Adding approximate matching (see also: another extortion email check)

2020-05-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
reasonable ceiling). There are also Spam I’ve seen where words have been deliberately misspelled as a way of avoiding exact matches, with doubled letters being dropped, similar letters being transposed (’n’ for ‘m’, ‘z’ for ’s’, ‘k’ for ‘c’, etc) so simply replacing non-ASCII letters with their ASCII

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-29 Thread Kris Deugau
t trigger the problem... *headdesk* Knowing about the last-char-of-first-address issue now I can see how some of the tests I tried would produce odd results. I have a feeling I also got some of the sets of changes munged together. -kgd

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Kris Deugau wrote: John Hardin wrote: > > On 4/28/10 3:13 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > > >0.0 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_ONLY To == From and HTML only > > >0.0 TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX To == From and direct-to-MX > > >1.7 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_DIRECT To == From and HTML only, dire

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-29 Thread Kris Deugau
John Hardin wrote: On 4/28/10 3:13 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: > 0.0 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_ONLY To == From and HTML only > 0.0 TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX To == From and direct-to-MX > 1.7 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_DIRECT To == From and HTML only, direct-to-MX There was a bug in handling bare addresses in the f

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-29 Thread John Hardin
to-MX so. its also obviously bulk email. I don't know how these rules positively identify a message as "bulk". Taking them at face value, they certainly represent "not following best-practices". Hmm. I'm not even sure how they fired; the From and To are bare

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
also obviously bulk email. I don't know how these rules positively identify a message as "bulk". Taking them at face value, they certainly represent "not following best-practices". sorry, usually if the to and from are the same, its bulk. looks like the regex's

Re: ING Direct mail FPing on TVD_ rules - also TO_EQ_FROM root subrules

2010-04-28 Thread Kris Deugau
Michael Scheidell wrote: On 4/28/10 3:13 PM, Kris Deugau wrote: 0.0 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_ONLY To == From and HTML only 0.0 TO_EQ_FM_DIRECT_MX To == From and direct-to-MX 1.7 TO_EQ_FM_HTML_DIRECT To == From and HTML only, direct-to-MX so. its also obviously bulk email. I don't

Re: also...

2007-04-04 Thread J.
--- Michael Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/4/07, J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > J. wrote: > > > > I've been doing this sort of thing to block connections which > is > > > > somewhat more satisfying than just scoring the email h

Re: also...

2007-04-04 Thread Michael Grant
Is it possible they are coming from zombie machines? Machines which have been infected by a sort of virus which a spammer can take over and send out mail from remotely. Michael Grant On 4/4/07, J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. wrote: > > I've bee

Re: also...

2007-04-03 Thread J.
--- Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J. wrote: > > I've been doing this sort of thing to block connections which is > > somewhat more satisfying than just scoring the email higher, but > these > > rascals seems to be able to use multiple ip addresses even within a > > single mailing: > >

Re: also...

2007-04-03 Thread Matt Kettler
J. wrote: > I've been doing this sort of thing to block connections which is > somewhat more satisfying than just scoring the email higher, but these > rascals seems to be able to use multiple ip addresses even within a > single mailing: > > 123.156.189.:allow,RBLSMTPD="-Connections refused. domain

also...

2007-04-03 Thread J.
I've been doing this sort of thing to block connections which is somewhat more satisfying than just scoring the email higher, but these rascals seems to be able to use multiple ip addresses even within a single mailing: 123.156.189.:allow,RBLSMTPD="-Connections refused. domain.com seems to ignore

Re: Issue with exists function and also case sentisive headers

2006-11-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:42:41AM -0500, Fred T wrote: > notification? I checked the docs and didn't find anything about it so > I'm guessing I'm crazy but I swear this isn't how it always worked. They've always been case insensitive. If that wasn't the case at some point, it was a bug, but I d

Issue with exists function and also case sentisive headers

2006-11-28 Thread Fred T
Hello SA User's, I have often used the syntax: header FOO_EXISTSexists:X-Header-Foo Today I noticed that the exists header doesn't care about case of the header. Create a message with a lower case To header and create a test for: header LOWER_CASE_TO to =~ /\S{5}/ [if-unset: NOPE] I w

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Christian Reiter
Hi Daryl! > Since those headers are munged pretty badly, I'll have to just say you > probably need to manually configure your trusted_networks. > > Does "mail.gmx.net" eq "mail.external-domain.com"? Yes, mail.gmx.net is the same as mail.external-domain.com. I changed the names of the users and s

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Christian Reiter wrote: Hi! I have a problem with my Spamassassin 3.1.1 installation here. I have Postfix as MTA and Amavids-new 2.3.3 The Rule RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also the first hop of the received Headers. If i understand correctly the first hop should not be matched as a user could

RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also First Hop. Why?

2006-05-11 Thread Christian Reiter
Hi! I have a problem with my Spamassassin 3.1.1 installation here. I have Postfix as MTA and Amavids-new 2.3.3 The Rule RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL matches also the first hop of the received Headers. If i understand correctly the first hop should not be matched as a user could use a dynamic/dialup IP

SURBL: New SC data live, new data engine also

2005-10-31 Thread Jeff Chan
We have made the experimental SC2 data into the production SC list. The new version has been tested to catch about 10% more spam than the old version with no significant increase in false positives. Along with this change is the use of a new data engine which has a shorter cycle time of 5 minutes

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-24 Thread jdow
From: "einheit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Pierre Thomson wrote: > > >SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. > > > >Good work, SA! > > > >http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt > > > > > Nice - SA detected bogosity in this

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-24 Thread William Stearns
Good day, all, On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Pierre Thomson wrote: > SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the > stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. > > http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt I'm glad to see the offending file has been removed from Stanf

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread einheit
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:35 PM -0700 einheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Those sorts of "honor-system viruses" for unix are quite common, but hardly ever work, up to now, since they require someone with both root access to a unix system, and a lack of sophistication,

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, October 23, 2004 3:35 PM -0700 einheit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Those sorts of "honor-system viruses" for unix are quite common, but hardly ever work, up to now, since they require someone with both root access to a unix system, and a lack of sophistication, two qualities which h

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread einheit
John Andersen wrote: Instead of laughing at it, has anyone actually LOOKED at what this would install on a redhat system? Feel free - it's likely some rude hack to bypass tcp wrappers, and allow ssh access from anywhere, or install some sort of innocuous-sounding daemon which listens for passw

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 23 October 2004 09:43 am, einheit wrote: > Pierre Thomson wrote: > >SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the > > stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. > > > >Good work, SA! > > > >http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt > > Nice - SA detected bogos

Re: OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread einheit
Pierre Thomson wrote: SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. Good work, SA! http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt Nice - SA detected bogosity in this message, though differently than a human would (If I had gott

OT: SA also catches security hoaxes

2004-10-23 Thread Pierre Thomson
SpamAssassin flagged this just now, and MailScanner removed it from the stream. The main hits were DCC and RBL related. Good work, SA! http://frodo.bruderhof.com/redhat.txt I hope sysadmins are smart enough to check sources before applying an OS patch!!! Pierre Thomson BIC