Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Apr 2019, at 17:16, BlackIce_ wrote: I have had a significant backscatter issue in the past. lately I have been seeing the same issue you all are. I have Spamassassin and a postfix server setup and it works most of the time. Likely I need additional filter lines. I saw the KAM.cf menti

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread BlackIce_
I have had a significant backscatter issue in the past. lately I have been seeing the same issue you all are. I have Spamassassin and a postfix server setup and it works most of the time. Likely I need additional filter lines. I saw the KAM.cf mentioned, but do not see a place to obtain it. A

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread John Stoffel
> "Phil" == Phil Stracchino writes: Phil> On 4/23/19 2:40 PM, lists wrote: >> I would investigate using rspamd rather than spamassassin. At the moment >> I run neither since I have settled upon a nice mix of RBLs and check the >> reverse pointer. That Perl code to get rid of dynamic domains r

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread lists
All these filtering schemes are like the old Christmas tree lights where if one bulb fails, the whole thing stops working. Well sort of. I believe the RBLs can fail, say time out, and postfix keeps working. My point though is you need to consider the possibility of the mail server going down due

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 4/23/19 2:40 PM, lists wrote: > I would investigate using rspamd rather than spamassassin. At the moment > I run neither since I have settled upon a nice mix of RBLs and check the > reverse pointer. That Perl code to get rid of dynamic domains really > helps nuke spammers. > > Spamassassin tend

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread lists
I would investigate using rspamd rather than spamassassin. At the moment I run neither since I have settled upon a nice mix of RBLs and check the reverse pointer. That Perl code to get rid of dynamic domains really helps nuke spammers.Spamassassin tends to use a lot of memory. When I was using it

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Apr 2019, at 11:46, John Peach wrote: On 4/23/19 11:39 AM, Paul wrote: Yes I agree with Kevin here, the best solution to this problem is an spf record set to reject mail from any ip that’s not in your allowed list of ips for your domain. Forging a from address is very easy and is one of

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread B. Reino
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Ian Jones wrote: I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my own address. The emails contain text in a jpg image and claims my account has been hacked and demands $1000 paid to a bitcoin account. I would like to find a way to reject emails from m

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Ralph Seichter
* John Peach: > It is not meant to catch the envelope sender. That should be in your > normal checks. Which is why I mentioned check_sender_access as an addition, for the OP's benefit. -Ralph

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/23/2019 12:20 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > // maintainer hat on > > why are this rules not added to spamasassin core :( > Because masscheck and rule qa takes too long for the purposes we need the rules for. > \\ maintainer hat off > > or atleast a real spamassassin channel repo Time/money/en

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
It is not meant to catch the envelope sender. That should be in your normal checks. This is specifically for the data From:, which is what these are using. this will reject maillist posttings of your own unless the maillists takes over From: header and claims maillists breaks spf and dkim /

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2019-04-23 17:26: On 4/23/2019 10:02 AM, Ian Jones wrote: I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my own address. Ian, are you using Apache SpamAssassin or something in the mix?  I've published a lot of rules for these sexploitation scams

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Ian Jones
Thanks for all the suggestions: - I have an SPF record, but postfix not rejecting these, presumably because the enveloper sender is valid - I am not using SpamAssassin, but I'm coming round to the idea! - John: this idea seems simple and effective, I will give it a try. Many thanks, Ian Le

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread John Peach
On 4/23/19 11:54 AM, Ralph Seichter wrote: * John Peach: /^From:.*\@example\.com/ REJECT This header check will not catch the envelope sender, so I suggest adding "check_sender_access pcre:/path/to/sender_access" to the mix (file content according to your needs, of course). It is not meant

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Ralph Seichter
* John Peach: > /^From:.*\@example\.com/ REJECT This header check will not catch the envelope sender, so I suggest adding "check_sender_access pcre:/path/to/sender_access" to the mix (file content according to your needs, of course). -Ralph

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread John Peach
On 4/23/19 11:39 AM, Paul wrote: Yes I agree with Kevin here, the best solution to this problem is an spf record set to reject mail from any ip that’s not in your allowed list of ips for your domain. Forging a from address is very easy and is one of the main purposes of why spf was created.

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Paul: > Yes I agree with Kevin here, the best solution to this problem is > an spf record set to reject mail from any ip that?s not in your > allowed list of ips for your domain. Forging a from address is > very easy and is one of the main purposes of why spf was created. How does SPF block an add

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Paul
Yes I agree with Kevin here, the best solution to this problem is an spf record set to reject mail from any ip that’s not in your allowed list of ips for your domain. Forging a from address is very easy and is one of the main purposes of why spf was created. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 23, 2

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/23/2019 10:02 AM, Ian Jones wrote: > I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my > own address. Ian, are you using Apache SpamAssassin or something in the mix?  I've published a lot of rules for these sexploitation scams in KAM.cf and with an SPF record, you really

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Ian Jones: > Hello, > > I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my > own address. The emails contain text in a jpg image and claims my > account has been hacked and demands $1000 paid to a bitcoin account. I > would like to find a way to reject emails from my own add

Re: spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Nick Howitt
On 23/04/2019 15:02, Ian Jones wrote: Hello, I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my own address. The emails contain text in a jpg image and claims my account has been hacked and demands $1000 paid to a bitcoin account. I would like to find a way to reject email

spam from own email address

2019-04-23 Thread Ian Jones
Hello, I am getting emails like the one below, in which the header from is my own address. The emails contain text in a jpg image and claims my account has been hacked and demands $1000 paid to a bitcoin account. I would like to find a way to reject emails from my own addresses except from my

Re: TLS client certificates and auth external

2019-04-23 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Viktor Dukhovni : On Apr 19, 2019, at 1:10 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Using a name instead of cert fingerprint also requires revocation checking. Cert revocation is not needed, as long as there is an an explicit mapping like: certificate identity -> permit/etc action certif