Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

2010-10-21 Thread Claude Frantz
On 10/22/2010 02:50 AM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: Or falsely reporting legit mail servers as sending large quantities of spam in another attempt to cripple the usefulness of such a system. I'm also interested in more ideas on how spammers could game this system, and what could be done about

Re: Getting hammered by backscatter - possible solution: vbounce ?

2008-11-05 Thread Claude Frantz
In order to reduce backscattering, I'm using an additional milter-regex on the systems processing outgoing messages. This milter-regex try to recognize backscattered messages as well as spam marked messages redirected to addresses outside off the protected perimeter. Although this method is not

Re: a small explanation on rule FORGED_RCVD_HELO

2007-08-14 Thread Claude Frantz
Matt Kettler wrote: It looks for a HELO doesn't match against the reverse DNS for the IP address. Please note the case of clients connected to the network via NAT and using dynamic IP addresses. In the general case, such clients do not known about the IP address to which one their local addr

Botnet config Botnet.cf

2007-07-05 Thread Claude Frantz
According to the docs...: Option: botnet_clientwords Space delimited list of regexps that are indicate an end client or dynamic host which should not directly connect to other mail servers besides its own provider's. Multiple entries are ORed together. Multiple entries may be space delimit

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-29 Thread Claude Frantz
Just another command sequence which worked well on a file containing an image too: gs -sOutputFile=hugo -sDEVICE=pnmraw -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r600x600 hugo.pdf cat hugo | pamthreshold -simple -threshold 0.5 | pamtopnm | ocrad --format=utf8 This could be a base for another prep and scanset for F

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-29 Thread Claude Frantz
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: I was able to decode to plain text using the following commands: cat report.pdf | acroread -toPostScript -level2 -saveVM | ps2ascii And this scales? :) It worked for me on an example of the many similar SPAM messages I have got. It will probably not work with any

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-29 Thread Claude Frantz
Raymond Myren wrote: Just today I started receiving spam mails with attached .pdf files with a spam image. Any ideas how to stop this spam type? I was able to decode to plain text using the following commands: cat report.pdf | acroread -toPostScript -level2 -saveVM | ps2ascii Finally, very

Re: Botnet Plugin

2007-06-10 Thread Claude Frantz
John Rudd wrote: In my opinion, the Botnet plugin should recognize that as botnet, but I could be wrong. Botnet is looking for hosts whose DNS looks like a dynamic or dial-up customer. So, if the host has no reverse DNS, the reverse DNS doesn't match forward DNS, or the forward DNS contains

Re: Botnet Plugin

2007-06-07 Thread Claude Frantz
; [21114] dbg: Botnet: RDNS is 'ludwik.warynski.net' However, one thing to recognize is that botnet does not parse the Received headers themselves. Spam Assassin does, and puts them into psuedoheaders. Those pseudoheaders are what botnet processes. What exactly contain the pseu

Re: Botnet Plugin

2007-06-05 Thread Claude Frantz
Claude Frantz wrote: The Botnet Plugin is not able to recognize the following sequence: Another case: Received: from OrangeSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (OrangeSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12512-05 for <[EM

Botnet Plugin

2007-06-05 Thread Claude Frantz
The Botnet Plugin is not able to recognize the following sequence: Received: from ludwik.warynski.net (ludwik.warynski.net [195.82.166.1]) by BlueSrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l55L66tA013532 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 23:06:07 +0

excluding from autowhite list

2007-03-29 Thread Claude Frantz
Is it possible to exclude a specific address from the AWL without whitelisting it ? In others words, I want that the AWL test will not be applyed to this address. All other tests should be applyed as usual. Thanks a lot ! Claude

Re: Multiple headers with the same keyword

2007-03-02 Thread Claude Frantz
Justin Mason wrote: Can you provide an example? I'm not sure what you mean. The most important example is the "Received" header which usually occurs many times. You could probably do it with the "ALL" pseudoheader, but it'll be very slow. A plugin might be the best option, but it's hard

Multiple headers with the same keyword

2007-03-01 Thread Claude Frantz
While writing rules How can I find how many headers with the same keyword exist ? How can I recognize to which one a matching rule apply ? Or is it necessary to write a plugin in order to have access to this information ? Thanks a lot ! -- You will find the CA certificate and the CRL her

how to get the client address ?

2007-02-28 Thread Claude Frantz
How can I get the IP address of the client host which has sent the message, so that I can use it in rules ? Thanks a lot. Claude -- You will find the CA certificate and the CRL here: http://www.unibw.de/certs smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [ semi OT ] Bounced Mails

2007-02-20 Thread Claude Frantz
Luis HernĂ¡n Otegui wrote: Hi, List, my users are getting increasing amounts of "Mail Delivery Subsystem" mails, and I suspect spammers are using their addresses as senders. I have my servers registered with SPF, but now I wonder how could I stop this mails from getting to their accounts? I've

FuzzyOCR: how to add a "preprocessor" ?

2007-02-14 Thread Claude Frantz
As I could see, strange comments in GIF images results often in problems in further processing. Now I want to say to my config: "when converting a GIF image, pass it to 'gifsicle --no-comments' at first. How can I add this wish to my config ? Thanks a lot ! Claude -- You will find the CA certi

FuzzyOCR: manually add an image and score to the database

2007-02-08 Thread Claude Frantz
Hello Folk ! How can I add this to the database when FuzzyOCR does not recognize the image as it is ? Thanks a lot ! Claude smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

recurrent error with ripole and amavisd-new-2.4.5

2007-02-01 Thread Claude Frantz
Here is a typical error report in the log file: Feb 1 11:31:47 yellowsrv amavis[11701]: (11701-03) (!)collect_results from [] (/usr/bin/ripole): exit 30 ripOLE: decoding of /var/spool/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20070201T113001-11701/parts/p002 resulted in error 30\n I'm using Name: ripole V

A sort of free milter-p0f

2007-01-30 Thread Claude Frantz
Does a sort of free milter-p0f exists ? Claude -- You will find the CA certificate and the CRL here: http://www.unibw.de/certs smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

HAM and BAYES_99=3.5 marking

2007-01-08 Thread Claude Frantz
Hello Folk ! Sometimes I get BAYES_99=3.5 as result of the test, in a message coming to me. This message is only sent to me and its contents is not SPAM. How can I find exactly the reason on this erroneous marking ? Claude -- You will find the CA certificate and the CRL here: http://www.unibw

DCC not active

2006-03-30 Thread Claude Frantz
In my /etc/mail/spamassassin/v310.pre, there is a line: loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC There is also a file: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DCC.pm but DCC is not active. What is missing here ? I'm using SpamAssassin version 3.1.0 running on Perl version