RE: SPF and Hotmail

2008-04-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, April 16, 2008 00:14, Michael Hutchinson wrote: domain: def_whitelist_auth [EMAIL PROTECTED] user: whitelist_auth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool, thanks Benny. np I can't employ what you've told me as upgrading to 3.2.4 is out of the question until I rebuild the mail server (Debian

Re: Need help with bobax rules

2008-04-16 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
HI Jack, Any chance of sharing your rules for this?! Cheers, Jeremy Jack Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This info popped up on the emerging-Threats list. I have watched our mail servers and have confirmed that it works. The problem is that my attempts to

Writing a rule according to some reverse names

2008-04-16 Thread Yavuz Maslak
I use spamassassin3.2.x I want spamassassin to give a score according to reverse name of a source ip address. I think of doing for some dynamic ip addresses. How can I do that as a rule ?

Re: relays.ordb.org returning positive for everything?

2008-04-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, April 16, 2008 11:13, Daniel Zaugg wrote: Wow ! Aren't you guys proud to be postmasters ! my cat turn off my mailserver when it makes to much noice for his sleep :) For me being a postmaster clearly is a chore (one of many) to wich I devote an absolute minimum amount of my precious

Re: relays.ordb.org returning positive for everything?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Zaugg
John Rudd wrote: the error is ignored since it has no practical consequence (except maybe in some unread log file) Unread/unchecked only by half-assed postmasters who aren't worth their salt, and should thus be fired. A decent postmaster at least generates summaries of traffic ...

Re: Writing a rule according to some reverse names

2008-04-16 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.04.08 19:24, Yavuz Maslak wrote: I want spamassassin to give a score according to reverse name of a source ip address. I think of doing for some dynamic ip addresses. How can I do that as a rule ? there already are such scores, search for DYNAMIC or DYN_. There are also scores for

Re: sa-learn incapable of handling large amounts of messages?

2008-04-16 Thread Caleb Cushing
ah... resolved. I forgot that these message hadn't been checked by spamd (and I didn't realize they needed to) after running the whole directory through spamassassin it works as expected. Learned tokens from 1741 message(s) (2469 message(s) examined) :D -- Caleb Cushing my blog

Re: Need help with bobax rules

2008-04-16 Thread Jack Pepper
Quoting Jeremy Fairbrass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI Jack, Any chance of sharing your rules for this?! Cheers, Jeremy Sure: score BOBAX_GEN_SPAM_2 1.800 header BOBAX_GEN_SPAM_2 ALL =~ /^Message-Id:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/m describe BOBAX_GEN_SPAM_2 Has Bobax Generated Message-Id, type 2 score

Re: sa-learn incapable of handling large amounts of messages?

2008-04-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Caleb Cushing wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008 11:27:55 pm Matt Kettler wrote: Really I'd just be wanting to see the start and end of it.. head [7750] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [7750] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [7750] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.4 [7750] dbg:

a new kind of annoyance, the undeliverables

2008-04-16 Thread Erik Dasque
Hi all, it's actually not that new since it's been happening for a few years on my personal email but it has invaded work too and I was wondering what your thoughts were about it. I don't know how to call it but essentially it comes from spammers using my work or personal email addresses

Re: Need help with bobax rules

2008-04-16 Thread Justin Mason
for what it's worth, I just pushed Henry's version of Joe's rules into the 3.2.x sa-updates. --j. Jack Pepper writes: Quoting Jeremy Fairbrass [EMAIL PROTECTED]: HI Jack, Any chance of sharing your rules for this?! Cheers, Jeremy Sure: score BOBAX_GEN_SPAM_2 1.800 header

Re: a new kind of annoyance, the undeliverables

2008-04-16 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:01:25 Erik Dasque wrote: Hi all, it's actually not that new since it's been happening for a few years on my personal email but it has invaded work too and I was wondering what your thoughts were about it. I don't know how to call it joe-jobing (what the spammer

future bleeding threats rules

2008-04-16 Thread Justin Mason
by the way, if there are future good spam rules discussed on Snort lists, please feel free to forward on the details here. Most (all?) of the SpamAssassin devs don't follow those lists... --j.

Re: Rule writing query

2008-04-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, March 21, 2008 20:46, Theo Van Dinter wrote: Generally speaking, blocking that stuff in the MTA is the right/better way to go. if body is 100M then you accept it before you can test for it :( Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098

Re: Rule writing query

2008-04-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:11:25PM +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /filename\=\as\.zip\/ header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /^filename\=\[a-z]{2}\.zip\/i If you're trying to match the filename in an attachment, header isn't going to get you anywhere.

Re: Rule writing query

2008-04-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, April 16, 2008 16:16, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:11:25PM +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /filename\=\as\.zip\/ header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /^filename\=\[a-z]{2}\.zip\/i If you're trying to match the filename in an

Re: Rule writing query

2008-04-16 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, March 21, 2008 18:41, Martin Gregorie wrote: header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /filename\=\as\.zip\/ header MG_LINK2 Content-Disposition =~ /^filename\=\[a-z]{2}\.zip\/i Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098

Re: a new kind of annoyance, the undeliverables

2008-04-16 Thread Joseph Brennan
Erik Dasque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a result of those thousands (millions) of Spam emails sent 'by me', I get a hefty number of undeliverable email notices in my inbox (from the thousands of invalid address in the spammer address book). It goes in waves, sometimes I'll go months without

two versions of spamd running?

2008-04-16 Thread raulbe
I am running mailscanner with spamassassin attached. But I think the native spamassassin is still running. So I did a check $ spamd -V SpamAssassin Server version 3.1.9 running on Perl 5.8.5 [20928] error: List::Util object version 1.14 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.19 at

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-16 Thread mouss
Graham Murray wrote: mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ahuh? how would spf fix the problem if spam gets out from an authorized client (yahoo, google, hotmail, aol, ...). however you respond, you'll find out that such (ougoing) spam problem isn't fixed _by_ SPF. In particular, don't tell me

Re: two versions of spamd running?

2008-04-16 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Any thoughts? Thanks! ps xafu | grep spamd or /etc/init.d/spamassassin status

SA update error

2008-04-16 Thread raulbe
For fun I ran an SAupdate and got tons of errors but not sure were to start looking to fix. this is running on $ spamd -V SpamAssassin Server version 3.1.9 Thanks! $ sa-update plugin: failed to parse plugin (from @INC): Bareword Mail::SpamAssassin::Constants::CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS

Re: relays.ordb.org returning positive for everything?

2008-04-16 Thread Arvid Ephraim Picciani
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 11:13:04 Daniel Zaugg wrote: Wow ! Aren't you guys proud to be postmasters ! no. the real one got fired. hehe -- best regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen Arvid Ephraim Picciani

Re: two versions of spamd running?

2008-04-16 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Thanks for the reply! So if i run that i get $ ps xafu | grep spamd root 2146 0.0 0.0 4556 552 pts/1S+ 12:17 0:00 \_ grep spamd root 16388 0.0 1.8 44492 37708 ? Ss 10:30 0:04 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m8 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid nobody

Re: relays.ordb.org returning positive for everything?

2008-04-16 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Daniel Zaugg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Rudd wrote: the error is ignored since it has no practical consequence (except maybe in some unread log file) Unread/unchecked only by half-assed postmasters who aren't worth their salt, and should

Re: a new kind of annoyance, the undeliverables

2008-04-16 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Erik Dasque wrote: [snip..] As a result of those thousands (millions) of Spam emails sent 'by me', I get a hefty number of undeliverable email notices in my inbox (from the thousands of invalid address in the spammer address book). It goes in waves, sometimes I'll go

False Negatives

2008-04-16 Thread Tony Bunce
Hi everyone, I'm starting to see a noticeable amount of message sneak by spamassassin with scores mostly the 3-4 range but some as low as 1 point. I'm running 3.2.4 with SARE, sough, and Botnet. We don't use bayes. Here are some samples of messages that have got through:

Re: False Negatives

2008-04-16 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! I'm running 3.2.4 with SARE, sough, and Botnet. We don't use bayes. Here are some samples of messages that have got through: http://pastebin.com/m16055c85 http://pastebin.com/m52635526 http://pastebin.com/m491c4882 http://pastebin.com/m7c1240f2 I get a HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found on all

Re: False Negatives

2008-04-16 Thread DAve
Tony Bunce wrote: Hi everyone, I'm starting to see a noticeable amount of message sneak by spamassassin with scores mostly the 3-4 range but some as low as 1 point. I'm running 3.2.4 with SARE, sough, and Botnet. We don't use bayes. Here are some samples of messages that have got through:

Re: False Negatives

2008-04-16 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Tony Bunce wrote: Hi everyone, I'm starting to see a noticeable amount of message sneak by spamassassin with scores mostly the 3-4 range but some as low as 1 point. I'm running 3.2.4 with SARE, sough, and Botnet. We don't use bayes. Here are some samples of messages that have got through:

Re: a new kind of annoyance, the undeliverables

2008-04-16 Thread Justin Mason
David B Funk writes: On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Erik Dasque wrote: [snip..] As a result of those thousands (millions) of Spam emails sent 'by me', I get a hefty number of undeliverable email notices in my inbox (from the thousands of invalid address in the spammer address book). It goes in

Re: FW: Why is this spam passing my SA (counterfeit goods)

2008-04-16 Thread Kris Deugau
Josie Walls wrote: Would this group agree that requiring 5 hits in order to classify an email as spam is too conservative a number? Nope. I've been running a number of systems - personal and professional - at 5 with no major runs of missed-spam or mistagged-ham (aside from the period where

Re: sa-learn incapable of handling large amounts of messages?

2008-04-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Caleb Cushing wrote: ah... resolved. I forgot that these message hadn't been checked by spamd (and I didn't realize they needed to) after running the whole directory through spamassassin it works as expected. Learned tokens from 1741 message(s) (2469 message(s) examined) :D That shouldn't