Re: blacklist.cf needs to die (was Re: Help figuring our why SA is taking like 1.5 minutes to filter...)

2007-10-28 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:16 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: Justin Mason wrote: What else can we do? Add code to generate a lint warning any time a .cf file over 1mb is read unless a config option is

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-05 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: It's not a matter of cultural imperialism, if that's what you're getting at. It's an acknowledgment of the importance of the rule of law in cyberspace. Except that I don't think it is anything close to a rule of law, but rather a sign of short view. As I said, I

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-06 Thread mouss
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: The attitude goes by organisation, not by country. On 06.11.07 08:37, mouss wrote: we know almost all countries. I don't even know a small part of the organizations in my own town. and there is no DNS equivalent of whois

Re: How to filter messages from this list?

2007-11-06 Thread mouss
Marcin Praczko wrote: It is possible add some text to Subject: For example [SPLIST] - to make easier set up filter for emails? How about having the logo in png format on the subject line :) List managers (and other software) should not alter email unless absolutely necessary. This

Re: How to filter messages from this list?

2007-11-07 Thread mouss
Philip Prindeville wrote: [snip] Could they have just *deleted* the Received: lines they didn't want to show? No, of course not. That would be too easy. Let's mangle them into something that doesn't conform to RFC-822 instead. As it is, they were leaking hostnames through the Reference:

Re: It's a fine line...

2007-11-07 Thread mouss
Olivier Nicole wrote: meant there is no dns list for organizations. something like # lookup_company_by_ip 192.0.2.1 Reverse DNS on the contacting mail gateway? that only gives the domain name. but a single organization may have multiple domains, and in many cases it is hard to

Re: What to do with known spam connections

2007-11-10 Thread mouss
Kelson wrote: Rob Sterenborg wrote: SM wrote: The spam content shouldn't even be getting through as the recipient address is invalid. Unless you don't know who your recipients are, which may be the case when operating a mailrelay. (I'm not saying that such situation is optimal...) Or

Re: How to avoid spam analysis when unnecessary

2007-11-16 Thread mouss
Noiano wrote: Hello folks I have a little problem. My email provider has a spam filter which marks all spam email with [Suspected Spam] in the subject of the spam message. Now I would like that SpamAssassin when finds that pattern in the subject immediately breaks any analysis and mark the

Re: posting thru gmane to this list and not getting bombarded

2007-11-21 Thread mouss
Micah Anderson wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [071119 10:01]: N PS: I post to this list using gmane. Is it possible to stop delivery N on my email address so that I can post but I do not receive the list N messages? http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can this

Re: Message bypassed

2007-11-24 Thread mouss
Jack Gostl wrote: I was trying to figure out why a piece of spam got through with no spamassassin headers at all. I finally found this message in my log: spamc[523292]: skipped message, greater than max message size (256000 bytes) The message was close to 2mb, including a very, very

Re: Rule(s) to tie From and To addresses together?

2007-11-26 Thread mouss
Mike Kenny wrote: I hope to use this to cut down on spam and phishing attempts, because I could identify legitimate mail by virtue of having the correct sender address (or at least domain) and recipient. That is, mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] to the

Re: TTAB Dismisses Hormel's Petition to Cancel SPAM ARREST Trademark

2007-11-29 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: [mss: I looked on the list, didn't see this mentioned.. maybe SpamAssassin(tm) can reapply for a registered trademark now.] On Nov. 21, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board _dismissed_

Re: How to catch these?

2007-11-29 Thread mouss
Martin.Hepworth wrote: Looks mangled to me - but then I ain't French ;-) if quoted printable is mangled, then you'll block a lot of mail. and it's a signature that advertizes for a microsoft site. feel free to block it, but ...

Re: TTAB Dismisses Hormel's Petition to Cancel SPAM ARREST Trademark

2007-11-29 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: mouss wrote: If I understand, spam is a generic word. I am also convinced that arrest is a generic word. Now accepting spam arrest as a trademark is beyond me, as is all this trademark and patent stuff... You can use generic words in trademarks (ie: Windows

Re: TTAB Dismisses Hormel's Petition to Cancel SPAM ARREST Trademark

2007-11-29 Thread mouss
Jared Hall wrote: There was no SPAM before Hormel invented it and it most certainly can be trademarked - just like threepeat. For at least five years that I know of, Hormel didn't object to anyone using spam as long as it was not all upper-case, and published such in their trademark use

Re: white-list doubt

2007-11-29 Thread mouss
Morvan Daniel Müller wrote: I use amavisd-new, entries into amavisd.conf: @blacklist_sender_maps = read_hash($MYHOME/black_sender.lst); @whitelist_sender_maps = read_hash($MYHOME/white_sender.lst); read_hash(\%spam_lovers, '/var/spool/amavisd/spam_lovers.lst'); Into this files I put one

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-11-30 Thread mouss
Jonas Eckerman wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Mike Jackson wrote: It also confirms that your SMTP banner greeting matches the reverse DNS. Who requires this? The hostname in the banner is usually the same hostname as in HELO/EHLO, and it's often a good idea to

Re: white-list doubt

2007-11-30 Thread mouss
Matthias Haegele wrote: mouss schrieb: Morvan Daniel Müller wrote: I use amavisd-new, entries into amavisd.conf: @blacklist_sender_maps = read_hash($MYHOME/black_sender.lst); @whitelist_sender_maps = read_hash($MYHOME/white_sender.lst); read_hash(\%spam_lovers, '/var/spool/amavisd

Re: Message bypassed

2007-12-01 Thread mouss
Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Spamass users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:19 PM Subject: Re: Message bypassed 2 Mo spam? is this a new trend? Can you put a copy somewhere? I've got another of those 2mb spams

Re: Duplicate header question

2007-12-04 Thread mouss
Johnson, S wrote: I just upgraded my Spamassassin/postfix/amavisd/sqlgrey to the current version and now have a few users from MSN and Yahoo reporting an error similar to this: 554 5.6.0 Reject, is=26786-18 - Bad_Header: Duplicate header field: Message-ID This nondelivery report was

Re: spamassassin 3.2.0 default setup detects legitimate email as spam

2007-12-04 Thread mouss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gurus, Recently, I've upgraded to spamassassin 3.2.0 called from amavisd-new. I've seen that this version is more agressive, and for example it detect as spam a legitimate email with next score: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.884 tagged_above=-999 required=3.5

Re: Duplicate header question

2007-12-04 Thread mouss
Kevin W. Gagel wrote: - Original Message - your amavisd-new is configured to reject mail with bad headers. as you see, this block legitimate mail. note that since your amavisd-new is sending bounces, you are a potential backscatter source. do not bounce mail after it was accepted

Re: Duplicate header question

2007-12-04 Thread mouss
Kevin W. Gagel wrote: - Original Message - From: mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Duplicate header question Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:47:21 +0100 Kevin W. Gagel wrote: - Original Message - your amavisd-new

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-12-05 Thread mouss
Jonas Eckerman wrote: mouss wrote: since the banner usually presents the same hostname as HELO/EHLO, the test can still be useful. I am about the usually. consider a setup [examples snipped...] I did consider those setups when I wrote my message. Usually is *not* the same as allways

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-12-05 Thread mouss
Jonas Eckerman wrote: mouss wrote: It also confirms that your SMTP banner greeting matches the reverse DNS. Who requires this? The hostname in the banner is usually the same hostname as in HELO/EHLO, and it's often a good idea to HELO/EHLO with a hostname that matches RDNS. You

Re: Spammer sending from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-07 Thread mouss
McDonald, Dan wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 11:15 -0500, Rich Dygert wrote: Folks I am the postmaster for @compuserve.com and @csi.com (the i is important, @cs.com is someone else). A couple months ago my email traffic doubled (from 1 million a day to 2 million a day). After some

Re: Well, it ws nice of them to tell me!

2007-12-15 Thread mouss
Loren Wilton wrote: So it doesn't happen that often. I did try writing an SA header rule for these first, but it appears that SA strips out 'X-Spam-Flag' headers out before the rules are run. SA Strips out X-Spam-* on the assumption that it previously added them. Previous to 3.0 it did this

Re: Utility to dump public corpus to outlook folder

2007-12-16 Thread mouss
gpr wrote: Hi, I am looking for a utility which can dump the mails from SpamAssassin public corpus to an outlook or outlook express folder? what problem are you trying to solve? outlook and corpus are two distant words, why would anyone merge them? if using imap, you can do anything on

Re: Score all emails and delete some of them

2007-12-16 Thread mouss
Kelson wrote: Ken Goods wrote: Spamassassin only scores emails. You'll need another application to do something with them. I use MailScanner and what you need is easily done with it. It gives you many other options as well. I think Amavis-new and Mailwatch may do the same thing but have no

Re: blackholes.us ?

2007-12-18 Thread mouss
Per Jessen wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: That's easily checked - we could run a comparison of any up-to-date geoip database against blackholes.us. True. Well, I've answered my own question. I ran a test of maxmind addresses dated 2007/04/04 against the blackholes.us data

Re: How can I test my email to get spam score before sending?

2007-12-26 Thread mouss
Sg wrote: hi all, How can I test my email to get spam score before sending? If you mean how to make sure that my email won't get tagged as spam by others, then the short answer is don't send spam and it should be ok. There is no other answer (spammers and wanna spammers would love to see

Re: Issue with SpamAssassin (spamc only) over a FreeBSD Jail

2007-12-28 Thread mouss
B3r3n wrote: Hi Jari, Thanks for your answer. Jari Fredriksson wrote: Not much help from this, but I wonder how this goes... Normally, standard Amavis does not call spamd at all, but loads it's own copy of spamassassin - as they both run under perl, and amavis is a resident process.

Re: Issue with SpamAssassin (spamc only) over a FreeBSD Jail

2007-12-29 Thread mouss
John D. Hardin wrote: On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, mouss wrote: Oooo! Script critique! My turn! # Filter for Spam cat | $SPAMASSASSIN out.$$ cat out.$$ | /usr/sbin/sendmail -io -f $ORIGIN $TARGET I too love cats. but $cmd $file does the same as cat $file | $cmd. Why even

Re: Issue with SpamAssassin (spamc only) over a FreeBSD Jail

2007-12-29 Thread mouss
Laurent LEVIER wrote: At 02:36 29/12/2007, mouss wrote: what is smtpd-laurent? symlink hacks aren't recommended. if you want different logs, use multiple instances. That's a jail. If you dont setup something to discriminate process between them, 8 jails will produce 8 smtpd in the global ps

Re: Issue with SpamAssassin (spamc only) over a FreeBSD Jail

2007-12-29 Thread mouss
Laurent LEVIER wrote: [snip] for SA, just use amavisd-new. It can also do antivirus check, but if you want to reject infected mail, then you need to run amavisd-new as a proxy_filter (before the queue). If you really want this, then configure amavisd-new to listen on multiple sockets and one

Re: DDOS, Dictionary Attack... not sure what it is...

2007-12-31 Thread mouss
John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Mike Cisar wrote: Even tried yanking the IP address off of the server over the holidays in the hope that whatever it was would just give up. No such luck, within a minute of reactivating the IP to the server this morning the traffic was back to

Re: DDOS, Dictionary Attack... not sure what it is...

2008-01-01 Thread mouss
Matthias Schmidt wrote: Happy New Year everyone :-) Am/On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 04:20:42 +0100 schrieb/wrote mouss: John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Mike Cisar wrote: Even tried yanking the IP address off of the server over the holidays in the hope that whatever

Re: DDOS, Dictionary Attack... not sure what it is...

2008-01-01 Thread mouss
John D. Hardin wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, mouss wrote: Tarpitting may not be the right answer, because they have a lot more resources than us I may have misunderstood what Mike was saying in his original post - I thought that the traffic was originating from a single IP

Re: DDOS, Dictionary Attack... not sure what it is...

2008-01-01 Thread mouss
alex wrote: why not use something like this that rejects ip blocks at the MTA level http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/network-reputation-services/index.html it blocks anything on the DUL list which is a list the isp's put out of which ip's shouldn't be sending mail. the

Re: Delivery Status Notification - disable

2008-01-02 Thread mouss
Marius Vochin wrote: Hello! How can I make spamassassin not to send DSN after a message is marked [SPAM]? I need to do this because I get lot of spam from spoofed adresses and for each message marked as [SPAM] a DSN is generated. Since the mail adress is spoofed I get back

Re: Whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-01-06 Thread mouss
Loren Wilton wrote: d) Most of you guys are going to say Get a decent MTA. Some of you might Didn't you say you were using qmail? Or am I misremembering/misinterpreting? If you are using qmail for MTA, I'm reasonably sure I recall discussion of patches to qmail to make it Do The Right

Re: Per-User required_score

2008-01-07 Thread mouss
David.Sharpe wrote: Hi, I want to give users control of the required_score variable. I am using Postfix // SpamAssassin // amavis. I have read the document http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsingSQL and have the tests working OKAY. /executing SQL: SELECT preference, value FROM userpref

Re: Per-User required_score

2008-01-07 Thread mouss
David.Sharpe wrote: Within postfix/master.cf I have the following lines : smtp inet n - - - - smtpd -o content_filter=spamassassin This pushes mail through the following lines : spamassassin unix - n n - - pipe

Re: Bypassing MX

2008-01-08 Thread mouss
Peter Smith wrote: Here's my situation: server1: mail gateway, runs Spamassassin server2: multi-purpose server. hosts http, mail boxes, pop/imap, runs sendmail and Spamassassin. example.org: my domain. The MX record points to server1, A record points to server2 The problem with this setup of

Re: Crazy AWL score

2008-01-09 Thread mouss
Michael Weber wrote: Hello! I have gotten several emails over the past 3 weeks with a really crazy AWL score. Here's the headers from a message with a 4138 AWL score. Where should I begin looking for this one? I disabled AWL since long (and I didn't notice a reduction in accuracy).

Re: Postfix Question with front end filtering [OT]

2008-01-12 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry for the OT question but just need a quick answer from a postfix expert. Here's the problem. I run a front end spam filtering service. Email from the world comes in, I clean it, and send the good email to

Re: Postfix Question with front end filtering [OT]

2008-01-12 Thread mouss
This really belongs to the postfix list, but ... Marc Perkel wrote: [snip] mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $transport_maps remove $transport_maps. reusing unrelated maps is horrible. if a transport entry is added for say hotmail.com, postfix will accept and mis-deliver (or

Re: Postfix Question with front end filtering [OT]

2008-01-12 Thread mouss
Gary V wrote: From: marc postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = amavis:[$myhostname]:10024 daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix

Re: Postfix Question with front end filtering [OT]

2008-01-12 Thread mouss
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This really belongs to the postfix list, but ... Marc Perkel wrote: [snip] mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $transport_maps remove $transport_maps. reusing unrelated maps is horrible. if a transport entry

Re: A rule to match patterns on recipient name.

2008-01-17 Thread mouss
Steve wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: That can be fixed by having the MTA (or MDA) add a Delivered-To header indicating the user the message is being delivered to. Then you can use this header rather than having to rely on something sensible being in the To or Cc headers. I always wondered where

Re: disable all network test except ...

2008-01-18 Thread mouss
Stefan Jakobs wrote: Hello list, I'm using amavisd-new with spamassassin and for some tests I have to disable all network tests in spamassassin except for sorbs, njabl, uribl and maybe some other blackhole lists. I guess I can comment out the corresponding header lines in the files

Re: google spams

2008-01-21 Thread mouss
JP Kelly wrote: Enough is enough! SA has been working so well for me all these years I guess I am spoiled. I woke up this morning and had 5 Google spams and one legit email and I've had it. I noticed a somewhat lengthy discussion on the subject here. I am not able to write my own rules or

Re: google spams

2008-01-21 Thread mouss
JP Kelly wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: She'll Beg for More.. Date: January 21, 2008 10:34:15 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version:

Re: Redirect spam to mailbox

2008-01-21 Thread mouss
Matsaki wrote: New to spamassassin I now got it up and running on my server with ubuntu, postfix, dovecot. The only problem I have now is that i have created a mailaccount called spamtrap but I can't manage to get the SPAM: classified email redirected to the mailbox. So some help would be

Re: unsubscribe

2008-01-26 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: Post to the unsubscribe address, not the list. See the headers of any message: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if it would be bad to forge an unsubscribe requests in such cases, but I'm not sure they will understand what to do when they get the

Re: unsubscribe

2008-01-26 Thread mouss
Raquel wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:26:22 +0100 mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Post to the unsubscribe address, not the list. See the headers of any message: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I wonder if it would be bad to forge an unsubscribe

Re: Can anyone help me? surbl.org FP problems?

2008-01-29 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 17:51 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: Perhaps Verizon is screwing up their DNS? Ahh, yes they are: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1227 Hrm. As a troubleshooting hack for this increasingly-common feature, perhaps a

Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 08:38 +0200, David Baron wrote: OK spamassassin folks: Rules which would say no puppies on software mailing lists, no software on dog-breeders mailing lists. A few false alarms, i.e. that great new app is such a sweet-puppie and that breeder's

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
Arthur Dent wrote: Hello all, Please forgive me for consuming off-topic bandwith with this question but I don't really want to subscribe to the Procmail list for what is, I hope, a very simple question. I get a lot of spam that has a series of numbers in the To address, either in the form To:

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-30 Thread mouss
Larry Nedry wrote: On 1/30/08 at 3:20 PM + Arthur Dent wrote: I am so pleased with this rule that I decided to give my poor old SA a well-deserved rest from this rubbish and take these spams out at Procmail time. Keep in mind that there are a lot of mobile phones out there that

Re: Help with SA / Procmail regex [OT]

2008-01-31 Thread mouss
jp wrote: Another option, if you are using postfix, is to setup mydomain.com as a virtual. Then in /etc/postfix/virtuals, you can mydomain.com virtual @mydomain.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on... You can ommit the

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: spamassassin --mbox mbox scanned.mbox No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. In that case, what does the --mbox option do? Not what I expected,

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-01 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: anyone looked at x-cr-hashedpuzzle? (its the strange, 'hash cash', 'postage stamp' that Outlook 11+ adds to emails it thinks might be blocked as spam) What about a plugin to decode, score, validate it? What about calculating it on outbound emails? Would that require

Re: Can anyone help me? surbl.org FP problems?

2008-02-01 Thread mouss
David Zinder wrote: I ran several emails through SA with -D and search for RBL I find things like: [2891] dbg: async: starting: URI-DNSBL, DNSBL:multi.surbl.org.:worldchanging.com (timeout 15.0s, min 3.0s) [2891] dbg: dns: URIBL_PH_SURBL lookup start [2891] dbg: async: starting: URI-DNSBL,

Re: Safe Phishing

2008-02-01 Thread mouss
giga328 wrote: Hi Anthony, I will ask people from MailScanner also but for my email system is not possible to use MailScanner directly so I'm using spamd. My question is about lowering chances for false positives by having safe list from MailScanner. But since I just started to use

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-02 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: Thank you, as always, you have been !extremely helpful. why attack me? So, your proposal is to block all email from all modern outlook clients. Brilliant plan. No, I don't worship MS, but I live in reality. sorry, I'm not as brilliant as you are. We should

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-03 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: mouss wrote: if you can't validate the header, you can't trust it. And the whole point of the Michael's original message was to find out if you can validate it, therefore trust it. A simple I don't think you can validate that would have been appropriate, but suggesting

Re: 'no report template' after manually running sa-update on version 3.23

2008-02-05 Thread mouss
Patrick Sherrill wrote: Any clues? run spamassassin -D to see what path it is using. most probably, it's using the directory where updates are stored, but the latter doesn't contain core SA rule files (partial update, ... etc)

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-06 Thread mouss
Justin Mason wrote: I've been thinking about this. It might be useful to offer a plugin implementing this hashcash, since it'd offer a good way to come up with an unforgeable FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK rule. However, we'd have to be sure that the CSRI algorithm really is sufficiently open, and not

Re: WG: Re:

2008-02-06 Thread mouss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi thx for your answer. The SA Version is 3.2.3 You are right, we are using postfix. For SA there is an entry in the master.cf of postfix: filterunix - n n - - pipe user=filter argv=/home/filter/sc/filter.sh -f ${sender} --

Re: Strange headers on mail from SA users list

2008-02-09 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: A weird thing has started within the last couple of days. It is only affecting mail received from the SA users mail list and only to mail received from Paul Douglas Franklin of Yakima UGM [EMAIL PROTECTED] The messages have a To header like this: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: what are the criteria for being listed in sa-blacklist.current?

2008-02-14 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: Dale's Stuff wrote: Hello, Trying to figure out what the criteria is for getting a domain listed in sa-blacklist.current, and more importantly how to be de-listed. List: AFAIK, you only need to be the From: address on spam sent to one of Will Stern's spamtrap. isn't

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-19 Thread mouss
Francesco Abeni wrote: Good morning everyone, i'm in charge of reducing SPAM at a customer site. Already have SPAMASSASSIN, sa-update weeklyexecuted. I'd like to implement a Bogus MX for further filtering of SPAM. I don't know if this is the correct name, by Bogus MX i mean setting up a low

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Richard Frovarp wrote: We do something like nolisting. You will lose legit mail no matter which trick you use. So it's best if you have a method of fixing that. Our first mx record is a real smtp server, it's just firewalled off to most of the world. It's used as a fast lane for our internal

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Let me clarify something about using bogus MX records. Let's assume the following. bogus0.domain.com - MX 10 real.domain.com - MX 20 backup.domain.com MX 30 bogus1.domain.com MX 40 bogus2.domain.com MX 50 The host bogus1 and bogus2 are 100% safe and effective. The bogus IPs

Re: SA database?

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Like everybody else, I'm tired of this nice girl spam. But the only place I can find any of those files on this F8 system is in usr/share/spamassassin. Are those the ones to play with for system wide rules? no, do not modify files in the distribution

Re: filter blogspot

2008-02-21 Thread mouss
mdrivai wrote: Dear all' in a day i get spam with url from blogspot i ' create my rulte uri BLOGSPOT_01 m;http://[a-z]{8,}\d{5,}\.blogspot\.com/$; describe BLOGSPOT_01 Throwaway blogspot domain scoreBLOGSPOT_01 6.0 why this rule don't effective tu blog this spam \d{5,}

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-21 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: David B Funk wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Aaron Wolfe wrote: Quotes from this thread (and the nolisting site which was posted as a response): Michael Scheidell - Do NOT use a bogus mx as your lowest priority. Bowie Bailey - I would say that it is too risky to put a

Re: Bogus MX - blacklist service viable?

2008-02-21 Thread mouss
McDonald, Dan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:58 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Hi! provide this hosted (i.e. I'm thinking of offering), but instead of ONLY log it somehow feed / create a blacklist based on this? I'm not as familiar with blacklists as many of you, but the network /

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-22 Thread mouss
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:14 +0100, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Le Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:57:55 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : At 13:51 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: http://pastebin.com/m61564e4 That's not a

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-23 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: From: Bob Amen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:11 -0800 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down? Quite possibly. I think they're getting stricter

Re: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-26 Thread mouss
Michael Hutchinson wrote: I have tried different approaches, and let us not forget I have filled out 3 whitelist forms, and received no response from Yahoo. Their service is breaking RFC's by not delivering mail. They are ignorant towards other companies trying to

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-26 Thread mouss
Rocco Scappatura wrote: [snip] Sorry It was not the case to send the entire email.. Here the X-Spam-Status after running the message against 'spamassassin -D': X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=11.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE,

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-26 Thread mouss
Rocco Scappatura wrote: Rocco Scappatura wrote: [snip] Sorry It was not the case to send the entire email.. Here the X-Spam-Status after running the message against 'spamassassin -D': X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=11.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,HTML_MESSAGE,

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-26 Thread mouss
Rocco Scappatura wrote: % telnet yourserver 25 ... EHLO somehostname ... MAIL FROM:sender ... RCPT TO:recipient DATA copy-patse the message with full headers except the Delivered-To that contains your recipient address end with a line containing a dot ('.') like this: . QUIT Infact I get:

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Rocco Scappatura wrote: And spammer are becoming more faster as the time goes on.. Is it convenient to use gray listing newer bots retry, so GL is only effective is the time interval is large enough, but that's not a neutral thing so should be restricted to suspicious mail. That's what

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Postfix allows you to use blacklists as follows: reject_rbl_client blacklist.junkemailfilter.com Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. This is better for

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
--[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: policyd works a treat :) V2 is also in development aswell. it's not the same. I don't know why they call it V2. As far as I know, Cami is no more involved. so I would stick with the current (which is a single C threaded program).

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Matthias Leisi wrote: mouss schrieb: | Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? | I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. | | | No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. That's the exact reason we offer rsync access *to a specially formatted file* (see http

Re: Lots of scam messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread mouss
Robert S wrote: I have started, over the last few months, getting a lot of plain text scam messages (Nigerian type scams, lottery wins etc etc). Previously I had almost none of these. Unfortunately I'd need to send rather a lot of information about my configs, and log files to help, but can

Re: [spamassassin] Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED. About 1 ever 3/4 of a

Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: I guess I'm still not being clear. There are 120K emails a day coming to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES THAT NEVER EXISTED. Its not a case of a user being fickle, its a case that they are emailing addresses that NEVER EVER ACTUALLY EXISTED.

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams

2008-03-09 Thread mouss
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: If you are proposing some kind of checksums or other types of 'message identifying' techniques on the messages, those few mistyped addresses could certainly make a difference for your site. What if bongo's mom mistypes to bungo, realizes her mistake and resends it to

Re: Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-11 Thread mouss
Fred T wrote: Hello Steve, Saturday, March 8, 2008, 11:56:46 PM, you wrote: Now, I'm no expert on spam-bots, but it strikes me that the 'bots might want to remove failed addresses from their lists to make them more efficient. A 550 error returned at the protocol level will immediately

Re: Improving a spam report?

2008-03-12 Thread mouss
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 11.03.08 12:16, Jay Langley wrote: Below I have offered the content of my spam score report generated by Spam Assassin. We are Kintera subscribers. Problem is I don't know how to make changes in the text that will result in a better score. you

Re: RBL's at Spamassassin time.

2008-03-17 Thread mouss
Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hi Everyone. I need to implement some RBL's at the Spamassassin stage in our mail server. We already have spamhaus setup on the firewall, amongst other SMTP rejection lists. What RBL's are people using with Spamassassin to tag email? As far as I can see, we are only

Re: ways to react faster to spam attacks

2008-03-18 Thread mouss
James E. Pratt wrote: -Original Message- From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 4:43 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: ways to react faster to spam attacks greetings. most of the spam we get (like 90%) is the usual internet

Re: remove spam before forwarding

2008-03-18 Thread mouss
Euroka wrote: Hi all, I have a postfix with a couple of virtual hosts and a /etc/postfix/virtual file with my users . some users prefer that mail from my postfix server mail.domain1.com gets forwarded to an exchange server at mail.domain2.com Now all users have a .procmailrc file in their

Re: How can I catch these?

2008-03-18 Thread mouss
Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, I'm kinda getting tired of reporting these mails (both to my local SA and to SpamCop), and so are my customers. My problem is that the spammers are using a large ISP's mail server, and that particular ISP (as all the others here in Argentina) don't bother checking

Re: How can I catch these?

2008-03-19 Thread mouss
Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: [snip] how about something like headerNONFQHELO_DYN1 X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted =~ /^[^\]]+ rdns=\S*[^a-z]{9}\S+ helo=[^\.\s]+ /i score NONFQHELO_DYN1 3.0 describe NONFQHELO_DYN1 non fqdn helo from dynamic client ? I'll go with this, and tomorrow

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