Re: bayes learning '0 messages found'

2010-02-15 Thread smfabac
John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, smfabac wrote: Is there a message size limit for sa-learn? Yes, there is, and sadly sa-learn does not explicitly tell you a message has been skipped because it's too large. If there's a non-text attachment try deleteing it and re-learning

Re: MTAMark Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: I have to say keep in mind that MTAMark does not tie the spam to a domain, and MTX does, which makes it easier to track down the spammer, and blacklist by domain instead of IP. I'm not quite sure what that means: how does MTX tie spam to a domain? Regardless,

Re: RES: SA 3.3 w/MailScanner

2010-02-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Noel Butler wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:33:38 +1000: Replacing the old /var/lib setting (which has worked for best part of a decade) with /var/lib/spamassassin resolved this (and it seems other) issues. Well, compare default settings on

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/14, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Now should I use _mtx, or MTAMark style _smtp._srv? DNS records containing underscores are apparently a pain. In my Bind config I had to add check-names ignore;. My secondary DNS provider is responding with REFUSED (I

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 07:46, mbeis mb...@xs4all.nl wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, mbeis wrote: Feb 14 22:12:46.522 [11706] dbg: dns: query failed: 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org = NOERROR Feb 14 22:12:46.525 [11706] dbg: dns: query failed:

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02/13, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: So the only effect of MTX should be confirmation that a machine may send mail? On 13.02.10 14:40, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Yes. In such case you should not compare MTX with SPF and or DKIM, instead you should clearly state that MTX is designed

Re: _mtx MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote on Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:06:56 -0500: Please let me know if there is some evidence I'm missing that it's reasonable to use an underscore in this context. Underscores are explicitly forbidden in internet hostnames. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: bayes learning '0 messages found'

2010-02-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Smfabac wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:06 -0800 (PST): So, does the documentation on sa-learn indicate that there is a size limit on the message to be processed? Why not check yourself? Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 23:46 -0800, mbeis wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, mbeis wrote: Feb 14 22:12:46.522 [11706] dbg: dns: query failed: 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org = NOERROR Feb 14 22:12:46.525 [11706] dbg: dns: query failed: mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org

Re: _mtx Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-02-15 02:06, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Thank you for contacting us. An underscore is only legal for specific types of DNS records, such as 'SRV'. 'A' records should only contain letters, numbers and dashes. You may want to consider using '-' as a substitute. I hope this helps.

Re: MTX plugin created (Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:01, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Justin Mason wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 03:00,  dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: http://www.chaosreigns.com/mtx/ It might be useful to compare with MTA MARK and see what the status of that proposal currently is:

Re: MTAmark (was: MTX plugin functionally complete?)

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
Per Jessen wrote: Jonas Eckerman wrote: (And of course, if this catches on, you'll have to provide RFC style documentation.) See Justins posting from two days back: http://tools.ietf.org/draft/draft-stumpf-dns-mtamark/

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:38 +, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 23:46 -0800, mbeis wrote: John Hardin wrote: What does dig +short -t TXT 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org return? I have this computer running like this for 6 years now, and I've never had a problem like

Re: Outbound SPAM filter

2010-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 18:18 -0800, the Nabble user shawn...@hotmail.com once again replied off-list: config files included show how the mail is flowing. Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Nabble allows off-list replies, and apparently even makes it easy to use? WTF, shouldn't the default be list

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02/14, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Now should I use _mtx, or MTAMark style _smtp._srv? dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: DNS records containing underscores are apparently a pain. In my Bind config I had to add check-names ignore;. My secondary DNS provider is responding with REFUSED

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:34 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: dig +short -t TXT 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org That gets 903765 from here. Martin

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02/14, Jonas Eckerman wrote: 1: The participation record is optional, so you only use it if you want everything else to be rejected. On 14.02.10 14:48, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Yeah. I'm thinking of using the 4th octet to indicate participation, and the third octet to indicate

HELO SPF + FCDNS (was: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-15 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-02-14 19:20, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/14, Jonas Eckerman wrote: The SPF record above says that a host using panic.chaosreigns.com in HELO should not be allowed to send mail unless it has the IP address 64.71.152.40, regardless of the domain in the envelope from, From:

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 02/14, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Now should I use _mtx, or MTAMark style _smtp._srv? dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: DNS records containing underscores are apparently a pain. In my Bind config I had to add check-names ignore;. My secondary DNS

Re: SA 330 compile error. where do I start looking

2010-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 18:27 -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 2/14/10 9:50 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Bad RAM? well, it didn't start till SA 3.30, and deleting those two rules stopped the seg fault and crash.. Well, I've seen bad RAM do strange things like that before. In the middle

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-02-14 19:20, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/14, Jonas Eckerman wrote: * I think there should be a way to tell the world wether you are using the scheme for a domain (not host) or not. This could easily be done in DNS. I need to think about this more, thanks for the

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 05:45 -0800, mbeis wrote: When I enter dig 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org, I get: Once again, there is no IP for these, and it isn't supposed to have one. You are missing the TXT type in your query. By default, dig performs a a lookup for an A record. -- char

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Jonas Eckerman wrote: 1: The participation record is optional, so you only use it if you want everything else to be rejected. This is why I would support mtamark... It permits the sysadmin to determine the default behaviour for his IP range, rather than defining a

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread mbeis
Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 05:45 -0800, mbeis wrote: When I enter dig 0.3.3.updates.spamassassin.org, I get: Once again, there is no IP for these, and it isn't supposed to have one. You are missing the TXT type in your query. By default, dig performs a a

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 06:30 -0800, mbeis wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Once again, there is no IP for these, and it isn't supposed to have one. You are missing the TXT type in your query. By default, dig performs a a lookup for an A record. dig -t TXT

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Jonas Eckerman wrote: 1: The participation record is optional, so you only use it if you want everything else to be rejected. On 15.02.10 09:04, Charles Gregory wrote: This is why I would support mtamark... It permits the sysadmin to determine the default behaviour

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread mbeis
Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org. INTXT ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.138#53(10.0.0.138) Maybe want to go see that server? ;) This is the IP adress of my DSL router. I haven't touched it for a decade or so and

Re: HELO SPF + FCDNS (was: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 2010-02-14 19:20, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Possibly a lack of separate SPF records for HELO and MAIL FROM if they are the same. On 15.02.10 13:58, Jonas Eckerman wrote: Agreed. I think they should have separated those records. I don't see any reason. Why should we allow someone to

Re: bayes learning '0 messages found'

2010-02-15 Thread smfabac
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Smfabac wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:20:06 -0800 (PST): So, does the documentation on sa-learn indicate that there is a size limit on the message to be processed? Why not check yourself? Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services:

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: well, the ipv6 addresses are (were?) expected to be allocated by /48 blocks, so we could need check on this level too, imho. We got an IPv6 range allocated late last year, it is a /48 block. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread mbeis
After installing the tarball manually, spamd now starts. Leaves figuring out what is wrong with my DNS. But it's nice to have SpamAssassin working again. Thanks for all your help! Regards, Marco -- View this message in context:

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mirrors.updates.spamassassin.org. IN TXT ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.138#53(10.0.0.138) Maybe want to go see that server? ;) On 15.02.10 07:04, mbeis wrote: This is the IP adress of my DSL router. I haven't

Re: bayes learning '0 messages found'

2010-02-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Smfabac wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:27:19 -0800 (PST): The question So, does the documentation on sa-learn indicate that there is a size limit on the messages to be processed? is a veiled request to the SA developers/maintainers that people may be interested in that information. If you

Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Mbeis wrote on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:04:35 -0800 (PST): What can I change in it to make DNS work for spamassassin? how should we know? Maybe it's not doing TXT field lookups or a server in the chain doesn't do them or a firewall doesn't like that. It's best you talk to your service provider

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Darxus
On 02/15, Per Jessen wrote: Change provider. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having an underscore in DNS records. They're used for several things - _sip and _domainkey for instance. Also see RFC2181. RFC 2181 section 11 does seem to agree. However, I still haven't found evidence of

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Darxus
I'm about to post about MTX to the Anti-Spam Research Group's discussion mailing list: http://asrg.sp.am/about/lists.shtml This appears to be the best next step toward RFC. MTX HELO - need to comment on this On 02/15, Jonas Eckerman wrote: * Or, make a MTX checker traverse domain from the one

Re: bayes learning '0 messages found'

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 07:27 -0800, smfabac wrote: I see that there is no official answer to the question. what is the message size limit where sa-learn fails. If you use something spamc rather than using sa_learn you can gain some flexibility due to the places and hosts where you can run

Re: _mtx MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Darxus
On 02/15, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Underscores are explicitly forbidden in internet hostnames. That's the point. MTX records are not host names. That's why _mtx would be good, to differentiate it. RFC 1101 section 4 includes using A records for subnet mapping. So there appears to be no

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Per Jessen
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 02/15, Per Jessen wrote: I checked my bind setup too, and I have the default for check-names - no complaints. It is however, perhaps, worth noting that my _sip and _domainkey names are for SRV records, not A records. Yup, no problems with SRV records -

Re: MTX plugin functionally complete? Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage

2010-02-15 Thread Darxus
On 02/15, Per Jessen wrote: Hmm, there does seem to be some minor issue with the underscore in A records, but I still think it would be the most appropriate way to go. Technically I agree. However, practically, I think it might be important to go without underscores purely due to

Re: v3.3.x Rule installs/updates from updates.spamassassin.org sought.rules.yerp.org FAIL @ dns query (NXDOMAIN); other channels resolve work fine.

2010-02-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 15/02/2010 8:11 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 09:35 -0800, Ben DJ wrote: I've installed, spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.3.1-r905461 running on Perl version 5.10.0 Attempts to pull rules from updates.spamassassin.org, (1),

[Solved] Re: sa-update channel problem

2010-02-15 Thread mbeis
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: try replacing with another one for a while if it helps. Or maybe installing a new firmware or new DSL router could help... Thank you Matus for your hint. I upgraded my modem with a new firmware and now sa-update works! Thanks everybody for your help.

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On 2010-02-15 15:04, Charles Gregory wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Jonas Eckerman wrote: 1: The participation record is optional, so you only use it if you want everything else to be rejected. This is why I would support mtamark... It permits the sysadmin to determine the default behaviour

MTX Policy records implemented.

2010-02-15 Thread Darxus
http://www.chaosreigns.com/mtx/policy/ Be sure to check out the flow chart at the bottom. It doesn't include delegation. Thanks to Jonas Eckerman for getting me to do it. The SA plugin is still on http://www.chaosreigns.com/mtx/ MTX Policy enables new tests which can be used in place of

Re: MTX public blacklist implemented Re: MTX plugin functionally complete?

2010-02-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Jonas Eckerman wrote: 1: The participation record is optional, so you only use it if you want everything else to be rejected. This is why I would support mtamark... It permits the sysadmin to determine the default behaviour for his IP range, rather than defining a