Selectively disabling RBL services in SpamAssassin

2007-06-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
of the files in /etc/spamassassin. The Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf is silent on this issue. Is there a way to do this? -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http

Re: missing tag

2007-06-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
the email unmodified, as it should. I've only been using SpamAssassin for a couple of days and have seen one such instance already. -- Lindsay Haisley | We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage

Testing Bayes filters

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
is on a commercial server, and is in beta until I can determine whether or not it's working as expected. My wife and I are beta testers until I determine that everything is working properly, at which point I'll turn it loose on my customers :-) -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
favorite text editor. -- Lindsay Haisley | We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com|toast

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Rules Emporium has been having some issues with a DDoS attack and made some configuration changes pursuant to overcoming this and probably balancing their load. Looks like they had a redirect and curl doesn't understand a http-equiv=refresh or else the HTML was incorrect and curl just barfed on

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 15:49 -0700, SM wrote: Unfortunately, nobody reads that or else we would not be seeing one week of messages about SARE RBJ failures. Oh well I guess you have to be an old-time UNIX geek to know to look in script files for clues on how to use them. -- Lindsay

Re: Testing Bayes filters

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
irritate bayes filters, score in fact almost always bayes_99. I can only imagine that the additional random text is not really random but taken from a fixed library that is not very big and not changed very often. Interesting! -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:24 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: Although rule_du_jour is still giving me HTML for SARE_OEM. Delete /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem* (or /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem*) and run rules_du_jour again. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world

Re: rules_du_jour script and HTML files

2007-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
-il 'META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh' ${TMPDIR}/* |xargs -n1 rm * This won't pick up the problem file on the current run, but will clear the way for it to be retrieved next time. On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:24 -0400, Michael

New patch for rules_du_jour re HTML redirect pages

2007-06-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
rules_du_jour will still fail, but this will clean up the mess and next time (hopefully) it'll run properly. I'm plumb out of time to figure this out today so I'll revisit it later and submit a better patch. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer

Bayes filters an SA 3.2.1-gr1 not active

2007-06-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm well over the minimum required count of both spam and ham. Is there something I need to do to turn this on? I have all Bayes stuff in MySQL, and seem to remember someone else posting with a similar problem a while back with 3.2.0. Where should I look for the answer to this? -- Lindsay

No Bayes!!

2007-06-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:24 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I just upgraded from SA 3.1.8-gr1 to SA 3.2.1-gr1 (Gentoo) and notice that I'm no longer getting any BAYES_NN test notices in my X-Spam-Status summary in my mail headers, or in the content analysis details in intercepted spam. Under

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
SA have to do with RDJ triggering Prolexic's DoS protection? Daryl is right, there is no fix due in 3.2.2 - I got the RDJ and the sa-update errors confused. I guess maybe I should dye my hair blonde. Apologies for any confusion I've caused. Kind regards Nigel -- Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL

Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
. -- Lindsay Haisley |Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate |http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| dandelions | | (Pamela Jones

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
, Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:24 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: I just upgraded from SA 3.1.8-gr1 to SA 3.2.1-gr1 (Gentoo) and notice that I'm no longer getting any BAYES_NN test notices in my X-Spam-Status summary in my mail headers, or in the content analysis details

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:39 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: Why not just use sa-update and not deal with this? sa-update and rules_du_jour deal with different rules repositories. I use both. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
have had this problem and know more about it than I do. If the SA developers are aware of the problem and already working on it then my own efforts might well be a waste of my time. In the meantime I'm happy to use an older version of SA which works just fine on my installation. -- Lindsay

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
for this, I see. I may try this. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:43 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is upstream aware of the problem

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
wait. As a couple of people have pointed out to me, though, you can use sa-update to retrieve the same rules data as per the instructions at http://saupdates.openprotect.com . -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
will be welcome. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!! - found it!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
-Length: 56238 Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'd rather fix the actual problem and not patch around it. Absolutely!! -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:56 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: By running a curl hit repeatedly on the RE server I reproduced the problem. By running this test a couple of times I'm apparently now blocked by RE :-P Oh well . Hope the info I sent was useful. -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-29 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 06:46 -0700, jdow wrote: You will have to wait for up to a day for the Prolexic block to go away. I got blocked for checking out their anti-DDoS measures. The block went away in about 15 minutes. -- Lindsay Haisley |Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-06-29 Thread Lindsay Haisley
pointed out to me yesterday, there's a mirroring service for SARE rules at http://saupdates.openprotect.com, along with instructions on incorporating these into sa-update, thus avoiding problems with rules_du_jour altogether. -- Lindsay Haisley |Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP

Re: config clarification

2007-06-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
is yes. My undersanding is that everything in that directory gets read. -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: DNS list service to detect the registrar barrier

2007-07-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
* -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.] -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http

USER_IN_WHITELIST ??

2007-07-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
which should assign a much smaller (possibly positive) spam score, and shouldn't evoke a hit on USER_IN_WHITELIST. Am I missing something here, or is this a SA bug? -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST ??

2007-07-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
to eval:check_from_in_whitelist() in 60_whitelist.cf. What about whitelist_from_rcvd, or whitelist_from_spf? Do you have any whitelist commands at the site config level (ie: local.cf or add-on rulesets)? -- Lindsay Haisley | In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services

Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
of bandwidth between the boxes? -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
header in an email. This address can't be spoofed. If it were, it would have been technically impossible to send the email. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:43 -0600, McDonald, Dan wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:20 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:43 +, Martin Gregorie wrote: I've heard it said that IPV6 will... You can always spoof an IP address of any type. The only email header you can

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:24 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Although I appreciate your advice, my question here is not _whether_ I should do the integration, but which of the two methods of integrating the databases will be most efficient of bandwidth and other resources. After thinking about

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:21 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: Lindsay Haisley wrote: I have two servers. Currently they're both running instances of spamd with separate mysql databases, however I'd like run both instances from the same database on one of the servers. There are two ways to do

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:27 -0800, John Hardin wrote: If I may try: The question is which is better, sending the message body (spamc - spamd traffic) or database queries (spamd - mysql traffic) over the expensive link? Implicit point well make :-) I think I agree with you. -- Lindsay

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
local config files but uses a MySQL connection _over the network_ to box A to access the Bayes/userpref database. Sorry if I wasn't entirely clear before. I hope this clarifies the choice, which looks at this point as if I'd be better off with #2. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works

Re: Two servers, one database. A question - a correction.

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:51 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: Scenario 2: spamc on box A communicates with a _local_ spamd, which accesses local config files but uses a MySQL connection _over the network_ to box A to access the Bayes/userpref database. Sorry, this should read: Scenario 2: spamc

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
more intelligently. Thanks! -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I've found several people of good will who don't seem to know a whole lot more about SA than I do, but have given me some good points to think about. Do you have any idea where I might inquire to get advice from people with more precise knowledge? -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record and in particular the quote from RFC 1912. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
tried it. It'll take you less time to read the relatively short section than it will to reply to this email :-) -- Lindsay Haisley |Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate

Re: KnujOn - Registrars

2009-02-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
for which they're the registrar of record. I'm as offended by spam to me and my customers as anyone, but I'm also a big proponent of open source and net neutrality, and like to see pressure applied where the actual functional responsibility for a mis-deed lies. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything

Re: KnujOn - Registrars

2009-02-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
need to be in the supply path for a misdeed to work to remove themselves from that supply path upon proper notification. I would NOT expect them to be proactive in this regard. Reactive is fine and proper. {^_^} Joanne -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP

Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
an unknown user. I would expect that a list devoted to making the Internet mail system run to everyone's benefit rather than to everyone's detriment would be operated in a more professional manner! Is anyone minding the store -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP

Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
an unknown user. I would expect that a list devoted to making the Internet mail system run to everyone's benefit rather than to everyone's detriment would be operated in a more professional manner! Is anyone minding the store -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP

Re: Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
on the bounces is , which is correct. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: netlawyers: why is this patentable?

2009-02-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
. company that uses recombinant DNA to put an unusual color in a bean. Then they patent it and sue a Mexican company and block imports of a bean that the Mexicans have been growing for generations. That's just nucking futs. Sounds like Monsanto at work. -- Lindsay Haisley | Everything

Re: Anyone else just blocking the ".top" TLD?

2016-09-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
lm of SA. I apply this test using a python program written to work with Gordon Messmer's courier-pythonfilter for Courier-MTA. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We have met the enemy and he is us." FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | -- Pogo http://www.fmp.com|

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 17:10 -0400, btb wrote: > On 2016.09.23 16.16, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 18:43 +0100, RW wrote: > > > > > > Right, but the question here is why isn't a forwarding server also a > > > recursive server

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
So why is this bad informaton? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The voice of dissent was arrested before FMP Computer Services | the president cleared his throat to 512-259-1190 |speak of freedom" http://www.fmp.com| |-- Chris Chandler

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 00:15 -0500, Dave Funk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 19:03 -0400, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net > > wrote: > > > > > > consider that, to do the work described as &quo

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 20:21 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > On 23 Sep 2016, at 16:10, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:28 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > > > > > > As much as I love BIND (no, seriously, I do) it's very hard to  > >

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
; What am I missing? Justin Ellingwood, who wrote the DigitalOcean piece, is a very experienced documenter. From his rather impressive resume, I'd be inclined to trust what he posts. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Friends are like potatoes. FMP Computer Services |If you eat them, they

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ack surface in itself and is a richer prize if hijacked, either  > directly or as a consequence of a general system compromise. > > On 23 Sep 2016, at 16:10, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:28 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > > > > >

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ed by competent peers, as is the way of the world with open source software. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Style Gibberish spammers are one step ahead of me !!!!

2016-09-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
No sooner did I complete a small python filter to divert untrapped style gibberish spams than I started getting these without the

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ns { directory "/var/cache/bind"; recursion yes;     allow-query { goodclients; };         etc }; -- Lindsay Haisley | "Never expect the people who caused a problem FMP Computer Services | to solve it." - Albert Einstein 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com|

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
{ 1.2.3.0/24;     4.5.6.0/24;     127.0.0.1;     etc }; options {         .. recursion yes; allow-query { goodclients; };         etc... }; -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
21/what-s-the-difference-between-recursion-and-forwarding-in-bind -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between a duck is because FMP Computer Services |one leg is both the same" 512-259-1190 | - Anonymous http://www.fmp.com|

Stuff slipping through STYLE_GIBBERISH filter!

2016-09-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm getting a _lot_ of spam slipping through the STYLE_GIBBERISH filter, probably more than is getting caught (although some of it _is_ getting caught). An example body is

Re: SPAM message format, or not ?

2019-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
s any good. The Big Guys don't need to allocate any of their hard-earned resources to clamping down on spam sent trom their customers' accounts :( -- Lindsay Haisley | "UNIX is user-friendly, it just FMP Computer Services | chooses its friends." 512-259-1190 | -- Andreas Bogk http://www.fmp.com|

SPAM message format, or not ?

2019-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
looking for a way to block them with a finer tool. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
etting a number of these, and someone else on this list reported the same format. I haven't seen a SA rules solution to blocking these. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: Spoofed From: names

2020-04-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ection via the Courier MTA. The Mailman code substitutes the word "at" in the comment field for the ampersand to avoid this sort of problem, but other implementation may not. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The world is full of monsters with friendly FMP Computer Services | face

Re: Spoofed From: names

2020-04-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ddress while providing a functional From address using a domain name which passes SPF, a sufficient condition for passing DMARC. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The world is full of monsters with friendly FMP Computer Services | faces and angels with scars." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - Heather Brewer