RE: How to ignore multiple Received: headers

2011-11-02 Thread Kelson Vibber
> -Original Message- > >How do I tell Spamassasin to ignore the last received Header? Or are > >there other solutions to this problem? It also happens quite often with > >emails from cell phones (which always get the strangest dynamic IPs...). A matter of perspective: You don't need to tel

RE: Why doesn't anything at all get these botnet spammers?

2011-10-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
From: Jenny Lee > Also how ironic is it to write: users -at- spamassassin.apache.org on the > website!!! What a confidence in a > spam-fighting tool! Write it as users@sa, show you mean business. Ever hear of defense in depth?

RE: antiphishing

2011-10-12 Thread Kelson Vibber
as the link text. It's a horrible practice, IMO, since it essentially trains people to ignore what should be a major phishing indicator, but it's also very common. --Kelson Vibber

RE: How do I stop SA checking mail from authenticated users

2011-10-04 Thread Kelson Vibber
using. We were using MIMEDefang, and I remember we had to do two things: set MD up to read the Sendmail macros, then add the code to our MD filter to check for the macro before sending mail to SA. Sorry I couldn't be of more detailed help, but this should at least point you in the right direction. --Kelson Vibber

RE: Bayes & Apache James server

2011-07-29 Thread Kelson Vibber
Clam and decide what got discarded, what got blocked, and what got sent along to SA. I seem to remember it being worth it, but I just can't remember the numbers. Kelson Vibber TollFreeForwarding.com, Development

RE: Bayes & Apache James server

2011-07-29 Thread Kelson Vibber
s SA, and using some of the SaneSecurity signature sets to catch additional malware. Thanks! Kelson Vibber TollFreeForwarding.com, Development

Bayes & Apache James server

2011-07-28 Thread Kelson Vibber
let backported from 3.0, and we'll be using a sitewide database (at least to begin with). Thanks in advance, Kelson Vibber TollFreeForwarding.com, Development

Re: How not to implement SPF (nationwide.co.uk)

2010-07-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
On Jul 5, 2010, at 6:46 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: > > BTW - does anyone have some big list of domain that when combined with SPF > make a good white list? Well, that would depend on who you and your users want mail from, wouldn't it?

Re: How not to implement SPF (nationwide.co.uk)

2010-07-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:57 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: > It's not even useful for white listing as spammers can set up SPF too. That's not how whitelisting on SPF works. You don't whitelist *solely* on the presence of SPF. You whitelist the *combination* of a domain that you want and a positive SPF m

Re: Interesting email link in spam

2010-05-18 Thread Kelson Vibber
On Tuesday 18 May 2010, fchan wrote: > Note the Technical Contact name and his email address. Oh, great, now I'm imagining lasagna made with SPAM. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications,

Re: SOUGHT FP on Twitter notices

2010-05-06 Thread Kelson Vibber
. Quick interim fix. In your local.cf, add this to stop the FPs. meta __SEEK_O1OO80 (0) Thanks - Since I couldn't remember how to disable a component of a meta rule, I'd commented it out to start with, but of course sa-update clobbers that. Filing away for future reference...

SOUGHT FP on Twitter notices

2010-05-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
due to the phishing campaign that's been targeting Twitter users over the last few weeks, faking a message from Twitter support. I've seen several of those phish land in our own spamtraps and abuse mailbox. I can send a ham sample if that would help. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: "Opera's revolutionary e-mail client"?

2008-06-24 Thread Kelson Vibber
To follow up, here's a message actually sent from Opera 9.5 on Windows, in case someone wants the info for header analysis. And yes, I've changed the signature, partly so that it won't trip the rule in question. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: How do I manaually check SPF validity?

2007-01-30 Thread Kelson Vibber
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:23:53 -0500 There's one critical piece of information missing: the envelope sender (or at least the RHS of the address). -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

[spam score 9.0] Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan

2006-12-12 Thread Kelson Vibber
On Dec 12, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Phil Barnett wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2006 07:28, JamesDR wrote: Sounds like a good spam sign to me. Let the spammers put 0.0.0.0/0 in their spf records, I'll pop in 3 points for good measure. But, you are making some assumptions at this point and that is the

Re: 70_sare_spoof.cf False Pos - Bank of America

2006-09-21 Thread Kelson Vibber
for the phishers by making their own mail look suspicious, thereby training users to ignore warning signs. My "favorite" (and I use that term loosely) is Symantec -- a computer security company -- which sends things like upgrade offers through bluehornet.com. -- Kelson Vibber

Re: Any rules for URLs like this?

2006-08-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
I removed the example. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: whitelist poisoned? spam getting through

2006-08-03 Thread Kelson Vibber
o this deliberately, hoping it will get them past filters. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications,

Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-01-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
name * 2.5 FORGED_THEBAT_HTML The Bat! can't send HTML message only * 1.1 HTML_MIME_NO_HTML_TAG HTML-only message, but there is no HTML tag -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications,

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-10 Thread Kelson Vibber
Bayes-related? Bayes looks at the entire message, not just the sender. All I'd expect this tactic to do would be to make future innocuous mail look more innocuous -- it shouldn't have any significant impact on spammy mail from the same source since the content will be different.

Re: Quinlan interviewed about SA

2005-03-06 Thread Kelson Vibber
From what I hear a DomainKeys plugin is in the works. It's not that the SpamAssassin team hasn't thought of the idea, it's that they tried it and, for the most part, it didn't work. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: scores too low - neural network problem?

2005-03-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
e configuration you think you are. Double-check your config and make sure network tests really are disabled. I added up the scores for the tests you mentioned using the 4th column (Bayes + network both enabled) and it comes out to 2.65 - which would round to the 2.7 you're seeing. --

Re: OT: MailFrontier

2005-01-29 Thread Kelson Vibber
(of the reports, not the messages), then they ignored me. That's why I figured I'd see if anyone else had any ideas. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-19 Thread Kelson Vibber
This was sent to me off-list. It's an interesting look at the implications of doing callbacks: Rich Kulawiec wrote: > If you wouldn't mind forwarding this back to the list (your message > was forwarded to me off-list)... > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:25:18AM -0800, Kelson wrote: > >>Actually, I

Re: Whats wrong ?

2004-09-22 Thread Kelson Vibber
ns zero-or-more "_" chars -- which will match on anything. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications