Re: Spamassassin Upgrade

2009-03-02 Thread Kban35
I have Debian Sarge 4.0. I installed spamassassin 3.2.5 from CPAN. It installed fine and is working fine I just not sure now how to stop and restart it since it is not listed in /etc/init.d like it used to be. I made some changes to my whitelist and wanted to apply them but short of restarting the

Re: Spamassassin Upgrade

2009-03-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 02:23 -0800, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > I have Debian Sarge 4.0. I installed spamassassin 3.2.5 from CPAN. It What's wrong with the Debian package? > installed fine and is working fine I just not sure now how to stop and > restart it since it is not listed in /etc/ini

Re: Spamassassin Upgrade

2009-03-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.03.09 02:23, Kban35 wrote: > I have Debian Sarge 4.0. I installed spamassassin 3.2.5 from CPAN. It > installed fine and is working fine I just not sure now how to stop and > restart it since it is not listed in /etc/init.d like it used to be. I > made some changes to my whitelist and wanted t

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 05:16 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-03-01 09:44:00, schrieb Jake Maul: > > http://pastebin.com/m58b01a0b > Score 7.6 > > > http://pastebin.com/me13959a > Score 7.8 > > You must do something wrong. /me scratches his head How so? 'cause his score is lower than yo

Re: spam count going down?

2009-03-02 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 09:57 +0100, Mathias Homann wrote: > Hey folks, > > > is it just me or did the average spam per day count drop by 75% > lately? > Just you, my spam level has been fairly constant, and if anything is slightly up. -- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Aus

Re: Webmail spammers

2009-03-02 Thread Greg Troxel
giga328 writes: > I looked at Received headers and unfortunately, Received headers added by > our webmail are not standard ones. Except for the proxy.IP in the following > example, all IPs and all FQDNs are from our servers. Here is the (ugly) > example: > > Received: from our.domain ([our.webma

Re: Spamassassin Upgrade

2009-03-02 Thread LuKreme
On 2-Mar-2009, at 03:23, Kban35 wrote: I have Debian Sarge 4.0. I installed spamassassin 3.2.5 from CPAN. It installed fine and is working fine I just not sure now how to stop and restart it since it is not listed in /etc/init.d like it used to be. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ is where the stop/star

Re: Webmail spammers

2009-03-02 Thread Matt
Using Ratelimit in Exim MTA and plugin "Restrict Senders" in Squirrelmail slows them down. Spammers need to send out large number of messages to get any payback. Limiting the number they can send with a compromised account really makes that account of no value to them. Matt On Sun, Mar 1, 2009

RE: ReturnPath, Habeas, BondedSender

2009-03-02 Thread Jason Bertoch
> -Original Message- > From: Neil Schwartzman [mailto:neil.schwartz...@returnpath.net] > Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 12:22 AM > To: Spamassassin > Subject: Re: ReturnPath, Habeas, BondedSender > > > > Good first step, now how about an RFC complaint abuse@ address? > > So you can complai

Re: Webmail spammers

2009-03-02 Thread Joseph Brennan
LuKreme wrote: unless you are suggesting that they are MANUALLY logging into the webmail to then send 1 billion spams, yes it will. That is an interesting point. OK. I don't know whether they do a manual login to get a session open before they run the software they use to dump spam. Jose

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_* (was Understanding Trusted and Internal)

2009-03-02 Thread Cedders
I've got a tangential issue, I'd like to tag onto this and hope it's OK. Henrik K wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:16:37AM +, RW wrote: As I understand it the difference between trusted and internal is that PBL/DUL checks are done at the internal/external boundary so they don't FP on mail

Re: ReturnPath, Habeas, BondedSender

2009-03-02 Thread Justin Mason
> That being said, maybe the rule description should include the reporting > addresses.  Why would I look on the SA wiki for a place to report > ReturnPath, Habeas, and BondedSender complaints? actually, the wiki is the right place -- the idea for rule documentation is that the detailed doc for ea

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_* (was Understanding Trusted and Internal)

2009-03-02 Thread Cedders
Cedders wrote: Henrik K wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 05:16:37AM +, RW wrote: As I understand it the difference between trusted and internal is that PBL/DUL checks are done at the internal/external boundary so they don't FP on mail submission into the trusted network. Right. [snip]

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_* (was Understanding Trusted and Internal)

2009-03-02 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 04:33:43PM +, Cedders wrote: > > > Sorry, too tired right now to properly comprehend and reply. :) The matter is pretty simple if you get your head around it. Don't try to get too fancy, just keep your MXs in internal_networks, not much to gain tweaking it. Extending t

Re: config status

2009-03-02 Thread Roger Marquis
David Morton wrote: As full time mail/systems admins we get invaluable data from tripwire/integrit, 'postconf -n', dconf, 'rpm -qa', 'dpkg -l \*', 'pkg_info -a', ... whose output is checked in to RCS daily. This provides a nice configuration snapshot and historical record but its real usefulness

Re: How to disable DNSWL?

2009-03-02 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Matthias Leisi wrote: Speaking of which, it may actually make sense to use all of dnswl.org's entries as trusted_networks-entries... That seems like a way to get false positives when someone with a listed dynamic IP sends through the smarthost of their ISP or ESP. By extendinmg trust to the

More Google group messages

2009-03-02 Thread Albert E. Whale
I enjoyed the previous discussion regarding Google Group messages. The additional rules reduced our spam significantly. Now we are getting the following: Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:24:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matty Hermann Reply-To: obey1939stet...@yahoo.com Subject: Hey! This is Rachelle from Mount

Re: More Google group messages

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:51 -0500, Albert E. Whale wrote: > Now we are getting the following: > > Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:24:14 -0800 (PST) > From: Matty Hermann > Reply-To: obey1939stet...@yahoo.com > Subject: Hey! This is Rachelle from Mount Olive, Alabama. Wanna date? > > Meet a gal, take he

Re: ReturnPath, Habeas, BondedSender

2009-03-02 Thread J.D. Falk
Jason Bertoch wrote: That being said, maybe the rule description should include the reporting addresses. Why would I look on the SA wiki for a place to report ReturnPath, Habeas, and BondedSender complaints? What's the process for updating rule descriptions? (BTW, a quick visit to your favor

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Jake Maul
Would you mind posting (or mailing me directly) what rules you're triggering to get those scores? Many thanks, Jake On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-03-01 09:44:00, schrieb Jake Maul: >> http://pastebin.com/m58b01a0b > > Score 7.6 > >> http://pastebin.com/me13959

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Jake Maul
None. This particular domain isn't terribly useful outside a pretty narrow locality (Arizona, US), so almost anything foreign is pretty likely to be spam. Thanks for the rule, I may end up doing something like that. :) Jake On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:51 AM, John Lundin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Jake Maul
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 09:44 -0700, Jake Maul wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> Lately I've been getting a lot of spam like this: >> >> http://pastebin.com/m58b01a0b >> http://pastebin.com/me13959a >> >> The domain changes, but it's virtually alway

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Jake Maul
That's an interesting observation. Yes, the initial host is US for both, bounced through the UK (80.82.114.106 in both cases). I thought RelayCountry would show *all* the countries represented in Received: lines? Jake On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:56 AM, wrote: > Hi Jake, > > both examples seem to

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Chris
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 05:16 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-03-01 09:44:00, schrieb Jake Maul: > > http://pastebin.com/m58b01a0b > > Score 7.6 Content analysis details: (21.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --

Re: "German" spam not hitting any DNSBLs, almost no rules

2009-03-02 Thread Jake Maul
Heh, yeah, the first one is in SaneSecurity now. I call clamd directly from Exim before SA, so I wouldn't see this one anymore. Thanks, Jake On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Chris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 05:16 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2009-03-01 09:44:00, schrieb Jake Maul: >>