Re: Fw: Antigen Notification: Antigen found a message matching a filter)

2008-09-10 Thread SM
;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; A server security product called Microsoft Antigen flagged it as spam as it contains the porn and sent a bounce message to the author of that message. Regards, -sm

HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI spam (Was: senderbase rating - how to appeal?)

2008-09-07 Thread SM
privately and let me know) 1. Streamsend requires their users to abide with CAN-SPAM 2. An unsubscribe link is required but double opt-in is not. 3. The domain information in Whois is hidden by a privacy service. Would you whitelist such a domain? Regards, -sm

Re: senderbase rating - how to appeal?

2008-09-05 Thread SM
a resolution through SpamCop. Regards, -sm

Re: 1000 times easier to just do sa-update --nogpg

2008-09-05 Thread SM
, channel failed, or the There is a reason the updates are signed. You can either try and figure out the right way or you can wait for someone to compromise one of the endpoints to deliver illegitimate updates. Regards, -sm

Re: Mailer DAEMON Returns Body Check on Multipart

2008-08-25 Thread SM
. Have you tried http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VBounceRuleset Regards, -sm

Re: Mailer DAEMON Returns Body Check on Multipart

2008-08-25 Thread SM
you need to use them. Upgrading should be safe and easy unless you have a customized install. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UpgradeNotes for details. Regards, -sm

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread SM
At 14:37 13-08-2008, jdow wrote: What the heck is Consumers Energy doing using a reserved IP address? They are not the only ones using these IP addresses for internal use. It will be interesting to see what happens when these IP addresses are assigned. Regards, -sm

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread SM
At 14:58 21-07-2008, Skip wrote: I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my host and what I got in response. *sigh* What response did you expect? :-) Regards, -sm

Re: orphaned .tmp files in the submission folder

2008-07-17 Thread SM
is going on. If it's a spamd configuration problem, you can get the debug output by following http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowToDebug Regards, -sm

Re: orphaned .tmp files in the submission folder

2008-07-17 Thread SM
output by piping an email through spamc. It's most likely spamprep which is creating the orphaned .tmp files. Regards, -sm

Re: Is ASN information useful?

2008-07-14 Thread SM
see all the prefixes because of the way routing works. Regards, -sm

RE: mysql AWL issue....

2008-07-08 Thread SM
At 11:30 08-07-2008, Adam Harrison wrote: Because /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist is still being updated, but if I go into mysql and do a count on the AWL entries it comes up zero: Is your filter (MIMEdefang) reading its settings from local.cf? Regards, -sm

Courtesy copy (was: bad rules that likely to result in more false positives)

2008-07-04 Thread SM
to the list only. Some MUAs support it. Some people, usually those asking a question, ask for a courtesy copy of the reply. Some prefer not to receive it as they follow the mailing list. Regards, -sm

Re: AW: i'm unable to catch these

2008-07-02 Thread SM
At 05:23 02-07-2008, Starckjohann, Ove wrote: 10.10.10.21 is MY address. It's a smtp-PROXY which passes through the smtp-connection to EXCHANGE02. Network tests on the message headers will be ineffective. Regards, -sm

Re: Avoid spam 'La Sante Est Bonne'

2008-07-01 Thread SM
, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.1.8 You can learn it as spam to get a higher score from Bayes. Some french rules were posted last month. See whether they hit that message. Regards, -sm

Re: are you doing sender address verification?

2008-06-18 Thread SM
. If they are doing sender address verification, it is incorrectly done as the domain of the sender is spamassassin.apache.org and not the one in the From: header. Regards, -sm

Re: Lint failed...how to fix?

2008-06-17 Thread SM
that file as it does not contain any SpamAssassin rules. Very confusing...just those 2 rulesets...anything I can do to fix them? Don't use rulesdujour. There hasn't been any updates to those rulesets since a long time. Regards, -sm

Re: new(?) Geocities subsite obfuscation

2008-06-16 Thread SM
. If the score is not too high, you can be offset it with other rules. Regards, -sm

Re: SA plugins includes/excludes

2008-06-14 Thread SM
. Regards, -sm

Re: Can't locate Log/Agent.pm in @INC

2008-06-14 Thread SM
verified whether you have that module is installed? if so, is it in another of the @INC directories? Regards, -sm

Re: problem with spam report--could it be a bug?

2008-06-13 Thread SM
their software to include the bug fix. Regards, -sm

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread SM
of trust. It doesn't apply to trusted. As you pointed out above, that has a different meaning. Regards, -sm

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-12 Thread SM
of spamming may be a useful metric to judge a host (witness the effectiveness of DNSBLs), but when discussing SA we should not use the term trust to refer to that concept. Agreed. Regards, -sm

Re: Discussion side point: levels of Trust

2008-06-11 Thread SM
' -- so that trust is with some grains of 'salt' Look out for the Green color in the Address bar. :-) Regards, -sm

Re: vbounce does not catch qmail bounces

2008-06-05 Thread SM
to the MSA to do that. AFAIK, the author of that software does not agree that the message-id should be added. Regards, -sm

Re: How to report FN on HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-06-02 Thread SM
of spam originating from their networks. You might wish to take that into account in your recommendations. Regards, -sm

Re: rDNS none in stats with IPv6

2008-05-28 Thread SM
with the source to correct this issue? According to your header, there is no reverse DNS for that mail server. If it is within a part of SpamAssassin, I will gladly submit any patches that identify/rectify my problem. The Received headers are parsed in Received.pm. Regards, -sm

Re: can we make AWL ignore mail from self to self?

2008-05-22 Thread SM
At 13:23 22-05-2008, Dave Funk wrote: We require our PC users to authenticate when sending and I had assumed that would stop viruses/trojans. Am I being naive? No. But it's only one extra step for malware to capture SMTP authentication information. Regards, -sm

Re: MySQL Unreliable

2008-05-16 Thread SM
it times out. Don't use MyISAM. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/innodb.html Regards, -sm

Re: MySQL Unreliable

2008-05-16 Thread SM
on a lock. Regards, -sm

Re: yahoo.com acknowledges no control over third party email from their mail servers

2008-05-15 Thread SM
reports for mail originating from business customers. Regards, -sm

Re: Oh ohh. grey listing starting to fail

2008-04-25 Thread SM
SpamAssassin. Each message will be scanned twice if he also has Mimedefang. Regards, -sm

Re: Oh ohh. grey listing starting to fail

2008-04-24 Thread SM
if you rely on it to stop spam. Regards, -sm

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT FPs growing

2008-04-24 Thread SM
it, or otherwise remove it. It was useful as a spam rule before. It no longer is because of myspace. Regards, -sm

RE: Oh ohh. grey listing starting to fail

2008-04-24 Thread SM
don't need to call SpamAssassin separately. How about dkim? Am I missing anything that I can look at? That's for whitelisting. Regards, -sm

Re: Ip getting listed on spamhaus

2008-04-14 Thread SM
is listed. Regards, -sm

Re: Upgrading

2008-04-12 Thread SM
the copying bit) that I am missing would anyone like to take the time to explain? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/RuleUpdates Regards, -sm

Re: Why is this spam passing my SA (counterfeit goods)

2008-04-11 Thread SM
=4.275 required=2.5 check: tests=AWL,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_BLACK The message has a score of 4.275 which is about the required score (2.5). It was detected as spam. Regards, -sm

Re: FW: Why is this spam passing my SA (counterfeit goods)

2008-04-11 Thread SM
At 12:33 11-04-2008, Igor Chudov wrote: Hey, this is interesting. I really don't care to process anythng with score above 10. How can I block it on the sendmail level? I have sendmail. Install a milter which interacts with spamd. You can then reject spam at the SMTP level. Regards, -sm

Paging [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-10 Thread SM
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is bouncing messages back to this mailing list using the email address in the From: header as the Return-Path. The mailing list software sees it as a loop and bounces the message back to message poster. Regards, -sm

Re: CommuniGate Pro Received header (was: whitelist_from_rcvd not working)

2008-04-10 Thread SM
always work. You can only trust the Received: headers inserted by your mail servers. Regards, -sm

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
filename The output will show whether the host matches dtdm.tomsk.ru. Regards, -sm

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread SM
possible. You can have some rules to identify some good and bad messages which are representative of the userbase. Regards, -sm

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Funk pointed out, the reverse DNS for 213.183.100.11 points to dtu.net.tomline.ru.The forward and reverse DNS should match. You'll have to fix that as well. Regards, -sm

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
of the hostname is because of a CommuniGate Pro configuration problem or a DNS problem (the host doesn't get the correct answer when doing a reverse DNS). Regards, -sm

CommuniGate Pro Received header (was: whitelist_from_rcvd not working)

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Pro Received header format parsed currently. Neither. It's a feature. Perhaps we need a patch for Received.pm? Yes. See attached patch. Post a bug report about the CommuniGate Pro Received header not being parsed correctly. Regards, -sm communigatercv.diff Description: Binary data

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-08 Thread SM
the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugins::SPF plugin if you use the above. Regards, -sm

Re: Blank messages

2008-04-05 Thread SM
double-quote in the META line. The HTML is malformed which is why the message appear empty in Eudora's built-in viewer. At 16:23 04-04-2008, Ed Kasky wrote: Not real sure but could it have something to do with the boundary? The boundary is correct. Regards, -sm

Re: Blank messages

2008-04-04 Thread SM
message (excluding attachments) by most MUAs. Regards, -sm

Re: Score Definitions

2008-04-04 Thread SM
to keeping both versions in one, or allowing me to insert plain text as well as html in the message. If I could do this, do you think it would help? Including the plain text version with the html version only reduces your score by 0.7. It's one way to get the score reduced. Regards, -sm

Re: Something about message/partial

2008-04-04 Thread SM
that I've never seen it used legitimately. I've used it. It's a useful feature if you want to get around message size limits to send attachments. It can also be handy when there's poor connectivity. If you have a strict email policy, you might as well drop this content type. Regards, -sm

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-03 Thread SM
the tagging. You might also run into problems if the receiving end does any validation based on the envelope sender. If your mail server is overwhelmed by bounces, BATV can help to reduce the load as, unlike SPF, it doesn't rely on the other end implementing the technology. Regards, -sm

Re: Score Definitions

2008-04-03 Thread SM
are doing above affects the message body only. There are rules for tests on the headers and message origin. Streamling the HTML won't help much if your message contains other signs, such as images, usually seen in spam. Regards, -sm

Unsubscribe (was: foreign spam slipping through)

2008-04-03 Thread SM
At 13:51 03-04-2008, Matt wrote: How do I unsubscribe from here? There are no unsubscribe links at the bottom of these messages. The links are in the message headers. list-help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] list-unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, -sm

Re: Help for Bed-n-Breakfast in Brasil

2008-04-02 Thread SM
how to fix things. Remember this is Brasil, so there may be difficulties in getting things set up properly. Perhaps someone from there could offer some suggestions? Could you ask him to send me an email off-list? Regards, -sm

Re: Score Definitions

2008-04-01 Thread SM
by spammers? Spam messages generally hit the above rules. The following URL explains how the scores are assigned: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HowScoresAreAssigned You'll find some tips for senders here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AvoidingFpsForSenders Regards, -sm

Re: [offtopic] Are 8-bit characters completely illegal in a raw message?

2008-03-31 Thread SM
, -sm

Re: SpamAssassin interest and Spam solution

2008-03-28 Thread SM
for that code and assign a negative score for the above. This only works with other antispam software if they allow the user to customize the configuration by adding such rules. Regards, -sm

Re: all emails are tagged SPAM

2008-03-27 Thread SM
mailscanner-4.62.9-3 Mailscanner is using the relays.ordb.org DNSBL. That DNSBL is returning a positive response for all queries which is why all your emails are being tagged as Spam. Remove that DNSBL from your Mailscanner configuration. Regards, -sm

Re: X-Spam-Status does not appear in mail header

2008-03-26 Thread SM
: add_header all Level _STARS(*)_ Subject rewriting will be done even without the X-Spam-Level setting as it is based on whether the score is above the required_score. Regards, -sm

Re: X-Spam-Status does not appear in mail header

2008-03-25 Thread SM
- scantime=0.1,size=4399,user=me,uid=1005,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=64556,mid=[EMAIL PROTECTED],autolearn=ham Mar 25 18:05:06 vinyl sm-mta[914]: m2PH54SR000914: Milter add: header: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on myhost It's up to your milter

Re: X-Spam-Status does not appear in mail header

2008-03-25 Thread SM
. The startup parameters may be different. Verify what spamass_milter_flags settings used in rc.conf to start the milter. Regards, -sm

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread SM
At 11:27 22-03-2008, Justin Mason wrote: what is the URL you think it's missing? He was referring to the URL that is wrapped into two lines with the quoted-printable encoding. It is parsed correctly. Regards, -sm

Re: uri obfuscation

2008-03-22 Thread SM
may be wrapper into two lines. At the receiver's end, the message is decoded and rendered in the MUA to appear on one line. The above URL would only bypass naive parsers that operate on the raw body. Regards, -sm

Re: flooded by german software-spam

2008-03-21 Thread SM
whether they are being passed to SpamAssassin. The message hit BAYES_OO which classified it as ham (non-spam). The message was also autolearned as ham. Start with a new Bayes db as the current one has not been trained correctly. Regards, -sm

Re: Your Industry profile

2008-03-20 Thread SM
20-03-2008, Agnello George wrote: SO SORRY!! THIS IS A BIG MISTAKE ON MY BEHALF !!! DIDN'T KNOW IT TOOK ALL MY ADDRESSES IN MY ADDRESS BOOK!! THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO TO REVERSE You can recall the message. :-) Regards, -sm

Re: Your Industry profile

2008-03-20 Thread SM
At 08:44 20-03-2008, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: wow. i got -1.0 here. you're filtering html agressivly? That's from ASF. It's better to whitelist messages from an antispam list given the nature of the discussion. Regards, -sm

Re: Your Industry profile

2008-03-20 Thread SM
At 10:44 20-03-2008, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: what's ASF? That's the Apache Software Foundation. not really. we don't say things like free office 2008 or VIAGRA too often :D Yes, we do; see above. :-) Regards, -sm

RE: Plugin eval failed

2008-03-14 Thread SM
-children) fits in available RAM. Regards, -sm

Re: SA UNPARSEABLE_RELAY when host name in ( ) causes whitelist_from_rcvd to be ignored

2008-03-12 Thread SM
the Received line that is parsed correctly. If it's a mail server adding the Received line, you could file a bug report. Regards, -sm

Re: AOL Spam

2008-03-11 Thread SM
? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1205219837.10611-0.mail.example.com:268 orig-mail.example.com120521983680210609:859 What rules did the message hit? The url is listed in URIBL_GREY. Regards, -sm

Re: Milter (spamassassin): timeout before data read

2008-03-11 Thread SM
whether the above timeouts are what you have in the configuration file (.cf) used by sendmail. Regards, -sm

Re: Milter (spamassassin): timeout before data read

2008-03-10 Thread SM
that seemes to describe this 10sec timeout-limit and how to increese it. The timeout is from your milter. You may be able to configure timeout if the software has such an option. Regards, -sm

Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread SM
your main mail relay came online they would have retried and delivered it. There would have been NO DIFFERENCE at all. You didn't need your backup MX relay to proxy relay the mail to you. The difference is that you are making assumptions about their retry strategy. Regards, -sm

RE: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-10 Thread SM
call it a general rule as it can be more of a problem than it is worth. Regards, -sm

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread SM
usage on that server and filtering load. You can run the reporting on another server. It can be done hourly by processing the mailbox instead of one message at a time. That would require some code changes. Regards, -sm

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread SM
error:nouser User unknown Regards, -sm

Re: Setting manual rule scores

2008-03-08 Thread SM
with other filters and I would like to use spamassassin to check against databases like pyzor and URLBL as well as others. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AdjustRuleScore Regards, -sm

Re: Is http://www.rulesemporium.com?

2008-02-29 Thread SM
and unreachable to others. Regards, -sm

Re: Time to blacklist google.

2008-02-29 Thread SM
verification, then it comes from them. Time to blacklist google. The users may complain if you do that. Regards, -sm

Re: Where can I find out about domain keys?

2008-02-28 Thread SM
forgers everywhere. Without boring you with too many details, it's an Internet standard developed in large part at Yahoo! that lets us confirm whether emails are really from their claimed domain. Regards, -sm

Re: Yahoo calendar invite spams

2008-02-28 Thread SM
on URI only, you would be blocking Yahoo calendar invites. What does the spammer want ? It looks like a work from home scam. Regards, -sm

Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?

2008-02-27 Thread SM
Bayes. Regards, -sm

Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?

2008-02-27 Thread SM
. Regards, -sm

Re: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-25 Thread SM
.Google turned up several people having the same issue but no one with a solution. My DSN is right, I have SPF records, and sign outgoing messages using DomainKeys. They are deferring connections from your mail servers due to spam or complaints. Regards, -sm

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread SM
.spamhaus.org doesn't return an answer. Regards, -sm

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread SM
I blocked? Did I piss someone off? Im not blocked because of 'excessive' use. It doesn't look like a network issue. It's more like a block. This is odd. A query to zen.spamhaus.org returned two answers. Regards, -sm

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
including the headers to a website and post a link. Regards, -sm

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread SM
. As the proponents said that there are no problems at all, I encourage you to do it. :-) Regards, -sm

Re: SA database?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
/SoughtRules Regards, -sm

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
/spamassassin/SURBL )? Regards, -sm

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-19 Thread SM
At 15:33 19-02-2008, Andy Dills wrote: load on your servers. All of the other RBLs that I'm aware of (could be wrong) are happy to provide data feeds free of charge. To be perfectly Some RBLs do charge if your organization is doing more than X queries daily. Regards, -sm

Re: Rule for Images that show up anyway

2008-02-14 Thread SM
) Regards, -sm

Re: False positive with scoring I don't understand

2008-02-13 Thread SM
is not enough to offset such a large positive score. Verify the auto whitelist and your configuration. Regards, -sm

Re: what are the criteria for being listed in sa-blacklist.current?

2008-02-13 Thread SM
Hello, At 19:50 13-02-2008, Dale's Stuff wrote: I would like to see the evidence of any claimed spam or other inappropriate emails that would cause this domain to be listed as a banned server. The domain is listed in a few blacklists. You'll have to contact them for evidence. Regards, -sm

Re: Strange headers on mail from SA users list

2008-02-10 Thread SM
is Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit. The transfer-encoding conversion may have caused the header problem. Regards, -sm

DNS hijacking (was: Can anyone help me? surbl.org FP problems?)

2008-01-31 Thread SM
may affect other RBL related network tests as well. It's better to use a test point at startup and log a warning. Regards, -sm

Re: info for spamassassin

2007-11-16 Thread SM
to protect if you don't have a SMTP server? Every friend use stmp of own account. I have to put an antispam between internet and pppoe server. If you want to prevent spam from leaving your network, you'll need a SMTP server. Regards, -sm

Re: replicating awl

2007-11-14 Thread SM
: Incorrect table definition; there can be only one auto column and it must be defined as a key What other column is this 'auto column' ? Your auto_increment column should be the primary key. I suggest reading about the (MySQL) issues with auto_increment if you are doing replication. Regards, -sm

Re: googlepages.com abuse

2007-11-13 Thread SM
At 19:31 13-11-2007, Bart Schaefer wrote: Er, which RFC are you claiming requires them to have a server to receive mail? It's a BCP quoted by SMTP folks to annoy Web-enabled people. :-) Regards, -sm

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