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: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:59:29 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: > understood why I can't get a report headers at all. I could modify > james to get the modified msg returned with the headers and replace > the original msg with the updated msg. But I don't see that as > necessary. In other words, this

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Groach
On 19/08/2016 11:58, Axb wrote: Question: Does it also support adding 3rd party (native Perl) plugins? or are you tied to the precomplied collection delivered by JAM? Jams product runs with Perl - so any perl plugins provided for Spamassassin should work on the windows versions too. FYI: i

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Axb
Question: Does it also support adding 3rd party (native Perl) plugins? or are you tied to the precomplied collection delivered by JAM? As to the list's hostility, imo, most of the beginner's questions could be answered by reading the docs or using a search machine. Instead, many new users expe

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Groach
FYI I and many others use Jam's windows port of Spamassassin. It is exactly the same as the linux version in what it can and cant do. Users can modify with plugins, rules, scoring overrides etc just the same as you do on linux. Spamd, spamc, spamassassin... all the same. The only thing th

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 8:34 PM, jdow wrote: On 2016-08-18 17:11, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of the spamd invocation on port 783.

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread jdow
On 2016-08-18 17:11, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of the spamd invocation on port 783. I can't seem to find the documentati

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: > I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've > gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of > the spamd invocation on port 783. I can't seem to find the > documentation anywhere on the format

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 2:15 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 3:05 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hit

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 5:39 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2016-08-18 21:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Hmm. I do not have any forwarding statements. Is there a way via command line (e.g. nslookup, etc) that I can determine if BIND is recursing or forwarding? I assume that might be in the SA report header. B

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 21:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Hmm. I do not have any forwarding statements. Is there a way via command line (e.g. nslookup, etc) that I can determine if BIND is recursing or forwarding? I assume that might be in the SA report header. But see my previous response that I can't seem

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:48, Jerry Malcolm wrote: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-query, allow-query-cache, etc. Is recursion the only one that might be affecting SA? Or should I enable other options? this is safe if you only listen to 127.0.0.1 if you use it on

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:36, Jerry Malcolm wrote: ok, I discovered the hidden ctrl-u fn in Tbird to show the full source. Updated pastebin: http://pastebin.com/eRurR7Mv DBL_SPAM: 6.50 URIBL_SBL_CSS: 6.50 URIBL_BLACK: 7.50 ABUSE_SURBL: 5.50 FUZZY_DENIED: 8.54 ONCE_RECEIVED: 0.10 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MIME_

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bill Cole
On 18 Aug 2016, at 15:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any;

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/18/2016 3:05 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling a

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Axb
On 08/18/2016 08:48 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:35 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with name

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 21:08 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any;

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 12:16 PM, John Hardin wrote: There are also potential DNS issues that may contribute. In addition to describing your environment, perhaps you could post the X-Spam-Status header from a couple of the low-scoring spams. John, This is t

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 21:05 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: I see the local.cf file, it is already configured with 'all report'. But I looked at a msg that was flagged a spam. It doesn't have a report header either. I guess it's possible that the JAMES invoker mailet is stripping the headers. But I don't

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-quer

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report*

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-query, allow-query-cache, etc. Is recursion the o

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:35 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with names like you mentioned. There is only the X-Sp

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report* header By default, the report header is o

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:27 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: On 8/18/2016 1:17 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which wou

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I hate to say this, but - perhaps you should be asking JAM *first*... Here is a pastebin.com link to an example u

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:23 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2016-08-18 20:10, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 MISSING_DATE: 1.00 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MISSING_TO: 2.00 MISSING_MID: 2.50 MISSING_SUBJECT: 2.00 w

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with names like you mentioned. There is only the X-Spam-Status header and X-Spam-Flag header

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:17 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which would show the matching rules including major mista

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:10, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 MISSING_DATE: 1.00 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MISSING_TO: 2.00 MISSING_MID: 2.50 MISSING_SUBJECT: 2.00 was what it scored as in pastebin, rspamd test

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report* header What kind of DNS issues? I lease a server from Peer1 and use their name servers.

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
On 2016-08-18 2:10 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I ran the installer, and that's it. I'm sorry that I don't know more. But I don't know much about the inner work

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 12:16 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which would show the matching rules including major mistakes like URIBL_BLOCKED but even passing that "

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I ran the installer, and that's it. I'm sorry that I don't know more. But I don't know much about the inner workings. I was just hoping it would work. I

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are get

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Axb
On 08/18/2016 06:47 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are ge

New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are getting low scores (averaging about 15 uncaug

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-22 Thread Greg Ledford
>Changed and Amavis has been restarted. I’ll check the headers on the next >piece of spam to come through. Thanks I’m still trying to figure out how illegitimate stuff like this is getting through. It’s obviously a virus (which was caught) but then why did the email get through? I see the flag

Re: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? On 19.08.14 13:05, John Hardin wrote: SA headers look like this: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.138 tagged_above=-100 required=5 tests=[MISSING_MID=0.14, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.0

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-19 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? SA headers look like this: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.138 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.138 tagged_above=-100 required=5 tests=[MISSING_MID=0.14, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, S

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-19 Thread Greg Ledford
What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? I’m still getting quite a bit of spam coming through. It’s blocking quite a bit but I’m not so sure SA is even doing its job. Is there maybe a way to just block everything from anything .us? Stuff like this is being missed (what’s really amusin

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>Use sa_tag_level_deflt = -100; >All your emails will have the SpamAssassin headers. Changed and Amavis has been restarted. I’ll check the headers on the next piece of spam to come through. Thanks for the great help!

Re: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Karl Johnson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Greg Ledford wrote: >>Take a look at the "sa_tag_level_deflt" in your amavisd configuration > file. > > $sa_tag_level_deflt = 5.5; > > $sa_tag2_level_deflt= 6.0; > > $sa_spam_subject_tag= '***POSSIBLE SPAM***'; > > $sa_kill_level_deflt= 7.0; >

FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>Take a look at the "sa_tag_level_deflt" in your amavisd configuration file. $sa_tag_level_deflt = 5.5; $sa_tag2_level_deflt= 6.0; $sa_spam_subject_tag= '***POSSIBLE SPAM***'; $sa_kill_level_deflt= 7.0; I did. I bumped the levels a bit because they were catching some legitimate e

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: They may take a couple of different forms depending on how SA is hooked into your mail infrastructure. Basic SA headers start with "X-Spam", like X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Report. If you're using Amavis, then there would be some Amavis headers. (Note

Re: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Karl Johnson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Greg Ledford wrote: > > It should just be called by Amavis directly. Sometimes it scans and > sometimes it doesn't. I just found another obvious piece of email that SA > and Amavis scanned and missed. I tried to attach the headers but they are > so blatant that th

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>They may take a couple of different forms depending on how SA is hooked into >your mail infrastructure. >Basic SA headers start with "X-Spam", like X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Report. >If you're using Amavis, then there would be some Amavis headers. (Note that >the mention of Amavis in the Receiv

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by S

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>> Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of >> very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I >> know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. >Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by SA. >Do messages that SA *does* p

Re: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by S

Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Received: from es300.phhwtechnology.com (10.0.1.3) by mail.phhwtechnology.com (10.0.1.5) with Microsoft SMTP Se

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
On Jun 13, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Alex wrote: > > > It's only been in the last few weeks that I've had real difficulty > with pump-and-dump spam and needing to investigate something > additional. Interestingly, they only seem to work during EDT business > hours. After working with it for a few day

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-14 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex wrote: > I haven't gotten to implement the web cgi yet, and perhaps the > question is answered there, but what criteria do you use to add the IP > to the DNSBL once you've entered it into the web cgi? Well, once entered through the web UI it will be exported to the DNS data. There's no white

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-13 Thread Alex
Hi, On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > Alex wrote: >> It turned out to be a bit of local config, > > Care to share the specifics? I can't think of any SA configuration that > might trigger this, TBH. I had made some changes then ultimately overwrote it with the original, so

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-12 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex wrote: > It turned out to be a bit of local config, Care to share the specifics? I can't think of any SA configuration that might trigger this, TBH. > but mostly not expecting it > to take so long to check() a single message. I'm sorry for the > trouble; perhaps I was impatient due to not u

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-11 Thread Alex
Hi, Kris wrote: > As best I can recall it runs some trailing bits of what you might > reasonably call "message parsing", and at least the first stages of > running rule checks. I couldn't find a middle ground that only did the > real minimum necessary for extracting the relay IPs and URIs from th

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-11 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex wrote: >>> Hi Kris, >>> >>> I'm trying to get your extract-data script running, and having some >>> difficulties. It's dying at the $spamtest->check($mail) call. It just >>> never returns. What does that function do? As best I can recall it runs some trailing bits of what you might reasonably

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Alex
Hi, On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:40 PM, David B Funk wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: > >> Hi Kris, >> >> I'm trying to get your extract-data script running, and having some >> difficulties. It's dying at the $spamtest->check($mail) call. It just >> never returns. What does that function do

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: Hi Kris, I'm trying to get your extract-data script running, and having some difficulties. It's dying at the $spamtest->check($mail) call. It just never returns. What does that function do? MSG: for (my $i=0; $i<$msgcount; $i++) { my $msg = $imap->message_stri

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Alex
Hi, On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi Kris, > > I'm trying to get your extract-data script running, and having some > difficulties. It's dying at the $spamtest->check($mail) call. It just > never returns. What does that function do? > > MSG: for (my $i=0; $i<$msgcount; $i++) { >

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Alex
Hi Kris, I'm trying to get your extract-data script running, and having some difficulties. It's dying at the $spamtest->check($mail) call. It just never returns. What does that function do? MSG: for (my $i=0; $i<$msgcount; $i++) { my $msg = $imap->message_string($msgs[$i]); print "."; my

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread RGB Camera
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Duncan, Brian M. < brian.dun...@kattenlaw.com> wrote: > Over the last 7 days I have seen a large # of Spam messages making it > through our SpamAssassin 3.3.1 install. We use around 5 RBL's also. > > It looks like it is all from the same sender. > > They all seem

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Benny Pedersen
Alex skrev den 2013-06-10 22:40: How do you calculate the netblock, or do you just block the specific IP or the whole class C? whois shorewall iprange - then shorewall show cidr results i dont know how to make it without shorewall :) # shorewall iprange 127.0.1.0-127.1.255.255 127.0.1.0/24

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex wrote: > Do you have a method for collecting them, or is it done manually? My process isn't specific to a given source. I get anywhere from 50 to several hundred messages reported as spam by customers, daily. After sorting, I feed the messages through https://secure.deepnet.cx/trac/dnsbl/br

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Ben Johnson
On 6/10/2013 4:46 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > [Lost track of who wrote this] > >> 66.96.253.241 >> 64.120.241.228 >> 66.197.142.29 >> 66.197.142.23 >> 66.197.207.152 >> 66.197.177.174 >> 64.191.61.25 > > Every single one of those IPs is on our "GreylistStumbler" list, meaning > they've been gre

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread David F. Skoll
[Lost track of who wrote this] > 66.96.253.241 > 64.120.241.228 > 66.197.142.29 > 66.197.142.23 > 66.197.207.152 > 66.197.177.174 > 64.191.61.25 Every single one of those IPs is on our "GreylistStumbler" list, meaning they've been greylisted, but have not been seen to pass greylisting. Implement

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Alex
Hi, >> They all seem to be coming from IP's all by the same netblock owner. >> >> Here are some of them, but there are many many more.. It just started like >> 5 days ago. >> >> 66.96.253.241 >> 64.120.241.228 >> 66.197.142.29 >> 66.197.142.23 >> 66.197.207.152 >> 66.197.177.174 >> 64.191.61.25

RE: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Duncan, Brian M.
-Original Message- From: Kris Deugau [mailto:kdeu...@vianet.ca] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:21 PM To: spamassassin-users Subject: Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden. >*nod* I recently flagged them as a nuisance netblock owner in the >internal DNSBL[1] here. I&#

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Kris Deugau
(When creating a new thread, please create a new message instead of replying to an existing message as your "new" thread will be buried under that old thread for most people using a threading mail reader.) Duncan, Brian M. wrote: > Over the last 7 days I have seen a large # of Spam messages making

RE: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Duncan, Brian M.
On 6/10/2013 2:45 PM, Duncan, Brian M. wrote: > I rarely have seen any SpamAssasin hits on the bodies of these messages. > > (cached, score=-0.125,required 6.5, autolearn=not spam, > RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.12) Do you train the Bayes database manually? Or via autolearn only? I use SA via AMa

Re: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Ben Johnson
On 6/10/2013 2:45 PM, Duncan, Brian M. wrote: > I rarely have seen any SpamAssasin hits on the bodies of these messages. > > (cached, score=-0.125,required 6.5, autolearn=not spam, > RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.12) Do you train the Bayes database manually? Or via autolearn only? I use SA v

Re: Spam getting through while SA restarts

2010-01-15 Thread RW
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:42:48 +0200 Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 15.1.2010 10:21, geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: > > I occasionally get a spam leaking through without having been > > processed by SA despite passing the part of my procmail filtering > > where SA is called. These spams

Re: Spam getting through while SA restarts

2010-01-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 15.1.2010 10:21, geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: > I occasionally get a spam leaking through without having been processed > by SA despite passing the part of my procmail filtering where SA is > called. These spams are always at the time of scheduled SA restarts so I > assume they sl

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