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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org> on 2008/07/29 23:23:15 UTC
Re: listed
Joseph Brennan writes:
>
> > Try using senderbase:
> >
> > http://www.senderbase.org
>
>
> Not as accurate as it would appear. They list faked Received headers.
> We had a host at columbia.edu that did not send any mail (confirmed by
> its own logs and by our network traffic monitor) listed as the largest
> source of mail in the columbia.edu domain-- all because a spammer was
> pretending his mail originated at it, by a faked Received header. This
> went on for about a year, and we complained a few times, and they did
> not fix it. The spammer moved on eventually.
by the way, if you still have cases along these lines, feel free to
mention them on the list -- they sometimes turn out to provide good rules ;)
--j.