Re: Which is the accepted format of the HashCash header?

2017-06-05 Thread RW
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 00:09:45 +0200 Sebastian Nielsen wrote: > Which is the SpamAssasin accepted default format of the HashCash > header? > > > > Im talking about the rules: > > Rules/HASHCASH_20 through Rules/HASHCASH_25 and Rules/HASHCASH_HIGH > and Rules/HASHCASH

Re: Which is the accepted format of the HashCash header?

2017-06-05 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, Sebastian Nielsen wrote: Which is the SpamAssasin accepted default format of the HashCash header? Im talking about the rules: Rules/HASHCASH_20 through Rules/HASHCASH_25 and Rules/HASHCASH_HIGH and Rules/HASHCASH_2SPEND? What

Re: Which is the accepted format of the HashCash header?

2017-06-05 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017, Sebastian Nielsen wrote: Which is the SpamAssasin accepted default format of the HashCash header? Im talking about the rules: Rules/HASHCASH_20 through Rules/HASHCASH_25 and Rules/HASHCASH_HIGH and Rules/HASHCASH_2SPEND? What I have understand, these rules are enabled in

Which is the accepted format of the HashCash header?

2017-06-05 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
Which is the SpamAssasin accepted default format of the HashCash header? Im talking about the rules: Rules/HASHCASH_20 through Rules/HASHCASH_25 and Rules/HASHCASH_HIGH and Rules/HASHCASH_2SPEND? What I have understand, these rules are enabled in a default Spamassassin installation, but

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-08-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Jul 2015, at 13:23, Christian Jaeger wrote: On July 31, 2015 4:51:02 PM CEST, Bill Cole wrote: John Levine wrote a definitive debunking of e-postage schemes including hashcash over a decade ago (http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf) and published an update (substantively unchanged) via

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, RW wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:47:34 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: nevermind, envelope recipient, but that's also easy and contained in the Received headers Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by mail-gw.thelounge.net (THELOUNGE GATEWAY) with

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Kris Deugau
Christian Jaeger wrote: > On July 31, 2015 9:13:03 PM CEST, RW wrote: >> On 31 Jul 2015 17:57:28 +0200 >> Christian Jaeger wrote: >> >>> On July 31, 2015 4:37:14 PM CEST, RW >>> wrote: SA usually gets envelope information from headers. Since there are several headers that could contain

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Jaeger
rding was done? > I can see why they went with hashcash_accept, it always works - even > if the recipient is rewritten. I don't expect hashcash in forwarded email to be found without special configuration. If it finds the matching hashcash in non-forwarded configuration that so

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread RW
it always works - even if the recipient is rewritten. > > Hashcash for email isn't a very good idea. Even if it were > > ubiquitous and email couldn't be sent without it, it wouldn't be a > > major impediment to spammers. If spammers don't have t

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Jaeger
On July 31, 2015 4:51:02 PM CEST, Bill Cole wrote: > John Levine wrote a definitive debunking of e-postage schemes > including > hashcash over a decade ago (http://www.taugh.com/epostage.pdf) and > published an update (substantively unchanged) via Virus Bulletin in >

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Jaeger
The MTA knows where it's going to, the information just needs to be passed on to SA. > It's probably for the best that it doesn't work by default. It would > likely have been exploited by spammers if it were. Well, it seems that right now hashcash is of no use. If we ac

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread RW
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:47:34 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > nevermind, envelope recipient, but that's also easy and contained in > the Received headers > > > Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) > by mail-gw.thelounge.net (THELOUNGE GATEWAY) with SMTP id > 3mjWRW6GLQz1

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Bill Cole
t". I was thinking that implementing hashcash would help get my mail delivered to at least the spamassassin users, but this means that no, only to the subset that cares about configuring it. As it should be. There is no default value that could be reasonable for a broad range of sites an

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
hat's disappointing. For me that barely counts as "on by default". I was thinking that implementing hashcash would help get my mail delivered to at least the spamassassin users, but this means that no, only to the subset that cares about configuring it. Does SA not know which add

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Reindl Harald
or me that barely counts as "on by default". I was thinking that implementing hashcash would help get my mail delivered to at least the spamassassin users, but this means that no, only to the subset that cares about configuring it. Does SA not know which address(es) an email is being deli

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread RW
me that barely counts as "on by default". I > was thinking that implementing hashcash would help get my mail > delivered to at least the spamassassin users, but this means that no, > only to the subset that cares about configuring it. > > Does SA not know which address(e

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Jaeger
On July 30, 2015 2:40:35 AM CEST, RW wrote: > The plugin is on by default and use_hashcash defaults to 1, but you > need to set hashcash_accept to an appropriate value That's disappointing. For me that barely counts as "on by default". I was thinking that implementing ha

Re: Hashcash not working

2015-07-29 Thread RW
On 29 Jul 2015 20:55:55 +0200 Christian Jaeger wrote: > Hi > > I've implemented (or at least so I thought) Hashcash for my outgoing > mail (in a Perl wrapper around qmail-remote that I already had to do > DKIM), using the `hashcash` tool as provided by Debian, using the

Hashcash not working

2015-07-29 Thread Christian Jaeger
Hi I've implemented (or at least so I thought) Hashcash for my outgoing mail (in a Perl wrapper around qmail-remote that I already had to do DKIM), using the `hashcash` tool as provided by Debian, using the `-X` command-line option. This tool returns multi-line headers if the email addres

Re: Hashcash

2006-08-30 Thread Arik Raffael Funke
decoder wrote: Arik Raffael Funke wrote: decoder wrote: Arik Raffael Funke wrote: Hello, how does spamassassin handle hashcash? It is turned on by default, right? Yes but you still need to define your accept range as you tried to do above:) I am using v3.1.2 and have in init.pre

Re: Hashcash

2006-08-29 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arik Raffael Funke wrote: > decoder wrote: >> Arik Raffael Funke wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> how does spamassassin handle hashcash? It is turned on by >>> default, right? >> Yes but you still need to d

Re: Hashcash

2006-08-29 Thread Arik Raffael Funke
decoder wrote: Arik Raffael Funke wrote: Hello, how does spamassassin handle hashcash? It is turned on by default, right? Yes but you still need to define your accept range as you tried to do above:) I am using v3.1.2 and have in init.pre "loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Has

Re: Hashcash

2006-08-29 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Arik Raffael Funke wrote: > Hello, > > how does spamassassin handle hashcash? It is turned on by default, > right? Yes but you still need to define your accept range as you tried to do above:) > > I am using v3.1.2 an

Hashcash

2006-08-29 Thread Arik Raffael Funke
Hello, how does spamassassin handle hashcash? It is turned on by default, right? I am using v3.1.2 and have in init.pre "loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash". However, the hashcash contained in incoming mails seems to have been ignored. I added following to local.cf

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

2006-08-16 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Coffey, Neal wrote: > decoder wrote: > >> Mailing lists dont stamp anything. Read the hashcash FAQ part >> about mailing lists. > > Ok; you're right. Apologies for not reading up on it better. > Reading through the wh

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

2006-08-16 Thread Coffey, Neal
decoder wrote: > Mailing lists dont stamp anything. Read the hashcash FAQ part about > mailing lists. Ok; you're right. Apologies for not reading up on it better. Reading through the whole FAQ, though, it still leaves me with the impression of being far less than ideal. Which is

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

2006-08-16 Thread decoder
and merely inconveniencing spammers. Is the > collateral damage worth it? Mailing lists dont stamp anything. Read the hashcash FAQ part about mailing lists. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE43eq

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

2006-08-16 Thread Coffey, Neal
Dirk Bonengel wrote: > Kelson schrieb: >> So they get a bigger botnet. There's no shortage of compromised >> machines out there. >> > Maybe so. But it sure will be more expensive for most spammers to rent > 10 times as many machines. Only barely so. And at the same time, it will be much more e

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

2006-08-16 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Kelson schrieb: decoder wrote: This would slow spammers down by a factor of 10-100 or more per compromised machine (depending on whether the messages sent are sent individually or to many users at once)." So they get a bigger botnet. There's no shortage of compromised machines out there. Ma

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

2006-08-16 Thread Kelson
decoder wrote: This would slow spammers down by a factor of 10-100 or more per compromised machine (depending on whether the messages sent are sent individually or to many users at once)." So they get a bigger botnet. There's no shortage of compromised machines out there. -- Kelson Vibber Sp

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

2006-08-16 Thread Michel Vaillancourt
) > I read: hashcash_accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Used to specify addresses that we accept HashCash tokens for. You should set it to match all the addresses that you may receive mail at. thus, if I accept traffic for wolfstar.ca, foo.bar.info, and yeahright.com then I would have: hashcas

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 hav

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

2006-08-16 Thread decoder
thousands of mails >> per minute. > > A great solution... for 2002. > > These days, when most spam is sent through zombies, the spammer > isn't using their own CPU time, they're using some random person's > home CPU. They can send the same amount of spam in th

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

2006-08-16 Thread Kelson
sent through zombies, the spammer isn't using their own CPU time, they're using some random person's home CPU. They can send the same amount of spam in the same amount of time *and* add the hashcash signatures just by using a bigger botnet. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications

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

2006-08-16 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michel Vaillancourt wrote: > decoder wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> since SpamAssassin supports the hashcash signatures but support >> for MUAs is rare, I wrote a plugin which is able to stamp all >> outgoing emails

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

2006-08-16 Thread Michel Vaillancourt
decoder wrote: > Hello there, > > since SpamAssassin supports the hashcash signatures but support for > MUAs is rare, I wrote a plugin which is able to stamp all outgoing > emails of a postfix server. If anyone is interested in testing this > alpha version of the content_filt

Hashcash plugin to stamp outgoing mails (for postfix only)

2006-08-16 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there, since SpamAssassin supports the hashcash signatures but support for MUAs is rare, I wrote a plugin which is able to stamp all outgoing emails of a postfix server. If anyone is interested in testing this alpha version of the

Re: Spamassassin Learn (hashcash)

2006-02-08 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:29:36AM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: >>> However, looking in the config files, HASHCASH rules have the userconf flag. >>> This means that the Autolearner will also ignore these rules too, as SA

Making the hashcash plugin more useful

2006-01-12 Thread Andrew Donkin
A while ago the hashcash list was lamenting the lack of support in transfer agents. They are stuck in a chicken and egg situation where no user agents will add hashcash headers because no spam checkers are looking for them. I think we could bootstrap that process very easily with a simple

Re: Hashcash is ignored

2005-10-06 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torsten Bronger writes: > Hallöchen! > > I sent a test mail to myself which included > > X-Hashcash: > 1:26:051006:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]::GydjlgtM9KXnHYAH:000493gL > > in the header (generat

Hashcash is ignored

2005-10-06 Thread Torsten Bronger
Hallöchen! I sent a test mail to myself which included X-Hashcash: 1:26:051006:[EMAIL PROTECTED]::GydjlgtM9KXnHYAH:000493gL in the header (generated by "hashcash"). However, the Spamassassin header says X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=4.0

Re: Hashcash plugin bugs

2004-12-10 Thread Loren Wilton
This sounds like it is probably worth a bugzilla report. Loren - Original Message - From: "Clarke Brunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 5:29 AM Subject: Hashcash plugin bugs > Hello > > I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0.1

Hashcash plugin bugs

2004-12-09 Thread Clarke Brunt
Hello I'm using SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (and have checked Bugzilla and latest snapshot in case this was fixed already). I was attempting to verify that the Hashcash plugin was working. I created a 'stamp' using the Java applet on http://www.hashcash.org/, and inserted it into a test

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-29 Thread Mathieu Nantel
I do not doubt it. That's why I'm really trying on this one. I'm moving this system off Solaris to Linux soon, so I don't really need to solve this issue, but I'm curious to say the least. As someone else pointed out, I tried loading URIDNSBL.pm as a plugin by putting a loadplugin line in my l

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Mathieu Nantel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:10 PM Subject: Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf > On October 28, 2004 03:50 pm, Mark Martinec wrote: > > Mathieu, > > > &

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Sahil Tandon
Quoting Mathieu Nantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On October 28, 2004 03:50 pm, Mark Martinec wrote: > > # su amavis -c 'spamassassin -D < 0.txt' > > This works and loads the uridnsbl, hashcash & SPF modules. > Amavis sounds quite like the guilty part.

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mathieu Nantel
gt; So try it with a command line spamassassin, e.g.: > > # su amavis -c 'spamassassin -D < 0.txt' This works and loads the uridnsbl, hashcash & SPF modules. Amavis sounds quite like the guilty part... > > and compare the result with what you get from 'amavisd d

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mark Martinec
Mathieu, > Spamd was started from root, as there's a socket permission problem when > trying to start it as anything else. > > Amavis is started as root, and then changes to "amavis". So try it with a command line spamassassin, e.g.: # su amavis -c 'spamassassin -D < 0.txt' and compare the re

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mathieu Nantel
rote: > Mathieu, > > > Indeed, spamd starts and behold, I've got uridnsbl, hashcash and spf > > modules being loaded. > > It seems amavis is the culprit, at least in the way it's loading (or not > > loading) modules. > > When you are comparing SA debug as called f

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mark Martinec
Mathieu, > Indeed, spamd starts and behold, I've got uridnsbl, hashcash and spf > modules being loaded. > It seems amavis is the culprit, at least in the way it's loading (or not > loading) modules. When you are comparing SA debug as called from amavisd-new, and log from s

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mathieu Nantel
Indeed, spamd starts and behold, I've got uridnsbl, hashcash and spf modules being loaded. It seems amavis is the culprit, at least in the way it's loading (or not loading) modules. On October 28, 2004 02:37 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:29:08PM -0400, M

Re: SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:29:08PM -0400, Mathieu Nantel wrote: > I'm at a lost here. Is it possible that this @INC search path doesn't include > the folder where uridnsbl, hashcash and SPF are located? I'm not a perl > expert, and I have no clue on how/if I can change a

SA 3.0.1/amavis - trouble loading uridnsbl/hashcash/spf

2004-10-28 Thread Mathieu Nantel
459d78) debug: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash from @INC debug: plugin: registered Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcash=HASH(0x945508c) debug: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF from @INC debug: plugin: registered Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::SPF=HASH(0x85a1c90) debug: plugin: M