Re: [OT] Problem with mailserver and rejects

2011-03-07 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, [UTF-8] Marcin Miros�^Baw wrote: > W dniu 07.03.2011 13:40, Michelle Konzack pisze: > > Hello, > > > > since 2011-01-19 I have a problem because my FTTH was accidently cuted > > and now no one want ot be responsable including my ISP. > > > > OK, <88.168.69.36> had an rDNS to

Re: plugin for CIDR matching

2011-03-17 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 14.03.11 13:41, Markus Reschke wrote: Currently I'm writing a small SA plugin for checking if IP addresses of relaying MTAs (in the Received: lines) are within a list of defined CIDR blocks. Most admins filter specific CIDR blocks, e.g. from

Re: Obfuscating advanced fee scams with html attachements?

2011-03-28 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Daniel McDonald wrote: I just got a spam that scored relatively low (mostly due to DNSWL_MED). But it also contained an html attachment that would have scored significantly more had it been part of the main message. I put it at http://pastebin.com/vXF0vGVS When I run the

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL on my own emails to self

2011-04-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, rstarkov wrote: > [snip..] > > if your MTA properly marks mail received with authentication and inserts > > authentication headers, SpamAssassin will take those headers and dynamic > > RBL checks should not apply. > > I don't think it does. Here's a sample email in its entirety

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL on my own emails to self

2011-04-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, rstarkov wrote: > Ah right. Yes, it's qmail. It appears that RFC3848 is not directly supported > by my managed server... It runs Plesk, and all I can find are a couple of > lone voices asking for this to become supported (met with silence or people > not knowing what on earth i

Re: whitelist

2011-04-18 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, John Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Sergei wrote: > > > Ok, thanks to all of you, I think I know what's going on. I put all > > these whitelist_from into my user_prefs (in an effort to keep a cleaner > > system), but aparently spamassassin runs not as me and so user_pref

Re: ok, we all get spam.. but.. spam warning us we opted out?

2011-07-26 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karsten Br�ckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 19:41 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > "Hello, I’m Brenda Hudson, Dell Director of Emerging Business. > > > > Soon, we’ll be sending our Dell Customer Experience Survey. Your > > opinion is valuable to us and your feedback

Re: rawbody rule for a txt attachment

2011-09-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Jose Sanchez wrote: Hello guys, I would like to know how can I create a SA rule to search for a certain domain inside a .txt attachment. Im getting spam emails with no text on the body and .txt attachment only, the .txt attachment contains the spam email and I would like

Re: "Your mailbox has exceeded..."

2011-10-01 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:44:23 -0500, Daniel McDonald wrote: > > > Someone ran a beta ADDRBL back in 2009. I still have the code and > > run a > > couple of private EmailBL lists. > > cool want to share lists ? > > i did test it, but gave up on maintainin

Re: antiphishing

2011-10-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Christian Grunfeld wrote: > > SA is a scoring filter, not a modifcation filter. Changing SA to rewrite > > message bodies is, I think most if all will agree, beyond the scope of what > > SA is intended to do, and beyond the scope of what it _should_ do. > > it does modify head

Re: antiphishing

2011-10-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The example I gave was taken from a newsletter where the url was > hidden. Almost all email newsletters that I have seen do the same > thing. Currently, most of the spam I'm seeing does not attempt to hide > the url at all. Not too many spam do that bu

Re: antiphishing

2011-10-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Christian Grunfeld wrote: > > Modifying headers -might- mess up DKIM, gpg, etc sigs (depending upon > > how they were done). Modifying bodies -will- mess up sigs. > > I was not specifically talking about dkim signed mails. It is clear > that body rewriting mess up sigs. It is

Re: Why doesn't anything at all get these botnet spammers?

2011-10-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Christian Grunfeld wrote: > Yeah, you catch my point ! > > I think it's easier to find a non-alphanum character than trying to > decode/desobfucate/guess the subject hidden word ! > > Why do we have to waste resources in trying to guess "Sex Movie" out > of "Se^x M-o ^v ~l e

RE: Why doesn't anything at all get these botnet spammers?

2011-10-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jenny Lee wrote: [snip..] > What baffles me is why it takes so long for RBLs to catch up on the URL. He > was spamming me (i have different domains) for a good one month before his > URL got dropped into an RBL, another one was never in an RBL. Perhaps I am > misunderstandi

Re: One-line URI body spam

2011-10-18 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Alex wrote: Hi, I'm having difficulty with figuring out how to tag spam where the body is only one line with a URL in it. Here is an example: http://pastebin.com/Y9mX1DRV It would be more helpful if you provided several examples.  It would be easy enough to write a rule

Re: One-line URI body spam

2011-10-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 10/18/11 6:27 PM, David B Funk wrote: So if you black-list those hosts you are generating FPs on any legit mails that link to those sites. Would you black-list google.com because somebody puts 'phish' forms in a google-docs spread

Re: spamd, postfix & user_prefs

2011-11-11 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, li...@nerdbynature.de wrote: Hi there, my spamd seems to ignore the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. I've searched the archives about this issue, the closest one[0] I came across was: > [...] users can add new rules for their own use in the > "~/.spamassassin/user_pre

Re: new paradigm

2011-11-23 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Christian Grunfeld wrote: If your assumption was true, there was no spam today. If nobody would ever answer to spam messages, there was no reason for spammers to keep spamming. let people who wants spam to answer spam ! if you dont want spam dont reply. Easy ! There are a

Re: Am i sending spam?

2011-12-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:10:22 +0100 "Lars Ebeling" wrote: http://pastebin.com/78gUdaCj You are not sending spam. Someone on the machine SR1S4.mesa.gmu.edu [129.174.112.124 connected to your machine and said: HELO leopg9.no-ip.org In other

Re: Am i sending spam?

2011-12-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, David B Funk wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:10:22 +0100 "Lars Ebeling" wrote: http://pastebin.com/78gUdaCj You are not sending spam. Someone on the machine SR1S4.mesa.gmu.edu [129.174.112.124 connected to your m

Re: Am i sending spam?

2011-12-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 23:13:43 +0100 "Lars Ebeling" wrote: We automatically block mail from anyone who HELOs as our machine (unless it really *is* from our machine, of course!) how do you do that? We use MIMEDefang which lets you code tests like t

Re: SPF tests and authenticated SMTP

2012-01-05 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, nsayer wrote: David B Funk wrote: Noel, I assume that you're saying he has a sendmail config problem because his SA isn't 'seeing' the auth tokens. That might not be the case, it may be his milter that is at fault. SA depends upon the auth tokens that

Re: [OT] RBLs

2012-01-11 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Ken A wrote: On 1/11/2012 11:51 AM, Dave Funk wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: The type of SPAM we are seeing is where legit companies are having their adverts cloned and the hyperlinks changed to spammy sites. sanesecurity hits many of these. uri filt

Re: White text on white background

2012-02-16 Thread David B Funk
The '#' is a comment character, need to escape it. Try: rawbody HTML_TEXT_WHITE_SHORT /style="color\#FFF;/ On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, JP Kelly wrote: No didn't work. with --lint I got: warn: config: invalid regexp for rule HTML_TEXT_WHITE_SHORT: /style=\"color: missing or invalid delimiters O

Re: HOW to setup an URIBL?

2012-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Axb, Am 2012-02-22 13:33:11, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: This is a pretty good guide to start off with: http://www.surbl.org/surbl-nameserver-setup Sorry, but this is not what I need, because the list is to slow with updates... It t

Re: Sorry for the misunderstanding [WAS: HOW to setup an URIBL?]

2012-02-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hi guys, I was not aware, that I can run "bind9" and "rbldnsd" at the same time on the same machine, exactly, I was thinking they will conflict with each other... ;-) Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack As long as the

Re: spam skating through

2012-02-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Alex wrote: Hi, 1.3 SAGREY                 Adds score to spam from first-time senders Now this is something that I have never seen before and am going to look into this evening I've also started to investigate SAGREY, and it sounds like a pretty cool solution (des

Re: Better phish detection

2012-03-12 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Paul Russell wrote: On 3/10/2012 16:43, Ned Slider wrote: This one is easy enough - if the latter is the only valid url that should ever appear in an email, create a meta rule that looks for a url containing bway.net (or even just bway or webmail or login etc), but isn't

Re: Better phish detection

2012-03-12 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Simon Loewenthal wrote: Paul Russell wrote: The list was originally started by a group of email administrators in higher education who were attempting to deal with an epidemic of compromised accounts that were being exploited to send password phishing spam, mostly to addr

Re: Blocking frequent botnet pattern

2012-03-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Alex wrote: Hi, http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=iquXBnH0 While I could create a rule to block this specific domain, or submit it to a RBL, I'd appreciate any ideas how to more generally block them, rather than by one characteristic in the message. We need more examples.

Re: Blocking frequent botnet pattern

2012-03-14 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Alex wrote: I actually created a bunch of those already, and would appreciate if someone would check my work: uri LOC_WP m{https?://.[^/]+/(wp-content|modules/mod_wdbanners|wp-admin|wp-includes|cruise/wp-content|includes/|web/wp-content|google_recommends|mt-static)/

Re: Blocking frequent botnet pattern

2012-03-14 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, David B Funk wrote: One clue: "X-Originating-IP: [41.189.207.189]" Check the various RBL hits on that address. ;) Are there existing plugins for this? Is there a way to check a range to see if it's part of a known blacklisted botnet? The "

Re: does bayes_auto_learn expire bayes

2012-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Chris Hunt wrote: On 3/15/2012 2:53 PM, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:27:53 -0700 Chris Hunt wrote: I'm trying to eliminate opportunistic bayes expirations and run them via cron. bayes_auto_expire 0 RW, Thanks for the rapid reply... I have RT*M AFAIK. Sorry, I shou

Re: Bypassing SpamAssassin for SASL auth users

2012-06-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Christian Reynolds wrote: Hello, I am running a CentOS 5 / SpamAssassin 3.3.1-2 / MailScanner 4.84.5-2 / Postfix 2.3.3-2.3 I have been running MailScanner + Postfix + SA for several years, and recent network changes have caused me a bit of a problem. Some of my road warr

Re: Skipping Blacklists

2012-06-28 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 28 Jun 2012, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 27.06.12 11:43, Matt wrote: Is there a way to tell SA to skip blacklist checks against certain IP pools? I still want all other tests run but the IP may be listed in SORBS-DUHL and others due to being dynamic. why? dynamic checks belong t

Re: How to delete emails with FROM that is not in the server?

2012-08-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Sergio wrote: Hello all, wondering if there could be a rule where the email that is delivered from the server could be checked the FROM that the domain exist on the server, Is it possible? What I am looking is to block any email that is send from my server that is not us

Re: Privacy Concerns and Implementing Corrective Proceedures To Combat Information Harvesting

2012-09-05 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, NMTUser X wrote: Dear Users, (IF YOU ARE UNINTERESTED IN MY THOUGHT FLOW SKIP TO) -->## I am going to assume for the moment that personal information privacy has become a nonessential IT headache.  Seemingly only important to people who are more concerned with being paranoi

Re: Words with embedded symbols

2012-10-05 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Cathryn Mataga wrote: Thanks for the comments. I'll see if I can cook something up here. Someone asked to see the actual messages. I collected 4 of these messages and put them at this link. http://www.mataga.net/mataga/spam.txt Most of those spams are ab-using free webhos

Re: Updating 3.2.4 on SUSE sles10

2012-10-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012, Joseph Acquisto wrote: On 10/10/2012 at 8:06 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 18:54 -0400, Joseph Acquisto wrote: perl Makefil.pl (in spamassasin extract folder) gives this: Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Warning: prerequisite Mail::DKIM

Re: No magic, since clearing database

2012-10-24 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Joseph Acquisto wrote: "Kevin A. McGrail" 10/24/12 11:55 AM >>> On 10/24/2012 11:25 AM, Joseph Acquisto wrote: "Kevin A. McGrail" 10/24/12 9:52 AM >>> On 10/24/2012 6:09 AM, Joseph Acquisto wrote: OBTW . . . fixed my starved db by adding --mbox to the sa-learn comman

Re: GoogleSafeBrowsing plugin not uptodate?

2012-11-21 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Axb wrote: On 11/21/2012 10:48 PM, Thierry Besancon wrote: Hello Google obsoleted GoogleSafeBrowsing version 1 of its protocol several months ago. It seems to me that the GoogleSafeBrowsing plugin for Spamassassin is still Using this version 1 and thus is now outdated. I

Re: SpamAsassin can't find dccproc

2013-01-24 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, Walter Hurry wrote: I'm sure this is a simple problem, but it has me baffled. I have downloaded, compiled and installed DCC, following the instructions at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall. $ cd $HOME/bin $ ls -l dccproc -r-xr-xr-x 1 walth walth 622

Re: IS there a simple way to add a rule of a body mail test? I have a pattern..

2013-02-06 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 17:45 +0200, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: Sorry but I didn't had much time to understand all of the rules syntax. When developing a meta rule that combines subrules there';s littlew point in writing descriptions for the subrules. In

Re: Bayes false postive correction tuning

2013-02-07 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: I am having Bayes false positive misclassifications and am trying to tune and improve this situation. I am using SpamAssassin to classify mailing list messages and so there is a lot of mail from a variety of sources feeding SA. And a lot of spam of course.

RE: whitelist_from in SQL not applied?

2013-02-19 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Philippe Ratté wrote: Benny, Feb 19 10:02:25.354 [19195] dbg: spf: cannot get Envelope-From, cannot use SPF is this why whitelist_from are the only one that works ? first get it to work from local.cf, if this is working move the same rule to sql is the right way to test

Re: Hot News

2013-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Christian Recktenwald wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:38:53AM -0500, Dave Funk wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 3/15/2013 9:17 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote: On 15/03/2013 15:11, Christopher Nido wrote: http://www.naturalstonesinc-munged.com/aah/pa

Re: "send a quote" spams?

2013-03-21 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, John Hardin wrote: I've been seeing "We'd like to buy your product, please send a quote" messages for a while now; some of them are fairly obvious phishes sending the user to a website where they enter their username and password to see the "product specifications", but th

Re: Spamassassin 3.3.2 and load problem od DL380G5 ?

2013-04-03 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Josef Karliak wrote: Good morning, we use SA on 8 CPUs HP DL380 G5. But sometimes spam daemon crash down : Apr 2 18:01:33 server systemd[1]: spamd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1 Apr 2 18:01:33 server systemd[1]: Unit spamd.service entered failed state

Re: command-line script to check URIBLs

2013-05-31 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 30 May 2013, Alex wrote: Hi all, I'd like to be able to take a domain such as fellass.us and check it against the same blacklists used by sites like mxtools, except do it on the command-line. We have our own URIBL for domains that haven't yet been added to zen or surriel, etc. I'd like

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:11:28 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I believe you are able to track network admins of connecting IPs. Or, simply check theis rDNS (forward-confirmed) and contact abuse@delegated.domain... Well yeah, but in the example I

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send compla

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: PayPal spam filter?

2013-06-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Daniel McDonald wrote: On 6/12/13 2:30 PM, "Juerg Reimann" wrote: Hi there, Is there a filter to block PayPal phishing mails, i.e. everything that claims to come from PayPal but is not? I believe Paypal is DKIM signed, so it shouldn't be hard to modify these rules for

Re: Running as root.

2013-07-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 15.07.2013 19:51, Benny Pedersen kirjoitti: Christian Dysthe skrev den 2013-07-15 15:16: Spamassassin runs fine but I have one remaining error message in the logs: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u spamd uses default port 7

Re: Problems with BCCing from spammers

2013-08-14 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: 1) WTF is pastebin? (not you, the other guy) pastebin.com, a way to share files for public review. It's a far better way to share spamples than posting them to the list, but be aware the files *do* expire

Re: How do I find a parent rule for a test?

2013-09-17 Thread David B Funk
If you want to disable specific rules from the standard rules kit just set their score to zero in your local.cf config file. A rule with a score of zero isn't run. As the local.cf file is processed after the /var/lib/spamassassin contents that's how to over-ride the standard rules in a way that w

Re: RDNS_NONE

2013-09-18 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Art Greenberg wrote: Follow-up: 66.162.193.229 passes FCrDNS at multirbl.valli.org. Is there a bug in SA? On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Art Greenberg wrote: I see that RDNS_NONE looks at X-Spam-Relays-External for a blank "rdns= ". I currently don't see that header, but I can se

Re: FSL_HELO_BARE_IP_2 & RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO

2013-10-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/14/2013 2:47 PM, Adam Katz wrote: On 10/12/2013 09:26 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: These two rules are adding 4.0 pts [...] Content analysis details: (4.8 points, 4.2 required) pts rule name description --

Re: Spam constantly being autolearned as ham

2013-10-22 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 02:16 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: Karsten Bräckelmann skrev den 2013-10-23 01:35: And that last address range [fe80::%eth0]/64 on the first line is just weird -- what's supposed to substitute that ethernet interface placeh

Re: Explanation of message of RDNS_NONE??

2013-10-22 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Dave Funk wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2013, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Webmaster DKDB wrote on Tue, 22 Oct 2013 08:08:01 +0200: > dkdb.dk.37.66.77.in-addr.arpa Probably because of this. This reverse DNS is not under an existing top- level

Re: Feedback on blacklist rule I plan to write

2013-10-30 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Benny Pedersen wrote: Adam Moffett skrev den 2013-10-30 22:18: I do enjoy a good educational argument though. domains needs a tld to be valid, ip addresses have no tld, so domain not found is what postfix and other mta sees but postfix and possible other mtas allow *@

Re: spamc -L apparently not working properly

2013-11-09 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 9 Nov 2013, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote: On Saturday, November 09 2013, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: You don't have any kind of archive of spam? If so, train on recent ones, feel free to exceed the minimum limit, but don't bother too much with old spam. It changes much faster over time t

Re: application/octet-stream to avoid scanning?

2013-12-11 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: Hi, Are others seeing instances whereby a spammer puts the real payload in an HTML (foo.html), plain-text part (foo.txt), Word doc (foo.doc or foo.docx) or an image (foo.png, foo.jpeg, etc) but with a MIME type of application/octet-stream ? Would it m

Re: tons of forged bills in german

2014-01-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, RW wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:50:13 +0100 Michael Monnerie wrote: Am 20.01.2014 09:54, schrieb Michael Monnerie: That should not matter. I want to say "if there is a bill claiming to be from vodafone, then there MUST NOT be any link to anything else than https?://vodaf

Re: Help with a regex to catch spam with gibberish html tags

2014-01-30 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Amir Caspi wrote: On Jan 30, 2014, at 10:28 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: If you want to share the complete rule, I can throw it into my sandbox and see what masscheck thinks as well. The complete rule would be something like this, assuming Andy implemented it as I

Re: regexp for SMTP AUTH

2014-02-06 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: header MY_AUTH ALL =~ /\(authenticated bits=\d+\)\s+by\s+myserver.mydomain.at/ On 31.01.14 16:58, Rainer Fügenstein wrote: thanks. looks plausible, but doesn't work, unfortunately. I figured out that rules matching the first line work, but rul

Re: Consecutive Newlines in Rawbody Rules (was: Re: Bayes refinement)

2014-05-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 03:12 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: [snip..] The number of continuation lines equals the number of newlines in the test-case. Well, up until 12, that is. :-/ Any number up to 11 of consecutive newlines can be matched w

Re: Consecutive Newlines in Rawbody Rules (was: Re: Bayes refinement)

2014-05-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 May 2014, David B Funk wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2014, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 03:12 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: [snip..] The number of continuation lines equals the number of newlines in the test-case. Well, up until 12, that is. :-/ Any number up to

Re: I'm doing it wrong.

2014-05-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 May 2014, Kai Meyer wrote: I have a CentOS 6 postfix + dovecot + mysql (for vmail) + spamassassin (user prefs via mysql) server that I've been running for a few years now. It's just a few of my private domains, not a lot of traffic. In the last 6 months, the amount of spam getting t

Re: Can't keep up with spam from SolarVPS sites

2014-06-07 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 6 Jun 2014, lucas k wrote: I'm having the exact opposite problem. I've created several new addresses that i'm hoping to get clogged up with spam so that I can have a fluid target to write rules against, but so far... nothing. craig@dioxidized, where i posted a bunch of ads on craigsli

Re: Can't keep up with spam from SolarVPS sites

2014-06-09 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Amir Caspi wrote: On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:25 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Philip Prindeville wrote: http://mabsut.com/20220362/vuxtxumsrnsst6unlornt3umtfuwznvv~5v0nmro0ysnx_u_usqzxsrwlln_t_t_tomtdyumplnl_ts_tn_ttce/unnt7uqs_mrn_ttdfw3yuw_h_03xo_gl_67_8gw_b

Re: Can't keep up with spam from SolarVPS sites

2014-06-10 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, Axb wrote: On 06/10/2014 12:17 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: nope... wiht robldnsd you set your BL zone to use the ip4trie dataset which as perhttp://www.corpit.ru/mjt/rbldnsd/rbldnsd.8.html ip4trie Dataset Set of IP4 CIDR ranges with corresponding (A, TXT) values. This

SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-27 Thread David B Funk
Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked "SpamAssassin" headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given a clean bill-of-health). I wrote a few test rules to look for these pre-existing "X-Spam-

"colors" TLDs in spam

2014-07-31 Thread David B Funk
FYI: I recently started seeing "colors" TLDs in spam. EG:From: "Choice Home Warranty" and URIs: http://xerophthalmia.red/158b1a930024e51c42cd8_a5b5da53 worth a rule? anybody seeing this stuff in ham? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of En

FPs on KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC

2014-08-12 Thread David B Funk
We're seeing FPs on legitimate messages caused by KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC. It is firing on URLs from MSPs that (altho they may have some questionable clients) have legimate customers. EG: mandrillapp-dot-com and streamsend-dot-com I'm a bit suprised that this rule would have a one-shot-kill score of

RE: Hotfix/phishing spam

2014-08-14 Thread David B Funk
But when they do I doubt that they do it via Yahoo from somebody in Bangladesh. Looking at the headers in that pastbin example, the originating IP is 114.31.4.36 which looks like it's from a cyber-cafe in Bangladesh. Microsoft outsourcing their tech-support that badly? I don't think so. On Thu,

Re: Hotfix/phishing spam

2014-08-14 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Alex wrote: Microsoft outsourcing their tech-support that badly? I don't think so. Right, that was my point. The sender is not one of my trusted users, yet the link in the body seems legit. So what's the point of this spam? Just a

Re: no subject tagging in case of "X-Spam-Status: Yes"

2014-08-28 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.08.2014 um 11:37 schrieb Reindl Harald: header contains "X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=7.5 required=5.0" but the subject does not get [SPAM] tagging with the config below - not sure what i am missing spamassassin-3.4.0-7.fc20.x86_64 spamass-milter-0

Re: Re-2: Hacked Wordpress sites & Cryptolocker

2014-09-03 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:26:21 +0200 Axb wrote: try adding this to the meta (req SA 3.4) Gah, I'm still running 3.3. I'm assuming that check_body_length('100') fires on a message that is less than 100 characters. However, I'm seeing other types of s

Re: Custom rule not hitting suddenly?

2014-09-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Amir Caspi wrote: Since I'm not running 3.4, this particular grep doesn't work for me, but with John Hardin's advice I set up the following rule, which should catch all URIs: uri ALL_URI /.*/ tflags ALL_URI multiple Debug output shows the following: Sep 8 20:0

Re: Bayes autolearn questions

2014-09-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Alex Regan wrote: Did you understand that the number of previously not seen tokens has absolutely nothing to do with auto-learning? Yes, that was a mistake. Did you understand that all tokens are learned, regardless whether they have been seen before? That doesn't reall

New TLDs, time to update RegistrarBoundaries

2014-09-19 Thread David B Funk
Seeing spam with URLs in new TLDs, (EG "blah.link") time to update RegistrarBoundaries. If this silly chase continues at this rate, is it worth trying to come up with some other method of doing that job? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engine

Re: Score Ignored

2014-09-22 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 9/22/2014 4:11 PM, Robert A. Ober wrote: header SUBJECT_NOTIFICATION Subject =~ /\bNotification\b/i score SUBJECT_NOTIFICATION 3.0 *Yes, my test messages and SPAM hit the rules but ignore the score.* Double-check your rule and score

Re: SpamCop Not Reporting

2014-10-23 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, sah62 wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.4.0 with Perl version 5.18.2 on a server running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I recently noticed that I'm not getting reports sent to SpamCop, but as far as I can tell everything seems to be configured correctly. There are just no repor

RE: rules and configuration not running correctly

2014-10-24 Thread David B Funk
Two things, are you using 1) "amavis" (OLD original) 2) "amavis-new" 3) "amavis-ng" If "amavis-new" are you managing -its- config files, NOT 'spamd's config files? Please look at the docs for "amavis-new", it instanciates its own SA instance within its perl damon, it does not use 'spamd'. If you

Who is "ISIPP IADB" & why are they vouching for spammers?

2014-10-28 Thread David B Funk
While grubbing thru messages in one of my spam traps I came across one that had negative scores from: -2.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_VOUCHED RBL: ISIPP IADB lists as vouched-for sender -0.5 KHOP_RCVD_TRUSTDNS-Whitelisted sender is verified Since it also hit RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100 & RAZOR2_CF_RANG

FPs on URI_HEX & NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR

2014-11-09 Thread David B Funk
Recently I've seen a bunch of FPs on URI_HEX & NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR thanks to some URLs that look like: https : // 4490379 . fls . doubleclick . net / activityi (extra spaces my addition, remove to see actual URL) These were embedded in some amtrack ticket confirmation messages. Looking at my logs,

Re: FPs on URI_HEX & NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR

2014-11-09 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, David B Funk wrote: For NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR the rule is: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}/is If that pattern were terminated like: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}(?::\d+)?(?:\/|$)/is it should prevent the FPs (hopefully with out destroying its effectiveness) Oops, for that new formulation it would

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd / trusted_networks

2014-11-10 Thread David B Funk
Even in that configuration (which is -very- much like ours) you must have your MXs (at least their IP addrs) in your internal_networks. All kinds of things break if your MXs aren't listed as trusted/internal. Just be sure that synthetic "Received" header is constructed correctly (the one Achilles

Re: FPs on URI_HEX & NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR

2014-11-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: On 11/9/2014 11:07 AM, David B Funk wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, David B Funk wrote: For NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR the rule is: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}/is If that pattern were terminated like: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}(?::\d+)?(?:\/|$)/is it should prevent the FPs

Re: whitelist limitations

2014-11-13 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014, Justin Edmands wrote: We have a few thousand vendors in our websites database that I would like to add to a whitelist. I am thinking of creating a /etc/mail/spamassassin/corewhitelist.cf from this database. What are the limitations/ repercussions of using a sitewide whitel

Re: Honeypot email addresses

2014-11-24 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 23.11.2014 um 11:17 schrieb Aban Dokht: On 22.11.2014 22:32, Dave Funk wrote: Another way to seed spamtrap addresses is to make up some and then feed them into "unsubscribe" links in spam sent to regular users. I've got some of those I started tha

Re: Argument "perl_version" isn't numeric

2014-12-01 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 1 Dec 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: John Hardin wrote: Burnie wrote: John Hardin wrote: jdow wrote: Would a corrected syntax version of this work? if version > 3.004001 && perl_version >= 5.01 body NON_588_COMPATIBLE_RE_SYNTAX /\w++/ end

Re: Help with "Disk quota exceeded" for a user depending on the mail quota

2014-12-22 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Almond wrote: hi Mark, do you mean this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs but tmpfs have no quota... as you can read on that page, i'm confused... so, that's done by default on CentOS ? indeed, I didn't see any tmpfs on CentOS 6, as I remember...but I co

Re: Help with "Disk quota exceeded" for a user depending on the mail quota

2014-12-22 Thread David B Funk
rtition? and what size to reserve to the new /tmp... ? thank you On 22/12/2014 18:46, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Almond wrote: hi Mark, do you mean this? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs but tmpfs have no quota... as you can read on that page, i'm confused...

Re: Help with "Disk quota exceeded" for a user depending on the mail quota

2014-12-22 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 22 Dec 2014, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.12.2014 um 19:08 schrieb Almond: so you mean to move the /tmp partition from /dev/md2 to another partition, since /var/spool/mail and quota control are on the same partition? and what size to reserve to the new /tmp... ? well, we have it on tmp

Re: Honeypot email addresses

2015-01-08 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015, Alex Regan wrote: How about using a domain specifically for creating a honeypot, of you only need an email@address no point in registering a domain soley for this, some might think its better, but I see no real advantage to it over using a well known existing domain, inf

Re: Rules Not Updating

2015-02-03 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, David Dodell wrote: Thank you … I don't see it that way in my log; I have the following below … I'm assuming that the last three lines coming from updates.spamassasin.org show the version on the update server, and that I'm matching, therefore no update? Also, how come I c

Re: sa-update cron failure

2015-02-04 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, LuKreme wrote: On Feb 4, 2015, at 8:57 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: Perhaps /usr/local/bin is not on PATH for the cron user? I don’t understand what you are saying. The crontab lists the full path. # crontab -l |grep sa-update 16 1 * * * /usr/local/bin/sa-update && /usr/l

Re: rule for restricting incoming email

2015-02-10 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Benny Pedersen wrote: Antony Stone skrev den 2015-02-10 21:33: What happens to an email from u...@abc.com, sent to someone other than u...@recipient.example.com? Won't that then be whitelisted, even though whoever it's addressed to hasn't asked for that (only user@recipie

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