Are ALL hotmail address blacklisted ? {Scanned by HJMS}

[Furnish, Trever G]

Is 'xxxxxx at hotmail.com' the real email address from your log or did you edit
out the real email address?  If you edited it out, how can anyone compare it
to your blacklist?

I'm assuming you've already searched for the real email address in your
blacklist file...?

Also, in the blacklist file you attached, you don't seem to have a default
specified.

The code that converts the second field of white/blacklist rules into a
useful pattern seems to be the RuleToRegexp function within Config.pm.  It
would be nice if there were a quick way to test a given string to see
whether it matches any lines of a given white/blacklist, but that's more
complicated than I thought it would be at first.  Just glancing through
though, I don't notice anything that would match xxxxxx at hotmail.com, if
that's the real address.

-t.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denis Croombs [mailto:denis at CROOMBS.ORG]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 3:30 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Are ALL hotmail address blacklisted ? {Scanned by HJMS}
>
>
> Hi
> MailScanner V4.23-11
>
> Is Definitely Spam = /etc/MailScanner/rules/blacklist.rules
>
> blacklist file is attached
>
> Thanks
>
> Denis
>
> > And in MailScanner.conf, what have you set "Is Definitely Spam" to?
> >
> > # Spam Blacklist:
> > # Make this point to a ruleset, and anything in that
> ruleset whose value
> > # is "yes" will *always* be marked as spam.
> > # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> > Is Definitely Spam = no
> >
> > You also haven't mentioned what version of mailscanner
> you're using, what
> > "your blacklist" contains, etc.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Denis Croombs [mailto:denis at CROOMBS.ORG]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 2:27 PM
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Re: Are ALL hotmail address blacklisted ?
> {Scanned by HJMS}
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks here is an example;-
> > >
> > > Sep 12 19:58:15 ns MailScanner[20714]: Message h8CIwDR03176
> > > from 64.4.23.57
> > > (xxxxxx at hotmail.com) to croombs.org is spam (blac
> > > klisted)
> > >
> > > Denis
> > > > Posting the actual log entries in question would be helpful...
> > > >
> > > > > I have already done that, which is why I asked the question,
> > > > > but it states
> > > > > it is blacklisted both in the e-mail header & the maillog but
> > > > > I have not
> > > > > blacklisted any hotmail.com accounts !
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > > Denis
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Are ALL hotmail address blacklisted ?
> > > > > > > Because so far I have had to go through and add a lot of
> > > > > valid hotmail
> > > > > > > accounts to my whitelist as they are being tagged as
> > > > > blacklisted but are
> > > > > NOT
> > > > > > > in my mailscanner blacklist and I do not use the
> spamassassin
> > > > > > > blacklist/whitelist.
> > > > > > > RedHat 7.3, MS 4.22-11 SA 2.55
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Why dont you look in your logs ? Its tells exactly
> why and what.
> > > > > > Turn details on spam logging on ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Bye,
> > > > > > Raymond.
> > > > >
> > >
>