Re: USPS Spam

2013-08-30 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Aug 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I am seeing tons of junk getting through claiming to be from the USPS about a missed delivery package. Anyone else seeing this? Yes. I've got some decent rules for killing off the FedEx and RPS variants as well. I'd

Re: Catching fake LinkedIn invites

2013-08-29 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Aug 29, 2013, at 6:41 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:55:29 +0200 Michael Schaap wrote: On 29-Aug-2013 00:30, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Michael Schaap wrote: Hi, I'm getting loads of fake LinkedIn invites, most of which

RE: URIBL_RHS_DOB false positives?

2011-03-24 Thread McDonald, Dan
-Original Message- From: RGB Camera [mailto:zauschne...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 4:34 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: URIBL_RHS_DOB false positives? Yes, we set the pointage to 0.01 until whatever is broken gets fixed. We normally score that

Re: Searched but did not find any info re scores for squirrelmail inbound

2010-06-27 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Jun 27, 2010, at 8:22 PM, bongomania o...@usa.net wrote: My email server, squirrelmail, has spamassassin already installed. To configure, it says to enter the score above which emails should be quarantined. Generally, 5 indicates spam. As a few false positives do occur at those

RE: Whitelists in 3.3.0

2010-01-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
Please excuse the top-post. This truly brain-damaged mua does not allow me to edit the body. Easiest way to disable whitelists is: grep -E score\ RCVD.+- /var/lib/spamassassin/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf | cut -d\ -f1-3 /etc/mail/spamassassin/no-whitelists.cf Sent with Good

Re: sa-update perhaps should exit 0 if all is good

2009-12-19 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 19, 2009, at 8:42 PM, jida...@jidanni.org jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Regarding sa-update, EXIT CODES This would then not stop Makefiles that call it, nor would one need to do case $? in 0|1)...; esac. But it would break scripts that check for a 0 and then run sa-compile on the

Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:13 AM, Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Christian Brel wrote: The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered sensibly; WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE SCORING RULE THAT FAVOURS A COMMERCIAL BULK MAILER. Namely the negative

Re: Museum piece...

2009-12-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:42 PM, David B Funk dbf...@engineering.uiowa.edu wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: I don't know if anyone still remembers this but this is what I had for my first computer back on 1979. I miss my Ohio Scientific C3. I had a Tektrinix 4027 terminal

Re: +++Spam+++: RE: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.0-beta1 available

2009-12-07 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 7, 2009, at 12:12 PM, R-Elists list...@abbacomm.net wrote: in the post there was mention of - added or updated many rules; incomplete list in no particular order: vbounce, lotsa_money, muchmoney, image spam, fill_this_form, FreeMail...snipped Q1)is there a location that shows the

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.org wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? Sorry, but SPF and DKIM simply don't have the saturation required for

Re: freemail vs dkim / spf

2009-12-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: Benny Pedersen wrote: i think it could be added to freemail.pm to test if sender domain have spf or dkim and if no spf and or no dkim consider it as a freemail domain ? I don't see the relationship that SPF has to

Re: [sa] Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED WHY BY DEFAULT?

2009-12-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Per Jessen wrote: The other side of the argument is - why does any legitimate company need to employ a service such as Habeas/Returnpath/whatever? Any legitimate drug company that

Re: Language Detection

2009-12-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
The textcat plugin does a fair job. It's part of the default build, but not enabled by default. On Dec 5, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: Are there any rules to determine what language a message is in?

Re: emailBL devel ?

2009-11-24 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 09:22 -0800, R-Elists wrote: didnt anyone think that the emailBL project was good enough in adding an extra factor of protection to continue development? I'm using it with a locally sourced set of bad actors. Unfortunately, I don't believe I'm allow to share the data.

Re: Good reasons to dont use RBLs

2009-11-12 Thread McDonald, Dan
On 11/12/09 9:42 PM , luis.daniel.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Again me, Well, in the security scope i use a principle that states that you souldnt use a lower layer solution to fix a higher one. So SPAM is a Layer 7 problem that is used to fixed with a Layer 3 solution (RBL). So, worms like

Re: sa-update randomly stops

2009-10-29 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 18:52 -0400, Adam Katz wrote: McDonald, Dan wrote: I run sa-update and sa-compile from a cron job at a regular interval. gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys' [8641] info: generic: base extraction

sa-update randomly stops

2009-10-27 Thread McDonald, Dan
I run sa-update and sa-compile from a cron job at a regular interval. At seemingly random times, it simply fails to run. All I get in the cron log is: gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-update-keys' [8641] info: generic: base

Re: Hostname Based Black/White lists

2009-10-23 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 03:34 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Does SA support host name based black/white lists? like whitelist_rcvd_from ? -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX www.austinenergy.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: update does not work correctly?

2009-10-23 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 13:02 +0200, klop...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I use Spamassassin 3.2.5 with CentOS On October 20 I startet an update with this commands: sa-update --channel updates.spamassassin.org When I start now the update, the date of the folder and file in

Re: How do I stop spamassassin from checking email twice

2009-10-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 01:42 -0700, Karolis wrote: Hi, I have two mail servers one with domain aaa.com, second bbb.com. Both have spamassassin installed. Most distribution lists on aaa.com routes emails to bbb.com. So email gets checked twice. Adding whitelist_to aaa.com in bbb

Re: Mail not scanned

2009-10-21 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:40 +0200, Lars Ebeling wrote: Why aren't mail from United Parcel Service scanned? The last 24 hours have i got about 20 of them and none scanned. check the size of the messages, see if the embedded images make it larger than your cutoff... But a pastebin example

Re: Problems with high spam

2009-10-20 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:23 +, Luis campo wrote: Dear Sirs, I have the problem that many SPAM emails being filtered to the mail box users, who might that be? what would be the problem that keeps coming in much spam our users, and that he could do to catch any mail that has no

anyone collecting French 419 scams?

2009-10-19 Thread McDonald, Dan
Lately, a few 419 scams have been slipping through to me, written in French - I get two or three a week. It's sort of amusing to me, but wondered if anyone is collecting them to write rules. X-Spam-Status: No, score=4 tagged_above=-999 required=4.5 tests=[BOTNET_SOHO=-0.1, L_P0F_UNKN=0.8,

Re: dns query timed out while sa-update

2009-10-14 Thread McDonald, Dan
of some sort, but the output of that command will reveal much to assist in troubleshooting... McDonald, Dan wrote: On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 06:14 -0800, prkr wrote: Hi, /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org.pre ;; query(5.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org, TXT) [1237] dbg

Re: DNSBL Comparison 20091010

2009-10-13 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 15:42 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On søn 11 okt 2009 02:31:58 CEST, John Rudd wrote On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:44, Warren Togami wtog...@redhat.com wrote: Given that zen.spamhaus.org is a combination of XBL and PBL, this data seems to confirm the good

word file spam

2009-10-12 Thread McDonald, Dan
We are getting a number of word docs with scams in them. e.g.: http://pastebin.com/m7e7efaac Note that this message has been MUNGed by Outlook, so the html parts have truly been Mashed Until No Good. As far as I can tell, the following rules didn't hit in the original, pre-MUNGed message: 1.6

Re: +++Spam+++: Low score? Recommendations?

2009-10-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 09:32 -0700, Jefferson Davis wrote: Keep getting similar obvious (to me) spam - tuning recommendations? My threshold is torqued down to 3.5 AV:Sanesecurity.Junk.14595.UNOFFICIAL=6.1, AE_DETAILS_WITH_EMAIL=2.5, AE_DETAILS_WITH_MONEY=2, BOTNET_SOHO=-0.1,

Re: Low score? Recommendations?

2009-10-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 20:17 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:01 -0700, Jefferson Davis wrote: Thanks for the tips and low-grade knuck-wrap. Investigating - installed 20_sought, tweaked local.cf back to 5.0 per list recommendation. Just a minor nit, in case it

Re: OT bad news

2009-10-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 22:00 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 15:42 -0400, Thomas Mullins wrote: We have been running Spamassassin for maybe eight years now. But, my coworkers do not like OpenSource. So they have finally complained enough that my boss is going to

RE: OT bad news

2009-10-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 16:49 -0400, Thomas Mullins wrote: I have no explanation, I will pull out our BSD box, and I will let them connect the Exchange box straight to the Net. They probably just want to connect their iPhones to the exchange server with Active-Sync, and couldn't be bothered

Re: rbldns help OT

2009-09-29 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:50 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: This should be easy but I'm missing something. I have a RBL list (dnset) for host testbl.junkemailfilter.com :2:Test .xx.host.example.com :4: .host.example.com :3: .example.com :9: .com :6: Works fine. But - I want to create an A

Re: 3.3.0 and sa-compile

2009-09-29 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 08:19 +0200, to...@starbridge.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 to...@starbridge.org a écrit : to...@starbridge.org a écrit : Benny Pedersen a écrit : On fre 25 sep 2009 13:38:19 CEST, to...@starbridge.org wrote I've tested with SA 3.2.5

RE: porn portal spammers v2

2009-09-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Sat, 2009-09-26 at 09:25 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Karsten Brckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:37 -0700, John Hardin wrote: Another note which I've seen here before: Drop the [.,] for the host part of a uri rule. It's not a URI if it contains a comma, it'll

Re: [Fwd: maddr] unique id's but duplicate email

2009-09-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 16:52 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: I sent this to our support group, but looks like there can be some issues, and maybe a better way. Wrong list - this is an amavisd question while there cannot be a duplicate id: (maddr id = 5) can't exist in partition_tag 23

Re: porn portal spammers v2

2009-09-25 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 09:30 +0200, Guillaume Gelle wrote: Dear all, As usual, spammers improved and instead of receiving profiles|groups| personnal.yahoo.com links, now, I'm being hit with www.google.com/reader links. (ie : A

Re: Using a blacklist - configuration-file not working

2009-09-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 00:51 -0700, franc wrote: Hello, i just installed spamassassin 3.2.4 (running on Perl 5.8.8) with postfix 2.5.1 on a Ubuntu 8.04. Now i want to use a personal blacklist an i put into /etc/spamassassin/myblacklist.cf That's an odd path name. I'm used to the config

Re: Using a blacklist - configuration-file not working

2009-09-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 04:27 -0700, franc wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Yes, i restarted spamassassin, and now i found out, that amavis is handling some configurations in 20-debian_defaults, restarting spamassassin won't do any good. You need to restart amavisd. Amavisd loads the

Re: Using a blacklist - configuration-file not working

2009-09-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 04:47 -0700, franc wrote: McDonald, Dan wrote: estarting spamassassin won't do any good. You need to restart amavisd. Amavisd loads the perl libraries and daemonizes itself instead of using spamd. Does this mean with amavis spamassassin is NOT used

Re: URL rule creation question

2009-09-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 14:37 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 10.09.09 18:28, MySQL Student wrote: I've seen this pattern in spam quite a bit lately: href=http://EXAMPLE.com/jazert/html/?39.6d.3d.31.66.67.6b.79.77.63.77.63.65.6e.74.69.6e.6e.69

Re: URL rule creation question

2009-09-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 15:09 -0400, MySQL Student wrote: Hi, The 'doubleheadedrover' domain currently shows up in Razor(E8), uribl_black, surbl_jp, and invaluement. But it wasn't in all of those when he first started posting about it. Yes, that's correct. Thanks for your help. That's

Re: URL rule creation question

2009-09-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 18:28 -0400, MySQL Student wrote: Hi all, I've seen this pattern in spam quite a bit lately: href=http://doubleheaderover.com/jazert/html/?39.6d.3d.31.66.67.6b.79.77.63.77.63.65.6e.74.69.6e.6e.69

RE: URL rule creation question

2009-09-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:mkettler...@verizon.net] This rule should detect 10 consecutive occurrences. uri L_URI_FUNNYDOTS /(?:\.[a-z,0-9]{2}\.){10} Warning: I wrote this quickly without too much thought. It may have bugs, but I'm short on time at the moment. your variant would require

Re: whitelist_from_dkim

2009-09-08 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 18:24 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-08 at 18:54 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue 08 Sep 2009 06:25:49 PM CEST, Mark Martinec wrote Sure, if you want it to be be whitelisted. tidy give me 95 warns on the html part :) That's normal. The HTML

Re: Spams about illegal underage undressings

2009-08-25 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 07:21 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:54:08PM -0700, Evan Platt wrote: At 12:48 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: Lately I have been receiving quite a bit of spams that promote films of the most indecent kind, involving persons of minor age. Examples are

Re: i need your indulgence

2009-08-21 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 00:24 +0200, mouss wrote: Dan Schaefer a écrit : Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:06 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: That is incorrect. I put double spaces in the subject, because I knew someone would bring that up. :-) at a time where we

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:34 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:35, d.h...@yournetplus.com wrote: Quoting LuKreme krem...@kreme.com: On 3-Aug-2009, at 18:36, Dennis G German wrote: If you use the lists as an RBL to reject at SMTP, you will end up rejecting legitimate email.

Re: Again AWL confusion

2009-08-04 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 21:18 +0200, a...@exys.org wrote: This assumption is wrong. You did receive a message from the From: header address and the same originating net-block in the past. Should I disable AWL, or can i unlearn it? Apparently you previously (maybe not this week)

Re: How to Disable ALL CAPS OPTION

2009-07-30 Thread McDonald, Dan
+0530, ganesh payelkar wrote: Will it work if i put below entry in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf yes. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM, McDonald, Dan dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 17:36 +0530, ganesh payelkar

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 06:16 -0700, John Rudd wrote: Though ... it'd be nice if there was a direct RSS feed for the users list. Hopefully Nabble isn't my only choice for an RSS feed :-} (esp. since it posts 1 RSS message per email message, and only appears to do periodic RSS updates, not more

Re: Low Scoring Lotto Spam

2009-07-27 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 14:51 +0100, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: http://pastebin.com/m2cbc0965 This is scoring way low. Coming in from Hotmail (I would love to blacklist these but some people just insist on using it). Scores a healthy 13 here. Mostly using custom rules. X-Spam-Report:

pilz spammers with new variations

2009-07-25 Thread McDonald, Dan
Looks like the pilz spammers have finally ditched the letters+numbers format. I'm now using this rule: body__MED_OB

RE: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-25 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Robert [mailto:list...@abbacomm.net] There are no doubt lots of ways, but how about: egrep 'whitelist_from[^_]' local.cf | awk '{FS=@; print $2 TXT;}' | xargs dig | grep v=spf1 what is this supposed to do? select all of your whitelist_from entries, parse out the domain part, dig the

Re: Subject Rules

2009-07-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 04:27 -0700, twofers wrote: I'm writing rules for header Subject and have a rule question. I want a rule that would hit on specific words, no matter what order they were. Would a rule written like this rule below accomplish that? No. That rule would match every subject

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

2009-07-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Dan Schaefer [mailto:d...@performanceadmin.com] 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.

RE: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: MySQL Student [mailto:mysqlstud...@gmail.com] 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: Please use pastebin. It hit BAYES_99, but that's it. Are there any rules that

RE: The www[variations]continue....

2009-07-19 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: John Hardin [mailto:jhar...@impsec.org] On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Mike Wallace wrote: I got one today that wasn't caught by your rule Whose, mine or Dan's? it had 22232 for the domain name inside of www and net and used bracket dot bracket for the separator. I just got a couple of those

RE: The www[variations]continue....

2009-07-19 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: McDonald, Dan [mailto:dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com] From: John Hardin [mailto:jhar...@impsec.org] On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Mike Wallace wrote: I got one today that wasn't caught by your rule Whose, mine or Dan's? it had 22232 for the domain name inside of www and net and used bracket dot

Re: Header Layout

2009-07-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 01:53 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:33 -0500, McDonald, Dan wrote: On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 16:13 +0100, Steve wrote: This is very pretty; Can we change the header layout with SA to format it similar to this? You can, I guess -- even

Re: {Spam?} RE: The www[variations]continue....

2009-07-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 09:11 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: The rules should also proactively cover (dot) and {dot} as well as [dot] and dot, and {dot, and /dot/, and ... That's why I like using [[:punct:]], which includes ! ' # S % ' ( ) * + , - . / : ; = ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ { | } ~ I've simplified

Re: The www[variations]continue....

2009-07-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 00:04 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Good Evening, Am 2009-07-16 23:42:44, schrieb Karsten Bräckelmann: On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 00:37 +0300, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: Is this rule available via updates.spamassassin.org sa-update channel? Nope. It's living in a

Re: Header Layout

2009-07-14 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 16:13 +0100, Steve wrote: This is very pretty; X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.3379 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description --

Re: forward mails as spam

2009-07-14 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:42 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, neroxyr wrote: tks cheking the local.cf i had a blacklist_from *...@*.* i delete that line and put the whitelist_from *...@gmail.com I restart spamassassin and sendmail service and it worked!!. But putting

Re: custom rule no work (as expected) and log score

2009-07-14 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 12:54 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: any idea why this rule never works for domain1 or domain2 but only domain3 header whitelist_from_luser From =~ /domain1\.com/i header whitelist_from_luser From =~ /domain2\.com/i header whitelist_from_luser From =~ /domain3\.com/i

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

2009-07-13 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:03 +0100, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 10:46 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: (?!www\.[a-z]{2,6}[0-9]{2,6}\.(com|net|org)) www[^a-z0-9]+[a-z]{2,6}[0-9]{2,6}[^a-z0-9]+(com|net|org) Does not seem to work with; www. meds .com It shouldn't. The

Re: Extending XBL to all untrusted

2009-07-13 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 17:38 +0100, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 18:28 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.07.09 16:26, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Do the RFC's state that they need to? yes, RFC4954 in section 7 does Where - I don't see it say it needs

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

2009-07-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk [mailto:rich...@buzzhost.co.uk] On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 22:46 -0500, McDonald, Dan wrote: From: Jason L Tibbitts III [mailto:ti...@math.uh.edu] MD == McDonald, Dan dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com writes: MD They are using underscores, which are a [:punct:], but don't

RE: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www_nu26_com

2009-07-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Jason L Tibbitts III [mailto:ti...@math.uh.edu] MD == McDonald, Dan dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com writes: MD The rules I posted last night catch those. They switched from MD underscores to commas this morning, and my rules still catch them. I still wonder, though, if we shouldn't

Re: unsubscribe

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 19:42 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: As the headers of every message state: list-unsubscribe: mailto:users-unsubscr...@spamassassin.apache.org I tried that when I went on vacation last month. My ack bounced after three days, so it never unsubscribed me. I'm back from

Re: unsubscribe

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 06:56 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: So - you attempted to unsubscribe. You didn't reply to the confirmation e-mail that was sent. I did reply, but the ezlm software refused to accept the message. And exchange is dumb enough that it didn't tell me that it failed for 3 days.

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

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 17:11 +0200, Sim wrote: /\bwww(?:\s|\s\W|\W\s)\w{3,6}\d{2,6}(?:\s|s\W|\W\s)(?:c\s?o\s?m|n\s?e\s?t|o\s?r\s?g)\b/i ^ John, Thanks a lot for rule update! It works fine. I can say it's nearly perfect, because it missing

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

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 11:39 -0400, Daniel Schaefer wrote: McDonald, Dan wrote: Since we're sharing rules for this recent Spam outbreak, here is my rule: body DRUG_SITE /www(\.|\ )*(med|meds|gen|pill|shop|via|cu|co|ba|da|bu|ba)[0-9]{2}(\.|\ )*(net|com)/ You should avoid the use

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

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: fchan [mailto:fc...@molsci.org] Don't tempt them, I already get enough spam not only from these guys. Also they will flood the network with smtp useless connections and unless you have good network attack mitigation system so you don't have a DDoS, don't tempt them. Pretty soon they

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

2009-07-10 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Jason L Tibbitts III [mailto:ti...@math.uh.edu] MD == McDonald, Dan dan.mcdon...@austinenergy.com writes: MD They are using underscores, which are a [:punct:], but don't form MD a \b break. I'm becoming confused as to what they could possibly hope to accomplish by that. right now I think

mailbox-list in sender: header?

2009-07-09 Thread McDonald, Dan
I recently received a spam with a mailbox-list in the from: and senderd: headers From: Inversiones inversiones.fo...@live.com, i...@lasinversionesforex.com Sender: Inversiones inversiones.fo...@live.com, i...@lasinversionesforex.com Since I had not seen

RE: AE_MEDS35 does not more work...

2009-07-02 Thread McDonald, Dan
Coming home for some minutes I saw, I am hit by 23.000 spams in my inbox from today... The rule: bodyAE_MEDS35 /\bwww(?:\s\W?\s?|\W\s)\w{3,6}\d{2,6}(?:\s\W?\s?|\W\s)(?:c\s?o\s?m|n\s?e\s?t|o\s?r\s?g)\b/i describeAE_MEDS35 obfuscated domain seen in spam score

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

more freemail domains: tunome.com

2009-06-23 Thread McDonald, Dan
AOL is making it easier for spammers to come up with unique names to avoid the freemail.pm plugin. They have a service called tunome.com with about 150 domains that are freemail. I just received a lottery spam that used two of the tunome.com aliases. Guess I'd best make a list... -- Daniel J

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

2009-06-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 13:15 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Am 2009-06-22 10:52:54, schrieb Pawe?? T??cza: This seems to compile: body AE_MEDS35 /\(\s?w{2,4}\s(meds|shop)\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com|org)\s?\)/ describe AE_MEDS35 obfuscated domain in message scoreAE_MEDS35 3.0 I'd suggest

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

2009-06-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 14:37 +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote: McDonald, Dan pisze: I'm considering a low-scoring rule like: body AE_MEDS37 /\(\s?w{2,4}\s[:alpha:]{4}\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com|org)\s?\)/ describe AE_MEDS37 rule to catch the next wave of spaced domains score

Re: Lots of 419/scam and investment spams getting through suddenly

2009-06-19 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 15:12 -0700, SM wrote: At 22:59 18-06-2009, Chip M. wrote: Here's a dump of the complete Countries routes of your samples (frequency first, then square brackets around the IP immediately outside your own network): 2 [France], Nigeria Do you really get such emails

Re: Debugging and scripting

2009-06-18 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 18:01 -0400, MySQL Student wrote: I'm also having a problem with one of my rules: [32692] info: config: invalid expression for rule LOCAL_XPS: Subject =~ /Free\ DELL\ XPS/i: syntax error Here is the full rule: meta LOCAL_XPSSubject =~ /Free\

Re: List headers and footers [Re: Unsubscribe]

2009-06-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:44 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:29:13 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On 15.06.09 12:30, RW wrote: Would you care to elaborate? You comment makes no sense to me. the more people use DKIM/PGP, the less

Re: Suggested Change For FS_TEEN_BAD

2009-06-16 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 13:52 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, RW wrote: On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:03:43 -0500 Andy Dorman ador...@ironicdesign.com wrote: ##{ FS_TEEN_BAD header FS_TEEN_BADSubject =~ /\b(?:teens?|girls?|boys?... describe FS_TEEN_BADSubject says

Re: BOTNET timeouts?

2009-06-11 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 21:40 -0700, John Rudd wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 21:11, Bill Landryb...@inetmsg.com wrote: Jake Maul wrote: Interesting that I'm just now running into this... I've been using Botnet on this server for several months without issue. Thanks for the link, shorter

Re: generate message with a specific score

2009-06-03 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:12 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hi Matus, On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:48:25PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.05.09 17:12, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Is it possible to generate a rule that when it applies gives the message that specific score? If so, how do I

Re: word doc spam

2009-06-02 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:10 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, Is there a rule to catch these messages with no body and a 550 bite word attachment? Yes, add the SaneSecurity clamav signatures. codling.rtf: Sanesecurity.Spam.10307.UNOFFICIAL FOUND Integration with spamassassin left as

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-01 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 09:28 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm running SA-3.2.5 on Slackware-12.2 and encountering false positives on messages that have not before been seen as spam by SA. Specifically, the daily postfix mail log summary report and the daily logwatch report are marked at spam;

Re: sa-update not updating since March 30.

2009-06-01 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 11:26 -0700, Ernie Dunbar wrote: We have a cron job that runs every day to update the spamassassin rules, but there have been no new updates since March 30. Correct. updates_spamassassin_org has not been updated since March 30. I have seen updates on

Re: upgrad spamassassin

2009-05-27 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 07:44 -0700, hateSpam wrote: Dear All, I have spamassassin 3.1.9 Running on... [] Redhat linux version 6.0 [] Minix [] OpenVMS [] Sun/OS 2.0 [] Timex Sinclair ZX81 [] Windows NT 3.02B [] Something else? Installed using... [] tarball install [] CPAN [] RPM []

RE: Stats (was: The EmailBL test zone period has been extended toJuly 1st.)

2009-05-23 Thread McDonald, Dan
-Original Message- From: Henrik K [mailto:h...@hege.li] Sent: Fri 22-May-09 23:06 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Stats (was: The EmailBL test zone period has been extended toJuly 1st.) On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:28:55PM +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The EmailBL

Re: spamassassin runs razor spamc not

2009-05-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 10:56 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 08:00 +0200, Mester wrote: You did enable razor in the server-wide config, right? Not per-user settings. I have enabled razor this way: I have this lines in my /etc/spamassassin/local.cf #razor

Re: spamassassin runs razor spamc not

2009-05-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:55 +0200, Mester wrote: Check in the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file for the user that runs amavisd-new. I know the Mandriva package has that set to 'use_razor2 0', so I always have to hunt it down and fix it. I had no use_razor2 line in the

Re: opinions on greylisting and others

2009-05-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 14:14 +0200, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: Greetings. I'm thinking of implementing: - greylisting very effective. I cut my incoming mail by about 80% when we put up greylisting. I'm using sqlgrey. - honeypots - rejecting broken HELO at smtp time (such as

Re: The EmailBL test zone period has been extended to July 1st.

2009-05-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:07 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: FYI: The EmailBL test zone period has been extended to July 1st. Since it has been extended, I decided to go ahead and fire it up this morning. I'm mainly looking at overlap. It seems to be relatively distinct from other tests that

20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread McDonald, Dan
I've got a couple of users getting 419 scams, and it looks like 20_advance_fee.cf has got most of the good stuff for finding these nasties. Unfortunately, it's only matching one of the sub-tests ( __FRAUD_DBI ). If I wanted to extend it a bit, how should I go about it? Maybe create: meta

Re: 20_advance_fee.cf

2009-05-15 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:15 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 May 2009, McDonald, Dan wrote: Or would it be better to just overwrite ADVANCE_FEE_{2,3,4} with more subtests? The sought_fraud rules are dynamically generated from current 419 emails. Were you aware of them? Granted

Re: FreeMail plugin updated - banks

2009-05-12 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:36 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 12 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Then you get phish where the From address is a bank domain, and the envelope address is from a completely unrelated domain with a valid spf record so even a simple From_Bank spf_pass isn't

Re: Rule to detect same address in sender and receiver

2009-05-08 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 12:05 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 14:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 07.05.09 03:59, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Ah ha, you can use something like header FROM_SAME_AS_TO ALL=~/\nFrom: ([^\n]+)\n.*To: \1/sm add spf to your domain But see

RE: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Ned Slider [mailto:n...@unixmail.co.uk] I had one sneak through today which didn't hit any rules at all (it hits a few DNSBLs now but not when I received it). It contained an inline png: Any idea how to tackle these? I have the DSC png rule in place but obviously that doesn't apply

RE: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread McDonald, Dan
From: Ned Slider [mailto:n...@unixmail.co.uk] McDonald, Dan wrote: From: Ned Slider [mailto:n...@unixmail.co.uk] I had one sneak through today which didn't hit any rules at all (it hits a few DNSBLs now but not when I received it). It contained an inline png: meta AE_PNG_ATTACH

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