Forwarded mail lets spam through

[Remco Barendse]

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I have received such a mail this morning

I am block all chinese stuff based on language encoding, still a forward
slipped through this morning. Micro$loth OutLook did show Chinese encoding
for the e-mail but spamass only reported undesirable language for the mail
header not the body.

The mail was screwed up however, it was all garbled with visible html
garbage

Weird stuff...

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Matt Bullock wrote:

> The server isnt whitelisted, and the spam coming through are usually
> tagged with a couple points, but not enough to trigger anything.  I just
> forwarded one of the emails through the server and it was marked as
> spam.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Bullock
> Troika Networks, Inc.
> Network Administrator
> 805.367.2728
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Steve Swaney
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 9:17 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Forwarded mail lets spam through
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
>> Behalf Of Matt Bullock
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:59 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: Forwarded mail lets spam through
>>
>
> Snip
>>
>> Right now SA is catching about 98% of the spam received, it just
>> doesn't
>>
>> tag anything that is forwarded from one particular server.
>>
> Snip
>
> Only possible explanation I can think of is that this Server is some how
> white listed. What rule sets have you modified?
>
> Steve Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> www.fsl.com
> steve.swaney at fsl.com
>
>
>
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>
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> www.fsl.com
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