Koch wrote on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:08:46 -0500: I disagree. I don't know to what you disagree, but SPF is not an anti-spam tool. Full stop. Kai You say that here but in your last message you said: If SPF was adapted 99% (and always strict with no

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Jason Bertoch wrote: On 2/25/2010 6:37 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: A lot of posts with useless rants on a personal grievance against SPF Marc, I suspect you're not seeing a bunch of supporters of SPF post on this thread because most find it tiresome, bothersome, pointless, or all

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Jeff Koch wrote: In an effort to reduce spam further we tried implementing SPF enforcement. Within three days we turned it off. What we found was that: - domain owners are allowing SPF records to be added to their zone files without understanding the implications or that are just not

cmpgnr.com - spammer or not?

2010-02-19 Thread Marc Perkel
I got a request to remove cmpgnr.com for my black list. Are these people legit?

MTX - How does it stop spam?

2010-02-16 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm looking over your MTX site and like SPF I don't understand how it stops spam. Thanks for at least addressing in part the email forwarding issue. In order to be a white list you have to do something spammers can't do. I don't see what prevents spammers from creating good MTX records like

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-16 Thread Marc Perkel
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: In my initial posts I did focus too much on my hope that MTX will eventually be sufficiently widely adopted that such mail *can* safely be penalized. I also apologized for that communication failure on my part. I'm still waiting for RDNS to be widely

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Perkel
jdow wrote: From: Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, 2010/February/01 11:24 That's a bad thing for anyone, not just hospitals, but I doubt if the system that sends regular email is in any way connected to the internal patient system. Not knowing what their system is I have to make

Re: Avoid ham to be taken for spam

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Kārlis Repsons wrote: Hi, in fact, all spam filters are normally designed with an intent to get rid of spam, not ham, but anyway, I'm confused with my possible chances to miss some mails for no really valid reason. I've seen that long list in [1], but that doesn't say much of what should be

Re: Avoid ham to be taken for spam

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel
If you are worried about losing good email add this rule to your ruleset: header RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W eval:check_rbl_sub('HOSTKARMA-lastexternal', '127.0.0.1') describe RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W Sender listed in HOSTKARMA-WHITE tflags RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W net nice score RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W -5 This is

Re: Avoid ham to be taken for spam

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Mark Martinec wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 18:53:35 Marc Perkel wrote: If you are worried about losing good email add this rule to your ruleset: header RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W eval:check_rbl_sub('HOSTKARMA-lastexternal', '127.0.0.1') describe RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W Sender listed

Re: Rules for not passing SPF

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Ideally everyone would pass these. meta SPF_HELO_NOT_PASS !SPF_HELO_PASS meta SPF_NOT_PASS !SPF_PASS These will catch everything that does not have a valid SPF record, including those for domains that have no SPF record. I tested only the most

Re: Rules for not passing SPF

2010-02-02 Thread Marc Perkel
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/02, Marc Perkel wrote: Why would you want to catch domains without SPF as SPF has no relationship to detecting spam? SPF is entirely about spam. http://www.openspf.org/Introduction I'm looking at the page and did a search and the word spam is not there. :)

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
That's the outgoing email gateway for a hospital. It stays whitelisted. Bowie Bailey wrote: This was listed in the Hostkarma whitelist: [198.217.64.52 listed in hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com] Can we get this IP removed? (I was going to report this directly, but I lost the email address and

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Yep - sutterhealth.org is a hospital. Making sure good email gets through is more important than a little bit of occasional spam. Bowie Bailey wrote: Even if they are emailing me regarding the amazingly large sum of money some unknown person apparently left me in his will? :) Marc Perkel

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: On 01/02/2010 17:31, Marc Perkel wrote: Yep - sutterhealth.org is a hospital. Making sure good email gets through is more important than a little bit of occasional spam. http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists And if you never send spam we

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Alex wrote: Hi, They are the kind of people I email about these problems because it could signal they've been hacked. And that's a bad thing for hospitals. The sooner they know the sooner they can clean house. That's a bad thing for anyone, not just hospitals, but I doubt if the

Re: Hostkarma whitelist FP

2010-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
Alex wrote: That's a bad thing for anyone, not just hospitals, but I doubt if the system that sends regular email is in any way connected to the internal patient system. Not knowing what their system is I have to make sure that email sent from hospitals gets delivered. Passing ham

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