Re: sa-update - no updates for 3 weeks?

2017-04-06 Thread Terry Stewart
Hi James Just to let you know it isn't just you. Tried this this morning with same result. Retried just now, where it seems to have found an update (1786640), but still doesn't update, exiting with error code 1 (no updates available), as below Apr 6 15:05:52.617 [22842] dbg: channel: usin

Re: sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
Tried that when I read Kevin's message. It failed, until I unset a http_proxy env variable, which I'v now tracked down and eliminated. Everything is working fine now, thanks On 30/03/17 13:40, RW wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:45:59 +0100 Terry Stewart wrote: Hi I'm havin

Re: sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
rds Terry On 30/03/17 12:34, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 3/30/2017 5:45 AM, Terry Stewart wrote: Mar 29 12:36:28.814 [12498] dbg: channel: found mirror http://sa-update.dnswl.org/ weight=1 Mar 29 12:36:28.814 [12498] dbg: channel: found mirror http://www.sa-update.pccc.com/ weight=5 Mar 29 12

sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
Hi I'm having trouble using sa-update where it says "channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed". I'm running this on a Solaris 10 server. DNS works fine (the mail server also acts as our DNS server) as below nslookup http://sa-update.space-pro.be Non-authoritative answer: Nam

Re: Recent spate of Malicious VB attachments II

2015-02-19 Thread Chad M Stewart
I use amavis-new and block based on file type. My users should never get legit executables via email, so they are sent to a quarantine. ### BLOCKED ANYWHERE # qr'^UNDECIPHERABLE$', # is or contains any undecipherable components qr'^\.(exe-ms|dll)$', # banned file(1) types,

Re: SA version in Debian [was: Stock Spams; aka Pump and Dump]

2006-06-06 Thread Stewart
On 03/06/2006, at 8:13 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: For most software, I'd strongly agree with you. But anti-spam software is like anti-virus software. The battle evolves rapidly, and you need to evolve with it if you're going to be effective in fighting it. With SA 3.1.2 just released, 3.

Re: All digits

2006-06-06 Thread Stewart
On 07/06/2006, at 5:54 AM, David B Funk wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, wrote: I have to wonder if a spammer is testing their Zombies since all I have received are from Dialup/broadband customers. Could this be the rain before the flood of spam/virus? I'm voting for this explanati

RE: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-16 Thread Stewart, John
> On Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 08:16 David B Funk wrote: > > No, but in the SPF record for "artesyncp.com" you should list the > > names of the outgoing SMTP servers so SA (and the world) will know > > that they are 'permitted' to source mail for "artesyncp.com". Aye; thanks. Unfortunately, our

Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread Stewart, John
We've got an outgoing SMTP gateway of bratwurst.heurikon.com (heurikon.com being an old domain name, and I've never bothered with trying to update the domain for all of our infrastructure machines), but our outgoing domain on our emails is artesyncp.com (and that may change soon as well). I'm won

RE: Commercial SA packages?

2006-03-07 Thread Stewart, John
John Stewart wrote: > > The fact is, I just don't have the time to give SA proper > > care and feeding. > > I know there are some commercial anti-spam packages based on > > SA. I'd like to > > know if anyone has opinions on their effectiveness and admi

Commercial SA packages?

2006-03-06 Thread Stewart, John
We've been running SpamAssassin with amavisd-new for years... still on an old version, and been meaning to update for far too long. The fact is, I just don't have the time to give SA proper care and feeding. I know there are some commercial anti-spam packages based on SA. I'd like to know if an

RE: Exchange public folders - who is copying?

2005-07-20 Thread Stewart, John
> If you view the Public Folder using Outlook just add the > column "Changed > By" using Field Chooser. That should be the person that copied it > there. Aye; thanks. They're gone now (sucked down every hour via IMAP), but the next time it happens I'll use this. johnS

OT: Exchange public folders - who is copying?

2005-07-20 Thread Stewart, John
Mostly OT, but I know some others on here are doing the same thing as I on their Exchange systems (using public folders as repositories for sa-learn). I've posted to an Exchange newsgroup, but thought it was worth throwing out here to see if anyone has an idea. We are running Exchange 5.5. We ha

RE: SURBL, SA 3.0.4, and firewalls

2005-07-11 Thread Stewart, John
> All it needs is port 53 TCP and UDP open (outbound), > depending on what > firewall product you use, depends on how. A bit of Google with what > ports on what product will yield what you should need. One thing to note... if your firewall is proxying for you, make sure it doesn't think it's a

RE: Use of localhost.rfc-ignorant.org?

2005-05-31 Thread Stewart, John
> Hmm, in my copy of SA 3.0.3 an ipwhois rule is present, but commented > out with a note saying "disabled since ipwhois is going away." By any > chance are you using an older version of SA? Aye, thanks. I'm using 2.6.4, yes. > If you don't want to upgrade right now, just disable > RCVD_IN_RFC

Use of localhost.rfc-ignorant.org?

2005-05-31 Thread Stewart, John
I just upgraded our firewall and the DNS proxy is not liking our SA system querying localhost.rfc-ignorant.org, as this is 127.0.0.1 and our DNS proxy likes to be authoritative for 127.0.0.1. So on a query of localhost.rfc-ignorant.org, SA is getting back NXDOMAIN instead of 127.0.0.1. I'm wonde

RE: [SPAM-TAG] RE: SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-12 Thread Stewart, John
> However, when querying > achat-montre-rolex.net.multi.surbl.org, the firewall > appears to decide that the answer is within a zone it has > authority over, > and rejects it (returning NXDOMAIN to the internal DNS servers). > > I'm going to look into figuring out how to allow these queries thr

RE: [SPAM-TAG] RE: SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-12 Thread Stewart, John
> Your configuration and installation are fine. multi.surbl.org is > the only list that should be checked, as it's the combined list > with all other SURBL lists included: > > http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#multi Aha! I think I've found the problem. The behaviour for SpamCopURI must have ch

Re: SpamCopURI not working

2005-05-12 Thread Stewart, John
? I'm using SA 2.6.4, but with a somewhat old version of perl... other than that, everything is pretty up to date. Tried the latest Net::DNS, but no change. thanks!! johnS -Original Message- From: Stewart, John Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 11:33 AM To: 'Jeff Chan'; SpamAssassi

RE: SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-10 Thread Stewart, John
; 0.988731707317073 debug: bayes token 'UD:cf' => 0.0131219512195122 debug: bayes token 'N:H*r:TLSvN' => 0.985096774193548 debug: bayes token 'H*r:cipher' => 0.985096774193548 debug: bayes token '2.6.4' => 0.985096774193548 debug: bayes tok

SpamCopURI not working, was RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-09 Thread Stewart, John
> On Friday, May 6, 2005, 3:23:56 PM, John Stewart wrote: > > I upgraded just the other day (at which point I suspect I > broke something) > > as I saw on a site somewhere that 2.6.3 was vulnerable to a > DOS attack. I > > upgraded to 2.6.4 for SA, and 0.25 for SpamCop

RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> > > > www.achat-montre-rolex.net./ > Yes, all the discussions on this list that contain the above text > are being flagged by my SA as hitting the OB SURBL list. > > That particular host/URL is only registered in the OB list, do you > have a check against: >check_spamcop_uri_rbl('multi.sur

RE: More Messed Up www URLs

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> > I'm starting to see references in messages that look like this: > > > > www.achat-montre-rolex.net./ > > Upgrade to SA-2.6.4+SpamCopURI, catches those just fine. ;) > I'm running 2.6.4 with SpamCopURI - is this being flagged on your install as being in the URI-BL? This email wasn't tagged

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> >Although not the ideal solution, it will suffice, I suppose. > I wouldn't > >think at this point (assuming they make this change) that it warrants > >submission to any RBLs. > > I do. I think that if they don't offer an opt out then it > becomes unsolicited. The opt-out was to email back t

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> If the OP has already asked (politely) to be removed, then they are > indeed spamming. The first mail, I would say is warranted, the mails > after the opt-out are not. Exactly; I did ask. However, it appears that they rarely check the account they have for sender address. > If they are in th

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> LOL yeah, just post her domain name here, and I'll add it to > uribl.com ;) > (Thats a URI-BL, not an RBL. The greatest antispam technique > since blah blah blah.) > > Spamcop is always a good place. Well, I just got another call from the co-owner in charge of the software side. She is

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
> >- Simply ban their domain from my mailserver and report them > >to the RBLs? > > Yup. And tell her you will. Tell her she is about to get all > her emails > blocked from 3/4 of the earth. As I've never actually submitted a domain to any RBLs before, any suggestions on good ones to use? th

RE: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
Well, I just got a call from the person at the store who is responsible for setting up the technical side of things. It was not a good conversation. I was very calm (until the end) and tried to explain why it was a bad idea, what they needed to do to make it work ethically, etc, how they could

OT: Confession and rage

2005-05-06 Thread Stewart, John
So, I was taking a shower this morning and was thinking I might send out a confessional email to this list... and then something else happened that has changed my outlook. The story is this... in my town, I've not been able for the longest time to find a reliable person to cut my hair. The choice

RE: Low detection rate

2005-04-26 Thread Stewart, John
> Use the test point, this should hit one of the SURBL lists, > but I forget > if it shows up as WS or SC: > > http://surbl-org-permanent-test-point.com/ For this it only hits SPAMCOP_URI_RBL. Is this normal? (it sounds like it's supposed to trigger more, I thought) thanks! johnS

Headers with extra whitespace missing filters in Exchange/Outlook ?

2005-04-22 Thread Stewart, John
We're running SpamAssassin 2.63 with amavisd-new-20030616-p5 and postfix as a frontend to our Exchange server (yes, it all needs to be updated, but still working damn well). SA/amavisd-new tags all mail with scores (dropping stuff with scores over 20), and it's up to Exchange rules to filter to Sp

Re: sa-learn -- Memory fault

2004-11-25 Thread Chad M Stewart
Here's the result from running it with ktrace (BSD equiv of systrace). I've included what looks to be the headers from the last message it was attempting to read. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 2 08:51:34 2004 Status: D Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from

sa-learn -- Memory fault

2004-11-24 Thread Chad M Stewart
# uname -a OpenBSD bia.amotken.com 3.5 GENERIC#34 i386 # grep "^From " /tmp/junk |wc -l 1022 # sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam /tmp/junk ...Memory fault # ulimit -a time(cpu-seconds)unlimited file(blocks) unlimited coredump(blocks) 0 data(kbytes) 1048576 stack(

different scores - spamd vs spamassassin

2004-11-11 Thread Chad M Stewart
Hi all, I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22). SA is running on an OpenBSD 3.5 i386 machine. I'm starting it up using the following /usr/local/bin/spamd -u spamd -a --allowed-ips=192.168.1.0/24 --siteconfigpath=/etc/mail/spamassassin/ -d --listen-ip=192.168.1.4 -D my local.cf file is bel

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-20 Thread Stewart Nelson
de your respective firewalls, there should be no security problem. If a terrestrial connection is not feasible, you should be able to get a static IP with two-way satellite. --Stewart

Re: Spammers Bypassing Whitelists / Rule Suggestion / Performance

2004-09-16 Thread Stewart Nelson
f the problem. They are generally appreciative, and that is good for business. The biggest performance benefit you'll see is if you use spamd. The pre-forking of children makes an incredible amount of difference. Just ask Michael Jackson :) --Stewart

Re: Phishing obfuscated url detection

2004-09-15 Thread Stewart Nelson
can throw in a few extra points for an onMouseOver clause that sets the status bar to https ... :) --Stewart

Re: Bayesian Filtering/Resending from Outlook

2004-09-14 Thread Stewart Nelson
re. They will have really high scores. Most MTAs add 'Received:' headers :) --Stewart

Re: delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Stewart Nelson
rn gives. Once you've done the above three steps, then we can explore whether the method I use for implementing my own custom rules will work for you. Thanks again, Stewart

delivery to multiple mailboxes from single account

2004-09-12 Thread Stewart Nelson
email accounts. Surely, hundreds of users have done this before, but sorry, I was unable to find a solution with Google, or searching the archives for this list. Thanks, Stewart