Re: [SA] DNSBL Comparison 20091010

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
Adam Katz schrieb: I've had myriads of falsely whitelisted messages hit DNSWL (.org) and Did you report them to us? If there are *myriads*, there must be some serious error which we need to fix (IPs/ranges falsely listed, inappropriate trust levels listed, sometimes also errors in eg how

Re: dns query timed out while sa-update

2009-10-15 Thread Matthias Leisi
wild_oscar schrieb: I might leave it at that. The problem that I've been scratching my head about is why does it work when using the nameserver directly but not when using the router's IP address, which is forwarding to the same address. It might be a problem with the router, although it is

Re: Other DNSBL's

2009-10-16 Thread Matthias Leisi
Henrik K schrieb: IMO a centralized rsync datasource for all the mass checked BLs would be nice. Wonder if someone had the connections to pull it off? It would save resources from all and speed up the checks. Spamhaus etc would only need to donate the data once a week. We don't see any

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-16 Thread Matthias Leisi
Rob McEwen schrieb: Just what I said. If an IP whitelist cause too many spams to get a free pass, then instead of using that whitelist as a free pass to the inbox... instead... use it to bypass all checking of the sender IPs against blacklists, but still do content spam filtering on the

Re: habeas - tainted white list

2009-12-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
dnswl.org does offer trusted_networks-formatted files (separated by our trust levels), but beware of bug 5931 for older versions of SA: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5931 -- Matthias Am 18.12.2009 um 10:17 schrieb Benny Pedersen: On fre 18 dec 2009 10:07:55 CET,

Re: More Whitelist thoughts...

2009-12-19 Thread Matthias Leisi
Am 19.12.09 04:18, schrieb Warren Togami: DNSWL To my surprise, Matthias has begun to implement my recommendations of improved manual abuse reporting, and automated abuse reporting. Their accuracy even without automated abuse detection isn't too bad. In the current testing phase, the

add_header and Bayes

2007-09-19 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [This question may be more appropriate for the dev-list, please move as required] Hi list, When I originally wrote the experimental ASN plugin (since then SpamAssassin-ized and improved by the dev team), my impression was that headers added by an

Re: New distribution rule not working ?

2007-09-22 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Hernán Otegui schrieb: In a spammail I found this rule : RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4 [..] good reputation (or a medium one, lithe the header says). IMHO, you should report this message to the admin of that server, to alert him about the event.

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: dnswl.org is either full of it, or not well maintained. I've gotten at least 20 spams which I see are listed in dnswl.org as low trust (which still merits -1.0). All different IP addresses or some specific

Re: [sa-list] Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: My point was more along the lines of the fact that there's no method (other than manual notification) of doing Active Correction. DNSWL is a cool idea, but could we also come up with some sort of reporting

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: I forwarded over 200 of them earlier today (as an attachment -- total email size was about one meg). OK, I now could have a look at them (well, a sample of them, not each of the 200 individually). All samples

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: Livejournal's purely a mail forwarding service (i.e. there's no way to POP/IMAP that account) As far as I know, there are mails originating from LJ itself (eg notifications etc)? and if they can't effect

Re: trusted_networks and RCVD_IN_DNSWL_*

2007-10-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
Now I added IPs to trusted_networks and that causes another problem: The trusted_network IPs are in the DNSWL and therefore get a positive bonus from SA. Hm, somehow I can't follow what you're trying to do. Can you post the relevant parts of your configuration? I did not find a solution to

Re: spamassassin conditional rules

2007-10-22 Thread Matthias Leisi
ram wrote: header __TO_CC_PHARMA_COMPANY ToCc =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i if( __TO_CC_PHARMA_COMPANY ) { How to do this body ALLOW_MEDS /viagra/ descibe this company recieves such legal mails , so give a negative score to offset the others score ALLOW_MEDS -2 }

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-26 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Woick schrieb: [Spamcop] I understand the two step reporting process too, and I too find it annoying and timeconsuming to ack my (manually reviewed) 50 spams per day to them, so I ceased to do it. There exist scripts for ack'ing

Re: Autolearn ham?

2007-10-29 Thread Matthias Leisi
Is there any way to tweak the score used to trigger autolearning for HAM ? Diego Ah, SA version is 3.2.1 http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.2.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Plugin_AutoLearnThreshold.html --- cut --- The following configuration settings are used to control auto-learning:

Re: Mail marked as spam on outgoing mail

2007-11-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Baker schrieb: Everything seems fine, then yesterday I replied to an external piece of mail and CC'd a couple of colleagues on the reply. The mail was marked as SPAM Which copy of mail was marked as SPAM - the one that went to the

Re: Question about getting a blacklist included in SA

2008-01-03 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler wrote: Comparatively speaking, 6 might be inadequate. I don't know how much of that scale is really necessary for minimal operation, and how much is just needed for scalability against DDoS attacks. dnswl.org runs on 10 servers(*).

Re: Redo: Upgrade 3.2.3-3.2.4 breaks rule override

2008-01-26 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Deugau schrieb: | I appreciate the advice to hack our DNS configuration, but I'd prefer | to keep all my SpamAssassin tweaks in the SpamAssassin config file and | not have to document and (subsequently remember to actually look at | the

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Scheidell schrieb: | Postini uses it for their clients. | | They set up 4 'real' mx records (priority 100,200,300,400) that point to | real postini servers. They set up priority 500 that points to the | (firewalled) smtp server of the

Re: Low scores

2008-02-23 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micah Anderson schrieb: | [surprisingly low scores] | The spams can be pulled from here: http://micah.riseup.net/spams Most (all?) of the samples are forwarded through some debian.org mechanism. In order for blacklists to take full effect, you

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: SA-UPDATE How often new updates?

2008-03-24 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A side note: | I have this in my cron to update the rules: | 00 * * * * /usr/bin/sa-update --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel sought.rules.yerp.org --gpgkey D1C035168C1EBC08464946DA258CDB3ABDE9DC10 - --channel saupdates.openprotect.com --channel

Re: FP on RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED

2008-04-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, FPs on the DNSWL.org rules can be handled best if sent to admins -at- dnswl.org. I took up this one, should be resolved shortly (or the entry disabled, depending on the actual value of shortly...). Thanks, - -- Matthias -BEGIN PGP

Re: Replies to this list

2008-06-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to someone else): And, please, do NOT send me private copies. I do not need nor want them. I noticed I have to keep editing the To field every time I reply. Why doesn't the list insert a Reply-to directing replies to the list? Reply-To

Re: HELP!! spamasssin killing my server

2008-06-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [sent only to the original poster by accident - reply-to considered needs brain ;) ] | [skipped the debug output] A couple of notes: 1) This advice: | Tue Jun 10 14:55:36 2008 [72096] dbg: conf: trusted_networks are not | configured; it is

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
Consequently I disabled the checks. Now, using spamhaus.org and spamcop the overload has disappeared. Be careful with using the Spamcop blacklist to reject messages -- while it is perfectly fine as a blacklist to use in a scoring scheme such as SpamAssassin, I found it to have too many false

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
Rob McEwen schrieb: http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/05/spamcop-bl-another-look-its-accurate.html Therefore, when you said, too many false positives, are you referring to FPs from *before* that transformation of SpamCop? Or, are these *recent* FPs, spotted after that transformation? It's

Re: HELP!! spamassasssin killing my server

2008-06-13 Thread Matthias Leisi
Matus UHLAR - fantomas schrieb: On 12.06.08 18:51, Matthias Leisi wrote: On the company mailserver, we take a very conservative approach, and only Spamhaus SBL+XBL are used at the MTA level. you should switch to ZEN in such case, SBL+XBL is obsolete now. We use a local feed, so querying

Re: SA experts needed here - SPAM examples

2008-06-16 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NGSS schrieb: | I am losing confident in SA, the training process is pretty slow or it | doesn?t seem to be learning. I don't think training is your first and foremost problem. It seems that you are not running network tests [1] (esp. RBLs),

Re: trusted_host breaks pretty much every form of whitelist

2008-06-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jo Rhett schrieb: | Why not allow me to say I trust everything from this host no matter what? Why would you run the mails through SpamAssassin if you trust everything from that host? A whitelist entry in the MTA would avoid wasting resources on

Re: Better whitelisting with DNSWL

2008-07-03 Thread Matthias Leisi
[snip code + explanation] Very nice :) It would be nice to see something like this built into SA in the future, possibly even distributing all the entries daily with sa-update. We can produce almost any export format of dnswl.org data, also in a way that it would fit for some sa-update

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-14 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kathryn Kleinschafer schrieb: | Am I supposed to reload a service or is there something else I have missed? Yes, every change to a *.cf or *.pre file requires a restart of spamd (as opposed to the standalone spamassassin binary, which will read

Re: MTX - How does it stop spam?

2010-02-16 Thread Matthias Leisi
Am 16.02.10 21:23, schrieb Kris Deugau: *nod* This is the biggest question I still see remaining; who maintains the blacklist? How many spams can come from an MTX-approved IP before it can/should be blacklisted? It does not necessarily or exclusively need to be a manually maintained

Re: What's necessary to get spamassassin --report data to dnswl.org?

2010-02-26 Thread Matthias Leisi
Karsten, Am 26.02.10 22:53, schrieb Karsten Bräckelmann: code? Then this would seem to be a general sketch: Write the plugin, while keeping DNSWL tightly in the loop to sync the process. Submit the Actually, Darxus is editor at dnswl.org and contributes a nameserver - he is very much in the

Change at dnswl.org

2010-10-02 Thread Matthias Leisi
Hello all, dnswl.org has been running as a pure volunteer project since 2006. However, given the changing anti-spam industry and the challenges ahead, we decided that we need some sound financial basis. In a number of steps, we will introduce a subscription model for heavy users and vendors of

Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-29 Thread Matthias Leisi
Hi all, I'm not sure whether that would be more appropriate for the dev list, but I guess this is relevant/of interest to the SpamAssassin project, and I don't know whether this has caught attention here yet. John in his draft mentioned below is very right to point out that simply applying the

Re: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-29 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:26 PM, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: I'm not sure I agree with that.  The smallest unit of IPv6 address space allocated by a provider (even to an end-user) is likely to be a /64, so I don't see why whitelists can't list /64's too.  Essentially, I

Re: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-29 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:52 PM, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: and shared hosting providers may allocate smaller ranges to their customers (why not an individual IP to each customer?). Because then your routing table gets insane. They may allocate the IPs in a virtualisation

Re: Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: Thus, we can safely make the assumption that any mailserver is going to follow the model of a single host per /64.  Thus it will ALSO be just as useful for whitelists to have the same granularity - a /64 - as it would be

Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
(Sorry, sent to David only by error) On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:26 PM, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: The real problem is the human effort needed to monitor the enormous IPv6 address spave for abuse.  I

Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
(Same error on this mail, I should pay more attention to To: and the reply button. Sorry for the mess) On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 7:43 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Any protocol that makes lookups in a huge adress

Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
(3) A shifting of focus on whitelists is important... but some of those shouldn't really be whitelists in the traditional sense. Instead, they should merely indicate that an IP is a candidate for sending mail. This one I agree with.  The Spamhaus whitelist is intended only for very virtuous

Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Matthias Leisi
John, I agree that your draft is clever.  But I think it's really stretching DNS way beyond what it was designed for and it might be time to look at a different approach.  To paraphrase the old saying, when all you have is DNS, every problem looks like a lookup. To be honest, my first

Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2011-01-04 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Jason Haar jason.h...@trimble.co.nz wrote: This is a great topic! Is this been discussed at the IETF level? This is much bigger than SA. From the sounds of this thread, spam under ipv6 is going to be almost an *infinitely* bigger problem than ipv4. What about

Re: DNS cache efficiency for low-TTL records (was Re: IPv6 DNSBL/WL design, was Fwd: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01)

2011-01-04 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:24 PM, David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com wrote: (Spamhaus could greatly lower the load on its servers by using much bigger TTLs, especially for lists that don't change often like the PBL. But as another posted mentioned, sometimes DNSBL owners want to see the

Re: DNSWL rules downscoring spam

2011-02-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Pasi Hirvonen p...@iki.fi wrote: Hello, I just recently moved our mail setup to new hardware and I've been paying close attention to what gets marked as spam and what doesn't. Looking at my spam folder, I have received roughly 550 spam emails to my email

Re: DNSWL rules downscoring spam

2011-02-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net wrote: Looking at my spam folder, I have received roughly 550 spam emails to my email account since last tuesday (15th). Out of those 550, *345* have been downscored by RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED. Annoyingly, a This issue

Re: DNSWL rules downscoring spam

2011-02-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Warren Togami Jr. wtog...@gmail.com wrote: Matthias, we really need a method to auto-report violations of DNSWL. My spam traps receive dozens or more every week. At what score? Any noteworthy patterns?  But I don't have time to file a web form every time it

Re: DNSWL rules downscoring spam

2011-02-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net wrote: Pkte Regelname              Beschreibung -- --  2.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED      RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium    

Re: DNSWL spam reporting plugin for spamassassin

2011-02-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:56 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Create account here:  http://www.dnswl.org/registerreporter.pl ( http//www.dnswl.org / Report Abuse, Register as Reporter ) Just realized that the signup process is broken. Should be fixed later today. Sorry for the

Re: DNSWL spam reporting plugin for spamassassin

2011-02-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Matthias Leisi matth...@leisi.net wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:56 PM,  dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Create account here:  http://www.dnswl.org/registerreporter.pl ( http//www.dnswl.org / Report Abuse, Register as Reporter ) Just realized that the signup

Re: RFC 5966 and rbldnsd

2011-12-02 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.skwrote: 1: use rbldnsd to dump zone to bind.zone (Gigaram usage) I doubt rbldns is able to dump zone content. many DNSBL providers support also BIND format. Note that BIND takes much more RAM space man rbldnsd: | -d

Re: RFC 5966 and rbldnsd

2011-12-04 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: |  -d     Dump  all  zones to stdout in BIND format and exit.  This may be That's what we use for the BIND export of dnswl.org data (create rbldnsd-formatted file, and let rbldnsd -d create the BIND file). hmmm

Re: DNSWL will be disabled by default as of tomorrow

2011-12-13 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Michael Scheidell michael.scheid...@secnap.com wrote: [..] Blocking the ip address by firewall will save bandwidth and cpu cycles. Firewalling will have the same effect as returning no answer - it will cause retries and thus will roughly triple the amount of

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-27 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wolfgang.zei...@desy.de wrote: In an older episode, on 2012-05-26 22:06, Jeremy Morton wrote: OK I continue to get this problem - lots of spam is coming through now with: -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/,

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED

2012-08-14 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Ben Johnson b...@indietorrent.org wrote: The majority of the spam that our users receive is a direct result of this one rule; it seems that plenty of spammers are white-listed in this database, and it is a weighty test (it reduces the score by as much as 2 or

Re: Anyone from ReturnPath want to deal with this

2012-09-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: OK, it's better than nothing though I don't know the percentage of people with Ham reporting is very high. Can you recommend some exact verbiage on From experience with the dnswl.org request queue, I can tell you that

Re: Exclude from RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED

2012-09-10 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Helmut Schneider jumpe...@gmx.de wrote: It looks like RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED examines firstuntrusted and if he trusts his MX/relays correctly then this shouldn't be happening. In general, setting up the trustpath correctly is sufficient. If I understood you

Do you want to support the dnswl.org project?

2012-09-19 Thread Matthias Leisi
Hello SA users list, The SpamAssassin rules are an important input for the dnswl.org project; in turn, the dnswl.org project helps to reduce the chance of false positives through the SA ruleset. The SpamAssassin and the dnswl.org projects have a significant overlap in the user base, and an

Re: How to check from that is not on the header?

2012-09-26 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Sergio sec...@gmail.com wrote: FROM THE HEADERS: Received: from (127.0.0.1) by mail62.us1.rsgsv.net (PowerMTA(TM) v3.5r16) id hcc8go0lj3g4 for fernando.lo...@puntocel.com.gt; Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:28:26 + (envelope-from

Re: Spamassin error related to bayes and writing files

2012-11-22 Thread Matthias Leisi
2012-11-22T19:16:18.323410+00:**00 localhost spamd[24393]: spamd: setuid to spamd succeeded 2012-11-22T19:16:18.323802+00:**00 localhost spamd[24393]: spamd: creating default_prefs: /var/lib/spamassassin/.**spamassassin/user_prefs 2012-11-22T19:16:18.324189+00:**00 localhost spamd[24393]:

Re: Whitelist and DNS blacklists in SpamAssassin

2013-02-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: This is what e.g. rfci-ignorant or many other rhsbl blacklists are for. rfc-ignorant has gone off-line. http://www.rfc-ignorant.de/ -- Matthias

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI false negatives (my solution)

2013-02-07 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Lutz Petersen l...@shlink.de wrote: It makes no sense to point this to dnswl - mobile.de itself is not a spam source itself If you use mobile.de as a forwarder, it may make sense to add there IPs to your trusted_networks configuration. If you do this, the

Re: Sought/Rules.yerp.org problem - Re: [Fwd: Cron root@zoogz /usr/share/spamassassin/sa-update.cron -D 21 | tee -a /var/log/sa-update.log]

2013-02-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:04 PM, mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: I hope Justin has no problems. if anybody has news, please share that with me. He writes on his Twitter account (@jmason) from time to time. So he is still around :) -- Matthias

Re: SQL error: Duplicate entry

2013-04-25 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.skwrote: I don't think so... IIRC the REPLACE INTO deletes existing record and inserts new one, does not update existing. This caused some issues for me some ~10 years ago, so i switched to the update or insert. REPLACE

Re: Spam via whitelists

2013-07-02 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Andreas Schamanek scham...@fam.tuwien.ac.at wrote: 2) What's currently more annoying are colleagues of mine operating large mail servers (tu-graz.ac.at and ethz.ch are 2 examples) who forward their former users' mail to external addresses without prior

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED whitelisting FREEMAIL

2013-08-25 Thread Matthias Leisi
Could you please share the IP address (better: relevant Received: header)? This seems like an error in our data. -- Matthias, for the dnswl.org project On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Jason Haar jason_h...@trimble.com wrote: Hi there I just received some spam - got a score below 0. The real

Re: Whitelisting based on IP address of last external relay

2013-10-31 Thread Matthias Leisi
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Henrik K h...@hege.li wrote: I shortcircuit ALL_TRUSTED with a huge trusted_networks list. :-) So yes it's a whitelist for me. I add networks known to be spam free and operated by friends (other govenment entities, consulting firms etc). Everything works

Re: Detecting very recently registered domain names

2014-01-06 Thread Matthias Leisi
Going back to the OP of this thread after some thinking: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Joe Quinn jqu...@pccc.com wrote: We are noticing a lot of spam coming from domains that are less than two months old. Is there a good way to detect this automatically? We've thought about whois, but do

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I already took a look

Re: Distributed Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
First, a thank you all for the suggestions relating to SQL. It seems SQL support is better than I expected and I will give it a try. Alex Woick wrote: Don't overrate Bayes. The system has been running without Bayes for roughly 3 years (with incremental Spamassassin updates), and with good

Re: question re. whitelist_from_rcvd

2006-11-12 Thread Matthias Leisi
Miles Fidelman wrote: Do you *really* need to pass locally generated mail through Spamassassin? Most likely not. *Received: * from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by server1.neighborhoods.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDE2B6C2F0 for [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: DNS Whitelist - rule optimization

2006-11-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
Theo Van Dinter wrote: My suggestion was going to be to have the plugin define tags that can be used via add_header. No need for calling add_header() internally. Sounds like an interesting idea. Since I've never written plugins for SA: what is the best starting point / documentation?

DNS Whitelist - rule optimization

2006-11-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
I'd like to give SpamAssassin configuration instructions for the use of dnswl.org (DNS Whitelisting project, see http://www.dnswl.org/). The goal is to ensure a) efficient (minimal) use of DNS queries and b) that fake headers do not trigger any whitelisting. From my understanding, this can be

Re: first received header forged

2006-12-05 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Handle wrote: Received: from 141.88.223.236 (HELO mx1.ihk.de) by mydomain.at with esmtp (08E71A-P)@7X K0'+V) id 76)4Y6-50O4:-+8 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 01:20:50 +0180 [..] Is there a way to write a custom

Rule update over DNS?

2006-12-06 Thread Matthias Leisi
For certain kinds of spam, it would be advantageous to have a highly dynamic set of rules (eg stock spams). The usual methods (à la sa-update) are usually slow - slow as in once or twice a day; however I think it would make sense to have them fast - fast as in continuously updated. As such, DNS

Re: Spamassassin doesn't ding sender for saying HELO i-am-you

2006-12-08 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fred T wrote: As someone else pointed out, the best bet might be the use of a new config item / plugin. something like: ifplugin mxhelo mx_helo_name mx.host.tld host.tld d.d.d.d headerHELO_AS_ME eval:check_for_my_mx() score

Re: Top 10 ASN and CIDR's for 18 Nov

2006-12-15 Thread Matthias Leisi
Mick Pollard wrote: Chris wrote: Seems the huge network of compromised machines that started earlier this month are still going strong and appears to be growing. My spam input has grown today by about 700%. Below are the top ASN's and CIDR's for todays run: Report date: Sat Nov 18

Re: Using Autowhitelist as a Greylist

2006-12-17 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Codger wrote: I was wondering about anyone's thoughts toward having a real autogreylist database as part of, but separate from, the autowhitelist in SA? Or even if you think this is all a bad thing to do in the first place. The appeal for me

Re: DNSBL's activated, but where in config?

2006-12-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin wrote: Hi, I ran spamassassin in debug-mode and noticed the following output: [23887] dbg: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0x9a4a910) implements 'parsed_metadata' [23887] dbg: uridnsbl: domains to query: [23887]

Re: Whitelist and Excessive Spam Please Help

2006-12-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kyle Quillen wrote: I have a few issues with our filtering and am not sure how to make things better. The main issue that I have is that I have created a whitelist.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin but with the following [..] I am not

sa-update spamd: updatedir

2006-12-20 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can specify sa-update --updatedir path to use something other than the default (eg /var/lib/spamassassin/version). However, I can not do the same for spamd(8) and spamassassin(1) -- they have LOCAL_STATE_DIR substituted at make time. I know that I

Re: [OT] Re: ORDB.org is shutting down

2006-12-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:16:43 +0100, Emmanuel Lesouef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org, reject_rbl_client rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org, reject_rbl_client

Re: Google Summer of Code 2007 ...

2007-02-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Mason wrote: Also, any suggestions from outside the dev team? Anyone got good ideas for new SpamAssassin features that would be good to pay someone to work on for 3 months? If I look at the tools and scripts I built around SA (and which

Re: spam mails bypassing spamassassin?

2007-02-24 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mathias Homann wrote: Is that size limit configureable? | Usage: spamc [options] [-e command [args]] message | | Options: | [..] | -s size Specify maximum message size, in bytes. | [default: 250k] - --

Re: Regex Question

2007-03-03 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Frankcom wrote: pointed out by a kind list member, there are various 'flavours' of regex. Can anyone tell me which particular flavour I'm best concentrating on for SA rules? man perlre - -- Matthias -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: relaying don't affect Rbl score ?

2007-04-03 Thread Matthias Leisi
/ Spam1 Internet == MX Relay == Spam2 \Spam3 I use DNS Round Robin for MX Relay sent at all spam server. I want know if in this solution, that don't change Rbl Score ? he use the IP of the sender,

How to use dnswl.org whitelisting with SA 3.2.0 (quick-fix)

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Leisi
[Disclosure: I'm involved with the dnswl.org project] SA 3.2.0 misses one rule to get the actual dnswl.org lookup rules working (reported in http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5450, targetted for resolution in 3.2.1). In order to use dnswl.org lookups already today, add the

Re: How to use dnswl.org whitelisting with SA 3.2.0 (quick-fix)

2007-05-07 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack L. Stone wrote: When I run manual test: [EMAIL PROTECTED] host 2.0.0.127.list.dnswl.org ...I get 2.0.0.127.list.dnswl.org has address 127.0.10.0 Not return of 127.0.0.2??? There was a doc error on http://www.dnswl.org/tech telling

Re: check mx and compare sender ip address ??

2007-05-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
I have received some mails that from domain and return-path domain is different and from domain is in whitelist nowadays. So spamassassin decide mail that is ham . because of user_in_whilist rule. Instead of whitelist_from you should use whitelist_from_rcvd, eg to whitelist mails from me,

Re: dnswl.org

2007-05-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sujit Acharyya-Choudhury wrote: We are currently running SpamAssassin 3.1.7. Can we run dnswl.org with this version of SpamAssassin? Sure - it uses regular DNSBL-style lookups. dnswl.org data (and the rules) should work in almost any version of

Re: Yellow Listing and other new conceots

2007-06-22 Thread Matthias Leisi
I think it would be useful to start using this idea more widely to improve the quality of DNS listing. So roll the idea around and see if we can build on it. It's somewhat similar to the trust levels we use in dnswl.org (where, incidentially, we partly import data from different sources that

Re: 7min delay after loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check

2007-06-23 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Farrell wrote: Investigating 12 minute/message processing time - SA hangs on Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check. One thing to investigate: Nameservers. I just had a case where mails were being unexplicably delayed. It turned out that the

Re: when might RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP be wrong?

2007-07-07 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill McGonigle wrote: I've seen plenty of spam hit the RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP rule and just recently noticed that the default score is only 0.23. My first impression is that if they're sending from an unassigned address then I ought to just crank

Re: Rule suggestion - smtp sanity

2007-07-16 Thread Matthias Leisi
From large providers i sometimes recieve messages through encrypted smtp, the header looks smth like this (qmail): ... with (AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; ... Would it be a good idea to give a minimal negative score on this -0.1 or -0.2 if this happens on the last hop? - It proves that the

Re: is there a whitelist rhswl available

2007-07-18 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Disclosure: I'm involved with dnswl.org] ram wrote: http://www.dnswl.org/ http://wiki.ctyme.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists Both work well IMHO These are ip lists. I think there would be some spamassassin rule already ( RCVD_IN_DNSWL ???) .

Re: spam leaks, high server load!?

2007-08-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego H. schrieb: If anyone suggest to remove some SA plugin from v310.pre, v312.pre or v320.pre would be nice. Maybe one of this plugins is pushing the load too, If anyone recommend to turn it off, I would like to hear comments: Perform

Re: pdfinfo - how to prove it is working

2007-08-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CharlesLai schrieb: Just copy the PDFInfo.pm plugin into the default directory for Spamassassin plugins: sudo cp /downloads/pdfinfo/PDFInfo.pm /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/ Remember that putting your custom plugins there

Re: FW: Performance problem after upgrading from SA 3.2.1 to 3.2.2

2007-08-09 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: It's the following plugin. I have tested loading and commenting out the plugin - it's the culprit. SA 3.2.2 automatically adds several plugins automatically. # ASN - Look up the Autonomous System Number of the

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