Re: Handling very large messages (was Re: Which milter do you prefer?)

2015-03-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Mar 2015, at 12:55, David F. Skoll wrote: [...] I can't answer for Kevin, but what we do is this: For oversize messages, we remove non text/* attachments. If they're still oversize, we truncate the text/plain parts. If they're still oversize, we truncate the text/html parts. We do this

Re: Handling very large messages (was Re: Which milter do you prefer?)

2015-03-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Mar 2015, at 15:17, Robert Schetterer wrote: [...] Am 14.03.2015 um 17:55 schrieb David F. Skoll: [...] I can't answer for Kevin, but what we do is this: For oversize messages, we remove non text/* attachments. If they're still oversize, we truncate the text/plain parts. If they're

Re: Which milter do you prefer?

2015-03-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Mar 2015, at 17:41, Shane Williams wrote: I've been reviewing the current landscape of anti-spam tools since I haven't set up a new system in a while, and one place I'm wondering what people are using is milters for spamassassin/spamc. It seems like spamass-milter is the default go-to

Re: Skipping RBL checks for internal servers

2015-03-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 18 Mar 2015, at 17:24, Axb wrote: Why is Internal or local mail sent thru SA? If the MTA handles outbound mail from Windows users, passing their mail through SA is prudent. There are spamming trojans that figure out how to use the victim's legitimate submission config including

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-27 Thread Bill Cole
On 25 Feb 2015, at 17:15, Yves Goergen wrote: Am 25.02.2015 um 20:42 schrieb Bill Cole: On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? Email

Re: Lots of Polish spam

2015-02-25 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Feb 2015, at 17:06, Yves Goergen wrote: I can't block all archives with executable files in them. Then in all seriousness: why bother filtering email specifically for malware? Email is an inherently untrustworthy transport medium. Any sort of executable received via email that is

Re: FPs on RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP

2015-04-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Apr 2015, at 18:47, Mark Martinec wrote: There is no benefit to spammers (and a likely disservice to them) for forging a non-trustworthy external Received header field and providing some unusual IP address there, and they cannot forge the boundary Received header field inserted by

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.1 available (bug)

2015-05-02 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 May 2015, at 14:34, Forrest wrote: Upgrading from a simple 3.4.0 installation, 3.4.1 refuses to start, with this error: Starting spamd: child process [3723] exited or timed out without signaling production of a PID file: exit 255 at /usr/local/perl/bin/spamd line 2986.

Re: 3.4.1 Key issues: sa_compile test failures and txrep.pm uninitialized issues

2015-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 May 2015, at 20:57, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Hello SpamAssassin Users and Developers, I wanted to take a moment to provide my $0.02 on two in the wild issues with 3.4.1 that I've heard a lot about in the past few days: The first in the wild issue has been some failures on sa_compile.t.

Re: Weird empty messages

2015-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 May 2015, at 11:46, Dianne Skoll wrote: Hi, We are seeing a trickle of weird empty messages. Here's a sample Sendmail log: May 8 11:33:31 colo3 sm-mta[1100]: t48FXPqL001100: from=ragland_rosell...@cttstone.com, size=18, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=8[10, proto=SMTP, daemon=MTA,

Re: Turning off queries to SORBS

2015-05-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 May 2015, at 20:24, Chris wrote: So I guess then that the bottom line is that eventually the queries are getting through to SORBS but I'll still be seeing some errors and just don't worry about it. Does that sound about right? Yes.

Re: Turning off queries to SORBS

2015-05-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 May 2015, at 16:58, Chris wrote: On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 13:49 -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: Chris wrote: Not upset about the 'noise', to my untrained eye it looks to me as if the lookups are failing: chris@localhost:/var/log$ grep 'connection refused' /var/log/syslog|grep sorbs|awk '{

Re: spam

2015-04-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 16 Apr 2015, at 7:29, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Sorry, it is not our job to provide support for GetResponse.com And that's a very good thing, since GetResponse/Implix is a chronic intentional spamming operation. It would be a disturbing conflict of interest for the SpamAssassin core

Re: effectiveness of DCC checks?

2015-04-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Apr 2015, at 13:59, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: I've noticed that DCC_CHECK is flagging on tons of items that are clearly not spam. The most recent hit for me today was a release announcement from the mariadb folks. Overall, it's a trend I'm routinely seeing where it is flagging a lot

Re: Irregular Test Reports in SA?

2015-04-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Mar 2015, at 14:43, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: But overall, it looks like lunarpages is exceeding some of the RBL limits which is immediately going to cause issues. And to be blunt: that does qualify as shoddy in a commercial provider: amateurish unethical. It's one thing for a hobbyist

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Apr 2015, at 17:26, Amir Caspi wrote: On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Kevin Miller kevin.mil...@juneau.org wrote: You can reject on RDNS (or lack thereof) in sendmail depending on the version. Search for require_rdns. Thanks, I'll look into it. Sadly I don't think I have time to

Re: Cron smmsp@thebighonker /home/ler/bin/update-bayes.sh

2015-06-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Jun 2015, at 16:36, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: It's caused by the domain =.sa.enemieslist.com having that complete invisible null label between = and . which is an invalid DNS entry. I believe that this is covered in: 

Re: Cron smmsp@thebighonker /home/ler/bin/update-bayes.sh

2015-06-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Jun 2015, at 17:53, Larry Rosenman wrote: I guess my question is why is it being called during sa-learn. You have yet to demonstrate that to be occurring. SA has a misfeature of attempting to de-obfuscate obfuscated URIs and trusting the results of its inherently imperfect

Re: Cron smmsp@thebighonker /home/ler/bin/update-bayes.sh

2015-06-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Jun 2015, at 18:03, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 6/5/2015 5:55 PM, Bill Cole wrote: I suspect that this is due to the same misguided over-detection of obfuscated URIs that some time ago did violence to the postfix-users list when the domain master.cf landed on multiple URIBLs. Rather than

Re: Must-Have Plugins?

2015-06-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 9 Jun 2015, at 14:39, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 09.06.15 11:29, John Hardin wrote: Two things that I have found very useful at the MTA level are: (1) Delay sending your SMTP banner a second or two and reject any sender that starts sending information before that. This is a

Re: Cron smmsp@thebighonker /home/ler/bin/update-bayes.sh

2015-06-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Jun 2015, at 6:16, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Well, referencing an rfc is good but please remember rfc 1121 where we can extrapolate that robustness and contravariance overrides because your statements are contrary to the behavior of mua's which DO highlight the urls. See my screenshot

Re: No BAYES_XX tags in X-Spam-Report

2015-06-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Jun 2015, at 0:05, Michael B Allen wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Bill Cole sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 22 Jun 2015, at 21:45, Michael B Allen wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: [root@www .spamassassin

Re: bayes filtlering

2015-06-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Jun 2015, at 8:34, Roman Gelfand wrote: Periodically, I am running the following command on my spam box... sa-learn --no-sync --spam /mbx/adomain.com/auser/Maildir/.Junk/{cur,new} It seems to work. However, I continue to get this message type. Why? Here is SA message.

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Jun 2015, at 10:33, Jered Floyd wrote: Richard, The BRBL may have listed the entire /24 that includes your sending IPs. Painful experience has shown that Barracuda won't hear your requests for delisting, and the listing may never go away. I believe you've got it in one. I heard

Re: No BAYES_XX tags in X-Spam-Report

2015-06-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Jun 2015, at 16:21, RW wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:42:09 -0400 Bill Cole wrote: On 22 Jun 2015, at 21:45, Michael B Allen wrote: So with a default install (CentOS 7 in my case and I suspect pretty much all other systems), bayes will NOT just work by default unless you explicitly

Re: No BAYES_XX tags in X-Spam-Report

2015-06-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Jun 2015, at 21:45, Michael B Allen wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: [root@www .spamassassin]# pwd /var/log/spamassassin/.spamassassin [root@www .spamassassin]# ls -la total 1100 drwx-- 2 spamd spamd4096 Jun 22 19:42 . drwx--

Re: Rules needed...

2015-06-26 Thread Bill Cole
On 26 Jun 2015, at 12:33, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I have one system with greylisting enabled and another that hasn't yet been enabled. On the system without it, I'm receiving a ton of random spam that hits bayes99 but pretty much nothing else. http://pastebin.com/FzUkEvRp It all seems to be

Re: .science the new leper of TLD's?

2015-06-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Jun 2015, at 13:46, Axb wrote: On 19.06.2015 19:42, Philip Prindeville wrote: No offense to lepers, but is .science to be avoided? I’ve had email this week from about 17 different .science domain names, and 13 were blocked because of ZenBL and the rest turned out to be SPAM anyway.

Re: No BAYES_XX tags in X-Spam-Report

2015-06-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Jun 2015, at 14:58, Michael B Allen wrote: On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Bill Cole sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: Yes, I want a system-wide bayes db. And I am running spamd and spamc and I assume that is all working (but of course I have no idea if it really

Re: DNSBLs and cache hit rate (was Re: Must-Have Plugins?)

2015-06-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Jun 2015, at 10:26, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 6/10/2015 10:18 AM, Dianne Skoll wrote: I'm not disputing that running a caching DNS server is a good idea, but you may be quite surprised at the low cache hit rate for IP-based DNSBLs. IMO, the primary goal of a caching-only nameserver is

Re: Must-Have Plugins?

2015-06-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Jun 2015, at 10:55, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, Not everyone is running a dedicated mail server. My server is an everything-server running on a hosted VPS that only has a few users that get significant amounts of email. I'm not sure I want another daemon that can break or take up clock

Re: Macs/Yosemite can no longer send abuse reports

2015-06-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Jun 2015, at 18:00, Jo Rhett wrote: In the meantime, is there a mail client for Yosemite which does work? I can't guarantee you'll be comfortable with it, but MailMate is surely worth a look if you don't mind paying for a piece of well-supported software.

Re: user_prefs custom rules, not matching

2015-05-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 May 2015, at 14:42, Benny Pedersen wrote: Note that plus addressing, users can only subscribe, is 2 + valid in mailto: ? Sure, why not? See RFC's 821, 822, 2821, 2822, 5321, and 5322 :) There is nothing special about '+' in an email address in SMTP or in the email data format. It is

Re: user_prefs custom rules, not matching

2015-05-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 May 2015, at 17:36, Benny Pedersen wrote: On May 21, 2015 11:08:28 PM Bill Cole sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: On 21 May 2015, at 14:42, Benny Pedersen wrote: Note that plus addressing, users can only subscribe, is 2 + valid in mailto: ? Sure, why not? See RFC's

Re: user_prefs custom rules, not matching

2015-05-26 Thread Bill Cole
On 26 May 2015, at 11:34, Forrest wrote: On 5/21/15 1:41 PM, Axb wrote: does this work? headerLIST_ID_MARKET_EEKList-ID =~ /emarketeerz/ I've tried this, and it doesn't appear to be working. I just received another message today, here are the headers (sanitized). It seems quite

Re: Hitting an address in the From:name

2015-08-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Aug 2015, at 8:14, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 00:32 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: On 20 Aug 2015, at 14:49, Joe Quinn wrote: That said, header fields are likely never going to be long enough for what you currently have to be a performance concern. (I was about to say

Re: Hitting an address in the From:name

2015-08-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Aug 2015, at 11:08, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Fri, 2015-08-21 at 10:47 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: Your response is a non sequitur. Why do you say that? You suggested using what look to be hard limits on the header's size, though admittedly large ones, which puts my comments entirely

Re: DNS deferrals on *HEADER* addresses

2015-08-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Aug 2015, at 10:10, hospice admin wrote: Guys, I've been beating my head against a problem for a couple of days now ... maybe someone can point me in the right direction ...? I'm running SA 3.4.1 on Fedora 22. I think this problem started happening when I upgraded from 3.4.0 on Fedora

Re: Hitting an address in the From:name

2015-08-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Aug 2015, at 14:49, Joe Quinn wrote: That said, header fields are likely never going to be long enough for what you currently have to be a performance concern. (I was about to say it was impossible, but then I saw there is no length limit on headers:

Re: MailBlacklist.com Integration Testing Phase

2015-08-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Aug 2015, at 9:26, Axb wrote: On 17.08.2015 15:19, MailBlacklist.com Management wrote: MailBlacklist.com is an non-profit RBL RWL Provider based in the UK who is providing many ISPs globally with free to use DNS Lookup services. domain's Creation Date: 2015-08-04 under what

Re: RBL format to blacklist email addresses?

2015-07-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Jul 2015, at 12:02, Marc Perkel wrote: Just wondering. I'm thinking about creating an RBL to block email addresses. But you can't use an @ in a hostname for lookups. So - is there a standard RBL format for email addresses or do I need to just make something up? Are you unaware of the

Re: RBL format to blacklist email addresses?

2015-07-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Jul 2015, at 18:56, David B Funk wrote: IE the DNS system is always case-insensitive and most systems are too WRT the email ID. Does this text look at all familiar? Verbs and argument values (e.g., TO: or to: in the RCPT command and extension name keywords) are not case

Re: RBL format to blacklist email addresses?

2015-07-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Jul 2015, at 20:16, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2015, Bill Cole wrote: On 29 Jul 2015, at 18:56, David B Funk wrote: IE the DNS system is always case-insensitive ... The difference between DNS being specified as case-insensitive ...which restores my question about

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-08-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Jul 2015, at 13:23, Christian Jaeger wrote: On July 31, 2015 4:51:02 PM CEST, Bill Cole sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: John Levine wrote a definitive debunking of e-postage schemes including hashcash over a decade ago (http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf) and published

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Jul 2015, at 7:36, Christian Jaeger wrote: On July 30, 2015 2:40:35 AM CEST, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: The plugin is on by default and use_hashcash defaults to 1, but you need to set hashcash_accept to an appropriate value That's disappointing. For me that barely counts

Re: getting 2 of some messages.

2015-08-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Aug 2015, at 19:59, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: Last few days, noticed getting two of some messages. Been busy at my day job and brushed it off. But now it appears to be happening with some (ir)regularity. I can see from /var/log/mail that the repeat messages do have identical

Re: DKIM, SPF and Bayesian Learning

2015-07-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Jul 2015, at 20:55, Roman Gelfand wrote: It seems that if DKIM or SPF is verified, the bayesian learning doesn't matter. Not so. Perhaps you need to refresh your understanding of what SpamAssassin is. It is not a collection of binary switches, but rather a scoring system consisting

Re: Bayes Filtering

2015-07-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Jul 2015, at 8:18, RW wrote: YMMV but personally I've never had a single ham hit BAYES_99. There's currently no evidence to suggest that the OP would have any problem with short-circuiting on it. Experiences with that absolutely do vary, widely. Keep in mind that Bayesian

Re: Spamassasin always RDNS_NONE

2015-07-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Jul 2015, at 8:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 23.07.15 13:47, basti wrote: all my incomming mails get always 1.3 RDNS_NONE also with a vaild PTR. Does your mail server check for reverse DNS? If not, turn it on. +1 This is important for more than SpamAssassin. Because DNS can

Re: SPF confusion

2015-07-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jul 2015, at 15:52, Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to use whitelist_auth to whitelist emails from staplesbilling.com. This should work, as they have an SPF record: $ dig staplesbilling.com txt +short v=spf1 a:hosts.rrdesp.com -all $ dig hosts.rrdesp.com a +short 162.27.43.121

Re: Large spam

2015-07-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jul 2015, at 16:12, Zinski, Steve wrote: We're starting to see a lot of spam in the 800KB to 1.2MB size range. I’m running MIMEdefang and it’s configured to skip messages larger than 100KB (and I hesitate to increase the limit due to performance issues). I read somewhere that there’s a

Re: Filtering snowshoe spam

2015-10-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Oct 2015, at 11:09, Alex wrote: Hi, I've been receiving tons of messages not being tagged by spamassassin on one host, despite it hitting bayes999, and wanted to see if there was something that could be done. http://pastebin.com/vxrUdEvy As of right now, 23.246.233.6 isn't listed on

Re: How to get rid of this spam? Spam assassin does not catch it

2015-10-27 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Oct 2015, at 16:02, j...@lexoncom.com wrote: SO i setup the dns server. Can i force spam assassin to use localhost for dns or I must reconfigure the host? You can just change SA, but you should change the whole host to use it if your MTA is running there as well. the MTA is probably

Re: spf records and cnames

2015-10-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Oct 2015, at 13:48, btb wrote: are spf records allowed to be a cname? I can't see any reason why they shouldn't be... e.g.: http://dpaste.com/0MR0R3C.txt is this explicitly addressed in an rfc? I don't believe so and there's no reason to. CNAME records trump all DNS record types

Re: New SA install, configuring for retraining on false positives

2015-11-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Nov 2015, at 6:52, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I've got a Postfix email server going with a Mysql database backend on FreeBSD 10.2. I'm now wanting to add Spamassassin to the picture and am wondering current best practices? It's been a number of years since I did it and last time

Re: auto-learn? no: scored as spam but autolearn wanted ham

2015-11-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Nov 2015, at 1:52, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 05, 2015 a las 04:24:04PM +0100, John Wilcock escribió: Le 05/11/2015 15:54, Matthias Apitz a écrit : X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on c720-r276659 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level:

Re: Simplicity (was Re: SpamAssassin Rules Regarding Abuse of New Top Level Domains)

2015-10-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Oct 2015, at 15:46, Dianne Skoll wrote: CPanel is just a "hosting control panel" used by a bazillion hosting providers. It's a more sophisticated version of Webmin and the like; Or *less* depending on your concept of 'sophisticated'... It is slicker, but it is much more tightly bound

Re: SpamAssassin Rules Regarding Abuse of New Top Level Domains

2015-10-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Oct 2015, at 15:08, Larry Goldman wrote: My experience to date is that GoDaddy doesn’t really support the internals of CPanel, and CPanel doesn’t provide end-user customer support either. Cheap is indeed cheap. Skilled individualized MTA & anti-spam support is NOT cheap. I figured I

Re: SpamAssassin Rules Regarding Abuse of New Top Level Domains

2015-10-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Oct 2015, at 16:04, Larry Goldman wrote: Point me to the documentation of the SpamAssassin framework. You mentioned being a Mac user so in addition to the website Dianne pointed you to or manually installing from the SA source tarball, you can get a working installation with all of

Re: Softlayer hostname changes

2015-10-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Oct 2015, at 13:15, Joseph Brennan wrote: What is Softlayer up to now? It had looked like a safe bet to score something for a hostname ending "static.reverse.softlayer.com", on the assumption that legitimate senders would get the PTR changed to their own domain. There's always the

Re: SpamAssassin Rules Regarding Abuse of New Top Level Domains

2015-10-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Oct 2015, at 15:22, Larry Goldman wrote: I found that much of the SPAM had a BAYES_00 score of -1.9, which was defeating the contribution of the other tests. A closer inspection of the raw source revealed invisible gibberish text which, I assume, is designed to thwart the default

Re: Learning only on read emails?

2015-10-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Oct 2015, at 17:21, Ryan Coleman wrote: Ok so it was established I don’t have a ham scan (correct). So how do I do it so that it only scans the read emails in a MAILDIR? Assuming your delivery and client access mechanisms (IMAP4/POP3/whatever) follow standard Maildir behavior & naming,

Re: Custom rules regex help

2015-10-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Oct 2015, at 14:01, Bill Cole wrote: Your "All" rule will only match a header named "All" which is unlikely to exist. Clarifying: it would match a header named with any capitalization pattern of "All" because individual header names are matched case-ins

Re: Custom rules regex help

2015-10-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Oct 2015, at 12:41, emailitis.com wrote: Can a regex expert help me identify why that did not trigger one of the CGK_ZCSEND_x rules? Not without seeing the headers of the message in question *as they are seen by SA*. However, I can offer a few generic tips: Header rules match

Re: non-English sender and body

2015-07-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Jul 2015, at 11:28, James wrote: The problem is finding out which directory the running spamassassin uses, I can't seen to train the one it expects. I put this in my /etc/spamassassin/local.cf: bayes_path /var/spamassassin/bayes_db/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 It's heartwarming (in a

Re: Segfault with bayes_sql

2015-09-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Sep 2015, at 13:33, Hoggins! wrote: Just after un upgrade, I happen to have an issue with Spamassassin that would refuse to start, giving a segmentation fault. You neglected to mention what you upgraded, but that generic problem description is typical of a situation where something

Re: Resume / Doc Spam

2015-09-09 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 Sep 2015, at 17:38, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Overall, the default SA is designed for a 5.0 threshold. You have raised it to 10.0. That's largely the source of the issue. +1 5.0 is a very safe threshold, and I've found that once the Bayes and AWL DBs are reasonably trained, 4.5 or even

Re: Large volume of 0.0 scores suddenly

2015-09-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Sep 2015, at 6:12, Peter Kelly wrote: Hi, Starting on 3rd Sept, I have seen a huge number of 0.0 scores being returned from spamassassin - see attached screenshot from my logs that show I never once received a 0.0 score before 3rd Sept. The default scores for the rules shown do not

Re: Large volume of 0.0 scores suddenly

2015-09-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Sep 2015, at 17:25, Peter Kelly wrote: Bill, I checked there first, I always assume it is something I am doing wrong first. Yes mailchecker (not that obsolete version) is the http service we use and it in turn uses this Golang lib for spamc - https://github.com/saintienn/go-spamc I

Re: What is the meaning of "host=NULL"

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Sep 2015, at 15:35, Ken Johnson wrote: Spamassassin is run by Exim. Spamassassin version: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:57:07 +) from dpkg: spamassassin 3.4.0-2~bpo70+1 Platform:

Heads up: Net::DNS update may have quietly broken your SpamAssassin.

2015-09-17 Thread Bill Cole
I noticed today that the hit rate on URIBL* rules had dropped to to zero since my last round of updates, and after many hours of trying to determine why which included reviewing BIND configs and packet captures and dissection, I nailed it down to SA making DNS queries without the "recursion

Re: Heads up: Net::DNS update may have quietly broken your SpamAssassin.

2015-09-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Sep 2015, at 13:11, Benny Pedersen wrote: Jonathan Nichols skrev den 2015-09-20 18:57: URIBL scores have dropped to almost nothing. X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.084 tagged_above=-999 required=5.31 tests=[BAYES_50=0.8, BOTNET=2.4, BOTNET_NORDNS=0.3, PYZOR_CHECK=1.392, RDNS_NONE=0.793,

Re: Help with RegEx Rule

2015-09-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Sep 2015, at 10:51, AK wrote: Hi all. I'm getting hit with lots of JUNK mail that has multiple lines with just a '.' on several lines [0]. Most of the JUNK email has at least 5 and at most 10 lines (so far) with just this '.' character somewhere in the middle of the message. I've

Re: best way to whitelist this list?

2015-09-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Sep 2015, at 14:12, A. Schulze wrote: Hello, today I was notified by ezmlm that my MTA rejected messages to me. Messages to this list where classified as spam by .. spamassassin. OK, no surprise some messages look spammy. As usual: there is one solution that is smart, fast and

Re: Heads up: Net::DNS update may have quietly broken your SpamAssassin.

2015-09-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Sep 2015, at 12:57, Jonathan Nichols wrote: On Sep 18, 2015, at 12:41 AM, Bill Cole <sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: nd after many hours of trying to determine why which included reviewing BIND configs and packet captures and dissection, I nailed it down to SA

Re: False positives with Razor2

2015-12-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Dec 2015, at 4:42, Torsten Bronger wrote: > Hallöchen! > > In http://wilson.bronger.org/37196 Nope: * Trying 176.199.175.106... * Connected to wilson.bronger.org (176.199.175.106) port 80 (#0) > GET /37196 HTTP/1.1 > Host: wilson.bronger.org > User-Agent: curl/7.45.0 > Accept: */* > <

Re: False positives with Razor2

2015-12-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Dec 2015, at 14:46, Torsten Bronger wrote: Hallöchen! Bill Cole writes: On 5 Dec 2015, at 4:42, Torsten Bronger wrote: In http://wilson.bronger.org/37196 Nope: Sorry, works now. This: -5.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1

Re: Very strange SA result!

2015-12-03 Thread Bill Cole
On 3 Dec 2015, at 9:36, Joe Quinn wrote: On 12/3/2015 9:23 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.12.2015 16.11, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: You are using KAM.cf which isn't a project ruleset. Please report the issue and a spample at https://raptor.pccc.com/raptor.cgim?template=report_problem We can

Re: Try my IXHASH

2015-12-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Dec 2015, at 13:25, Paul Stead wrote: On 10/12/15 18:23, Paul Stead wrote: On 10/12/15 17:24, Bill Cole wrote: On 10 Dec 2015, at 10:48, Paul Stead wrote: 0.004% hit rate on ham Clarify this please: 4 out of 100k hits are ham (not so bad) OR 4 out of 100k hams get hit (OUCH

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 16 Dec 2015, at 13:39, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2015, Bill Cole wrote: ISIS uses any "social media" where the proprietors welcome them. That is a business decision of for-profit private enterprises based in lightly-regulated jurisdictions (mostly the US and EU) who mo

Re: More on T_SPF_PERMERROR

2015-12-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Dec 2015, at 21:42, Alex wrote: [...] I also don't think it's a DNS problem here, as it doesn't happen on every message. There are also no other indications of problems with DNS. SPF records tend to push the limits of normal DNS, especially in record size, and can bring out edge case

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Dec 2015, at 23:19, Wrolf wrote: Stop me if you've heard this one. Would it be practical to use the Spamassassin techniques of Bayesian filtering and RBL lists to block ISIS on social media? I've definitely heard similarly unfunny and poorly thought-out jokes before. Bill Gates had

Re: Try my IXHASH

2015-12-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Dec 2015, at 10:48, Paul Stead wrote: 0.004% hit rate on ham Clarify this please: 4 out of 100k hits are ham (not so bad) OR 4 out of 100k hams get hit (OUCH)

Re: Support for custom rule, rule seems to be ignored

2016-01-02 Thread Bill Cole
On 2 Jan 2016, at 9:11, RW wrote: 1. \d{1,2}+ doesn't make any sense, you need either {1,2} or + It's a bit esoteric, but here's what the perlre man page says: {n,m}+ Match at least n but not more than m times and give nothing back Put another way: possessive but not greedy. In

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Dec 2015, at 20:02, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2015-12-29 19:44 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: On 29 Dec 2015, at 18:54, Ian Zimmerman wrote: In fact sa-learn accepts multiple named arguments on the command line, so the alternative I use is to go through the spambox N files at a time

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Dec 2015, at 13:24, RW wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:42:03 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: Using these facts, my learning script that runs as root and reads from multiple real users' Maildirs does this to learn ham: for AFILE in $HAMS ; do formail < $AFILE ; done| sudo -H -u $SAUSER sa-le

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Dec 2015, at 18:54, Ian Zimmerman wrote: In fact sa-learn accepts multiple named arguments on the command line, so the alternative I use is to go through the spambox N files at a time in a shell loop. (I have N=100 but obviously this depends.) Which successfully ignores the original

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Dec 2015, at 8:28, Jude DaShiell wrote: With spamassassin, is it possible to have the filter show counts of number of messages sent to spam, number of messages sent to ham, and total number of messages processed that a user can check? Since SpamAssassin is a suite of Perl modules and

Re: uri eval over zelous or bug

2015-12-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Dec 2015, at 3:00, Nick Edwards wrote: Hey there, In my final hours (34) at job X before moving back home to Australia to start job Y next week, I would love to solve an issue I've been seeing for a few weeks now, some domains in eval are wrongfully hitting. Take postfix.org for

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Dec 2015, at 8:37, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:41:31 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: On 29 Dec 2015, at 20:02, Ian Zimmerman wrote: esired result. Clearly you can do the su magic if needed. Um, no. Neither su nor sudo magically changes the permissions or ownership of files

Re: Is BAYES filtering working? Having doubts.

2015-12-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28 Dec 2015, at 17:54, Peter L. Berghold wrote: The script that I use to pull the messages out of a spam bucket invoking sa-learn runs as root which has permissions to read from anywhere. The complication is the amavis does not have permissions to read the Maildir files for trivial users

Re: Looking for a script to extract readable text from emails

2015-12-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 28 Dec 2015, at 23:16, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm looking for a script to extract readable text from emails. I want it demimed, ignore html, images, etc. What I'm looking for is just the readable text (real words). Mostly just need to extract about the first 200 characters of real text. Can

Re: question re/ RDNS_NONE

2015-11-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Nov 2015, at 14:54, David Jones wrote: From: Bill Cole <sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 1:41 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: question re/ RDNS_NONE On 24 Nov 2015, at 13:47, David Jones wrote: Could this be dep

Re: question re/ RDNS_NONE

2015-11-25 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Nov 2015, at 17:20, David Jones wrote: [...] NOTE: I have just now tested that I can give Postfix (with reject_unknown_helo_hostname not enabled) a fully-qualified HELO name that has no A or one with an A resolving to 192.0.2.1 (and therefore: no PTR) and in both cases Postfix neither

Re: question re/ RDNS_NONE

2015-11-25 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Nov 2015, at 14:27, Edda wrote: Older versions performed rdns lookups for every IP in relay-untrusted directly in Received.pm, this was deleted: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5054 I think Justin's rationale there isn't even the whole case for NOT doing DNS checks

Re: question re/ RDNS_NONE

2015-11-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Nov 2015, at 13:47, David Jones wrote: Could this be dependent on the MTA used? I am using Postfix which puts in Received headers like this: Received: from econnect.dmsgs.com (unknown [8.224.216.57]) That IP has a PTR record but it doesn't match the SMTP HELO of econnect.dmsgs.com so

Re: Trouble with SPF plugin

2015-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Nov 2015, at 13:05, Jonathan Hilgeman wrote: I just recently noticed that I hadn't enabled the SPF plugin, so I did that and ran a quick test to test an SPF failure. However, in the resulting email, I get an SPF_HELO_PASS result and no other SPF_ test results. Did the plugin only

Re: ClamAV.pm Plugin Not Working

2015-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Nov 2015, at 5:20, Daniel L. Srebnick wrote: That means user clamscan cannot read the file eicar. This is idenepdant of the user that launchs clamdscan. Try to put eicar.txt in /tmp and make it mode 777. I did so. Clamdscan still does not see the file and returns an lstat error. I

Re: Spamassassin not capturing obvious Spam

2016-06-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 May 2016, at 2:18, Shivram Krishnan wrote: It is not on production. I am using this to evaluate spamassassin. That is entirely unnecessary and will break the autolearning subsystem if you have it enabled. To get a full report of the rules hit and their scores, use the '-t' option

Re: ClamAV plugin and SpamAssassin (UPDATE)

2016-06-09 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 Jun 2016, at 9:42, Carlo Manuali wrote: It works with no changes by using TCP socket (on localhost). —Carlo On 8 Jun 2016, at 6:02, Carlo Manuali wrote: In particular I’ve adopted the local mode, that uses a local socket (file) in order to establish the communication between them.

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