Re: Re: [offtopic] Are 8-bit characters completely illegal in a raw message?

2008-04-02 Thread vitas1
Thanks for all answers. Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01.04.2008 18:11:03: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition my SMTP server does *not* support 8-bit MIME for incoming e-mail. On 01.04.08 10:52, Enrico Scholz wrote: That's very uncommon and lot of mail will be

Re: vbounce

2008-04-02 Thread R.Smits
Hi, We have exacly the same issue over here. I am very interested in a solution. If i look at the maillog file, I don't see a MY_SERVERS_FOUND triggered anywhere ? Greetings... Richard JP Kelly wrote: yay i finally had the pleasure of getting joe jobbed! so i am looking at vbounce. i think

Re: vbounce

2008-04-02 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:30:37AM +0200, R.Smits wrote: Hi, We have exacly the same issue over here. I am very interested in a solution. If i look at the maillog file, I don't see a MY_SERVERS_FOUND triggered anywhere ? You are not supposed to see __MY_SERVERS_FOUND. It's a hidden rule,

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, April 2, 2008 02:06, William Terry wrote: I mostly lurk here, gleaning bits of wisdom from those far more knowledgeable than me, however... i have no clue either :-) I am getting a dramatic increase in bounce messages with my domain forged sent to

Re: vbounce

2008-04-02 Thread Justin Mason
JP Kelly writes: yay i finally had the pleasure of getting joe jobbed! so i am looking at vbounce. i think it is working but when i intentionally bounce to myself the by sending to a non existent address, whitelist_bounce_relays does not seem to trigger. searching the archives i

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread Justin Mason
John Hardin writes: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Terry wrote: Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? Do you publish SPF records? Logically this should have an effect, but in real-world terms, it doesn't. So don't worry about it. Instead, try enabling the vbounce ruleset... --j.

Re: mail from dialups via ISP MTA

2008-04-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 16:06:25 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 22:53:45 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Such IP's are thus not designed to send mail directly to recipients - users have to send mail through mailserver with static IP that can autenticate them.

Re: mail from dialups via ISP MTA

2008-04-02 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 4/1/2008 5:43 PM, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: and another mail false positive: 2.2 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Blocked - see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?91.151.146.244] 1.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB RBL: SORBS: sender is a abuseable

Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Loren Wilton
Recently a guy posted on the list about the problems he has been having for a month trying to resolve problems with sending mail. The posting made it appear the problem was a missing head-body separator in the mail he was sending. I've been talking with him, and that turns out to not be the

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Per Jessen
Loren Wilton wrote: --- Having an PTR like ip-72-167-52-118.ip.secureserver.net does not look like someone had the intention to run a mailrelay on. With such an PTR you will not just be blocked by UCEPROTECT-Appliances, you can expect wide delivery problems out there.

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread ram
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:42 +0200, mouss wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, April 2, 2008 02:06, William Terry wrote: I mostly lurk here, gleaning bits of wisdom from those far more knowledgeable than me, however... i have no clue either :-) I am getting a

Re: spamassassin lint warnings

2008-04-02 Thread Rodney Green
Thanks Mike. However, I'm getting the same warnings for a majority of the .cf files in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002004 and /etc/mail/spamassassin, not just the two files referenced in my original e-mail. Rod On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Michael Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread Dave Pooser
i see other types of backscatter that could be solved by using spf only if spammers check spf before forging addresses, which I doubt... I can say that since I started publishing SPF records at $DAYJOB we've seen a gigantic reduction in backscatter. I think many spammers do try to avoid using

Re: vbounce

2008-04-02 Thread Grant Peel
- Original Message - From: Henrik K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:49 AM Subject: Re: vbounce On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:30:37AM +0200, R.Smits wrote: Hi, We have exacly the same issue over here. I am very interested in a

RE: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:46 AM Recently a guy posted on the list about the problems he has been having for a month trying to resolve problems with sending mail. The posting made it appear the problem was a

how to unsubscribe to this group

2008-04-02 Thread Agnello George
how to unsubscribe to this group -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.bible-study-india.blogspot.com

Re: vbounce

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Grant Peel wrote: - Original Message - From: Henrik K [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 2:49 AM Subject: Re: vbounce On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:30:37AM +0200, R.Smits wrote: Hi, We have exacly the same issue over here. I am very

Re: how to unsubscribe to this group

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Agnello George wrote: how to unsubscribe to this group grin It is amzaing how many people succeed to subscribe and can't find out how to unsubscribe... /grin a Google search would easily lead to http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists and reading that page shows how to

Re: how to unsubscribe to this group

2008-04-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Agnello George wrote: how to unsubscribe to this group In the headers of every message on the list: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to unsubscribe to this group

2008-04-02 Thread Nigel Frankcom
From the headers of all list emails list-help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] list-unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: mailto:users@spamassassin.apache.org List-Id: users.spamassassin.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@spamassassin.apache.org oh and for VBounce look at the

Re: how to unsubscribe to this group

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Nigel Frankcom wrote: From the headers of all list emails list-help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] list-unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Post: mailto:users@spamassassin.apache.org List-Id: users.spamassassin.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list users@spamassassin.apache.org why

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:45 -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from k2smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.189.102]) by mx-pigeons.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1jGWCE6yu3Nl34g0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 2 Apr 2008

office rule

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'd like to create a rule that scores 4 points if the word office is in the From field, or in the subject line Can someone help me there? thx J

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Joseph Brennan wrote: --On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:45 -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from k2smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.189.102]) by mx-pigeons.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1jGWCE6yu3Nl34g0 for [EMAIL

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread SM
At 02:45 02-04-2008, Loren Wilton wrote: Recently a guy posted on the list about the problems he has been having for a month trying to resolve problems with sending mail. The posting made it appear the problem was a missing head-body separator in the mail he was sending. I've been talking

Re: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread ram
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:07 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'd like to create a rule that scores 4 points if the word office is in the From field, or in the subject line Are you sure want to give 4 ?? Any way YSYR ( your server your rules :-) ) header __FROMOFFICE From

Re: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:07 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'd like to create a rule that scores 4 points if the word office is in the From field, or in the subject line On 02.04.08 21:07, ram wrote: Are you sure want to give 4 ?? Any way YSYR ( your server your rules :-) )

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 17:27 +0200 mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Brennan wrote: --On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:45 -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from k2smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.189.102]) by mx-pigeons.atl.sa.earthlink.net

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Justin Mason wrote: John Hardin writes: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Terry wrote: Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? Do you publish SPF records? Logically this should have an effect, but in real-world terms, it doesn't. So don't worry about it. Sure it

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Joseph Brennan wrote: [snip] But 72.167.52.118 gave it to 64.202.189.102, and 64.202.189.102 is the mail server that sent it out to the recipient. Client software sends crazy stuff as helo. client software does not insert qmail received headers. The message was submitted on a qmail machine

Re: Bounce back spam

2008-04-02 Thread Dennis Davis
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Jeff Koch wrote: From: Jeff Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:53:52 -0400 Subject: Bounce back spam Our users are getting inundated with bounce-back, joe-job spam. We have the Vbounce.pm plugin enabled (v3.2.4) and have

RE: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I was thinking of adding a rule that explicity allows or does a -10 on out of office autoreply as a complete string If possible -Original Message- From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:45 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org

Re: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I was thinking of adding a rule that explicity allows or does a -10 on out of office autoreply as a complete string If possible only do so conditionally. you don't want spam to slip this way. anyway, you'll have a hard time finding all the cases that require

Re: purge byes in sql

2008-04-02 Thread Ken Menzel
Hi Miguel, I run /usr/local/bin/sa-learn --force-expire daily with MySQL and it works fine. Here is an excellent slide show on use SQL with SA: http://people.apache.org/~parker/presentations/MO13slides.pdf You may also find these SQL queries helpful, I run them monthly. echo Starting

Re: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread Kelson
ram wrote: header __FROMOFFICE From =~/office/i header __SUBOFFICE Subject =~/office/i meta OFFICERULE (__FROMOFFICE || __SUBOFFICE ) score OFFICERULE 4.0 And don't forget to add word boundaries. You probably don't want it matching on officer header __FROMOFFICE From =~/\boffice\b/i

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:08, Justin Mason wrote: John Hardin writes: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Terry wrote: Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? Do you publish SPF records? Logically this should have an effect, but in real-world terms, it doesn't. So don't worry about

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:08, Justin Mason wrote: John Hardin writes: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Terry wrote: Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? Do you publish SPF records? Logically this should have an effect, but in

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 16:27, mouss wrote: Joseph Brennan wrote: --On Wednesday, April 2, 2008 2:45 -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from k2smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.189.102]) by mx-pigeons.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server)

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: [snip] I use secureserver.net to host my domain name and I also run my own MTA. I don't suffer from this problem, so if he rearranges his setup so it is similar to mine the chances are the problem will go away. As I said, Secureserver.net is my domain host. Apart from

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 21:03, mouss wrote: He is apparently relaying via k2smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net which looks like an official godaddy server. In that case I'm confused: I thought his problem was described as being due his MTA sending mail from a residential block of IPs.

Re: Logging

2008-04-02 Thread James Wilkinson
Skip wrote: I am on a linux, shared hosting site (Bluehost.com). I don't know how I can get it into the startup script for that box, and I only have access to my own home directory. That may be a showstopper right there. I'll have no way of knowing when they reboot the box. Earlier,

RE: spamassassin lint warnings

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Rodney Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:35 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin lint warnings Thanks Mike. However, I'm getting the same warnings for a majority of the .cf files in

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: I have never been fond of AWL because the information it relies upon, the mail headers, is very easy to forge. It depends too much upon Yes, but they have to know who to forge. Anyway, I'm not debating its merits. It works very, very well in

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Justin Mason wrote: Sorry, I don't the original messages any more. (I looked) But it wouldn't surprise me if the /16 matched. The mail I send myself is usually from Wifi or my phone carrier's GSM network, but accepted via SMTP AUTH on the local machine. So which

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
I'm not worried about mail from self to self. I'm annoying because AWL is decreasing forged spam score so far that the SPF failure doesn't catch. On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: INSERT INTO `awl` VALUES('amavis', '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', '80.166', 4, -14, '2008-04-02 00:02:15');

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:03 PM, John Hardin wrote: If you don't scan mails that you know originated from you, then they won't affect AWL for a forged message... Sorry, I'm not going to disable virus and bot protection just to avoid a mis-feature in another module. The right answer is a fix in

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: What I am pointing out is that AWL should not be used for mail from self to self, because this is an easy forgery. explain why its a problem when awl logs ip AWL counts on the spammer not being able to forge someone you correspond with

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread Jo Rhett
On Apr 2, 2008, at 12:34 PM, mouss wrote: no tuning on your side will help solving problems at the other side. For example, I found that hotmail cache the value Yes, they cache the results of that DNS query for exactly how long you tell them to. If you want the SPF record cached less,

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-02 Thread mouss
Jo Rhett wrote: On Apr 2, 2008, at 12:34 PM, mouss wrote: no tuning on your side will help solving problems at the other side. For example, I found that hotmail cache the value Yes, they cache the results of that DNS query for exactly how long you tell them to. This is not my observation.

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jo Rhett wrote: On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:03 PM, John Hardin wrote: If you don't scan mails that you know originated from you, then they won't affect AWL for a forged message... Sorry, I'm not going to disable virus and bot protection just to avoid a mis-feature in another

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-04-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Jo Rhett wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I disagree with the premise that it is hard to forge mail from someone you correspond with frequently. It is equally easy to forge. Easy to forge, but who to forge? Hard for a spammer to know who I correspond with frequently. Myself is the only one a

Re: office rule

2008-04-02 Thread ram
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:23 -0700, Kelson wrote: ram wrote: header __FROMOFFICE From =~/office/i header __SUBOFFICE Subject =~/office/i meta OFFICERULE (__FROMOFFICE || __SUBOFFICE ) score OFFICERULE 4.0 And don't forget to add word boundaries. You probably don't want it