Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 19:40 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: MySQL Student wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble catching spam that contains lotto/money schemes or simply asks the user to email a particular address for a loan or otherwise. Here's an example: snip Thanks, Alex

Re: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-23 Thread John Wilcock
Le 22/07/2009 17:48, MySQL Student a écrit : So, forever I have been using whitelist_from and have probably a thousand entries. Firstly, before you convert all these to whitelist_from_rcvd, perhaps you ought to ask yourself whether you really need 1000 entries on your whitelist. Does mail

Re: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
If you get an E-Mail scoring in both Pyzor and DCC, the chances are very high that the message is Spam. We only deal with around 90,000 incoming delivery attempts per day - but have not had a false positive from Pyzor or DCC yet, and have been using both for some years. That's

Re: Spam troubleshooting

2009-07-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Can I also ask where the best place to start with to implement razor and/or pyzor in SA3.2 on Linux with postfix? EHM? implement it on your mailserver... On 22.07.09 22:38, MySQL Student wrote: Heh, no, I mean where can I go to learn how to implement it? Where's the docs? :-) well,

Re: Avoid processing of email with specific headers

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 04:14 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: If you postfix calls SpamAssasin directly as configured in /etc/postfix/master.cf I have no ideas. I think you can run a script that calls spamc rather than spamc itself. The script could use grep or (better) awk[1] to search for

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 22:34 -0400, some Alex wrote: Okay, I have configured sa-update to download the following rulesets: Do people have a script that lints the rules, copies them to /etc/mail/spamassassin/ and restarts amavisd? NO. sa-update lint checks the rules in a sandbox, and does not

Re: URL Block Lists

2009-07-23 Thread Adam Stephens
MySQL Student wrote: Hi, What is the preferred list of URL block lists that everyone uses? I'm currently using SURBL and a few others, often times there are URLs like 'learningbetter.net' that isn't tagged. We've set up our own internal URL block list that gets trained manually by inspecting

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 07:34 +0100, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: It's catching on :-) this new obfuscation is already caught by AE_MED45, but I can foresee a variant that might not match... How about: body__MED_OB

rule counter

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
I don't have a test server to try this, so maybe someone could test it for me or maybe someone has tried this before... I want to create a rule that counts the number of rules that have a score and add my score. I don't want to count the total score. Can I use !! instead of the rule name. I

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
For those of you that manage these rules, URI_OBFU_X9_WS, URI_OBFU_WWW, AE_MEDS38, AE_MEDS39 did not mark this email as spam I'm up to AE_MED45, so I wouldn't expect AE_MEDS38 and 39 to be hitting anything currently. http://pastebin.com/m40f7cff4 This is not an obfuscated domain. You

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Re: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-23 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Michael Hutchinson wrote: I saw a test message with just the word test in the subject hit DCC once. That's really strange, I don't see how DCC would fire on the subject.. the checksum of the message must have somehow matched some Spam.. That's perfectly normal. DCC doen't just match spam,

Re: spamd socket partial read

2009-07-23 Thread Filippo Carletti
This plugin sends the full mail to spamd, but spamd reads only the headers and wait for 300 seconds for the body (already sent by qpsmtpd). Solved. The ipp2p (p2p block) firewall rules were active on localhost and blocking connection to spamd via socket on port 783 for that particular mail.

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2009-07-23 Thread Evan Platt
At 06:17 AM 7/23/2009, Rick Duval wrote: unsubscribe As is stated in every header: list-unsubscribe: mailto:users-unsubscr...@spamassassin.apache.org

Re: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-23 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Jonas Eckerman jonas_li...@frukt.org Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:37:11 +0200 Michael Hutchinson wrote: I saw a test message with just the word test in the subject hit DCC once. That's really strange, I don't see how DCC would fire on the subject.. the

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
It means that if you were using BL at MTA level your SA might never have seen the message at all. No your rule would not be overlooked 'because the site is in a blacklist' *unless* you were using the BL in your MTA and rejected the transaction from a blacklisted IP address and, thus, never

Re: copy spam mail to separate mailbox

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
I have a postfix/SA setup and I was wondering if anyone knew how to COPY an email marked as spam instead of redirecting. Not this: /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REDIRECT spam...@example.com This should work, right? http://onetforum.com/fourm/viewtopic.php?f=2t=34 -- Dan Schaefer Web

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dan Schaefer wrote: It means that if you were using BL at MTA level your SA might never have seen the message at all. No your rule would not be overlooked 'because the site is in a blacklist' *unless* you were using the BL in your MTA and rejected the transaction from a blacklisted IP

Re: rule counter

2009-07-23 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:05 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: I don't have a test server to try this, so maybe someone could test it for me or maybe someone has tried this before... You don't need a dedicated test server for that. Access to SA is sufficient. You *do* however need some sort of testing

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Dan Schaefer wrote: For those of you that manage these rules, URI_OBFU_X9_WS, URI_OBFU_WWW, AE_MEDS38, AE_MEDS39 did not mark this email as spam http://pastebin.com/m40f7cff4 The URI is not obfuscated, therefore it triggered the URIBL tests properly (and scored 3

Re: copy spam mail to separate mailbox

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:48 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: I have a postfix/SA setup and I was wondering if anyone knew how to COPY an email marked as spam instead of redirecting. Not this: /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REDIRECT spam...@example.com This should work, right?

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
Dan Schaefer wrote: If this is the case, then why does my email have the X-* headers in it? I have nothing in my postfix header_checks to discard the BL rules. Does anyone have a detailed flow chart of SA/postfix setup and describes blacklisting? Or even a webpage describing the process?

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread Mike Cappella
On 7/23/2009 3:34 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Yes. SA will use the updates as provided by sa-update, when available. All you need to do is to restart your daemon, IFF there have been any updates. Just as an FYI. I have had (only) one experience where a positive download contained a

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* headers to the message? Martin No. Is that even possible to track down? -- Dan Schaefer Web Developer/Systems Analyst Performance Administration

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Dan Schaefer
Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* headers to the message? No. Is that even possible to track down? There would probably be an X-Spam-Checker-Version header in your inbound mail

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Dan Schaefer wrote: Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* headers to the message? No. Is that even possible to track down? There would probably be an

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:25 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* headers to the message? Martin No. Is that even possible to track down? Sure -

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:22 -0700, Mike Cappella wrote: Just as an FYI. I have had (only) one experience where a positive download contained a corrupted SOUGHT rule file, and an amavis restart failed. What exactly do you mean by corrupt rule file? Sounds to me like lint testing should have

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread Mike Cappella
Hi Karsten, On 7/23/2009 10:00 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 09:22 -0700, Mike Cappella wrote: Just as an FYI. I have had (only) one experience where a positive download contained a corrupted SOUGHT rule file, and an amavis restart failed. What exactly do you mean by

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Dan Schaefer wrote: Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* headers to the message? No. Is that even possible to track down? There would probably be an

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin Parris
(apologies for top posting, but the email software here does not really do quoting in a way that works out well otherwise) If your mail contains SpamAssassin headers then it was (obviously) processed through SpamAssassin. Just because you have BL checks in your MTA does not necessarily mean

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Please don't paste examples to this list. Please post them to pastebin (or a similar service) and then include the link. .. Yes, understood. FWIW, I know enough to not post an entire message with headers to the list -- I'm sure half the time it would be filtered anyway. This time it was

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, sa-update lint checks the rules in a sandbox, and does not update the local channel, if there are any issues. Moreover, do NOT copy these updates to your site config dir -- but keep it in the update dir where sa-update puts them [1]. SA knows how to use them instead of the install-time

Re: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Firstly, before you convert all these to whitelist_from_rcvd, perhaps you ought to ask yourself whether you really need 1000 entries on your whitelist. I'm surprised you were the first to make that very comment, so thanks. Does mail from these addresses actually get miscategorised as

Certain spam not parsed by spamd!

2009-07-23 Thread snowweb
I've recently implemented relaycountry and seen 90%+ improvement in our ability to trap spam but there is one email which seems capable of avoiding getting parsed by spamd. All other messages get the x-spam headers added successfully but this one for some reason completely slips through without