Re: Reduce the spam score

2008-02-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: On 27/02/2008 6:18 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: What is short of putting the sender email to white list to reduce the score of this email. It is a valid email. Here is the report As presented to SpamAssassin, it was not a valid email. It had no headers. Daryl

Re: [Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
It is completely accurate and copied and pasted from the message file itself. I am running Exim. What configuration should I be looking at on how to block messages with return paths like that? Dave Funk wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matt wrote: The MTA never really sees whats in the headers.

Re: Reduce the spam score

2008-02-27 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Asif Iqbal wrote: What is short of putting the sender email to white list to reduce the score of this email. It is a valid email. Here is the report * 0.1 TW_XC BODY: Odd Letter Triples with XC * 0.1 TW_KK BODY: Odd Letter Triples with KK * 0.1 TW_GN

Re: [Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Funk
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Matt wrote: The MTA never really sees whats in the headers. It only adds to the headers. When an SMTP connection first begins the connecting MTA says helo this [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thats what SPF looks at. The MTA then adds that as the return path to the headers. Actually

Re: Reduce the spam score

2008-02-27 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 27/02/2008 6:18 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: > What is short of putting the sender email to white list to reduce the > score of this email. It is a valid email. Here is the report As presented to SpamAssassin, it was not a valid email. It had no headers. Daryl > X-Spam-Flag: YES > X-Spam-Checker-V

Reduce the spam score

2008-02-27 Thread Asif Iqbal
What is short of putting the sender email to white list to reduce the score of this email. It is a valid email. Here is the report X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on qmail.home.net X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.4 required=5.0 tes

Re: [Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Dave Funk
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Russell Jones wrote: If what you said is right, why does SPF only look at the return-path address and not the From: address? Nobody pays attention to return-path, they only look at From to see who their mail client says the email address is from. SPF is a technology th

Re: SA trusts all hosts as soon as IPv6 is enabled? (was Re: AWL problem. Assigning very low scores to spam.)

2008-02-27 Thread Stefan `Sec` Zehl
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 19:13 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: [...] > If you or your company would like to fund the development of it, I'm > willing to prioritize the work. Seriously. Otherwise, "should have by > now" does not apply to free software. Especially free software that is > easily mo

Re: new google trick: "docs"

2008-02-27 Thread Kevin Golding
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chip M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >A brief search shows this actually started at least a month ago: > http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/01/16/google-docs-spam/ Erm, that's from 13 months ago :-) Kevin

Re: yahoo.co.uk

2008-02-27 Thread Chip M.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, JP Kelly wrote: >it seems like they could/should be caught but they often have very low scores. >they all have yahoo.co.uk in the from address In and of itself, "yahoo.co.uk" in the From isn't too helpful, unless you know you'll never get anything legit from there, then you c

Re: new google trick: "docs"

2008-02-27 Thread Chip M.
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >What's the trick here? Looks like a normal docs URL to me. Poor terminology on my part. I am Only An Egg. :) Is "exploit" a more correct term? I meant that this is the latest way that spammers are taking advantage of the trusting attitude most folk

Re: [Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
I ran a spamassassin -D on the message and the biggest thing that made it take a hit was the almost 3 points it took off of the score because of the bayes db being only a 1% probability. Supposedly it says its learned spam from about 500 messages, and ham from about 5000. Maybe I should put aut

Re: [Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Matt
> That doesn't make sense. Maybe I am misunderstanding this. From openspf.org: > > What does SPF actually DO? > > Suppose a spammer forges a hotmail.com address and tries to spam you. > > They connect from somewhere other than Hotmail. > > When his message is sent, you see MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?

2008-02-27 Thread SM
At 11:27 27-02-2008, Russell Jones wrote: That doesn't make sense. Maybe I am misunderstanding this. From openspf.org: What does SPF actually DO? Suppose a spammer forges a hotmail.com address and tries to spam you. They connect from somewhere other than Hotmail. When his message is sent,

Re: new google trick: "docs"

2008-02-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:38:50PM -0600, Chip M. wrote: > They look like this: > http://docs.google.com/doc?id=MUNGED_MUNGED > > I've added "doc" to my list of tokens that are word matched in my own > battery of anti Google Tricks tests. What's the trick here? Looks like a normal docs URL

Re: cannot open bayes databases Interrupted system call

2008-02-27 Thread Mike Fahey
I'll give this a shot. thanks Matt Kettler wrote: Mike Fahey wrote: This page specifically uses /etc/mail/spamassassin. Yeah, I read that the first time. It is wrong. In fact, I'd say it's stupid. I'll go edit the wiki article when I get a chance, but I want to have some time to really

new google trick: "docs"

2008-02-27 Thread Chip M.
They look like this: http://docs.google.com/doc?id=MUNGED_MUNGED I'm not sure if the id is personally identifiable, so MUNGED both halves of it. I've only seen two so far, and haven't visited either (again, due to the potential PII - both samples were from other people). Very little else

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Henrik K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 03:00:49PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Marc Perkel wrote: > > > > It appears that Postfix only does DNS blacklists and no

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > > It appears that Postfix only does DNS blacklists and not whitelists > > then. I was going to publish my whitelist and Postfix instructions but I > > guess I can't do that. > > That would be a better

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Perkel wrote: > It appears that Postfix only does DNS blacklists and not whitelists > then. I was going to publish my whitelist and Postfix instructions but I > guess I can't do that. That would be a better question for the postfix-users list. Probably the way to do this is with the check_

[Fwd: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?]

2008-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
Forgot to put this address in CC. In case anyone is interested in following the convo: Original Message Subject: Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why? Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:27:52 -0600 From: Russell Jones <[EMAIL PR

Re: No SPF_FAIL flag, why?

2008-02-27 Thread SM
At 11:02 27-02-2008, Russell Jones wrote: This email was received and is very much spam, (February 77% off, Viagra HTML spam), and was sent to this user FROM this user (which they obviously did not spam themselves). What can I do to make the score higher than what it was scored, as well as why

No SPF_FAIL flag, why?

2008-02-27 Thread Russell Jones
This email was received and is very much spam, (February 77% off, Viagra HTML spam), and was sent to this user FROM this user (which they obviously did not spam themselves). What can I do to make the score higher than what it was scored, as well as why didn't the SPF fail? The record for pitter

yahoo.co.uk

2008-02-27 Thread JP Kelly
everyday i get 2 or three of these coming through. it seems like they could/should be caught but they often have very low scores. they all have yahoo.co.uk in the from address ---example1--- --- headers --- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subje

sare_uri does not --lint

2008-02-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
created a patch so it does --- /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002004/70_sare_uri_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net/200510102200.cf.orig 2008-02-25 06:15:39.0 +0100 +++ /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002004/70_sare_uri_cf_sare_sa-update_dostech_net/200510102200.cf 2008-02-27 18:21:47.0 +0100 @@ -73,7

SpamAssassin+MIMEDefang HTML messages Scoring

2008-02-27 Thread sgurnick
I have a MIMEDefang(2.63)+SpamAssassin(3.1.9) setup that is catching a lot of spam, but specific spam messages are slipping through. It appears to be fairly consistent day-to-day. If the email is a HTML message, spamassassin will hit on the HTML_MESSAGE rule and that's it. These spam emails are

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
> It appears that Postfix only does DNS blacklists and not whitelists > then. I was going to publish my whitelist and Postfix instructions but I > guess I can't do that. http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Communications/Email-Filters/maRBL-16435.shtml this link helps :-) test for rbl blacklist and

New Postfix compatible BLACK LIST

2008-02-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Hello Everyone, My hostkarma black/white/yellow lists were too complex to be accessed by Postfix. So I have created a Postfix compatible blacklist for those of you who want to bounce a lot of spam before routing it into SA. reject_rbl_client blacklist.junkemailfilter.com If you're using Exim

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mouss schrieb: |> Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? |> I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. |> | | No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. That's the exact reason we offer rsync acces

Re: Need rule for this type of spam

2008-02-27 Thread jfchaput
I will check that. Thank a lot --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > > score here as follows :- > > Content analysis details: (17.1 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > -- > -- > 5.0 BOTNET

Re: Need rule for this type of spam

2008-02-27 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
score here as follows :- Content analysis details: (17.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 5.0 BOTNET Relay might be a spambot or virusbot [botnet0.8,ip=213.189.148.42,rdn

Re: Need rule for this type of spam

2008-02-27 Thread jfchaput
Hi, Here http://pastebin.com/m309761a5 Thank -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Need-rule-for-this-type-of-spam-tp15714057p15714459.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Need rule for this type of spam

2008-02-27 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
please post the full message via something like pastebin. we need to see the headers aswell. Regards, -- --[ UxBoD ]-- // PGP Key: "curl -s http://www.splatnix.net/uxbod.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: F57A 0CBD DD19 79E9 1FCC A612 CB36 D89D 2C5A 3A84 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID

Need rule for this type of spam

2008-02-27 Thread jfchaput
Hi, My spamassassin setup work great but I receive alot spam like this : Subject: M!cro soft Office_2OO7 for XP,Vis+a 79. Retail 838 -save 2466- sas jmp statistical discovery 7 - 129 use -newsoftdeal .com- |n Web Browser Erase - before you use |n Web Browser ulead photoImpact x3 - 29 intuit

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Matthias Leisi wrote: mouss schrieb: |> Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? |> I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. |> | | No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. That's the exact reason we offer rsync access *to a specially formatted file* (see http://www

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mouss schrieb: |> Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? |> I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. |> | | No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. That's the exact reason we offer rsync access *to a specially formatt

RE: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread Rocco Scappatura
> policyd works a treat :) V2 is also in development aswell. I will take in account your judge.. :-) rocsca

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
--[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: policyd works a treat :) V2 is also in development aswell. it's not the same. I don't know why they call it V2. As far as I know, Cami is no more involved. so I would stick with the "current" (which is a single C threaded program).

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
policyd works a treat :) V2 is also in development aswell. Regards, -- --[ UxBoD ]-- // PGP Key: "curl -s http://www.splatnix.net/uxbod.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: F57A 0CBD DD19 79E9 1FCC A612 CB36 D89D 2C5A 3A84 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x2C5A3A84 // Phone: +44 845 869 2

RE: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread Rocco Scappatura
> > What do I need to set up GL? Only the command below or there is > > something other parameter that I could set up (eg: the time spent > > before a message is accepted and so on)? > > > > > > of course, you need to install a policy server! Cami's > policyd is a good choice (it also has ot

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi Benny, Benny Pedersen wrote: http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml disable DomainKey plugin and add DKIM plugin will help on that msg and search on DKIM mta scores for not being sent from a DKIM signer I will have a look at this. But I have already made sufficient chang

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Justin Mason
Derek Harding writes: > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:21 +, Anthony Peacock wrote: > > > > For anyone interested here is the full email (well one of them)... > > > > http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml > > > > Looks to me as though someone has found a way to abuse ning.com's

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
> http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml disable DomainKey plugin and add DKIM plugin will help on that msg and search on DKIM mta scores for not being sent from a DKIM signer

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 2/27/2008 10:16 AM, Derek Harding wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:21 +, Anthony Peacock wrote: For anyone interested here is the full email (well one of them)... http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml Looks to me as though someone has found a way to abuse ning.com's pl

Re: Quick Postfix Question [OT]

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Postfix allows you to use blacklists as follows: reject_rbl_client blacklist.junkemailfilter.com Does Postfix allow you to use white lists? If so - what's the syntax? I'm about to publish my whitelist for Postfix. No. DNSWL offer an rsync access. This is better for perfo

Re: failed spf_helo_softfail in SA

2008-02-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.02.08 19:30, aritza sobrinos wrote: > Im getting false positives like this: > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=3.776 tag=x tag2=3.5 kill=3.5 tests=[BAYES_50= > 0.001, > HTML_10_20=0.246, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HTML_SHORT_LENGTH=0.389, > SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL=3.14, SPF_PASS=-0.001] > > > SPF_HELO_SOF

Re: Spamd and SpamAssassin scoring very different scores

2008-02-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.02.08 11:56, Russell Jones wrote: > For some reason spamd is not scoring email nearly as high as > spamassassin scores if you run the message through manually. I do not > understand this, and it is causing spam to get through that should have > been blocked. As you can see when running spa

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Derek Harding
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:21 +, Anthony Peacock wrote: > > For anyone interested here is the full email (well one of them)... > > http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml > Looks to me as though someone has found a way to abuse ning.com's platform/systems. I suspect they'd be v

Re: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread mouss
Rocco Scappatura wrote: And spammer are becoming more faster as the time goes on.. Is it convenient to use gray listing newer bots retry, so GL is only effective is the time interval is large enough, but that's not a neutral thing so should be restricted to suspicious mail. That's what I

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.02.08 11:18, Igor Chudov wrote: > If I recall correctly... > > This Habeas is some sort of a braindead business idea to insert an > unauthenticated header in bodies of "legitimate" emails coming from > their customers, to assure spam filters that the email is legitimate. afaiuc, Habeas is

Re: rule checking environment variable

2008-02-27 Thread Miguel Angel
On 26.02.08 19:20, Miguel Angel wrote: They are getting high score because are using dynamic ip ranges and they match rbl lists. If you relay mail from your dynamic addresses w/o authentication, they should be in your trusted_networks. Then they'll get ALL_TRUSTED and probably DOS_*_TO_MX, unle

Re: rule checking environment variable

2008-02-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.02.08 19:20, Miguel Angel wrote: > They are getting high score because are using dynamic ip ranges and they > match rbl lists. If you relay mail from your dynamic addresses w/o authentication, they should be in your trusted_networks. Then they'll get ALL_TRUSTED and probably DOS_*_TO_MX, un

Re: Email with no "hits" and "required"

2008-02-27 Thread Massimiliano Marini
Hi Jason, > This is and always has been documented behaviour in Qmail-Scanner. > Please read the FAQ I tried to find the link but I have not found. You may send me the right link? Cheers -- Massimiliano Marini - http://www.linuxtime.it/massimilianomarini/ "It's easier to invent the future than

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi, ram wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 08:49 +, Anthony Peacock wrote: Hi, I have just received a number of spam emails which got through the filtering system because they hit the HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI rule, which give them -8. They all came to role based addresses that are never used to

RE: Too false negative

2008-02-27 Thread Rocco Scappatura
> > And spammer are becoming more faster as the time goes on.. Is it > > convenient to use gray listing > > newer bots retry, so GL is only effective is the time > interval is large enough, but that's not a neutral thing so > should be restricted to suspicious mail. That's what I use GL > for