Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-13 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Federico Giannici wrote: What about combining BlackListing and GreyListing? I'm experimenting ab it with that right now. I've got my greylisting code to use a configurable number of checks before it decides if the greylist should be in use for an incoming connection. The idea is to avoid

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-07 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, November 2, 2006 20:22, Mark wrote: The rest of the invalid HELOs are just non-FQDNSs (like HELO friend), or IP addresses (not inside braces, like an address literal). could be a spammer that call his computer friend since Microsoft have a habit of deniding . in the computer name

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, November 2, 2006 17:03, Randy Smith wrote: I use policyd and give my users the ability to optout (or optin depending on the domain settings) of greylisting if they choose. They can do it through a plugin in SquirrelMail so, if they choose, they can turn it off for a few minutes to

Re: R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, November 3, 2006 11:53, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Due to the dynamic nature of this test, I guess that at least in the postfix case it should need to be somehow embedded into the greylisting server: it seems postfix doesn't allow to specify more than one policy server in the

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-04 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Federico Giannici wrote: François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Federico Giannici
François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing and GreyListing? I'd like to

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing and GreyListing?

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Ken A
Federico Giannici wrote: François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Bret Miller
Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 16:04 schrieb Amos: (...) Actually, it's getting to the extent that some at work are raising questions as to whether our SA setup will be able to maintain adequate protection from this growing onslaught. Amos Only AFTER adequate initial RBL filtering.

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Stuart Johnston
Federico Giannici wrote: François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Debbie D
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large bonnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the Ash's to see

R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large bonnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Amos
On 11/2/06, Debbie D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I could not keep it quiet There's been a lot of chatter about this:

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 16:04 schrieb Amos: (...) Actually, it's getting to the extent that some at work are raising questions as to whether our SA setup will be able to maintain adequate protection from this growing onslaught. Amos Only AFTER adequate initial RBL filtering.

R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
On 11/2/06, Debbie D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I could not keep it quiet There's been a lot of chatter about this:

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread François Rousseau
Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet. You can access internet without authentification for 15 minutes. In this 15

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet. You can access internet without authentification for 15

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Randy Smith
On Thursday 02 November 2006 08:42, François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet. You

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Amos wrote: On 11/2/06, Debbie D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I could not keep it quiet There's been a lot of chatter about this:

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Marc Perkel
What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away and it doesn't add much of a delay. François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Fran?ois Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet. You

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:00 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam filtering service and it's been a struggle

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Da: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away and it doesn't add much of a delay. Well,

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Maul
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:00 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam filtering service and it's been

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:58 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today 92% (!) of all incoming spam uses an invalid HELO. 9% pretends to be me in their HELO

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Jon Trulson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Chris wrote: I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large botnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the ASN's to see where

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam filtering service and it's been a struggle. Most of my spam defense isn't SA though. I'm using Exim rules to do most of the work and SA gets what's left. Same

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Da: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away and

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 92% (!) of all incoming spam uses an invalid HELO. 9% pretends to be me in their HELO. Is this 9% included in the above 'invalid HELO' number? Yes. I should have been more clear about that. 92% fails the HELO