Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread frederik
Hi Martin, Thanks for the reply. > Please keep your messages on the SA Users list. Here's my Cc line on the message you replied to: Cc: RW , "users@spamassassin.apache.org" I don't know why it wouldn't go through to the list, perhaps I shouldn't include spammy terms in the message body (I n

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 15:37 -0800, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > Thank you John, that does help clarify things a bit. Also thanks to > Martin - I was typing this message when I received yours, but maybe > this will answer some of your questions. > Please keep your messages on the SA Users list. Apart

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread frederik
" (which my mail setup is configured to use) still give > it a 4.0. So it seems that something more mundane is going on, > although I'm not sure what. I hope it's not that I've just done > something stupid again. > > Also, it seems that I should have set up a &

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
d the report from "spamassassin -t" (with a "URIBL_BLOCKED" > rule). > > Thank you, > > Frederick > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 07:16:43PM +, David Jones wrote: > > > > > > > > > > From: RW > > > Sent: Satu

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 17 Dec 2016, frede...@ofb.net wrote: Also, it seems that I should have set up a "caching nameserver". I've attached the report from "spamassassin -t" (with a "URIBL_BLOCKED" rule). The important part is that your MTA/SA not use your ISP or hosting provider's DNS sever, and the local M

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread frederik
. Thank you, Frederick On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 07:16:43PM +, David Jones wrote: > > >From: RW > >Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 8:02 AM > >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through >   > >On Sa

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread David Jones
>From: RW >Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 8:02 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through   >On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:35:16 + >David Jones wrote: >> That mail server IP above is on a very high number of RBLs: >

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread RW
On Sat, 17 Dec 2016 13:35:16 + David Jones wrote: > That mail server IP above is on a very high number of RBLs: > http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/173.230.94.183.html > > The edge MX server 104.197.242.163 must not be doing any > MTA checks of RBLs. As I already mentioned it's normal to g

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-17 Thread David Jones
>From: frede...@ofb.net >Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2016 1:35 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Cc: John Hardin >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through   >Here's the sample spam: >    From tfioxmns...@mariupol.us  Fri Dec 16 20:30:08 2016 >

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-16 Thread frederik
Dear all, Thanks for all the replies to my question, I think all of them were useful to read. Thank you all for your time. I wasn't sure whom to reply to, but I've been tinkering with my setup and I think that many spam messages are getting through which should be caught by the so-called "Bayesia

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi Marc, I would say off hand that amavis and mailscanner aren't the same thing as mimedefang. Sure they can strap in clamd and spamd but they are more products than frameworks. Mimedefang would likely frustrate non programmers because it doesn't strap things in by default and using it you nee

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-16 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 2016-12-15 19:56, schrieb Ian Zimmerman: By now I have heard of MIMEDefang many times, and each time I wanted to try it. But it seems to require the milter interface in the MTA (ie. sendmail or _maybe_ postfix), and I'm married to Exim. :-( Well, MIMEDefang is not the only kid on the block

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:20:02 + David Jones wrote: > >From: Martin Gregorie > >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:39 PM > >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through >   > >On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 18:23 +

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread David Jones
>From: Martin Gregorie >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:39 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through   >On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 18:23 +, David Jones wrote: >> There are many valuable SMTP realtime checks that must b

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 18:23 +, David Jones wrote: > There are many valuable SMTP realtime checks that must be done at > the edge MTA.  Since you don't have control of this, then you have to > resort to tuning SA constantly which is a never-ending game of > cat-n-mouse since spam changes charact

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
Ian Zimmerman skrev den 2016-12-15 19:56: On 2016-12-15 11:32, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I'm a fan of MIMEDefang but I am not very familiar with Arch Linux so I don't know what mta you are using nor it's capabilities. By now I have heard of MIMEDefang many times, and each time I wanted to try i

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2016-12-15 12:56, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2016-12-15 11:32, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I'm a fan of MIMEDefang but I am not very familiar with Arch Linux so I don't know what mta you are using nor it's capabilities. By now I have heard of MIMEDefang many times, and each time I wanted to try i

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2016-12-15 11:32, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > I'm a fan of MIMEDefang but I am not very familiar with Arch Linux so > I don't know what mta you are using nor it's capabilities. By now I have heard of MIMEDefang many times, and each time I wanted to try it. But it seems to require the milter int

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
> There are many valuable SMTP realtime checks that must be done at > the edge MTA. Since you don't have control of this, then you have to > resort to tuning SA constantly which is a never-ending game of > cat-n-mouse since spam changes characteristics all of the time. That was unfortunately my

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread David Jones
>From: frede...@ofb.net >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 11:26 AM >To: David Jones >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: recent increase in spam getting through   >I'm using a friend's MTA, which is perhaps the source of the recent >change - I'

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread frederik
20d4" On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:42:16PM +, David Jones wrote: > >From: frede...@ofb.net > >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 9:33 AM > >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > >Subject: recent increase in spam getting through >   > >    X-Spam-Status: No,

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread David Jones
>From: frede...@ofb.net >Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 9:33 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: recent increase in spam getting through   >    X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,HTML_MESSAGE, >   RDNS_NONE,T_SPF_TEMPERROR autolearn=

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, frede...@ofb.net wrote: sudo -u spamd sa-learn --showdots -D 1 --ham --dir ~/mail/folders/inbox Bad idea. That learns as ham any FNs you haven't yet noticed and removed from your inbox. You should only learn as ham messages that you have explicitly reviewed and judged

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 12/15/2016 11:24 AM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: No, I only run Spamassassin. I take it that 'clamav' would improve things. I don't have numbers in front of me, but these malicious payloads with zips are quite common but we don't What do you mean "if you are using an engine that can do it"? Spam

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread frederik
Hi Kevin, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:07:33AM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/15/2016 10:33 AM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > > Dear Spamassassin, > > > > I've seen a recent increase in spam getting through Spamassassin... > > I've

Re: recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 12/15/2016 10:33 AM, frede...@ofb.net wrote: Dear Spamassassin, I've seen a recent increase in spam getting through Spamassassin... I've been getting groups of spam messages which have the same subject, often with zip attachments. Here's a screenshot from Mutt: It&#

recent increase in spam getting through

2016-12-15 Thread frederik
Dear Spamassassin, I've seen a recent increase in spam getting through Spamassassin... I've been getting groups of spam messages which have the same subject, often with zip attachments. Here's a screenshot from Mutt: 36604 N * Dec 15 %GIRL_NAME Lyon (0.2K) Re: Healthy soul

Re: sudden increase in spam

2013-01-25 Thread Marc Perkel
I too have seen an increase in spam. A lot more coming from the UK and Brazil in particular and it's spam that SA isn't catching. Seems to have bayes poisoning in it as well. On 1/24/2013 1:41 AM, tony wrote: centos 5.8 server running spamassassin-3.3.1-2.el5 I've been using s

Re: sudden increase in spam

2013-01-24 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 01:41 -0800, tony wrote: > centos 5.8 server running spamassassin-3.3.1-2.el5 > I've been using spamassassin for three years and during that period it's > been doing a great job of keeping spam down to almost zero but in the last > couple of weeks I've seen and increase in jun

Re: sudden increase in spam

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Schetterer
ore individual targetting these days > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://spamassassin.1065346.n5.nabble.com/sudden-increase-in-spam-tp103247.html > Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG

sudden increase in spam

2013-01-24 Thread tony
a day which is a big increase over zero. I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this... Have the spammers worked out a new way around the current SA machinery? -- View this message in context: http://spamassassin.1065346.n5.nabble.com/sudden-increase-in-spam-tp103247.html Sent from t

Re: Increase in Spam since 7am EDT

2009-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Rick Macdougall wrote: Randy wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a massive increase in connection attempts since 7am EDT this morning. Most is being rejected because of not existing users but the majority that is getting through is hitting "Sanesecurity.Casino.11228.UNOFFICIAL".

Re: Increase in Spam since 7am EDT

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
Randy wrote: Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a massive increase in connection attempts since 7am EDT this morning. Most is being rejected because of not existing users but the majority that is getting through is hitting "Sanesecurity.Casino.11228.UNOFFICIAL". Back skatter? Someone

Re: Increase in Spam since 7am EDT

2009-05-12 Thread Randy
Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I'm seeing a massive increase in connection attempts since 7am EDT this morning. Most is being rejected because of not existing users but the majority that is getting through is hitting "Sanesecurity.Casino.11228.UNOFFICIAL". I'm seeing this across 5 different s

Increase in Spam since 7am EDT

2009-05-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I'm seeing a massive increase in connection attempts since 7am EDT this morning. Most is being rejected because of not existing users but the majority that is getting through is hitting "Sanesecurity.Casino.11228.UNOFFICIAL". I'm seeing this across 5 different servers, all hosting diffe

Re: Huge increase in spam

2006-11-16 Thread Steve Lake
e standard tests. > > On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Chris wrote: > > Has anyone besides me noticed a huge increase in spam in the past 3 > > or 4 > > days? My 80 -100/day has gone to over 400/day since Monday. What rulesets are you running? My setup is even catching the new vari

Re: Huge increase in spam

2006-11-16 Thread Chris
triggering is bayes_95 on the standard tests. > > On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:38 PM, Chris wrote: > > Has anyone besides me noticed a huge increase in spam in the past 3 > > or 4 > > days? My 80 -100/day has gone to over 400/day since Monday. What rulesets are you running? My

Re: Huge increase in spam

2006-11-16 Thread John Tice
8:38 PM, Chris wrote: Has anyone besides me noticed a huge increase in spam in the past 3 or 4 days? My 80 -100/day has gone to over 400/day since Monday.

Re: Huge increase in spam

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 02:38 schrieb Chris: > Has anyone besides me noticed a huge increase in spam in the past 3 or 4 > days? My 80 -100/day has gone to over 400/day since Monday. Yes, I did see the same since Monday. Increase of SA positives of 100% and also a increase of

Huge increase in spam

2006-11-15 Thread Chris
Has anyone besides me noticed a huge increase in spam in the past 3 or 4 days? My 80 -100/day has gone to over 400/day since Monday. The top sources here are: Report date: Tue Nov 14 21:40:35 CST 2006 Total spams: 455 Total ASNs: 166 Rank Cum % Pct Spams ASN Description

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-13 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Federico Giannici wrote: What about combining BlackListing and GreyListing? I'm experimenting ab it with that right now. I've got my greylisting code to use a configurable number of checks before it decides if the greylist should be in use for an incoming connection. The idea is to avoid del

RE: large increase in spam after upgrading SA

2006-11-12 Thread Tim Boyer
> > I just upgraded SA from 3.1.0 to the current 3.1.7 via CPAN and > am finding > that a huge increase in the amount of spam that's coming in. On the order > of almost 10 times the number that leaked into my inbox. > > Has anyone else run into this behavior? If so, what can I do? > Configurations

Re: large increase in spam after upgrading SA

2006-11-12 Thread Anders Norrbring
Hoover Chan skrev: I just upgraded SA from 3.1.0 to the current 3.1.7 via CPAN and am finding that a huge increase in the amount of spam that's coming in. On the order of almost 10 times the number that leaked into my inbox. Has anyone else run into this behavior? If so, what can I do? Config

large increase in spam after upgrading SA

2006-11-12 Thread Hoover Chan
I just upgraded SA from 3.1.0 to the current 3.1.7 via CPAN and am finding that a huge increase in the amount of spam that's coming in. On the order of almost 10 times the number that leaked into my inbox. Has anyone else run into this behavior? If so, what can I do? Configurations are unchang

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-07 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, November 2, 2006 20:22, Mark wrote: > The rest of the invalid HELOs are just non-FQDNSs (like "HELO friend"), or > IP addresses (not inside braces, like an address literal). could be a spammer that call his computer "friend" since Microsoft have a habit of deniding . in the computer name

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-06 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, November 2, 2006 17:03, Randy Smith wrote: > I use policyd and give my users the ability to optout (or optin depending on > the domain settings) of greylisting if they choose. They can do it through a > plugin in SquirrelMail so, if they choose, they can turn it off for a few > minutes to

Re: R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-05 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, November 3, 2006 11:53, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > Due to the dynamic nature of this test, I guess that at least in the postfix > case it should need to be somehow embedded into the greylisting server: it > seems postfix doesn't allow to specify more than one policy server in the > chec

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-04 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> Federico Giannici wrote: > > François Rousseau wrote: > >> Greylisting is not always good... > >> > >> The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have > >> to be delever fast. > > > > I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on > > them. > > >

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Stuart Johnston
Federico Giannici wrote: François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing and

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Bret Miller
> Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 16:04 schrieb Amos: > (...) > > Actually, it's getting to the extent that some at work are raising > > questions as to whether our SA setup will be able to > maintain adequate > > protection from this growing onslaught. > > > > Amos > > Only AFTER adequate initial

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Ken A
Federico Giannici wrote: François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing a

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> François Rousseau wrote: > > Greylisting is not always good... > > > > The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the > email have to > > be delever fast. > > I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only > based on them. > > What about combining BlackListing an

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-03 Thread Federico Giannici
François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast. I don't trust enough DNSBLs to completely block an email only based on them. What about combining BlackListing and GreyListing? I'd like to us

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 92% (!) of all incoming spam uses an invalid HELO. > > 9% pretends to be me in their HELO. > Is this 9% included in the above 'invalid HELO' number? Yes. I should have been more clear about that. 92% fails the HEL

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: "Giampaolo Tomassoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Da: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away an

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread jdow
From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam filtering service and it's been a struggle. Most of my spam defense isn't SA though. I'm using Exim rules to do most of the work and SA gets what's left. Same h

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Jon Trulson
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Chris wrote: I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large botnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the ASN's to see where th

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:58 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today > > > > > 92% (!) of all incoming spam uses an invalid HELO. > > &g

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Jim Maul
Mark wrote: -Original Message- From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:00 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam filtering service and it

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> Da: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious > I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX > records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away and it > doesn't add much of a delay. Wel

RE: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Mark
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Perkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: donderdag 2 november 2006 19:00 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: BIG increase in spam today > > > I'm not an appliance vendor but I run a fornt end spam > f

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Fran?ois Rousseau wrote: > Greylisting is not always good... > > The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be > delever fast. > > For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have > access to the internet.

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Marc Perkel
What I do is sort of partial greylisting. If a connection is suspicious I give them a temp error on my lowest MX but accept them on higher MX records. So that way most MTA will try a higher MX right away and it doesn't add much of a delay. François Rousseau wrote: Greylisting is not always go

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Amos wrote: On 11/2/06, Debbie D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I could not keep it quiet There's been a lot of chatter about this: http://it.slashdot.org/article.p

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Randy Smith
On Thursday 02 November 2006 08:42, François Rousseau wrote: > Greylisting is not always good... > > The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be > delever fast. > > For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have > access to the internet.

R: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
  Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast.  For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet.  You can access internet without authentification for 15

Re: R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread François Rousseau
Greylisting is not always good... The greylisting insert delay in delevery and sometimes the email have to be delever fast.  For example: on some public wireless network, you have to register to have access to the internet.  You can access internet without authentification for 15 minutes.  In this

R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> On 11/2/06, Debbie D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday > > morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I > could not keep > > it quiet > > > > There's been a lot of chatter about this: > > http://it.slashdot.or

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Donnerstag, 2. November 2006 16:04 schrieb Amos: (...) > Actually, it's getting to the extent that some at work are raising > questions as to whether our SA setup will be able to maintain adequate > protection from this growing onslaught. > > Amos Only AFTER adequate initial RBL filtering. Spa

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Amos
On 11/2/06, Debbie D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes Chris I did notice.. my server was attacked with spam yesterday morning.. it was coming from several different ip, so fast I could not keep it quiet There's been a lot of chatter about this: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/13

R: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > >>I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam > >>folder. > Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large > bonnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've > not finished > look

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Debbie D
"Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam >>folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large bonnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the Ash's

BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-01 Thread Chris
I usually come home from work to find about 60-80 spam's in my spam folder. Today upon bringing up the mailer there were over 400! Looks like a large botnet attack or something. Has anyone else noticed this? I've not finished looking at the ASN's to see where they're from, but I do notice that

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-17 Thread Clifton Royston
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:08:08PM -0400, Steve Lake wrote: > Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on > Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. No there isn't. However, if you use ports to pull in p5-String-Approx, graphics/netpbm, graphics/libungif, graphi

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-16 Thread Jo Rhett
Steve Lake wrote: Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not, it'll be a royal b trying to get the nix versions insta

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-15 Thread John Thompson
On 2006-10-15, Steve Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on > Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would > assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not, > it'll be a roya

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-15 Thread jdow
As beta it works very well. No crashes etc. It needs fine tuning to make it more effective, though. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Steve Lake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oh, beta. Hmm, I guess I'm going to have to hold off on installing it then. I can't risk putting betas on a pr

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Steve Lake
Oh, beta. Hmm, I guess I'm going to have to hold off on installing it then. I can't risk putting betas on a production server, even if it is a small one. Do you know if they'll make an announcement about it when it's released? At 11:25 PM 10/14/2006 -0700, jdow wrote: It's a few li

RE: Increase in Spam

2006-10-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
Steve Lake wrote: > Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port > on Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then > that would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as > well. If not, it'll be a royal b trying to get the nix versions

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-14 Thread jdow
It's a few lines of perl. Download it. Put the pieces in the appropriate places. Go. (The direct answer is "of course not." It's still beta and nobody has done rpms, debs, or ports of it. There might now be a zip or tar file of it.) {^_-} - Original Message - From: "Steve Lake" <[EMAIL

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-14 Thread Steve Lake
Oh, this sounds spectacular. One question. Is there a port on Freebsd for this? I don't see one offhand. If there is, then that would assume that all the other necessary ports are present as well. If not, it'll be a royal b trying to get the nix versions installed instead if no

RE: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Use: http://helpdesk.qualispace.com QualiSpace Community Discussion forum: http://forum.qualispace.com -Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:35 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Increase in Spam Clifton Royston

RE: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
Clifton Royston wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:35:33PM +0530, Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: > > I have added those to the local.cf but doesn't seems to be working, > > what could be the reason? > > These rule score adjustments depend on having added some of the SARE > rules; I'm not sure which

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Clifton Royston
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:08:23PM -0700, Max Clark wrote: > Thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for. > > -Max > > On 10/12/06, Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Max Clark wrote: > >> I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way > >> through our filters and in to

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:35:33PM +0530, Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: > I have added those to the local.cf but doesn't seems to be working, what > could be the reason? These rule score adjustments depend on having added some of the SARE rules; I'm not sure which set they're from. -- Clifton ...

RE: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
56 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Increase in Spam Hi! Max Clark said the following, On Friday 13 October 2006 04:57 AM: > I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way > through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be > the stoc

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-13 Thread Hardik Dalwadi
Hi! Max Clark said the following, On Friday 13 October 2006 04:57 AM: I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to effectively combat this?

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-12 Thread Max Clark
Thanks - this is exactly what I was looking for. -Max On 10/12/06, Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Max Clark wrote: > I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way > through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be > the stock pitches that are image at

Re: Increase in Spam

2006-10-12 Thread Kelson
Max Clark wrote: I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to effectively combat this? Look into FuzzyOCR. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassa

Increase in Spam

2006-10-12 Thread Max Clark
I have seen an increase in the amount of spam that has made its way through our filters and in to our inboxes. Most of this seems to be the stock pitches that are image attachments. Is there any way to effectively combat this? Thanks in advance, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-20 Thread jdow
pop3 servers I use. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Anton Krall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'jdow'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: 2005 August, 20, Saturday 02:14 Subject: RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails This is weird.. I don't know if it has s

RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-20 Thread Anton Krall
RBL hits? |-Original Message- |From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Viernes, 19 de Agosto de 2005 05:21 p.m. |To: users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails | |SURBL, tweaked scores for image only, and some custom |recipient rules have kept it to virtually z

RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-20 Thread Anton Krall
Im not using Bayes, how do I enable that and/or use sa-learn? |-Original Message- |From: Matthew Yette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Viernes, 19 de Agosto de 2005 03:46 p.m. |To: Anton Krall; Matthias Fuhrmann; users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread jdow
SURBL, tweaked scores for image only, and some custom recipient rules have kept it to virtually zero here. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Bruno S. Delbono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Anton Krall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: 2005 August, 19, Friday 11:37

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is it just me or has spam increased for the past few days? Its like amavis and SA are not caching a lot anymore... Haven't seen it here, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. Different people seem to get different kinds of spam. Actually in the last tw

RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread Matthew Yette
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 2:35 PM To: 'Matthias Fuhrmann'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails Im getting very low scores.. Smapm emails are passing thru, containing just 1 big jpg inside or text with one html link... These

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread Bruno S. Delbono
Anton Krall wrote: Im getting very low scores.. Smapm emails are passing thru, containing just 1 big jpg inside or text with one html link... These spam could easily be confused with normal email... Which files would I need to post here? - The mail with full content headers + sa score - SA v

RE: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread Anton Krall
PROTECTED] |Sent: Viernes, 19 de Agosto de 2005 12:10 p.m. |To: users@spamassassin.apache.org |Subject: Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails | |On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Krall wrote: | |> Guys. |> |> Is it just me or has spam increased for the past few days? Its like |> amavis and SA are n

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Krall wrote: > Guys. > > Is it just me or has spam increased for the past few days? Its like amavis > and SA are not caching a lot anymore... > > Any ideas? does it mean, there are no tags set in the header of emails, or just low scorings? no tags means, there were time

Re: Sudden Increase in Spam Mails

2005-08-19 Thread Loren Wilton
> Is it just me or has spam increased for the past few days? Its like amavis > and SA are not caching a lot anymore... Haven't seen it here, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. Different people seem to get different kinds of spam. Loren

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