Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mick Pollard wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:34 -0600, Chris wrote: > > I've gotten about 500 of these today and its getting to be hell weeding > > through them to pull out my LARTs which are also bouncing. Any > > ideas/suggestions are whole heartedly welcome. > > This may be useful. I haven't

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
wrote: > | messju mohr wrote: > | > mails from our host 80.237.202.55 > (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) > | > are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a > | > dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). > | > > | > How can we get our host removed

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Philip Prindeville wrote: > Don't they? I thought the recommended retry time was 2 minutes, > doubling on each failure, and maxing out at 2 hours. The traditional Sendmail would retry either every 15 or every 30 minutes. This would almost always be seen as the command line setting as sendmail -q

Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Mick Pollard
Ramprasad wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:34 -0600, Chris wrote: I've been receiving tons of supposed bounces from Peru saying I've sent messages to non-existant address using a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. One such bounce is below: Return-Path: <> Received: from pop.earthlink.net [209.86.

Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Ramprasad
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:34 -0600, Chris wrote: > I've been receiving tons of supposed bounces from Peru saying I've sent > messages to non-existant address using a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. > One such bounce is below: > > Return-Path: <> > Received: from pop.earthlink.net [209.86.93.201]

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread qqqq
| messju mohr wrote: | > Hello, | > | > mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) | > are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a | > dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). | > | > How can we get our host removed from the li

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Matt Kettler
messju mohr wrote: > Hello, > > mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) > are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a > dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). > > How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IP

backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Chris
I've been receiving tons of supposed bounces from Peru saying I've sent messages to non-existant address using a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. One such bounce is below: Return-Path: <> Received: from pop.earthlink.net [209.86.93.201] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5) for [

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Good thought. The backup has slowly drained (while I was involved in solving a major firewall problem - god I love being an SA in a medium-sized firm), so I can't check it at this moment, but if it happens again, I'll have something to start with. Kurt | -Original Message- | From: Bowie

Re: Sudden drop in spam-rate, parallel to a surge of new trojans - beware

2006-11-22 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 9:54 am, Andrew Hearn (AAISP) wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Total: 580 reports in 39m 28s. 4.08 seconds per report. > > Tue Nov 21 22:08:56 CST 2006 > > Sorry to be OT, but are these spam stats a built in feature of SA, or > have you got a plugin to get this information

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
Have you run spamassassin -D --lint? to check for syntax, etc. errors? Wes Chris Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Wes! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, twofers wrote: > Are you saying that you have separate rules in user_prefs and those rules are > not being processed? or are you talking about

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Willard
Hi Wes! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, twofers wrote: > Are you saying that you have separate rules in user_prefs and those rules are > not being processed? or are you talking about just configuration lines in > user_prefs like use_bayes 1? Yes - it does not process the seperate rules that are in user_p

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Willard
Hi Loren! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: > Did you restart spamd after changing any options? Yes. It made no difference. Regards, Chris -- /* _\|/_ (o o) +oOO-{_}-OOo+ |Chris Willard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Philip Prindeville
Don't they? I thought the recommended retry time was 2 minutes, doubling on each failure, and maxing out at 2 hours. That's what sendmail does (unless it's retry time has been explicitly set to more than 2 hours, of course). -Philip Richard Frovarp wrote: >I don't think the RFCs specify any t

FP on TVD_FW_GRAPHIC_ID1

2006-11-22 Thread Richard Frovarp
I've got a FP on the TVD_FW_GRAPHIC_ID1 rule. It is a message with a single in line image from Outlook Express. I can't post the whole message, here are what I hope are the relevant parts: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.296

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Mason
Steve [Spamassasin] writes: > An ebay "watched item" email has been wrongly tagged as spam... with the > following rules: > > -- > 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) > 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date > 0.1 TW_SJ

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Steve [Spamassasin] wrote: > > 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) > 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date > Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 > Received:from sjc2bat08.sjc.ebay.com (sjc2bat08.sjc.ebay.com [

RE: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Steve [Spamassasin] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 Should be -0700 not GMT-07:00. This may also trigger the DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, since probably the SA's date parsing module simply discards the zone offset data. giampaolo > To:... > Return-Path:<[EMAIL

Re: Using SpamAssassin variables

2006-11-22 Thread Stuart Johnston
John W Mickevich wrote: Hello all! ... I would like to know now to use a variable within SpamAssassin. For example, how would I “capture” the last name of the From header field for use in comparisons elsewhere? Here is a sample: >From: "Molly Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Me

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:20:29PM +, Steve [Spamassasin] wrote: > Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 > > Am I overlooking something here? Why doesn't SpamAssassin like these dates? That's not a valid date header, the TZ is invalid. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "... and we still hav

A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Steve [Spamassasin]
An ebay "watched item" email has been wrongly tagged as spam... with the following rules: -- 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date 0.1 TW_SJ BODY: Odd Letter Triples with SJ 0.0 HT

Re: SPF and SMTP AUTH

2006-11-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Rene Caspari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 21 november 2006 12:09 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: SPF and SMTP AUTH I have a little problem with SPF: For domain.tld there is a SPF record, which says that mail.domain.tld is al

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-22 Thread Joe Flowers
Yep, a problem I continually get is that people want to make email into something that it is not. It's not a credit card or an ATM card or Driver's license or a Visa or etc. Joe jay plesset wrote: It never fails to amaze me now many mail server admins ask for ways to break the RFC's in the in

Re: Sudden drop in spam-rate, parallel to a surge of new trojans - beware

2006-11-22 Thread Andrew Hearn (AAISP)
Chris wrote: > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 6:47 pm, Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Yesterday we had a sudden drop in spam-percentage from >80% to near 60%. >> Parallel to it I got six copies of an undetectable (by NAI and ClamAV) >> new trojan 'exe' in the Mail. >> >> Do we have to prepare fo

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-22 Thread jay plesset
It never fails to amaze me now many mail server admins ask for ways to break the RFC's in the interest of "security". I do tech support on mail servers, and get requests to configure out server for this kind of thing weekly. . . jay Philip Prindeville wrote: Well, I tried to contact some p

Re: how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:33:39PM +0200, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: > Nov 22 14:25:39 mail postfix/smtp[15132]: 23CBE1CA24: to=< [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >, orig_to=< [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=25, > status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in > process

Re: [OT really Amavis Q] how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Micke Andersson
You should upgrade your MIME::Parser as well. You are probably using a very old one, where it does not support of "max_parts" as stated in the error log! /Micke Leon Kolchinsky wrote: Example of maillog errors: Nov 22 14:25:39 mail postfix/smtp[15132]: 23CBE1CA24: to=< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >, o

Re: [spamassassin] Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread messju mohr
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:39:43PM +, Justin Mason wrote: > > messju mohr writes: > > mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) > > are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a > > dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH).

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Mason
messju mohr writes: > mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) > are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a > dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). > > How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IPS? stop

how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello All, I'm running SLES9 with the following versions: spamassassin-2.64-3.2 perl-spamassassin-2.64-3.2 amavisd-new-20030616p9-3.6 I know I probably stuck with perl5.8.3 because SLES9 don't have the newer :( I've installed new versions of SA and amavis (see below) with the following packets

Message-ID in spamd log?

2006-11-22 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list, How do I go about to make spamd report message id, or any handle for that matter, into the log? Doing traces on spamlogs is a tough one without anything to go by :-) Best regards -- Kim Christensen "With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels"

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Richard Frovarp
I don't think the RFCs specify any time limit. Most timeout after 5 days of trying. We run 3 equivalent scanning machines, which requires us to run a greylisting that will sync between them. That could cause a large delay, if the sending machine tries to send to a different host that isn't sync

FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread messju mohr
Hello, mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IPS? thanks in advance messju

RE: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Chris St. Pierre
Here's an argument for you: http://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/people/stpierre/filtered.png This is the breakdown of mail filtered by one of our MXes over the past week. The "RBL" line shows mail rejected by an RBL, mostly by njabl; the "Rejected" line is line rejected by other MTA-level rules (like re

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kurt Buff wrote: > Nope - it's not that. > > Looking through my syslog more closely reveals that I'm getting 'SA > TIMED OUT' messages all over the place, and referring to rules as > well as Bayes. So, I'm just as confused as ever, and don't know > what's going on. > > More analysis needed, I su

Re: FuzzyOcrPlugin hashdb permissions

2006-11-22 Thread Robert S
And you have added all the users, that need access to the users group in /etc/group? IE your /etc/group file contains a line like: users:x:100:user1,user2,user3,user4,useretc Yes. If so, than it is spamassassin that does not switch the user context correctly. It looks a bit like it. I've

RE: SPF and SMTP AUTH

2006-11-22 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Rene Caspari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: dinsdag 21 november 2006 12:09 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: SPF and SMTP AUTH > > > I have a little problem with SPF: > > For domain.tld there is a SPF record, which says that > mail.domain.tl

Re: Them spammers are getting smarter..

2006-11-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Evan Platt wrote: > So used to be mail from Richard Smith, subject "Me again Richard". Now > they're using the last name, ie "Me again Smith" Their fake Received: line is still the same. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ BAILEY: CYCLONIC BECOMING N

Re: Bayes Database Missing

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
The files you are looking for are bayes_toks and bayes_seen They may be in /root/.spamassassin/ Try to find those files in a spamassassin default directory somewhere and cp them to that directory. First try to find them and do a: locate -u#catalogs all the files on your ser

Tools-Monitoring Spam vs Ham, etc.

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
What tool, or maybe I already have it and don't know it, can I use to get email stastics on my server and domains? Like total emails, those tagged as spam, etc? I have FC2, qmail, Spamassassin 3.1.7 Is sa-tools helpful? Is it worth installing? Thanks, Wes ---

Re: Them spammers are getting smarter..

2006-11-22 Thread Ruggero Ferretti - BitDesign Snc
Anyhow, you can use: /^Me again/ it looks for "Me again" at the beginning of the expression; it detects "Me again", but also "Me again Richard", etc. Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:33:36PM -0800, Evan Platt wrote: So used to be mail from Richard Smith, subject "Me again Ri