Re: .science the new leper of TLD's?

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/06/2015 06:46, Bill Cole wrote: > Nope. None of the recent crop of new gTLDs has been the source of measurable > legitimate mail. The .science sewer is the latest in a steady stream of gTLDs > to be poisoned by spammers taking advantage of an inherently irresponsible > registry busine

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/06/2015 02:16, Richard Doyle wrote: > On 06/20/2015 08:38 AM, Jered Floyd wrote: > >> Hello SA-users, >> >> I have a question on the other side of things: outgoing mail. I know >> this is off-topic but this seems to the only venue where there might >> be knowledge of the problem, and

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/06/2015 01:49, Jered Floyd wrote: > Harald, > >> no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works >> emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using >> >> in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL > > It's a whitelist that appears to be based solely

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Noel Butler
On 21/06/2015 01:38, Jered Floyd wrote: > I appear to be getting a shakedown scam from Barracuda Networks. They seem to > be getting out of the "anti-spam" and into the "protection racket" business. > > A small number of recipients have been getting bounce-unsubscribed a > community mailing

Re: .science the new leper of TLD's?

2015-06-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Jun 2015, at 13:46, Axb wrote: On 19.06.2015 19:42, Philip Prindeville wrote: No offense to lepers, but is .science to be avoided? I’ve had email this week from about 17 different .science domain names, and 13 were blocked because of ZenBL and the rest turned out to be SPAM anyway. I

Re: Help me waste spammers resources

2015-06-20 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Axb wrote: On 19.06.2015 22:41, Marc Perkel wrote: I found a great trick for wasting spammer's resources and getting them blacklisted that I'd like to share will all of you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29 Wasn't this last decade's FUSSP ? Also s

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Richard Doyle
On 06/20/2015 08:38 AM, Jered Floyd wrote: > > Hello SA-users, > > I have a question on the other side of things: outgoing mail. I know > this is off-topic but this seems to the only venue where there might > be knowledge of the problem, and the offender is a spamassassin > "customer". > > (I oper

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2015 um 17:49 schrieb Jered Floyd: Harald, no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL It's a whitelist that appears to be based solely on paying Barra

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Jered Floyd
Harald, > no you don't understand how a Barracuda appliance works > emailreg.org is a whitelist like the ones spamassassin is using > > in case of a barracuda appliance it overrides the RBL It's a whitelist that appears to be based solely on paying Barracuda a fee. That doesn't sound like a v

Re: Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2015 um 17:38 schrieb Jered Floyd: A small number of recipients have been getting bounce-unsubscribed a community mailing list that I administer. The most recent bounces say that this "blocked using Barracuda Reputation; http://www.barracudanetworks.com/reputation/"; Visiting that pa

Re: Problem with Spamassassin

2015-06-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.06.15 09:39, Simone Vassili wrote: one of my customer had a trouble with spamassassin on my server. He sent me a mail but this mail was recognized by sa as spam! X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.417 tagged_above=4 required=4.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX_IMAGE=0.001,

Barracuda / EmailReg.org protection racket? (OT, but help?)

2015-06-20 Thread Jered Floyd
Hello SA-users, I have a question on the other side of things: outgoing mail. I know this is off-topic but this seems to the only venue where there might be knowledge of the problem, and the offender is a spamassassin "customer". (I operate an MTA host on which I run SpamAssassin -- it works

Re: SA bayes filter learns ham but no spam

2015-06-20 Thread Dieter Scholz
Hello, Attached you find the output of the sa-learn execution. The nine spam E-Mails learned are there because I manually learned a mbox file with spam. As you can see the ham part seems to work. is there anyone who could help me on this or anyone who has the same problem? Or is it better to

Re: SA bayes filter learns ham but no spam

2015-06-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:41:36 +0200 Dieter Scholz wrote: > > Attached you find the output of the sa-learn execution. The nine > > spam E-Mails learned are there because I manually learned a mbox > > file with spam. As you can see the ham part seems to work. > > > is there anyone who could help me

Re: SA bayes filter learns ham but no spam

2015-06-20 Thread Dieter Scholz
Hello, My problem is: The bayes filter does (auto-)learn ham mails but no spam mails. In my logs I found spam mails that have a very high score and should be autolearned. I think my bayes setup is correct, because ham mails are learned as expected. Autolearning is based on a different scor

Re: spamd: handle_user unable to find user

2015-06-20 Thread alarig
On Sat Jun 20 13:11:18 2015, RW wrote: > The error is about a missing virtual user. Is "spamass-milter" perhaps a > default virtual user used when an email has multiple recipients? This email was sent to an unique recipient and ala...@gozmail.net is a valid virtual user ton the server. -- alari

Re: spamd: handle_user unable to find user

2015-06-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:11:56 +0200 alarig wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a spamassassin instance on my email server, it works but I > have a strange error on each email: ?spamd[12325]: spamd: handle_user > unable to find user: 'spamass-milter'? > My MTA is postfix and I use spamass-milter. This is

Re: Help me waste spammers resources

2015-06-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 21:06:17 + David Jones wrote: > >From: Marc Perkel > >Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 3:41 PM > >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >Subject: Help me waste spammers resources > > >I found a great trick for wasting spammer's resources and getting > >them blacklisted that I'd

Re: Problem with Spamassassin

2015-06-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.06.2015 um 09:39 schrieb Simone Vassili: Hi, one of my customer had a trouble with spamassassin on my server. He sent me a mail but this mail was recognized by sa as spam! X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.417 tagged_above=4 required=4.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX_IMAGE=0.001,

spamd: handle_user unable to find user

2015-06-20 Thread alarig
Hi, I installed a spamassassin instance on my email server, it works but I have a strange error on each email: “spamd[12325]: spamd: handle_user unable to find user: 'spamass-milter'” My MTA is postfix and I use spamass-milter. This is odd because I tell spamd and spamass-milter to run as vmail us

Re: Help me waste spammers resources

2015-06-20 Thread Axb
On 19.06.2015 22:41, Marc Perkel wrote: I found a great trick for wasting spammer's resources and getting them blacklisted that I'd like to share will all of you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_%28networking%29 Wasn't this last decade's FUSSP ? Also see http://labrea.sourceforge.net/lab

Re: Problem with Spamassassin

2015-06-20 Thread Antony Stone
On Saturday 20 June 2015 at 09:39:19 (EU time), Simone Vassili wrote: > Hi, > one of my customer had a trouble with spamassassin on my server. > He sent me a mail but this mail was recognized by sa as spam! > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.417 tagged_above=4 required=4.5 > tests=[BAYES_00=-1

Problem with Spamassassin

2015-06-20 Thread Simone Vassili
Hi, one of my customer had a trouble with spamassassin on my server. He sent me a mail but this mail was recognized by sa as spam! X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=5.417 tagged_above=4 required=4.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX_IMAGE=0.001, DYN_RDNS_AND_INLINE_IMAGE=1.168, DYN_