Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:22:49 +0800 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Daniel Staal <DStaal@usa.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to report a spammer so SpamAssassin can filter it out Message-ID: <548551C9.2050004@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AEAEB6E9BBE5527E68C19E80@[192.168.1.50]> References: <548450C6.4040207@gmail.com> <AEAEB6E9BBE5527E68C19E80@[192.168.1.50]>
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Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of December 7, 2014 9:06:14 PM +0800, Ernie Luzar is alleged to > have said: > >> Hello list >> >> Keep getting spam email from some guy selling bulk solar panels. >> I know SpamAssassin has built in check of different places that provide >> list of known spam email addresses. >> Where can I find a list of places to notify them of this spam email >> address? list@beawindhog.com > > --As for the rest, it is mine. > > There's several good ways to report this to Spamassassin - write a > rule that catches it, or contribute to their spam corpus so that they > can test rules against it, or use spamassassin's reporting features. > > For the first, the best place to start is the Spamassassin mailing list: >> list-help: <mailto:users-help@spamassassin.apache.org> >> list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscribe@spamassassin.apache.org> >> list-subscribe: <mailto:users-subscribe@spamassassin.apache.org> >> List-Post: <mailto:users@spamassassin.apache.org> > (See also: > <https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FrequentlyAskedQuestions>, as > you're asking one of them.) > > For the second, I'd still start with the mailing list, but > instructions on setup are here: > <https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck>; > (Note they will want you to analyze all your mail - spam and ham - not > just a few messages. Actual emails are not uploaded - just the record > of what rules your messages hit.) > > The most direct answer for your question - in the FAQ above - is to > use Spamassassin's reporting features - `man spamassassin-run` lists > them, or as I said the FAQ above. Short version: `spamassassin -r < > fullemailmessage.txt` (Fuller details in the FAQ and man page.) > > Daniel T. Staal > > --------------------------------------------------------------- My domain name, website and email is all hosted by namecheap.com. Their email is run on apache storing email in sqlite database and running spamassassin under apache. They provide a cpanel menu system for me to customize my hosted world. I do not have direct access to their servers /root. This means I have no way to perform the tasks talked about by above posts. The basic default spamassassin rules have cut the spam by 80%. But was still getting spam from china and Korea and spam in languages other then English. I had namecheap tech support enable the following options for my hosted email system. Changed* required_score* from 5 to 3. This stopped 15% of the spam that was still getting through. Then enabled the following tests, *ok_languages en **blacklist_from *.cn *to kill all email from China* **blacklist_from *.ke *to kill all email from Korea* **blacklist_from *@beawindhog.com *to kill all email from that domain name that I posted about *score CHARSET_FARAWAY_HEADER 3.1* *score UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY 5.1 *both of these options kill email not in English language.* * Since this was enabled I have not had any spam get through. My thanks goes out to all who replied.
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