Re: HitFreqsRuleTiming and SpamAssassin 3.2.5

2013-05-27 Thread Alexandre Boyer
hi, with the debug infos, do you see your module loaded? A few hints: check permissions on the .pm itself, then check permissions of the user to write in this directory. You may want to try a call on the CLI with the flag --cf="loadplugin HitFreqsRuleTiming /etc/mail/spamassassin/HitFreqsRuleTim

Re: Need rule to catch lots of font changes

2013-04-19 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi, your meta is wrong. It should be: meta LOC_MULT_BR __LOC_BR > 10 Note that it will not match "just" 10 instances of this tag. It will match "at least" ten of them. If you want exactly 10, you have to do something like: meta LOC_MULT_BR __LOC_BR = 10 Never done that, maybe you need to

Re: Need rule to catch lots of font changes

2013-04-17 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, just write a single detection rule for FONT face= (rawbody or uri_detail) and use tflag multiple. Then meta this with a counter. eg: rawbody __BLAH / 20 score MULTPL_FONTS 5.0 describe MULTPL_FONTS At least 20 FONT tags found Best regards, Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. O

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
avoid false negatives. And no FP for a long time on this rule (this is an old bot, first saw last summer, but probably older but unnoticed). Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 13-03-01 02:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:39:09 -0500 > Alexandre Boyer wrote: > >

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
access to SMTP infos. That a pitty, but you can't have the real thing, you rely on headers. Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 13-03-01 02:38 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > On 3/1/2013 11:26, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> There is no silly question. Just noobs. FYI: most of the time,

Re: Yahoo single-link spam common elements

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Right: the suggested pattern is working great, but there are some variants as KAM says. However I sense that these are not the same bots. The one with the "date in body" is always the same (the spammer only changed the date format). I heard about a cross site botnet exploit on Yahoo! and third pa

Re: Rule to check To and/or CC headers

2013-03-01 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello, There is no silly question. Just noobs. FYI: most of the time, I'm a noob. I do not understand your question: To or Cc headers are recipients. Do you want to compare the name portion to the address portion? eg: To: "Alex Boyer" If Alex matches the local part in the address, then it's OK

Re: help

2013-02-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
The answer is 42. Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 13-02-25 01:07 PM, Chris Hunt wrote: signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: blocking sender name

2013-02-24 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, Specifically checking name is: header LOL From:name =~ "AndyTheCoach" Meta this with the excellent suggestion from Martin (header MSGID_BLOCKER Message-ID =~ /AndyNgPC/) to minimize false positive risk. Best regards, Alex, from osmosed. Bow before me, for I am root. On 24/02/13 0

Re: URIDNSBL: how to query certain lists only?

2013-01-07 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 13-01-07 04:18 AM, Fabio Sangiovanni wrote: > Hi, > > thanks to everybody for your answers. > > Il giorno 04/gen/2013, alle ore 18:12, Kris Deugau ha > scritto: >> Mmmm, the problem the OP was asking about is "how do I make sure that >> only the specific

Re: URIDNSBL: how to query certain lists only?

2013-01-04 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, Why dont you perform those checks at the pre-data level, within postfix? It's faster and cuts a lot of treatment for the data analysis. The way you are doing is the way I would do, but someone on the list might have a better way. Alex, from N7. Hello list, I'm a relatively new user o

Re: Scoring Yahoo mail from certain continents/countries ?

2012-12-09 Thread Alexandre Boyer
I there Frederic, I think a geoip module exists. I saw that somewhere. Just take a look for it. But I think this is a bad idea. You are right about the analysis, but geoip filtring is not efficient and may lead to FPs. Take extra care to the rules you are going to build about it. You may also ta

Re: Gappy subject misses

2012-12-04 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi, I've fairly good results with this rule: header__AJB_OBFU_PR0N_SUBJSubject =~ /[\:\;\/\`\(\)\{\}~\#\&\"\%\$\_][a-z0-9][\:\;\`\(\)\/\{\}\_\~\#\&\"\%\$]/im It's realy basic and desrve a rework. Best, Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-12-04 06:57 AM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > Hi,

Re: Message not scanned- Size?

2012-12-03 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi, I guess you may change your threshold for the cut off? the -s flag, when calling spamc seems to be it. I use amavisd-new to feed SA, it does the same thing, I had to change my threshold too to analyze bigger emails. Best, Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-12-03 06:25 AM, Joseph Ac

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-12-03 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-12-03 02:04 AM, John Wilcock wrote: > Le 30/11/2012 18:18, John Hardin a écrit : >>>header __AJB_HAS_XEROXX-Mailer =~ /WorkCentre \d{3,5}/ >>>header __AJB_XEROX_SUBJ Subject =~ /Scan from a Xerox/ >> >> Thanks! I will add those to m

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-30 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Take care with Xerox versions, it just changed. I mentioned this in my reply to Kris. I do not trust PHP Mailers, as PHP is wrong by design. Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-11-30 10:17 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: > John Hardin wrote: >> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Kris Deugau wrote: >> >>> I've

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-30 Thread Alexandre Boyer
th those, as I never saw such faked headers in spams spoofing the Subject: Scan from a Xerox, but in the case of forwarded scans, I keep my meta with Thread related rules. Regards, Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-11-30 09:54 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 11/30/2012 8:15 AM, Alexandr

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-30 Thread Alexandre Boyer
As a Mailer agent, I also spotted the Xerox Workcenter to have a dirty bahavior. As I had the very same problem as Kris, I personnaly did not disabled those rules but builded some metas based on X-Mailer and Subject tests: header __AJB_HAS_XEROXX-Mailer =~ /WorkCentre \d{3,5}/ hea

Re: Claims manager / LOTTO_AGENT

2012-11-08 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello there, Well if you feel uncomfortable with running mass-check and send data (not the email themselves, just the rules they hit, as Darxus is pointing out), you may want to override the score for those rules in your local.cf. You may even write you own rules to compensate those false positiv

Re: HK_LOTTO hitting ham from the UK national lottery

2012-10-31 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello, Well as far as I know, if your SA instance restart after sa-update, it should find the most recent and up to date ruleset. Did you restart your instance? if you use amavis, restart it as well. You may want to remove the ancient (theoritacally unsued) rulesets in /var/lib/spamassassin in o

Re: HK_LOTTO hitting ham from the UK national lottery

2012-10-30 Thread Alexandre Boyer
This tends to proove that you do not sa-update your installation. $ grep -r HK_LOTTO /usr/share/spamassassin/ /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score HK_LOTTO 3.599 2.755 2.993 3.599 You may either use sa-update (score is lowered to 1) or override the score in your personnal ruleset. Alex, f

Re: Question about rule: 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'

2012-10-28 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from Nexus7. Boyaah! Le 28 oct. 2012 14:16, "John Hardin" a écrit : > > On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Alexandre Boyer wrote: > >> Le 26 oct. 2012 11:06, "Axb" a écrit : >>> >>> >>> That is all done on SA servers - all you need to do i

Re: Masscheck Re: Question about rule: 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'

2012-10-28 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from osmose. Bow before me, for I am root. On 12-10-26 12:18 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 10/26, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> Well, discouraged was implicit (as is the fact that every admin is > I don't think there's anything implicit about it being discourage

Re: Question about rule: 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'

2012-10-28 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from Nexus7. Boyaah! Le 26 oct. 2012 11:06, "Axb" a écrit : > > On 10/26/2012 04:47 PM, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> >> For example, I'm in the process of learning to use mass-check to >> contribute back to SA (which implies a lot of hard work, simply

Re: Question about rule: 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'

2012-10-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
ttps://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/NightlyMassCheck > > > RuleQA results for that rule are here: > ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?daterev=20121020&rule=DEAR_SOMETHING > > MSECSSPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME WHO/AGE > 0 0.6160 0.2324 0.7260.

Re: Question about rule: 2.0 DEAR_SOMETHING BODY: Contains 'Dear (something)'

2012-10-25 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi all, Simon, I had some FPs because of this rule and because my threshold is lower than 5. I just had a score override to lower it but this rule still hist a lot of spam (419 scams essentially). You may want to fine tune the score according to your specific FPs. Regards, Alex, from prypiat.

Re: spamd not staying up

2012-10-20 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, This suggestion should be considered as a last chance. I used monit in the past and had very nasty behaviors, multiple instances of the same process running. May be monit is better know. Debuging using your logs and knowledge is the first thing you should do. Try to find what is your r

Re: I thought this message was rather spammy

2012-10-17 Thread Alexandre Boyer
On 12-10-17 02:32 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 17/10/12 18:51, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> Right, but you have the content on the other link: >> >> http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam013.trace.txt >> >> >> It scores 5.7 and should be blocked. >> > > The

Re: I thought this message was rather spammy

2012-10-17 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Right, but you have the content on the other link: http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam013.trace.txt It scores 5.7 and should be blocked. Igor, what's the threshold of your SA installation? Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-10-17 01:44 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Igor Ch

Re: Can't locate Bignum.pm

2012-10-09 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, If you're asking a question, I guess you wonder why you are seeing this in your logs. The answer is simple: your system lacks a Perl module. Install it with your distribution package manager or directly via the CPAN. If you are not asking any question, then ignore this answer and try

Re: Pyzor?

2012-10-06 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from Nexus7. Boyaah! Le 6 oct. 2012 06:37, "Arthur Dent" a écrit : > > On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:25 +0200, Axb wrote: > > On 10/06/2012 12:14 PM, Arthur Dent wrote: > > > I am trying to improve the performance of SA on my small home server. I > > > use the sought rules, but though I would als

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Try my regex ( /[:;`(){}~#&"%$_][a-z][:;`(){}_~#&"%$]/im ) in a subject header check, and meta this with something like __HAS_ANY_URI and or SUBJ_ALL_CAPS. You may also want to upper your scoring for URIBL rules. And train your bayesian filter with those spam messages. BAEYS_00 means they are con

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hello, On 12-10-05 08:43 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 20:56 -0700, Cathryn Mataga wrote: >> I'm getting a lot of SPAM with words written like this. These are pretty >> horrible, and I don't like >> getting them every day. >> >> A:N ;A %L" >> P:O ~R %N ( P &lCT U #R&E / >> >>

Re: short prolific spam

2012-10-02 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there, first, your threshold is high. You may want to lower it a little bit. Then, if it's always the same phrase, rule it: body__AYOY/HELLO dude/ Then meta this with other thing you may see a lot in those spams: metaME_SPAMRCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB && __AYOY score ME_SPAM2.0

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-28 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Great, thanks, will do that today. Alex, from osmose. Bow before me, for I am root. On 12-09-27 07:04 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > On 09/27, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> I met you earlier on the IRC channel, remember? > Yup. > >> Anyway, I would be glad to submit my rule

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-27 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi there Darxus ! I met you earlier on the IRC channel, remember? Anyway, I would be glad to submit my rules (corrected by Bowie Bailey). I indeed asked how one could do that. Should I start a sandbox? I'm familiar with some aspects of SA, but the "return to the project" lack to my personnal cul

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-27 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from Nexus7. Boyaah! Le 27 sept. 2012 14:34, "Bowie Bailey" a écrit : > > > On 9/27/2012 1:48 PM, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> >> Alex, from prypiat. >> Yes, I recycle. >> >> >> On 12-09-27 11:09 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >&

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-27 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-09-27 11:09 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/27/2012 10:41 AM, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Here is a small ruleset that I'm working with. I added it to our >> local ruleset in prod: >> >>

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-27 Thread Alexandre Boyer
becoming a regular contributor but this part of SA project is a little cryptic to me right now. Do not hesitate to contact me off-list if necessary. Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-09-26 11:03 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/26/2012 10:45 AM, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> H

Re: How to check from that is not on the header?

2012-09-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-09-26 11:09 AM, Sergio wrote: > Hi all, > how may I can check a FROM different to the one on the headers? > > I have seen that some emails on the FROM on the header has something > different than the FROM on the email, as an example: You are talking abo

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-09-26 11:03 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > On 9/26/2012 10:45 AM, Alexandre Boyer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Me happy :-D >> >> It works as expected for simple rules. >> >> For example, to get rid off my problem

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi all, Me happy :-D It works as expected for simple rules. For example, to get rid off my problem with youtube links I had this simple rule: uri_detail Z_URIDETAIL_UTUBE_SPOOF raw !~ /youtube\./ text =~ /(https?://)?(www\.)?youtube\./ type =~ /^a$/ scoreZ_URIDETAIL_UTUB

Re: HTML link regex

2012-09-26 Thread Alexandre Boyer
I found a couple of examples with uri_detail checks (instead of uri checks) that are written in a very similar way to what John suggested. I wil test this today. Having writen two plugins already (that is, on the edge to begin to understand how the PMS works ;) ), I knew that one could work with

HTML link regex

2012-09-25 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Hi list, I'm receiving a lot of spam of a very particular sort. It's essentially FREEMAIL_FROM and the body only contains a fake Youtube link like: http://www.probono.fr/95280_pdf";>http://www.youtube.com/wa= tch?v=3D3VvOFqaHbL5&feature=3Dg-vrec&feature=3Dg-vrec I ended with a regex fo

Re: Rules Needed to verify bank fraud

2012-08-24 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Yep, you are damn right. I work in a company where I maintain a list for canadian banks and more. It's a pain, but it's effective. Should a few responsible of us contribute, it would greatly help. Alex, from osmose. Bow before me, for I am root. On 12-08-24 02:03 PM, Matt Garretson wrote: > In

Re: Rules Needed to verify bank fraud

2012-08-23 Thread Alexandre Boyer
That's my opinion too. Therefor the community will have to contribute to the list of which domain to add or not. Alex, from osmose. Bow before me, for I am root. On 12-08-23 07:20 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > Great idea - but don't under-estimate the amount of work. Someone > thought there'd be "onl

Re: HEADS UP: DBSL.org is returning positive replies

2012-08-10 Thread Alexandre Boyer
That's right. Excuse me to use this thread, but I have a short question about scoring. When I want to prevent a rule from being used, I set it's score to 0: score RULE 0 Is the method asked by Brent working too? Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-08-10 04:29 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.c

Re: HEADS UP: DBSL.org is returning positive replies

2012-08-10 Thread Alexandre Boyer
Did you meant: score RCVD_IN_DSBL0 ? Alex, from prypiat. Yes, I recycle. On 12-08-10 04:00 PM, Brent Gardner wrote: > On 08/10/2012 04:46 AM, Axb wrote: >> DSBL.org was shut down 4 years ago but apparently there's still ppl >> sending lookups. >> >> As of today, dsbl.org is returning posi

Re: SELL CVV GOOD ALL COUNTRY,Transfer WU,SHIP LAPTOP( DELL, TOSHIBA,..) IPAD2,IPHONE

2012-06-09 Thread Alexandre Boyer
+1 Alex, from osmose. Bow before me, for I am root. On 12-06-09 03:29 AM, Niamh Holding wrote: > Hello best_sellercvv, > > Saturday, June 9, 2012, 7:00:35 AM, you wrote: > > b> Hi every customer > > Oh the irony to see the spamassassin list spammed :) > signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi