On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 10:31:31AM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> 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
SNIP
> =>> 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.
> =>
M =>I don't understand. Do you mean that you find spam in your Red Hat email
M =>folders? That spam is sent to you from apparent addresses which also
M =>post in Red Hat lists? Or what?
M =>
M =>I get a lot of spam too, but never in the shrike folder (so far, of
M =>course), which I filter like this in procmail:
>
S I get messages in my maillog every day which indicates that mail from
S redhat is rejected because of spam sent through Red Hat mailinglists.
S
S May 4 07:22:14 saturn sendmail[8516]: h44BM94j008516: \
S ruleset=CheckXMailer, arg1=Pine.LNX.4.55, relay=listman.redhat.com \
S [66.187.233.211], reject=553 5.7.1 Spam rejected
S
S The ruleset CheckCMailer is the stuff that I added to get rid of mail that
S is preadvertised to be spam. You can't tell from the above message what
S list this came from, but I am subscribed to about 10 or so redhat lists.
Steve - I suggest you file some of that "SPAM" you are getting from the redhat
lists in a specific folder so you can examine it directly. You are probably
throwing away real emails.
I have gotten maybe two spam items from the redhat lists over the last year
and the offenders were instantly removed from the lists.
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