Re: the sa-rules tarball http://spamassassin.apache.org/ is ancient

2012-12-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Per Jessen wrote: dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Much like the 3.2.5 release which that page still unfortunately implies is reasonable to use. I'd love an explanation of a situation where somebody is running spamassassin but can't run sa-update, even once. I hear that exists. A

Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Frederic De Mees
Dear list, Here is the context. The French-speaking countries receive tons of e-mails, mostly fraud attempts, fake lotteries, originating from West-Africa and sent by Yahoomail users. Often those messages contain big attachments. The payload (text of the message) is embedded in a 1MB jpeg

Re: the sa-rules tarball http://spamassassin.apache.org/ is ancient

2012-12-09 Thread Per Jessen
Bob Proulx wrote: Per Jessen wrote: dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Much like the 3.2.5 release which that page still unfortunately implies is reasonable to use. I'd love an explanation of a situation where somebody is running spamassassin but can't run sa-update, even once. I hear

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Frederic, Sunday, December 9, 2012, 10:16:08 AM, you wrote: FDM the sender IP (Yahoo) is genuine and has a good reputation Good reputation! Well as a very common source of spam its reputation is one of the best. -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Alexandre Boyer
I there Frederic, I think a geoip module exists. I saw that somewhere. Just take a look for it. But I think this is a bad idea. You are right about the analysis, but geoip filtring is not efficient and may lead to FPs. Take extra care to the rules you are going to build about it. You may also

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/12/12 10:16, Frederic De Mees wrote: Dear list, Here is the context. The French-speaking countries receive tons of e-mails, mostly fraud attempts, fake lotteries, originating from West-Africa and sent by Yahoomail users. Often those messages contain big attachments. The payload (text of

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP hitting ham

2012-12-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.12.12 14:29, Niamh Holding wrote: Subject: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP hitting ham X-Spam-Report: * 3.6 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr * 2) * 3.5 HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP Relay HELO'd using suspicious

Re: Port 587 Scanning

2012-12-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 04.12.12 08:28, Matt wrote: I am using Exim directors to call Spamassassin. I do not scan messages that come in on port 587 or are in my popb4smtp file. do you _require_ authentication on 587? Do you really support pop-before-smtp still? That should be dead for years This was done due

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Ned Slider wrote: On 09/12/12 10:16, Frederic De Mees wrote: Spamassassin misses 100% of them because: - due to the message size, the analysis is skipped anyway. look at scoring __FROM_41_FREEMAIL which already combines the above with FREEMAIL_FROM. ...as well as

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread RW
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:16:08 +0100 Frederic De Mees wrote: I would have loved to do it with SA. This means that the line Received: from [ip.add.res.ss].*web.*mail.*yahoo\.com via HTTP should be detected and analysed. The ip address should be extracted. The whois of the address should be

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Dave Funk
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, Frederic De Mees wrote: Dear list, Here is the context. The French-speaking countries receive tons of e-mails, mostly fraud attempts, fake lotteries, originating from West-Africa and sent by Yahoomail users. Often those messages contain big attachments. The payload (text

Re: Report your webmail usage

2012-12-09 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Eric Krona wrote: We have a few users who get a lot of emails asking them to report their webmail usage, often linking to a google spreadsheet. They slip passed spamassassing, likely because they are translated to swedish, but the mail is clearly spam. Is anyone else

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Frederic De Mees
From: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com It's pretty easy to do this kind of thing with the RelayCountry plugin. Thank you all for your replies. Obviously I had already increased the max size. I will have a look at that plugin. Frédéric

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Frederic De Mees wrote: Thank you all for your replies. Obviously I had already increased the max size. ...so what rules *are* they hitting? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a