Not just use_bayes_rules 0

2006-06-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
I want to make sure I'm not misinterpreting something else before I report this as a bug. I just tried use_bayes 1 use_bayes_rules 0 The effect of this seems to be that NONE of the rules are applied, except whitelist_from and blacklist_from. I had assumed it would just turn off the BAYES_* rul

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread markwolk
Michael Monnerie-4 wrote: > > On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 00:49 markwolk wrote: >> X-Priority: 3 >> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 >> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0625-7, 06/23/2006), Outbound message >> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean >> X-Virus-Scanne

Re: japanese mail get high score

2006-06-23 Thread Aabash Gurung
Hi, I'm using spamassassin 3.1.1 in freebsd, default confugiration with fred and xHash rules added. Hope the provided information is enough, let me know if you need more information. Here's the few enties from maillog (I have removed rhost, raddr and rport from enties) :- spamd: result: Y 39 -

Re: Trouble with UNwhitelist_from_rcvd

2006-06-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 6/23/06, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well you could s/address/address pattern/. I could, but plainly what I did was s/used in/used in processing/, because it seemed a whole lot more intuitive for it to function that way. Ah, well. This will probably change in a future v

Re: Trouble with UNwhitelist_from_rcvd

2006-06-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 6/23/2006 11:54 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: On 6/23/06, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you read the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf perldoc? Yes ... so what you're saying is, "previously used in" means "written in the config file entry" not "used in spamassassin when matching". T

Re: Trouble with UNwhitelist_from_rcvd

2006-06-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 6/23/06, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you read the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf perldoc? Yes ... so what you're saying is, "previously used in" means "written in the config file entry" not "used in spamassassin when matching". The phrase "the address" is what threw me; the s

Re: trusted_networks confusion

2006-06-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 6/21/2006 4:39 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: After reading the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf (spamassassin 3.1.3-1 on Debian) I was unclear about trusted vs internal networks. After reviewing previous emails on this list, here's what I think it is: trusted_networks for hosts I trust to put good info in t

Re: Trouble with UNwhitelist_from_rcvd

2006-06-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 6/23/2006 10:24 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: The short of it is that I can't get unwhitelist_from_rcvd to unwhitelist anything. whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] brasslantern.com unwhitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] brasslantern.com but this does not change anything. In fact I've tr

Re: Two Errors With Spamassassin - Please Help

2006-06-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 6/22/2006 12:18 PM, James Hindley wrote: Here following is the error being returned when i run: spamassassin -D --lint [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# spamassassin -D --lint Global symbol "%opt" requires explicit package name at /usr/bin/spamassassin line 117. Unmatched right curly bracket at /

Trouble with UNwhitelist_from_rcvd

2006-06-23 Thread Bart Schaefer
The short of it is that I can't get unwhitelist_from_rcvd to unwhitelist anything. Here's the situation: We have a brand-new machine that's going to be swapped in as our mail server. We're trying to test everything thoroughly before we switch over to it. To avoid any loss of mail, I have a tes

Re: SA::DBI plugin and SA 3.1.3

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Parker
Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 02:30 Michael Parker wrote: >> Add --debug dbiplugin to your starup command line. > > Sorry I checked that already, but forgot to post it: > # spamd -D dbiplugin -q -c -l -r /var/run/spamd.pid --min-children=2 > --max-children=15 --min-spare=2 >

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 02:31 jdow wrote: > Create business plan. > Acquire domains. > Acquire machines, install software, setup website, yatta and yatta. > # Bingo - five days are long gone before you: > Turn on sendmail. Yes, that could be the good thing, but there might be people quicker tha

Re: SA::DBI plugin and SA 3.1.3

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 02:30 Michael Parker wrote: > Add --debug dbiplugin to your starup command line. Sorry I checked that already, but forgot to post it: # spamd -D dbiplugin -q -c -l -r /var/run/spamd.pid --min-children=2 --max-children=15 --min-spare=2 [27733] dbg: dbiplugin: Creating unc

Re: SPLING_QUERY and UNPARSABLE_RELAY...

2006-06-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 23 June 2006 23:12, Screaming Eagle took the opportunity to write: > Does any know what SPLING_QUERY and UNPARSABLE_RELAY mean? I want to give > them a higher score then the default. I have several email with this test, > but the score are to low for it to be mark as spam. But before ra

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread jdow
From: "Magnus Holmgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Friday 23 June 2006 16:59, Chris Santerre took the opportunity to write: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and that this is just you trying to be a perfectionist due to your swedish watchmaking gene. ;) You mean Swiss watch-making gene? We S

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

2006-06-23 Thread jdow
From: "Michael Monnerie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That way it would be a bit smoother. After all, there is a small percentage of new domains being legit, I heard. *g* Create business plan. Acquire domains. Acquire machines, install software, setup website, yatta and yatta. # Bingo - five days are l

Re: SA::DBI plugin and SA 3.1.3

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Parker
Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 18:09 Michael Parker wrote: >> You're pointed at the wrong DBI.pm. I updated the wiki to make it >> more obvious. > > It's running now, but I can't see caching to happen. Below some > log lines. Any ideas? Add --debug dbiplugin to your starup

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 23 June 2006 16:59, Chris Santerre took the opportunity to write: > > I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and that this is just you trying to > be a perfectionist due to your swedish watchmaking gene. ;) You mean Swiss watch-making gene? We Swedes aren't primarily famous for making w

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread jdow
From: "markwolk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Michael Monnerie-4 wrote: So basically only your headers are munged. Could you please show a message you sent yourself with all headers? Can you verify what could destroy/modify your headers? Hi Michael, Thanks for offering your help. Here is an example

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 02:09 jdow wrote: > However, doesn't a greylist perform much the same intent - a domain > that has not been heard from before is held off for a second chance > in half an hour to an hour. Yes, but greylisting goes for the from/to/IP triplet. > "Obviously" new domains wo

Re: always 0.00 score?

2006-06-23 Thread jdow
From: "Gary V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >i just updated from 2.64 to the current version. after fixing some perl issues spamassassin --lint is showing no more error, but unfortunately every message is discovered with a 0.00 score. http://phpfi.com/125371 (had to put it external, as my mail w

Re: SA::DBI plugin and SA 3.1.3

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag, 20. Juni 2006 18:09 Michael Parker wrote: > You're pointed at the wrong DBI.pm.  I updated the wiki to make it > more obvious. It's running now, but I can't see caching to happen. Below some log lines. Any ideas? 2006-06-24 00:12:22 CEST [unbekannt] 2006-06-24 00:12:22 CEST LOG: Ve

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

2006-06-23 Thread jdow
From: "Jeff Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 goo

Re: Feeding message body only into Bayes?

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 23:34 John D. Hardin wrote: > Is there any way to feed this into the bayes database via sa-learn? I believe NO. Look at the wiki, IIRC there's something written about that. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/41565

Re: New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 00:06 Brian Godette wrote: > Which basically means you've never trained or autolearned on airmiles > rewards ham, which we happen to see a fair number of That could be, as I sit here in Vienna, Austria, Europe, and my main language is german. Lots of things seem to be di

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 24. Juni 2006 00:49 markwolk wrote: > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 > X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0625-7, 06/23/2006), Outbound message > X-Antivirus-Status: Clean > X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV at mailsnare.net > X-Virus

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread markwolk
Michael Monnerie-4 wrote: > > So basically only your headers are munged. Could you please show a > message you sent yourself with all headers? Can you verify what could > destroy/modify your headers? Hi Michael, Thanks for offering your help. Here is an example of an email sent from myself to

Re: New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Brian Godette
On Friday 23 June 2006 15:28, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Are you sure about that? It would have to be a message that was ham, > have (nearly) the same content, autolearn must be on and the message > must have been learned. That's a lot of "if...and.." statements. I use > sitewide bayes (hand trained

RE: sudden deluge of university spams

2006-06-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Ramprasad wrote: > > Yes, as SA collapses multiple spaces down to a single space (in 'body' > > tests), you only need to look for a single instance of the space, > > not an unlimited number. Also you can omit that final ' *' as it's > > an optional "tail" match, thus the rule

Feeding message body only into Bayes?

2006-06-23 Thread John D. Hardin
Assume for a moment I have only the body text of a spam; no headers, no MIME boundaries, nothing else, just the body text. Is there any way to feed this into the bayes database via sa-learn? -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic

Re[3]: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Sanford Whiteman
> win can lock the file on occasion and cause SA to fail. By which I think you mean that *your Windows-based MTA* can lock the file and cause SA to fail. A properly-written MTA-SA hook, or MTA-name_your_external_hook, has no such problems on Windows. We process millions of messages through

Re: New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 21:58 Brian Godette wrote: > Also note that a large amount of your score was from > DCC, Razor, and URIBLs that didn't hit at the initial receipt of this > message. Yes, another reason to use greylisting *g* If I counted correct, it should still - but just - have been ma

Re: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Ben, as the author of the iXhash plugin I'd say - yes, it works. But actually I've not a clue if it does. Never tried and propably never will. However, the plugin essentially only uses Digest::MD5 and Net::DNS. I guess that if Net::DNS works OK on Windows, my plugin propably works as well. O

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 21:50 markwolk wrote: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.892 tagged_above=3 required=9 > tests=BAYES_00, MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, > RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME, SPF_PASS I've looked in the rules: RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME hits (among others) when no "X-Mailer" header exists. MS

SPLING_QUERY and UNPARSABLE_RELAY...

2006-06-23 Thread Screaming Eagle
Does any know what SPLING_QUERY and UNPARSABLE_RELAY mean?  I want to give them a higher score then the default. I have several email with this test, but the score are to low for it to be mark as spam.  But before raising the score on it, I want to know what it does. Thanks.

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Stuart Johnston
markwolk wrote: Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. I am by no means a spammer; I send an average of 40 mails a day, most replies to enquiries and regular day-to-day correspondence. Worrying about being mistaken for a spammer is more than watchmaker's perfectionism when I see that the

Re: New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Brian Godette
On Friday 23 June 2006 13:24, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 20:56 Brian Godette wrote: > > Spammer is using a ham corpus message and including the entire plain > > text inside an HTML comment (<-- -->). > > Seems to be "pas problem" for SA: > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=16.9 requ

RE: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread markwolk
Chris Santerre wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: markwolk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:53 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, >> RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME >> >> >> >> Hello to all, >>

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

2006-06-23 Thread Noel Jones
At 02:15 PM 6/23/2006, Michael Monnerie wrote: > You can use the "rbl_reply_maps" feature to tell postfix to 454 defer > this mail rather than 554 reject it. See docs or postfix-users list > for details. OK, I X-post now to postfix-users, because this part belongs there. When I use rbl_rep

Re: New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 20:56 Brian Godette wrote: > Spammer is using a ham corpus message and including the entire plain > text inside an HTML comment (<-- -->). Seems to be "pas problem" for SA: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=16.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99=3.5,DCC_CHECK=2.17, DIGEST_MULTIP

New!!... "native", "fully win32" windows port of SA

2006-06-23 Thread Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems)
RE: New!!... "native", "fully win32" windows port of SA Just though I'd let ya'll know... there is now a "native" port of SpamAssassin available with operational Razor & DCC (not sure about Pyzor). This is fully ported win32 code, no Cyg emulation needed. In testing, it works great. DOWNLOAD HE

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 20:55 Noel Jones wrote: > add to your other rbl restrictions in postfix: >    reject_rhsbl_sender dob.sibl.support-intelligence.net Yes, but it can of course only check the sender (MAIL FROM) of the e-mail. This can be forged to be anything, and then within the mail is

Re: RE: RE: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems)
Just though I'd let ya'll know... there is now a "native" port of SpamAssassin available with operational Razor & DCC (not sure about Pyzor). This is fully ported win32 code, no Cyg emulation needed. In testing, it works great. If anyone on this list is using a Cyg port, I'd love to know if you

New bayes busting method.

2006-06-23 Thread Brian Godette
So far this is the first time I've seen this be used. Spammer is using a ham corpus message and including the entire plain text inside an HTML comment (<-- -->). Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: by mailhost.idcomm.com (Pos

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

2006-06-23 Thread Noel Jones
On 6/23/06, Michael Monnerie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A check for new domains would be good implemented in the MTA directly, so postfix could temporary reject delivery until the domain is at least 6 days old. OK, it would offend real people - but waiting 5 days for a new company shouldn't be to

Re: Proposed uniform naming scheme for spammer/phisher content trickery (fwd)

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 15:44 Justin Mason wrote: > John G-C has made an interesting proposal -- virus-scanner-style > names for spammer obfuscation tricks.  I like it. > > Read, and comment, here: >   > http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/06/proposed-uniform-naming-scheme-for.html What would be the e

Re: RE: RE: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
For all my comments earlier, SA with Razor, Pyzor & DCC work well,; far better since the SA rig was moved to nix. I use CentOS & FC3/4 here. The net results are most agreeable. I hit maybe 1 - 5 FP/FN a week - which is pretty good on the local setup. All things considered I'm most happy. I've jus

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 17:43 Jeff Chan wrote: > Please see the topic of the original message.  Such a BL has > already been created by Rick Wesson of ar.com. I've read it, but it didn't say how reliable that BL is. Does it 100% cover all new domains world wide, or just for some? Is it directly

Re: sa-learn with another mail server

2006-06-23 Thread Rick Macdougall
kazabe wrote: Hi Im using SA with a postfix mail server. But i need use this server, to protect another server (puntually a MS EXchange). So the postfix receive the messages, process it and pass the filtered messages to the MS Ech. Normally my users use imap to read the messages, using a spam

RE: RE: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Bret Miller
> We use a Win32 mail server that passes mail over to a nix SA box; one > thing that's been noted is that win can lock the file on occasion and > cause SA to fail. It seems windows file locks have much to answer for. > One possible culprit is the index server; this may or may not apply to > you. Di

sa-learn with another mail server

2006-06-23 Thread kazabe
Hi Im using SA with a postfix mail server. But i need use this server, to protect another server (puntually a MS EXchange). So the postfix receive the messages, process it and pass the filtered messages to the MS Ech. Normally my users use imap to read the messages, using a spam folder to deli

Re: RE: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi, We use a Win32 mail server that passes mail over to a nix SA box; one thing that's been noted is that win can lock the file on occasion and cause SA to fail. It seems windows file locks have much to answer for. One possible culprit is the index server; this may or may not apply to you. Disabli

RE: Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread Bret Miller
> I am running SpamAssassin on a Windows 2003 Server. > It is version 3.1.2. > > Is there any way to know which plugins work on the Windows version? > > The Windows setup instructions at > http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa310.html > seems to say that DCC and Razor don't work and that Pyzor is > d

Various plugins for Windows version?

2006-06-23 Thread sassassin
I am running SpamAssassin on a Windows 2003 Server. It is version 3.1.2. Is there any way to know which plugins work on the Windows version? The Windows setup instructions at http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa310.html seems to say that DCC and Razor don't work and that Pyzor is difficult to set

RE: how do i integrate SPF In ...

2006-06-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Screaming Eagle wrote: > how about those test that does not have plugins, e.g: 20_drugs.cf > and 20_fake_helo_tests.cf, how do you include this in your > spamasassin? If they are standard rules found in /usr/share/spamassassin, don't do anything. They are automatically used. (Unless you have /va

Re: Confused about sa-update, directory locations

2006-06-23 Thread Kelson
Logan Shaw wrote: For what it's worth, I haven't added my own rules (yet), but I believe those are done in a separate place, so the fact that one set is substituted for another shouldn't cause problems. Yes, local rules go in their own directory, usually /etc/mail/spamassassin -- Kelson Vibber

Re: textocr and deleting messages

2006-06-23 Thread Kelson
Justin Cook wrote: Actually, better question: is it possible to bounce messages with too many hits? First, I'm assuming that by "bounce" you mean "reject" -- because generating a bounce message to a sender that is more than likely forged is a Bad Idea(TM). Not directly with SpamAssassin --

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Ninja Dude
markwolk wrote: PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME and have often high spam scores. How can I send emails that do not trigger these remarks? You could always try using a name...

RE: always 0.00 score?

2006-06-23 Thread Gary V
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Re: how do i integrate SPF In ...

2006-06-23 Thread Screaming Eagle
how about those test that does not have plugins, e.g: 20_drugs.cf and 20_fake_helo_tests.cf, how do you include this in your spamasassin? Thanks.

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 peri

RE: always 0.00 score?

2006-06-23 Thread Gary V
i also recognized, that the old version used this in local.cf: http://phpfi.com/125374 (had to put it external, as my mail was always blocked - to long) but if i add this to the config again i get errors when using --lint. You show: user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:confixx:localhost;mysql

RE: always 0.00 score?

2006-06-23 Thread Gary V
i just updated from 2.64 to the current version. after fixing some perl issues spamassassin --lint is showing no more error, but unfortunately every message is discovered with a 0.00 score. http://phpfi.com/125371 (had to put it external, as my mail was always blocked - to long) bel

RE: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK _NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME > -Original Message- > From: markwolk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:53 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, > RATWAR

RE: ZMI_GERMAN ruleset

2006-06-23 Thread Bret Miller
> On Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2006 18:28 Bret Miller wrote: > > My copy was accidentally not in the update list for a > while. It says: > > # Current Home: http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_zmi_german.cf > > Upps - I changed this info now to http://zmi.at/x/70_zmi_german.cf, > which is the correct

Proposed uniform naming scheme for spammer/phisher content trickery (fwd)

2006-06-23 Thread Justin Mason
John G-C has made an interesting proposal -- virus-scanner-style names for spammer obfuscation tricks. I like it. Read, and comment, here: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/06/proposed-uniform-naming-scheme-for.html --j.

Re: sudden deluge of university spams

2006-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
Ramprasad writes: > > > > I am doing regex match something like > > > /1 *- *2 *2 *- *3 *3 */ > > > > > > Any inputs ? > > > > Yes, as SA collapses multiple spaces down to a single space (in 'body' > > tests), you only need to look for a single instance of the space, > > not an unlimited number.

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 11:52 markwolk wrote: > ..triggers MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, > RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME > I use Outlook Express 6 and all of my IE is 100% legal > How can I send emails that do not trigger these remarks? If that's true, it's a bug in these rules. Open a bug on spam

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 23. Juni 2006 14:49 Jeff Chan wrote: > 1.  Getting domain ages from whois is difficult and very > non-uniform between registrars. > 2.  We probably don't want millions of MTAs doing billions of > whois queries per day or per hour. I didn't think of whois, anyway. > 4. A DNSBL is a re

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

2006-06-23 Thread Justin Mason
Jeff Chan writes: > 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

Re: textocr and deleting messages

2006-06-23 Thread Justin Cook
Title: Justin Cook - Signature Actually, better question: is it possible to bounce messages with too many hits? Justin Cook wrote: Hiya! I've had a go at setting up the textocr plugin (the one by Martin blapp) found on the Wiki. I've created the textocr.pm plugin and added the followi

textocr and deleting messages

2006-06-23 Thread Justin Cook
Title: Justin Cook - Signature Hiya! I've had a go at setting up the textocr plugin (the one by Martin blapp) found on the Wiki. I've created the textocr.pm plugin and added the following line to my local.cf: loadplugin textocr textocr.pm Is this all I need to do, or is there more? Also, ho

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,

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

2006-06-23 Thread Michael Monnerie
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 postfix could temporary reject delivery until the domain is at le

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

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, June 22, 2006, 7:46:33 PM, List User wrote: > Lots of spam > domains don't get used for the first 5 days already because of the ease > with which they can be nuke'd in that time period. I just realized you may be referring to the "domain tasting" or "domain kiting" issue, where millio

Re: How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/23/2006 11:52 AM, markwolk wrote: Hello to all, I am always worried that a potentially important customer will not get the email I am sending him and I like to double-check that I am sending my emails the proper way. All my domains have SPF records. I send and receive test emails regularly

How to avoid MSGID_DOLLARS, PRIORITY_NO_NAME, RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME

2006-06-23 Thread markwolk
Hello to all, I am always worried that a potentially important customer will not get the email I am sending him and I like to double-check that I am sending my emails the proper way. All my domains have SPF records. I send and receive test emails regularly to check that everything works OK. Rec

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

2006-06-23 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, June 22, 2006, 7:46:33 PM, List User wrote: > Seems quite conservative to me - It seems that any "new" domain > should/would be *very* well behaved during the 5-day ICANN defined "trial" > period (a domains can be deleted by the registrar in the first 5 days with > no "redempti

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. Anyo

Re: how do i integrate SPF In ...

2006-06-23 Thread Ramprasad
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 00:51 -0400, Screaming Eagle wrote: > how do I integrate SPF in /usr/share/spamassassin/25_spf.cf into > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf? The content of 25_spf.cf directed > me to Mail::Spamassassin::Conf, after reading it, I am still not clear > on how to configure spf? >