Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kelson wrote: SPF works great as a selective whitelist in SpamAssassin. (And I don't mean whitelisting all SPF passes. That would be stupid. I mean whitelisting mail coming from domain X, but only when it passes SPF and demonstrates that yes, it really came from domain X.) I'd say that

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
LuKreme wrote: On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. And that makes it

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own domain, you can use it

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: Well, I guess it depends on your point of view - how difficult is it to set up an MTA to reject mails pretending to be from yourdomain that didn't originate on your MTA? Good question - how would you do it? Postfix: I would have two

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Mariusz Kruk wrote: On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: Well, I guess it depends on your point of view - how difficult is it to set up an MTA to reject mails pretending to be from yourdomain that didn't originate on your MTA? Good question - how would you do it?

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? man preline HTH, --Toni++

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:28:24 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you

Phish - two simple techniques that make the obvious tests viable

2010-02-24 Thread Chip M.
Every few months, someone suggests detecting phish by looking for a different domain in the target vs display URL in HTML links. Other suggestions have included testing for different domain in the SMTP envelope Sender and the hostname of the sending IP. Every time, the grizzled veterans

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.02.10 15:38, Jeff Koch wrote: In an effort to reduce spam further we tried implementing SPF enforcement. You should implement SPF in order to prevent mail forgery, not spam. SPF is a tool to reduce forgery, not spam. The fact that most of spam has forged address only helps you. Within

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. And what is this, if not enforcing SPF at MTA

new (small) shortener campaign suggestion for URLRedirect

2010-02-24 Thread Chip M.
Jonas, do you have any performance and/or efficacy stats for your URLRedirect plugin? After months of near silence, I'm seeing an interesting (albeit low volume) shortener campaign, that's picking up volume AND effectiveness. Only one of my 40-ish domains was getting these, then this week two

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You don't have to run two postfixes for this. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: You don't have to run two postfixes for this. Kai I wasn't suggesting two postfixes, only two smtpds, but what Mariusz said is even easier. /Per Jessen, Zürich

RE: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Rob Sterenborg
On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for You don't have to run two postfixes for this. I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes.. -- Rob

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:02:02 +: So you would reject outbound mail from your domain? I'm sure that's a typo. He just didn't show the full configuration. It's obvious that you put your allowance checks first. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl wrote: On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for You don't have to run two postfixes for this. I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes..

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rob Sterenborg wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100: I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes.. and I meant what he meant ;-) Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: I guess you could start hashing things around with IPTables to redirect certain requests, but once you've done all of this, changed all the clients etc. etc, you are saying this would be *easier* than SPF? See Mariusz Kruks suggestion -

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:02:02 +: So you would reject outbound mail from your domain? I'm sure that's a typo. He just didn't show the full configuration. It's obvious that you put your allowance checks first. Kai I did also say 'thinking out

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30:25AM +, Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl wrote: On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for You don't have to run two

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl wrote: On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for You don't have to run two postfixes for this. I think Per means: 2 smtpd

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:41:29 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl wrote: On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:38:55 +0200 Henrik K h...@hege.li wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30:25AM +, Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 Rob Sterenborg r.sterenb...@netsourcing.nl wrote: On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Postfix: I would have two

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Christian Brel wrote: IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on different IP-ranges. What about my home workers? I don't have a VPN, they hook in by DSL from any number of different providers from outside using SASL/TLS. They should be

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to either a different IP or port? IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on different IP-ranges. What about my home workers? I don't have a VPN, they hook in by DSL from any number of

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. And

Re: Phish - two simple techniques that make the obvious tests viable

2010-02-24 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Chip M. wrote: Note that an IP-based exception must be made for Paypal (the From domain is always different for user transactions). I'd wager whitelist_auth is a better way to do that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:49 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Christian Brel wrote: Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to either a different IP or port? IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on different IP-ranges. What

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Christian Brel wrote: No, they submit on 25 using TLS+SASL. Would making the changes to Firewall, MTA, plus potentially thosands of clients be easier than SPF? Would all those angry users screaming because they can't send mail at all be a good thing? I don't

Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
I have been seeing a few spam mails slip past that talk about being able to get bogus dollar amounts. What I mean by that is it will give a large value in the e-mail but where there should be a comma it puts a period. I put an example of one of these messages at:

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/24/2010 10:14 AM, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: ... but where there should be a comma it puts a period. I put an example of one of these messages at: http://pastebin.com/SXuGELUS It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Nevermind...it was also hitting T_LOTS_OF_MONEY and once I expired old bayes tokens it no longer hit BAYES_00. Now I just have to figure out whats up with my bayes db. --Dennis Quoting Dennis B. Hopp dh...@coreps.com: I have been seeing a few spam mails slip past that talk about being

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:39:47 +: What about my home workers? they use SMTP AUTH. It works, believe us. With a standard postfix. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal separator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping I knew it was common in other parts of the world, but for some reason was

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: And what

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:49 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Christian Brel wrote: Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to either a different IP or port? IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in 'my networks'. Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter if you get the mail via 25 or 587. 587 is just a convenience. Any other access to use your server for

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:09:31 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Tell you what, wouldn't it be a great idea to save all the messing around and use something universal and simple for the job? Something lightweight and easy to deploy. I know! What about using SPF! Christian, I

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kelson
On 2/23/2010 6:33 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I agree. I've been in the spam filtering business for many years and have yetto find any use for SPF at all. It's disturbing this useless technology is getting the false positive support we are seeing. And as people on this list have pointed out 5,000

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:31:19 +0100 Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in 'my networks'. Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter if you get the

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Karl Pearson
On Wed, February 24, 2010 2:28 am, Per Jessen wrote: Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. The only

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:37:47 -0600 Dennis B. Hopp dh...@coreps.com wrote: It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal separator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping

RE: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Gary Smith
SPF works great as a selective whitelist in SpamAssassin. (And I don't mean whitelisting all SPF passes. That would be stupid. I mean whitelisting mail coming from domain X, but only when it passes SPF and demonstrates that yes, it really came from domain X.) I'd say that what you

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Ned Slider
Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:31:19 +0100 Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in 'my networks'. Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 05:58:02 PM CET, Kelson wrote And as people on this list have pointed out 5,000 times, including myself yesterday: whitelist_from_spf *...@example.com def_whitelist_auth *...@example.com whitelist_auth u...@example.com freemail_whitelist u...@example.com this way

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: I guess it doesn't really matter since the message was actually hitting another rule (T_LOTS_OF_MONEY) that I somehow missed. It also hits some of the testing ADVANCE_FEE_NEW rules. I hope to bring those live soon... -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Yahoo Feedback Loop - off topic

2010-02-24 Thread J.D. Falk
On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Jeff Koch wrote: The only large ISP that seems to have an FBL friendly approach is AOL. We've been on their FBL for years. If anyone knows of another ISP with a friendly FBL I'd love to know. What's your definition of friendly in this context? -- J.D. Falk

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread alexus
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Toni Mueller support-spamassas...@oeko.net wrote: On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? man preline HTH, --Toni++ -bash-3.2# man preline No manual entry for preline

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread alexus
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Martin Gregorie mar...@gregorie.org wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 14:08 -0500, alexus wrote: is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? one more my emails getting spam'd big time... i get nothin' but spam at this email so i'd like to redirect all

OT: SPF: Some statistics

2010-02-24 Thread Bart Schaefer
Coincidental to the recent thread on SPF comes this from Terry Zink: http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/02/23/some-stats-and-figures-on-dkim-and-spf.aspx

Re: OT: SPF: Some statistics

2010-02-24 Thread LuKreme
On 24-Feb-10 21:26, Bart Schaefer wrote: Coincidental to the recent thread on SPF comes this from Terry Zink: http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/02/23/some-stats-and-figures-on-dkim-and-spf.aspx The comment is spot on. SPF and DKIM are not anti-spam technologies per se, they are verified

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread ram
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 18:33 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: Jeff Koch wrote: In an effort to reduce spam further we tried implementing SPF enforcement. Within three days we turned it off. What we found was that: - domain owners are allowing SPF records to be added to their zone files

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 24.02.2010 at 22:18:04 -0500, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Toni Mueller support-spamassas...@oeko.net wrote: On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail?