Re: [Off] Style of this List?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:31:16 +0200 schrieb/wrote Kai Schaetzl: >Matthias Schmidt wrote on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:51:33 +0900: > >> sorry for asking, but recently I got some really inappropriate mails >> from some list members. >> Is this normal on this list? Has the st

Re: [Off] Style of this List?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:07:32 +0200 schrieb/wrote Benny Pedersen: >> Obviously some people don't get the sense of sending CCs to posters nor >> do they understand how a mailing list works. > >problem with cc is more that maillist will have 1000 questions and no >answers that way, and last but no

[Off] Style of this List?

2008-10-20 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello, sorry for asking, but recently I got some really inappropriate mails from some list members. Is this normal on this list? Has the style of this list changed recently without "normal" members being notified? Obviously some people don't get the sense of sending CCs to posters nor do they unde

Re: German Spam Flood

2008-10-18 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:20:03 -0700 schrieb/wrote cfgerty: > >One sample of these mails: > >http://pastebin.com/m1e3d6b5d > >German Language Rulesets are applied. > this message doesn't come from a mail-server with a resolving reverse pointer. We don't accept such messages, so this message even

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:10:53 +0530 schrieb/wrote ram: >I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our >servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what >they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing not really. I varies between 60 to 89 %,

Re: Spam Assassin

2008-05-16 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:18:04 -0400 schrieb/wrote Michelle Acosta: >> >> Does the Spam Assassin work on Mac's? sure it does. Thanks and all the best Matthias

User Folder problem with sa_learn

2008-05-13 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello all, since some longer time I have a little problem with the spam learning method, which is used in a script on my box. The script runs as user _amavisd, but it always tries to acces the root folder. This of course produces an error: config: path "/var/root/.spamassassin" is inaccessible: Pe

Re: sa-learn user problem

2008-03-01 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:23:28 -0300 schrieb/wrote Diego Pomatta: >Matthias Schmidt escribió: >> Hello, >> my mac os x leopard (10.5.2 with updated amavis-new and spamassassin) >> runs a script, which calls sa-learn with sudo and user _amavis. >> In the config file

sa-learn user problem

2008-02-29 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hello, my mac os x leopard (10.5.2 with updated amavis-new and spamassassin) runs a script, which calls sa-learn with sudo and user _amavis. In the config files for amavis and clamAV the user is set to _amavis. Now sa-learn always tries to open /var/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which of course fa

Re: [WRONG PLACE TO ASK THIS] WHM/Cpanel: Where are the Server-wide SpamAssassin settings?

2008-02-19 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:49:34 -0800 schrieb/wrote Evan Platt: >At 06:39 AM 2/19/2008, Rubin Bennett wrote: >>If you want to post to this list, please subscribe like a regular user, >>and do your research first before you post. Nabble, in a word, sucks. >>It fences your posts as being from a sub

Re: Plagued by spamassassin

2008-01-04 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 20:46:04 -0600 schrieb/wrote Cedartech Administrator: > >I have asked before but have been unable to get a usable solution. I am >running qmail, spamassassin, clamav, etc from the qmr package on one of >our FBSD 6.2 servers. If you email via squirrelmail, your outbound emai

Re: DDOS, Dictionary Attack... not sure what it is...

2007-12-31 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Happy New Year everyone :-) Am/On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 04:20:42 +0100 schrieb/wrote mouss: >John D. Hardin wrote: >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Mike Cisar wrote: >> >> >>> Even tried yanking the IP address off of the server over the >>> holidays in the hope that whatever it was would just give up. No >>> s

Re: OT: The Funny Side of Spam

2007-10-03 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 15:51:21 +0100 schrieb/wrote Michele Neylon :: Blacknight: >http://digg.com/tech_news/The_Black_Knight_and_the_Monster > that's a good one :-) there're also some other good news, some botnet guy got arrested. Thanks and all the best Matthias

Re: Thoughts on Isolating Viruses - Port 587 Submission [signed]

2007-07-16 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:02:58 -0500 schrieb/wrote Richard Frovarp: >Matthias Schmidt [c] wrote: >> Am/On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:11:32 -0700 schrieb/wrote Marc Perkel: >> >> >>> One of the problems with SMTP in my opinion is that it allows end users >>

Re: Thoughts on Isolating Viruses - Port 587 Submission [signed]

2007-07-16 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:11:32 -0700 schrieb/wrote Marc Perkel: >One of the problems with SMTP in my opinion is that it allows end users >to talk on port 25 to servers and therefore can't be distinguished from >server to server traffic. > >Imagine a policy where ISPs blocked port 25 for consume

Learning Spam-Error? [signed]

2007-07-15 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Hello, while learning Spam I get these errors: Learning SPAM... archive-iterator: invalid (undef) format in target list, 2 at /Library/ Perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/ArchiveIterator.pm line 724, line 1. and I also get this error from spamassasin: /bin/sh: line 1: periodic: command not found any

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 available [signed]

2007-05-02 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:11:34 +0100 schrieb/wrote Justin Mason: > >Rick Macdougall writes: >> Justin Mason wrote: >> > Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.0 is now available! This is the official release, >> > and contains a significant number of changes and major enhancements -- >> > please use it! >> >>

Re: "Nigerian Connection" Spam was: [***SPAM***Empty Subject] [signed]

2007-04-10 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:23:15 +0100 schrieb/wrote Paul Hurley: >I've received a couple of Spam recently similar to the attached. They >all get through, and all trigger on Empty_Message, except the message >body isn't empty, and it contains some phrases that I would expect to >score off the s

Re: Newbie, Has Questions [signed]

2007-03-30 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:05:47 -0700 schrieb/wrote dougp23: >So my questions: >How do I identify spam with something from the body of the message? (i.e. >Viagra in the message, or Nigeria from that very kind man who has all that >money and just needs a little cash to get started). >And then how

Re: Stop the CCing please. (was "Who is APEWS.ORG" & "Sender Address Verification is NOT abouse and very effective") [signed]

2007-03-30 Thread Matthias Schmidt [c]
Am/On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:12:52 +0200 schrieb/wrote Jonas Eckerman: >Chris St. Pierre wrote: > >> I can't help but note that you have only yourself to blame: > >Why? > >> From: Jonas Eckerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Fix your Reply-To header and you won't get any mor