Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:43 -0800, John Hardin wrote: It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other than the numeric default. Is there anything in the head

Re: Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tor 09 dec 2010 22:50:50 CET, Cedric Knight wrote Well, Hotmail is a bigger source of compromised accounts (I've had spam appearing to come from many friends and contacts), but Microsoft still seem fairly unsure about it themselves: i think its another problem hotmail have, lets say that a v

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
On tor 09 dec 2010 21:30:39 CET, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote Received: from 94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net (94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net [94.229.160.4]) Looks like a dynamic hostname indeed. but static ip range according to http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_type=simple&full_query_string=&se

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Cedric Knight
On 09/12/10 22:43, John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Cedric Knight wrote: > >> It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or >> something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other >> than the numeric default. > > Is there anything in the headers that in

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:43 -0800, John Hardin wrote: > > > It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or > > > something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other > > > than the numeric default. > > > > Is the

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:43 -0800, John Hardin wrote: > > It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or > > something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other > > than the numeric default. > > Is there anything in the headers that indicates cpanel is in us

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 23:02 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Ah, so they are operational, just poorly configured. That's what you > > just said in other words, right? :) > > > > Anyway, why are *web* servers sending out mail at all? Other than maybe > > cron junk and friends, which would w

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Cedric Knight wrote: It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other than the numeric default. Is there anything in the headers that indicates cpanel is in use? Perhaps a meta on cpan

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 21:59 +, Cedric Knight wrote: > On 09/12/10 20:30, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > Anyway, why are *web* servers sending out mail at all? Other than maybe > > cron junk and friends, which would warrant bypassing SA or extending > > your internal network. If they are indeed

Re: NetAddr::IP

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:49 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 12/9/2010 4:39 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > According to that, the bug finally and fully has been fixed since > > NetAddr::IP 4.036. > > > > Always glad to copy-n-paste other guys' Subject lines into search > > engines or list archi

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 20:18 +, Cedric Knight wrote: > > I noticed some bad false positives on email sent from certain web > > servers that haven't (yet) been properly configured. For example, a > > trusted header line starting: > > Ah, so they are operational, just poorly configured. That's

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Cedric Knight
On 09/12/10 20:30, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 20:18 +, Cedric Knight wrote: >> I noticed some bad false positives on email sent from certain web >> servers that haven't (yet) been properly configured. For example, a >> trusted header line starting: > > Ah, so they are o

Re: Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Cedric Knight
On 09/12/10 14:33, Randy Ramsdell wrote: > I have been receiving bounces to my yahoo account for email I did not > send. From the pastebin, you see the email did originate from the yahoo > servers but is not in my sent directory. This is an interesting case and > I cannot determine how this happene

Re: NetAddr::IP

2010-12-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/9/2010 4:39 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:21 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> At one point there was an issue with the NetAddr::IP package that caused >> problems with SA, but I have not heard anything about it recently. Does >> the current 4.037 version still have t

Re: NetAddr::IP

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 16:21 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > At one point there was an issue with the NetAddr::IP package that caused > problems with SA, but I have not heard anything about it recently. Does > the current 4.037 version still have the same issue? If so, what needs > to be done to work

NetAddr::IP

2010-12-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
At one point there was an issue with the NetAddr::IP package that caused problems with SA, but I have not heard anything about it recently. Does the current 4.037 version still have the same issue? If so, what needs to be done to work around it? I am running the latest SA 3.3.1, if it makes a di

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 20:18 +, Cedric Knight wrote: > I noticed some bad false positives on email sent from certain web > servers that haven't (yet) been properly configured. For example, a > trusted header line starting: Ah, so they are operational, just poorly configured. That's what you ju

HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread Cedric Knight
I noticed some bad false positives on email sent from certain web servers that haven't (yet) been properly configured. For example, a trusted header line starting: Received: from 94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net (94.229.160.4.srvlist.ukfast.net [94.229.160.4]) looks to SpamAssassin like the dynam

Re: Fake MX

2010-12-09 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:52 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > For those who want to try the Fake MX trick you can set your highest MX > to tarbaby.junkemailfilter.com. I'm harvesting spambot data for my black > list. It's a free way to get rid of some spam and punish the spammers. Marc, we've gone thr

Re: null score for hits

2010-12-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 12/9/2010 10:25 AM, Florescu, Dan Alexandru wrote: > > Hi, I just upgraded to SA 3.3.1. > > Installed the rules using sa-update => ls /var/lib/spamassassin/ > > 3.003001 > > > > And I fed a message to SA using spamassassin -t < msg1. It gave me the > following: > > Spam detection software, run

null score for hits

2010-12-09 Thread Florescu, Dan Alexandru
Hi, I just upgraded to SA 3.3.1. Installed the rules using sa-update => ls /var/lib/spamassassin/ 3.003001 And I fed a message to SA using spamassassin -t < msg1. It gave me the following: Spam detection software, running on the system "xxxhost.tld", has identified this incoming email as possible

Re: Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 12/9/10 9:33 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I have been receiving bounces to my yahoo account for email I did not send. From the pastebin, you see the email did originate from the yahoo servers but is not in my sent directory. This is an interesting case and I cannot d

Re: Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 12/9/10 9:33 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I have been receiving bounces to my yahoo account for email I did not send. From the pastebin, you see the email did originate from the yahoo servers but is not in my sent directory. This is an interesting case and I cannot determine how this happened.

Odd yahoo spam

2010-12-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
I have been receiving bounces to my yahoo account for email I did not send. From the pastebin, you see the email did originate from the yahoo servers but is not in my sent directory. This is an interesting case and I cannot determine how this happened. One thing could be my account was compromi