Forwarded mail lets spam through
Martin Hepworth
martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Thu Sep 9 09:37:07 IST 2004
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Matt
have you got the full raw email that you can post on a web/ftp site???
We can then run it through our systems to see what rules it fires and
give scores?
It could be a specific rule is needed to catch this stuff and one of us
may have it already installed.
--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
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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