Spamassassin not learning or is sendmail at fault?

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

I'm not sure where the fault lies here.

I have a problem with someone sending me a lot of unpleasant email. I
have their email address, IP address and the such. There is nothing
illegal in the emails and certainly nothing I can complain to their ISP
over - it's just a lot of email.

I have a sendmail rule set up which has

FROM: some_fool(a)uk-isp.co.uk REJECT

I ran the makefile and restarted sendmail.

Whenever email from this person comes through, I hit the junk button on
evolution which sends the email to the Junk folder.

However, emails from said person keep getting through to my inbox. Is
this just spamassassin not learning or is it sendmail misbehaving?

If it's spamassassin, how can I force it to learn I don't want anything
from this bozo? There was sa-learn at one point, but I'm not sure which
folder I need to point it at to learn what is spam and what isn't.

I'm using sendmail and evolution from rawhide.

TTFN

Paul
-- 
"Logic, my dear Zoe, is merely the ability to be wrong with authority" -
Dr Who

[Alexander Dalloz]

PFJ schrieb:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure where the fault lies here.
>
> I have a problem with someone sending me a lot of unpleasant email. I
> have their email address, IP address and the such. There is nothing
> illegal in the emails and certainly nothing I can complain to their ISP
> over - it's just a lot of email.
>
> I have a sendmail rule set up which has
>
> FROM: some_fool(a)uk-isp.co.uk REJECT
>
> I ran the makefile and restarted sendmail.
>
> Whenever email from this person comes through, I hit the junk button on
> evolution which sends the email to the Junk folder.
>
> However, emails from said person keep getting through to my inbox. Is
> this just spamassassin not learning or is it sendmail misbehaving?
>   
>  
Sendmail should reject it. Once the mail is getting far to hit 
Spamassassin you are wasting resources. From above rule the syntax is 
incorrect: there must be no whitespace between "From:" and the address. 
If the sender always uses the same sending host you may prefer

Connect:1.2.3.4        REJECT

For reference please see http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html#access_db

> Paul
>  
Alexander

[Steven Haigh]

Quoting Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists(a)uni-x.org&gt;:
>  PFJ schrieb:
> > I have a sendmail rule set up which has
> >
> > FROM: some_fool(a)uk-isp.co.uk REJECT
> > 
Is there a reason why you are not using /etc/mail/access? You can  
specify email addresses in this file as far as I know... I use it to  
filter out high-spam sources and ISPs... An entry such as the folloing  
may work:

user(a)isp.co.uk   550 Please stop sending me email.

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Steven Haigh

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