Re: EmailBL hit count

2009-05-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Again, I believe the your fault wasn't the intention. But that this is a test, *needs* testers, and you can do it without *any* impact to your results. Yes of course. I just meant you can't ask people to use your tests and then blame them for

Re: BOUNCE_MESSAGE problem

2009-05-20 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 02:42 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Another one. This is from Washington Post. Still with fetchmail. http://.pastebin.ca/1427982 Marked as BOUNCE. meta __BOUNCE_RPATH_NULL 0 should be working. $ spamassassin --cf=meta __BOUNCE_RPATH_NULL 0 1427982 |

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Marc Perkel wrote: Looking for people with dead domains that still get a lot of spam, If you have such a domain that you aren't using can you set the MX Sorry, but that's not dead enough ! We used to have one domain (mi.iasf.cnr.it) under one organization (CNR). When

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Perkel wrote: BTW - for those who are curious, the lists are generated mostly from Exim rules. Exim has a feature that allows me to track hosts that don't use QUIT to close a connection. Thus the combination of fake mx, no quit, No or bad RDNS or dynamic IP, and various HELO sins is

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Perkel wrote: Other than that, I recently enabled Hostkarma blacklists here, just to check. FWIW, it's scoring *really* good for me. So good, I seriously toned it down. I want to evaluate it first. For that, I need something even close to a considerable, diverse amount of ham. How,

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: This is not about OpenProtect or their decisions. Actually, there are more than this one sa-update mirror for the SARE rules. I think you missed my point. The OpenProtect channel adds a bunch of SARE rulesets in a single channel. This means that when you use that

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Justin Mason
thanks Pete! looks nifty. Is that linked on the SA wiki? --j. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 16:12, Pete McNeil madscient...@microneil.com wrote: Hello SA folks, We have significantly upgraded our plugin for SpamAssassin. You can find it here: http://www.armresearch.com/products/index.jsp Or

EmailBL Stats

2009-05-20 Thread Chris
Ham: 294 Spam: 163 EmailBL.cf: Rule Name Score Ham Spam %of Ham %of Spam --- EMAILBL_TEST_LEM 0.50 0 10 0.00% 6.13%

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.05.09 11:12, Pete McNeil wrote: Hello SA folks, We have significantly upgraded our plugin for SpamAssassin. You can find it here: http://www.armresearch.com/products/index.jsp Or more specifically here: http://www.armresearch.com/message-sniffer/download/snf4sa-0.9.2.tar.gz

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Ned Slider
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: And I do have a goal of !00% accuracy although that is difficult to attain. While I guess most blacklist operators do aim at a perfect blacklist, regardless of specific definitions and whether others agree or not... That's probably one of the worst shift typos in

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Ned Slider wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) Can you let us know what that IP is please? Then Marc can

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Justin Mason
there is another catch, too, for HTML messages -- it's trivial with CSS or javascript to pad a HTML page with an initial 500KB of innocuous content, then overwrite that padding with a later chunk of HTML loaded from later in the source. --j. On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 13:23, Mark Martinec

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: BTW - for those who are curious, the lists are generated mostly from Exim rules. Exim has a feature that allows me to track hosts that don't use QUIT to close a connection. Thus the combination of fake mx, no quit, No or bad RDNS or dynamic IP, and

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Justin Mason wrote: thanks Pete! looks nifty. Is that linked on the SA wiki? Yes :-) _M

Re: learning from IMAP spam collection

2009-05-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeff Mincy j...@delphioutpost.com [2009.05.19.1445 +0200]: formail -b -t -I X-Spam-Status: -I X-Spam-Flag: -I X-Spam-Checker-Version: -I X-Spam-Rbl: -I X-Spam-Pyzor: -I X-Spam-DCC: -I X-Spam-Level: -I X-Spam-Bayes: -I X-Spam-Relay: -I X-Spam-Report: -I X-Spam-AWL: -I X-Spam-Karma:

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Ned Slider wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: And I do have a goal of !00% accuracy although that is difficult to attain. While I guess most blacklist operators do aim at a perfect blacklist, regardless of specific definitions and whether others agree or not... That's probably one of the

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:41:12PM +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, May 20, 2009 11:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: A cool idea would be an application in a similar vain to p0f, but which passively detected the SMTP client software, rather than operating system. It might then be possible to distribute signatures that identified specific zombie software, as

Re: EmailBL plugin released

2009-05-20 Thread Justin Mason
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 13:24, Steve Freegard st...@stevefreegard.com wrote: Justin Mason wrote: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20090516-r775436-n/T_EMAILBL_TEST_LEM/detail Would be interesting to see if the 5 ham hits really were ham or whether they were accidentally misclassified and what

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: snip/ We have significantly upgraded our plugin for SpamAssassin. snip/ looks to me like collaborative system containg functionalities like those in SA already (dcc,razor.pyzor,blacklists) and bayes Well, I suppose all collaborative systems look

RE: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Pete McNeil [mailto:madscient...@microneil.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 5:12 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA Hello SA folks, We have significantly upgraded our plugin for SpamAssassin. You

RE: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:19 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA On 19.05.09 11:12, Pete McNeil wrote: ...omissis... looks to me like

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Henrik K wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:41:12PM +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an

Using p0f to detect spam bots

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 11:25, Mike Cardwell wrote: A cool idea would be an application in a similar vain to p0f, but which passively detected the SMTP client software, rather than operating system. It might then be possible to distribute signatures that identified

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Pete McNeil
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: snip/ While SNF stuff looks interesting to me, it seems also to me that it is meant as a SA replacement. In some cases SNF is used as a replacement - in others it is not. Why shouldn't a plugin be as powerful as possible? Doesn't that ultimately make the platform

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread option8
it is common for one domains to get an order of magnitude more spam than another that seems just like it. like mark said, it probably won't stop. low overhead techniques like greylisting or no listing can reduce the stress on your server quite a bit. configuring your mta to close

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
option8 wrote: it is common for one domains to get an order of magnitude more spam than another that seems just like it. like mark said, it probably won't stop. low overhead techniques like greylisting or no listing can reduce the stress on your server quite a bit. configuring your mta

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread option8
Thanks for the tarbaby feed. If you use the hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com black list it will work better for you because it's harvesting your data from the high spam domain. If you use that list to block you can reduce your system load. yep. i added that at the same time. so far, not

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Ned Slider wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) On 20.05.09 13:41, Mike Cardwell wrote: Can you let

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Ned Slider
Mike Cardwell wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) Can you let us know what that IP is

Re: should the spam score increase

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 00:20 +0200, Jonas Eckerman wrote: Jari Fredriksson wrote: As the mail contains no text, there propably is not much to learn. Why not? Bayes learns from headers as well, and headers can be just as useful as body text for classifying mail. Indeed. Hence my insisting

Re: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] looks to me like collaborative system containg functionalities like those in SA already (dcc,razor.pyzor,blacklists) and bayes On 20.05.09 15:26, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It looks to me that it goes a bit further by allowing

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:58 +0200, Jonas Eckerman wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: This is not about OpenProtect or their decisions. Actually, there are more than this one sa-update mirror for the SARE rules. I think you missed my point. The OpenProtect channel adds a bunch of SARE

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) On 20.05.09 13:41, Mike Cardwell wrote: Can

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) On 20.05.09 13:41,

Error when running sa-update

2009-05-20 Thread Patrick Saweikis
Has anyone seen the following when trying to run SA-update? IO::Zlib does not define $IO::Zlib::VERSION--version check failed at /usr/bin/sa-update line 82. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/sa-update line 82. We are running SA Version 3.2.0 and Perl version 5.8.5, I have done some

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) On 20.05.09 13:41, Mike Cardwell wrote: Can you let us know what that

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 19:59 +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: Karsten wrote: That's trivial to do with pure HTML, too, no need for funky tricks some MUAs might not understand or render. Oh, and it actually is even trivial to do with the MIME structure and a spammy text/plain payload.

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Karsten wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:52 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: there is another catch, too, for HTML messages -- it's trivial with CSS or javascript That's trivial to do with pure HTML, too, no need for funky tricks some MUAs might not understand or render. Oh, and it actually is

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Perkel wrote: I just think that a whitelist entry should be an absolute no spam comes from here unless something goes tits up type entry, and all hosts on it should be manually checked... I started querying the whitelist from spamassassin 4 hours ago. I don't have a high volume of

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Ned Slider
Mike Cardwell wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I've also just recently enabled these lists in SA so am still in the very early stages of testing. I initially did get one FP hit against the whitelist (spam message sent through an ISP smtp server in the whitelist) On 20.05.09 13:41,

RE: New Message Sniffer Plugin Released SNF4SA

2009-05-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:36 PM From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] looks to me like collaborative system containg functionalities like those in SA already

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The ok_locales setting defaults to all, effectively disabling all CHARSET_FARAWAY rules. It is intended to be set voluntarily to charsets you cannot even decipher, let alone read. Now that I think about it, I would be much happier with a setting

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:04 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Wed, 20 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The ok_locales setting defaults to all, effectively disabling all CHARSET_FARAWAY rules. It is intended to be set voluntarily to charsets you cannot even decipher, let alone read.

Re: over-representing non-English spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:52 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: there is another catch, too, for HTML messages -- it's trivial with CSS or javascript That's trivial to do with pure HTML, too, no need for funky tricks some MUAs might not understand or render. Oh, and it actually is even trivial to do

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Cardwell
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I just think that a whitelist entry should be an absolute no spam comes from here unless something goes tits up type entry, and all hosts on it should be manually checked... IIUC this is whitelist of type don't blacklist these hosts... maybe I'm wrong Nope.

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I just think that a whitelist entry should be an absolute no spam comes from here unless something goes tits up type entry, and all hosts on it should be manually checked... IIUC this is whitelist of type don't blacklist these hosts...

Re: Error when running sa-update

2009-05-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
What version of IO::Zlib do you have installed? sa-update line 82 is it trying to load IO::Zlib 1.04 or later: use IO::Zlib 1.04; So my guess is that you either have an early non-version exporting version, or a strange/corrupted module. Either way, reinstalling it would be the way to go. On

Re: Got dead domains that get a lot of spam?

2009-05-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 20:06 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: If you are going to use the blacklist it works best if you also use the tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com high numbered MX record as well because that way my blacklist will pick up the spambots that are targeting you. So feel free to use both.

Re: one domain gets 99% of spam

2009-05-20 Thread LuKreme
On 19-May-2009, at 22:23, option8 wrote: is there any particular reason this might be happening to just this one domain? Many possible reasons. The most obvious is they used to accept all emails (catchall) or they had a lot of users with a lot of virus/ malware on their windows machines.

Whitelist_from_*

2009-05-20 Thread LuKreme
OK, I know about whitelist_from_spf and whitelist_from_rcvd and, of course whitelist_from and I seem to recall a whitelist_from_dkim ... Is that all of them? Where are they documented and what exactly does _rcvd check? (I did google, found lots of posts, not docs, which makes me think

Re: Rule to detect same address in sender and receiver

2009-05-20 Thread LuKreme
On 8-May-2009, at 19:20, Benny Pedersen wrote: meta __SPF_NOT_PASS (!SPF_PASS) meta __NOT_LOCAL_TRUSTED (!NO_RELAYS || !ALL_TRUSTED) meta BLACKLIST_SPF (__SPF_NOT_PASS __NOT_LOCAL_TRUSTED) describe BLACKLIST_SPF Meta: Blacklisted spf senders score BLACKLIST_SPF 5.0 meta WHITELIST_SPF