Re: FUZZY_XPILL FP hitting all Travelodge emails

2018-04-05 Thread Giles Coochey
It found "xon, OX" in "Aylesbury Road, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3AT" It's an aggressive rule that finds anything that might be an obfuscated Xanax. It only scores 0.8 points because it can produce FPs like this. Actually that is my private, custom score. I think the default is 2.8 or something like

Re: FUZZY_XPILL FP hitting all Travelodge emails

2018-04-05 Thread Giles Coochey
It found "xon, OX" in "Aylesbury Road, Thame, Oxon, OX9 3AT" It's an aggressive rule that finds anything that might be an obfuscated Xanax. It only scores 0.8 points because it can produce FPs like this. Actually that is my private, custom score. I think the default is 2.8 or something like

Re: Missing Modules

2014-11-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/11/2014 11:26, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.11.14 14:34, Giles Coochey wrote: I avoid the distribution perl completely, and use perlbrew and spamassassin 3.4.0 compiled from source, with a specific perlbrew perl version I avoid breaking the version of perl that comes

Re: Missing Modules

2014-11-13 Thread Giles Coochey
the version of perl that comes with the system and can satisfy all dependencies via CPAN. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-15 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 18:34, Rick Macdougall wrote: On 2014-09-12 1:24 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.09.2014 um 15:26 schrieb Giles Coochey: On 12/09/2014 13:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: I have used imap-sa-learn.pl for years. Works great. Google imap-sa

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 13:47, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I have used imap-sa-learn.pl for years. Works great. Google imap-sa-learn.pl to get the perl source code. Wouldn't mind using it, but don't think I can get it working as my IMAP server requires SSL -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
on port 993. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.netsecspec.co.uk giles.cooc...@netsecspec.co.uk -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.coochey.net

Re: sa-learn from a remote imap folder

2014-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 12/09/2014 17:01, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.09.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Giles Coochey: On 12/09/2014 14:30, Reindl Harald wrote: Wouldn't mind using it, but don't think I can get it working as my IMAP server requires SSL have you tried it? these days almost anything works with SSL because

Re: getting tons of SPAM

2014-06-26 Thread Giles Coochey
? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA without procmail?

2014-06-20 Thread Giles Coochey
). It is the task of what called it to act upon it. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SA-Learn - OT (slightly) Bash Script help needed

2014-05-29 Thread Giles Coochey
as a marker to whether I have actioned a particular email and keep messages unread until such time that they are dealt with. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: Big problems with senders who use Microsoft Bigfish (a.k.a. FrontBridge)

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Big problems with senders who use Microsoft Bigfish (a.k.a. FrontBridge)

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
to be funny.:-) -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

spamcop spamassassin reporting

2013-07-19 Thread Giles Coochey
...@spam.spamcop.net): unknown user: devnull -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-20 Thread Giles Coochey
Hi, I'm using spamass-milter in conjunction with spamassassin. I've noticed that emails that are considered too large for spamassassin to scan appear to be rejected by spamass-milter because it cannot find a score in the email. I've looked at the configuration options for spamass-milter and

Re: spamass-milter rejecting messages because no score found in large emails

2013-03-20 Thread Giles Coochey
On 20/03/2013 14:24, Axb wrote: On 03/20/2013 02:59 PM, Giles Coochey wrote: Hi, I'm using spamass-milter in conjunction with spamassassin. I've noticed that emails that are considered too large for spamassassin to scan appear to be rejected by spamass-milter because it cannot find a score

Re: [OTish] contentanaly...@unifiedemail.net

2012-11-17 Thread Giles Coochey
, and I believe it only accepts body and doesn't do network related checks. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: SpamAssassin scores and 12-letter domains

2012-08-07 Thread Giles Coochey
the ability to block at (say) 12 points, tag at say 5 points (which could be implemented to leave messages in a moderation queue) and release everything else. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi

Re: URIBL blocked

2012-01-23 Thread Giles Coochey
I would look at getting a datafeed: http://www.uribl.com/datafeed.shtml [7] Out of interest, how much volume of email are you processing to experience this? Are you sharing your external IP with any other of your ISP customers? Does your ISP do anything strange with DNS queries? On

Re: How do I stop SA checking mail from authenticated users

2011-10-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, October 4, 2011 20:59, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 04/10/2011 19:22, Kris Deugau wrote: Frank Leonhardt wrote: Here's the problem: I have a single mail server (not commercial) using sendmail to accept incoming mail from all sources, and filtering using spamassassin. It also accepts

Re: How do I stop SA checking mail from authenticated users

2011-10-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On Wed, October 5, 2011 18:02, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 05/10/2011 16:23, Giles Coochey wrote: On Tue, October 4, 2011 20:59, Frank Leonhardt wrote: On 04/10/2011 19:22, Kris Deugau wrote: Frank Leonhardt wrote: Here's the problem: I have a single mail server (not commercial) using

Re: little off topic monitoring question

2011-07-19 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, July 19, 2011 14:50, Thomas Mullins wrote: We would like to start monitoring our two smtp servers. They are fairly busy boxes, maybe 100,000 messages a day, give or take several thousand. They of course run Spamassassin, Postfix is also used. We use MRTG to monitor internal servers

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Fri, May 13, 2011 17:09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 5/13/2011 1:58 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: Not quite - Google's retry may come from another server in a different range. if it did then mail from Google would be delayed significantly, like 12-24 hours for example. Yes, exactly

Re: Yahoo sent 5.5x as much spam as any other legit provider in April

2011-05-13 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, May 12, 2011 18:06, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 5/12/2011 4:49 AM, Niamh Holding wrote: Hello Matus, Thursday, May 12, 2011, 12:11:10 PM, you wrote: MUf Actyally, Michael Scheidell reported that yahoo miebehaves when receiving MUf 4xx response after RCPT TO: Very different from

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
no obligation to follow any rules. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Rules to block non-english

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Rules to block non-english

2011-02-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/02/2011 14:31, Giles Coochey wrote: On 25/02/2011 14:18, James Lay wrote: Hi folks, So…I was sent an email that was pretty much all in Chinese…headers below: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:44:37 -0700 Subject: =?utf-8?B?Rlc6IOKWoO+8keaciOOBq+W8iuekvuOBq+WxiuOBhOOBn+aEnw==?= =?utf-8?B

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-23 Thread Giles Coochey
want to reject mails right away. I just want to flag them with points. Cheers, Henry How do you define 'exists' - do you mean reachable and up? or just whether a MX record is defined? -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508

Re: Points for missing MX Records

2011-02-23 Thread Giles Coochey
... non-existent domain is already a standard MTA check anyway... -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S

Re: alert: New event: ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2011-02-11 Thread Giles Coochey
-milter Arch : i386 Version: 0.3.1 Release: 24.rhel5 -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: alert: New event: ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2011-02-11 Thread Giles Coochey
in March of 2010./ / / / http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573228/ I thought I committed the patch to CVS, but apparently hadn't. It's committed now, and I'll do a release this weekend. -- Dan Nelson address@hidden -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd

Re: RFC-Ignorant (was Re: Irony)

2011-02-04 Thread Giles Coochey
an idea, as long as it wasn't a BOGON that had special uses (e.g. RFC1918), however, there are no such BOGONs left anymore... the last allocatable IPs were given out this very week. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB

Re: FYI: IPv6 Update: IANA IPv4 Exhaustion, World IPv6 Day

2011-02-04 Thread Giles Coochey
on them. Yep, can't remember using DNS in those days... Never even thought of checking MD5 checksums in those days (not sure if they even existed!!) -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
: 193.79.237.39 Non-authoritative answer: Name:hermes.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.3 140.211.11.3 Server: cache0201.ns.eu.uu.net Address: 193.79.237.39 Name:hermes.apache.org Address: 140.211.11.3 -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
-police to catch nearly all spam and I'm sure that rejecting on a single issue or dubious fact will affect the receipt of genuine non-SPAM messages. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Giles Coochey
On 01/02/2011 15:49, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 2/1/11 9:34 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On 01/02/2011 15:30, Danita Zanre wrote: Messages from this list have been bouncing since I started enforcing Reverse DNS lookups on my server. Danita Why??? Received: from mail.apache.org

High scoring spam...

2011-01-31 Thread Giles Coochey
Makes you wonder how many servers actually accept these messages these days!!! Jan 31 13:46:56 gate sendmail[28364]: p0VCkkxF028364[1]: Milter add: header: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=70.8 required=5.0

Re: X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i=4.60,386,1291590000; d=scan'208;a=41500553

2011-01-28 Thread Giles Coochey
-and-control/appliances/ -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i=4.60,386,1291590000; d=scan'208;a=41500553

2011-01-28 Thread Giles Coochey
On 28/01/2011 10:11, Giles Coochey wrote: On 28/01/2011 10:02, J4K wrote: Good morning everyone (almost the week-end), Is X-IronPort-AV added by SA, or from something else (DCC Clamav ? ) I just noticed that all email from a certain company was flagged with X-IronPort-AV, and I wonder

Re: score=100.0 required=3.0 tests=SHORTCIRCUIT,,USER_IN_BLACKLIST

2011-01-27 Thread Giles Coochey
it. spamass-milter can reject according to SA results at the SMTP session level. The OP mentioned that. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype

Re: score=100.0 required=3.0 tests=SHORTCIRCUIT,,USER_IN_BLACKLIST

2011-01-27 Thread Giles Coochey
of any possible backscatter. Thanks -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: spamass-milter - mailing list

2011-01-26 Thread Giles Coochey
as I can see. It's not too difficult to understand the source of the spamass-milter package... that might be your best documentation and help -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live

Re: Fwd: Re: Q about short-circuit over ruling blacklisting rule

2011-01-18 Thread Giles Coochey
to successfully send me mails - it's the equivalent of sealing my letterbox on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for me, and I want near-real time email communication. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401

Re: Q about short-circuit over ruling blacklisting rule

2011-01-18 Thread Giles Coochey
a difference, but I still don't want to take the risk. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL T-Systems Mobile: +31 681 265 086 NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 GIB Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: BlackBerry Email Being Blocked by SpamAssassin

2011-01-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 13/01/2011 21:06, Brendan Murtagh wrote: Thank you all for your quick responses and suggestions. I went ahead and adjusted the threshold from 3.00 to 5.00. I'll continue to monitor how the server is reacting to spam as we move forward. Thanks again for your help. -Brendan The method I use,

Re: RAZOR2 and SpamAssassin version or configuration

2010-10-15 Thread Giles Coochey
traffic to be sure. Where should I be looking for a configuration difference that would cause this? local.cf: use_razor2 1 ... I would check permisions for the razor-agent and check that it is registered for the user that runs your site-wide spamassassin. -- Best Regards, Giles Coochey

Re: Help! Filter spam with less than symbol in recipient

2010-10-15 Thread Giles Coochey
Regards, Giles Coochey NetSecSpec Ltd NL Mobile: +31 626 508 131 Gib Mobile: +350 5401 6693 Email/MSN/Live Messenger: gi...@coochey.net Skype: gilescoochey smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

RE: Blacklist for spam-words

2010-09-16 Thread Giles Coochey
You may setup a regexp rule in the /etc/local.cf file of your SA installation, but a simple rule like the one you suggest may easily yield FPs (False Positives, ie: non-spam messages may get into your trashcan). What if a friend of yours sends you an email asking to lend your chronometer...

Re: The most amazing spam ...

2010-09-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, September 16, 2010 13:28, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 07:28 +0200, Per Jessen wrote: http://public.jessen.ch/files/mazeweb-spam.jpeg A cynic might wonder whether it also harvests valid e-mail addresses. Appears to be a perfectly reputable service to me... what makes

Re: Autoimport .eml-Files as Spam or ham

2010-09-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On Tue, September 14, 2010 09:41, Hans-Werner Friedemann wrote: Hi @ all i want to achieve a kind of auto-mass-import of eml-Files with sa-learn. The SPAM and HAM mails will be saved in different folders. Is it possible that sa-learn looks ervery 15 Minutes in these folders and imports all