Re: Question about sa-updates

2024-06-21 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 22 Jun 2024, Paul Schmehl wrote: On Jun 22, 2024, at 12:28 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 6/21/2024 8:56 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: I scratched my head, then looked up the man page for sa-update on the web. Sure enough, that’s where the rules go. Is that where my local.c

Re: Order of handling whitelist/blacklist

2024-03-28 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 28 Mar 2024, Philip Prindeville via users wrote: On Mar 28, 2024, at 2:39 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 27.03.24 20:56, Philip Prindeville via users wrote: I have something that looks like: whitelist_from_rcvd v...@yandex.ru vger.kernel.org blacklist_from *@yandex.ru And

Re: Scoring Explanation Please

2023-08-30 Thread David B Funk
Denny, If you read the fine manual for the spamassassin configuration file, in section for 'score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn [ n.nn n.nn n.nn ]' You'll see: If only one valid score is listed, then that score is always used for a test. If four valid scores are listed, then the score that i

Re: OT - Re: DNFTEC - was My apologies

2023-08-05 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023, Grant Taylor via users wrote: On 8/5/23 6:42 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: Yes given that he is Sorry, I as asking for differences between Energy Creatures and Trolls. I agree with your advice about the particular EC / T. I'm still trying to understand the conceptual differ

Re: Really hard-to-filter spam

2023-08-02 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: Thank you very much. The message that slipped through today was NOT one of the ones being discussed in this thread, it was a different format and totally different message. I only included it to demonstrate that my server was not being reject

Re: Really hard-to-filter spam

2023-07-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023, Jared Hall wrote: On 7/27/2023 12:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hey, all. I've recently started getting spam that's really hard to deal with, and I'm open to suggestions as to how to approach it. Superficially, [snip..] The damn body's been encoded!  And there's so little

Re: Ensuring SPF/DKIM for @gmail.com

2023-07-25 Thread David B Funk
If you do that you will guarantee yourself to get bunches of spam that might otherwise be tagged by SA. the "welcomelist" mechanism says: Anybody who matches this criteria we consider strongly not to be spam (regardless of how spammy all the other metrics may say it is). You should "welco

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-14 Thread David B Funk
Assuming you own/manage your infrastructure it should be straight-forward. Create SFP records for your domain & SMTP server, set them to either soft or hard fail mode. If you can, also set up DKIM signing of your outgoing mail. Then create rules that looks for your from address in a message

Re: SpamAssassin repeatedly fails to start

2023-07-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Wingfully Team via users wrote: Hi, I’m using SpamAssassin 3.4.0 on a VPS hosted by Hostinger with CentOS 7. CyberPanel was installed by Hostinger. I am constantly (every 90 seconds) seeing spamassassin fail to start, seemingly because it can’t find the PID file. I’m sen

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-11 Thread David B Funk
what useful information would you be looking for from this kind of comparison? All the time I receive mail from people with non-local domains and regularly receive e-mail from co-workers using the same domain as me. The kind of things that might be useful are: 1) detecting local-domain forger

Re: Rule Help - not sure what is wrong with my syntax

2023-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Benny Pedersen wrote: Benny Pedersen skrev den 2023-01-14 03:59: header TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN To:addr =~ /\@(test|junc)\.(com|net|eu)$/ describe TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN Mail sent to test.com or test.net email addresses score TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN -0.5 tested works if i mail myself :=

Re: How do I check for a jpeg attachment?

2022-10-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, Loren Wilton wrote: I'm getting a bunch of spams from fake gmail accounts that consist of one short line of text and a 2 MB jpg file. The subject and body text are pretty much random beyond that. How do I check for the following? --e345f305ea2680cd Content-Type

Re: Aw: Re: info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed

2022-09-29 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Maurizio Caloro wrote: First let me thanks for your quick help, yes now are running:-) mistake: named.conf.options -listen-on { A.B.C.D, localhost; }; +listen-on { any; }; After this, the error in Spamd.log disapper, greate! Your mistake is that 'local

Re: info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed

2022-09-28 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: [snip..] /usr/local/share/perl/5.28.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 742, line 189. Wed Sep 28 21:46:55 2022 [9418] info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed: Connection refused at /usr/local/share/perl/5.28.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/D

Re: Emails from gmail.com bypassing Spamassassin scoring

2022-02-07 Thread David B Funk
How big was the message? (attached images can be pretty big). Depending on the "glue" you use to connect your mail MTA to SA, it may have some kind of size restriction. For example, the 'spamc' client has a 'max-size' parameter (which defaults to 500KB). Any message larger than that size will

Re: handle_user and connect to spamd failed

2021-10-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Linkcheck wrote: Ok, thanks, Dave. '--helper-home-dir' option needs an '=' Also, --max-children? I have been playing with options based on suggestions here. I now have the spamassassin options as: OPTIONS="--nouser-config -4 -i 127.0.0.1 --max-children=5 --helper-ho

Re: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HI ?

2021-10-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am getting tons of emails that are very obviously spam (elongation, russian beauties, etc) that are getting a -5 score added on the white list tes t: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HIRBL: Sender listed at https

Re: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HI ?

2021-10-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am getting tons of emails that are very obviously spam (elongation, russian beauties, etc) that are getting a -5 score added on the white list tes t: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HIRBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/, high trust I'm curious about the usef

Re: Customise hostname shown in X-Spam-Checker-Version?

2021-07-30 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, David Bürgin wrote: David Bürgin: Resolved. Perhaps the documentation should be updated. There are notes for options ‘remove_header’ and ‘clear_headers’ that ‘X-Spam-Checker-Version is not removable’, so a straightforward fix to the documentation would be replacing senten

Re: Identifying Amazon hosts...

2021-07-28 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, Antony Stone wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2021 at 19:51:49, Pedro David Marco wrote: Hi! i have spam with this header: Received: from a48-115.smtp-out.amazonses.com (HELO a48-115.smtp-out.amazonses.com) (54.240.48.115) Is there any way, based on its fqdn, to know whether

Re: Another evil number

2021-06-25 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: RW writes: You can reach out to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511. Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? In my experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area codes, digits that may be optional.

Re: Why single periods in regex in spamassassin rules?

2021-04-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: I'm looking at KAM.cf. There is this rule: body__KAM_WEB2 /INDIA based IT|indian.based.website|certified.it.company/i I'm wondering if there is a good reason why a singe period is used instead of something like \s+ which would catch multiple sp

Re: SA seems powerless against marketing emails for SEO/web development

2021-04-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 22.04.21 14:21, Steve Dondley wrote: pts rule name description -- -- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/,

Re: Problem installing sa on my pi 3b+

2021-04-08 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, spamassas...@mach2.franken.de wrote: Am 07.04.2021 um 12:27 schrieb Antony Stone: I am running said packet install from an internet tutorial. Who wrote that tutorial and where does it point you to get the packages from? Antony. Hmm, it says execute the following comm

Re: Moving Spam to Junk Folder

2020-09-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, bobby wrote: I am following this tutorial:  https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/spamassassin-centos-rhel-block-email-spam.I followed the steps in "Move Spam into the Junk Folder".  When I send an email from a blacklisted e-mail address, I get a bounce e-mail from my e-mail ser

Re: From Spoofed

2020-02-25 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020, Benny Pedersen wrote: Robert A. Ober skrev den 2020-02-26 02:28: I have a user that is getting many emails with obscene subjects. Someone is spoofing the From to include the users domain so the email is hitting "USER_IN_WHITELIST". I have installed the plugins from extrem

Re: Rule for detecting two email addresses in From: field.

2019-10-03 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Philip wrote: Morning List, Lately I'm getting a bunch of emails that are showing up with two email addresses in the From: field. From: "Persons Name " When you look in your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird) it's showing only "Persons Name " Is there a way I can mar

Re: Setting Threshold

2019-09-27 Thread David B Funk
service or did you stop & restart the spamd daemon? The spamd daemon is the thing that you need to restart to get it to process the config files. On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, David B Funk wrote: Jerry, That looks like a functional implementation of the "spamc" client. So that implies

Re: Setting Threshold

2019-09-27 Thread David B Funk
seem to like splattering all over the hard drive... :-).  Where should I be looking to find the SA log files? Thanks again. Jerry On 9/27/2019 6:46 PM, David B Funk wrote: Jerry, That looks like a functional implementation of the "spamc" client. So that implies your system is using &

Re: Setting Threshold

2019-09-27 Thread David B Funk
Jerry, That looks like a functional implementation of the "spamc" client. So that implies your system is using "spamd" daemon for actual processing of the spam. (as opposed to something like "amavis" which directly incorporates the SA scanning engine) Did you restart the spamd daemon after yo

who is IADB and why does this spam get a -3.8 score?

2019-08-07 Thread David B Funk
This afternoon I found a spam in one of my spam-traps that was sent via constantcontact.com and got a whopping -3.8 from IADB rules. Why does this spam source get such a boost? -0.0 RCVD_IN_IADB_LISTEDRBL: Participates in the IADB system -0.1 RCVD_IN_IADB_SPF RBL: IADB: Sender

Re: How to create my personal RBL

2019-06-25 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 16:11 +0200, hg user wrote: I'd like to create my own RBL that answers queries about IP, domain or address reputation. Data should be stored in a database (mysql, postgres, redis, etc) so that information can be added/modified/re

Re: Mail to local users

2019-06-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019, David B Funk wrote: Are you feeding spamass-milter the necessary information (via milter-macros in your MTA config) so that -it- knows that particular session is authenticated? It needs that info if it's going to synthesize the correct header so that SpamAssassin

Re: Mail to local users

2019-06-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019, @lbutlr wrote: On 17 Jun 2019, at 11:06, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.06.19 um 16:30 schrieb @lbutlr: Received: from darth.lan (c-73-14.161.160.hsd1.co.comcast.net [73.14.161.160]) by mail.covisp.net(Postfix 3.4.5/8.13.0) with SMTP id unknown; Sun, 16 Jun 2019

Re: Amazon continues to get tagged as spam

2019-04-01 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 1 Apr 2019, @lbutlr wrote: I have whitelisted amazon in /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf whitelist_auth *@*.amazon.com whitelist_auth *@amazon.com whitelist_from *@bounces.amazon.com whitelist_from order-upd...@amazon.com whitelist_from_rcvd @amazon.com amazon.com whitelist_fro

Re: Bug or feature? ;-)

2019-03-25 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 25 Mar 2019, Axb wrote: On 3/25/19 7:01 PM, Henrik K wrote: On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 06:49:49PM +0100, Tobi wrote: Am 25.03.19 um 15:18 schrieb Henrik K: On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 03:00:30PM +0100, Tobi wrote: [snip..] uri __HAS_URI /./ tflags __HAS_URI multiple meta __REALLY_HAS_U

Re: using existing score value in new rule's score

2019-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, RW wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:37:30 -0600 (CST) David B Funk wrote: Is there a rule "score" syntax that allows you to use the score assigned to an existing rule to calculate the value assigned to another rule? ... What I want to do is to create a local r

using existing score value in new rule's score

2019-02-22 Thread David B Funk
Is there a rule "score" syntax that allows you to use the score assigned to an existing rule to calculate the value assigned to another rule? Specifically what I'm trying to do is to negate the "damage" a particular rule does for messages that meet particular local criteria. For example: "HTM

Re: -Suggestion. Develop a List of examples of SpamAssassin Headers...

2019-01-31 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019, Noel wrote: On 1/31/2019 3:03 PM, Don Saklad wrote: $ perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf No documentation found for "Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf". "Bill Cole" writes: This is not really possible. Run 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassi

Re: SPF weirdness...

2019-01-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019, Bill Cole wrote: On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:05, Grant Taylor wrote: I will investigate to see if spamass-milter can fabricate a satisfactory Received: header. A quick look at the issue tracker for it implies that it does so. A milter that actually works with SA really needs

Re: rule for docx o xlsx

2018-12-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, RW wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:18:12 -0600 Rick Gutierrez wrote: Hi list , happy holidays to all, I am trying to make this rule work that a friend wrote in github, to be able to give a high score to documents sent from different countries, like pakistan, china or india ,

Re: Spamassassin using remote rules definition source?

2018-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, ozgurerdogan wrote: I simply need to write custom rules to block certain mails, domain names. Do I have to learn programming language for this? Is not it easy like create a conf file and let Sa update rules from that source remotely via http? If your primary need is to blo

Re: SpamSender with 2 @-signs in the address

2018-12-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/03/2018 11:53 AM, Alan Hodgson wrote: I've been watching these for a while, and unfortunately there are a lot of customer-service type systems that send From: addresses with quoted @domain addresses in them. Many of them do "user@address via" , bu

Re: Rule for a link with an numeric IP in body?

2018-10-29 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Mon, 2018-10-29 at 15:55 +0200, Anders Gustafsson wrote: Is there such a rule already in 3.3.x? I would ideally want a version of that that adds to the spam score if it sees a x.x.x.x/unsubscribe link, possibly translated. [snip..] describe MG_

Re: Is fuzzyocr i.e. Image scanning

2018-10-17 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 17 Oct 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: IC is an effort to dig a hole in the water, because the problem of image spam with obfuscated text cannot be solved by ocr.  My approach is a "better safe than sorry" best practice that anyone can implement with existing software:  1. do not displ

Re: Non-ascii subjects with images

2018-09-01 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, David B Funk wrote: On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: This is a subject line: Re: Habemus APP LG 😉 Do you understand that is not an image (EG jpg, png, or tiff) but a UTF-8 code point ("emoji" character) glyph. We cannot tell because y

Re: Non-ascii subjects with images

2018-09-01 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: This is a subject line: Re: Habemus APP LG 😉 Do you understand that is not an image (EG jpg, png, or tiff) but a UTF-8 code point ("emoji" character) glyph. We cannot tell because you haven't provided us with an actual message but I'm going t

Re: Best practice for learning submissions

2018-07-23 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Nick Bright wrote: On 7/23/2018 7:55 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: and even if - whats the point to store the surrounding messages in the corpus which you should keep forever if you need rebuild from scratch later? what is the problem you try to solveand why can't you just stor

Re: Help with own RBL

2018-07-23 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 23 Jul 2018, Pedro David Marco wrote: Not exactly a SA question but... i am planning to run my own RBL with a nameserver, that when queried for an IP that is not in its database, does some calculations with that IP and replies accordingly (caching the results)... Please, does anyone k

Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 13 Jul 2018, Rupert Gallagher wrote: A little survey on your local policies... What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters?  A. Reject B. Accept as spam C. Accept That clause for 78 chars is a "SHOULD", the "MUST" is for 998 chars. It then also says: Again

Re: Whitelisting envelope-from

2018-06-01 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 1 Jun 2018, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Fri, 2018-06-01 at 15:37 -0400, Alex wrote: Hi, I have an email with an address as follows that I'd like to whitelist: X-Envelope-From: Using whitelist_auth doesn't appear to work: whitelist_auth FredSavage*@cmail19.com Try whitelist_auth Fr

Re: Invoice phish

2018-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Alex wrote: Hi, [snip..] Train bayes, look for custom URIBL lists that might hit that powned website. The IP (216.32.180.23) is listed on sorbs, but that's it, and the domain (peabodyenergy.com) is not listed anywhere. I wasn't referring to the site that was the sour

Re: Invoice phish

2018-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 May 2018, Alex wrote: Hi, We received another of those phishes as a result of a compromised O365 account. https://pastebin.com/raw/Fv5NKRAP Anyone able to take a look and provide ideas on how to block them? It passes with DKIM_VALID_AU, RCVD_IN_SENDERSCORE_90_100 and SPF_PASS. It'

Re: training bayes database

2018-05-10 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 10 May 2018, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2018, Matthew Broadhead wrote: On 09/05/18 20:43, David Jones wrote: On 05/09/2018 01:29 PM, Matthew Broadhead wrote: On 09/05/18 16:37, Reindl Harald wrote: quoting URIBL_BLOCKED is a joke - setup a *recursion* *non-forwarding* namese

Re: Invoice phish

2018-05-09 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 9 May 2018, Vincent Fox wrote: I see an interesting dichotomy. Students are on Google, fac/staff on O365 now. Guess which group is phished most often? If you said students,  bzzzt.  It’s the O365 users, by a large margin.  Faculty and staff should be best trained.  Also protected by

Re: Just to lighten your day?

2018-05-02 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 2 May 2018, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2018, David Jones wrote: On 05/02/2018 01:21 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: One slipped through, with this subtle sig line (thought it might brighten someones day . . . ) "Note: Failure to Verify will lead to final termination of your email

Re: Just to lighten your day?

2018-05-02 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 2 May 2018, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: On 5/2/2018 at 2:57 PM, in message <0e5889ab-b61a-36ba-6b28-549f2c365...@ena.com>, David Jones wrote: On 05/02/2018 01:21 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: One slipped through, with this subtle sig line (thought it might brighten someones day . . . ) "N

Re: Dropping mail

2018-04-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:39:43 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: [snip] Define two classes of recipients: class A == all users who want everything class B == all users who want "standard" filtering This works if you have a limited

Re: regexp dealing with display name don't work

2018-04-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Joëlle Pfeffer wrote: I have progressed. If my rule is header REGLE_HF002 From:name =~ /@A/i e-mails containing From: @A or From: "@AB" or From: "@Ab" are not blocked but if my rule is header REGLE_HF002 From:name =~ /@.b/i e-mails containing From: "@Ab" or From: "@A

Re: Dropping mail

2018-04-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: Hi, I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that in some cases, it is necessary to silently drop spam rather than reject it. This is the situation: An email comes in for two recipients in one SMTP trasaction (ie, a MAIL, two RCPTs and then DATA). On

Re: dropping other's email(s) as a "best practice" for hosted email? (was: "anyone recognize these headers? ...")

2018-04-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 26.04.18 13:41, L A Walsh wrote: To my way of thinking, dropping someone else's email, telling the sender the email is being rejected for having spam-like characteristics and telling the recipient nothing seems like it might have legal liabi

Re: anyone recognize these headers? From SA or are they from another spam product?

2018-04-25 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, L A Walsh wrote: These headers (not these values) are in most or all of my emails. In one email on the net they were adjacent to SA's headers (but they aren't in my emails). I was wondering if anyone knew what product might be inserting these headers: X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.

Re: Can't Get Removed From List

2018-03-01 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, John Hardin wrote: A bunch of Javascript to display a *single image*? And it doesn't display *any content at all* if javascript is disabled for that site? That's what I hate about the web these days, there's too much crap surrounding the useful content. "too much -vulne

Re: The "goo.gl" shortner is OUT OF CONTROL (+ invaluement's response)

2018-02-25 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, LeandroCarlosRodrigues wrote: Amir Caspi wrote On that note -- regardless of what OTHER HW/SW solutions might do, since this is a SpamAssassin mailing list ... is there any facility to implement this in SA? That is, when calling the URIBL plugin, could it check both the sh

Re: Bayes not auto-learning?

2018-02-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018, Amir Caspi wrote: Hi all, So, I've been trying to tweak my setup and noticed that VERY few of my emails are being autolearned as spam, even when their spam threshold is far above the autolearn threshold. The threshold is set to 12; I just saw a spam with score >

Re: Custom rule don't match without empty line before the string!

2018-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, RW wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:54:45 +0100 saqariden wrote: Hello guys, I have the following SA rule which is supposed to block base64 encoded mails: This may be dangerous. If someone doesn't wish to use 8bit text then base64 encoding of UTF-8 is a sensible choice; Q

Re: catch today's PDF pillz spam

2018-02-19 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018, Axb wrote: oooppps - missing a backslash mimeheader AXB_CTYPE_SPELLHERO Content-Type =~ /\bapplictaion\/pdf\b/ On 02/19/2018 05:24 PM, Axb wrote: catch today's PDF pillz spam mimeheader  AXB_CTYPE_SPELLHERO    Content-Type =~ /bapplictaion\/pdf\b/ the typo is the tra

Re: URIBL_BLOCKED

2018-02-13 Thread David B Funk
If you read that informational spamassassin wiki page referenced in that message you'd know that it has nothing to do with querying a Russian RBL. That Russian URI is what the query to URIBL was asking. So your use of URIBL (via spamassassin) hit a threshold and was blocked. Read that spamassass

Re: Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) removal from the SA ruleset

2018-02-06 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, Kris Deugau wrote: Alex wrote: These phishes we've received were all from otherwise trusted sources like salesforce, amazonses and sendgrid. These are examples that I believe were previously whitelisted because of having received a phish through these systems but have no bee

Re: Scoring Issues

2018-01-26 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2018, b...@inter-control.com wrote: Oh, here is the X-SPAM status from the command line: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on     M1-2.dettenwanger.inter-control.com X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: ***

Re: check utf-8 subjects/from?

2017-12-13 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, AJ Weber wrote: Is there an easy way to check if the Subject or From is UTF-8 -- or non-ASCII -- char set? I see in some of my recent spam, either the Subject or the From (sometimes both) starts with "=?UTF-8?" (in these cases the rest is Base64 encoded, but I don't want

Re: help with phishing email?

2017-12-08 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 8 Dec 2017, AJ Weber wrote: I'm trying to decide the best way to detect something like this. https://pastebin.com/hCX9MWNg That appears to be corrupt. I downloaded it and ran it through my testbed and it wouldn't decode the body. Don't know

Re: Whitelisting Sprint with no domain security

2017-12-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Dec 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, sprintpcs.com has no domain security and for some reason I can't whitelist them using whitelist_from_rcvd, or even whitelist_from just to make it even more simple. Can someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong? Ideally I'd like to avoid whitelisting th

Re: Your header "To: undisclosed-recipients:;" is RFC 822 compliant

2017-10-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, A. Schulze wrote: Am 27.10.2017 um 07:15 schrieb @lbutlr: RFC 822 is obsolete, replaced by RFC 2822. ... which is obsoleted by RFC 5322 and updated some other RFCs see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 And it still explicitly says that construct is legal: rfc5322:3.4

Re: Bank fraud phish

2017-10-24 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Pedro David Marco wrote: Out of curiosity... "account is deactivated due to inactive,"   is this correct in english? shouldn't it be "inactivity"? It isn't good English, but I've seen worse from official notices. Now the fact that it claims to be a US financial company

Re: Bank fraud phish

2017-10-24 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Rupert Gallagher wrote: Easy one. The Message-ID is not well formed / RFC compliant. We reject such junk upfront.  Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if someone has some ideas to handle bank fraud phishi

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2017-09-20 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > 10. The emails we send are operational and notices emails to customers -  who need them. They call on the phone and complain they haven't received  them - just to discover they were sent, but ended up in the junk.  Tell them to send you a copy of t

Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org

2017-09-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Chris wrote: On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 00:40 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 16:44 -0500, Chris wrote: Thanks Martin, here's what I get, it appears to not be running. sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq [sudo] password for chris:  Failed to stop dnsmasq.service:

Re: In anyone else getting 325KB spams from cont...@cron-job.org?

2017-09-14 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:27:27 -0700 "Loren Wilton" wrote: Other than being obvious spam, they seem to be set up as though they were legitimate commercial mailing list stuff, often containing things like contact-id and the like in the links. Is anyone

Re: TxRep can't use SQLBasedAddrList factory module

2017-08-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Christopher Engelhard wrote: On 08/14/2017 05:24 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: does mysql -u -p localhost spamdb work? Yes, that works. The user has INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, SELECT privileges. Does it need CREATE? The table 'txrep' exists with columns username, email, ip, c

RE: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Jacek Osuchowski wrote: This is an email I sent to IsNotSpam.com. They list the whole thing when testing for spam. I am getting a lot of complains from our customers that our emails are not received. Our domain is not blacklisted anywhere so I suspect it is the spam filter

Re: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, David Jones wrote: [snip..] This IP is listed on SORBS and Spamhaus ZEN which are going to cause problems with delivery to many receiving mail filters, not just SpamAssassin. http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/68.192.71.191.html That's his PC which is the MSA. As it's the

Re: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Jacek Osuchowski wrote: We use emails to allow users to reset their passwords to our website. We send very brief emails containing the reset password. Example between : Your password to access your account is: S]U3bC

Re: Results of Individual Tests on spamd "CHECK"

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm invoking spamd using: CHECK SPAMC/1.2\r\n I'm getting the expected response such as: Spam: False ; -1.8 / 4.0 I am trying to figure out how to get the TESTS= results of the individual tests returned as well. (e.g.tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2

Re: tflags

2017-08-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Kris Deugau wrote: Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-08-03 10:38, sha...@shanew.net wrote: The most common ones that I make use of are "multiple" and "maxhits" in order to allow a rule to be scored for each time it hits, but to stop counting after some threshold. I also use th

Re: Spam with tons of lines with garbage characters, preceded by

2017-07-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: By default messages bigger than 500KB are not sent to spamd for processing/scanning => the tactics you describe frequently "turns off" spam filtering. IMHO SA should design procedures to deal with big messages. I personally use "sacan headers only" a

Re: ramsonware URI list

2017-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Antony Stone wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2017 at 11:19:54, mastered wrote: Hi Nicola, I'm not good at SHELL script language, but this might be fine: 1 - Save file into lista.txt 2 - trasform lista.txt in spamassassin rules: cat lista.txt | sed s'/http:\/\///' | sed s'/\

Re: ramsonware URI list

2017-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Antony Stone wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2017 at 11:19:54, mastered wrote: Hi Nicola, I'm not good at SHELL script language, but this might be fine: 1 - Save file into lista.txt 2 - trasform lista.txt in spamassassin rules: cat lista.txt | sed s'/http:\/\///' | sed s'/\

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, David Jones wrote: From: David B Funk   On Fri, 19 May 2017, RW wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2017 14:13:22 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: ne. My read on this is that "@ena.com" is living dangerously. They publish SPF records and DMARC records (with p=reject)

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, RW wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2017 14:13:22 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: ne. My read on this is that "@ena.com" is living dangerously. They publish SPF records and DMARC records (with p=reject) but do NOT DKIM sign their mail. Most of them pass DKIM, a minor

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, Dianne Skoll wrote: Hi, Tons of list traffic keeps getting quarantined because of DMARC. For example, a recent message from David Jones : DMARC policy for domain ena.com suggests Rejection as DMARC_POLICY_REJECT, but quarantined due to rule settings $ host -t txt _dmarc.

Re: URIBL_BLOCKED on 2 Fedora 25 servers with working dnsmasq, w/ NetworkManager service

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2017, Rob McEwen wrote: In many cases, they explain to me that their settings got auto-overwritten by their hoster - who just HAD to switch their resolv.conf file back to 8.8.8.8 cron. job. Wouldn't the SA config parameter "dns_server

Re: Negative rule score not working as expected

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Benny Pedersen wrote: Anthony Hoppe skrev den 2017-05-11 00:55: I'm trying to implement a very simple rule that looks at the "Received" header(s) and if a string is found apply a negative score. The rule is as follows: headerAH_KNOWBE4 Received=~ /phishtest\.knowbe4\.

Re: block Bayes autolearn for specific messages

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2017, David B Funk wrote: Is there any way to use Bayes autolearn in general but prevent it from learning specific messages? I have a specific source of messages (Office-365) which I would like to prevent from being autolearn (with out

block Bayes autolearn for specific messages

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
Is there any way to use Bayes autolearn in general but prevent it from learning specific messages? I have a specific source of messages (Office-365) which I would like to prevent from being autolearn (with out scoring them as spam). I still want those messages to be SA scored using the normal

Re: US-CERT message FP

2017-05-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 May 2017, Chris wrote: whitelist_auth *@*.us-cert.gov us-cert.gov This should be: whitelist_auth *@*.us-cert.gov I don't know why I keep putting the second entry in my 'my- whitelist.cf' file. I must have read it or something a long, long time ago in order to be doing this.  Poss

Re: US-CERT message FP

2017-05-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2017, Chris wrote: I get various posts from US-CERT none so far have been tagged as spam until today. The raw message with the SA tags is here - https://pastebi n.com/f71A2FfW What it hit on was: pts rule name  description

Re: Today's Google Docs phish

2017-05-03 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 May 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, If you haven't heard, there was a huge Google Docs phishing attack today. Several hundred bypassed our filters in the hour or so before we were able to identify them. The To address is always "h...@mailinator.com" and the subject is always " has s

Re: MISSING_MIMEOLE and X-MimeOLE

2017-05-01 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 1 May 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 8:44 AM, David Jones wrote: From: Alex I've taken a more conservative, but also more time-consuming approach by creating rules that subtract a few points with the right combination. I was also hoping there was a more general appro

Re: Can someone post some real-world examples of whitelist_auth, whitelist_spf, and whitelist_dkim?

2017-03-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, fitz wrote: I am attempting to tighten up my whitelists, replacing whitelist_from with whitelist_auth, whitelist_spf, and/or whitelist_dkim. And having trouble. The simplistic example of whitelist_auth b...@example.com example.net does not really cut it. For example, I h

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