Re: FUZZY_XPILL FP hitting all Travelodge emails

2018-04-05 Thread Giles Coochey
It found "xon, OX" in "Aylesbury Road, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3AT" It's an aggressive rule that finds anything that might be an obfuscated Xanax. It only scores 0.8 points because it can produce FPs like this. Actually that is my private, custom score. I think the default is 2.8 or something like

Re: FUZZY_XPILL FP hitting all Travelodge emails

2018-04-05 Thread Giles Coochey
It found "xon, OX" in "Aylesbury Road, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3AT" It's an aggressive rule that finds anything that might be an obfuscated Xanax. It only scores 0.8 points because it can produce FPs like this. Actually that is my private, custom score. I think the default is 2.8 or something like

Re: Missing Modules

2014-11-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/11/2014 11:26, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.11.14 14:34, Giles Coochey wrote: I avoid the distribution perl completely, and use perlbrew and spamassassin 3.4.0 compiled from source, with a specific perlbrew perl version I avoid breaking the version of perl that comes with the

Re: Missing Modules

2014-11-13 Thread Giles Coochey
id breaking the version of perl that comes with the system and can satisfy all dependencies via CPAN. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Desc

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-15 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 18:34, Rick Macdougall wrote: On 2014-09-12 1:24 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.09.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Giles Coochey: On 12/09/2014 13:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: I have used imap-sa-learn.pl for years. Works great. Google imap-sa

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 17:01, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.09.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Giles Coochey: On 12/09/2014 14:30, Reindl Harald wrote: Wouldn't mind using it, but don't think I can get it working as my IMAP server requires SSL have you tried it? these days almost anything works with S

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
er runs on port 993. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles.cooc...@netsecspec.co.uk -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.c

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 13:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I have used imap-sa-learn.pl for years. Works great. Google imap-sa-learn.pl to get the perl source code. Wouldn't mind using it, but don't think I can get it working as my IMAP server requires SSL -- Regards, Giles Coochey,

Re: getting tons of SPAM

2014-06-26 Thread Giles Coochey
amassassin? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA without procmail?

2014-06-20 Thread Giles Coochey
original input). It is the task of what called it to act upon it. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA-Learn - OT (slightly) Bash Script help needed

2014-05-29 Thread Giles Coochey
aside for later inspection. For me, I use "unread / read" as a marker to whether I have actioned a particular email and keep messages "unread" until such time that they are dealt with. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +4

Re: Big problems with senders who use Microsoft Bigfish (a.k.a. FrontBridge)

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
rying to be funny.:-) -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Big problems with senders who use Microsoft Bigfish (a.k.a. FrontBridge)

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
ses... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

spamcop spamassassin reporting

2013-07-19 Thread Giles Coochey
elow. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system (expanded from ): unknown user: "devnull" -- Regards, Giles

Re: spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-20 Thread Giles Coochey
On 20/03/2013 14:24, Axb wrote: On 03/20/2013 02:59 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: Hi, I'm using spamass-milter in conjunction with spamassassin. I've noticed that emails that are considered too large for spamassassin to scan appear to be rejected by spamass-milter because it cannot find

spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-20 Thread Giles Coochey
Hi, I'm using spamass-milter in conjunction with spamassassin. I've noticed that emails that are considered too large for spamassassin to scan appear to be rejected by spamass-milter because it cannot find a score in the email. I've looked at the configuration options for spamass-milter and

sa-update... perhaps not working

2012-12-13 Thread Giles Coochey
the available version is later than my current version: $ nslookup > set type=txt > 2.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org Server:172.21.0.66 Address:172.21.0.66#53 Non-authoritative answer: *2.3.3.updates.spamassassin.orgtext = "1418219"* Any ideas? -- Regards,

Re: [OTish] contentanaly...@unifiedemail.net

2012-11-17 Thread Giles Coochey
s aimed at spammers who wanted to reduce their Spam Assassin score, and I believe it only accepts body and doesn't do network related checks. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SpamAssassin scores and 12-letter domains

2012-08-07 Thread Giles Coochey
implementations have the ability to block at (say) 12 points, tag at say 5 points (which could be implemented to leave messages in a moderation queue) and release everything else. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http:

Re: URIBL blocked

2012-01-23 Thread Giles Coochey
I would look at getting a datafeed: http://www.uribl.com/datafeed.shtml [7] Out of interest, how much volume of email are you processing to experience this? Are you sharing your external IP with any other of your ISP customers? Does your ISP do anything strange with DNS queries? On 2012-01

Re: How do I stop SA checking mail from authenticated users

2011-10-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On Wed, October 5, 2011 18:02, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > > On 05/10/2011 16:23, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On Tue, October 4, 2011 20:59, Frank Leonhardt wrote: >>> On 04/10/2011 19:22, Kris Deugau wrote: >>>> Frank Leonhardt wrote: >>>>> Here's

Re: How do I stop SA checking mail from authenticated users

2011-10-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, October 4, 2011 20:59, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 04/10/2011 19:22, Kris Deugau wrote: >> Frank Leonhardt wrote: >>> Here's the problem: >>> >>> I have a single mail server (not commercial) using sendmail to accept >>> incoming mail from all sources, and filtering using spamassassin. It >>

Re: little off topic monitoring question

2011-07-19 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, July 19, 2011 14:50, Thomas Mullins wrote: > We would like to start monitoring our two smtp servers. They are fairly > busy boxes, maybe 100,000 messages a day, give or take several thousand. > They of course run Spamassassin, Postfix is also used. We use MRTG to > monitor internal server

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, May 13, 2011 17:09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On 5/13/2011 1:58 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: >> Not quite - Google's retry may come from another server in a different >> range. > > if it did then mail from Google would be delayed significantly, like > 12-24 hours

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-13 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, May 12, 2011 18:06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On 5/12/2011 4:49 AM, Niamh Holding wrote: >> >> Hello Matus, >> >> Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:11:10 PM, you wrote: >> >> MUf> Actyally, Michael Scheidell reported that yahoo miebehaves when >> receiving >> MUf> 4xx response after RCPT TO: >>

Re: Rules to block non-english

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/02/2011 14:31, Giles Coochey wrote: On 25/02/2011 14:18, James Lay wrote: Hi folks, So…I was sent an email that was pretty much all in Chinese…headers below: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:44:37 -0700 Subject: =?utf-8?B?Rlc6IOKWoO+8keaciOOBq+W8iuekvuOBq+WxiuOBhOOBn+aEnw==?= =?utf-8?B

Re: Rules to block non-english

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
r-Encoding: base64 MIME-Version: 1.0 Any way to tag this stuff as spam? Thanks folks! James Unwanted Language?? e.g. ok_languages nl en fr de it pt sco es in local.cf -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
igation to follow any rules. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-23 Thread Giles Coochey
ds existed... non-existent domain is already a standard MTA check anyway... -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Desc

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-23 Thread Giles Coochey
want to reject mails right away. I just want to "flag" them with points. Cheers, Henry How do you define 'exists' - do you mean reachable and up? or just whether a MX record is defined? -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 08

Re: alert: New event: ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2011-02-11 Thread Giles Coochey
d in/ / Debian and Redhat in March of 2010./ / / / http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573228/ I thought I committed the patch to CVS, but apparently hadn't. It's committed now, and I'll do a release this weekend. -- Dan Nelson address@hidden -- Bes

Re: alert: New event: ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2011-02-11 Thread Giles Coochey
: i386 Version: 0.3.1 Release: 24.rhel5 -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: FYI: IPv6 Update: IANA IPv4 Exhaustion, World IPv6 Day

2011-02-04 Thread Giles Coochey
sunsite software on them. Yep, can't remember using DNS in those days... Never even thought of checking MD5 checksums in those days (not sure if they even existed!!) -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile:

Re: RFC-Ignorant (was Re: Irony)

2011-02-04 Thread Giles Coochey
ve been an idea, as long as it wasn't a BOGON that had special uses (e.g. RFC1918), however, there are no such BOGONs left anymore... the last allocatable IPs were given out this very week. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
On 01/02/2011 15:49, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 2/1/11 9:34 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On 01/02/2011 15:30, Danita Zanre wrote: Messages from this list have been bouncing since I started enforcing Reverse DNS lookups on my server. Danita Why??? Received: from mail.apache.org

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
e RFC-police to catch nearly all spam and I'm sure that rejecting on a single issue or dubious fact will affect the receipt of genuine non-SPAM messages. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
ess: 193.79.237.39 Non-authoritative answer: Name:hermes.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.3 > 140.211.11.3 Server: cache0201.ns.eu.uu.net Address: 193.79.237.39 Name:hermes.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.3 > -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 2

High scoring spam...

2011-01-31 Thread Giles Coochey
Makes you wonder how many servers actually accept these messages these days!!! Jan 31 13:46:56 gate sendmail[28364]: p0VCkkxF028364[1]: Milter add: header: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=70.8 required=5.0 tests=ADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW_FORM,\n\tADVANCE_FEE_2_NEW_MONEY,ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW,ADVANCE_FEE_3_NEW_F

Re: X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,386,1291590000"; d="scan'208";a="41500553"

2011-01-28 Thread Giles Coochey
On 28/01/2011 10:11, Giles Coochey wrote: On 28/01/2011 10:02, J4K wrote: Good morning everyone (almost the week-end), Is X-IronPort-AV added by SA, or from something else (DCC Clamav ? ) I just noticed that all email from a certain company was flagged with X-IronPort-AV, and I wonder

Re: X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,386,1291590000"; d="scan'208";a="41500553"

2011-01-28 Thread Giles Coochey
ophos.com/products/enterprise/email/security-and-control/appliances/ -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: score=100.0 required=3.0 tests=SHORTCIRCUIT,,USER_IN_BLACKLIST

2011-01-27 Thread Giles Coochey
. it is the cause of any possible backscatter. Thanks -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: score=100.0 required=3.0 tests=SHORTCIRCUIT,,USER_IN_BLACKLIST

2011-01-27 Thread Giles Coochey
above it. spamass-milter can reject according to SA results at the SMTP session level. The OP mentioned that. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net

Re: spamass-milter - mailing list

2011-01-26 Thread Giles Coochey
s far as I can see. It's not too difficult to understand the source of the spamass-milter package... that might be your best documentation and help -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Emai

Re: Q about short-circuit over ruling blacklisting rule

2011-01-18 Thread Giles Coochey
TA would make a difference, but I still don't want to take the risk. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Fwd: Re: Q about short-circuit over ruling blacklisting rule

2011-01-18 Thread Giles Coochey
t 24 hours for mail servers to successfully send me mails - it's the equivalent of sealing my letterbox on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for me, and I want near-real time email communication. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +3

Re: BlackBerry Email Being Blocked by SpamAssassin

2011-01-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 13/01/2011 21:06, Brendan Murtagh wrote: Thank you all for your quick responses and suggestions. I went ahead and adjusted the threshold from 3.00 to 5.00. I'll continue to monitor how the server is reacting to spam as we move forward. Thanks again for your help. -Brendan The method I use, a

Re: Help! Filter spam with "less than" symbol in recipient

2010-10-15 Thread Giles Coochey
e that for the recipient it should be like this (I didn't find any documentation about it): header TO1 To:name =~ /EuroPrime Casino/i in particular (to filter the less than symbol): header TO1 To:name =~ /\ Have you tried escaping it with \x3c ? -- Best Regards, Giles Cooch

Re: RAZOR2 and SpamAssassin version or configuration

2010-10-15 Thread Giles Coochey
ffing traffic to be sure. Where should I be looking for a configuration difference that would cause this? local.cf: use_razor2 1 ... I would check permisions for the razor-agent and check that it is registered for the user that runs your site-wide spamassassin. -- Best Regards, Giles Co

Re: The most amazing spam ...

2010-09-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, September 16, 2010 15:57, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 13:36 +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: >> On Thu, September 16, 2010 13:28, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 07:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> http://public.jes

Re: The most amazing spam ...

2010-09-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, September 16, 2010 13:28, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 07:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> http://public.jessen.ch/files/mazeweb-spam.jpeg >> >> > A cynic might wonder whether it also harvests valid e-mail addresses. > Appears to be a perfectly reputable service to me... wh

RE: Blacklist for spam-words

2010-09-16 Thread Giles Coochey
> You may setup a regexp rule in the /etc/local.cf file of your SA > installation, but a simple rule like the one you suggest may easily yield > FPs (False Positives, ie: non-spam messages may get into your trashcan). > > What if a friend of yours sends you an email asking to lend your > chronomet

Re: Autoimport .eml-Files as Spam or ham

2010-09-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, September 14, 2010 09:41, Hans-Werner Friedemann wrote: > Hi @ all > > i want to achieve a kind of auto-mass-import of eml-Files with sa-learn. > The SPAM and HAM mails will be saved in different folders. > > Is it possible that sa-learn looks ervery 15 Minutes in these folders > and import