Re: Moving Spam to Junk Folder

2020-09-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Sep 2020, bobby wrote: I am following this tutorial:  https://www.linuxbabe.com/redhat/spamassassin-centos-rhel-block-email-spam.I followed the steps in "Move Spam into the Junk Folder".  When I send an email from a blacklisted e-mail address, I get a bounce e-mail from my e-mail ser

Re: Problem installing sa on my pi 3b+

2021-04-08 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, spamassas...@mach2.franken.de wrote: Am 07.04.2021 um 12:27 schrieb Antony Stone: I am running said packet install from an internet tutorial. Who wrote that tutorial and where does it point you to get the packages from? Antony. Hmm, it says execute the following comm

Re: SA seems powerless against marketing emails for SEO/web development

2021-04-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Apr 2021, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 22.04.21 14:21, Steve Dondley wrote: pts rule name description -- -- -0.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE RBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/,

Re: Why single periods in regex in spamassassin rules?

2021-04-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: I'm looking at KAM.cf. There is this rule: body__KAM_WEB2 /INDIA based IT|indian.based.website|certified.it.company/i I'm wondering if there is a good reason why a singe period is used instead of something like \s+ which would catch multiple sp

Re: Another evil number

2021-06-25 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Greg Troxel wrote: RW writes: You can reach out to our Customer Support Team+1 (800) 781 - 2511. Is it common in the US to put 800 in brackets like that? In my experience brackets normally go around either country codes or area codes, digits that may be optional.

Re: Identifying Amazon hosts...

2021-07-28 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 28 Jul 2021, Antony Stone wrote: On Wednesday 28 July 2021 at 19:51:49, Pedro David Marco wrote: Hi! i have spam with this header: Received: from a48-115.smtp-out.amazonses.com (HELO a48-115.smtp-out.amazonses.com) (54.240.48.115) Is there any way, based on its fqdn, to know whether

Re: Customise hostname shown in X-Spam-Checker-Version?

2021-07-30 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, David Bürgin wrote: David Bürgin: Resolved. Perhaps the documentation should be updated. There are notes for options ‘remove_header’ and ‘clear_headers’ that ‘X-Spam-Checker-Version is not removable’, so a straightforward fix to the documentation would be replacing senten

Re: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HI ?

2021-10-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am getting tons of emails that are very obviously spam (elongation, russian beauties, etc) that are getting a -5 score added on the white list tes t: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HIRBL: Sender listed at https://www.dnswl.org/, high trust I'm curious about the usef

Re: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HI ?

2021-10-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 11 Oct 2021, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am getting tons of emails that are very obviously spam (elongation, russian beauties, etc) that are getting a -5 score added on the white list tes t: CVD_IN_DNSWL_HIRBL: Sender listed at https

Re: handle_user and connect to spamd failed

2021-10-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Linkcheck wrote: Ok, thanks, Dave. '--helper-home-dir' option needs an '=' Also, --max-children? I have been playing with options based on suggestions here. I now have the spamassassin options as: OPTIONS="--nouser-config -4 -i 127.0.0.1 --max-children=5 --helper-ho

Re: Emails from gmail.com bypassing Spamassassin scoring

2022-02-07 Thread David B Funk
How big was the message? (attached images can be pretty big). Depending on the "glue" you use to connect your mail MTA to SA, it may have some kind of size restriction. For example, the 'spamc' client has a 'max-size' parameter (which defaults to 500KB). Any message larger than that size will

Re: info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed

2022-09-28 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: [snip..] /usr/local/share/perl/5.28.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 742, line 189. Wed Sep 28 21:46:55 2022 [9418] info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed: Connection refused at /usr/local/share/perl/5.28.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/D

Re: Aw: Re: info: dns: bad dns reply: bgread: recv() failed

2022-09-29 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 29 Sep 2022, Maurizio Caloro wrote: First let me thanks for your quick help, yes now are running:-) mistake: named.conf.options -listen-on { A.B.C.D, localhost; }; +listen-on { any; }; After this, the error in Spamd.log disapper, greate! Your mistake is that 'local

Re: How do I check for a jpeg attachment?

2022-10-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, Loren Wilton wrote: I'm getting a bunch of spams from fake gmail accounts that consist of one short line of text and a 2 MB jpg file. The subject and body text are pretty much random beyond that. How do I check for the following? --e345f305ea2680cd Content-Type

Re: Rule Help - not sure what is wrong with my syntax

2023-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023, Benny Pedersen wrote: Benny Pedersen skrev den 2023-01-14 03:59: header TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN To:addr =~ /\@(test|junc)\.(com|net|eu)$/ describe TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN Mail sent to test.com or test.net email addresses score TO_SPECIFIC_DOMAIN -0.5 tested works if i mail myself :=

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-11 Thread David B Funk
what useful information would you be looking for from this kind of comparison? All the time I receive mail from people with non-local domains and regularly receive e-mail from co-workers using the same domain as me. The kind of things that might be useful are: 1) detecting local-domain forger

Re: SpamAssassin repeatedly fails to start

2023-07-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Wingfully Team via users wrote: Hi, I’m using SpamAssassin 3.4.0 on a VPS hosted by Hostinger with CentOS 7. CyberPanel was installed by Hostinger. I am constantly (every 90 seconds) seeing spamassassin fail to start, seemingly because it can’t find the PID file. I’m sen

Re: Sudden surge in spam appearing to come from my email address

2023-07-14 Thread David B Funk
Assuming you own/manage your infrastructure it should be straight-forward. Create SFP records for your domain & SMTP server, set them to either soft or hard fail mode. If you can, also set up DKIM signing of your outgoing mail. Then create rules that looks for your from address in a message

Re: Ensuring SPF/DKIM for @gmail.com

2023-07-25 Thread David B Funk
If you do that you will guarantee yourself to get bunches of spam that might otherwise be tagged by SA. the "welcomelist" mechanism says: Anybody who matches this criteria we consider strongly not to be spam (regardless of how spammy all the other metrics may say it is). You should "welco

Re: Really hard-to-filter spam

2023-07-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023, Jared Hall wrote: On 7/27/2023 12:08 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: Hey, all. I've recently started getting spam that's really hard to deal with, and I'm open to suggestions as to how to approach it. Superficially, [snip..] The damn body's been encoded!  And there's so little

Re: Really hard-to-filter spam

2023-08-02 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Thomas Cameron via users wrote: Thank you very much. The message that slipped through today was NOT one of the ones being discussed in this thread, it was a different format and totally different message. I only included it to demonstrate that my server was not being reject

Re: OT - Re: DNFTEC - was My apologies

2023-08-05 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 5 Aug 2023, Grant Taylor via users wrote: On 8/5/23 6:42 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: Yes given that he is Sorry, I as asking for differences between Energy Creatures and Trolls. I agree with your advice about the particular EC / T. I'm still trying to understand the conceptual differ

Re: Scoring Explanation Please

2023-08-30 Thread David B Funk
Denny, If you read the fine manual for the spamassassin configuration file, in section for 'score SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME n.nn [ n.nn n.nn n.nn ]' You'll see: If only one valid score is listed, then that score is always used for a test. If four valid scores are listed, then the score that i

Re: Order of handling whitelist/blacklist

2024-03-28 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 28 Mar 2024, Philip Prindeville via users wrote: On Mar 28, 2024, at 2:39 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 27.03.24 20:56, Philip Prindeville via users wrote: I have something that looks like: whitelist_from_rcvd v...@yandex.ru vger.kernel.org blacklist_from *@yandex.ru And

Re: Question about sa-updates

2024-06-21 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 22 Jun 2024, Paul Schmehl wrote: On Jun 22, 2024, at 12:28 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote: On 6/21/2024 8:56 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: I scratched my head, then looked up the man page for sa-update on the web. Sure enough, that’s where the rules go. Is that where my local.c

Re: How to tell if DnsBlocklists are definitely being used by my Spamassassin setup

2015-11-30 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 30/11/15 16:41, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 30.11.2015 um 17:24 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: OK - this might be a basic question, but recently the detection rate on my SA install has been really unreliable, so I decided that the first step is to be sure

Re: how to fix this issue-spam

2016-02-04 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: DMARC is a combination of SPF and DKIM plus From: header spoofing check. You must get SPF and DKIM setup before adding the '_dmarc' DNS record for the sending domain tell me something new wait i tell you something (for you) new: DMARC and mailing-lists

Re: VERY_LONG_REPTO_SHORT_MSG

2016-02-26 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 2/26/2016 12:46 PM, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 26 February 2016 at 18:14:53, Axb wrote: On 02/26/2016 06:04 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: score VERY_LONG_REPTO_SHORT_MSG 3.999 3.999 3.999 3.999 hea

Re: PDF files containing executables?

2016-03-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Marc Perkel wrote: A customer of mine inquired about executable viruses inside of PDF files. Is that so? And if it is - is there any way of detecting executables inside of PDF? I don't know that PDFs can contain classical ".exe" type executables but they can clearly contai

Re: PDF files containing executables?

2016-03-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:27:18 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: [Dianne Skoll] However, many legitimate PDF files contain Javascript snippets. Blocking solely on that basis will lead to many FPs. I'd argue the "legitimate" part of that statement... :)

Re: PDF files containing executables?

2016-03-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 13:03:44 -0800 Marc Perkel wrote: Thanks for the response. I'm in the spam filtering business and I'm wondering what I can use (from the command line?) to detect if a PDF has any kind of script

Re: DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX and fp

2016-03-04 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Alex wrote: Hi, I have a legitimate mail that received 2.8 points, making it spam, as a result of what appears to be a false positive with DOS_OUTLOOK_TO_MX http://pastebin.com/dbm2Q4k6 There doesn't seem to be any desktop system involved, just direct communication with th

Re: Missed spam, suggestions?

2016-03-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Mar 2016, Charles Sprickman wrote: I’ve been running with some daily training for a little over a week and I’m seeing less spam in my inbox. I’ve seen a few things slip through because bayes tipped them below the default score, these were two phishing emails. Here’s some rule stats

Re: Missed spam, suggestions?

2016-03-08 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Mar 8, 2016, at 7:31 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: how can these two stats be different? On 08.03.16 10:19, @lbutlr wrote: Because one is for SPAM and one is for HAM. On Mar 8, 2016, at 10:41 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Wh

sa-stats log analyzer (RE: Missed spam, suggestions?)

2016-03-10 Thread David B Funk
to know how to get these stats too.   From: Robert Chalmers [mailto:rob...@chalmers.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 5:25 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Missed spam, suggestions?   Can I ask, how are you getting these stats please?   Thanks On 8 Mar 2016, at 05:11

Re: Abused accounts

2016-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Kris Deugau wrote: Robert Boyl wrote: Hi, everyone Please check http://pastebin.com/GUBqpyZ8 Interesting how some spams that abuse some legit account such as this one are hard to detect, how Spamassassin scores almost nothing although there are spammy works, etc. System c

Re: BODY_URI_ONLY is broken

2016-03-25 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: BODY_URI_ONLY Message body is only a URI in one line of text how can that hit the (anonymized) mail below? ___ Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ** =C3=9Cbermittlung: in

Re: BODY_URI_ONLY is broken

2016-03-25 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.03.2016 um 04:21 schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 26.03.2016 um 03:54 schrieb David B Funk: On Sat, 26 Mar 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: BODY_URI_ONLY Message body is only a URI in one line of text how can that hit the (anonymized) mail below

Re: HEADS-UP: MIME_NO_TEXT matches Sendmail MIME DSNs

2016-03-29 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Bill Cole wrote: On 29 Mar 2016, at 19:36, John Hardin wrote: So, a message that's explicitly multipart MIME but which has only one part? Or does it actually have multiple parts, just none are marked as text/plain? multipart/report; type=delivery-status. The standard MI

Re: Rule to score word documents

2016-03-30 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Alex wrote: Hi, I'd like to assign a spamassassin score to received word documents (doc,docx,xls,xlsx) so they are quarantined on my UTM. I've tried the following which doesn't work. Can someone show me an example that should work? mimeheader DOC_ATTACHED Content-Type =~

Re: Macro virus fun

2016-04-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Alex wrote: Hi, On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:12 AM, wrote: Alex skrev den 2016-04-06 02:40: http://pastebin.com/FTzbQcHb The Heuristics.OLE2.ContainsMacros rule is added by amavisd+clamav, but it's apparently not something that spamassassin can manipulate change clamd to

Bayes duplicate message detection algorithm?

2016-05-13 Thread David B Funk
What algorithm does Bayes use to detect that it has already 'seen' a given message? When I receive a bolus (say 40~60) of 'phish' messages from a compromised Hotmail/gmail/yahoo account which are mostly the same (body, many headers same, only recipients, Message-ID, Date, and a few Received he

Re: SA cannot block messages with attached zip

2016-05-20 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 20 May 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Fri, 20 May 2016 09:31:48 +0300 Emin Akbulut wrote: What do you suggest to fight these spams? ClamAV is basically useless. We do it the hard way. We list the contents of attached archives (using "lsar") and have filename-extension rules that blo

Re: PHP eval()'d code

2016-05-26 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 26 May 2016, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.05.2016 um 20:50 schrieb RW: I noticed that Bayes is picking-up on very strong tokens from "eval" and "code" in headers like this: X-PHP-Originating-Script: 1013:global.php(1938) : eval()'d code

Re: Advice: why one relay evaluated and not the other

2016-06-08 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 8 Jun 2016, jimimaseye wrote: On 08/06/2016 16:05, Matus UHLAR - fantomas [via SpamAssassin] wrote: note that if a server acts as your MX, it should be listed in internal_networks, no matter if other company manages it. That applies for backup MX servers for your dom

Re: SA bayes file db permission issue

2016-06-09 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 9 Jun 2016, Yu Qian wrote: Yes, I am sure the path is correct, also, if the path is not correct, it will show 'db not present'. I tried to write a small perl script to open the db file, it failed too. so I think it maybe the file damaged during the mounting. but I don't know why this c

Re: why does that mail not get any bayes-classification

2016-06-10 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 11 Jun 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 10.06.2016 um 23:52 schrieb RW: On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:57:45 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: see attachemnt, no bayes tag at all looks like a major bug somewhere In the absence of any debug it's hard to say. hence i attached the sample It is pos

Re: local uribl is not called

2016-06-13 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: * the syntax seems to be correct * domain listet and dig answers correctly on the sa-machine * spamassassin -D < sample.eml 2> out.txt * grep for the uribl don't show any call uridnsbl URIBL_LOCAL uribl.thelounge.net. A body URIBL_LOCAL eval:

Re: how to write body rules to match 'tortured html' variations of text phrases?

2016-06-15 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 16 Jun 2016, RW wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:40:25 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, jaso...@mail-central.com wrote: and all the possible line-broken and "="-delimited variations? There's obviously a lot of them. That would have to be a rawbody rule AFAIK QP i

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST

2016-07-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Jul 2016, Lorenzo Thurman wrote: I’ve been receiving some spam where spamassassin identifies the sender with  USER_IN_WHITELIST. These senders (or domains) are most definitely not in my whitelist. How can I get around this problem?Thanks SpamAssassin comes with some built-in whiteli

Re: SPF should always hit? SOLVED

2016-07-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.07.2016 um 19:30 schrieb RW: [snip..] It sounds like SA is not able to parse the envelope sender out of the headers. See the description for envelope_sender_header in man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf SA has also a weakness or design mistake here

Re: question about filtering spam

2016-07-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, Jan-Kees van Kampen wrote: Hi John, It would be better if you could post a few spamples to something like pastebin or a webserver you control and send the URLs to the list so that we can see the complete raw messages. here are 3 examples: http://sandberg.nl/sp/ 1 and 2

Re: new Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-AttachmentPresent

2016-09-06 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Alex wrote: Hi, Is there any ability to determine if a particular attachment has a Word macro enclosed in addition to just having a Word document? that's the hob of clamav and the sa-plugin for it "OLE2BlockMacros yes" in case of a scored SA plugin won't block but add th

Re: new Mail-SpamAssassin-Plugin-AttachmentPresent

2016-09-06 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:50:25 -0400 Alex wrote: [snip] Workbook_Open Document_Open Auto_Open AutoOpen Is there a simple way to identify whether the attachment/macro contains those listed functions, without the ab

Re: AW: X-Spam Tagging - Spam Status YESNO Flags - Sometimes not appended...

2016-09-16 Thread David B Funk
What do you see in your syslog reports from spamc? Is it reporting any errors? Please note the 'max-size' parameter for spamc: -s max_size, --max-size=max_size Set the maximum message size which will be sent to spamd -- any bigger than this threshold and the message will be return

Re: Custom rule based on AWL score

2016-10-20 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2016, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2016-10-20 08:34, simplerezo wrote: My understanding is that AWL is helping frequent senders who are known to not send spam to "reduce" their spam score, preventing false positive. That's exactly what I want

Re: version.h.pl show stopper

2016-11-18 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Dan Jacobson wrote: $ svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/trunk /tmp/ee $ cd /tmp/ee $ echo|perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/tmp/g $ make In the end you will see cd spamc /usr/bin/perl version.h.pl spamc/configure.pl: Can't exec `version.h.pl': No such file o

Re: Weird Spamassassin startup behaviour on Ubuntu 16.10

2016-12-05 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Michael Heuberger wrote: Anyone? On 23/11/16 16:11, Michael Heuberger wrote: Hello folks New here :) I'm running Spamassassin v3.4.1 here on an headless Ubuntu 16.10 server together with Monit (and Postfix of course). Each time server restarts, Monit says first that th

Re: Increase BAYES_99 score?

2017-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017, Bill Cole wrote: On 10 Jan 2017, at 10:55, Michael B Allen wrote: bayes_file_mode 0777 Don't do that. Ever. It is not necessary, despite having been propagated widely as a supposed solution for system-wide Bayes permission issues. The clear indicator that whoever devis

Re: List of trusted senders

2017-01-25 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 25 Jan 2017, Benny Pedersen wrote: same as with clamav 3dr party spam signatures should not really have being in clamav, but on a sa channel, i know there is a perl script to make that 3dr party sigs back to sa, but it uses so much memmory that its not practical :( my solution to th

Re: New whitelisting trick using from and spf

2017-03-06 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Alan Hodgson wrote: It seems it should be easy to setup “If mail claims to be From: PayPal.com and is not from PayPal, score +100” but it is not. This is what DMARC is for. Run opendmarc as a milter and reject failures. Or score later on DMARC failure, even if just selecti

Re: FREEMAIL_REPLYTO

2017-03-09 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Michael Grant wrote: [snip..] The problem is caused by innocentbytan...@ymail.com IN THE BODY!   This seems a bit overzealous.  It seems like a bit of an over-reach to look at headers in the BODY of the message. This is an excellent rule except for this rude message body

Office-365 headers swamp Bayes

2017-03-15 Thread David B Funk
I'm having trouble with Bayes getting swamped by all the headers of Office-365 generated mail messages. Our campus has outsourced its Exchange mail servers to O-365 and migrated the bulk of user accounts to it. Thus a large percentage of mail our departmental server receives is from on-campus

Re: Can someone post some real-world examples of whitelist_auth, whitelist_spf, and whitelist_dkim?

2017-03-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, fitz wrote: I am attempting to tighten up my whitelists, replacing whitelist_from with whitelist_auth, whitelist_spf, and/or whitelist_dkim. And having trouble. The simplistic example of whitelist_auth b...@example.com example.net does not really cut it. For example, I h

Re: MISSING_MIMEOLE and X-MimeOLE

2017-05-01 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 1 May 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 8:44 AM, David Jones wrote: From: Alex I've taken a more conservative, but also more time-consuming approach by creating rules that subtract a few points with the right combination. I was also hoping there was a more general appro

Re: Today's Google Docs phish

2017-05-03 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 May 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, If you haven't heard, there was a huge Google Docs phishing attack today. Several hundred bypassed our filters in the hour or so before we were able to identify them. The To address is always "h...@mailinator.com" and the subject is always " has s

Re: US-CERT message FP

2017-05-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 8 May 2017, Chris wrote: I get various posts from US-CERT none so far have been tagged as spam until today. The raw message with the SA tags is here - https://pastebi n.com/f71A2FfW What it hit on was: pts rule name  description

Re: US-CERT message FP

2017-05-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 May 2017, Chris wrote: whitelist_auth *@*.us-cert.gov us-cert.gov This should be: whitelist_auth *@*.us-cert.gov I don't know why I keep putting the second entry in my 'my- whitelist.cf' file. I must have read it or something a long, long time ago in order to be doing this.  Poss

block Bayes autolearn for specific messages

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
Is there any way to use Bayes autolearn in general but prevent it from learning specific messages? I have a specific source of messages (Office-365) which I would like to prevent from being autolearn (with out scoring them as spam). I still want those messages to be SA scored using the normal

Re: block Bayes autolearn for specific messages

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2017, David B Funk wrote: Is there any way to use Bayes autolearn in general but prevent it from learning specific messages? I have a specific source of messages (Office-365) which I would like to prevent from being autolearn (with out

Re: Negative rule score not working as expected

2017-05-10 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 11 May 2017, Benny Pedersen wrote: Anthony Hoppe skrev den 2017-05-11 00:55: I'm trying to implement a very simple rule that looks at the "Received" header(s) and if a string is found apply a negative score. The rule is as follows: headerAH_KNOWBE4 Received=~ /phishtest\.knowbe4\.

Re: URIBL_BLOCKED on 2 Fedora 25 servers with working dnsmasq, w/ NetworkManager service

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 18 May 2017, Rob McEwen wrote: In many cases, they explain to me that their settings got auto-overwritten by their hoster - who just HAD to switch their resolv.conf file back to 8.8.8.8 cron. job. Wouldn't the SA config parameter "dns_server

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, Dianne Skoll wrote: Hi, Tons of list traffic keeps getting quarantined because of DMARC. For example, a recent message from David Jones : DMARC policy for domain ena.com suggests Rejection as DMARC_POLICY_REJECT, but quarantined due to rule settings $ host -t txt _dmarc.

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, RW wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2017 14:13:22 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: ne. My read on this is that "@ena.com" is living dangerously. They publish SPF records and DMARC records (with p=reject) but do NOT DKIM sign their mail. Most of them pass DKIM, a minor

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2017, David Jones wrote: From: David B Funk   On Fri, 19 May 2017, RW wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2017 14:13:22 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: ne. My read on this is that "@ena.com" is living dangerously. They publish SPF records and DMARC records (with p=reject)

Re: ramsonware URI list

2017-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Antony Stone wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2017 at 11:19:54, mastered wrote: Hi Nicola, I'm not good at SHELL script language, but this might be fine: 1 - Save file into lista.txt 2 - trasform lista.txt in spamassassin rules: cat lista.txt | sed s'/http:\/\///' | sed s'/\

Re: ramsonware URI list

2017-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Antony Stone wrote: On Saturday 15 July 2017 at 11:19:54, mastered wrote: Hi Nicola, I'm not good at SHELL script language, but this might be fine: 1 - Save file into lista.txt 2 - trasform lista.txt in spamassassin rules: cat lista.txt | sed s'/http:\/\///' | sed s'/\

Re: Spam with tons of lines with garbage characters, preceded by

2017-07-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: By default messages bigger than 500KB are not sent to spamd for processing/scanning => the tactics you describe frequently "turns off" spam filtering. IMHO SA should design procedures to deal with big messages. I personally use "sacan headers only" a

Re: tflags

2017-08-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Kris Deugau wrote: Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-08-03 10:38, sha...@shanew.net wrote: The most common ones that I make use of are "multiple" and "maxhits" in order to allow a rule to be scored for each time it hits, but to stop counting after some threshold. I also use th

Re: Results of Individual Tests on spamd "CHECK"

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm invoking spamd using: CHECK SPAMC/1.2\r\n I'm getting the expected response such as: Spam: False ; -1.8 / 4.0 I am trying to figure out how to get the TESTS= results of the individual tests returned as well. (e.g.tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2

Re: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Alex wrote: Hi, On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Jacek Osuchowski wrote: We use emails to allow users to reset their passwords to our website. We send very brief emails containing the reset password. Example between : Your password to access your account is: S]U3bC

Re: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, David Jones wrote: [snip..] This IP is listed on SORBS and Spamhaus ZEN which are going to cause problems with delivery to many receiving mail filters, not just SpamAssassin. http://multirbl.valli.org/lookup/68.192.71.191.html That's his PC which is the MSA. As it's the

RE: Sender needs help with false positive

2017-08-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, Jacek Osuchowski wrote: This is an email I sent to IsNotSpam.com. They list the whole thing when testing for spam. I am getting a lot of complains from our customers that our emails are not received. Our domain is not blacklisted anywhere so I suspect it is the spam filter

Re: TxRep can't use SQLBasedAddrList factory module

2017-08-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Christopher Engelhard wrote: On 08/14/2017 05:24 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: does mysql -u -p localhost spamdb work? Yes, that works. The user has INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, SELECT privileges. Does it need CREATE? The table 'txrep' exists with columns username, email, ip, c

Re: In anyone else getting 325KB spams from cont...@cron-job.org?

2017-09-14 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:27:27 -0700 "Loren Wilton" wrote: Other than being obvious spam, they seem to be set up as though they were legitimate commercial mailing list stuff, often containing things like contact-id and the like in the links. Is anyone

Re: ISIPP - Re: bb.barracudacentral.org

2017-09-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017, Chris wrote: On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 00:40 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 16:44 -0500, Chris wrote: Thanks Martin, here's what I get, it appears to not be running. sudo systemctl stop dnsmasq [sudo] password for chris:  Failed to stop dnsmasq.service:

Re: OT - Hotmail/Outlook.com marking most of our email as Junk

2017-09-20 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017, Rupert Gallagher wrote: > 10. The emails we send are operational and notices emails to customers -  who need them. They call on the phone and complain they haven't received  them - just to discover they were sent, but ended up in the junk.  Tell them to send you a copy of t

Re: Bank fraud phish

2017-10-24 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Rupert Gallagher wrote: Easy one. The Message-ID is not well formed / RFC compliant. We reject such junk upfront.  Sent from ProtonMail Mobile On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 8:32 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if someone has some ideas to handle bank fraud phishi

Re: Bank fraud phish

2017-10-24 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Oct 2017, Pedro David Marco wrote: Out of curiosity... "account is deactivated due to inactive,"   is this correct in english? shouldn't it be "inactivity"? It isn't good English, but I've seen worse from official notices. Now the fact that it claims to be a US financial company

Re: Your header "To: undisclosed-recipients:;" is RFC 822 compliant

2017-10-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017, A. Schulze wrote: Am 27.10.2017 um 07:15 schrieb @lbutlr: RFC 822 is obsolete, replaced by RFC 2822. ... which is obsoleted by RFC 5322 and updated some other RFCs see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 And it still explicitly says that construct is legal: rfc5322:3.4

Re: Problem scanning mails with Spam Assassin on Postfix

2010-08-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: > Hello Micheal, > But I am the ISP here. I provide internet access for subscribers and I have   > redirected their smtp port 25 traffic through the smtp server, but the > response sent earlier when I want to connect as a test subscriber. which

Re: enabling SpamHaus DBL

2010-08-30 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Mark Martinec wrote: > Lawrence, > > > This is a dedicated server in a facility in the US. The server is > > configured to use the resolvers 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 > > > > I wouldn't dream of relying on Google for anything :) > > Like I said, your resolver is tricking you. Either

Re: user_prefs questions/problem

2010-09-20 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Chuck Campbell wrote: > > enabled). Is SA integrated in your mail system in a way that it "knows" > > Not sure where to enable this. Will dig more in the docs. > > > the user name of the recipient? (some integration methods do not make that > > info avaialble to SA so the per

Re: Whitelist questions

2010-10-05 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Joseph Brennan wrote: > > --On Tuesday, October 5, 2010 10:40 -0400 Alex > wrote: > > > I have an email that I'm trying to whitelist using whitelist_from_rcvd > > and it's not working as I expect. I've created an entry: > > [snip..] > > Notice also that the rule checks the hea

Re: Question about Max msg size

2010-10-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, durwood wrote: > I too am starting to see quite a bit of spam that's *just* over the 500k > threshold due to ~4K-sized image attached to the spam. It almost makes me > wonder if they are doing this just to get it over the standard SpamAssassin > threshold. > > It seems like the

Re: Question about a spam assassin rule

2010-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Daniel McDonald wrote: > On 11/19/10 2:51 PM, "Bowie Bailey" wrote: > > > rawbody FR_3TAG_3TAG > > m'<[abcefghijklmnoqstuvwxz]{3}>'i > > > > It looks for an html tag containing exactly three characters followed by > > a closing tag which also contains exactly three character

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC false positives on a UK web host

2010-12-09 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 14:43 -0800, John Hardin wrote: > > > It appears that a client can easily set up hosting using cPanel or > > > something without ever setting the rDNS or hostname to anything other > > > than the numeric default. > > > > Is the

Re: DNSBL for email addresses?

2010-12-14 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: > Are there any DNSBLs out there based on email addresses? Since you can't > use an @ in a DNS lookup - how would you do DNSBL on email addresses? Is > there a standard? > Why do you say "Since you can't use an @ in a DNS lookup"?? Unless you're using obsol

Re: Training Bayes on outbound mail

2011-01-28 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:10:08 + > Dominic Benson wrote: > > > Recently, in order to balance the ham/spam ratio given to sa-learn, I > > have started to pass mail submitted by authenticated users to > > sa-learn --ham. > > > I haven't seen any mentio

Re: alert: New event: ET EXPLOIT Possible SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2011-02-10 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Jason Haar wrote: > On 02/11/2011 09:37 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: > > Yes, the security hole is entirely within the milter, > > independent of the MTA. > > > That exploit is dated Mar 2010? Has this really not been fixed in about > a year??? > > "a year"??, try half-a-decade.

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