Re: Custom Rule Sets

2009-06-21 Thread LuKreme
On Jun 21, 2009, at 23:48, "rich...@buzzhost.co.uk" > wrote: On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir.

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread LuKreme
On Jun 21, 2009, at 11:07, John Hardin wrote: Another highly-regarded DNSBL that listed that IP is zen.spamhaus.org, which includes the cbl feed. A lot of people trust zen enough to use it at the MTA level as a hard reject list. Exactly. Using zen as a rejection at SMTP transaction saves o

Re: Custom Rule Sets

2009-06-21 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 00:26 -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > > Good morning, > > > > Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning > > in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it > > lists a couple of options including l

Re: Custom Rule Sets

2009-06-21 Thread Matt Kettler
rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > Good morning, > > Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning > in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it > lists a couple of options including local.cf > > Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external file

Custom Rule Sets

2009-06-21 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
Good morning, Looking at the docs I see a 'don't add your customer rules here' warning in reference to the default /usr/share/spamassassin dir. Instead it lists a couple of options including local.cf Is it possible to ask local.cf to include external files/dir for custom rules at all? Thanks

Re: New www.medsXX.net spam

2009-06-21 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 23:21 +0200, mouss wrote: > John Hardin a écrit : > > >/\(\s?w{2,4}\smeds\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com|org)\s?\)/ > > you can replace "meds" by "(meds|shop)" to catch the "www shop95 net" > variants. body URI_OBFU_MEDSHOP /\(\s?w{2,4}\s(?:meds|shop)\d{1,4}\s(?:net|com| org)\s?\)/

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-21 Thread Karl Pearson
On Sun, June 21, 2009 2:47 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jeremy Morton wrote: >> ...backscatter... >> 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' > > The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. > The option to fix this is to set "respond_to_post_requests" to "

Re: New www.medsXX.net spam

2009-06-21 Thread mouss
John Hardin a écrit : > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 09:24 -0700, John Hardin wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 16:21 +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote: > body AE_MEDS35 /w{2,4}\s{0,4}meds\d{1,4}\s{0,4}(?:net|com|org)/ >>> I've just noticed "missing" 'i' switch for your rule regexp. Is it a bug >>> or a fe

Re: Dealing with backscatter

2009-06-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Jeremy Morton wrote: > ...backscatter... > 'Your message to Gatewayav-discuss awaits moderator approval' The GNU Mailman mailing list software is a big offender in that area. The option to fix this is to set "respond_to_post_requests" to "No" on the main options page. Otherwise it is a serious ba

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Jeremy Morton wrote: My SpamAssassin apparently isn't checking this blocklist; how do I get it to? Another highly-regarded DNSBL that listed that IP is zen.spamhaus.org, which includes the cbl feed. A lot of people trust zen enough to use it at the MTA level as a hard re

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:35 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Sun, June 21, 2009 13:23, Jeremy Morton wrote: > > My SpamAssassin apparently isn't checking this blocklist; how do I get > > it to? > > cbl is part of zen.spamhaus.org, but some ips is not in sync that fast, so > check cbl in mta level

Re: interesting phish for yahoo credentials or stupid spammer

2009-06-21 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell a écrit : > spam, with a url link in it that opens up a yahoo.com web mail page and > asks for yahoo.com credentials. > > don't know how that can help spammer, unless spammer is looking to only > get email from yahoo.com users. > > see line 119 (highighted) > > http://pastebin.

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sun, June 21, 2009 13:23, Jeremy Morton wrote: > My SpamAssassin apparently isn't checking this blocklist; how do I get > it to? cbl is part of zen.spamhaus.org, but some ips is not in sync that fast, so check cbl in mta level, this can be done in exim to http://cbl.abuseat.org/faq.html --

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread Jeremy Morton
My SpamAssassin apparently isn't checking this blocklist; how do I get it to? Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sun, June 21, 2009 12:04, Jeremy Morton wrote: http://pastebin.com/m3b9629b6 http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=190.244.172.161

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sun, June 21, 2009 12:04, Jeremy Morton wrote: > http://pastebin.com/m3b9629b6 http://cbl.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=190.244.172.161 -- xpoint

Re: A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread Cedric Knight
Jeremy Morton wrote: > OK, so I just got one of those www medsXX com spams, and even though it > hit my rule and got 2.0 added to it, it still didn't even get over 3 > points. Looks like it was sent from quite a legit host. What rules do > other people get matching for this e-mail? > > http://pa

Re: interesting phish for yahoo credentials or stupid spammer

2009-06-21 Thread Steve Freegard
Michael Scheidell wrote: > spam, with a url link in it that opens up a yahoo.com web mail page and > asks for yahoo.com credentials. > > don't know how that can help spammer, unless spammer is looking to only > get email from yahoo.com users. > > see line 119 (highighted) > > http://pastebin.com

A difficult one to weed out?

2009-06-21 Thread Jeremy Morton
OK, so I just got one of those www medsXX com spams, and even though it hit my rule and got 2.0 added to it, it still didn't even get over 3 points. Looks like it was sent from quite a legit host. What rules do other people get matching for this e-mail? http://pastebin.com/m3b9629b6 Best re