false postives with html emails

2005-05-25 Thread Baltasar
Hello List! I have a postfix(2.x) - amavisd-new (2.3.1) - spamasassin (3.0.3) - razor - pyzor - dcc setup and have some troubles with html emails which where marked as spam but are false positives. Even a blank html email with just the signature added will be marked as spam. As you can see later

Re: false postives with html emails

2005-05-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Thomas you'll prob find the issue is the RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP, RCVD_IN_NJABL and RCVD_IN_SORBS rules I turn off the RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP, RCVD_IN_NJABL off due to too many false positives like this. SORBS is normally quite good and I use that along with

RE: whitelist a certain adress

2005-05-25 Thread jj-ml
Hi Loren, I put your rule in my local.cf file and it's working great. As i run spamassassin on qmail/maildrop with mysql per users setting and that i put it in the global conf, everybody white-list the SA list. It's obsiouly not a pb but how can i white-list specific adresses with per users

RE: changing bayes from individual to global

2005-05-25 Thread jj-ml
Hello, As Devin, I actually run spamassassin SA 3.03 with per user bayes store into a mysql DB. What are the favour and the disadvantage of that solution? What are the favour and the disadvantage of a global bayes solution? I also see a number of person who stop to use bayes. Is it a good idea?

Re: false postives with html emails

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Baltasar wrote: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.687 tag=3 tag2=6.31 kill=6.31 tests=HTML_70_80, HTML_MESSAGE, MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT, RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_NJABL, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP, RCVD_IN_SORBS I'm not familiar with MSGID_FROM_MTA_SHORT because for some reason it doesn't appear to be in

Webmail rules

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
I've been noticing a lot of spam coming from unsecured webmail pages these days so brewed up a ruleset to catch them. If you want to try it out, the rules are here: http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=WebMailRules Kevin

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Hi! Rishi, Many thanks for your reply I'm already using that antidrug.cf rule My problem is that the drug name does not appear as text in the spam It is included in the gif picture So the spam contains a picture and many tiny words in the email's body Does it sound familiar ? Thanks, Eddy

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Alan Munday
Eddy Beliveau wrote the following on 25/05/2005 14:19: Hi! I'm running spamassassin 2.4 with pamCopURI 0.24 and it work perfectly. Thanks ;-) Eddy Have you tried updating to a newer version? I suspect it will be many peoples first suggestion. Alan

Re: SA Sometimes Being Bypassed?

2005-05-25 Thread Jake Colman
w == wolfgang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w In an older episode (Friday 20 May 2005 18:07), Jake Colman wrote: When my server is up, all email is processed by my SA. If my server is down, my email is held for me at the backup MX. When my server comes back, the backup MX sends me

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 6:19:49 AM, Eddy Beliveau wrote: I'm running spamassassin 2.4 with pamCopURI 0.24 and it work perfectly. Thanks ;-) My current problem is that I cannot get rid of those online pharmacy spams. (see attached picture). The email contains a picture and many words

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Conn
Eddy Have you tried updating to a newer version? I suspect it will be many peoples first suggestion. Alan Hello, Someone correct me if I am wrong, however the multi-line URI spams with ampersands need a patch that is not yet integrated into the default 3.0.3 distribution.

Export Scam Rules

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
I've started working on some rules to catch some pesky export company scams. I'll expand them to include the Yukos and Con oil scams soon. Meanwhile, I'd appreciate any feedback. The ruleset can be found here: http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=ExportFraudRules Thanks, Kevin

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Hi! Thanks to all for your replies I cannot upgrade right now, the current academic semester is not yet completed In the mean time, I will try Chris Conn's solution: rawbody __LW_URI_CR1 /href=\[^]*\r[^\n]/is full__LW_URI_CR2 /href=\[^]*\r[^\n]/is metaLW_URI_CR

Re: Export Scam Rules

2005-05-25 Thread Martin Hepworth
Kevin how does this compare with http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm#fraud -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: I've started working on some rules to catch some pesky export company scams. I'll expand them to

Re: Export Scam Rules

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Martin Hepworth wrote: Kevin how does this compare with http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm#fraud Hi Martin. The reason I wrote these rules is because I use the SARE fraud rules, but not a single one hits on these particular emails. An example of the text of the emails that I am

Re: Dumb question - splitting lines in .cf files

2005-05-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:57:43AM -0400, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but I cannot for the life of me figure out if I can split long lines in a rules file. I'm trying to make some meta rules that will include some really long lines if I cannot split them. Anyone? No,

SA checking A records for local host names

2005-05-25 Thread Ben Wylie
I was very original when naming my server and called it ... server. When an email comes into my server it comes to the computer called server and goes through an antivirus gateway. This adds the following header: Received: from cm218-254-253-168.hkcable.com.hk ([218.254.253.168]) by server.

Re: Dumb question - splitting lines in .cf files

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:57:43AM -0400, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but I cannot for the life of me figure out if I can split long lines in a rules file. I'm trying to make some meta rules that will include some really long lines if I cannot

Re: Dumb question - splitting lines in .cf files

2005-05-25 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:07:06AM -0400, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Thanks for clearing that up Theo. Is it worth my while to file a feature request in bugzilla? I can't think of a reason why it couldn't be supported, but I also don't think it'll be a high priority to do it unless someone

OT: News: FTC urges ISPs to throttle spam zombies

2005-05-25 Thread David Brodbeck
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11230?ref=rss Quick summary: The Federal Trade Commission is launching an educational campaign to try to convince ISPs to block port 25, rate-limit email relays, and quarantine infected machines.

Re: Dumb question - splitting lines in .cf files

2005-05-25 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:07:06AM -0400, Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Thanks for clearing that up Theo. Is it worth my while to file a feature request in bugzilla? I can't think of a reason why it couldn't be supported, but I also don't think it'll be a high

Re: spam.assassin.prefs.conf TO:

2005-05-25 Thread Matt Kettler
Thomas Deaton wrote: For the header rules, you can put Subject or From. Is there a way to put something from the TO: line? thanks A header rule can be written to examine *any* header. To: From: Subject: X-SomeGarbageYouNeverSawBefore:. There's even a special meta header ToCc which matches

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Rick Carpenter
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 09:19 -0400, Eddy Beliveau wrote: Hi! I'm running spamassassin 2.4 with pamCopURI 0.24 and it work perfectly. Thanks ;-) My current problem is that I cannot get rid of those online pharmacy spams. (see attached picture). The email contains a picture and many

Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-25 Thread Aecio F. Neto
Hi, there. Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other commercial solutions? Any feedback much appreciated. Regards

Re: dynamic IP range and good RBL?

2005-05-25 Thread Andy Jezierski
Ryan L. Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/25/2005 01:33:19 PM: Hi, all I am using spamhaus sbl+xbl RBL and dsbl RBL. It seems they got too much false positive, especially dynamic IPs. Do you guys know how can I get all the dynamic IP range on internet, or is that possible? Any other RBL

Cannnot open bayes database permission denied

2005-05-25 Thread Jake Colman
I am seeing this error in my maillog. I followed the directions in the wiki for creating site-wide bayes database, razor and pyzor. I think I did it correctly and yet I am getting this error. My local.cf specifies 'bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes' and 'bayes_file_mode 0770'. The

RE: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Aecio F. Neto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:22 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions Hi, there. Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other commercial

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-25 Thread evan
Everyone else - this may be off-topic, but consider it a lesson on what happens when your spam rules are too intrusive over silly things instead of asking the question Is this mail spam?. The method I proposed earlier is much more effective at identifying spam than looking at what host has a

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-25 Thread evan
Quoting List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try a Google search on 88puppydog. com, then look at who owns and operates it (just whois) and decide for yourself. Midphase is bulk hosting provider for both end-users and resellers. Nothing more. A WHOIS on CoolRunningConcepts.com will

Spamassassin isn't working on relay traffic...

2005-05-25 Thread Bryan Oswalt
I have Spamassassin setup in a spamd/spamc type configuration, along with spamass-milter and the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER option configured in sendmail with procmail as my MDA. The server I have this running on is to be setup as a mail filtering gateway for tagging spam and blocking e-mails

Re: Cannot get rid of new online pharmacy spams

2005-05-25 Thread Loren Wilton
In the mean time, I will try Chris Conn's solution: rawbody __LW_URI_CR1 /href=\[^]*\r[^\n]/is full__LW_URI_CR2 /href=\[^]*\r[^\n]/is metaLW_URI_CR__LW_URI_CR1 || __LW_URI_CR2 score LW_URI_CR(YOUR CHOICE) describeLW_URI_CR

Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-25 Thread Loren Wilton
Is there any *good* and *trustable* comparison between SA and other commercial solutions? It depends on what kind of comparison you are interested in. Every few months some magazine or online info service will run a comparison of various spam tools, and the report of their report ends up

Re: Cannnot open bayes database permission denied

2005-05-25 Thread Jake Colman
MK == Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MK Jake Colman wrote: I am seeing this error in my maillog. I followed the directions in the wiki for creating site-wide bayes database, razor and pyzor. I think I did it correctly and yet I am getting this error. My

Procmail Recipe Problem

2005-05-25 Thread Jake Colman
I previously posted about SA being bypassed when email came in through my backup MX. I no longer think that that is the issue sice the headers seem identical for my emails whether it works or doesn't. Also, even though my sendmail is running I just received an email that is missing my SA

Re: Procmail Recipe Problem

2005-05-25 Thread Loren Wilton
Clearly, some of my emails are skipping SA! Which version were you running, again? This was a known-to-happen 'feature' with the 2.6x series, although nobody ever really figured out why. There are conditions where it can happen on 3.0.1 or .2, I believe, if the spamd children all get

Re: dynamic IP range and good RBL?

2005-05-25 Thread Ryan L. Sun
Does dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net list all the dynamic IPs? Or just the dynamic IPs which fall in spamtrap? Thanks. On 5/25/05, Ing. Alejandro Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same problem that you, with dsbl, record are keep over years, and the delist process is complex. So most of

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-25 Thread List Mail User
... Everyone else - this may be off-topic, but consider it a lesson on what happens when your spam rules are too intrusive over silly things instead of asking the question Is this mail spam?. The method I proposed earlier is much more effective at identifying spam than looking at what host has

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread lists
I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a very low overhead. May I ask what kind of software/settings do you use to defer the

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread lists
On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 6:56:08 AM, Ronan McGlue wrote: I added a dummy mx record (lowest preference) as we all know its generally the one th spammers target first, which is getting hit with about 50% of our daily connections, of which i defer all of them at a very low overhead. Some of

Re[2]: Grouping input

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Matt, John, Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 7:15:16 PM, you wrote: MK John August wrote: I've noticed spam which has a section of extracted text after the spam content. It seems to me that by taking things line by line, you'll reach a point at which the spam index peaks, and then trails off

Re: Mail Failure

2005-05-25 Thread evan
Sorry for all the crossposting, this is being forwarded to people who can so something definitive on these issues. 1 - to midphase to address the possible wrong-doings from one of their customers, and 2 - to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (and the list as he doesn't get my mail) so he can adjust his rules

Re: Grouping input

2005-05-25 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Menschel wrote: MK However, these attempts are only going to be effective against the bayes portion MK of SA. As I've said before, my opinion is that these attempts are NOT effective against SpamAssassin's Bayes system. As a rule, we do NOT receive hams which contain such

Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-25 Thread aecioneto
Loren and Chris, thanks for your replies. I am aware of SA, I have been using it from a very long time ago - having it well trained and updated - as best as I can. I understand about all issues you both mentioned about a raw SA and other solutions out there. I post such inquiry to the list

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread evan
Do you have any links to linux based fake proxypots ? They sound cool, or maybe its just fun to say... Look for implementations of Teergrube on google. A famous one which shut down awhile back is LaBrea - which uses similar technology for catching worms. There is a Linux netfilter plugin

Spamcop reporting

2005-05-25 Thread Thomas Zehetbauer
Hi, I have just started reporting spam and I wonder if SpamCop really expects it's users to confirm every submission in the web interface? Tom -- T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for key Those, who

Re: SpamAssassin-3.0.3 test failure

2005-05-25 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Mark, Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 10:29:16 AM, you wrote: MGT I'm new here, and am not positive if this is the right place to MGT ask this question. Yes, it is. MGT I am not sure how to proceed in determining what broke and why. MGT I had no troubles with SpamAssassin-3.0.2, but after

Re: Spamassassin isn't working on relay traffic...

2005-05-25 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:56 PM 5/25/2005, Bryan Oswalt wrote: I have Spamassassin setup in a spamd/spamc type configuration, along with spamass-milter and the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER option configured in sendmail with procmail as my MDA. The server I have this running on is to be setup as a mail filtering gateway for

Re: Procmail Recipe Problem

2005-05-25 Thread Jake Colman
LW == Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Clearly, some of my emails are skipping SA! LW Which version were you running, again? This was a known-to-happen LW 'feature' with the 2.6x series, although nobody ever really figured LW out why. There are conditions where it can

Re: dissapointed dummy MX record

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 5:43:41 PM, evan wrote: Also look at honeyd.org for how honeypots are catching spammers. Spamhaus uses a similar scheme where unknown and unused domains sit on servers across the world. Any mail the server gets is obviously spam since no one should be sending an

Re: [SARE] Whitelist.cf updated

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 9:19:43 PM, Robert Menschel wrote: Just a quick note that the SARE whitelist rules file has been updated. Documentation at http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm#whitelist Bob Menschel A couple questions: 1. Are these envelope senders or URI domains? 2. Would