Still getting spam of the drug nature

Mike Kercher mike at CAMAROSS.NET
Sat Oct 1 04:05:21 IST 2005


If you'd drop connections from IP's with no reverse DNS, you'd lose a lot of
your daily spam intake.  Are you running razor, pyzor and/or dcc?

Mike


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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Jon Miller
> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 8:13 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Still getting spam of the drug nature
> 
> For some reason I'm still getting spam mail relating to drugs, etc.  
> I want to be clear in that if I receive a spam mail that I 
> want sa to learn, do I issue the command sa-learn -p -v 
> /etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --spam /home/jlmiller/spam 
> /home/jlmiller/spam is the location where I store each e-mail 
> that I want sa-learn to read 
> 
> The issue is I do not know if sa-learn is indeed learning as 
> I have not seen anything that suggest this.
> 
> The following is the header from one such e-mail, notice the 
> score is a negative and not what I would have hoped for.
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jon
> 
> Received: from mail.mmtnetworks.com.au
>  ([192.168.3.3])
>  by mmtnetworks.com.au; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:43:43 +0800
> Received: from stonline.sk (unknown [221.141.151.58])  by 
> mail.mmtnetworks.com.au (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D1CC15000C  
> for <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:40:42 
> +0800 (WST)
> Received: from 226.144.62.226 by smtp.dnet.it;  Fri, 30 Sep 
> 2005 12:25:01 +0000
> Message-ID: <13bd01c5c5b9$1aef666c$4f0a7ad9 at stonline.sk>
> From: "Silvia H. Barker" <silvia.h_barker_30 at dnet.it>
> To: jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au
> Subject: Online Drugs - save up to 80%
> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:24:33 -0200
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
> Content-Type: text/plain;
>  charset="iso-8859-1"
> X-mmtnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean
> X-mmtnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin 
> (score=-0.099,  required 2, BAYES_00, MISSING_SUBJECT)
> X-MailScanner-From: silvia.h_barker_30 at dnet.it
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Online pharmacy - Visit our online store and save.
> 
> Jon L. Miller,  ASE, CNS, CLS, MCNE, CCNA Director/Sr Systems 
> Consultant MMT Networks Pty Ltd http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au 
> Resellers for: Sophos Anti-Virus, Novell, Cisco, Swifdsl
> 
> "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure  is 
> trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
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