Re: installing spamass-milter

2022-10-22 Thread Jered Floyd
spamass-milter isn't part of the Spamassassin project and is unmaintained by its upstream [https://github.com/andybalholm/spamass-milter], so you may have limited support opportunities here. What you're seeing here is that the Fedora/EPEL "spamass-milter" package has a strong dependency on t

Re: Avoid processing upsteam trusted mail with X-Spam-Flag: YES?

2022-01-06 Thread Jered Floyd
> I don't know if it would work in your scenario or not, but it might work > to have the upstream system send to the downstream mailhub on a > different IP+port pair wherein SpamAssassin is not integrated. In > Sendmail, this could be as simple as an additional DaemonPort that > doesn't include

Avoid processing upsteam trusted mail with X-Spam-Flag: YES?

2022-01-05 Thread Jered Floyd
I have an upstream mail server running spamassassin as part of a relatively complex mail flow. This server will flag mail identified as spam with X-Spam-Flag: YES (among other standard headers). Some of this mail gets forwarded to another organization (also partially under my control) which h

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-22 Thread Jered Floyd
- On Aug 22, 2020, at 3:35 PM, Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: >> Like most ISPs, they have a feedback loop to remove malicious users. I >> assume it is too slow, so a SendGrid account ID RBL would provide >> meaningful value. > > Would not Pyzor accomplish the same thing? Sub

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-22 Thread Jered Floyd
- On Aug 21, 2020, at 10:37 PM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: > I fail to see the point: that we do the work that sendgrid should be doing, > but > on a duplicative scale? > > Why don’t they police themselves? Presumably for the same reasons we filter spam

Re: Something missing in AvoidingFpsForSenders?

2019-09-13 Thread Jered Floyd
}\b/i > #skelaxin > body __DRUGS_MUSCLE5 /\bskelaxin\b/i > meta DRUGS_MUSCLE (__DRUGS_MUSCLE2 || __DRUGS_MUSCLE3 || __DRUGS_MUSCLE4 > ||__DRUGS_MUSCLE5 ) > describe DRUGS_MUSCLE Refers to a muscle relaxant > > Thank you. > > > Best regards, > Henrik

Re: Something missing in AvoidingFpsForSenders?

2019-09-13 Thread Jered Floyd
Henrik, The applicable rules file can be found here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk/rules/20_drugs.cf The file notes: # This ruleset is intended to detect common "pill spam" however, it is not # appropriate for all environments. It may not be appropriate for a medical or

Re: AW: i need to fix this ....

2018-02-07 Thread Jered Floyd
ebian.org/ jessie/updates main > # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main > Regards > Maurizio > Von: Jered Floyd [mailto:je...@convivian.

Re: i need to fix this ....

2018-02-06 Thread Jered Floyd
Hi Maurizio, What version of Debian are you running, and which spamassassin package do you have installed? Useful commands: # cat /etc/debian_version # dpkg -l spamassassin If you have mixed releases installed, please also provide the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list. Regards, --Jered

Re: spf

2017-02-26 Thread Jered Floyd
-perl-xml-sax-expat zimbra-perl-xml-simple zimbra-perl-zmq-constants zimbra-perl-zmq-libzmq3 zimbra-spamassassin-rules Regards, --Jered - On Feb 26, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: > On 26.02.17 10:12, Jered Floyd wrote: >>It may be more effective

Re: spf

2017-02-26 Thread Jered Floyd
Matus, It may be more effective to pursue this in a Zimbra support forum. If you are running the OSS version (as am I!), you may have good luck here: https://forums.zimbra.org/ Unfortunately I run SpamAssassin on my mailhub prior to Zimbra so can't help on this one. --Jered - On Feb 26,

Re: Is this spam?

2016-04-18 Thread Jered Floyd
I personally consider stuff like this spam, but unfortunately the world at large (and spam filtering software) doesn't -- and I'm not sure it's possible to sufficiently train to block it. I would love a solution, but I don't know what it is, beyond blocking all "legitimate" bulk commercial ema

Re: I have developed a new method of blocking spam that's a game changer

2016-01-13 Thread Jered Floyd
Hi Marc, I can't commit to providing a timely review of your idea (although I'm happy to keep any communication in confidence if you would like to share), but I think I can point out a very likely weakness that you should consider. The biggest challenge with SA is that it is so widely deployed

Re: A Plan to Stop Violence on Social Media

2015-12-16 Thread Jered Floyd
Wrolf, Facebook (et al.) already have extremely powerful engines and many engineers working on anti-spam/anti-fraud technologies. They're quite good at keeping most of the spam out of your Timeline. They don't need "our" help. The same techniques could plausibly be used to block ISIS propagan

Re: Investigating facebook spam

2015-10-06 Thread Jered Floyd
It's a brain dead forwarder that does that, but most forwarders are brain dead. "aliases" and ".forward" are the most common things out there. --Jered - On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Benny Pedersen m...@junc.eu wrote: > David B Funk skrev den 2015-10-06 22:33: > >> So that explicit forward

Re: Investigating facebook spam

2015-10-06 Thread Jered Floyd
>> Can we temper this rule with a check to see if the mail indeed did pass >> through >> a fb server? You're checking the From: header, which can obviously be easily >> spoofed, but perhaps if it originated from a facebook server? This would be of limited value. As an MTA, you can only believe th

Re: Investigating facebook spam

2015-10-06 Thread Jered Floyd
prevent it. DKIM and SPF are both valuable tools in our arsenal, and SPF fail isn't enough to reject mail. --Jered - On Oct 6, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 10/6/2015 5:01 PM, Jered Floyd wrote: >> Ah; good eyes! >> That KAM_FACEBOOK rule

Re: Investigating facebook spam

2015-10-06 Thread Jered Floyd
Ah; good eyes! That KAM_FACEBOOK rule is dangerous. --Jered - On Oct 6, 2015, at 4:33 PM, David B Funk dbf...@engineering.uiowa.edu wrote: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Alex wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've received a handful of messages that appear to be facebook >> notifications, but fail SPF. They

Re: Investigating facebook spam

2015-10-06 Thread Jered Floyd
Are you operating a backup MX at the cox.net address? If messages are delayed and retried to your backup MX, this would explain the SPF failures. --Jered - On Oct 6, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I've received a handful of messages that appear to be faceb

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

2015-06-23 Thread Jered Floyd
>> The form does seem to have worked, and I'm not currently on the BRBL, >> although >> this morning I got bounces from a Barracuda customer for a very benign >> message >> with "rejected due to spam content," so who knows. I wish there was better >> visibility into the process. > > then it w

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

2015-06-23 Thread Jered Floyd
them you want a block they will SWIP to you. I > realize this may cost you some more money. But email is not one of > those things you can do well on the cheap. > > Ted > > > On 6/20/2015 8:38 AM, Jered Floyd wrote: >> >> Hello SA-users, >> >> I have

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

2015-06-21 Thread Jered Floyd
EmailReg.org operates a whitelist, so you pay to get listed there. The site doesn't say much at all about what sort of verification or later delisting for spam they might do. However, they are promoted directly on the "Sorry, your email was blocked" page for Barracuda Reputation, and the page

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

2015-06-21 Thread Jered Floyd
Richard, > The BRBL may have listed the entire /24 that includes your sending IPs. > Painful experience has shown that Barracuda won't hear your requests for > delisting, and the listing may never go away. I believe you've got it in one. I heard back from a colleague on the same /24 (though n

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

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