Re: Increase in targeted spams

2006-07-24 Thread jdow
From: "Chris Santerre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of our users received a spam today from genutrust .com, URL in spam CHICHIMECA .COM This spam was VERY targeted. User's first and last name, complete address, and her phone number. She informed me her phone number was listed with initials of her an

Re: DNS timeout and debugging

2006-07-24 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 22:12:14 +0100, Ben Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am running SpamAssassin 3.1.2 on Windows 2003 Server. > >Is there any way for me to change the DNS timeout period? > >Is there a way for me to increase debugging info on DNSBL tests? >When for some reason, if all DNS tests

Re: meta rule format

2006-07-24 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:25:23 +0100, Ben Wylie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Am running SpamAssassin 3.1.2 on Windows 2003 Server. > >I have written a meta rule and i want it to only hit if it hits the >first rule AND one of the three in brackets. > >This syntax doesn't seem to work as it hits when

DNS timeout and debugging

2006-07-24 Thread Ben Wylie
I am running SpamAssassin 3.1.2 on Windows 2003 Server. Is there any way for me to change the DNS timeout period? Is there a way for me to increase debugging info on DNSBL tests? When for some reason, if all DNS tests work, no positive results are given, and only if it times out on some of them

Re: Bug in sa-learn (Debian :3.0.3-2sarge1)

2006-07-24 Thread Stuart Johnston
This is just a warning that you can ignore. If it bothers you, the best solution would be to upgrade to 3.1.3. Alternately, you could try this on your lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm: 182c182,189 < $hp->parse(pack ('C0A*', $text)); --- > { > local $SIG{__WARN__} = sub { > warn @_ u

Re: meta rule format

2006-07-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:25:23PM +0100, Ben Wylie wrote: > This syntax doesn't seem to work as it hits when it hits one of the last > three but not the first one. > > meta DRUGS_RX (__RX + (__SPEN_DING || __PRESCRIPTION || __SAVE)) You want a boolean and (&&). The way you've done it the "+" l

RE: meta rule format

2006-07-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ben Wylie wrote: > Am running SpamAssassin 3.1.2 on Windows 2003 Server. > > I have written a meta rule and i want it to only hit if it hits the > first rule AND one of the three in brackets. > > This syntax doesn't seem to work as it hits when it hits one of the > last three but not the first on

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread hamann . w
Hi, it seems to me that one of the big problems of email is the fact that email clients more or less hide the email address in favor of the display name, and that many users seem to lack the knowledge to check, let alone understand, message headers I guess most people should be able to notice the

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Ramprasad wrote: > > Except = SPF breaks email forwarding. It requires that the world > > change how email is forwarded and that's not going to happen. Thus if > > a bank has a hard fail and someone with an account on my server gets > > email from an account that is forwarded

meta rule format

2006-07-24 Thread Ben Wylie
Am running SpamAssassin 3.1.2 on Windows 2003 Server. I have written a meta rule and i want it to only hit if it hits the first rule AND one of the three in brackets. This syntax doesn't seem to work as it hits when it hits one of the last three but not the first one. meta DRUGS_RX (__RX +

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread hamann . w
Domainkeys does less harm to forwarded messages than spf - a forwarder just has to put a Sender: header there, rother than implement srs Wolfgang Hamann >> >> Michael Scheidell wrote: >> >> -Original Message- >> >> From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Sent: Monday, July

RE: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Title: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams   From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 10:19 AMTo: Spaml (E-mail); SaTalk (E-mail)Subject: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams One of our users received a spam today from genutrust .com, URL in s

Re: [SPAM] Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John D. Hardin wrote: On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: I assume that means the redirector_pattern I suggested is not necessary? Right. Anything that would match (https?:\/\/.*) is already taken care of by SA internally. The problem is that SA doesn't then go on to do chec

Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Jeff Chan wrote: On Monday, July 24, 2006, 1:34:35 AM, Daryl O'Shea wrote: Being a simple visible redirector, SA actually does detect it: [7375] dbg: uri: cleaned html uri, http://1092229727:/https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php [7375] dbg: uri: html domain, google.com The problem i

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Marc Perkel wrote: But I have no control over the servers that forward to me. Thus SPF is useless. so, again, bottom line: SMTP is broken. has been, phishing, forgeries, email viruses prove it. YOU fix it without breaking something. It can't be done. All you can do is compromise., and ps, SP

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Marc Perkel
But I have no control over the servers that forward to me. Thus SPF is useless. Michael Scheidell wrote: Ramprasad wrote: I know this is a troll subject Yes SPF breaks email forwarding, so does PTR checking ( which never was a great idea IMHO ). Every technique has some drawbacks. SPF has som

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Ramprasad wrote: I know this is a troll subject Yes SPF breaks email forwarding, so does PTR checking ( which never was a great idea IMHO ). Every technique has some drawbacks. SPF has some but is still better than the rest When you want add security to an inherently insecure medium you cant say

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Ramprasad
> Except = SPF breaks email forwarding. It requires that the world > change how email is forwarded and that's not going to happen. Thus if > a bank has a hard fail and someone with an account on my server gets > email from an account that is forwarded then my server sees the email > as coming from

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Scheidell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, and if you require all mail servers to only take mail from > xxx.bank.com, what good is that? doesn't that break how everyone > receives email? No. It just rings very loud alarm bells when an email claiming to be from the bank comes from a ser

Bug in sa-learn (Debian :3.0.3-2sarge1)

2006-07-24 Thread Johann Spies
I have found this in the archives, but I did not find a solution yet. On a mailserver that I have upgraded to Debian Sarge, the following warning appears when I am running sa-learn: Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage when decoding entities at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/HTML.pm li

Re: [SPAM] Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > href="http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=Br3ycNQz5Q-fXBJGSiQLU0eDSAueHkArnhtWZAu-FmQWgjlkQAxgFKAg4AEDKEUiFOVD-4r2f-P8BoAGyqor_A8gBAZUCCapCCqkCxU7NLQH0sz4&num=5&adurl=http://1092229727:/https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php";>Cli

SPAM: Increase in targeted spams

2006-07-24 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: SPAM: Increase in targeted spams One of our users received a spam today from genutrust .com, URL in spam CHICHIMECA .COM This spam was VERY targeted. User's first and last name, complete address, and her phone number. She informed me her phone number was listed with initials of her an

Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

2006-07-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Chris Santerre wrote: Aren't we dealing with a boolean data set? Its either spam or ham. Which you train your software to look for doesn't really matter. Actually not. I look at email differently. I process 4 different grades of spam and 3 grades of ham. As to my Black/White/yellow listi

RE: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

2006-07-24 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List > -Original Message- > From: Ramprasad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:08 AM > To: Marc Perkel > Cc: John Andersen; spamassassin-users > Subject: Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List > > >

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
Marc Perkel wrote: Except = SPF breaks email forwarding. It requires that the world change how email is forwarded and that's not going to happen. Thus if a bank has a hard fail and someone with an account on my server gets email from an account that is forwarded then my server sees t

SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:44 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List Ramprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

RE: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Graham Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 7:44 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List > > > Ramprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > A lot of banks/legitimate bulk em

Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, July 24, 2006, 1:34:35 AM, Daryl O'Shea wrote: > Being a simple visible redirector, SA actually does detect it: > [7375] dbg: uri: cleaned html uri, > http://1092229727:/https-www.paypal.com/webscrr/index.php > [7375] dbg: uri: html domain, google.com > The problem is that SA doe

Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

2006-07-24 Thread Graham Murray
Ramprasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A lot of banks/legitimate bulk email senders change their relay > server. Many reasons for that. The most common is that they use a third > party to relay their mails and these would keep changing Especially for banks and other high risk phishing targets,

Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

2006-07-24 Thread Ramprasad
> > An ISP wpuld never be whitelisted anyhow. Whitelisting is for things > like banks and other institutions and organizations that produce no > spam. Yellowlisting is for ISPs so that they don't accidentally get > blacklisted. SPF is useless because few are using it due to the fact > that it jus

Re: bayes sitewide

2006-07-24 Thread Obantec Support
- Original Message - From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:28 AM Subject: Re: bayes sitewide > From: "Obantec Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Logan Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006, Obantec Support wrote: > >> > /etc/mail/spamassas

Re: Google ad services redirector abuse

2006-07-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John D. Hardin wrote: This wasn't detected as a redirector attack by 3.1.3, running sa-update weekly: {snippage} http://www.google.com/pagead/iclk?sa=l&ai=Br3ycNQz5Q-fXBJGSiQLU0eDSAueHkArnhtWZAu-FmQWgjlkQAxgFKAg4AEDKEUiFOVD-4r2f-P8BoAGyqor_A8gBAZUCCapCCqkCxU7NLQH0sz4&num=5&adurl=http://10

Re: Frequent "sysread not ready"-messages

2006-07-24 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Monday 24 July 2006 00:54, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > Have a read through bug 4950.  This might be it.  If so, please > provide as much info and log info as you can.  If not, please open a > new bug. > > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4590 Right, it looks like the same s