I am developing a desktop spam filter software and its plugin for outlook & outlook express. On this regard, please give me some new ideas to handle & filter...
Kannan
kanna@...
Apr 6, 2003 10:35 am
681
Is there a way I can cause all the spam to be deposited in to a mh folder instead of all being concatenated in to one long file? That way I can keep count of...
Martin McCormick
martin@...
Apr 11, 2003 7:51 pm
682
This sends it to an mh folder called junkmail. # Deal with mail that junkfilter has flagged. ... * JFEXP ?? . { # Mark as spam ... -i "X-Spammer: $JFEXP" \ -i...
tom sgouros
tomss@...
Apr 11, 2003 8:24 pm
683
... Tom, That recipe does not take the whitelist into account, and will actually cause whitelist entries to send matching mail to the spam folder. To make it...
Hi Greg: Thanks for the clarification. I actually have installed the very thing you suggest (it's in the junkfilter README), but for some reason whitelist...
tom sgouros
tomss@...
Apr 12, 2003 12:10 am
685
Junkfilter is a wonderful application. A thousand thanks, Gregory. The only fly in the ointment I am seeing is the increasing use of base64 encoding by...
Martin McCormick
martin@...
Apr 12, 2003 1:28 pm
686
Hehe ... well, if its any help, i put the word "Viagra" into my bodychk-user file, figuring the odds of getting personal email with the word "Viagra" in it...
boss
boss@...
Apr 14, 2003 2:18 pm
687
Thank you very much. What's really funny is that my own message to the list got trashed due to the word that rhymes with Ni Agra. I thought that the white...
Martin McCormick
martin@...
Apr 14, 2003 3:08 pm
688
Hello all, Can any one help me how to Spot Spam mails from "Received from" line of email header. I am very much confused in reading the Received From header,...
Kannan
kanna@...
Apr 15, 2003 3:21 am
689
I've been thinking that the easiest method we could implement is to automate the creation of the User's Personal white list from the Sendmail Syslog. Has...
Albert E. Whale, CISSP
aewhale@...
Apr 17, 2003 3:09 pm
690
Anybody toyed with the idea of over-riding the white list for certain cases? I'm getting some really disgusting SPAM slipping through because they forge the...
OK: this is killing me. I've tried to write a simple header-user recipe that blocks this spam message (since it fails every other test in the JF repetoire)...
Todd Boss
boss@...
May 5, 2003 3:19 pm
692
... Don't forget to set JF_USER=1 in junkfilter.config......
Recently I've noticed a pattern in mails that are defeating the junkfilter. Spammers are embedding HTML comments in the middle of words that should be caught. ...
Kevin Ring
kring@...
May 8, 2003 2:59 pm
694
One way could be to have procmail send each message first for processing as you describe (which could be done by your external program which then resubmits it)...
Ralph Huntington
rjh@...
May 8, 2003 3:12 pm
695
Lynx can act as a filter to display html mail on a terminal or redirected in to a file but I am not sure how to harness this for junkfilter. The ultimate...
Martin McCormick
martin@...
May 8, 2003 4:05 pm
696
... I'd probably suggest that "stripping HTML for every message" is exactly what you need to do. I accept HTML-email from people in my whitelist only; all ...
Rich: Your strategy sounds very much like what I'd like to do, but getting it all configured properly is stalling me. Would you consider sharing your...
tom sgouros
tomss@...
May 8, 2003 5:16 pm
698
... Yup. So I updated my filters so that an HTML comment in the middle of a word flags the email as spam. I've seen HTML comments in emails composed by MUAs...
Eric S
ejs@...
May 8, 2003 6:11 pm
699
Great. So, can we get this particular feature implemented in a future JF release? Actually; non spam-specific question. Shortly after the demise of the ...
Todd Boss
boss@...
May 8, 2003 6:21 pm
700
Thanks for the tip Eric. I just added a rule to my procmailrc and it's already caught garbage. Here's what I did, maybe it'll help someone else, ... *...
Kevin Ring
kring@...
May 8, 2003 7:03 pm
701
I am a grateful junkfilter user, but I am having to abandon it for better methods. It is probably time for most of us to consider awarding it some medals,...
... Sure. In the .procmailrc I first sort out all the "known to be good" mail (email lists, etc.) before using JF (no sense wasting cycles) then... # store a...
Man, i have a hard time believing you've got a 10% failure rate using junkfilter, at the same time where i've got almost a 100% success rate. I don't get 300...
Todd Boss
boss@...
May 9, 2003 2:22 pm
704
... I've been using spamprobe, another Bayesian filter, for about 6 months. You can see my spam counts at http://www.phord.com/spam/ I don't list "false...
Hi, While I still use junkfilter, it only traps 30-40 spams a day at best for me -- mostly because I have so much anti-spam stuff upstream. I'm a big mail of...
Jeff A. Earickson
jaearick@...
May 9, 2003 7:50 pm
706
I was about to add the RE to trap words with html directives in them, but I am not sure enough of what I am doing yet. It looks like this belongs in bodychk. ...
Martin McCormick
martin@...
May 9, 2003 9:40 pm
707
... I wasn't sure whether is was OK to mention SpamAssassin here ;-), but since you did... I run junkfilter and SpamAssassin on all incoming email. What ...
... [...] Maybe also a useful hint for anybody fighting spam: http://www.eleven.de/ They commercially offer a flexible, very configurable spam filtering ...
Martin Ramsch
m.ramsch@...
May 9, 2003 10:49 pm
709
On Fri, 09 May 2003 16:08:26 -0500 ... in junkfilter.user There is a sample in the junkfilter.user-default file....
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