Re: Plugin for URL shorteners / redirects

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 1:39:11 AM, Justin Mason wrote: Yes. it immediately exposes a backchannel from the spam to the spammer, thereby enabling a number of interesting security holes. --j. Yes, it's impractical for some of the reasons Rob mentions, and it would also allow any of the

Re: Plugin for URL shorteners / redirects

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Chan
a link for some known spam URLs. I suspect they are indeed doing SURBL lookups. Hope I didn't end up blacklisting myself :-} Yes, tinyurl and several other URL shortening services use SURBL data to fight abuse of their services: http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je

Re: The ninjas have left the building (was Re: [Sare-users] painting everybody in Taiwan with the same brush)

2010-01-31 Thread Jeff Chan
As I understand it, as soon as rules are published, some of the senders of unsolicited messages immediately change their behavior to defeat or bypass the rules, so publishing them is somewhat counterproductive. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIWhois plugin

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dears, well, I just did version 0.01 of the URIWhois plugin. Its purpose is mainly to detect some spam containing URIs to sites in brand-new domains, or having some conflict in whois and dns records, or being driven by specific dns servers.

Re: R: URIWhois plugin

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do they handle these domains in a centralized way? Do they simply relay a whois request for not-yet-seen domains? Because in this case they have to tune their whois parsers a bit: dob.sibl.support-intelligence.net, in example, reports both

Re: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the issue covered by the URIWhois plugin would be much more efficiently solved by a centralized solution, in which someone gathers registration data from registars (maybe even not through whois, but through direct db access) and then publics this

Re: R: R: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think there is a lot of people in this list who runs a small business like mine, and who may benefit from using the URIWhois plugin with no negative consequences. The others, well, they have influence and resources to spend in a centralized

RE: URIWhois-0.02

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Bret Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps rather than arguing about whether we'd all get blocked by running this, it would be more productive to lobby a registrar to provide the data in rsynch-able form to URIBL or SURBL where DNS infrastructure could be used to make the data available

Re: New domains (was: URIWhois plugin)

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jonas Eckerman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (The idea below is not mine, someone else (I'm sorry, but I forgot who) wrote about it here (I think) before.) Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: brand-new domains, Something that could work for this without the problems inherent in using whois or

Re: R: New domains (was: URIWhois plugin)

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --On Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:05 PM +0200 Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only problem is that a spammer could query it days before it will bulk send, thereby impairing the effectiveness of such approach. I think we need

Re: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-09 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting John Rudd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: R.Smits wrote: Hello, Which spam blacklists do you use in your MTA config. (postfix) smptd_client_restrictions Currently we only use : reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org We let spamassassin fight the rest of the spam. But the load of spam is

Re: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Richard Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for all the advice.. I think we will be using spamhaus. I am running a test and it blocks a lot of spam. Currently I use the sbl.spamhaus and pbl.spamhaus Is this wise, or should I also use the xbl and switch to zen.spamhaus? Please do not

RE: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Skip [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am not certain how anyone can claim that they have no FPs running through those services unless they have prior knowledge of every inbound email. That is impossible. My company deals with on the order of thousands of companies and multiple times that in

Re: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting R.Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Richard Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for all the advice.. I think we will be using spamhaus. I am running a test and it blocks a lot of spam. Currently I use the sbl.spamhaus and pbl.spamhaus Is this wise, or should I

Re: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If they really run a normal MTA, and if that is authorized by their ISP, then they should ask to be unlisted. (They should also get a meaningful reverse DNS so that they can be identified). Otherwise, they should relay via their ISP... Indeed, one of the

Re: SpamAssassin not hitting well on obvious spam

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Chris 'Xenon' Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=4.4 required=4.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Report: SA TESTS 0.1 FORGED_RCVD_HELO Received: contains a forged HELO 0.1 HTML_40_50 BODY: Message is 40% to 50% HTML 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE

Re: DNSWL question

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Mark Wendt (Contractor) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've started seeing some spam come through that gets labeled with RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/;, which imparts a negative score if the relay is listed in their db. Here at the Lab, we have an email gateway at

Re: How to block the bat!

2007-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cpayne wrote: Robert Braver wrote: Hello Payne, On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 9:08:53 PM, you wrote: c I am getting a lot mail which I know is from a mail program use by c spammers, called the bat. Yea, I did a search. And found you

Re: We need help with error messages

2007-10-18 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Alan Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, We use SPAM Assassin in Silverpop. We have been having a tough time with the messages and results after running SPAM A. Can someone help? We want a guide of definitions. The latest we got is 2.2 REMOVE_BEFORE_LINK BODY: Removal phrase

Re: Help figuring our why SA is taking like 1.5 minutes to filter...

2007-10-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am currently running SA 3.2.3 compiled from cpan. I have a situation where CPU is just going through the roof on just a few messages and I really can't tell what part of SA is the slow down. [...] Here is a list of files in each of my SA folders as well as

Re: Help figuring our why SA is taking like 1.5 minutes to filter...

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [18696] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist-uri.cf [18696] dbg: config: read file /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist.cf Ditch blacklist and blacklist-uri. These two are well known ways to kill spamassassin on all but the absolute

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

2007-10-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Justin Mason wrote: OK, we really need to figure out some way to kill these FAQs off. Every week, someone asks a question about why SpamAssassin is killing their server, and most of the time the answer is stop using blacklist.cf and

Re: Anyone using URIDNSBL for weeding out referrer spam ?

2007-11-22 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jean-Marc Liotier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for a way to weed out referrer spam from Apache logs and Awstats data files. I have seen some tools, but they rely on static blacklist - often very small ones, rarely maintained. It just occurs to me that this is a perfect job for

Re: Googlepages Livefilestore spams

2008-01-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Theo Van Dinter writes: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:18:40PM +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: util_rb_2tld googlepages.com in local.cf will alllow black.uribl.com to match the listed googlepages sites To note, what this option really does is change

Re: Googlepages Livefilestore spams

2008-01-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/10/2008 11:13 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Theo Van Dinter writes: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:18:40PM +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: util_rb_2tld googlepages.com in local.cf will alllow black.uribl.com

Re: Googlepages Livefilestore spams

2008-01-10 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Yet Another Ninja [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/10/2008 11:13 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Theo Van Dinter writes: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:18:40PM +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: util_rb_2tld googlepages.com in local.cf will alllow black.uribl.com

Re: spamassassin eating lot of RAM

2008-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jai Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My server has 8GB of ram, around 4 GB is currently used by spamassassin (too many process of /usr/bin/perl -T /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/spammng -c -C --max-children=1 start). Is this normal? Can I somehow limit the process concurrency of spamassassin or I

Re: The googolbees are getting craftier

2008-01-18 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: the redirect detection should have no problem finding that... And the redirected-to domain is on two SURBL blacklists, so it should be hitting. Jeff C. Loren Wilton writes: I guess btnl is no longer working. Now they are doing a redirect:

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-19 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had read about the whois plugin into SA. But I cant seem to find it now Can someone tell me how do I install this I beleive that could be a very effective idea to score on domain names who have bad registrars Every hour hundreds of domains get registered

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-23 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The only big difference I see at face value is it uses whois instead of DNS to find the NS records.. that hardly seems efficient.. Whois is definitely the wrong protocol to use for automated testing, especially for any high volumes. It was not

Re: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: It doesn't use whois *instead of* dns. It uses both and attempts even to detect any discrepancy between their responses. Both types of queries can cause problems. How are these going to be different??

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, delegation is the other, more usual, way that the nameserver in the whois and TLD root server may differ. Some spammers do make use of a lot of delegation, more than usual and sometimes in long

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Please note that one generally can't issue a DNS request to a specific server from SA, since its resolver engine only uses the globally-defined DNS server(s). Thereby, in the common case I should get the NSes published by root servers, which should

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The TLD root servers delegate the control of the II level domain to the NS servers defined at registration time. That is delegation. But from there, warping the entire domain to different NSes

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:23 PM Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The TLD root servers delegate the control

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: DNS works by delegation from parent zones to child zones. Or more generally from one zone to another. DNS is built on delegation. Some spammers abuse delegation in unusual ways, but not all unusual delegation is abuse. Jeff C.

RE: whois plugin .. where to get it

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] There are lots of legitimate reasons to delegate zones, for example, migration to a new nameserver. I suggest you ask someone who runs major nameservers. I have. This is a temporary solution. Later you

Re:

2008-01-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Giampaolo Tomassoni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sometimes it's temporary, sometimes it's not. Sometimes temporary solutions remain in place for many years. Then you're not obeying to the agreements with your registrar. Delegation is a primary

Re: What's with the many nnnn.com domains in this spam?

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Per Jessen writes: Check this out http://jessen.ch/files/spam55.txt It's a typical spam-email with a single gif advertising drugs. The gif is loaded from a website which is listed by uribl.com. The emails has hrefs to the following '.com'

Re: Can anyone help me?

2008-01-30 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting David Zinder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think my problem is related to surbl.org, but I can't figure out how to reach them. list.surbl.org times out, and has for several weeks. I had been using Spamassassin 3.1.5 under RHEL 3. Works great, until Jan 1, 2008. I started getting false

Re: Safe Phishing

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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

Re: Safe Phishing

2008-02-02 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting giga328 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thank you Jeff and Anthony. If I'm right, there is big possibility for SpamAssassin to mark as spam some email from for example doubleclick or other companies if there is personalized URL in it because it can look like spam or even like phishing. If I'm

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

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: For some reason one of my domains has all of a sudden been listed in the above listed db. Which is rather ironic since there are only 3 active accounts at this domain. 1 used for a couple of mailing lists, 1 - postmaster (inbound email

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

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Chan
Also, the sa-blacklist inclusion policy is at: http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/README.policy Jeff C.

Re: v3.2.4 scan times slow

2008-02-15 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Sean Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry for replying to my own topic, but I've figured out what's causing it to go so slow. It's the rules in sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf from http://www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf. This ruleset works fine in 3.1,

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
If you think blacklists should be free, then you should set up your own, spend thousands of hours per year on it, undergo constant threats of DDOs or worse, and listen to complaints if you dare to consider being partially paid for your work. Jeff C.

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting ploppy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i enabled SA on one of my accounts and since disabling, no mails for that account are being received. i did tail -f /var/log/exim_mainlog and they are showing as completed, but they are not being delivered. they are not even in th mail que. i am using exim

RE: URIBL

2008-02-21 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have looked at the SURBL site. If I have well understood I have to enable only the plugin with loadPlugin. Then I have to use the command 'urirhssub' of the plugin URIDNSBL to specify that I want to use SURBLs: urirhssub URIBL_JP_SURBL

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SpamAssassin and Exim cannot work together without some other program coordinating them. You're probably going to need to find out what that program is in order to solve things. Any FAQs about SpamAssassin itself may address the coordinating program

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Chan
the coordinating program, but only peripherally. SpamAssassin only scores the messages. It doesn't deliver them and it doesn't control how they're delivered based on that score. Jeff C. Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting ploppy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i enabled SA on one of my accounts and since

RE: URIBL

2008-02-25 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have to enable only the plugin with loadPlugin. ... and it's enabled by default, so you should be all set. :) Then I have to use the command 'urirhssub' of the plugin URIDNSBL to specify that I want to use SURBLs: ... the rules exist by

RE: URIBL

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe, now is the case to set up a copy of zone locally on my server.. I ve about 1300K messages rejected per day!! Yes, you should not query 1.3 million messages per day on the public nameservers. That would be considered abusive. Jeff C.

Re: List of Banks often spoofed in Phishing scams

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Chan
by Checkfree. customercenter.com appears to be owned by domainers/squatters. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Undeliverable mails

2008-06-04 Thread Jeff Chan
”, or as a side-effect attempts to evade over-simplistic sender address verification as seen in spam, viruses, and so on. [...] It helped us. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: EMERGENCY RULE: porntube redirect

2008-06-19 Thread Jeff Chan
scoreGMD_R_DOT_HTML 3.5 Note: making it an uri rule doesn't hit them all. enjoy It and video.exe are Storm. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: EuroPharmacie

2008-06-20 Thread Jeff Chan
Use SURBLs. Enable network tests: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest jp.surbl.org blacklisted that domain at 14:33 CEST Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: How to make an exception to URIBL_SBL

2008-07-09 Thread Jeff Chan
of the nameservers of web sites in the message body against the Spamhaus SBL list. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Best use of caching DNS servers

2006-06-07 Thread Jeff Chan
. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Why is this not seen as spam?

2006-06-08 Thread Jeff Chan
to track down. This one is not an open gate issue, but is still driving me nuts... If your sendmail is recent (past few years) it won't be open relay by default. If it's not current, upgrade. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Low scoring since 3.1.1 upgrade

2006-06-12 Thread Jeff Chan
Try using the SARE stocks rule: http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm#stocks Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: For those who are considering a Barracuda Network Device server

2006-06-12 Thread Jeff Chan
but I am willing to put $100 and say SA/SARE does better. Doesn't Barracuda use SpamAssassin in their boxes? If so it's not too surprising that it wouldn't perform much differently from SpamAssassin :-) Barracuda may not use SARE, so SARE may indeed be better. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto

Re: [Fwd: Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains]

2006-06-22 Thread Jeff Chan
exists. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [Fwd: Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains]

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, June 22, 2006, 3:21:36 PM, Ken A wrote: Jeff Chan wrote: On Thursday, June 22, 2006, 10:35:10 AM, Ken A wrote: Rick Wesson over at Alice's Registry has a dnsrbl listing recently registered domains (see below). I thought this might be of interest to SA users. Anyone used

Re: [Fwd: Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains]

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
grabbed a bunch of domains several years old that recently expired. There was a burst of them today. Probably even saying that we noticed that helps the spammers. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [Fwd: Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains]

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, June 23, 2006, 5:31:04 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 14:10 Jeff Chan wrote:   http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html Very interesting page, I wasn't aware of Domain Kiting yet. A check for new domains would be good implemented in the MTA directly, so

Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, June 23, 2006, 6:36:38 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 14:49 Jeff Chan wrote: 4. A DNSBL is a reasonably good technology for distributing these data. Yes, some DNSBL. It should be one that contains newly registered domains, within the 5 day test period

Re: [dns-operations] negative caching of throwaway spam domains

2006-06-24 Thread Jeff Chan
with a permanent error. (If the whois source is not trustworthy it's also blocked with a permanent error.) Michael gives some good possibilities and a discussion of the difference with greylisting. Note that whois can't really be done on an automated, high-frequency basis. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan

Re: decrease DNSBL timepout

2006-07-04 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, July 4, 2006, 5:01:21 AM, Pezhman Lali wrote: Hi else SURBL, neither of other DNSBL, not answer me, 1-why? 2- how can I decrease these 12 sec? best Pezhman Is there a recent version of Net::DNS installed on your system? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL

Re: decrease DNSBL timepout

2006-07-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, July 4, 2006, 7:52:39 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, July 4, 2006, 5:01:21 AM, Pezhman Lali wrote: Hi else SURBL, neither of other DNSBL, not answer me, 1-why? 2- how can I decrease these 12 sec? best Pezhman Is there a recent version of Net::DNS installed

Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread Jeff Chan
, but for SURBLs, IPs are expected to be dotted quads only. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Which Net::DNS version for Fedora Core 4?

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Chan
If not, what versions should be used? Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Which Net::DNS version for Fedora Core 4?

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Chan
of glibc. Daryl, Can you determine if 3.0.6 is safe to use with Net::DNS 0.49? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: list of two level TLDs in SA

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Chan
to anyone reading this: please don't grab our list more often then say once a month since it only rarely updates. (Some suboptimal coder grabbed it once *per URI* or *per message* until we straightened him out.) Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
queries. Please open a bugzilla about it: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, August 5, 2006, 12:46:20 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: spamcop.com is the windows client for spamcop.net ? No, IIRC it's something totally different that's squatting a similar domain name, probably on purpose. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
result in some more spam due to that effect. There is also a mole option you can set in SpamCop that does not report, just blacklists. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
take every single spamcop report (or other email abuse report) seriously and investigate all of them. Same here. We take all abuse reports seriously and investigate them, including SpamCop reports. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 7:53:45 AM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Jeff Chan wrote: On Monday, August 7, 2006, 1:56:41 PM, DAve DAve wrote: In frustration I edited /etc/resolv.conf and removed 127.0.0.1, URI lookups are completing and MailScanner is blasting through the queues on both machines

Multiple image spams: best practices?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
Aside from the experimental OCR some folks are trying, what SA techniques are folks having good luck with for stopping those stock spams that are multiple, vertical images? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
if it's a specific SA interaction. But it would still be nice to know what's causing it, even if it's not SA or an interaction with it. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Multiple image spams: best practices?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8:08:04 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: Aside from the experimental OCR some folks are trying, what SA techniques are folks having good luck with for stopping those stock spams that are multiple, vertical images? Any technique for single image stock spams would be welcomed too

Re: Multiple image spams: best practices?

2006-08-08 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8:26:18 AM, decoder decoder wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8:08:04 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: Aside from the experimental OCR some folks are trying, what SA techniques are folks having good luck

Re: uridnsbl error, info what?

2006-09-02 Thread Jeff Chan
. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: uridnsbl error, info what?

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff Chan
it to our FAQ, given that others may be having similar issues. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Non-blocklisted embedded URLs are getting hits on URIBL_AB_SURBL and URIBL_PH_SURBL in SpamAssassin 3.1.5

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff Chan
patterns happen to be in the modified response. SURBLs will work with OpenDNS if their typo correction feature is disabled on servers or clients doing SURBL queries. __ Does that look about right? Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Ammount of the RAM used by spamd childs

2006-09-29 Thread Jeff Chan
are enabled and Net::DNS is current on the system, and SURBLs will be used since they're already in the default configurations. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff Chan
like OpenDNS changing the DNS results in a way that's not compatible with SURBL applications: http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#opendns In any case, none of the domains mentioned are blacklisted, so there is a problem with your SpamAssassin or DNS. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Non-blocklisted embedded URLs are getting hits on URIBL_AB_SURBL and URIBL_PH_SURBL in SpamAssassin 3.1.5

2006-10-03 Thread Jeff Chan
modification or proxy services that change the DNS query results of non-matches (NXDOMAIN results). Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spamassassin Rules

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Chan
/ Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Chan
will: spamassassin -D some_message_in_a_file Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Low accuracy ?

2006-10-11 Thread Jeff Chan
://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/TrustedRelays If the trust path is wrong, then all of your incoming messages can be mishandled, as if they are coming from your own internal network. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Setup local rbl for my server

2006-10-11 Thread Jeff Chan
, howtos, faqs, etc., at: http://www.surbl.org/links.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Installing URIDNSBL

2006-10-21 Thread Jeff Chan
://www.surbl.org/faq.html#nettest Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spamhaus DBL

2010-03-02 Thread Jeff Chan
goes into further detail on this new list. Please also see this bugzilla: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6335 Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Adding custom surbl servers to local.cf

2010-09-02 Thread Jeff Chan
rbldnsd an BIND configs for the zone and spamassassin rule, and we will check them. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spam bot Spam seems to be decreasing

2011-01-10 Thread Jeff Chan
://cbl.abuseat.org/totalflow.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Need Volunteers for Ham Trap

2011-01-18 Thread Jeff Chan
that struggle with these issues every day. Maintaining accurate ham and spam corpora and making policies for what belongs in which category is trivial in some easy cases like bot pill spam, but non-trivial in other cases. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Need Volunteers for Ham Trap

2011-01-19 Thread Jeff Chan
approaches. Those degenerate cases of both are indeed interesting. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

Re: What is Ham? (was Re: Need Volunteers for Ham Trap)

2011-01-20 Thread Jeff Chan
there is a responsible party to hopefully act on unsubscriptions, fire the spammy marketer, etc. It's sort of a degenerate case of the degenerate case of email addresses going to to a third party, except it's the same party. Spam is easy. Ham is hard. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:je...@surbl.org

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >