Re: whitelist_from_spf

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 14-May-2009, at 21:57, Mark wrote: v=spf1 mx a:spf.orange.es ip4:213.143.52.0/24 -all What's the CIDR there for if not to identify the valid range of IPs for the SPF records? Wait a minute, are they saying that their ENTIRE CLASS C is allowed to send mail 'from' orange.es? The /24 CIDR

RE: whitelist_from_spf

2009-05-15 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 8:05 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: whitelist_from_spf On 14-May-2009, at 21:57, Mark wrote: v=spf1 mx a:spf.orange.es ip4:213.143.52.0/24 -all What's the CIDR there for if not to

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
On Fri, 15 May 2009 02:01:34 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: This made it through. As can be seen from the headers it got a 2.9 score only and didn't match MIME_IMAGE_ONLY which certainly would have pushed it over the top. Does match MIME_IMAGE_ONLY for me.

What score does this get?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Another request, please: what score does SpamAssassin give this email for you? http://rafb.net/p/FMejnS80.html I'm really starting to think mine is missing a lot of rules. :-( Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 22:44, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote:  Id LOVE to get back to 15 min compiles. I'm not familiar with the details of RE compilation - would it be possible for Justing to have

Re: FreeMail plugin updated

2009-05-15 Thread Henrik K
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 01:08:29PM +0300, Henrik K wrote: http://sa.hege.li/FreeMail.pm (see inside for some documentation) http://sa.hege.li/FreeMail.cf (for some examples) I've added suggestion for this: header __freemail_reply eval:check_freemail_replyto('reply') meta FREEMAIL_REPLY

An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Cardwell
One of SpamAssassins weaknesses is that it only has access to the message body of the email. It can't create rules to detect certain behaviours of the connecting host during delivery. For example, during SMTP. If the connecting client sends: MAIL FROM: u...@example.com Instead of: MAIL

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Justin Mason
hi -- this stuff is generally recorded in the Received header, and SA will act on it if it's there. that's the place to do it... --j. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:42, Mike Cardwell spamassassin-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote: One of SpamAssassins weaknesses is that it only has access to the

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Cardwell
Justin Mason wrote: hi -- this stuff is generally recorded in the Received header, and SA will act on it if it's there. that's the place to do it... The STARTTLS example is recorded in the received headers, yes. None of the other 3 examples are recorded in the received headers though...

two databases

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Grant
I run spamassassin on my mail server from milter-spam (http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-spamc/). One mail server is no longer sufficient for both reliability and load so I'm building 2 identical mail servers (two mx mailers). Ideally I'd like both of them to share the bayes database.

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Cardwell
Mike Cardwell wrote: Justin Mason wrote: hi -- this stuff is generally recorded in the Received header, and SA will act on it if it's there. that's the place to do it... The STARTTLS example is recorded in the received headers, yes. None of the other 3 examples are recorded in the

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Justin Mason wrote: this has been done ages ago. https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5594 maybe we can get it committed to 3.2.6? patch has been out there 16 months and 4 weeks. best I can tell, from all the notes, we need to apply this patch to 3.2.x branch,

Re: two databases

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Michael Grant wrote: I run spamassassin on my mail server from milter-spam (http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-spamc/). One mail server is no longer sufficient for both reliability and load so I'm building 2 identical mail servers (two mx mailers). aside from the issues of trying to

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Mike Cardwell wrote: One of SpamAssassins weaknesses is that it only has access to the message body of the email. It can't create rules to detect certain behaviours of the connecting host during delivery. MAIL FROM:u...@example.com SIZE=12345 am i mistaken, or is SIZE only offered if the

Re: spammers now abusing adobe PDF

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
and sooner or later, adobe will put captha on their system to keep them from being blacklisted. Jason Haar wrote: I just received this (can't use pastebin any more :-(). Looks like spammers are using createpdf.adobe.com to create their spam for them. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone:

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Stephens
LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from mail.elsevier-alerts.com --

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Justin Mason
no -- I mean it was released in 3.2.4 ;) On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:40, Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: Justin Mason wrote: this has been done ages ago. https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5594 maybe we can get it committed to 3.2.6? patch has been out

Re: two databases

2009-05-15 Thread Justin Mason
another alternative is to use SQL for bayes. --j. On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:24, Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: Michael Grant wrote: I run spamassassin on my mail server from milter-spam (http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-spamc/). One mail server is no longer

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Justin Mason wrote: no -- I mean it was released in 3.2.4 ;) Im running 3.2.5 and it still takes 45 mins to compile the sought rules. (so, why does the bug say 'resolved' and not closed? and why does SOME of the patch apply? chunks 1,2, 5,6 and 7 seemed to apply. -- Michael Scheidell,

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Mike Cardwell wrote: One of SpamAssassins weaknesses is that it only has access to the message body of the email. It can't create rules to detect certain behaviours of the connecting host during delivery. MAIL FROM:u...@example.com SIZE=12345 On 15.05.09 07:28, Michael Scheidell

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Mike Cardwell
Michael Scheidell wrote: One of SpamAssassins weaknesses is that it only has access to the message body of the email. It can't create rules to detect certain behaviours of the connecting host during delivery. MAIL FROM:u...@example.com SIZE=12345 am i mistaken, or is SIZE only offered if

Re: two databases

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
yes, but he wants two servers, right? I guess I was assuming he meant sql (mysql) you can't 'replicate' the bayes from mx1 to mx2, get lots of weird issues. ps, my patches for ooo messages and vbounce rules... . -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 *| *SECNAP

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Mike Cardwell wrote: Justin Mason wrote: hi -- this stuff is generally recorded in the Received header, and SA will act on it if it's there. that's the place to do it... The STARTTLS example is recorded in the received headers, yes. None of the other 3 examples are

Re: two databases

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Grant
I did not realize one could store the bayes scores in sql. So I'd store the bayes scores on a third server and let both mxes use the same database. Two equal weighted mx records are a good idea. Michael Grant

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:47, Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: Justin Mason wrote: no -- I mean it was released in 3.2.4 ; Im running 3.2.5 and it still takes 45 mins to compile the sought rules. in that case, the patch isn't helping you, and attempting to reapply it won't,

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Justin Mason wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:47, Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: Justin Mason wrote: no -- I mean it was released in 3.2.4 ; Im running 3.2.5 and it still takes 45 mins to compile the sought rules. in that case, the patch isn't helping you, and

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: OK, didn't take long to get such an example. :-) http://rafb.net/p/rqOjCJ11.html The only time I've ever seen anything like this was on my old SA 2.x when it didn't properly handle 'quoted printable' and stuff like that. The problem is, by the time

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
A: Because they are not defined. (See second half of this post.) On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:23 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009 02:01:34 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Hmm, well now it's getting 6.4 from the commandline and seems to be matching more appropriate rules.

RE: Low Score?

2009-05-15 Thread Tony Bunce
x-spam-status: No, score=2.4 required=5.0 tests=DCC_CHECK,RCVD_IN_FIVETENSG, ^ Hits on 50% of your HAM, doesn't it? Yea, it hits a lot but not enough to cause false positives. I score it 1.0 but also use it with some

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
that would trash everyone running cisco firewalls with smtp fixup (or as we call it here, smtp screwup) hm? http://www.google.com/search?q=cisco+smtp+fixup http://www.issociate.de/board/post/195084/SMTP_Fixup_--_On_or_Off???.html Telnet (someone who does NOT use smtp screwup on cisco pix:

Re: ever resolve sa-compile taking 45mins issue?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: any idea why the sought rules affect it so much? Caching doesn't help if the ruleset changes _every time_ you try to recompile it... Justin, did you see my suggestion that the base string caching should also include checking the sa-update

Re: saving output of test to a text file

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 14 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 14-May-2009, at 16:38, Lists wrote: I really need to see all the debug output as I am trying to see which user is running when trying to access FuzzyOCR. You are directing stdout, you need to redirect stderr as well. How to do this depends on your

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Cardwell wrote: I was thinking along the lines of an interface where the mta connects to SpamAssassin when a connection comes in, and it then sends the full smtp transaction to SpamAssassin as it happens. Ugh. Why alter SA that much? It would be better if the MTA

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail from mail.elsevier-alerts.com I

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently on mail

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most prominently

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Adam Stephens wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this,

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: A: Because they are not defined. (See second half of this post.) What I was getting at with MIME_IMAGE_ONLY is, is this a really fundamental test that's supposed to be defined in the tests in /usr/share/spamassassin/ ? No, it is not. That's a *custom* rule that

Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Hi, How do I manually override the default scores that SA assigns to various rules? Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)

Re: An SMTP transaction, SpamAssassin interface

2009-05-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Mike Cardwell wrote: For example, during SMTP. If the connecting client sends: MAIL FROM: u...@example.com ... That is a *high* indicator that the email is going to be spam. I haven't found a real mail server that adds that whitespace it's self... I have. I get

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.05.09 17:28, Jeremy Morton wrote: How do I manually override the default scores that SA assigns to various rules? have you read the docs? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie:

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: It seemed like quite an obvious one to me - an image only and no body? Anyway, OK so I can manually put this rule in. But is there a way to do things in a more automated fashion? I don't want to be manually entering new rules all the time. I tried

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Yes. All I could find was stuff about creating your own rules, not actually changing the weightings of existing rules. Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 15.05.09 17:28, Jeremy Morton wrote: How do I manually override the default scores that SA assigns to

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:26 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: A: Because they are not defined. (See second half of this post.) Where did you come across that rule at all? How did you get the impression it should be in your stock install? Would you mind contributing

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: Yes. All I could find was stuff about creating your own rules, not actually changing the weightings of existing rules. Please don't top-post. {reads} Well, I guess the docs _don't_ explicitly state that later score commands will override previous

Re: What score does this get?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:25 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Another request, please: what score does SpamAssassin give this email for you? http://rafb.net/p/FMejnS80.html Hmm, that looks like a stupid auto-response, likely backscatter. Subject: Ihre Anfrage an AVM Records X-Mailer: Confixx

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:26 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: A: Because they are not defined. (See second half of this post.) Where did you come across that rule at all? How did you get the impression it should be in your stock install?

Re: What score does this get?

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:25 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Another request, please: what score does SpamAssassin give this email for you? http://rafb.net/p/FMejnS80.html Hmm, that looks like a stupid auto-response, likely backscatter. Subject: Ihre Anfrage an AVM

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:46 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: Yes. All I could find was stuff about creating your own rules, not actually changing the weightings of existing rules. Well, I guess the docs _don't_ explicitly state that later score

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:05 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Where did you come across that rule at all? How did you get the impression it should be in your stock install? Would you mind contributing to this thread? Please do answer my questions. They are not

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: It seemed like an image-only email was the kind of thing that was very sinister and that this kind of rule would've been added to SA a long time ago. SA *has* had image-only rules for a while, just not this particular variant. -- John Hardin

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:46 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: Yes. All I could find was stuff about creating your own rules, not actually changing the weightings of existing rules. Well, I guess the docs

Re: What score does this get?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:11 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Hmm, that looks like a stupid auto-response, likely backscatter. Envelope-to: crush...@game-point.net Is that a real, valid user? Do you use catch-all by chance? I do use catch-all, yes,

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:25 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Ah, the hard way. ;) That's useful, if you want to change the score *relative* to the stock score, and thus change when the stock score changes for whatever reason. It is, however,

Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Here's another e-mail that got through SpamAssassin: http://rafb.net/p/cFMnIy61.html As you can see I've effectively disabled the BAYES_00 rule as it's giving false credit to a ton of backscatter crud messages, but is there really a way to block these kinds of backscatter? Is my Bayesian

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: http://pastebin.com/m1268fbe6 Thanks. Here's the problematic URI: http://../cd.asp?i=572550545UserID=4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55 in the unsunscribe link. Which was actually: a href=3D=22=2E= =2E/cd=2Easp?i=3D572550545=26UserID=3D4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55=22 And thus: a

Re: Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:45 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Here's another e-mail that got through SpamAssassin: http://rafb.net/p/cFMnIy61.html Backscatter. These types of arbitrarily phrased I changed my email address auto-responses are pretty much impossible to catch. As you can see I've

Re: Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread Jeremy Morton
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 18:45 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Here's another e-mail that got through SpamAssassin: http://rafb.net/p/cFMnIy61.html Backscatter. These types of arbitrarily phrased I changed my email address auto-responses are pretty much impossible to

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: John Hardin wrote: http://pastebin.com/m1268fbe6 Thanks. Here's the problematic URI: http://../cd.asp?i=572550545UserID=4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55 in the unsunscribe link. Which was actually: a href=3D=22=2E= =2E/cd=2Easp?i=3D572550545=26UserID=3D4DFEDDHIIBCFBH55=22 And thus:

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Karsten Br�ckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 10:25 -0700, John Hardin wrote: As I said, doing that is only _implied_ in the docs. Site-specific configuration data is used to override any values which had already been set. John, so that merely *implies* but

Re: Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: It's unwanted e-mail, so it's pretty close to spam in my book. Just because it's some moron who bounced a message instead of someone explicitly spamming me doesn't make it much better. It is unwanted, but would you send a report to the sender's ISP because of

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that works great for me and I understand the

Re: Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 19:27 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Backscatter. These types of arbitrarily phrased I changed my email address auto-responses are pretty much impossible to catch. I feared as much. Since BAYES_00 is a strong sign for ham, I would have at

Re: Manually changing rule weightings?

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 11:25 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Site-specific configuration data is used to override any values which had already been set. John, so that merely *implies* but doesn't specifically state that configuration

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Adam Katz wrote: Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that

Bad Ideas in anti-phishing #1353

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
This just snuck into my inbox: On Fri, 15 May 2009, StrongWebmail wrote: StrongWebmail launches the world's first email account that can't be hacked. Nobody gets in unless he gets a phone call. {snip} A new service is putting an end to this nightmare. StrongWebmail.com is the first email

20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread McDonald, Dan
I've got a couple of users getting 419 scams, and it looks like 20_advance_fee.cf has got most of the good stuff for finding these nasties. Unfortunately, it's only matching one of the sub-tests ( __FRAUD_DBI ). If I wanted to extend it a bit, how should I go about it? Maybe create: meta

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Adam Katz wrote: Adam Katz wrote: Relative URIs are only safe when prefacing the URI. Requiring the protocol beforehand should do the trick. Since http://; is the implied protocol and is 8 chars, we get this: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Ned Slider wrote: Yep - that works great for me and I

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: What about an explicit https://..; URI? I have no problem marking that as spam (you're thinking too hard). I should also have noted that while this works around the SA bug, it also ignores hidden dirs and files appearing early in relative paths, like a href=a.bc/.secret

Re: 20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
McDonald, Dan wrote: If I wanted to extend it a bit, how should I go about it? Maybe create: meta __ADVANCE_FEE_1 (__FRAUD_KJV + __FRAUD_IRJ + __FRAUD_NEB + __FRAUD_XJR + __FRAUD_EZY + __FRAUD_ZFJ + __FRAUD_KDT + __FRAUD_BGP + __FRAUD_FBI + __FRAUD_JBU + __FRAUD_JYG + __FRAUD_XVW +

Re: 20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, McDonald, Dan wrote: Or would it be better to just overwrite ADVANCE_FEE_{2,3,4} with more subtests? The sought_fraud rules are dynamically generated from current 419 emails. Were you aware of them? Granted, they are rather large... -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bowie Bailey wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have the whitelist_bounce_relays options set for vbounce and the rules are hitting on bounce messages, but the whitelists don't seem to be working. In my local.cf, I have: whitelist_bounce_relays

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On May 15, 2009, at 5:44, Adam Stephens adam.steph...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 12-May-2009, at 18:27, John Hardin wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN/\/\../ Ah, that's very very nice. Scoring it at 3.0, too aggressive? I'd say so - I'm seeing lots of FPs on this, most

Re: 20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:15 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, McDonald, Dan wrote: Or would it be better to just overwrite ADVANCE_FEE_{2,3,4} with more subtests? The sought_fraud rules are dynamically generated from current 419 emails. Were you aware of them? Granted,

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:42 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have the whitelist_bounce_relays options set for vbounce and the rules are hitting on bounce messages, but the whitelists don't seem to be working. In my local.cf, I have: whitelist_bounce_relays bnofimage1.buc.com But, an

Re: 20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, McDonald, Dan wrote: But there are still 419's getting through. One lady has been inundated with them. You might also consider the SARE fraud rulesets as well, they still perform well for me. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: Why aren't the right rules matching?

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 10:46, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Yes, because it IS NOT in sa-update. As I mentioned before, it is a rule that has been written very recently, to catch a very specific, recent spam run. The rule hasn't even seen much mass-checks, most notably against ham corpora. Thus it

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden- malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/ content which SA improperly prefaces with http://; uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../ Will catch

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:42 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: I have the whitelist_bounce_relays options set for vbounce and the rules are hitting on bounce messages, but the whitelists don't seem to be working. In my local.cf, I have: whitelist_bounce_relays

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, How so? That rule matches ple.com/.. in that URI. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 14:35, LuKreme wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden- malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/ content which SA improperly prefaces with http://;

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, LuKreme wrote: Of course, if SA didn't preface URIs with http:// on its own, this wouldn't be an issue. However, I am not willing to call that a bug as I suspect there is a very good reason for it. It's a bug in the specific case of a URI like ../whatever, as it doesn't

Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread Igor Chudov
Just today a buyer reported that my reply to him ended up in his spam folder. Concerned by this, I sent an email to my Yahoo! account and that one disappeared somewhere. The one I sent to gmail, however, got there quickly. I may be overreacting and, perhaps, it is a coincidence that Yahoo just

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
After doing some more testing, I found that if I put the system that *sends* the email into whitelist_bounce_relays, it will work. Is this right? Should I have to list every machine in my network in order to have vbounce work correctly? It looks like the original email has to be received

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 16:40 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The VBounce plugin does *not* check the messages headers. Instead, it has a look at the plain text body and any message/* MIME attachments. If it finds your own, whitelisted SMTP relay in there, it is not a

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread Randy
Igor Chudov wrote: Just today a buyer reported that my reply to him ended up in his spam folder. Concerned by this, I sent an email to my Yahoo! account and that one disappeared somewhere. The one I sent to gmail, however, got there quickly. I may be overreacting and, perhaps, it is a

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread René Berber
Igor Chudov : No, email is not unusable. The only problem are inept admins and the people who hire them. -- René Berber

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:04 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: After doing some more testing, I found that if I put the system that *sends* the email into whitelist_bounce_relays, it will work. Is this right? Should I have to list every machine in my network in order to have vbounce work

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Randy wrote: They all suck. Which is why _years_ ago I decided never to trust anyone but myself to handle my email. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key:

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:04 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: After doing some more testing, I found that if I put the system that *sends* the email into whitelist_bounce_relays, it will work. Is this right? Should I have to list every machine in my network in order to

RE: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread Gary Smith
Igor, I'd say your paranoid, but I had a crazy problem recently with my outgoint email. This is my $0.02. About middle March emails sent from our domain to craiglist started bouncing back saying that they would not accept email from hosts with the works dyn or static in their RDNS zones.

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 15:12, René Berber wrote: Igor Chudov : No, email is not unusable. The only problem are inept admins and the people who hire them. The most inept admins seem to be the ones working for the large ISPs. Comcast and yahoo and aol have all had long ignoble histories of

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-15 Thread Adam Katz
On 15-May-2009, at 12:46, Adam Katz wrote: uri URI_HIDDEN /.{7}\/\../ LuKreme wrote: That won't catch http://www.spammer.example.com/.../hidden-malware.asf, it will only catch the relative url form ../path/to/content which SA improperly prefaces with http://; uri URI_HIDDEN /.{8}\/\../

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:17 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: Here is a real sample. The only way I can get this message to pass VBounce as legitimate is to add bnifstg2.buc.com to the whitelist. However, this is *not* a mailserver, this is the client. bnofimage1.buc.com is my mailserver, and

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 5/15/2009 11:29 PM, LuKreme wrote: On 15-May-2009, at 15:12, René Berber wrote: Igor Chudov : No, email is not unusable. The only problem are inept admins and the people who hire them. The most inept admins seem to be the ones working for the large ISPs. Comcast and yahoo and aol have

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 May 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Maybe this thread should be moved to NANAE or Spam-Watch whatever it was, it now has nothing to do with SA. Did it ever? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a

Re: VBounce problems

2009-05-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 23:36 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 17:17 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: Here is a real sample. The only way I can get this message to pass VBounce as legitimate is to add bnifstg2.buc.com to the whitelist. However, this is *not* a mailserver,

Re: What score does this get?

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 11:27, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: If there's any chance to correct this, and compile a list of valid, actually used, customized addresses -- I guess I'd give it a try. You'll note that getting rid of the catch-all will significantly cut down on your spam volume. grep

Re: Another yukky email

2009-05-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15-May-2009, at 12:27, Jeremy Morton wrote: It's unwanted e-mail, so it's pretty close to spam in my book. Just because it's some moron who bounced a message instead of someone explicitly spamming me doesn't make it much better. But it is NOT spam, which means that you screwing up the

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