Mail server is to strict with filtering? And virus mails get through sometimes!

stefanhendriks

Hey guys,

I noticed that when i forward mails from my own hotmail account to the bots-united account, i do not recieve mails. Even some people who mail me directly from hotmail to stefan@bots-united.com do not seem to get through.

I was wondering how this could be. Perhaps the 'spam filter' is to strict. I can send you a list with good mail adresses if that is needed.

I also want to point out i have been recieving a few mails from 'fake bots-united members'. This is like, i get a mail from Aspirin (and the e-mail adres is okay there too in the 'from' field), or from myself. It has a file attached, but was already removed by my Norton Antivirus.

Just pointing out , perhaps something can be fixed about this?

Btw, i care more about the 'mails not getting through' subject because i could miss vital information with (good) attachements from my fellow students...

Nova · *Last edited by Nova; 19-04-2004 at 22:35..*

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Originally Posted by stefanhendriks

Hey guys,

I noticed that when i forward mails from my own hotmail account to the bots-united account, i do not recieve mails. Even some people who mail me directly from hotmail to stefan@bots-united.com do not seem to get through.

I was wondering how this could be. Perhaps the 'spam filter' is to strict. I can send you a list with good mail adresses if that is needed.

I also want to point out i have been recieving a few mails from 'fake bots-united members'. This is like, i get a mail from Aspirin (and the e-mail adres is okay there too in the 'from' field), or from myself. It has a file attached, but was already removed by my Norton Antivirus.

Just pointing out , perhaps something can be fixed about this?

Btw, i care more about the 'mails not getting through' subject because i could miss vital information with (good) attachements from my fellow students...

ok, just to understand the filtering ...

every mail is scanned and assigned a score. If the score is higher than 5 then the mail gets dropped ... everything from hotmail any yahoo automatically gets 2 points ... so there is very little othjer triggers needed to stop the mail ...

thats why

tell your friends to get a proper email adress. i would really like to set the filter to DROP everything from yahoo / hotmail, cant do that unfortunately

i will look into that virus thing, can u sent me a copy of those mails as well as the norton logfile please ?

Pierre-Marie Baty

Yes BTW,
I noticed I can't seem to get any email from SoUlFaThEr anymore (his address is at web.de)
Could you check that too while you're at it ?

Nova

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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

Yes BTW,
I noticed I can't seem to get any email from SoUlFaThEr anymore (his address is at web.de)
Could you check that too while you're at it ?

Ok i have changed a few settings.

1) hotmail / yahoo only get 1 point autmatically
2) if a mail is blocked (for any reason) the sender gets notified why

Onno Kreuzinger

i have a web.de adress too, i will check

Nova

ok boys, i made some more changes.

I updated SpamAssassin, MailScaner and f-prot, now spamasssin does NOT block any mail, it just puts the tag [spam] in the subject line of a mail that its believes is spam. Please update your mail programm to filter out these mails manually ... viruses get deattached and the orignial mail delivered.

@$3.1415rin

deattaching is a fine idea, otherwise I would have killed you, and the weird frenchman would have done the like ...

Onno Kreuzinger

please revert that, it also changes the subject of all other messages to [clean], i really don't like that

also why change at all, we are a closed organisation, allthough we should agree on what to do, i don't think it good to make more traffic because a virus is found....

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Originally Posted by @$3.1415rin

deattaching is a fine idea, otherwise I would have killed you, and the weird frenchman would have done the like ...

Pierre-Marie Baty

I don't like that either. It takes AGES on my 56k to download all this shitty spam, and I should delete 95% of it ? Man that wants to say that I could download my emails 95% faster. No shit ! Something must be done. Can we add rules manually to the spam filter ? Show me a little tutorial and I'll get my hands in it. >

Nova

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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty

I don't like that either. It takes AGES on my 56k to download all this shitty spam, and I should delete 95% of it ? Man that wants to say that I could download my emails 95% faster. No shit ! Something must be done. Can we add rules manually to the spam filter ? Show me a little tutorial and I'll get my hands in it. >

Well i CAN set it that way, but then dont complain that the filter is too strict. We have the following options

bounce: bounce spam back to sender
deliver: deliver with modified subject line
store: store do not modify
forward: forward all spam into seperate flolder
delete: sent the lot to /dev/

I would prefer option 5, no user intervention and so on. BUT THAT WAY IF A MESSAGE IS ACCIDENTALY CONSIDERED SPAM IT WILL BE HARD TO RECOVER !

So what do we want. I have also removed the [clean] tag again, forgot to take that back out ... only [spam] and [bad filename] and [virus] stay