Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, July 1, 2009 07:44, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: In particular # Enable or disable network checks skip_rbl_checks 0 0 = off 1 = on wroung 0 = use rbl 1 = skib rbl test -- xpoint

Re: SA report header added to ham mail

2009-07-01 Thread LuKreme
On 30-Jun-2009, at 19:38, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Yes, that *might* result in images being loaded off the net auto- matically, depending on your MUA settings. Hence the safe. But it really makes reviewing harder, having the user scroll and klick each single spam. Erm.. I don't understand

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 08:26 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, July 1, 2009 07:44, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: In particular # Enable or disable network checks skip_rbl_checks 0 0 = off 1 = on wroung 0 = use rbl 1 = skib rbl test Indeed I was WROUNG; Test show it is

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 7/1/2009 8:50 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers stop answering... See Update: 25th June 2009 http://www.au.sorbs.net/

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 08:58 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 7/1/2009 8:50 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers stop answering... See Update: 25th June 2009

How do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account?

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
All, for whatever reason, Net::DNS::Resolver (as used in SA) doesn't appear to look at /etc/hosts. I thought it was a Net::DNS::Resolver peculiarity, maybe something to do with cross-platform support, so in a plugin module I've been writing, I tried to gethostbyname() instead. I verified it

Re: How do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account?

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: All, for whatever reason, Net::DNS::Resolver (as used in SA) doesn't appear Sorry, wrong list. /Per Jessen, Zürich

emailbl info update please ?

2009-07-01 Thread RobertH
so is emailbl offline since it is now 7/1/09 or has the term status changed? updates please? - rh

Re: emailbl info update please ?

2009-07-01 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 7/1/2009 9:36 AM, RobertH wrote: so is emailbl offline since it is now 7/1/09 or has the term status changed? updates please? - rh as announced, it has been disabled.

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Am 2009-06-30 14:08:33, schrieb John Hardin: If zen worked to catch the message in procmail, how does it not work on your MTA? Or did we misinterpret your original post? On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 01:15 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: In Debian, the network related scans are activated and

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.06.09 07:06, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Are you saying that ZEN caught it after SA processed it? Why are you not using ZEN in SA or at the SMTP stage? On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:10:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: She apparently does not have control over

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:27 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Note that rbl checks do not only control the IP you are receiving mail from, but also an IP others are receiving mail from. That means, rbl checks can help you catch spam others are (unintentionally) forwarding to you. I

Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Matt Elson
Hey all, I stumbled upon an odd issue the other day that I'm having trouble tracking down. Namely, a certain rule in the sought rule set, when compiled for use with Rule2XSBody is causing the processing of *some* emails to, well, never really end. Piping the mail through spamassassin or into

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Justin Mason
hey Matt -- what version of re2c is installed? On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 18:43, Matt Elsonmel...@fastmail.net wrote: Hey all, I stumbled upon an odd issue the other day that I'm having trouble tracking down.  Namely, a certain rule in the sought rule set, when compiled for use with Rule2XSBody

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-07-01 08:26:09, schrieb Benny Pedersen: On Wed, July 1, 2009 07:44, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: In particular # Enable or disable network checks skip_rbl_checks 0 0 = off 1 = on wroung 0 = use rbl 1 = skib rbl test Both are right... because the name of then

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:27 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Note that rbl checks do not only control the IP you are receiving mail from, but also an IP others are receiving mail from. That means, rbl checks can help you catch spam others are

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 08:58 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 7/1/2009 8:50 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers stop answering... See Update: 25th

RE: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Sean Cardus
I stumbled upon an odd issue the other day that I'm having trouble tracking down.  Namely, a certain rule in the sought rule set, when compiled for use with Rule2XSBody is causing the processing of *some* emails to, well, never really end.  Piping the mail through spamassassin or into

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:27 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Note that rbl checks do not only control the IP you are receiving mail from, but also an IP others are receiving mail from. That means, rbl checks can help you catch spam others are (unintentionally) forwarding to you.

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:11 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 08:58 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 7/1/2009 8:50 AM, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 11:11 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm guessing there is some way to modify the network checks to it does not use specific RBL's. I've not studied closely, but I think today I need to become acquainted with

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 12:00 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 10:27 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Note that rbl checks do not only control the IP you are receiving mail from, but also an IP others are receiving mail from. That means, rbl checks can

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.07.09 11:26, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: And there is the argument that anything other than the final IP can easily be forged or inserted into the headers rendering a great many costly DNS checks. Swings and roundabouts. if a spammer forges Received: line so the checked ip is in

Re: SA report header added to ham mail

2009-07-01 Thread John Horne
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 01:14 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 21:57 +0100, John Horne wrote: However, as far as I can tell, the X-Spam-Report header gets added to ham mail as well as spam. For example: X-spam-report: Score=-6.9

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Matthew Elson
Justin Mason wrote: hey Matt -- what version of re2c is installed? Knew I forgot something :P. re2c 0.13.2 was what was on all of the machines that had the issue - when I ran into the issue, the first thing I did was upgrade it to 0.13.5 on one of them; the problem still occurred. The

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Steve Freegard
Matthew Elson wrote: Justin Mason wrote: hey Matt -- what version of re2c is installed? Knew I forgot something :P. re2c 0.13.2 was what was on all of the machines that had the issue - when I ran into the issue, the first thing I did was upgrade it to 0.13.5 on one of them; the problem

RE: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Sean Cardus
I've been seeing exactly the same behaviour off and on since Friday last week. I'd not yet managed to narrow it down to a specific rule or email, but your example triggers it every time on my i386 boxes. Here's a copy of an email that I've modified with the extra section which I'm able to

Re: X-Mailer: domain

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: header FROM_EQ_XM ALL =~ /^From: [...@]+\@(?:[^.]+\.)?([^.]+\.[^.]+)?\$.{0,400}^X-Mailer: \1\$/msi Firstly, my thanks. This syntax provides the functionality I was asking for in another thread where I wanted to capture things like the appearance

Re: [sa] Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Jul 1 07:38:46 munged #14781: query: 1.2.3.4.dnsbl.sorbs.net IN A + Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers stop answering... ...which leads back to my original question, Will the

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Adam Stephens
Matt Elson wrote: I dug around a bit and it seems one specific body rule was causing the issue, namely: body __SEEK_1R0JFS /\x{ff}\x{fe} \x{00} \x{00} \x{00} \x{00}\x{00}m\x{00}e\x{00}t\x{00}a\x{00}

Re: [sa] Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Jul 1 07:38:46 munged #14781: query: 1.2.3.4.dnsbl.sorbs.net IN A + Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers stop answering... On 01.07.09 08:08, Charles Gregory wrote: ...which

RE: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Sean Cardus
An re2c bug, presumably? Is anyone having problems without using sa- compile? If I removed the compiled rule sets, everything works fine again... Sean

Re: [sa] Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 14:21 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Jul 1 07:38:46 munged #14781: query: 1.2.3.4.dnsbl.sorbs.net IN A + Oh, and look: dnsbl.sorbs.net So it seems that the demise of sorbs will add latency if their servers

RE: emailbl info update please ?

2009-07-01 Thread RobertH
as announced, it has been disabled. i see... if it is determined to be the right thing to do, what is it going to take to get it back online and helping the cause? - rh

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:31:25PM +0100, Sean Cardus wrote: An re2c bug, presumably? Is anyone having problems without using sa- compile? If I removed the compiled rule sets, everything works fine again... I was just about to report a similar problem when I came across this thread. I'm

Re: emailbl info update please ?

2009-07-01 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 7/1/2009 4:41 PM, RobertH wrote: as announced, it has been disabled. i see... if it is determined to be the right thing to do, what is it going to take to get it back online and helping the cause? as with all BLs it takes: - data, lots of it. - some processing iron - mirrors - more

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, July 1, 2009 08:50, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm going to need to disable some of these lists as the MTA has already blocked stuff on them Kind of pointless making repeat lookups for stuff already tested. Thanks for pointing that out Benny. pleasde do your home work again !,

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:26 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, July 1, 2009 08:50, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm going to need to disable some of these lists as the MTA has already blocked stuff on them Kind of pointless making repeat lookups for stuff already tested. Thanks for

Re: X-Mailer: domain

2009-07-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 08:01 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: header FROM_EQ_XM ALL =~ /^From: [...@]+\@(?:[^.]+\.)?([^.]+\.[^.]+)?\$.{0,400}^X-Mailer: \1\$/msi Firstly, my thanks. This syntax provides the functionality I was asking for in

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 13:20 +0100, Adam Stephens wrote: __SEEK_1R0JFS I can confirm that removing that test and recompiling eliminates my segfaults. running re2c 0.12.0 -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 18:26 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, July 1, 2009 08:50, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: I'm going to need to disable some of these lists as the MTA has already blocked stuff on them Kind of pointless making repeat lookups for stuff already tested. Thanks for

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, July 1, 2009 19:04, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: You may want to fix that backscatter problem you have too :-) just stop sending cc to me, then its fixed -- xpoint

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 19:21 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, July 1, 2009 19:04, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: You may want to fix that backscatter problem you have too :-) just stop sending cc to me, then its fixed My apologies. I figured if I sent it twice you may *READ* it

Re: How do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account?

2009-07-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Per Jessenp...@computer.org wrote: Back to the subject line - how do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account? a) of course it doesn't, /etc/hosts isn't DNS, so why would Net::DNS look at it? :) b) my guess is that you can't, but it's a question for

RE: Plugin extracting text from docs (was: new spam using large images)

2009-07-01 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
We can use antiword to render text from MSWord files, and unrtf to render text from RTF files. What is the best tool to render text from PDF files? (We are running Solaris 9) L -Original Message- From: Jonas Eckerman [mailto:jonas_li...@frukt.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Re: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread J.D. Falk
Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael Grant wrote: Unless I've missed a message... this is the 100th reply to this thread. This has to be one of the longest threads I've seen on this list in years. Shows there is much to discuss on this matter. Isn't there a generic spam related mailing list? There

RE: Plugin extracting text from docs (was: new spam using large images)

2009-07-01 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
We can use antiword to render text from MSWord files, and unrtf to render text from RTF files. What is the best tool to render text from PDF files? (We are running Solaris 9) FWIK, antiword is the best tradeoff between speed and conversion quality. The best converter I know of, even for

Re: Plugin extracting text from docs

2009-07-01 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: We can use antiword to render text from MSWord files, and unrtf to render text from RTF files. What is the best tool to render text from PDF files? I don't know what the best tool is, but I'm currently using pdftohtml in XML mode (and then stripping the XML) in

Re: Plugin extracting text from docs

2009-07-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, July 1, 2009 21:51, Jonas Eckerman wrote: http://whatever.frukt.org/graphdefang/ExtractText.zip). i had to use wget --continue to get it downloaded, is this a firewall limit ? stalls in 8k here, so multiple wget try to get the full zip down :( -- xpoint

Re: How do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account?

2009-07-01 Thread Per Jessen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Per Jessenp...@computer.org wrote: Back to the subject line - how do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account? b) my guess is that you can't, but it's a question for the Net::DNS folks, not SA. Theo, I do appreciate

Re: How do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account?

2009-07-01 Thread René Berber
Per Jessen wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Per Jessenp...@computer.org wrote: Back to the subject line - how do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account? b) my guess is that you can't, but it's a question for the Net::DNS folks, not SA. Theo,

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread LuKreme
On 1-Jul-2009, at 06:47, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: But for the paranoid will changing 50_scores.cf from; score RCVD_IN_SORBS_BLOCK 0 # n=1 n=2 n=3 score RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0 1.615 0 0.877 # n=0 n=2 score RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP 0 0.001 0 0.001 # n=0 n=2 score RCVD_IN_SORBS_MISC 0 0.001 0 0.353 #

Plugin extracting text from docs

2009-07-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
just tested this plugin here, all i can say it rooks viagra out of docs rtf files :) well done, only problem i had was that unrtf nedd to have ${file} in the example cf to work all else works -- xpoint

RE: SORBS bites the dust

2009-07-01 Thread Cory Hawkless
Any examples of such active lists? I suspect a few of us would be interested. -Original Message- From: J.D. Falk [mailto:jdfalk-li...@cybernothing.org] Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 4:54 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SORBS bites the dust Arvid Picciani wrote: Michael

Re: Weird Problem w/ Rule2XSBody + Sought Rule

2009-07-01 Thread Don Drake
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Sean Cardus scar...@zebrahosts.net wrote: I've been seeing exactly the same behaviour off and on since Friday last week. I'd not yet managed to narrow it down to a specific rule or email, but your example triggers it every time on my i386 boxes. Here's a

Re: New type of spam... (very curious)

2009-07-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 16:13 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On 1-Jul-2009, at 06:47, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: But for the paranoid will changing 50_scores.cf from; score RCVD_IN_SORBS_BLOCK 0 # n=1 n=2 n=3 score RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 0 1.615 0 0.877 # n=0 n=2 score RCVD_IN_SORBS_HTTP 0 0.001 0