On 2:57pm, quoth M. Fioretti: =>On Mon, May 05, 2003 08:33:24 at 08:33:24AM -0400, Steven W. Orr (steveo@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: =>> =>> I reject mail in my sendmail server based on a number of criteria. One is =>> that I reject all mail that is sent to me in a foreign character set. =>> Chinese, Russian, Korean, etc. The other is that I reject a bunch of spam =>> that is voluntarily tagged as such using the X-Mailer header set to =>> =>[list snipped] =>> or the header X-Spam-Warning. =>> =>> Why am I telling you this? Because the mail that I get from Red Hat lists =>> routinely contains this stuff. I really have to question the quality of =>> the guy (again) who admins the mail at Red Hat. =>> => =>I don't understand. Do you mean that you find spam in your Red Hat email =>folders? That spam is sent to you from apparent addresses which also =>post in Red Hat lists? Or what? => =>I get a lot of spam too, but never in the shrike folder (so far, of =>course), which I filter like this in procmail: I get messages in my maillog every day which indicates that mail from redhat is rejected because of spam sent through Red Hat mailinglists. May 4 07:22:14 saturn sendmail[8516]: h44BM94j008516: \ ruleset=CheckXMailer, arg1=Pine.LNX.4.55, relay=listman.redhat.com \ [66.187.233.211], reject=553 5.7.1 Spam rejected The ruleset CheckCMailer is the stuff that I added to get rid of mail that is preadvertised to be spam. You can't tell from the above message what list this came from, but I am subscribed to about 10 or so redhat lists. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
