Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2006-01-03 Thread Chris Lear
* Loren Wilton wrote (24/12/2005 00:23): Does anyone have any suggestions, apart from simply reducing the score for SARE_URI_EQUALS? Is this a spamassassin bug, or is there no way to guarantee that only real uris are parsed as such? Several. Hi. Thanks for the response. I'm replying rather

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mouss wrote on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:04:34 +0100: Is foo.tld=bar a valid hostname part in a URI? foo.tld=bar is a valid URL with foo.tld being the hostname and =bar being the query part. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread Kai Schaetzl
List Mail User wrote on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:46:00 -0800 (PST): How about the case of http=3A=2F=2Fwww=2Ecnn=2Ecom=2F2003=2F inside of HTML? i.e. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ - from a phishing spam, the full line was: You mean it displayed like this in the mail agent *after* Q decoding and

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread mouss
Kai Schaetzl a écrit : Mouss wrote on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:04:34 +0100: Is foo.tld=bar a valid hostname part in a URI? foo.tld=bar is a valid URL with foo.tld being the hostname and =bar being the query part. are you sure? my understanding is that query part must be in the url-path,

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:17:09PM +0100, mouss wrote: are you sure? my understanding is that query part must be in the url-path, so must come after at least one slash. something like I don't know about =bar, but if it were ?bar, many browsers will assume there's supposed to be a / before the

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread mouss
List Mail User a écrit : How about the case of http=3A=2F=2Fwww=2Ecnn=2Ecom=2F2003=2F inside of HTML? i.e. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ - from a phishing spam, the full line was: =3Chttp=3A=2F=2Fwww=2Ecnn=2Ecom=2F2003=2FWORLD=2Fafrica=2F07=2F20=2Fkenya=2Ecrash=2Findex=2Ehtml=3E I

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:46:00 -0800 (PST): How about the case of http=3A=2F=2Fwww=2Ecnn=2Ecom=2F2003=2F inside of HTML? i.e. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ - from a phishing spam, the full line was: You mean it displayed like this in the mail agent *after* Q decoding and

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread mouss
List Mail User a écrit : updated.by - check http://www.tld.by/cgi-bin/registry.cgi You'll see that update.by is a registered domain! Therefore updated.by is indeed a URI. QED the question is: if foo.example-DEMUNGED is listed in uribl/surbl, does that make it a bad string in

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread mouss
Loren Wilton a écrit : Does anyone have any suggestions, apart from simply reducing the score for SARE_URI_EQUALS? Is this a spamassassin bug, or is there no way to guarantee that only real uris are parsed as such? Several. 1.Change your report generator to remove the extraneous dot

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread List Mail User
... Mouss, List Mail User a écrit : updated.by - check http://www.tld.by/cgi-bin/registry.cgi You'll see that update.by is a registered domain! Therefore updated.by is indeed a URI. QED the question is: if foo.example-DEMUNGED is listed in uribl/surbl, does that make it a

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread List Mail User
... Is foo.tld=bar a valid hostname part in a URI? I doubt that. now, would a MUA show that as a URI followed by bar? I think that SA should provide an option to enable/disable: uri_broken_mua, so that people not caring for broken MUAs can avoid such false positives. How about the case

SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread Chris Lear
I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. The weird thing is that the uris that spamassassin is complaining about aren't uris at all. The mail in question is auto-created reports of cvs diffs, so it's slightly

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread jdow
From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. The weird thing is that the uris that spamassassin is complaining about aren't uris at all. The mail in question is auto-created

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread Chris Lear
* jdow wrote (23/12/05 11:26): From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. The weird thing is that the uris that spamassassin is complaining about aren't uris at all. The

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread jdow
From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] * jdow wrote (23/12/05 11:26): From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. The weird thing is that the uris that spamassassin is complaining

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread Chris Lear
* jdow wrote (23/12/05 12:06): From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] * jdow wrote (23/12/05 11:26): From: Chris Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. The weird thing is that the uris

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread List Mail User
updated.by - check http://www.tld.by/cgi-bin/registry.cgi You'll see that update.by is a registered domain! Therefore updated.by is indeed a URI. QED Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Chris, Friday, December 23, 2005, 3:04:29 AM, you wrote: CL I'm getting false positives for SARE_URI_EQUALS, which scores 5 and is CL therefore skewing the scoring of some mail quite badly. ... CL Does anyone have any suggestions, apart from simply reducing the CL score for

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread Loren Wilton
Does anyone have any suggestions, apart from simply reducing the score for SARE_URI_EQUALS? Is this a spamassassin bug, or is there no way to guarantee that only real uris are parsed as such? Several. 1.Change your report generator to remove the extraneous dot between updated and by. Or