Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: If I change Received.pm, line 414, like this: # Sendmail, MDaemon, some webmail servers, and others - elsif (/^from .*?(?:\]\)|\)\]) .*?\(.*?authenticated.*?\).*? by/) { + elsif (/^from .*?(.*?authenticated.*?\).*?

first received header forged

2006-12-05 Thread Alex Handle
Hi, recently i saw a lot of spam that didn't get catched by spamassassin. All the messages have in common that the first received header ist forged. Here an example: Received: from 141.88.223.236 (HELO mx1.ihk.de) by mydomain.at with esmtp (08E71A-P)@7X K0'+V) id 76)4Y6-50O4:-+8

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those digits the password for a password protected Bagle variant? I'd bet some braindead AV strips the infected attachements and lets

Re: Scan Messages according to arrival

2006-12-05 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi, leemansvg wrote: Hello, I don't know if anyone has come across this, but my Mailscanner/spamasssasin/sendmail bunch seems to scan messages randomly. I noticed this because it once got behind on scanning mail and it started to scan the ones that came in immediately first. Is there a

Re: spam

2006-12-05 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 04 December 2006 15:35, Evan Platt wrote: How in the hell does one write a  rule for this sh*? Maybe a rule if the message body is less than X characters? I mean unless you expect lots of legitimate mail that says Hello. Oh crap, there go all my test mails --

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: The change I made works on a test from someone that was on vacation and sending a message (to me) using his ISP account, the header includes a lot of extra text with the usual dynamic IP stuff and may be forged and there was no way it would be a match

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Jo Rhett
René Berber wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: The change I made works on a test from someone that was on vacation and sending a message (to me) using his ISP account, the header includes a lot of extra text with the usual dynamic IP stuff and may be forged and there was no way it

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: The change I made works on a test from someone that was on vacation and sending a message (to me) using his ISP account, the header includes a lot of extra text with the usual dynamic IP stuff and may be forged and

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: René Berber wrote: It's the same one I posted before: Received: from MARISELA (dsl-189-149-70-163.prod-infinitum.com.mx [189.149.70.163] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.legosoft.com.mx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those digits the password for a password protected

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? aren't those

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:16:15 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a

Re: first received header forged

2006-12-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Handle wrote: Received: from 141.88.223.236 (HELO mx1.ihk.de) by mydomain.at with esmtp (08E71A-P)@7X K0'+V) id 76)4Y6-50O4:-+8 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:20:50 +0180 [..] Is there a way to write a custom

antispam recipe

2006-12-05 Thread beast
I've been using SA and other software for few years for antispam gateway. During first few month, the results was very good, most spam was rejected and finaly SA examine the rest. However, after almost 2 years now, the spam rate received by user are high, so I think that I have to change

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 12/5/2006 11:26 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:16:15 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 11:02 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:32:39 +0100, Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/5/2006 7:27 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is

Re: check_illegal_chars

2006-12-05 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Thanks - however I don't know anything about Perl scripts, so unfortunately it doesn't help me! :) For example, within EvalTests.pm I can see what appear to be four variables: ($self, $header, $ratio, $count) The $header variable is pretty straight forward, but what's with $self, $ratio and

RE: RE: How to extract the Reverse DNS hostname by script means?

2006-12-05 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
It’s been discussed on Amavisd-new list. Look here for more info: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116483411500019r=1w=2 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:40 PM To: לאון קולצ'ינסקי;

Spam from local users.

2006-12-05 Thread Shahzad Abid
Dear All Some emails from local users are getting MARKED as (S.P.A.M.) as shown in following log. === Dec 5 17:02:57 mail spamd[355]: spamd: identified spam (8.6/2.5) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:510 in 1.9 seconds, 2862 bytes. Dec 5

RE: New spam

2006-12-05 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Yes, These kind of e-mails get caught by my FuzzyOcr. It's all in the scansets configuration and words in the dictionary. Some other image spam couldn't be read by FuzzyOcr, but this is the best tool for now, that I'm aware of. -Original Message- From: Ray Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Spam from local users.

2006-12-05 Thread Anders Norrbring
Shahzad Abid skrev: Dear All Some emails from local users are getting MARKED as (S.P.A.M.) as shown in following log. === Dec 5 17:02:57 mail spamd[355]: spamd: identified spam (8.6/2.5) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:510 in 1.9 seconds,

Re: antispam recipe

2006-12-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
beast wrote: I've been using SA and other software for few years for antispam gateway. During first few month, the results was very good, most spam was rejected and finaly SA examine the rest. However, after almost 2 years now, the spam rate received by user are high, so I think that I

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-05 Thread Mike Jackson
How would, where would a mail transfer agent tell you the mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?... Just connect to port 25 and observe the banner. Not 100% foolproof, but most of them either identify themselves (Sendmail) or have a recognizable banner (Postfix, Qmail, Exchange).

multiple whitelist_rcvd_from

2006-12-05 Thread vertito
my whitelist_rcvd_from works with a pair of arguments. i was trying to get it working with multiple arguments for multiple virtual domains. anyone can share examples of it with 3 or more pairs of arguments? tnx

RE: Spam from local users.

2006-12-05 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
I think you should read this http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/bypassing.html -Original Message- From: Anders Norrbring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spam from local users. Shahzad Abid skrev: Dear All

Re: multiple whitelist_rcvd_from

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:06:09PM +0100, vertito wrote: my whitelist_rcvd_from works with a pair of arguments. i was trying to get it working with multiple arguments for multiple virtual domains. anyone can share examples of it with 3 or more pairs of arguments? you can't have more than two

SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Stefan Jakobs
Hello list, I use a mailrelay with postfix, amavisd-new 2.3.3 and Spamassassin 3.1.7. I get the following failure ca. 25 times a day: Dec 5 15:32:58 server amavis[23505]: (23505-01-24) SA TIMED OUT, backtrace: at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Locker.pm line 71\n\teval

RE: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bazooka Joe wrote: rules_du_jour seems to fail on lint. I am trying to figure that out now but I have a different question. Has channels replaced rules_du_jour? Should I be using something else to update my sare rules? thx -bazooka ps I am using SpamAssassin 3.1.4 pps below are

Re: SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:06:17PM +0100, Stefan Jakobs wrote: Dec 5 15:32:58 server amavis[23505]: (23505-01-24) SA TIMED OUT, backtrace: at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Locker.pm line 71\n\teval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Locker.pm

NMake error

2006-12-05 Thread sasa
Hi, I have a problem with SA installation on Windows 2000 Server SP4, in particular: C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe version.h.pl version.h.pl: creating version.h copy config.h.win config.h copy spamc.h.win spamc.h C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe ..\build\preprocessor -Mvars -iMakefile.win -oMakefile cd .. NMAKE -f

RE: multiple whitelist_rcvd_from

2006-12-05 Thread vertito
nice. thanks! -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:44 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: multiple whitelist_rcvd_from On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:06:09PM +0100, vertito wrote: my whitelist_rcvd_from works

Re: first received header forged

2006-12-05 Thread Loren Wilton
recently i saw a lot of spam that didn't get catched by spamassassin. All the messages have in common that the first received header ist forged. Here an example: Received: from 141.88.223.236 (HELO mx1.ihk.de) by mydomain.at with esmtp (08E71A-P)@7X K0'+V) id 76)4Y6-50O4:-+8 for

Why did I get an error while I were installing spamassassin

2006-12-05 Thread Halid Faith
I want to use spamassassin3.1.7 on freebsd6.1 I get an error as below, # cd /usr/ports/dns/p5-Net-DNS # make === Building for p5-Net-DNS-0.59 Makefile out-of-date with respect to /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/Config.pm Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile... make -f Makefile.old

Re: Why did I get an error while I were installing spamassassin

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:43:26PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote: # cd /usr/ports/dns/p5-Net-DNS What Should I do ? Ask the Net::DNS or ports guys? This has nothing to do with SpamAssassin. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Decapitation cures headaches! pgpq0bWNgrB50.pgp Description: PGP signature

E-mailed addressed to numbered username

2006-12-05 Thread Rob Myroon
Hi, I get a lot of e-mail where the username contains only numbers. ex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] These users don't exist so postfix simply throws the e-mail away but I am curious if anyone knows why spammers bother to send all these e-mails? Are they checking to

Re: SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Stefan Jakobs
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 16:12 schrieb Theo Van Dinter: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:06:17PM +0100, Stefan Jakobs wrote: Dec 5 15:32:58 server amavis[23505]: (23505-01-24) SA TIMED OUT, backtrace: at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Locker.pm line 71\n\teval {...} called

spamstats incomplete

2006-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, First and foremost, excuse the cross post for those that are on the both lists- but I'm not sure if this is an SA issue or a BSD issue Due to disk space issues I recently created a symlink for /var/log/exim in /usr/var2 Could the creation of the symlink be related to what my

Re: SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Stefan Jakobs wrote: 71\n\tMail::SpamAssassin::Locker::jittery_one_second_sleep('Mail::SpamAss assin::Locker::UnixNFSSafe=HASH(0x9747010)') Are you using NFS? If not, switch to flock. No, I don't use NFS. What do you mean with switch to flock?

RE: E-mailed addressed to numbered username

2006-12-05 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Rob Myroon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I get a lot of e-mail where the username contains only numbers. ex. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] These users don't exist so postfix simply throws the e-mail away but I am curious if anyone knows why spammers

spamassassin --lint soft errors on SARE rules

2006-12-05 Thread Ken A
'spamassassin --lint' gives me some soft errors on some SARE rules (see below) Are these known, 'ignore for now' sorts of things due to SA 2.x and SA 3.x installs, or should I be doing something about this? Is there any way to adjust --lint to not show these ? Thanks, Ken A Pacific.Net

SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread Pauk Sa
Hi, Anybody can guide me how to proceed. I am installing SpamAssassin on OpenBSD 4.0 and it failed during the test phase. I have attached the output. Perl version is v5.8.8 built for i386-openbsd 4.0 Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread C. Bensend
Anybody can guide me how to proceed. I am installing SpamAssassin on OpenBSD 4.0 and it failed during the test phase. I have attached the output. Perl version is v5.8.8 built for i386-openbsd 4.0 You didn't build your own perl or anything, did you? I have installed 3.1.7 on OpenBSD

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Bazooka Joe
Thx Bowie That fixed rdj. But what about channels? Is that to replace rdj? -bazooka On 12/5/06, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bazooka Joe wrote: rules_du_jour seems to fail on lint. I am trying to figure that out now but I have a different question. Has channels replaced

Need regexp tip

2006-12-05 Thread NFN Smith
I'm working on a series of rules to find obfuscated words in subject lines that have been misspelled by adding an extra character (often a repeated letter) to a word. For certain words, it seems to be appropriate to assume that if they're misspelled in that way, it's deliberate. I've got

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread Pauk Sa
It is on OpenBSD 4.0-STABLE. I did not build perl and install it from the package. On 12/5/06, C. Bensend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody can guide me how to proceed. I am installing SpamAssassin on OpenBSD 4.0 and it failed during the test phase. I have attached the output. Perl version

RE: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bazooka Joe wrote: Thx Bowie That fixed rdj. But what about channels? Is that to replace rdj? Yes, you can replace RDJ with the sa-update channels. I am still using RDJ for rule updates, so I can't help you with the channel configuration. -- Bowie

RE: spamstats incomplete

2006-12-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
As you can see its still reading from /var/log/maillog but data is not complete. File /var/log/maillog : from Dec 5 00:00:00 to Dec 5 11:33:44 Total number of emails processed by the spam filter : 0 Number of spams : n/a Number of clean messages:

Re: SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Stefan Jakobs
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 18:16 schrieb Theo Van Dinter: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Stefan Jakobs wrote: 71\n\tMail::SpamAssassin::Locker::jittery_one_second_sleep('Mail::Spa mAss assin::Locker::UnixNFSSafe=HASH(0x9747010)') Are you using NFS? If not, switch to

Re: Need regexp tip

2006-12-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, NFN Smith wrote: I'm working on a series of rules to find obfuscated words /\b(?!badword)(?:b.?a.?d.?w.?o.?r.?d.?)(\b|\!|\.|\,|\;|\:|\?)/i I have a tool that does this (for double letters as well as other obfuscations) automatically.

RE: Need regexp tip

2006-12-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
NFN Smith wrote: I'm working on a series of rules to find obfuscated words in subject lines that have been misspelled by adding an extra character (often a repeated letter) to a word. For certain words, it seems to be appropriate to assume that if they're misspelled in that way, it's

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Yet Another Ninja wrote: Just found a few ... sent directly from DULs. (there went my theory...) :-( I have a theory that spammers are either doing some sort of probe or sending out nonspam so that ther headers are learned by bayes as good. I think it's either probes or bayes poison.

Re: How novice end users, neophytes can set things up so that suspected spam or likely spam or definitely spam type messages go to another secondary mail file for later examination in case there are a

2006-12-05 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Don Saklad wrote: So many end users looking over the SpamAssassin headers on email haven't climbed the too steep learning curve for making the best use of the headers. Most end users (at least in Swden) haven't got access to the MDA configuration, so the porcmail stuff is of no use to them.

Re: Need regexp tip

2006-12-05 Thread NFN Smith
Bowie Bailey wrote: NFN Smith wrote: /\b(?!badword)(?:b.?a.?d.?w.?o.?r.?d.?)(\b|\!|\.|\,|\;|\:|\?)/i I'm getting hits on things like 'baddword' and 'badwoord', and even 'badworrd!', but I'm not getting a hit on 'badwordd' I've tried a number of variants, but still am not quite getting

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Bowie Bailey wrote: Bazooka Joe wrote: Thx Bowie That fixed rdj. But what about channels? Is that to replace rdj? Yes, you can replace RDJ with the sa-update channels. I am still using RDJ for rule updates, so I can't help you with the channel configuration. Are you sure? I'm using

Re: SA TIMED OUT

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:42:01PM +0100, Stefan Jakobs wrote: Here an other hint: Every day I execute the following command and force an expire of the Bayes DB: /usr/bin/sa-learn --dbpath /var/amavis/.spamassassin -p /var/amavis/.spamassassin/user_prefs -u vscan --force-expire In

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:20:39PM -0500, Pauk Sa wrote: Anybody can guide me how to proceed. I am installing SpamAssassin on OpenBSD 4.0 and it failed during the test phase. I have attached the output. Perl version is v5.8.8 built for i386-openbsd 4.0 fwiw, it doesn't appear to be a major

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 09:51:06 -0800, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet Another Ninja wrote: Just found a few ... sent directly from DULs. (there went my theory...) :-( I have a theory that spammers are either doing some sort of probe or sending out nonspam so that ther headers

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread Pauk Sa
Yes, it is fail only in test phase. I can do force install but, I would like to know is there any affect on the functioning of spamassassin? Thanks Pauk On 12/5/06, Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:20:39PM -0500, Pauk Sa wrote: Anybody can guide me how to

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-05 Thread Chris Purves
Rick Mallett wrote: What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I have never done it myself, by I found this in the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UploadedCorpora -- Chris

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-05 Thread Justin Mason
Nigel Frankcom writes: On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:12:01 -0500 (EST), Rick Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I've got the entire newsletter that resulted in the Nigerian Scam FP I reported but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to

Re: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 and Openbsd 4.0 installation fail

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:36:36PM -0500, Pauk Sa wrote: Yes, it is fail only in test phase. I can do force install but, I would like to know is there any affect on the functioning of spamassassin? As I said, the error looked like it was the test, and not SA, so I wouldn't worry about it. --

Re: Why did I get an error while I were installing spamassassin

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Freidel
Hello, What I usually do when a perl port does not build is first to try perl -MCPAN -eshell then when in the shell install Digest::HMAC_MD5 or install Net::DNS One may also go to http://search.cpan.org then download the source for the modules, untar it, then make make install. On Tue, 5

user_prefs

2006-12-05 Thread Andrea Bencini
I installed postfix-2.2.8 amavisd-new-2.4.1 clamav-0.88.6 and spamassassin-3.1.3 I would like to use local Bayesian database for each user. Example For andrea user I created the directory /home/andrea/.spamassassin and with sa-learn (ham/spam) I created in that directory bayes_* with user

Re: user_prefs

2006-12-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:51:32PM +0100, Andrea Bencini wrote: I would test what I did. How can I do?Spamassassin should to use andrea bayesian database for andrea e-mail and not sharing bayesian database(these are in /var/amavis/.spamassassin) If running SA in site-wide mode (such as using

Re: How to examine a system and determine the mail delivery agent.

2006-12-05 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Mike Jackson wrote: mail delivery agent for a the system at hand?... Just connect to port 25 and observe the banner. That normally won't work. The banner normally only includes the mail *transfer* agent and not the mail *delivery* agent. Even though many MTAs have a builtin or bundled MDA,

Filtering capabilities, filtering features of RMAIL in EMACS

2006-12-05 Thread Don Saklad
For novice end users, neophytes, emphasis on novice, what filtering capabilities, what features are there?... for RMAIL in EMACS when novice end users begin to take note of the spamassassin headers appearing on messages?...

Re: HTML Source Rule

2006-12-05 Thread Richard Frovarp
Kenneth Porter wrote: On Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:01 PM -0600 Richard Frovarp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Wednesday, November 29, 2006 5:17 PM -0600 Richard Frovarp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few legit messages that are scoring over 5.0 due to

Re: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
René Berber wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: René Berber wrote: I read all the page before asking, and I understand that it follows the trust path page. The fact is SA is not detecting the authentication, and there is nothing in that page that gives a clue as to why, it just mentions that

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
René Berber wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: [snip] Sendmail should be putting a (authenticated bits=0) line in its Received header when the user authenticates. SA will automatically use this to extend the trust path if the header above it is trusted. Let's start by saying two things: 1)

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Rudd wrote: Though, CommuniGate Pro's authenticated received header looks like this: from [$ipaddr] (acccount $account HELO $helostring) by $host (CommuniGate Pro So, you could match that with: /^from \[\S+\] \(account [EMAIL PROTECTED] .*\) by \S+ \(CommuniGate Pro/ Cool, I don't

RE: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
René Berber wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Bazooka Joe wrote: Thx Bowie That fixed rdj. But what about channels? Is that to replace rdj? Yes, you can replace RDJ with the sa-update channels. I am still using RDJ for rule updates, so I can't help you with the channel

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
David B Funk wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: In short, this may have been a deliberate choice to prevent a match on hosts with forged helo names. It would make sense. Jo you are mistaken. Sendmail adds the (may be forged) comment when the client's IP rDNS and DNS don't match, it

Re: 5 digit probe spam?

2006-12-05 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 5, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Evan Platt wrote: At 10:27 PM 12/4/2006, you wrote: Is anyone else getting these? Messages with a random subject and the message is a 5 digit number. What is it? See thre thread earlier today spam But there is no conclusion or discussion on what the point of

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Kelson
Jo Rhett wrote: Do you know why the SMTP authenticating server was forging the HELO name? Normal mail clients will give their IP address, right? And the may be forged only appears if they gave a full name and resolution succeeded *and* none of the addresses returned matched the helo name.

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread John Rudd
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John Rudd wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John Rudd wrote: Though, CommuniGate Pro's authenticated received header looks like this: from [$ipaddr] (acccount $account HELO $helostring) by $host (CommuniGate Pro So, you could match that with: /^from \[\S+\]

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Rudd wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John Rudd wrote: Though, CommuniGate Pro's authenticated received header looks like this: from [$ipaddr] (acccount $account HELO $helostring) by $host (CommuniGate Pro So, you could match that with: /^from \[\S+\] \(account [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Rudd wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Could you provide me with some sample headers so that I can add these? I can't add them without regression tests. SMTP-AUTH: Received: from [128.114.2.223] (account [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELO [128.114.2.223]) by silver.ucsc.edu (CommuniGate Pro

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Bowie Bailey wrote: René Berber wrote: [snip] Are you sure? I'm using both and I don't see any duplication of score hits. For instance, what is the SA equivalent to 70_sare_stocks.cf? By default, there is no duplication. sa-update will update only the stock rules. However, there have

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread John Rudd
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John Rudd wrote: Though, CommuniGate Pro's authenticated received header looks like this: from [$ipaddr] (acccount $account HELO $helostring) by $host (CommuniGate Pro So, you could match that with: /^from \[\S+\] \(account [EMAIL PROTECTED] .*\) by \S+

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: René Berber wrote: [snip] 1) LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD doesn't do anything useful, just to clarify what happened to the original subject. It's solely a workaround, suggested by Dana from UW's CIS dept before there was any support at all for detecting authenticated relays,

Old spamd, new SpamAssassin

2006-12-05 Thread Dan Barker
I'm back after a couple years break. SpamAssassin 3.0.1 has been doing heroic work for us, even though I'm stuck on the windoze platform. I recently upgraded the mailserver (unfortunately, still windoze) and thought I should put on SpamAssassin 3.1.7. The upgrade worked a charm, except the

Re: Old spamd, new SpamAssassin

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Dan Barker wrote: I'm back after a couple years break. SpamAssassin 3.0.1 has been doing heroic work for us, even though I'm stuck on the windoze platform. I recently upgraded the mailserver (unfortunately, still windoze) and thought I should put on SpamAssassin 3.1.7. The upgrade worked a

RE: spam

2006-12-05 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
Has anybody come up with a rule for these yet? I tried the following: body ORNL_B0RKEN1 /^\d{3,5}\n{1,3}$/s describe ORNL_B0RKEN1 B0rken spamware, message just contains a short number scoreORNL_B0RKEN1 1 This matches the spam message, but it also matches messages where the number is

RE: spam

2006-12-05 Thread Coffey, Neal
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: This matches the spam message, but it also matches messages where the number is followed by a blank line and more text, which is a false positive. In all cases I got the same results. What am I missing? Try a compound rule. Look for the number, and then anything

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:02 AM, David B Funk wrote: Jo you are mistaken. Sendmail adds the (may be forged) comment when the client's IP rDNS and DNS don't match, it has -nothing- to do with the HELO name. RTFC(...code) If the hello is numeric or non a domain name, the may be

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Alan Munday
By default, there is no duplication. sa-update will update only the stock rules. However, there have been additional channels created for sa-update to allow it to update the SARE rules as well. You just add the ones you want to your sa-update channels file. One advantage RDJ seems to have is

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Jo Rhett
Jo Rhett wrote: Do you know why the SMTP authenticating server was forging the HELO name? Normal mail clients will give their IP address, right? And the may be forged only appears if they gave a full name and resolution succeeded *and* none of the addresses returned matched the helo

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Jo Rhett
While you are fixing bugs related to authentication, any chance you'll fix the SPF plugin to skip checks on authenticated delivery? Or have an option to enable this behavior? Or do you want a patch from me? It'll take me a lot longer than you, since I'll spend hours just tracing down the

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
SMTP-AUTH: Received: from [128.114.2.223] (account [EMAIL PROTECTED] HELO [128.114.2.223]) by silver.ucsc.edu (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.7) with ESMTPSA id 88402416 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:15:07 -0800 Webmail: Received: from [128.114.2.223] (account [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Mark Martinec wrote: Not sure if the following one is relevant, but it just fell into my hands: Received: from 10.235.209.117 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sername) by xxx.ijs.si with HTTP; Tue, 5 Dec 2006 15:31:13 +0100 (CET) Thanks Mark. Anything with a with

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Jo Rhett wrote: While you are fixing bugs related to authentication, any chance you'll fix the SPF plugin to skip checks on authenticated delivery? Or have an option to enable this behavior? Or do you want a patch from me? It'll take me a lot longer than you, since I'll spend hours just

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Jo Rhett wrote: On Dec 5, 2006, at 2:02 AM, David B Funk wrote: It still should not matter. So long as the client can authenticate to the server's statisfaction, SA should honor its decision regardless of how bogus the HELO or client's DNS entrys look. That's your argument. That may not

Re: rules_du_jour not working confusion?

2006-12-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Alan Munday wrote: By default, there is no duplication. sa-update will update only the stock rules. However, there have been additional channels created for sa-update to allow it to update the SARE rules as well. You just add the ones you want to your sa-update channels file. One

SA, DCC rules du jour

2006-12-05 Thread Vernon Webb
Not sure if I'm posting to the right list for this or not bvut since SA is the one not co-operating I figured I'd try here first. I have the latest versions SA and DCC both installed on a Fedora Core 4 system and am trying to install rules du jour but it won't let me get past the lint test.

Re: spam

2006-12-05 Thread Alan Premselaar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coffey, Neal wrote: Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: This matches the spam message, but it also matches messages where the number is followed by a blank line and more text, which is a false positive. In all cases I got the same results. What am I

Re: SA, DCC rules du jour

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Vernon Webb wrote: Not sure if I'm posting to the right list for this or not bvut since SA is the one not co-operating I figured I'd try here first. I have the latest versions SA and DCC both installed on a Fedora Core 4 system and am trying to install rules du jour but it won't let

Re: SA, DCC rules du jour

2006-12-05 Thread Vernon Webb
I commented out the line to the dccproc, but does that now disable dcc from running? Should I re-enable after install? Vernon Webb (201) 703-1232 web designs web hosting by comp-wiz.com, inc. Information in this transmission is privileged confidential. It is intended for the use of the

Email scoring way too high... what's wrong?

2006-12-05 Thread John Tice
I have a new client whose mail is scoring way high... several others on the same server, different domains, score in negative numbers. Mail sent through a mail script on this domain scores -1.0. I believe they're using verizon dsl, windows xp w/ outlook or outlook express. This is just

Re: Confused about white/black lists.

2006-12-05 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Dec 4th 2006 at 23:34 -0500, quoth Theo Van Dinter: =On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:12:26PM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: = I have some spam getting through that has USER_IN_WHITELIST. I go and look = and sher nuff, the From address is there in the email column of the awl = table. I don't

Re: Email scoring way too high... what's wrong?

2006-12-05 Thread up
He's hitting on 2 different DUL rules, because he's sending directly from his DSL IP to your S/A server. You need to whitelist his IP address, or otherwise have it bypasss S/A scanning. On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Tice wrote: I have a new client whose mail is scoring way high... several others

Re: SA, DCC rules du jour

2006-12-05 Thread René Berber
Vernon Webb wrote: I commented out the line to the dccproc, but does that now disable dcc from running? Should I re-enable after install? Yes on both accounts, also enable the relevant part in v310.pre . -- René Berber

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