Re: plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-08-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/11/2007 6:41 PM, Matthias Leisi wrote: > Don't forget the "ifplugin" conditions: > > ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader >> mimeheader __L_C_TYPE_APP Content-Type =~ /^application/i >> [..] > > endif good point, I've updated the rules and added more comments to expl

Re: rule for empty text + GIF or PDF ?

2007-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 11 August 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: >Jo Rhett wrote: >> No, I didn't. I asked where a given rule was. I was given a reference >> to a page that described how to set up sa-update. > >That page not only described how to set up sa-update it also described >where the files were stored. Als

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
John D. Hardin wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think it is a bad idea to use low-TTL values as more than a > > minor spamsign. There is nothing overtly improper about it and > > there are often times when a low TTL dns record is just the right > > thing to do, such as when planning an IP move for

Re: I think we're winning....

2007-08-11 Thread jdow
From: "Marc Perkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: This made it past my filters. But it's unreadable gibberish. I wonder why they bother. Good point. The fact that they have to resort to gibberish, image spam, pdf spam all of which is far harder than clocking on a link shows we are win

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread jdow
Off hand I would suspect a very low (10 minute for example) TTL would be worth a detection and a rule of some sort. It is certainly not a slam dunk. But it is something that is likely to be more common in spam than in ham. Were I working a largish outfit as opposed to a small two person 2 dozen c

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Bob Proulx wrote: > I think it is a bad idea to use low-TTL values as more than a > minor spamsign. There is nothing overtly improper about it and > there are often times when a low TTL dns record is just the right > thing to do, such as when planning an IP move for a server.

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread John Rudd
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jo Rhett wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:28:05 -0700: Yes, but this also means that it takes longer to fix false positive problems. How would one clear this out if the original problem was fixed and you wanted to receive the mail? By using some whitelist for legit low-ttl d

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Jo Rhett wrote: > > Yes, but this also means that it takes longer to fix false positive > > problems. How would one clear this out if the original problem was > > fixed and you wanted to receive the mail? > > By using some whitelist for legit low-ttl domains. I think it i

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jo Rhett wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:28:05 -0700: > Yes, but this also means that it takes longer to fix false positive > problems. How would one clear this out if the original problem was > fixed and you wanted to receive the mail? By using some whitelist for legit low-ttl domains. Kai --

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT and RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME disappeared from 3.1.x tests?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Loren Wilton wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:09:34 -0700: > They no longer hit enough spam to be worth keeping, so they were removed. > Just remove the scores when you upgrade. > and MISSING_SUBJECT LOL, there was just a whole rush of no subject spam. ;-) I noticed that because the greylist milter

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT and RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME disappeared from 3.1.x tests?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Leon Kolchinsky wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:32:36 +0300: > Should I just remove them from my local.cf before upgrade? Run a spamassassin --lint after upgrade (which you should do always, anyway), this will bark about those scores and you can remove them. No need to check each time if they stil

Re: rule for empty text + GIF or PDF ?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jo Rhett wrote on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:31:05 -0700: > No, I didn't. I asked where a given rule was. I was given a reference > to a page that described how to set up sa-update. You were given the exact name of the rule, that reference to sa-update was an additional courtesy as it is easy to kno

Re: plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-08-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Hall schrieb: Don't forget the "ifplugin" conditions: ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::MIMEHeader > mimeheader__L_C_TYPE_APP Content-Type =~ /^application/i > [..] endif - -- Matthias -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT and RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME disappeared from 3.1.x tests?

2007-08-11 Thread Loren Wilton
They no longer hit enough spam to be worth keeping, so they were removed. Just remove the scores when you upgrade. Loren I've found that: 1) RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME and MISSING_SUBJECT now missing in both (3.1.x and 3.2.x) These scores were intact for my 3.1.7 installation when I configu

Re: some of you have bad meta rules...

2007-08-11 Thread Loren Wilton
Unless all of those SARE rules chain back to standard SA rules that have been removed, it may indicate that you have a higher-numbered part of one of the multi-part rule sets, and don't have the lower-numbered parts. In many cases there are base rules in the .0 or .1 files that are used by hig

Re: PDF-Spam passing SA

2007-08-11 Thread zheka
Hey, Ninja, how can I be sure that my PDFInfo plugin works ? When I pass it through SA it reports that it is unlikely spam: Content analysis details: (-0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- ---

Re: PDF-Spam passing SA

2007-08-11 Thread zheka
But funny thing, my SA can't filter PDF spam if it was sent in regular way. I mean it passes it throught without scoring it. Yours was triggered as spam when I checked it with: spamassassin -t -D < message.eml Eugene Starckjohann, Ove wrote: > > Hi! > > The following PDF-Spam is passing thro

Re: PDF-Spam passing SA

2007-08-11 Thread zheka
I checked this email against my SA, this is what I've got: Content analysis details: (10.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- -1.8 ALL_TRUSTEDPassed through trusted hosts only

Re: plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-08-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/14/2007 3:49 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > Like other folks I've been getting hit with the PDF spam pretty hard. I > think the way to solve this and the image spam in general is to do a > plugin that does two things: > > 1) looks in the message to see if there is a binary attachment > > 2) lo

Re: rule for empty text + GIF or PDF ?

2007-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Jo Rhett wrote: > No, I didn't. I asked where a given rule was. I was given a reference > to a page that described how to set up sa-update. That page not only described how to set up sa-update it also described where the files were stored. Also SM included the name of the rule that was expecte

Re: I think we're winning....

2007-08-11 Thread Marc Perkel
jdow wrote: This made it past my filters. But it's unreadable gibberish. I wonder why they bother. Good point. The fact that they have to resort to gibberish, image spam, pdf spam all of which is far harder than clocking on a link shows we are winning. Their return in the amount of spam

Re: I think we're winning....

2007-08-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, jdow wrote: > This made it past my filters. But it's unreadable gibberish. > > ===8<--- > (H)(u)(g)[e] (N){e}(w)[s] To Im,pact {C}[Y]{V} > We (h)[a]{v}{e} alre+ady {s}(e)(n) CYTV'`s marke*t impa,ct be,fore > cli*mb-ing to {v} $2.#00 [w][i](t){h} [n]{e}(w)[s](.) > Pres-s Rel,

Re: fdf spam

2007-08-11 Thread MATSUDA Yoh-ichi
Hi, all. From: "Mike Cisar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: fdf spam Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:10:26 -0600 > Has anyone else been seeing the empty-body "PDF" spam, but with a .fdf file > extension. Had a whole pile in my inbox here this morning. > > Cheers, > > Mike < Here are 2 rules f

Re: some of you have bad meta rules...

2007-08-11 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> On Friday 10 August 2007, Loren Wilton wrote: >>> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has >>> undefined dependency 'SARE_RD_SAFE_MKSHRT' >>> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has >>> undefined dependency 'SARE_RD_SAFE_GT' >>> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has >>> unde

Re: rule for empty text + GIF or PDF ?

2007-08-11 Thread Jo Rhett
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Jo Rhett wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:30:37 -0700: Thank you for the very useless reference to sa-update. Please, don't do this! You got a nice answer that exactly answered your question. No, I didn't. I asked where a given rule was. I was given a reference to a page

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Jo Rhett
Kai Schaetzl wrote: SA could cache/store this. A spammer domain with low TTL will be a spammer domain the next day and the day after next day ... Maybe cache that for one day before a requery. Yes, but this also means that it takes longer to fix false positive problems. How would one clear t

Re: Dns Resolver problem

2007-08-11 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Pawel Sasin wrote: > I want to be able to make SA rotate DNS servers. Apparently that is a limitation of Net::DNS. There was some discussion of it on-list a few weeks back; I don't clearly remember the details. You might want check the current status of Net::DNS w/r/t fallb

MISSING_SUBJECT and RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME disappeared from 3.1.x tests?

2007-08-11 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello All, I'm going to upgrade SA from spamassassin-3.1.7-3 to spamassassin-3.2.2-1. In my local.cf I've adjusted some optional scores and now I want to check if these scores are still intact in the new version of SA. So I went to http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html and http://spa

Re: fdf spam

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Pooser
> that was done this morning if you want to grab a new version... > http://www.rulesemporium.com/plugins/PDFInfo.pm Could somebody PLEASE make sure that when a new version of PDFInfo is posted the website shows the updated version number? The page still says it's version 0.7 last modified 2007-07-

Re: debug returns misleading information (dns/async)

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Mifsud
Bug 5581 / patch attachment 4081 seems to solve my problem BTW Mark, very nice DNS timings in debug output :) cheers, dave On 11/08/07 14:25, Dave Mifsud wrote: > Hi guys, > > The following is an excerpt from a "spamassassin -D" output or an actual > spam message: > >> [15371] dbg: async: sel

Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp

2007-08-11 Thread Jonathan Selander
Hi, I've managed to set up SA to scan via procmail and it works nicely. I run qmail+vpopmail. However, I get this in the logs: Aug 11 15:25:49 spinea spamd[14258]: Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1765, line 2. Aug 11 15:25:49 spinea spamd[14258]: Use of uni

Re: Mail server hosted by Comcast

2007-08-11 Thread Steven Stern
Igor Chudov wrote: > I am considering a local deal related to hosting by Comcast cable > (8mbps down, 1 mbps up). > > I am concerned, however, with me sending email and being on comcast IP > range, due to bad rap that Comcast has due to spamming by Comcast > hosted zombies. > > Do you think that m

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Mark Martinec
On Saturday August 11 2007 02:13:32 John D. Hardin wrote: > What I had in mind was a custom DNS client code, or playing with the > options to Net::DNS to query the authoritative server directly. > Regardless, obtaining that information will be rather ugly. It may also be impractical or imposssible

debug returns misleading information (dns/async)

2007-08-11 Thread Dave Mifsud
Hi guys, The following is an excerpt from a "spamassassin -D" output or an actual spam message: > [15371] dbg: async: select found no socks ready > [15371] dbg: async: queries completed: 24 started: 0 > [15371] dbg: async: queries active: at Sat Aug 11 14:17:54 2007 > [15371] dbg: dns: success fo

New Image Spam

2007-08-11 Thread Jason Bennett
Hi everyone. I'm receiving some new image spam and was wondering if anyone had a technique for it. The image is now an actual image of some porn with a URL at the top of it. I'm using Fuzzy OCR to scan but I don't think Fuzzy checks the URL's. Any ideas? For those that are interested, you c

Re: SA + Procmail Conundrum - RESOLVED

2007-08-11 Thread Mark Sansome
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 06:58 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mark Sansome wrote: [Snip] > >So if the permissions are OK I need to look again at the original > >problem. > > > >On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:32 -0400, Kris Deugau wrote: > >> -> Call spamc with the -u option and spe

Re: Disabling a shipped rule in SpamAssassin

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Kelly Jones wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:39:09 -0600: > If I put something in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cfg .cf ! > Or is setting the score to 0 sufficient? It is. In /etc/mail/spamassassin, not in the original rule! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: rule for empty text + GIF or PDF ?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jo Rhett wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:30:37 -0700: > Thank you for the very useless reference to sa-update. Please, don't do this! You got a nice answer that exactly answered your question. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.c

Re: Disabling a shipped rule in SpamAssassin

2007-08-11 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Jones schrieb: > If I wanted to disable the RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL rule (for example), could I do: > > header RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL NULL_TEST > describe RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL overriding and nulling out NJABL test > score RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 0 > > or someth

Re: Detecting short-TTL domains?

2007-08-11 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John D. Hardin wrote on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:27:21 -0700 (PPT): > Of course, > that assumes the same short-TTL domain will be sending a lot of spams > to you... SA could cache/store this. A spammer domain with low TTL will be a spammer domain the next day and the day after next day ... Maybe cach

Re: some of you have bad meta rules...

2007-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 August 2007, Loren Wilton wrote: >> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has undefined dependency >> 'SARE_RD_SAFE_MKSHRT' >> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has undefined dependency >> 'SARE_RD_SAFE_GT' >> [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_RD_SAFE has undefined depen

Re: fdf spam

2007-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 10 August 2007, Dallas Engelken wrote: >David B Funk wrote: >> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, wolfgang wrote: >>> In an older episode (Friday, 10. August 2007), Mike Cisar wrote: Has anyone else been seeing the empty-body "PDF" spam, but with a .fdf file extension. Had a whole pile in my