Re: Unsubscribe

2014-10-16 Thread Derek Harding
On 10/16/2014 7:14 PM, Duane Hill wrote: Are you sending the unsubscribe request from an address subscribed? Yes

Re: Unsubscribe

2014-10-16 Thread Derek Harding
On 10/15/14, 11:35 AM, Dave Warren wrote: On 2014-10-15 10:16, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I've looked into this and tested the process without issue. The only issue I've seen to date is someone who joined who did not know what email address they joined as and does not know how to read the email

Re: Unsubscribe

2014-10-16 Thread Derek Harding
On 10/15/14, 10:09 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: and *why* do you NOT state that in your *first* message? That was my first message.

Re: Unsubscribe

2014-10-15 Thread Derek Harding
On 9/25/14, 2:00 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: irrelevant - every list has a welcome message and there is no logic in ask other members to unsubscribe yourself, one did also not ask them for subscribe https://www.google.at/search?q=spamassassin+mailing+list https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Maili

Re: Return Path Safe whitelist UPDATE [was: Opt In Spam]

2009-07-17 Thread Derek Harding
LuKreme wrote: In my mailspool they are a spam indicator and I have them scored as such: score HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI 1.0 score HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI 1.5 It's very simple, Habeas headers are a fairly strong indicator of spam in my mail spool. I search all the mail for habeas headers and it sh

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Derek Harding
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Thu, July 16, 2009 02:14, MrGibbage wrote: uribl did not hit on any of the "real" uri's in the message. Not sure why you think they would have been triggered by the www[dot]da39[dot]com though. SA wouldn't have sent them that URI to even check, would it? Or am I mi

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Derek Harding
Dennis Hardy wrote: Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( Any thoughts/advice are appreciated :-) When this started happening to us the only solution I found was manual CIDR blocks. Yea I know very last millennium but I didn't find anything else to work with. Some particular sno

RE: adding score for email from noreply@

2008-09-04 Thread Derek Harding
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:13 +1200, Michael Hutchinson wrote: > Check out http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules for writing > custom rules. I learnt how to do it from that page, and then by looking > at how everyone else makes rules (check out the ones that already come > with Spamassassi

Re: adding score for email from noreply@

2008-09-02 Thread Derek Harding
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:31 -0500, Curtis LaMasters wrote: > I'm having a pretty hard time with this one for some reason, mainly > because I don't understand regex. I have a large number of emails > that are getting past my spamassassin setup (Maia Mailguard 1.02a) as > well as my Barracuda. I wo

Re: [offtopic] Are 8-bit characters completely illegal in a raw message?

2008-03-31 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:32 -0700, SM wrote: > Hi Vitas, > At 09:27 31-03-2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >So, as I've found in RFC's all header fields in message should be > >encoded to 7-bit data. In addition my SMTP server does *not* support > >8-bit MIME for incoming e-mail. > > The message

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED_COI

2008-02-27 Thread Derek Harding
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:21 +, Anthony Peacock wrote: > > For anyone interested here is the full email (well one of them)... > > http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/habeas-misfire.eml > Looks to me as though someone has found a way to abuse ning.com's platform/systems. I suspect they'd be v

Re: URICountry not working - any clue?

2007-11-11 Thread Derek Harding
SpankTheSpam wrote: but the message sent from polish servers gets NO additional scoring because of that rule. I can see URICountry in spamassassin -D -t < testmessage: URICountry doesn't score based on country of origin (that's RelayCountry). URICountry scores based on the country in which UR

Re: Top spam hosters, how to decline email mentioning them

2007-10-21 Thread Derek Harding
JP Kelly wrote: that makes sense to me but after that it says "THE CODE" followed by a bunch of code. i am unclear on what needs to be done with this code. Typically you put it in a file called something like URICountry.pm and then load it in your local.cf or vN.pre (eg. v320.pre) using the lo

Re: Bouncing emails from certain countries

2007-08-27 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 12:37 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > And no wonder you don't seem to get many new customers from > > elsewhere anyway, I bet. They can't get a word in edgewise. But > > never mind. You won't see this message either. > > Whoa

Re: Folks using amavisd-new and SA...

2007-06-18 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:38 -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > Just a quick question to those that are using those two together. > > I have: > $max_servers = 10; > $max_requests = 15; > > in amavisd.conf. > > But the box's load average seems to be hovering around 2.00 all the > time. Sometimes a

Re: How to use SpamAssassin from PHP?

2007-04-17 Thread Derek Harding
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:52 +0530, BG Mahesh wrote: > > hi > > I want to pass the comments/text entered by users on a form to > SpamAssassin for approval. If it approves it only then I want to > accept the text, else I want to inform the user that the text is Spam > and reject the user's comments

Re: Sender Address Verification is NOT abouse and very effective

2007-03-29 Thread Derek Harding
Marc Perkel wrote: I don't understand why you think SAV is a louse anti-forgery tool. It forces spammers to have to find real email addresses to forge. So here's a little thought experiment for you. As you know more and more spam is sent by botnets from compromised machines. Those bots know a

Re: Message is Piped to a PHP script. CPANEL glitch preventing SA from Scanning before feeding to script.

2007-03-02 Thread Derek Harding
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:08 -0500, Don Ireland wrote: > Is there a way to have my PHP Script feed a message to SA to be > scanned? I can save the message as a text file if that'll help. #!/usr/bin/php -q /tmp/sa.$$") || die("Error opening temp file: /tmp/sa.$$"); print TMP $mess . "\r\n"; clos

Re: Message is Piped to a PHP script. CPANEL glitch preventing SA from Scanning before feeding to script.

2007-03-02 Thread Derek Harding
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:40 -0800, Derek Harding wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:08 -0500, Don Ireland wrote: > > Is there a way to have my PHP Script feed a message to SA to be > > scanned? I can save the message as a text file if that'll help. > > > > #!/us

Re: Spam with image and tons of nonsense words, works fantastic for spammers

2007-02-01 Thread Derek Harding
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 16:02 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, z3r0 wrote: > > > My hosting is cool, but I'm spammed. Never thought custom rules where > > something beyond common users, but seems like it is. Perhaps living with > > pharmaceutical messages in inbox is not so bad when

Re: RelayChecker 0.3

2006-11-16 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 17:26 -0800, John Rudd wrote: > http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/RelayChecker.tar I've been running this for a few days now and am finding it to be pretty effective, especially against the bots that are producing all the image spam. Currently it's running about 87

Re: Real fix for stock spams - pick up a pen

2006-11-16 Thread Derek Harding
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:57 -0800, Evan Platt wrote: > > Imagine if ABC Corp is already public, and along comes XYZ, Inc, > about to go public. XYZ competes with ABC. ABC hires Spammer in > to spam for 'XYZ'. So now it looks like XYZ is > spamming. The FTC crawls all over XYZ, who of course pl

Re: is there a way to block email coming from

2006-11-10 Thread Derek Harding
Benny Pedersen wrote: header URICOUNTRY_GB eval:check_uricountry('URICOUNTRY_GB') what if a spammer sends mails from another ip outside GB ? imho such rules only changes the problem, not solving it :( URICOUNTRY scores on spams that URIs hosted in a given country rather than spam tha

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-09 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:55 -0800, Derek Harding wrote: > > > Anyone dumb enough to block outright on the spamcop BL deserves whatever > they don't get. Sorry for the delay. I need to apologise for the short temperedness of my response. I should have tempered my response and

Re: mail bounce warning for the list

2006-11-06 Thread Derek Harding
Gary W. Smith wrote: Was the SA group listed by spamcop last month? I just now received this for messages from October 26th. Who cares? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 209.209.82.24 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 554 5.7.1 Service unavailable; Client host [140.211.11.2] blocked using

Re: Do something useful with bad addresses?

2006-11-06 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 15:49 -0800, Evan Platt wrote: > Just to clarify.. Yes, these would definitely be targeted addresses. > I grepped my mail log for common spam I get and I'll add those. There is one problem with this approach though. All spam is learned. I tried this and I suspect that the la

Re: Do something useful with bad addresses?

2006-11-06 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:34 -0800, John Rudd wrote: > > > > Alternatively, create a single sa-honeypot user and redirect all your > > targeted bad addresses to that account, and then run sa-learn --spam > > against that one mailbox from cron.daily. > > > > And then an important email comes into

RE: Having issue with a type of spam I havn't seen before

2006-10-13 Thread Derek Harding
On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:22 -0600, Chris Stone wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 10:38 -0400, Dylan Bouterse wrote: > > I’m trying to write a rule to score src=cid” but I can’t seem to get > > it right. Can somebody shed some light on what I’d use for the > > 20_phrases.cf file so I can start scoring

Re: Hashcash plugin to stamp outgoing mails (for postfix only)

2006-08-16 Thread Derek Harding
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 17:22 +0200, decoder wrote: > Well, you can read about the hashcash system at hashcash.org, > basically, it is a per recipient hash generation that assures that a > specific amount of time was required to compute this hash per > recipient. Spammers don't have this time, they s

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Harding
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Ray wrote: > Anyone serious about stopping SPAM should not use SpamCop. They have no > real checking method, it's like AOL's spam blocking method...they just > let users submit what they think is spam and then block it. It's > pointless. There's not even a

Re: My thoughts on image spam strategies

2006-08-02 Thread Derek Harding
John Rudd wrote: No, 70 would still be 70. 07 would become 00. And 07 is a pretty faint red. Looking at it now, I can't distinguish it from black. (70 is 0111 so the lower 3 or 4 bits are already 0's, whereas 07 is 0111 .. THAT becomes 0 and is indistinguishable from black

Re: My thoughts on image spam strategies

2006-08-01 Thread Derek Harding
John Rudd wrote: On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Derek Harding wrote: John Rudd wrote: Um, how exactly will they fail? How about a nice black & white speckled image with red text on it? Explain to me how you think it will fail? So you're dropping three bits? White is FF, Bla

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-08-01 Thread Derek Harding
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, a friend of mine is using outlook "stationary" with a logo. This would hit the rule ... I am not sure whether many senders do that, however Stationery and image sig files are the two main false positives that I can think of. However I think those uses are fairly r

Re: My thoughts on image spam strategies

2006-08-01 Thread Derek Harding
John Rudd wrote: Um, how exactly will they fail? How about a nice black & white speckled image with red text on it? BTW I think the OCR approach is unlikely to succeed due to processing constraints. Derek

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-08-01 Thread Derek Harding
Rob Mangiafico wrote: Anyone else find this to be a good rule to catch these image stock spams without too much collateral damage? After writing this I did some checks on the SA public corpus. The rule didn't hit on any of the hard ham. It didn't hit much of the spam either since very litt

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-08-01 Thread Derek Harding
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 17:49 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > Except now you've also delayed your valid mail by 30 minutes or an hour > which sucks (and is sometimes completely unacceptable). True though it would be more accurate to say that you've delayed some of your valid mail by 30 minutes to

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-07-31 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 19:03 -0500, Tim wrote: > Thanks for the tip. That sounds pretty effective, actually. Care to > share your rule? Sure thing: rawbody INLINE_IMAGE/src\s*=\s*["']cid:/i describe INLINE_IMAGE Inline Images score INLINE_IMAGE 1.5 I haven't tested this against the SA c

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-07-31 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:34 -0500, Tim wrote: > > But I find it amusing that people here are more interested in > telling > spammers how they can defeat an algorithm instead of the other > way around. 99% of the techniques in SpamAssassins hvae an easy > workaround - does that stop anybody from

SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE question

2006-01-04 Thread Derek Harding
This may be more a dev question but I thought I'd start here. I've been seeing this rule (SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE) trigger recently and it is confusing me. 3.1.0 defines it as :header SUBJECT_ENCODED_TWICE Subject:raw =~ /= \?\S+\?[BQ]\?.*=\?\S+\?[BQ]\?/i It checks for a subject line having two

Re: Parse and check URIs

2006-01-01 Thread Derek Harding
Markus Mayer wrote: What I would like to do now is to somewhat combine the two approaches: parse mail-bodies for URIs (just as it's done with the Geocities example), then use the IP the link resolves to with the countries blackhole-list to find out if the site is in China, Korea or any of the oth

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:05 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: > What's the benefit of using this instead of the uridnsbl plugin? The code > below will look for the IP address behind a URI and then query the > cn-kr.blackholes.us RBL to see if that addr is in China: This one doesn't require a DNS lookup w

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Harding
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 15:53 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It allows rules such as: > > uricountry URICOUNTRY_CN CN > > header URICOUNTRY_CN eval:check_uricountry('URICOUNTRY_CN') > > describeURICOUNTRY_CN Contains a URI hosted in China > > tflags URICO

RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-08 Thread Derek Harding
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:27 -0400, Greg Allen wrote: > They are also using non-Geocities addresses now. Most of the IPs they > use seem to been from China, so you could RBL china at the front end, > if you are allowed to block China that is... (my users won't let me > block China...uggh) > > > --