Re: Advice

2012-07-05 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 07/03/2012 12:51 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/3/2012 12:25 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 7/3/2012 12:19 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Looking for some advice, hope it's OK to ask here. I have a few customers over the past several months start getting an unusual amount of messages being

Help blocking this type of spam

2011-09-13 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Each message uses a different server with different server name and I see no patterns except the style. http://pastebin.com/sJp7Gb75 Thanks, RRCR

Re: Help blocking this type of spam

2011-09-13 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/13/11 10:08, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:48 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Each message uses a different server with different server name and I see no patterns except the style. http://pastebin.com/sJp7Gb75 That scored around 12.6 here and all from the standard SA

Re: Help blocking this type of spam

2011-09-13 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/13/11 10:27, Stefan König wrote: Randy Ramsdell schrieb: On 09/13/11 10:08, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 09:48 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Each message uses a different server with different server name and I see no patterns except the style. http://pastebin.com

Re: join

2011-06-30 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Max Dunlap wrote: Haha, I'm sorry I accidently sent a message. But while I'm at it, I was going to ask a question. I just set up a healthy postfix server on ubuntu, I've been looking at the wiki and I'm not sure which way is the best to get myself setup with SA. My old method doesnt work

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Randy Ramsdell
David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:30:19 -0700 Danita Zanre dan...@caledonia.net wrote: Messages from this list have been bouncing since I started enforcing Reverse DNS lookups on my server. The irony is that you think that's a good idea. -- David. Not sure. If our mail servers

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Randy Ramsdell
David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:43:40 -0500 Randy Ramsdell rramsd...@activedg.com wrote: Not sure. If our mail servers did not have reverse, we would be rejected all over the place. Seems like a common setting. Or is it? Microsoft Windows is very common, but that doesn't make

Re: Irony

2011-02-01 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 2/1/11 9:49 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:43:40 -0500 Randy Ramsdellrramsd...@activedg.com wrote: Not sure. If our mail servers did not have reverse, we would be rejected all over the place. Seems like a common setting. Or is it? so we should

mycingular listed on xbl/pbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
It appears mycingular ( iphone ) ips are listed on spamhaus ( XBL and PBL ) for 8 days. I have reject at the smtpd level if found. May want to look out for this. Thanks, RCR

Re: mycingular listed on xbl/pbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Benny Pedersen wrote: On tir 21 dec 2010 18:39:52 CET, Randy Ramsdell wrote It appears mycingular ( iphone ) ips are listed on spamhaus ( XBL and PBL ) for 8 days. I have reject at the smtpd level if found. May want to look out for this. iphone ? if mobile phones not using smtp auth

Re: Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 12/9/10 9:33 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I have been receiving bounces to my yahoo account for email I did not send. From the pastebin, you see the email did originate from the yahoo servers but is not in my sent directory. This is an interesting case and I cannot

Re: new headers rule

2010-11-05 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 04/11/2010 8:11 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Moving back on-list, since it doesn't appear to be personally directed at me. On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 19:22 -0230, Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 04/11/2010 7:13 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: No, that requires the Subject

Re: new headers rule

2010-11-05 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 05/11/2010 10:58 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI You appear to have records of the same spam influencing your bayes results (it hits BAYES_99, which is good). What are your Bayes threshold settings? Cheers, Lawrence I am not sure what you

Re: new headers rule

2010-11-05 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 05/11/2010 6:00 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 05/11/2010 10:58 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: X-MB-Message-Source: WebUI You appear to have records of the same spam influencing your bayes results (it hits BAYES_99, which is good). What

Re: new headers rule

2010-11-04 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: Hi, I've noticed a bunch of spams coming in recently that have no To: and Subject: and have cobbled together the following rule to combat them. Any feedback would be appreciated. # Message has empty To: and Subject: headers # Likely spam header __LW_EMPTY_SUBJECT

Re: new headers rule

2010-11-04 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Lawrence @ Rogers wrote: On 04/11/2010 6:35 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Are the Subject lines blank or missing from the body? And that goes for the To also. In the spam I am seeing, there are both present and empty. Example To: Subject: I ran a email through spamc and it hits missing

Re: .info spam from Hotmail

2010-11-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Kris Deugau wrote: DNSBLs are pretty much useless, since the message *was* legitimately relayed in from Hotmail. A couple of times I've seen enough examples with similar enough URLs to create a uri rule something like: uri MISC_INFO

Re: .info spam from Hotmail

2010-11-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Kris Deugau wrote: DNSBLs are pretty much useless, since the message *was* legitimately relayed in from Hotmail. A couple of times I've seen enough examples with similar enough URLs to create a uri rule something like: uri

Re: SpamAssassin service file missing after installation

2010-10-27 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Gnanam wrote: Hi, My question is, after installation, spamassassin service file is not available in the location /etc/init.d/spamassassin. Because of this 'service spamassassin start' says spamassassin: unrecognized service. What could be the reason for spamassassin service file missing

which LWP::UserAgent for 3.3.1 install?

2010-10-14 Thread Diffenderfer, Randy
Looking at the 3.3.1 install, it wants (well, would like...) module LWP::UserAgent. OK ... off to CPAN, but no simple LWP-UserAgent, only a bunch of LWP-UserAgent-whatever. So, which one do I want? TIA, rnd

Solved: which LWP::UserAgent for 3.3.1 install?

2010-10-14 Thread Diffenderfer, Randy
CPAN search is my friend... it's in libwww-perl! You get too soon old and too late smart... :-) rnd _ From: Diffenderfer, Randy Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 4:24 PM To: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org' Subject: which LWP::UserAgent for 3.3.1

using SA as a tool

2010-09-29 Thread Diffenderfer, Randy
I was under the impression that there was a clear-cut way to use SA as a factory within a custom perl wrapper (I have looked at the Mail::SpamAssassin doco). My objective is to do various things to the parsed message, such as distill out URLs for example. Is there indeed a clear way to do

Re: autolearn : lock_file

2010-09-20 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Cédric Jeanneret wrote: Hello, I have an error with SA using autolearn plugin: Sep 20 12:25:06 hostname spamd[6157]: plugin: eval failed: bayes: (in learn) locker: safe_lock: cannot create tmp lockfile /home/USER/.spamassassin/bayes.lock.host.domain.ltd.6157 for

Local rules trigger bug

2010-08-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
I found an bug in spamassassin that can be reliably reproduced when using our local rules. What would be interesting is to track down where this bug is exactly. 1. The process runs @ 100% cpu and hangs there. Has t o be kill -9 'ed 2. I see no errors in spamassassin -D For the time being I

Re: Local rules trigger bug

2010-08-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Randy Ramsdell rramsd...@activedg.com: I found an bug in spamassassin that can be reliably reproduced when using our local rules. What would be interesting is to track down where this bug is exactly. 1. The process runs @ 100% cpu and hangs there. Has t o be kill

Re: Local rules trigger bug

2010-08-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Dominic Benson wrote: On 06/08/10 17:18, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Yeah that is the fastest way. :) I used a little diff formula and found the issue. My I think this may not be the rule we were going for but ... body__RCR_MEGADK/.*(M.*E.*G.*A.*D.*K

Re: server socket setup failed, retry 1: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use

2010-08-04 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Suhag P Desai wrote: No even when I try to do spamd at very first time after reboot the server, I get the same message,... huh? See below. Below are the output of [r...@spd ~]# ps -ef | grep spamd root 3519 3516 0 12:44 ?00:00:00 supervise spamd root 3544 3519 0

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-07-01 Thread Randy Ramsdell
given. The very reason we need you to dig deeper, provide debug logs, header dumps at all stages -- or any evidence at all this might be SA. Randy, any results? Did you find the cause for the issue? At this time, I have not. Since the messages are originally scanned with all the headers

Re: Nonsense spam

2010-06-25 Thread Randy Ramsdell
RW wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:59:24 -0400 Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: On 6/24/10 3:51 PM, Ned Slider wrote: The danger comes when people use the PBL incorrectly and deep parse all headers which *will* lead to copious FPs. Either way, I'd have no hesitation

Re: Nonsense spam

2010-06-24 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/24/10 12:07 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Anyone receiving these? It is either a borked spam script or they are probing. They come in with different headers and different body each time so I am not sure how to mark or block them. Any suggestions would be appreciated

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Randy Ramsdell, Am 2010-06-17 10:38:08, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: We are getting a ton of this type and it scores low because there are no received headers. What is this type of mail? I do not recall seeing these in the past. Hehehe... sounds like

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
David B Funk wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Randy Ramsdell wrote: get us added to lists, but Michael stated then, check the blacklists to see how to get removed. as if we are already on a list. We are not. Back to the main issue. Here is an example pastbin. http://pastebin.com/mJqRPzkv I

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Randy Ramsdell wrote: The original email did not hit the NO_RELAYS rule but subsequent runs through do hit this rule and it isn't on all email. Charles Gregory wrote: This sounds to me like you are 'resending

Re: [sa] Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Charles Gregory wrote: On Fri, 18 Jun 2010, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I have no problem going over there but I am not convinced that the Amavis program is the problem. The header field is changed by spamassassin. Doesn't the email simply get handed to Spamassasin by Amavis where the headers

NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
We are getting a ton of this type and it scores low because there are no received headers. What is this type of mail? I do not recall seeing these in the past. Thanks, RCR

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/17/10 10:38 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: We are getting a ton of this type and it scores low because there are no received headers. What is this type of mail? I do not recall seeing these in the past. its coming from you then :-( or, your mail server is stripping

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/17/10 10:38 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: We are getting a ton of this type and it scores low because there are no received headers. What is this type of mail? I do not recall seeing these in the past. its coming from you then :-( or, your mail server is stripping

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/17/10 11:31 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I just checked our spam reports and this rule never hits. It is not locally generated email either or I can not find any coming from us. This is an strange issue and I am not where to begin to determine what is doing

Re: NO_RELAYS spam

2010-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Charles Gregory wrote: On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Randy Ramsdell wrote: The original email did not hit the NO_RELAYS rule but subsequent runs through do hit this rule and it isn't on all email. This sounds to me like you are 'resending' the mail from a local address to your mail server, rather

Sa-learn huh

2010-06-02 Thread Randy Ramsdell
[09:23] botboy sa-learn { forget,spam,ham} SHOULD change the BAYES scores correct? [09:24] botboy We upgraded spamassassin and it just does not work like it did before. [09:24] botboy I would normally be able to learn as spam and change the bayes score to a 3.5 [09:25] botboy but now i relearn

Re: Sa-learn huh

2010-06-02 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 6/2/10 11:39 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: [09:23] botboy sa-learn { forget,spam,ham} SHOULD change the BAYES scores correct? [09:24] botboy We upgraded spamassassin and it just does not work like it did before. [09:24] botboy I would normally be able to learn as spam

Re: copy spam mail to separate mailbox

2009-07-16 Thread Randy
Evan Platt wrote: At 11:22 AM 7/16/2009, you 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 As that's really a postfix question, not a SpamAssassin

Got one!

2009-06-25 Thread Diffenderfer, Randy
Seems like it's gonna cost some of the big boys a little coin... http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/de062209.htm Let's hope there are more indictments where these came from! rnd

Re: Hostkarma whitelist problem

2009-06-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Marc Perkel wrote: err...@junkemailfilter.com will work. If you have suggestions for automation I'm interested. Bowie Bailey wrote: That one also hit DNSWL_MED and actually ended up with a negative score. I reported to dnswl via their website. It would be useful to have a reporting

Re: Is email becoming unusable due to spam and antispam?

2009-05-15 Thread Randy
Igor Chudov wrote: Just today a buyer reported that my reply to him ended up in his spam folder. Concerned by this, I sent an email to my Yahoo! account and that one disappeared somewhere. The one I sent to gmail, however, got there quickly. I may be overreacting and, perhaps, it is a

Re: Increase in Spam since 7am EDT

2009-05-12 Thread Randy
Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a massive increase in connection attempts since 7am EDT this morning. Most is being rejected because of not existing users but the majority that is getting through is hitting Sanesecurity.Casino.11228.UNOFFICIAL. I'm seeing this across 5 different

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-08 Thread Randy
Ned Slider wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 02:08 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: 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: Content-Type: image/png

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

2009-05-08 Thread Randy
Michael Scheidell wrote: looks like mcafee sees a 20% drop in spam? wonder what that is about. I'm not seeing a drop in ATTEMPTED spam (I see MORE ATTEMPTED spam). Mostly this new 'blank email with a png' in it. Sanesecurity rules seem to be keeping up with it for the most part. I wonder

Re: mcafee sees drop in spam?

2009-05-08 Thread Randy
Martin Hepworth wrote: Spamcop stats don't show this - yes the number of picture spams is going up, but not spam generally. http://www.spamcop.net/spamgraph.shtml?spamyear -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK 2009/5/8 Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net mailto:scheid...@secnap.net looks

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread Randy
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Hello, Both my personnal and pro. emails get this stupid spam. Here is the image: http://dedibox.le-vert.net/divers/DSC.png Is there any rules that can block it ? It seems the picture is always the same. Thanks in advance, Regards, Adam. You may be flooded

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread Randy
Charles Gregory wrote: Just a quick question: I'm noticing that these 'png' spams don't have a text section, or any message body text, and yet my SA does not trigger on any 'message does not contain text' rules? I've seen rules trigger when messages are a high percentage of image versus

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread Randy
Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: RW a écrit : On Tue, 5 May 2009 14:44:29 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On 05.05.09 14:16, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: Both my personnal and pro. emails get this stupid spam. Here is the image:

Using SpamAssassin for just the Bayesian filtering?

2009-03-23 Thread Randy J. Ray
. Thanks in advance for any help, advice, etc. Randy -- Randy J. Ray Oodle, Inc. http://www.oodle.com rj...@corp.oodle.com

Re: more habeas spam

2009-01-15 Thread Randy
Neil Schwartzman wrote: On 2009-01-06 22:19:39 GMT LuKreme kremels at kreme.com wrote: If you want the real history of Habeas in a nutshell, the company went to hell when Anne Mitchell left (the same Anne Mitchell who was part of MAPS back in the day). She's now at the Institute for Spam

SA timeout

2009-01-13 Thread Randy
Hi, Mail occasionally slows down here and the main issue we see is the very long SA checks and SA TIMEOUTS. This forces us to drop the size mail we scan and restart Amavis and Apamassasin otherwise the queues will grow into the thousands. Also note that the Amavis daemons will be running at

Re: New spam-to me-and how do I stop.

2009-01-08 Thread Randy
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 07.01.09 11:46, Craig wrote: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0.2 HP Randy rramsd...@livedatagroup.com 1/6/2009 2:42 PM Post 3 similar messages on pastbin so that we can determine a common factor between them. Use pastbin

Re: Novice Installation Help

2009-01-08 Thread Randy
dave_c00 wrote: I dont have any package manager... The people we rent the server from are absolutely useless and provide no help unless you pay them a small fortune. My server details are as follows: Linux 2.6.22-8-server i686 GNU/Linux Perl 5.8 Spamassassin 3.2.5 I may appear thick but when

Re: New spam-to me-and how do I stop.

2009-01-06 Thread Randy
Craig wrote: Hello All- I have recently been getting MANY spam slipping through Spamassassin and I am looking for help on how to stop. I have used Spamassassin with Bayes successfully for many years now and once I train the system on new spam, the system does an excellent job of stopping.

Re: New spam-to me-and how do I stop.

2009-01-06 Thread Randy
Craig wrote: Randy rramsd...@livedatagroup.com 1/6/2009 2:18 PM Craig wrote: Hello All- I have recently been getting MANY spam slipping through Spamassassin and I am looking for help on how to stop. I have used Spamassassin with Bayes successfully for many years now and once I train

appriver.com backskatter

2008-11-13 Thread Randy
Appriver.com, an e-mail filtering company, sends backskatter or it sure appears so. -- Forwarded Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:22:41 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WARNING. Mail Delayed: Lose 20 pounds in 3 weeks!!! This is a warning message only. Your

Re: Phishing rules?

2008-10-30 Thread Randy
Micah Anderson wrote: I keep getting hit by phishing attacks, and they aren't being stopped by anything I've thrown up in front of them: postfix is doing: reject_rbl_client b.barracudacentral.org, reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client

Re: had it with spaces spam and idiots at hotmail

2008-10-29 Thread Randy
ST_SPACES_BUMP 5 We are receiving lots of this. Also look out for the university degree spam which seems new and using botnet. Randy Ramsdell

Re: why is this message hitting URIBL_BLACK ...

2008-10-29 Thread Randy
Claudia Burman wrote: ...if the URI is not listed in www.uribl.com ? Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [...] (sending to my server) Received: from pikachu.nic.ar (unknown [140.191.48.11]) by maderna.nic.ar (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E07D7049; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:23:19 -0200

Re: botnet dos

2008-10-14 Thread Randy
Ken A wrote: Randy wrote: Martin Gregorie wrote: Why would a botnet waste resources by sending tens of thousands of spam to a single e-mail address? Is it really a spambot or could it be a DDOS attack? Martin It is both but not actually. :) It appears to be a spambot ( botnet

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Randy Ramsdell
ram wrote: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing But the irritant 419's are still coming in ( and some get past SA ), in many new

Re: Clamav Plugin for Spamassassin

2008-06-23 Thread Randy Ramsdell
metamorph wrote: James Lay wrote: On 6/22/08 9:30 PM, metamorph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spamassassin/Clamav/Ubuntu/PHP5/Apache2/citadel/ I just installed spamassasin and tested it with gtube and it worked, but when I tried to install clamav it still lets the EICAR files through. I

Re: skip inbox ?

2008-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
almaren wrote: Is it possible to somehow tell spamassassin to move all messages marked as spam directly into the spam/ham/trash folders ? The thing is I'm running backups on my mailbox and although I omit spam/ham/trash I do collect the mails from my inbox, and in most cases there are 40-50

OT: Re: skip inbox ?

2008-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
almaren wrote: well first of all - thanks for the quick response :) John Hardin wrote: You didn't explain your MTA tool chain, so we have no idea how to recommend configuring it to change where messages scored as spammy get saved. Tell us what does delivery (e.g. procmail) in your

Re: skip inbox ?

2008-06-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Jari Fredriksson wrote: almaren wrote: Is it possible to somehow tell spamassassin to move all messages marked as spam directly into the spam/ham/trash folders ? The thing is I'm running backups on my mailbox and although I omit spam/ham/trash I do collect the mails from my inbox, and in

Re: uri rules

2008-05-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Matt Kettler wrote: Joseph Brennan wrote: I was surprised that this rule... uri CU_CN_LINK /http:..\w+\.cn\b/ matches not only this... a href=http://foobar.cn; but also this... a href=http://www.columbia.edu/foo.html;KooXoo Buys Kuxun.cn Domain/a First, I did not realize that

Re: Google docs spam

2008-05-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
ram wrote: Now google docs abuse spam. Spammer is using the docs page with a id from google. Atleast google should have a decent abuse reporting system This mail went by almost clean, Are there any rules I am missing https://ecm.netcore.co.in/tmp/spamgd.txt Thanks Ram I am slow.

Re: FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 4.1

2008-05-16 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Philippe Couas wrote: Hi, I have an Server programm sending mail to an PC. This PC reading mail then forward it to user group. Mails are reading correctly, but when it was forwarded, it is SPAMMED with FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 4.1 How could i avoid it ? Regards Philippe Find out why it is being

Re: False positive on forged_mua_outlook

2008-05-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Jeff Koch wrote: Hi Matus: Here's the header. We're seeing a lot of these now: Received: from unknown (HELO jade.xx.com) (216.99.193.136) by 0 with ESMTPS (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted); 6 May 2008 19:13:06 - Received: from server (216-99-214-161.dsl.aracnet.com

Re: False positive on forged_mua_outlook

2008-05-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Jeff Koch wrote: Hi Randy - here's the whole thing: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 26003 invoked by uid 89); 6 May 2008 19:13:09 - Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 25931, pid: 25942, t: 2.6786s scanners: clamav: 0.88/m:45/d:5939

Re: False positive on forged_mua_outlook

2008-05-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Jeff Koch wrote: Hi Randy - here's the whole thing: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 26003 invoked by uid 89); 6 May 2008 19:13:09 - Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 25931, pid: 25942, t: 2.6786s scanners

Re: Experimental - use my server for your high fake MX record

2008-05-07 Thread Randy Ramsdell
DAve wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Looking for a few volunteers who want to reduce their spambot spam and at the same time help me track spambots for my black list. This is free and mutual benefit. I (junkemailfilter.com) want to be your highest numbered fake MX record. Here's how you would

Re: Experimental - use my server for your high fake MX record

2008-05-07 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Marc Perkel wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: DAve wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Looking for a few volunteers who want to reduce their spambot spam and at the same time help me track spambots for my black list. This is free and mutual benefit. I (junkemailfilter.com) want to be your highest

Re: Connection timed out

2008-05-01 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 13:54 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: OPTIONS=--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir \ --username=mail --socketpath=/var/run/spamd/socket I'm running on a Pentium 4 with hyperthreading, which appears as 2 CPU's to the OSs.

Re: Extra long domain names rule?

2008-04-24 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Bookworm wrote: I'm starting to see some new phishing/scam attempts. What I was thinking was that it might be worthwhile to add a rule to not so much check links, but count periods. I was going to put in the web address that I received as an example, but I think that's why this is a second

Re: S-P-A-M Extra long domain names rule?

2008-04-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Bookworm wrote: I'm starting to see some new phishing/scam attempts. What I was thinking was that it might be worthwhile to add a rule to not so much check links, but count periods. Here's the example that just came in my email - (removing http:// ) -

Re: False Negatives

2008-04-17 Thread Randy Ramsdell
mouss wrote: Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: http://pastebin.com/m16055c85 Content analysis details: (9.6 points, 6.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 1.5 URIBL_OB_SURBL Contains an URL

Re: False Negatives

2008-04-16 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Tony Bunce wrote: Hi everyone, I'm starting to see a noticeable amount of message sneak by spamassassin with scores mostly the 3-4 range but some as low as 1 point. I'm running 3.2.4 with SARE, sough, and Botnet. We don't use bayes. Here are some samples of messages that have got through:

Re: Blank messages

2008-04-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Ed Kasky wrote: I can't seem to catch these emails with blank bodies. I upped the BLANK_LINES_80_90 score to 3 but the email below didn't get a hit off the rule. Is there another rule that I don't know about that is designed for blank message bodies? Thanks in advance on this one. These

Re: Not scoring high enough on this spam...

2008-03-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Andrew Hearn wrote: http://pastebin.ca/961075 I've only seen one so far but apart from the 0.0 BAYES_50 (I will learn this message), does anyone have rules that pushes this kind of message over 5.0? thanks! Andrew If you learn the message which = 3.5 wouldn't that put the score +5?

Re: Improving a spam report?

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
don't know for sure, but it says that the title is untitled so I would add a title. Randy Ramsdell

Re: Scanning without attachments

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Drew Burchett wrote: I've noticed a new trend in spam on my mail server that is getting by SpamAssassin. The spammer is creating his message and then attach a couple of garbage PDFs to the email. These PDFs make it too large for SpamAssassin to scan the message, so it gets by the system. I

Re: SpamAssassin GUI

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
want some patent issues creeping in. Randy Ramsdell

Re: Scanning without attachments

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Henrik K wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:48:37AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Drew Burchett wrote: I've noticed a new trend in spam on my mail server that is getting by SpamAssassin. The spammer is creating his message and then attach a couple of garbage PDFs to the email

Re: Scanning without attachments

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Henrik K wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:23:14AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: You can use spamassassin and clamav with or without Amavis, but to check the message, you must make a system wide change that will affect every message. Bypassing file size limits with any of those setups

Re: Scanning without attachments

2008-03-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Henrik K wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:16:32AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Henrik K wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:23:14AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: You can use spamassassin and clamav with or without Amavis, but to check the message, you must make a system wide

Re: Whitelist Question

2008-03-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the header info. What is the alternate solution to using whitelist_from ? I been also trying to setup AWL via MySQL.no luck on that. I use Exim for mail then , it relays to Lotus Domino.if that helps. Content analysis details: (5.7 points, 10.0

Re: China TLD links

2008-02-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 18:04 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Of course, now that I've used the word whore three times and quoted it once I'm sure I'll get a deluge of bounces (not rejects) from people running Microsoft's Antigen for SMTP.

Re: aren't SPF_ rules network?

2008-02-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, I wonder if SPF rules shouldn't be considered network... they require DNS lookups, don't they? Yes. Network related.

AWL - BAYES_99/ general questions

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
ADVANCE_FEE_1 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) -1.2 AWLAWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Thanks, Randy Ramsdell

Re: AWL - BAYES_99/ general questions

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
ADVANCE_FEE_1 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) -1.2 AWLAWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Thanks, Randy Ramsdell

Re: AWL - BAYES_99/ general questions

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:21 -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Hi, One thing I do not understand regarding AWL and BAYES. When a message is reported to me as spam and was not marked as spam, I test is using debug before and after sa-learn. Each time I do

Re: China TLD links

2008-02-28 Thread Randy Ramsdell
with blocking or adding a high score for the word Whore and could do something with the word Schoolgirl. Randy Ramsdell

Re: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Matt wrote: Is anyone else having issues sending mail to Yahoo? Yes. I have heard using Domainkeys or DKIM helps greatly? Is that true? We have not implemented it yet but do use SPF records which are much easier to implement with Exim or any MTA and do mostly the same thing if you ask

Re: Email with no hits and required

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Massimiliano Marini wrote: System: Debian with Qmail + QmailScanner + SpamAssassins + ClamAV Installation: qmailrocks.org I've updated SA (original from qmailrocks.org 3.0.2) to 3.2.4 my locale.cf is : rewrite_header Subject *SPAM* report_safe 0 required_score 4 required_hits 5 use_bayes 1

Re: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-25 Thread Randy Ramsdell
numbered e-mail accounts, then you will receive bulk mail. Randy Ramsdell

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