Re: Score 0.001

2024-05-10 Thread John Hardin
he corpora. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --

Re: Question about forwarding email (not specifically SA, pointers greatly appreciated)

2024-01-19 Thread John Hardin
to explain to the board members I'm helping out is... painful. Very simply worded step by step instructions, with screenshots amended with arrows, outlines, highlights and so forth as needed. ...the .sigmonster agrees. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin

Re: Dinged for .Date

2024-01-15 Thread John Hardin
tional hit. (If you do that, avoid setting "ReplyTo: supp...@play.date", as that would also take a reputation hit.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 --

Re: Too many dots?

2023-11-16 Thread John Hardin
that all that rule does, vs. hitting *specific* SendGrid accounts? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: when whitelisting, do what with marked SPAM?

2023-11-15 Thread John Hardin
, learning as few mail as one should fix BAYES issues. Move previously tagged SPAM into HAM folder and "relearn"? Right. Train on misclassifications. Also if there was a ham in your spam corpus review why it got misclassified in the first place. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: when whitelisting, do what with marked SPAM?

2023-11-14 Thread John Hardin
uot;Missed SPAM"?, thinking along lines of keeping BAYES "clean and sharp". So to speak. Leave as is? Delete and re learn? For a low volume home office user, I would simply NOT autolearn. Set up a hambox and a spambox and manually feed them and train from them. -- John Hardin

Re: external API request

2023-10-27 Thread John Hardin
seen the email at this stage) or indeed doing something they do not want. It doesn't sound like it will *visit* the link, just ask some service if the like has a reputation. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgp

Re: STY_INVIS_DIRECT

2023-10-02 Thread John Hardin
of Email into "Junk folders", for now I'ma change that score to 0.25 2.5 points by itself shouldn't be enough to quarantine/junk messages. What else is spammy about those messages? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@

Re: Stealth HREF= (missed by SA)

2023-09-17 Thread John Hardin
/<[a-z]{1,10}\s[^>]{1,80}\/(src|href)\s*\=/ -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136

Re: new rule for kam :)

2023-08-24 Thread John Hardin
% of __HAS_X_AUTHED_SENDER hits also hit __HREF_EMPTY (ham 1%) I'll add a few of those to see how they do. F'ing legit emailers that generate crap HTML {fume} -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jha

Re: new rule for kam :)

2023-08-23 Thread John Hardin
SRC_EMPTY score LOCAL_BADLY_HTML 3 3 3 3 too much spams in hotmail I'll put the subrules in my sandbox so they can be evaluated by masscheck. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8

Re: new rule for kam :)

2023-08-23 Thread John Hardin
ins: It wouldn't be much of a loss, but it's not spam either. How did they perform individually? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 --

Re: My apologies

2023-08-03 Thread John Hardin
list member, looking for help, I humbly submit that he's not someone you want being the first interaction a new list member has. Sadly, we cannot control that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar

Re: Welcome/unwelcome list not working correctly.

2023-07-20 Thread John Hardin
headers would aid analysis. Can you swap the numbers in the 4th column and see if that changes the behavior? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507

Re: Help with rule

2023-06-06 Thread John Hardin
enders coming from specific IP addresses, there's already built-in features for that. Look into whitelist_from_rcvd, it may do exactly what you want. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.or

Re: 0 score not voiding rule

2023-05-27 Thread John Hardin
u also add: USER_IN_WHITELIST 0 They are synonyms, might need to kill both explicitly. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

RE: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-13 Thread John Hardin
a more general solution, but this might be quite useful. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-13 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 13 May 2023, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: But I was more interested if SA already has something like that? It does not. On Fri, 12 May 2023, Loren Wilton wrote: Weren't there a whole set of "FUZZY" rules once? On 12.05.23 20:01, John Hardin wrote: There still are.

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-12 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Loren Wilton wrote: But I was more interested if SA already has something like that? It does not. Weren't there a whole set of "FUZZY" rules once? There still are. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-12 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 12 May 2023, Matija Nalis wrote: I wonder if someone has already done it, and something sufficiently similar to be used to that purpose? There are a lot of ReplaceTags rules in the base ruleset. I don't know if offhand that works with header rules. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: parameters: use_pyzor and use_razor2

2023-04-29 Thread John Hardin
: config: failed to parse line in (sql config) (line 9): use_pyzor\t0 info: config: not parsing, administrator setting: use_razor2\t0 info: config: failed to parse line in (sql config) (line 10): use_razor2\t0 ... in SQL config? perhaps the lines are misplaced? -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: replay RBL queries one hour later

2023-02-25 Thread John Hardin
or example commercial accounts where you don't want a delay in receiving communications from customers or potential customers. There are ways to tune it that may mitigate these concerns somewhat. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@

Re: DecodeShortURL fails with postgresql

2023-01-29 Thread John Hardin
i just report it This bit: WHERE short_url $1 = AND ...should probably be: WHERE short_url = $1 AND The basic expression syntax of SQL is the same as other (infix!) languages.. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: bz 8116

2023-01-28 Thread John Hardin
trashed. Poof, gone. We don't sit watching our MUAs 24/7 -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Rule Help - not sure what is wrong with my syntax

2023-01-12 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2023, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 18:39 -0500, Joey J wrote: Hello All, I created this rule to check for email addresses matching a list to get added some negative value. I also tried it with just domains so

Re: Rule Help - not sure what is wrong with my syntax

2023-01-12 Thread John Hardin
. There are instructions for setting such up for local blacklists, that works equally well for a local whitelist. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: Refused by block lists

2023-01-06 Thread John Hardin
to its external address." I think you're getting distracted by the word "resolve" there... This sounds like a DNS issue. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: DNSWL_HI testing wrong Received header?

2022-12-28 Thread John Hardin
l.org" IN { type forward; forward first; forwarders { }; }; zone "multi.uribl.com" IN { type forward; forward first; forwarders { }; }; ...etc. for all DNSBL subdomains. -- John Hardin KA7OHZh

Re: Whitelist or add negative values for score

2022-12-22 Thread John Hardin
blacklist -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: phishtank api usage from spamassassin ?

2022-08-26 Thread John Hardin
. "Go away and stop bothering us." It's not the only place Google won't let you report problems from outside their ecosystem either - you can't report spam coming through Google Groups with the link in the messages without logging in to a Google account. I gave up trying to report these,

Re: phishtank api usage from spamassassin ?

2022-08-25 Thread John Hardin
block all page.link, whois says its hosted by google :/ go ahead.. There are legitimate sites using that domain. I added it as a 2tld for URIBL, so please report such domains to URIBL. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: subscribe to blacklist for domains

2022-08-23 Thread John Hardin
available that would return much the same information, and that would give something helpful to discuss with the site admin when trying to resolve the situation. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pg

Re: subscribe to blacklist for domains

2022-08-14 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 13 Aug 2022, joe a wrote: Why waste your own system resources to help a scoundrel? Drop them and be done. I personally perfer to TCP tarpit repeat offenders. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk

Re: Matching on missing To field?

2022-07-20 Thread John Hardin
it, that is "headers misspelled" (not "headers missing") MISSP = misspaced and it is checking for any of the listed words at the start of a line, followed by a colon, and NOT followed by a space. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: shit from serverion

2022-06-29 Thread John Hardin
posting it here so you do not need to do this work. If you do some random checks, you can see this looks weird[2]. Do as you please with this info. FYI, I'm rejecting them at the postfix level. *cough* TCP Tarpit *cough* -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-11 Thread John Hardin
: oilers Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--=_1649731129-716331-86" Obviously, the following bogus header names are present: Minicomputers-Exhume Malthus-Films Parasitic-Homogeneity Capitalizations-Grievously Take a look at __RAND_HEADER and RAND_HEADER_MANY --

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2022-02-19 Thread John Hardin
ged by your provider and if a more than a few of them are listed (particularly by multiple DNSBLs) then your provider is probably problematic and you should look elsewhere. [Ooo, look, the .sigmonster is listening...] -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: Regex error in most recent update

2022-02-18 Thread John Hardin
versal, either. It passed lint here or I wouldn't have checked it in. It passed the masscheck lint or it wouldn't have been published. I've checked in a fix, there may be one more bad update tonight before it goes out. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.

Re: REMOVE

2022-02-18 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, da...@grmcompany.com wrote: Dan: The SA users mailing list is self-managed. list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscr...@spamassassin.apache.org> -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@imps

Re: CONTENT_AFTER_HTML: better not discuss formatting!!

2022-02-08 Thread John Hardin
delimiters from SA. I suspect there are at least hundreds of rules like that in the release database. I have about a hundred local rules of my own that use that. Indeed. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk

Re: CONTENT_AFTER_HTML: better not discuss formatting!!

2022-02-07 Thread John Hardin
hat after observing multiple spams with random garbage after the closing HTML tag in the HTML body part. Presumably it was an attempt at Bayes poison, checksum avoidance, or some other filter evasion technique. I'll tighten it up. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.i

Re: CONTENT_AFTER_HTML: better not discuss formatting!!

2022-02-07 Thread John Hardin
" rule type... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: XM_RANDOM hits for Qi Mail Connector

2022-01-20 Thread John Hardin
/ Will update, thanks for the report. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Managing long welcome_senders list

2021-12-02 Thread John Hardin
hat does have the downside of accepting spam from them if their account gets hacked, for example. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-30 Thread John Hardin
correctness. Isn't that exactly what we're discussing here? "Technical correctness"? The way I generally put it is: SpamAssassin is not an RFC-compliance audit tool. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pg

Re: SHOPIFY_IMG_NOT_RCVD_SFY but from Shopify

2021-11-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Matt Corallo wrote: On 11/18/21 16:49, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2021, Matt Corallo wrote: I followed up on the exim-users list on this - Exim *did* verify the FcRDNS here and the above header line is what it generates by default for FcRDNS. The RFC quote

Re: SHOPIFY_IMG_NOT_RCVD_SFY but from Shopify

2021-11-18 Thread John Hardin
that rule a bit to also look at the HELO and envelope From address to see if they are from Shopify. Granted that's less reliable than rDNS, but it's probably Good Enough. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk

Re: SHOPIFY_IMG_NOT_RCVD_SFY but from Shopify

2021-11-16 Thread John Hardin
to be considered spam. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: SHOPIFY_IMG_NOT_RCVD_SFY but from Shopify

2021-11-16 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021, Matt Corallo wrote: Full headers follow, but it seems the shopify detection in the above isn't quite correct; Thanks for the report, will fix. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-16 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 15 Nov 2021, Philip Prindeville wrote: On Nov 12, 2021, at 8:49 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Philip Prindeville wrote: I got the message, saved it to a flat file, and ran "spamassassin -t -D rules < netdev.eml" and saw: ... Nov 12 11:45:38.048 [3636

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-13 Thread John Hardin
to the timeout message could display the name of the rule and even how long it took to that point. That's what I was thinking when I said "capture and log". -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pg

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-13 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, Henrik K wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:49:00PM -0800, John Hardin wrote: What would be helpful here would be logging of when a rule *starts* evaluation. Normally that would be painful, but for tracking a runaway it would be useful. Perhaps I can code up something

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-12 Thread John Hardin
g to capture that and log it on a timeout... If you want to send me that message zipped up I can try it here with those changes and see if it's a base rule running away. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org p

Re: Unicode considered harmful again

2021-11-05 Thread John Hardin
And what of the BIDI sequence that actually causes the problem? All Of Unicode is not the problem. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: timeouts on processing some messages, started October 24

2021-11-03 Thread John Hardin
comparing that debug output from a bad message to that of a message which doesn't hang SA. There's also the HitFreqsRuleTiming plugin if you're running in a dev environment and can let it scan for a potentially long time (until completion). -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.

Re: Starting Clean with Bayes

2021-10-23 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 23 Oct 2021, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2021-10-20 16:58, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Axb wrote: On 10/19/21 8:06 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Where do I find a starter toks file? You don't need a "starter" file. Your Bayes starter is your training corpora,

Re: Starting Clean with Bayes

2021-10-20 Thread John Hardin
doing now. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- At

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG in 72_active.cf

2021-10-05 Thread John Hardin
. On 25.09.21 13:19, John Hardin wrote: Perhaps it needs a short-message exclusion? On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: short messages with attachments. if you have an idea how, I'll be glad to try. On 25.09.21 15:04, John Hardin wrote: I've done some masscheck review and tuning

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG in 72_active.cf

2021-09-25 Thread John Hardin
. On 25.09.21 13:19, John Hardin wrote: Perhaps it needs a short-message exclusion? short messages with attachments. if you have an idea how, I'll be glad to try. I've done some masscheck review and tuning of it, added avoidance of hits on very short messages. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG in 72_active.cf

2021-09-25 Thread John Hardin
an FP in Pyzor. RAZOR, PYZOR and DCC often hit on e-mail with short or no text and attachments. (Haven't done stats tho, I can look during workweek.) Thus, FSL_BULK_SIG tends to hit on such e-mail because they don't have unsubscribe header. Perhaps it needs a short-message exclusion? -- John

RE: Question about whitelisting of naadac.org

2021-08-12 Thread John Hardin
n environment versus analyzed in a misconfigured and stale theoretical environment), with all headers intact (<- this is important), then we might be able to tell you why it ended up there. Kind Regards Lukas -Original Message- From: John Hardin Sent: Thursday, August 12,

Re: Question about whitelisting of naadac.org

2021-08-11 Thread John Hardin
5 or more points). -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Website "help" spams

2021-07-28 Thread John Hardin
[Aa]dvisor|[Cc]onsultant)/ Intentionally *not* case-insensitive. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: DKIM_* scores

2021-07-27 Thread John Hardin
O, as it hits 100% of the spam hits. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --

Re: Email Phishing and Zloader: Such a Disappointment

2021-07-11 Thread John Hardin
eme and an application/x-mso file. Which (in addition to the text/xml files) are used by Microsoft Word to load the embedded Word document." Would the presence of all three of those MIME types be a scorable indicator? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp:

Re: number in sender name

2021-07-11 Thread John Hardin
* helpful when you just can't figure out why the RE is failing. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: number in sender name

2021-07-10 Thread John Hardin
base rules: FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS __FROM_ALL_NUMS __TO_ALL_NUMS __FM_TO_ALL_NUMS -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Recent experience with RCVD_IN_SORBS_NR_SPAM and others

2021-05-28 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 28 May 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: John Hardin writes: On Thu, 27 May 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: The other problem on a small number of messages was RCVD_DOTEDU_SHORT. I realize this must have passed masscheck, but getting a message of 1-1.5 kB from an address in .edu is to me

Re: Recent experience with RCVD_IN_SORBS_NR_SPAM and others

2021-05-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 28 May 2021, RW wrote: There is a minor problem: header __RCVD_DOTEDU_EXT X-Spam-Relays-External =~ /\.edu\s/i allows a match on "by=" from the LE header, when it should just be on helo/rdns. D'oh! Fixed, thanks for catching that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Recent experience with RCVD_IN_SORBS_NR_SPAM and others

2021-05-27 Thread John Hardin
to appear in legitimate mail. (In my case it was a notification of air conditioning shutdown in a particular building, and that's all there was to say.) Score limit adjusted. Do you know whether it happened to hit ALL_TRUSTED? I added an exclusion for that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

RE: Header exists with a dollar sign in it

2021-05-26 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 26 May 2021, Douglas, Daniel wrote: We need to detect it so that we can route emails with that header to a different server. SpamAssassin does scoring, not routing. Isn't it important that your *MTA* be able to detect that header? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp

Re: heads up for false uribl black hits

2021-05-20 Thread John Hardin
listed on URIBL too: http://lookup.uribl.com/?domain=libera.chat Ot at least it is *now* , maybe it comes and goes for some reasons ...and now it's listed at https://admin.uribl.com/ as well. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: heads up for false uribl black hits

2021-05-20 Thread John Hardin
on URIBL Is that not working correctly? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI false positives

2021-05-13 Thread John Hardin
. So add "on local network". -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: FROMNAME and PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS

2021-05-08 Thread John Hardin
eta rule regarding a from name mismatch, you should be using the raw __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS subrule, **not** the FP-reduced scored rule PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.or

Re: How do I search and capture text for use in a rule?

2021-05-07 Thread John Hardin
out 2048? A limit there it to prevent runaway matching and excessive scan times. What if the "Delivered-To" header is more than 2048 characters away from the salutation, which doesn't seem unlikely. That is indeed a shortcoming with this approach. As Henrik says, it's a klu

Re: How do I search and capture text for use in a rule?

2021-05-07 Thread John Hardin
/^Deliver-To: (.*)/; body __LOCAL_AWKWARD_INTRO /hi $first_part/i How can I do this in my .cf file? With a silly kludge, a full rule that matches the complete raw email with a single regex. We're discussing neater ways to do that on the dev list, it's something that's been desired for a long time.

Re: ExtractText and docx

2021-05-06 Thread John Hardin
lve code changes to ExtractText rather than just configuring an it to use external utility. Caveat: I have never looked at the ExtractText plugin. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key:

Re: My 10 years old domain have a bad TLD

2021-05-04 Thread John Hardin
o it being quarantined, rejected or discarded. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: My 10 years old domain have a bad TLD

2021-05-03 Thread John Hardin
ll getting through. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: More fake order spam

2021-04-28 Thread John Hardin
0.48 -1.00 MAILING_LIST_MULTI -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: More fake order spam

2021-04-27 Thread John Hardin
blue Is it worth a rule for evaluation in masscheck? Maybe. Not tonight, though. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: Bad entries in HOSTKARMA_W

2021-04-27 Thread John Hardin
y it works, then reducing the score to -1.0 or even -0.5 sounds reasonable. There were a lot of "I did that too" comments back then. Maybe the way it works has changed since Marc died. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: XM_RANDOM rule seems to hit too often

2021-04-26 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021, John Hardin wrote: Thanks for your report. I've added some exclusions and resuced the score limit. "reduced". The coffee hasn't reached my fingertips yet. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@

Re: XM_RANDOM rule seems to hit too often

2021-04-26 Thread John Hardin
e revised Thanks for your report. I've added some exclusions and resuced the score limit. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822

Re: Is HAS_X_OUTGOING_SPAM_STAT a useful indicator?

2021-04-26 Thread John Hardin
'm looking for more ham exclusions. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: Two different machines running same versoin of SA giving different scores for scores that are commented out

2021-04-25 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: On 2021-04-25 01:00 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: That rule has this line in the 72_active.cf file: Look in 72_scores.cf and compare the modification dates on that file

Re: Two different machines running same versoin of SA giving different scores for scores that are commented out

2021-04-25 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: On 2021-04-25 01:00 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: That rule has this line in the 72_active.cf file: Look in 72_scores.cf and compare the modification dates on that file. The date is Jan 30, 2020. I'm running SA

Re: Two different machines running same versoin of SA giving different scores for scores that are commented out

2021-04-24 Thread John Hardin
0.999 0.837 0.999 0.837 -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Script or command for testing new rules to ensure new rules don't generate false positives/negatives?

2021-04-24 Thread John Hardin
a rule behaves against multiple messages. I'm not sure what you mean by "Local masscheck instance". https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/MassCheck -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pg

Re: Script or command for testing new rules to ensure new rules don't generate false positives/negatives?

2021-04-24 Thread John Hardin
against a corpus rather than testing against a few one-off spamples, then look into setting up a local masscheck instance. You don't need to upload the results to SA, but it will give you a good overview of how a rule behaves against multiple messages. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Why single periods in regex in spamassassin rules?

2021-04-24 Thread John Hardin
without being runaway. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: Spamassassin goes to folder spam

2021-04-19 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, mau...@gmx.ch wrote: if header :contains "To" users@spamassassin.apache.org <mailto:users@spamassassin.apache.org> { This header might be a better check: List-Id: -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jh

Re: KAM_DMARC_REJECT on internal emails

2021-04-19 Thread John Hardin
pty, i.e. all relays are internal. ...so: header ALL_INTERNAL X-Spam-Relays-External =~ /^$/ ? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C A

Re: Spoofed amazon order email

2021-04-16 Thread John Hardin
{fume} -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- Our

Re: Spoofed amazon order email

2021-04-16 Thread John Hardin
5 to 20% Train your Bayes... What is this? 0.0 GB_FROM_NAME_FREEMAIL Freemail spear phish with free mail Is that local? If not, you might want to increase the score on that a bit. Giovanni, is that something of yours that's not in your SA sandbox? -- John Hardin KA7OHZh

Re: sa-learn using multiple CPUs?

2021-04-15 Thread John Hardin
process. So I will re-configure my installation to use MariaDB. You should also consider the Redis backend. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: Using spamassassin to thwart sharepoint phishing attacks

2021-04-12 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, jwmi...@gmail.com wrote: John Hardin writes: > From: John Hardin > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:29:03 -0700 (PDT) > > On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Loren Wilton wrote: > > >> 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100% > >>

Re: Using spamassassin to thwart sharepoint phishing attacks

2021-04-12 Thread John Hardin
BAYES_999 to Poison Pill status, as the confidence is higher. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: "Please send us a quote..."?

2021-04-06 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Kris Deugau wrote: John Hardin wrote: Can anybody explain to me the reason behind the blind "please send us a quote for your product X" emails? I mean, I know they are somehow a scam, but I can't figure it out how it's supposed to work when the target isn't

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