Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
mouss wrote: Adam Katz a écrit : Actually, localhost doesn't resolve via DNS; I don't know where you're taking this from: $ host localhost 127.0.0.1 Using domain server: Name: 127.0.0.1 Address: 127.0.0.1#53 Aliases: localhost.netoyen.net has address 127.0.0.1 Although I like host

New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread chauhananshul
I'm getting a lot of mails daily in which to from addresses are same spamassassin is not able to stop them. I'm using spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el4.rf CentOS4.7 with sendmail.I've increased the score to 4 frm default 5 but stills its not catching them. How can i make spamassassin catch these mails.

Re: New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread ram
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 02:55 -0700, chauhananshul wrote: I'm getting a lot of mails daily in which to from addresses are same spamassassin is not able to stop them. I'm using spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el4.rf CentOS4.7 with sendmail.I've increased the score to 4 frm default 5 but stills its not

Re: New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread Anshul Chauhan
Below is the mail header for one of the mail in which to from id id same From u...@mydomain.com Sat Jun 6 12:41:57 2009 Return-Path: u...@mydomain.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on mailserver1.mydomain.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No,

check message body/subject for spam?

2009-06-06 Thread Don Ireland
Hi everyone. I have a contact form that allows visitors to send messages to me. Some nimnod is using it to send me ads wanting me to use his Search Engine Optimization service. Because the form sends messages as though it is ME, the mail server doesn't check messages received from my form

Re: check message body/subject for spam?

2009-06-06 Thread Don Ireland
P.S. What I'm looking to do is check it for spam BEFORE sending the message. Thx! Don Ireland Don Ireland wrote: Hi everyone. I have a contact form that allows visitors to send messages to me. Some nimnod is using it to send me ads wanting me to use his Search Engine Optimization

Re: New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread Robert Schetterer
Anshul Chauhan schrieb: Below is the mail header for one of the mail in which to from id id same From u...@mydomain.com mailto:u...@mydomain.com Sat Jun 6 12:41:57 2009 Return-Path: u...@mydomain.com mailto:u...@mydomain.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on

Re: New slew of spams

2009-06-06 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:05:40 -0400 Rob McEwen r...@invaluement.com wrote: An occassional legit e-mail will have RDNS_NONE, and an occassional legit e-mail will have RCVD_IN_PBL. But even extreme fewer legit emails will have hits on BOTH of these. So I'd suggest scoring the combination of the

Re: New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Below is the mail header for one of the mail in which to from id id same From u...@mydomain.com Sat Jun 6 12:41:57 2009 Return-Path: u...@mydomain.com mydomain.com really exists, and it is not advisable to mask one's read domain behind it. Use example.com, that is what it is for.

Re: check message body/subject for spam?

2009-06-06 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Don Ireland wrote: If I write the message/subject to a file (so that it looks like a message without most of the headers), can I run it through SA and make sure that it's not spam? Certainly. Figuring out the headers shouldn't be too difficult, and you will probably

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 05.06.09 23:55, mouss wrote: localhost.netoyen.net has address 127.0.0.1 Actually, I think this is not good. localhost. should resolve, but putting localhost to other domains even with 127.0.0.1 address is something that should be imho avoided ;) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Actually, I think this is not good. localhost. should resolve, but putting localhost to other domains even with 127.0.0.1 address is something that should be imho avoided ;) I think it is okay and normal to have localhost.$mydomain resolve to 127.0.0.1. But the

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Actually, I think this is not good. localhost. should resolve, but putting localhost to other domains even with 127.0.0.1 address is something that should be imho avoided ;) On 06.06.09 11:28, Bob Proulx wrote: I think it is okay and normal to have

Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
Now that the EMPTY_BODY and mis-identified spam issues have been resolved I've countered a new one creating false positives: the rule (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.cf is: describeBOTNET Relay might be a spambot or virusbot header BOTNET

Re: New Spam Mails plz suggest

2009-06-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, June 6, 2009 11:55, chauhananshul wrote: How can i make spamassassin catch these mails. you can do this better in your mta 2 ways to solve it: 1 use postfwd with a rule that check sender equal to recipient 2 add spf to your domain, and test spf in your mta 3 take a ice :) --

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 10:48 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: Now that the EMPTY_BODY and mis-identified spam issues have been resolved I've countered a new one creating false positives: the rule (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.cf is: This is a third-party plugin, deliberately installed by you.

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread John Rudd
Different people run botnet at different score levels, depending on what they want the rule to do. The default is 5 because 5 is the common point where people set messages aside for review (remove them from their regular mail stream). That's what botnet is saying about such messages: this

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread mouss
Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : On 05.06.09 23:55, mouss wrote: localhost.netoyen.net has address 127.0.0.1 oh, I didn't even realize it was the .$domain one! old habit to avoid nslookup barking and then lusers asking what's the problem... Actually, I think this is not good. localhost.

Re: check message body/subject for spam?

2009-06-06 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Don Ireland wrote: P.S. What I'm looking to do is check it for spam BEFORE sending the message. I find that this kind of 'form spam' is best handled by a couple of simple 'tricks' within the form and the cgi that processes it: 1) Include a 'hidden' field (using the

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: This is a third-party plugin, deliberately installed by you. Actually, it was most likely installed with the SA upgrade because I've not made any modifications or tuning to the system. I figure that those who set up defaults know much more than

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: The thing thing to do to fix messages from given locations is lean, heavily, upon the sender to get their sending environment fixed. What botnet finds are sites with bad DNS (no full circle reverse DNS), or sending hosts that look like clients instead of

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread John Rudd
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 16:32, Adam Katzantis...@khopis.com wrote: John Rudd wrote: That seems to be an important distinction for strict/rigorous/theoretical discussions of what is full circle reverse DNS, and things along those lines... but I'm not sure if it really is an important

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread John Rudd
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 13:38, Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, John Rudd wrote: The thing thing to do to fix messages from given locations is lean, heavily, upon the sender to get their sending environment fixed.  What botnet finds are sites with bad DNS (no

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Adam Katz
John Rudd wrote: I think FCrDNS stands for Forward-confirmed reverse DNS as noted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Confirmed_reverse_DNS :-) Every place I've seen it talked about, including past discussion on this list, calls it Full Circle, not Forward Confirmed. Based on that

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas a écrit : Actually, I think this is not good. localhost. should resolve, but putting localhost to other domains even with 127.0.0.1 address is something that should be imho avoided ;) On 06.06.09 20:39, mouss wrote: why? if it's because of xss and the like, it

spamd dies - please help

2009-06-06 Thread Claudia Burman
Hi, I am trying to setup a new mail server. With postfix - dovecot ldap - spamd. All virtual users. Over Centos 5.3 64 bits. Spamassassin version is 3.2.5 installed with yum. This is the line in postfix's master.cf dovecot unix - n n - 30 pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/spamc -s 204800

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 16:32, Adam Katzantis...@khopis.com wrote: I think FCrDNS stands for Forward-confirmed reverse DNS as noted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Confirmed_reverse_DNS   :-) On 06.06.09 13:39, John Rudd wrote: Every place I've seen it talked about, including past

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-06 Thread Adam Katz
mouss wrote: $ host localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.netoyen.net has address 127.0.0.1 You forgot the trailing dot, so it tacked your own domain onto the end of that. I'm believe localhost.$domain is not required by any specs and is non-standard. ... That's okay, I'll just assume your DNS serves

Re: Next Rule Causing False Positives: BOTNET

2009-06-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 13:32 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: This is a third-party plugin, deliberately installed by you. Given the previous thread I was actually wondering about the phrasing. Anyway, make that any admin, or previous admin.