Are ALL hotmail address blacklisted ? {Scanned by HJMS}

[Denis Croombs]

Thanks for that, no xxxxx at hotmail.com is not the real address & I have tried
searching the blacklist for the address & parts of the address, but this is
just an example, this now happens on EVERY hotmail account so I have to
check all the spam for hotmail e-mails every hour to find these and then
whitelist the good ones, I just do not know what to check next.
I have even got a new hotmail account for testing & yes even that gets
blacklisted.

All clues very welcome

Denis

> 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.
> > > > > >
> > > >
> >