Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread cpayne
Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1 TO_CC_NONE No To: or Cc: header I use amavisd,

Re: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Michael Scheidell wrote: Sometimes a large company will have a proxy server set up in the DMZ and then send it to their internal mail server. I understand that ideally, the proxy server would be replaces with a SpamAssassin/MTA setup. However, sometimes, client, security and company

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Haegele
cpayne schrieb: Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1 TO_CC_NONE No To: or Cc: header

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread cpayne
Matthias Haegele wrote: cpayne schrieb: Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1 TO_CC_NONE

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 not catching any emails

2007-09-24 Thread Dave Addey
Hi Tom, From: Tom Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:05:02 -0400 To: Dave Addey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.9 not catching any emails Dave Addey wrote: Hi all, As part of an ³Ensim² (Linux control panel) installation,

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
cpayne wrote: Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1 TO_CC_NONE No To: or Cc: header I

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Haegele
cpayne schrieb: Matthias Haegele wrote: cpayne schrieb: Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matthias Haegele wrote: cpayne schrieb: 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% [score: 0.9974] btw: 0.99 for Bayes_99 seems really low for me, but that depends on your policy ... 99.74% seems reasonable for BAYES_99 to me.

RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 12:07 AM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org; Amavis-Users Subject: RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Scheidell wrote:

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Matthias Haegele
Daryl C. W. O'Shea schrieb: Matthias Haegele wrote: cpayne schrieb: 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% [score: 0.9974] btw: 0.99 for Bayes_99 seems really low for me, but that depends on your policy ... 99.74% seems

Re: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 12:07 AM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org; Amavis-Users Subject: RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael

Re: Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: [AMaViS-user] Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: One thing I would like to see (and this is a different subject: Marc: take note: Id like to NOT BOUNCE an email back to the victim of backscatter if they bothered to publish SPF or SENDER ID records that don't match the incoming. It's the other way around. you

Re: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Mark Martinec
Michael, I tried. That was my first suggestion. That would fix graylisting (which I don't do), fix SPF an SPF HELO, and SENDER ID, blacklisting, tarpitting, etc. SPF, sid, blacklisting etc. work just fine on an internal host as long as the proxy is preserving the information about the

Some clarification on debug message

2007-09-24 Thread Asif Iqbal
I am running spamassassin 3.2.3 and I get the following messages during debug [28083] dbg: config: fixed relative path: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/70_sare_adult_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net/200705210700.cf [28083] dbg: config: using

Re: Some clarification on debug message

2007-09-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Asif Iqbal wrote: I am running spamassassin 3.2.3 and I get the following messages during debug [28083] dbg: config: fixed relative path: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002003/70_sare_adult_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net/200705210700.cf [28083] dbg: config: using

TIMEOUT

2007-09-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all I was just checking headers on messages that were flagged ( by my own rules in outlook) and I'm curious as to what exactly it means _cbl.abuseat.org_TIMEOUT , __dnsbl.njabl.org_TIMEOUT , __sbl.spamhaus.org_TIMEOUT ' Now these emails are by no means spam- they are from the

FH_HOST_ALMOST_IP for static addresses?

2007-09-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, our customers match FH_HOST_ALMOST_IP even when their DNS contains word 'static': X-Spam-Report: * 3.8 FH_HOST_ALMOST_IP The host almost looks like an IP addr. Received: from ksd (static-081-024-203.dsl.nextra.sk [212.81.24.203]) by mailhub2.nextra.sk with esmtp; Tue, 18 Sep

too high score with similar rules: DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX and FH_DATE_PAST_20XX

2007-09-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, is it correct and by a reason, when two similar rules, like FH_DATE_PAST_20XX and DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX both match, causing the same problem to score 7.3 ? X-Spam-Report: * 3.4 FH_DATE_PAST_20XX The date is grossly in the future. * 3.9 DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX Date: is 96

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, cpayne wrote: Guys, I am not sure when this started but now every e-mail that comes on to my box has this score... 2.0 MISSING_SUBJECTMissing Subject: header -0.0 NO_RECEIVEDInformational: message has no Received headers 0.1 TO_CC_NONE

Re: Every e-mail is now getting a new score, creating a lot of false postive.

2007-09-24 Thread Mark Martinec
Just in case, make sure the --lint passess with no complaints, e.g: # su vscan -c 'spamassassin --lint' David B Funk writes, Cannot tell for sure (I don't use amavisd) but that looks like something is broken in the way that messages are being passed into the SA engine so that it no longer

Converting to MySQL

2007-09-24 Thread Raquel
On a new server I'm running Debian Etch, Sendmail and SpamAssassin, hosting email for a few accounts. I'm contemplating converting my SpamAssassin to using MySQL. Is there a HOWTO somewhere which would be good to follow? -- Raquel

Re: Confusing issue regarding SPF_FAIL and local delivery

2007-09-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Sunday 23 September 2007 18:50, John D. Hardin wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Jari Fredriksson wrote: SpamAssassin's trusted_network configuration caught my eye. What exactly does this do, and should I put my box's ip address in there?

Re: Problem logging from SA when running Amavisd

2007-09-24 Thread Jeff Moss
Jeff, What I was hoping to do was write stuff to the log file for a week or two using the info() method. Then I could grep out my lines, get the data analyzed, and then finish the plugin. I am a fairly experienced programmer but I have not used object oriented Perl before.

is this a bug? trying to avoid beeing marked as spam

2007-09-24 Thread greenone
Hi there, i'm programming a website backend and it is sending emails to confirm registrations, password-recovs and other functions (no spam of course). My mail still gets hit with Spam-scores and i don't know what to do at this point, maybe you do. Old-X-HE-Spam-Report: Content analysis

RE: is this a bug? trying to avoid beeing marked as spam

2007-09-24 Thread Skip
0.8 ZMIvirSobY_SUB33 SPAM from Sober-Y-Virus This score has nothing to do with detecting or not detecting a virus in the message. It is detecting specific text: Ihr Passwort and it is likely specific to the test message you are using. I can't speak to why the other rule is

Re: Converting to MySQL

2007-09-24 Thread Ed Kasky
At 12:44 PM Monday, 9/24/2007, you wrote -= On a new server I'm running Debian Etch, Sendmail and SpamAssassin, hosting email for a few accounts. I'm contemplating converting my SpamAssassin to using MySQL. Is there a HOWTO somewhere which would be good to follow? To set up the MySQL db:

Re: Converting to MySQL

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Raquel, 2007/9/24, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On a new server I'm running Debian Etch, Sendmail and SpamAssassin, hosting email for a few accounts. I'm contemplating converting my SpamAssassin to using MySQL. Is there a HOWTO somewhere which would be good to follow? -- Raquel

sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
Sorry if this is a well-known issue... first I have encountered it. I am using SA 3.1.9 installed on a CentOS Linux system. One of my clients just noticed a huge spike in spam getting through, even though SA is turned on for his email account at sensitivity level 4. For the sake of anonymity,

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, feral wrote: Question: is SA not filtering out these obvious spams because the name mark is the same as the name on my client's account? That depends on the rules in use. If a rule like From ~= /mark\@/ with a high negative score was defined, sure! Would it be possible

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, feral 2007/9/24, feral [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry if this is a well-known issue... first I have encountered it. I am using SA 3.1.9 installed on a CentOS Linux system. One of my clients just noticed a huge spike in spam getting through, even though SA is turned on for his email account

Re: [AMaViS-user] Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Anyone have an answer that isn't obvious? I already said I can't put it on the proxy. No, you didn't. You mentioned that as an option. And stop being rude to people who answer the question you asked. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance :

Re: [AMaViS-user] Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Jo Rhett
Marc, you shouldn't be bouncing e-mails back at all. Use D_REJECT and make sure you're doing it at the SMTP layer. SPF or DKIM is irrelevant in this situation. On Sep 23, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: One thing I would like to see (and this is a different subject: Marc: take

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
The only whitelist addresses I have defined for him are my own email addresses, plus any address @blah.com. Here are the headers bodies of 3 of the spams that got through (and are continuing to come through at a high rate): Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread Dave Pooser
plus any address @blah.com This is an extremely ill-advised practice; spammers have tried using @example.com addresses to send to example.com users for years. Hopefully you're using whitelist_from_rcvd or checking authentication or similar techniques. Also, are you using network tests? Assuming

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
Dave Pooser wrote: plus any address @blah.com This is an extremely ill-advised practice; spammers have tried using @example.com addresses to send to example.com users for years. Hopefully you're using whitelist_from_rcvd or checking authentication or similar techniques. Also, are

Re: is this a bug? trying to avoid beeing marked as spam

2007-09-24 Thread Loren Wilton
My mail still gets hit with Spam-scores and i don't know what to do at this point, maybe you do. Getting a few points from SA on most any message is typical, not an exception. SA doesn't declare somethign to be spam until the total score exceeds the spam threshold. While this is

Re: Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: [AMaViS-user] Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:31:04PM -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: One thing I would like to see (and this is a different subject: Marc: take note: Id like to NOT BOUNCE an email back to the victim of backscatter if they bothered to publish SPF or SENDER ID records that don't match the

RE: Marc: use SPF to prevent backscatter? Was RE: [AMaViS-user] Q about mail proxy servers and setups

2007-09-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
If whoever's responsible for the proxy is not able to implement normal recipient validation, I think this makes a good case that they aren't able to keep it running adequately. Its worse, we have to feed it to 'yap' (yet another proxy) and THAT proxy also does no recipient validation, so

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, feral wrote: Here are the headers bodies of 3 of the spams that got through (and are continuing to come through at a high rate): tests=BAYES_00,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 autolearn=no version=3.1.9 tests=BAYES_00,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2, HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP

Re: TIMEOUT

2007-09-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all I was just checking headers on messages that were flagged ( by my own rules in outlook) and I'm curious as to what exactly it means I dono, what do your outlook rules do? _cbl.abuseat.org_TIMEOUT , __dnsbl.njabl.org_TIMEOUT ,

Re: is this a bug? trying to avoid beeing marked as spam

2007-09-24 Thread Loren Wilton
one thing though... the html part of the email contains only one image, and that image is -as i mentioned- only around 1300 bytes and its also just 250px of width so this can't be right or is it? 1.5 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_28 BODY: HTML: images with 2400-2800 bytes of words All this rule says

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
RE: training. I don't know. My experience w/ SA is that it just works and I haven't dealt with it at this level yet. What is strange is that SA appeared to be working fine for my client, then all of the sudden this spike in spam occurred... and as I said, 99% of the spams have the sender name