Re: QR code phish?

2024-02-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
emails? Would that require using image detection? Perhaps instead it's a database of known malicious QR codes? Has anyone even really seen any? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com

Re: My apologies

2023-08-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Reindl is the definition of something I learned decades ago as an energy creature. DNFTEC is an acronym to live by. Suggested reading: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=6284 KAM On Sat, Aug 5, 2023, 13:24 Grant Taylor via users < users@spamassassin.apache.org> wrote: > On 8/5/23 8:04 

Re: mystery score definition

2023-05-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Try something like this if I understand you correctly trying to score is a __ rule: meta OBFU_UNSUB_UL ( __OBFU_UNSUB_UL >=1 ) There are plenty of rules that are designed to be conditions in other meta rules. Now that you've created a rule that relies on that condition you can score the meta

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
happening, but testing says otherwise. Insights? Thanks, -Philip -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

OFF-TOPIC ANNOUNCE: KAM Ruleset Turning PCCC Wild RBL Back On

2023-03-21 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
https://raptor.pccc.com/RBL <https://raptor.pccc.com/RBL> https://mcgrail.com/template/projects#KAM1 <https://mcgrail.com/template/projects#KAM1> Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https:

[Off-Topic] Blog from KAM on Cybersecurity and Looking for Hecklers for my workshop at InboxExpo

2023-02-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
CRM, Emails, Marketing, Email Security, and using Google Cloud & AI, I will be working with emailexpert.org to give free classes as part of the 2023 membership drive running now. Join today! Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssa

Re: [External] warnings with sa-compile?

2023-02-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
l/lib/perl5/5.32/mach/CORE/perl.h:667:21: note: expanded from macro 'STMT_END' #   define STMT_END     )    ^ -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
How did you install SpamAssassin 4.0.0 on your system because your error is a bit baffling to me? -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 7:54 AM wrote

Re: KAM FP

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Using the score limit and multiple concepts we added to sa-update are an excellent way to customize channels for your server! --score-limit 2 --score-multiplier 0.8

Re: KAM FP

2023-01-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Please see the KAM.cf for instructions to send a sample for review. A mailing list that might discuss spam issues is probably better suited to a welcomelist entry though On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 18:08 Benny Pedersen wrote: > * 5.0 KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD .bar, .beauty, .buzz, .cam,

Re: [mailop] gmail putting most messages into Spam

2023-01-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
It's not a freemail provider but if the domain is being abused, I would recommend adding it to a rule that gives it a few points just because of the potential for abuse. More surgically, we could add it to the two TLD listing so RBL lookups will work. Regards, KAM On Wed, Jan 18, 2023, 20:58

Re: Auto-learning ‘considered harmful’: not so much when rejecting spam?

2023-01-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ne case where it might be good is if you had a system setup that you fed emails to that were classified.  It would then use that good feed to use the auto-learning and add a way of learning without using the command line. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Ap

Re: sorbs blocklist spamassassin.apache.org

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
That's the mail infrastructure run by infrastructure at Apache not by the projects.  See https://infra.apache.org/ i can't confirm infra only The mailing lists at Apache are run by Infra not the project.  If you are having delivery issues, see that website and make sure you open a

Re: sorbs blocklist spamassassin.apache.org

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 1/15/2023 10:53 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 1/15/2023 10:20 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: https://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/95.216.194.37.html but who cares ? No one, likely cares.  I don't think that machine sends email. Checking more thoroughtly SpamAssassin.apache.org

Re: sorbs blocklist spamassassin.apache.org

2023-01-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 1/15/2023 10:20 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: https://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/95.216.194.37.html but who cares ? No one, likely cares.  I don't think that machine sends email. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 1/14/2023 5:02 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 2023-01-13 at 23:16:43 UTC-0500 (Fri, 13 Jan 2023 23:16:43 -0500) Kevin A. McGrail is rumored to have said: Rule ready isn't in 3.4.x and that DMARC line is from the 4.0.0 DMARC plugin.  No idea how the system is in that state. Not sure where

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Rule ready isn't in 3.4.x and that DMARC line is from the 4.0.0 DMARC plugin.  No idea how the system is in that state. On 1/13/2023 8:56 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2023-01-14 02:48: We are using the plugin on CentOS 7 systems with 4.0.0. What is the steps

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
We are using the plugin on CentOS 7 systems with 4.0.0. What is the steps to recreate the original bug posters issue? On Fri, Jan 13, 2023, 20:42 Benny Pedersen wrote: > Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2023-01-14 00:25: > > I'm referring to the DMARC plug in > > ./lib/Mail/Spam

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'm referring to the DMARC plug in ./lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DMARC.pm not the perl language modules necessary to use that plugin. On 1/13/2023 4:31 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2023-01-13 22:03: The version that is supported ships with 4.0.0. perl module

Re: DMARC plugin issue

2023-01-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
The version that is supported ships with 4.0.0. On 1/13/2023 1:43 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: is this old version of perl still supported ? in that case its a spamassassin bug if not -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin

Re: Looking for advice about limiting DNS queries

2023-01-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I am 99% sure you will be unable to implement that in SA natively and easily without something such as a milter. Using mimedefang, we have significant code to allow people to submit samples to create the KAM ruleset and maintain the RBL. In short, I think we have solved the exact problem you're

Re: Refused by block lists

2023-01-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
ind a firewall make sure that SpamAssassin is resolving the gateway to its external address." I brazenly confess I have no idea how to check this (or what it means, in this context). Figured I should sort out that puzzlement before attempting to install and configure "unbound

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to revisit it. It still wouldn't make sense to have loadplugin HashBL in two *.pre files. On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 09:18:51AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Wow, as it's enabled in v342.pre, that would imply it was enabled in 3.4.2. We should not have changed a past pre file for the 4.0.0 release IMO

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
that HashBL is only enabled for fresh 4.0.0 installs, it wasn't default previously. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Alfieri wrote: Would you then suggest to add also a: ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL to the .cf files where check_rbl , urirhssub etc are used? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
it, and the expected outcome.  Your posts on this thread are borderline nonsensical. Only after multiple back and forths can someone divine what you might be mentioning. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 12/28/2022 8:35 AM, Riccardo Alfieri wrote: Do you have hashbl plugin enabled? Ah, I thought it was enabled by default in SA 4.0. You are correct.  HashBL is by default enabled in a stock distribution with v342.pre.  That doesn't mean the trouble reporter has it enabled. -- Kevin

Re: 4.0.0 dnsbl_subtests.t test failures

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
solve" seems more than a bit disingenuous.  Did you ever report the problem to Infrastructure as I instructed you? Seems like a better use of all our time instead emailing the list complaining about a problem with a system we don't control. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.o

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I have no idea what the check plugin is.  Read your quoted line again. On 12/28/2022 8:22 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2022-12-28 14:20: Do you have hashbl plugin enabled? read your quoted line again ? On 12/28/2022 8:17 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: above

Re: 4.0.0 dnsbl_subtests.t test failures

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
get the init.pre modifications to after tests run. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: DQS rules for SA 4.0.0+

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Do you have hashbl plugin enabled? On 12/28/2022 8:17 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: above is with only check plugin enabled, this should lint without warnings -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https

Re: Espoofer - An Email Spoofing Testing Tool That Aims To Bypass SPF/DKIM/DMARC And Forge DKIM Signatures

2022-12-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 12/28/2022 8:11 AM, Brent Clark wrote: Something to see and keep an eye on (Read: Why build this tool) Sigh.  Yet another borderline ethical posting / tool like far too many pentesters who think transparency is the ultimate way to move the needle of security while thinly veiling their

RedHat Rules in RPM discussion was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache SpamAssassin 4.0.0 available

2022-12-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
could also move them to a subpackage for end users who need to test the installation in a disconnected state. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: New Release Candidate 4.0.0-rc4 Testers Needed

2022-12-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Excellent news! Please let us know more about the WL/BL changes and open a bugzilla bug. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 9:54 AM Greg Troxel wrote

Re: New Release Candidate 4.0.0-rc4 Testers Needed

2022-12-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
We have had issues with shortcircuit that cropped up.in the rc process from optimization that was performed. Can you open up bugzilla ticket please? On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 08:37 Greg Troxel wrote: > > I am finding that short-circuiting seems not to be working, but this is > not new and I am not

Re: New Release Candidate 4.0.0-rc4 Testers Needed

2022-12-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I have it in production. On Sun, Dec 11, 2022, 09:00 Greg Troxel wrote: > > Sidney Markowitz writes: > > > I know a number of you have been looking at the release candidates for > > the 4.0.0 release and have been helpful in finding issues with them. > > > > We have just announced a new

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-12-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Following up on my previous note I think we are working on #2.  I see that 8078 was reopened and there is some improvements / weighing in on a patch from Giovanni that might resolve the issue too! On 12/4/2022 3:02 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: OK, so then we have really two Choices: #1 accept

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-12-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
slightly, but still within the swim lane implied by the previous non-spec, is not a bug. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-12-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
metas which is not that expensive and > might provide some additional useful hits. No sense postponing 4.0.0 to > try > to tweak this further. > > On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 09:28:02AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > I have not checked but does the short circuiting actually work?

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-12-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
cribed in the bug. > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 05:28:00PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8078 is now open on > this > > issue. > > -- > > Kevin A. McGrail > > Member, Apache Software Foundation > >

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=8078 is now open on this issue. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 1:11 PM wrote: > On 11/28/22 17

Re: spamassassin sometimes suddenly ends scanning

2022-11-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Henrik's ideas are very good. I would also question the hardware too. KAM On Tue, Nov 29, 2022, 08:28 Henrik K wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 07:34:51AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > > Wolfgang Breyha writes: > > > > > It doesn't finish any other rules and doesn't display final results

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-11-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Nov 28, 2022 at 10:42 AM Kevin A. McGrail > > > > wrote: > [...] > >> Also, would be helpful to know if this is different than 3.4.6's > >> behavior. > >> > > > > Oh yes, I meant to mention that it is different behavior for 3.4.6. > > Same

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-11-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
be helpful to know if this is different than 3.4.6's behavior. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 10:38 AM Alex wrote: > Hi, > >> W

Re: ToCc Header operations

2022-11-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I don't really know. Is there an example rule and I'll check the code. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 8:32 AM Jared Hall wrote: > SA: 3.

Re: Mial hits MISSING rules despite presence of headers

2022-11-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Well, a short circuit rule kind of breaks things in the middle so I do not think you should really spend too much time on rules that hit/didn't hit. I like validity but I don't think it justifies a short circuit, FYI. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair

Re: spam subject marking

2022-11-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Apache SpamAssassin it's both an API and a program. In my installation, I do not use it to do any subject modifications and I use a milter called mime defang to do that using my own logic. You can also configure spam d/Spam seed not to modify the subject. If you would like similar headings

Re: Spam DKIM signed by Paypal coming from their Microsoft Tenant?

2022-11-14 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I have also seen the PayPal ecosystem being abused by bad actors sending things like fake invoices. I am also +1 to remove the domain from the dkim wl. Regards, KAM On Mon, Nov 14, 2022, 16:01 Shawn Iverson wrote: > Bottom line is I don't think paypal deserves to be default whitelisted in >

Re: Enabling USER_IN_BLOCKLIST

2022-10-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to get USER_IN_BLOCKLIST working in place of USER_IN_BLACKLIST. Any help appreciated Greetings, Roberto -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: RFH: using SOUGHT logic to combat phish

2022-10-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
they hit, so I didn't need to keep much of ham mail There was so interesting in a SOUGHT2 but no, the tooling hasn't been looked at in some time.  It would show promise if you want to dig into it! -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: KAM channel disabling lookups?

2022-10-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
efficiency.  This is inherent in the KAM ruleset and has been there for several years. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: KAM channel disabling lookups?

2022-10-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
report this to Apache Infrastructure. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: apache org do get uribl_blocked

2022-09-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
] autolearn=disabled provide datafeed or disable is not an option ? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: SA rule: fortinet attachment removed

2022-09-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
hould) I somehow restrict search for this content only as beginning of attachments? Is there anything I should do better? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: KAM_OCTET_PHISH=3 ?

2022-09-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
pening here, and is it supposed to be happening? -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Mail-SpamAssassin-4.0.0-RC1 -> Pyzor warn

2022-08-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
sin::SubProcBackChannel; immediately after line 37 use Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin; -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Hidden parts in anchors texts

2022-08-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
/DavidGoodwin/ExtractText -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: prefsdir-relative path in url_shortener_cache_dsn ?

2022-08-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I am pretty sure that will need to be a feature request. I don't remember any code to address that type of scenario. -KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Sun, Aug 28, 2022

Re: metholdless URLs bypass DecodeShortURLs link shortner checking

2022-08-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
If you can try the current RC-1 and report if the issue still exists and open a bugzilla report ASAP that would be great too. We are working hard on a last handful of items for a 4.0 release. -KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project

Re: Attachment policy

2022-06-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Those sound like perfectly legitimate emails so working to classify them as decent emails would be our goal. Was there anything malicious snuck in there? We are using extract text and have been making improvements to it. False positives especially with the beneficiary and financial rules is

Re: DMARC fails for valid record?

2022-05-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
There is also a rule update for priority levels. Did you install the latest rules too? R On Sun, May 29, 2022, 12:41 Alex wrote: > Hi, > > We have been DMARC issues so no, it is not you Are you running the latest >> trunk right now? There have been a flurry of patches and some of them are

Re: DMARC fails for valid record?

2022-05-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Version 4 does have pre-releases out and people are testing it. And yes, the project needs testers so we will support questions about 4.0 including the pre-releases and trunk etc. As we work towards a release. We have been DMARC issues so no, it is not you Are you running the latest trunk right

Re: DMARC fails for valid record?

2022-05-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
it and test that pastebin to see if it fails on our system too. I was also discussing more DMARC/DKIM regression tests are needed. It's too fragile. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail

Re: DMARC fails for valid record?

2022-05-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I believe this is a bug and fixed in trunk. On 5/10/2022 1:55 PM, Bill Cole wrote: Looks like a bug. It should not be possible to hit DKIM_VALID_AU and also DMARC_REJECT and/or KAM_DMARC_REJECT -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
of headers that appear in ham and spam corpora and xor out the spam ones.  Then write a rule if any of those exist.  They look like they might change a lot and they are randomized to avoid these type of issues so I see your dilemma and a plugin might be needed. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail

Re: SPF skipped for whitelisted relay domain

2022-05-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> we wait for spamassassin 4.0.0 :=) > > 4.0.0 is in pre-release now and in production for a few of us. Start stress testing it now so we can shake out the bugs and get it out the door! Regards, KAM

Re: Intuit servers sending paypal phishes

2022-05-06 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Oh joy. On 5/6/2022 11:19 AM, Dave Wreski wrote: Hi, Intuit's servers are being used to send Paypal phishing invoices combined with the "evil numbers" scam. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Pro

Re: SPF skipped for whitelisted relay domain

2022-05-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Alex, sometimes I see this when the envelope from doesn't match the header from. So what you think might pass SPF does not. That's my only guess from looking at the example you posted. That example looked like it would work perfectly. KAM On Thu, May 5, 2022, 18:02 Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I'm

Re: Another evil number

2022-05-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Ahh party lines. Almost as bad as using my parents' line for a modem and they would pick it up. And rotary. You hated anybody with a nine in their number. I always wanted to know the history behind how the White House got its own CO. I figured it was security related since it's 202-456-

Re: Another evil number

2022-05-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
- Direct Distance Dialing, or the area code system we are all familiar with. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Another evil number

2022-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
/ exchange name.  The following Wikipedia article supports this and has more details. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Untrustworthy TLDs and KAM

2022-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Love it! Thanks Henrik. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 12:31 PM Henrik K wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2022 at 09:45:38PM -0400, Alex wrote: >

Re: Untrustworthy TLDs and KAM

2022-05-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
, May 1, 2022 at 9:47 PM Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Did it cause a fp with a score of 5.0 or higher? Yes. https://pastebin.com/AqezMHjQ Thanks! -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com

Re: Untrustworthy TLDs and KAM

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> > On 02/05/2022 11:47, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Did it cause a fp with a score of 5.0 or higher? > > On Sun, May 1, 2022, 21:46 Alex wrote: > > Hi, > > Four points for a .online TLD with KAM rules > > * 2.0 PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD Untrustworthy TLDs > *

Re: Untrustworthy TLDs and KAM

2022-05-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Did it cause a fp with a score of 5.0 or higher? On Sun, May 1, 2022, 21:46 Alex wrote: > Hi, > > Four points for a .online TLD with KAM rules > > * 2.0 PDS_OTHER_BAD_TLD Untrustworthy TLDs > * [URI: www.lci-mtc.online (online)] > > * 2.0 KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD .bar, .buzz, .cam,

Re: Microsoft to block Office VBA macros by default

2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
65. It doesn't say anything about old, unmaintained copies of Office on XP. I don't see any reason it makes sense to to lighten up on protections. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.link

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2022-04-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
and processes them after that is done. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 5:07 AM Pedro David Marco wrote: > Good question... probably an interesting

Re: PDFinfo not returning expected producer, creator values

2022-03-04 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I also want to mirror Bill's comment of a very detailed but report On Fri, Mar 4, 2022, 18:05 Ricky Boone wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, crazy week. > > Honestly, I wasn't expecting such a quick and relevant response, so thanks > and kudos for that. :) > > I'm not currently using trunk, so

Re: Do these domains merit blocking?

2021-12-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
You can quote me: If the pope itself is sending me the cure to cancer but he doesn't have my consent then it IS spam and I would block it and depending on the way the domain manager handles it I would block the domain. KAM On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 11:40 Bill Cole <

Re: Difference is score when mail is received by Postfix and when tested from the command line

2021-10-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Thomas, needing to lower your score to two or three implies To me that your system could use some tweaking. In particular I would guess that your Bayesian tokens need to be cleared. As for the different scores, you would have to know the way that spamassassin is being used on your system. For

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG in 72_active.cf

2021-09-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I don't think it's reasonable but an FP in Pyzor is leading to other rule hits. Was the overall email marked as spam? On 9/24/2021 12:21 AM, Jared Hall wrote: On 9/23/2021 10:07 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Jared, looks to me like an FP in Pyzor. No doubt.  The 4.608 points for a single

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG in 72_active.cf

2021-09-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
It hits Pyzor for some reason.  Get a PYZOR_CHECK=1.985.  Must've picked the wrong checksum, chief! It does not appear that the actual rule matches the spirit of the rule. Jared, looks to me like an FP in Pyzor. -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation

Re: Disabling autolearn on given rule

2021-09-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Morning all, So I'd recommend a different take. Autolearn is an abomination we never should have published. It is, in effect, a switch to allow a inherent bias in the modelling to grow and continue. Disable autolearn, wipe your Bayes store, and manually train from hand classified ham and spam.

Re: More Norton Evil Numbers....

2021-09-02 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Jared, If you would like to submit these fake Norton and similar samples to me for my KAM rules let me know. But I don't know the purpose you have of posting the spams on the list or snippets of them or phone numbers. In general, if you have spammy content you want to discuss, the best thing to

Re: Lint problem with KAM.cf

2021-09-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I published a fix for the KAM SHORT A few hours ago. Please let me know how it's working for you. On Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 23:48 Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > On 8/31/2021 12:57 PM, Jared Hall wrote: > > 2) OTOH, what's the point of sa-update doing versioning if nobody uses &g

Re: Lint problem with KAM.cf

2021-08-31 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
(capability), version, and plugin tests to avoid that complexity. I've got a fix for KAM.cf being looked at by another pair of eyes.  Expect it to be published tomorrow. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin

Re: Lint problem with KAM.cf

2021-08-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
We will take a look. We check with lint for every publication but maybe there's a condition we missed or a spelling issue. Thanks for bringing it up. KAM On Mon, Aug 30, 2021, 15:31 Rick Cooper wrote: > This have been going on a while but I haven't had time to addresses. > When the KAM rules

Re: freshworks and DKIM and KAM

2021-08-28 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
but it was DDoSed when a major system started using it for 10's of millions of systems. Thanks to Linode, we will be launching two mirrors for the RBL and putting it back in use for the world. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project

Re: TLD rules catch non-domain data

2021-08-25 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
mail and handle FPs/FNs based on that so the overlap is considered with the scoring and impact. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: KAM_LIST3_1 FP

2021-08-22 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
is way too much -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Score for certain spam

2021-08-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
such messages at the SMTP layer, without having to worry about rejecting legitimate messages. Thank you! -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171

Re: Leaning toothpick syndrom (was: KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD false positive)

2021-08-11 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
As a note, I sometimes make my rules harder to read on purpose to dissuade bad actors from trying to unwind them. On Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 11:21 Kenneth Porter wrote: > On 8/11/2021 8:05 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > > BTW, does SA permit use of Perl-style regex delimiters to avoid > > leaning

Re: KAM_SOMETLD_ARE_BAD_TLD false positive

2021-08-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Kenneth, the ruleset is designed for a system scoring over 5.0. Did the rule from the cell provider cause an fp? Is your threshold higher than 5.0? There is a way to report problems listed in the file but feel free to contact me off list and I'll tell you how to send me a sample. Regards,

Re: Lint failing

2021-07-31 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
whitelist" via > package "Mail::SpamAssassin::PerMsgStatus" at (eval 2016) line 1489. > ) > channel: lint check of update failed, channel failed > Update failed, exiting with code 4 > > -Alan > On 7/29/2021 1:36 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Fixes are l

Re: Customise hostname shown in X-Spam-Checker-Version?

2021-07-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to the documentation would be replacing sentence note that Checker-Version can not be changed or removed with note that Checker-Version can not be removed Cheers, David -- Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@apache.org Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https

Re: Website "help" spams

2021-07-30 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I'd prefer that information not be shared.  It's not for public use. On 7/30/2021 8:48 AM, RW wrote: is KAMOnly.pm plugin needed ?, atleast its should be documented, i have that plugin installed now, it makes huge diffrent, How did you get it? Or is it just a dummy plugin? -- Kevin

Re: Website "help" spams

2021-07-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
to the public. However, You should really install the rules with the channel ruleset too: https://mcgrail.com/template/kam.cf_channel Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu

Re: Website "help" spams

2021-07-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
The KAMOnly plugin is not needed. It activates rules for our infrastructure. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:42 AM Benny Pedersen wrote: > On 2

Re: Lint failing

2021-07-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Fixes are likely done and just waiting on masscheck, etc. to publish rules. If it isn't fixed by Monday, please let us know. P.S. 3.3.1 is very old. Can you upgrade? -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com

Re: Identifying Amazon hosts...

2021-07-29 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I believe the smtp-out implies it is the Amazon SES service. I've not seen EC2 machines with dynamic or static ("Elastic IPs") with that format. -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 70

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