Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-23 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: > > > >> Richard Frovarp wrote: > >>> Or for any machine that hosts more domains than has IPs. Even being able > >>> to edit the reverse doesn&

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-25 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Joe Flowers wrote: > Ken A wrote: > > It should be mentioned that envelope To: is not there for a reason. > > :-( Including it in the header will remove the privacy enabled by Bcc, > > so if you have privacy considerations to worry about, you might think > > twice. > > I pre-p

Re: FuzzyOcr : pipe errors

2006-11-09 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Pascal Maes wrote: > hello, > > Sometimes, I get the following errors : > > > [2006-11-09 17:42:54] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. >Please check that all helper programs are > installed and in the correct path. >(P

Re: White listing yahoo groups

2006-11-14 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, wrote: > whitelist_from_rcvd *.mail.mud.yahoo.com *.bullet.scd.yahoo.com > Um shouldn't that first component be in address format? EG: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] yahoo.com Also that second argument doesn't need that '*'. It already patern matches again

simple TZ test (Re: current stock scams are easy to spot)

2006-11-15 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tony Finch wrote: > > They have a forged Received: line which has a "by" field containing the > domain of the recipient address, a "for" field which matches the From: > header, and an "id" field of the form XX-XX-XX (similar to Exim's > queue IDs, though Exim IDs are a

Re: simple TZ test (Re: current stock scams are easy to spot)

2006-11-16 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Christian Recktenwald wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:14:12PM -0600, David B Funk wrote: > > > > You're trying too hard. > > Look at that 'Date:' header, they've got a bogus time-zone value. > > It's syntactically RFC

Re: getting mail directly and not via mail-relay

2006-11-21 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: > Hello, > > There is a Mail-Relay administered by another person and its MX record stand > before MX record of my mail server, so theoretically mail should go first > through Mail-Relay to my server. > > The thing is that for some reason there are muc

Re: Problem with spam from non-existant users of my domain.

2006-11-28 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Richard Frovarp wrote: > Steven W. Orr wrote: > > Here's the game. I host my own domain on my own machine off the > > not support this; i.e., it can only reject mail *to* an address that > > doesn't exist. > > > > Is there a way to do this? > > > > Sendmail can reject based o

Re: Installed FuzzyOCR - What am I missing?

2006-11-28 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Evan Platt wrote: > Now: > [2006-11-28 13:08:00] Unexpected error in pipe to external programs. >Please check that all helper programs are > installed and in the correct path. >(Pipe Command "/sw/bin/giftopnm -", Pipe exit > code

Re: Installed FuzzyOCR - What am I missing?

2006-11-29 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Evan Platt wrote: > Thanks to everyone especially Decoder, I think I'm up and running. > > png is the only one not working. > > Any reason NOT to assign 10 points to fuzzy ocr tripped words? > > I mean I wouldn't add 10 points just because someone typed the V word > in an e-ma

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 11:33, Chris Lear wrote: > > I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] savvis.net > FYI, easyjet.com appears to have a valid SPF record, so whitelist_from_spf [EMAI

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: > > HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 > > HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 > > HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 > > MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 > > MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 > > SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 > > SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a=0.408 > > > > I think the "Received: from mail pickup service" line is ca

Re: real or fake capital-one message

2006-12-03 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Chris wrote: > I got this in my inbox today, I believe it to be real, however I'll post the > headers below. The reason I think it may be real is that there is some > person out there named Carol Pollock who for some reason and some how is > using the email address of [EMAIL PR

Re: Recognizing Sendmail's authentication -- patch included (WAS: How is LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD used?)

2006-12-05 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: > René Berber wrote: > > It's the same one I posted before: > > > > Received: from MARISELA (dsl-189-149-70-163.prod-infinitum.com.mx > > [189.149.70.163] (may be forged)) > > (authenticated bits=0) > > by mail.legosoft.com.mx (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP

Re: Google open relay?

2006-12-07 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: > John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: > > > >> I've been getting lots of these "get out of debt" messages. It > >> looks like the last stop before getting here is a gmail server. > >> Could they have an open relay? > > > > Have

Re: Google open relay?

2006-12-07 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Steven Stern wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > If you buy into the spamcop premium service one of the things that > > you gain is the ability to modify their report and add such notices. > > Best to send it directly to Google's abuse address. >

Re: parsing cid: from HTML spam email

2006-12-13 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, vertito wrote: > I have this rule from local.cf > > body MY_harsh_content_RULE18/cid:/is > describe MY_harsh_content_RULE18Harsh body content > score MY_harsh_content_RULE18 5.0 > > but still I am receiving this HTML spam emails that scores lower than 2.0. >

Re: **exact** info about "skip_rbl_checks" needed

2007-01-25 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > > Some of my incoming mesasges involve messages forwarded to my server via a > > rule from accounts that some of my clients have on other ISPs mail servers. > > For such incoming messages, I have been creating a temporary copy of the > > mess

Re: Poor man's high MX spam Trap

2007-01-29 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, John Rudd wrote: > It doesn't have to be firewalled. It just has to be non-answering on > port 25. It's called "nolisting". > > I've thought about doing something similar. Nolisting only says: > > MX 1 non-answering.host > MX 10 real.host > > But adding the non-answering h

Re: Botnet FP

2007-02-01 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > host 66.251.54.6 > > 6.54.251.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer outbox2.onceanddone.com. > > > > host outbox2.onceanddone.com > > outbox2.onceanddone.com has address 66.251.51.6 > > > > host 66.251.51.6 > > Host 6.51.251.66.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(

RE: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )

2006-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Mike Sassaman wrote: > Thanks everyone for your suggestions. This is what I've done: > > required_score 4 > rewrite_header Subject *SPAM* > add_header all Report _REPORT_ > use_razor2 1 > razor_config /etc/mail/spamassassin/.razor/razor-agent.conf > razor_timeout 600

RE: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )

2006-01-16 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Mike Sassaman wrote: > % spamassassin --lint shows no output, so I'm thinking that means no > problems in my local.cf. Good, 'spamassassin --lint' should show no outout, it ony barks when there's something wrong. Now 'spamassassin --lint -D' gives -tons- of output, but any er

RE: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )

2006-01-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Mike Sassaman wrote: > > Well, if SA can't parse the format generated by your > > mailserver, that would > > affect all messages which don't have any additional Received: > > headers beyond the > > local delivery (which would be nearly all your spam/virus email). > > Fair enou

RE: spam scores low (Sendmail + smtp-vilter + SA )

2006-01-20 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Mike Sassaman wrote: > Well, I basically chose smtp-vilter because it was one of two milters in the > OpenBSD ports tree and therefore I figured it would be easiest to integrate. > I may have been wrong there... > > I contacted smtp-vilter's author and he said there was a know

Re: whitelist mailman lists

2006-01-24 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Matthias Fuhrmann wrote: > > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain > > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 127.0.0.1 > > > > > > and some more, but all failed. > > > what went wrong, or does anyone know the correct pattern for > > > whitelist_from_rcvd and mailman

Re: DO NOT Filter this list!!!

2006-02-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Bill Landry wrote: > If you cannot prevent the message from being fed to SA via your MTA, you > could use something like this in SA: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache.org # > SpamAssassin List > > And if you are using bayes, you might also want to incl

Re: SORBS unreasonable: Accusation retracted

2006-02-27 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Johann Spies wrote: > New information came to light and I retract my insinuation that SORBS > was unreasonable: Apparently the owner(s) of the spesific mailing > list populated the list with names harvested from the internet. > > Apologies to SORBS. > > Regards > Johann That

Re: SARE_LEGIT_PAYPAL scores -0.0?

2006-03-01 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Loren Wilton wrote: > > >>could I be doing that would avoid this sort of FP? > > > >You don't seem to be running net tests. I see headers for both SPF and > >DomainKeys in that mail. These tests should have pulled the score down by > >some amount i

Re: Any rule to flag missing message-id's as SPAM?

2006-03-03 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Philip Prindeville wrote: > mouss wrote: > > >Philip Prindeville a écrit : > > > > > >>I'm curious to know how the message could have been routed and delivered > >>without ever getting an Message-Id: stamped on it... > >> > >>Sendmail, for instance, will always add a message-id

Re: headers creeping into message body after upgrade to 3.1.1

2006-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > The problem is caused by a specific feature that was added into > SpamAssassin in 3.1.1 -- namely that we'll use the same line endings that the > original message uses (LF vs CRLF). spamass-milter relied on the previous > behavior (always use LF), whi

Re: Importance of SMTP gateway reverse lookup domain?

2006-03-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Stewart, John wrote: > Also, and this is perhaps a bigger issue, if we were to set up a seperate > SMTP server for only outgoing mail (and not incoming), would it be an issue > if this outgoing SMTP server is not in the MX records for the artesyncp.com > domain. > > So, for ex

Re: socket SA is not fast enough, help

2006-03-29 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, mouss wrote: > Another thing is that I can't find a way to get the SA headers (as they > would be added by spamassassin) without having the full message sent > back (SYMBOLS doesn't return the score of each test). or am I missing > something? Use the 'REPORT' or 'REPORT_IFSPA

Re: spamd REPORT

2006-03-29 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, mouss wrote: > > Use the 'REPORT' or 'REPORT_IFSPAM' spamd command instead of 'SYMBOLS' > > or 'PROCESS' to get the full score report but not the full message. > > > > This requires parsing the message. > > > I would like getting something like: > > ALL_TRUSTED=-1.44,MISSING_S

Re: default score for SPF_HELO_FAIL too low?

2006-03-29 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: > Andy Spiegl wrote: > > Hi, I'm wondering why the default score for SPF_HELO_FAIL is only 0.001? > > On the other hand SPF_HELO_SOFTFAIL adds 3.14 > > > > After reading "man Mail::SPF::Query" I thought fail is a lot worse than > > softfail, right? > > At l

Re: running SA on multiple machines

2006-04-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: [snip..] > (who on earth still uses SRV records for anything?) The 800 Lb Gorilla of Redmond. ;) Most modern Kerberos clients will use them to find KDCs if properly set up. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College

Re: required_hits not working?

2006-04-06 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Ed Kasky wrote: > I have the following in /etc/mail/spamassasin/local.cf > required_hits 6.9 > > Yet I just noticed the following that started at some point Tuesday: > > Content analysis details: (18.3 points, 5.0 required) > > It's true for all users. I double checked fro m

Re: sa missed to scan some of email

2006-04-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, martin wrote: >also, just wonder why at spam.log, some scanned message can't log down > msgid > (which at maillog using) Because some messages arrive at your MTA without a msgid to log (usually a sign of either a forged message or a brain-damaged sending MTA). The stand

RE: "Rawbody" fooled by line breaks?

2006-04-12 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: > > The problem seems to be that rawbody looks at the message "one > > line at a time". I won't bore you with every way I've > > tried to create a rule that spans this line break, but > > none of them have worked. > > > > Has anyone enountered/resolv

Re: sa missed to scan some of email

2006-04-12 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, martin wrote: > thx info, that mean that if email don't given msgid when arrived, sendmail > default will add itself id for this mail and this msgid will not pass to > milter? > So is it no method to find related message from maillog at such case? Exactly so. Usually you c

Re: Tracking Compound Meta's

2006-04-29 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Dan wrote: > > It looks like it might have some interesting purposes. But for the > > most part, I can't think of what you would use it for. I can't > > think of a single example where SARE could have used this before. > > Actually, the way I expect to use it is more like: > >

RE: Silly Question

2006-05-03 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 May 2006, Brent Kennedy wrote: > rules. The issue before here, is that spamassassin doesn't split emails up > between recipients when a message is sent to multiple people. If one user > is on the whitelist_to or all_spam_to or some_spam_to list, then everyone > gets its. [snip..] This

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Dan wrote: > Bummer. That works with absolute blocking, like with narrow > professional spammer ranges, but not so well with IP based suspect > ISP, country or regional scoring for mixed spam/ham. I'll keep looking. Can be done with brute-force rule creation, EG: # ISKIMA

Re: drop spam mail by user pref

2006-05-08 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 9 May 2006, martin wrote: > Matt Kettler comcast.net> writes: > > > > > SpamAssassin cannot be configured to drop mail at all. > > > > Based on how SA integrates into the mail chain it can only modify the > > contents of the message. It has no ability to delete or alter message > > delive

RE: Comment Crashes

2006-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 15 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dan wrote: > > the accuracy of the test is dependent on finding a > > minimum count (30 and 60). Atomic groups are also not working: > > > > full FloatingTags3 /(?>>\s?[\$%A-Z0-9]\s?<.*?){90,}/is > > Two problems: .*? could go on forever, and {90

RE: Comment Crashes

2006-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 15 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > what is the meaning of ".{,50}?" > > a{m,n} matches any string of at least m and at most n copies of "a". > a{m} is a shortcut for a{m,m} > a{m,} has no upper bound on the length &

RE: Comment Crashes

2006-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 15 May 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > Thus my suggested alternative to give it something to chew on > > ('[^>]{0,50}') rather than the '.{0,50}' to provide an explicit > > termination criteria. > > The termination

Re: Comment Crashes

2006-05-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Craig McLean wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [snipped] > > I use this style to catch a couple of common text formatting oddities > caused by machine-generated input, see: > http://fukka.co.uk/sa-rules/local/textstyles.cf > > Thinking about it, this

Re: Negative lookaround?

2006-05-17 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Stuart Johnston wrote: > > "Every variation" includes the whole world: FREE. To exclude the whole > > word, I created a meta exception but as you might guess, this also finds > > the whole word elsewhere in the same message. While its odd to have one > > word mangled and ano

Re: list of rules

2006-05-19 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Mark Martinec wrote: > > it's accually a 13 mg file > > a 13 milligram file, that is an amazingly lightweight file! > > (sorry, coudn't resist) Well, you know how it is, even billions of those electrons don't weigh very much. ;) -- Dave Funk

Re: Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

2006-05-24 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Rich Winkel wrote: > According to Andrzej Adam Filip: > > How do you deployed spamassassin? > > I use a milter ... > > Rich Specifically which milter? Different milters have different features/options for that task. I use "miltrassassin" which did not have that feature, so I

Re: RFC gurus...question

2006-05-26 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 26 May 2006, wrote: > Is this a valid Message ID? > > > > No, see RFC-2822 section 3.6.4 It clearly says that a Message ID must be: \s "<" id-left "@" id-right ">" \s where you can more-or-less call the left & right parts: [\w\.-\?]{1,} (using perl reg-ex syntax, this is a

Re: new mailman spam???

2006-05-31 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 31 May 2006, Thomas Bolioli wrote: > I have included the mailing in it's entirety below. Is this an old trick > I just have not seen or is this something new using mailman to send > spam. I assure you I neither signed up nor confirmed a submission for > this mailing list. Is this just a po

Re: Anyone using MyDNS to create private dsn rbl lists?

2006-06-02 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: > The reason I chose MyDNS was it was MySQL based and could be updated > live. And I thought that if I added a field that set an expiration of > now+24 hours then I could expire old entries with a simple script. rbldnsd can be updated semi-live. Every "check

RE: Google Summer of Code 2007 ...

2007-02-21 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, R Lists06 wrote: > May I ask... > > Whis is this thread named as such. > > Does Google help fund SA efforts in one or multiple ways? > > If so, may I ask how or directions to already posted docs on it? > > - rh > > -- > Robert - Abba Communications Yes, if you Goole for "Goo

Re: tie failed

2007-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > John Fleming wrote: > > > I also see an occasional message header that includes > > "autolean=unavailable" - It that what ends up in the messages where the > > tie fails?? I don't get the intermittent nature of this. > > Yes. Learning is slow. If

Re: tie failed

2007-02-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > >> Yes. Learning is slow. If two spamd children try to learn at the same > >> time only one will get a lock to write to the da

Re: Auto-whitelist Errors & others.

2007-03-08 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Matt Kettler wrote: > Directories should have RWX permessions, not RW. > > In Directories, X takes on a different meaning, and refers to the > ability to list files in the directory.. Without that, apps can only > open files they already know the exact name of. No the 'r' bit

Re: [2] protocol error in spamassassin

2007-03-12 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, gable wrote: > > > we have monitoring in place .. zabbix in this case .. The process isn't > dying, tailing the logs .. and checking processes .. the spamd process is up > and running ... but the connection between spamc and the daemon isn't > talking correctly A fellow s

Re: sendmail's vacation(1) & "Precedence: junk" headers

2007-03-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Damon McMahon wrote: > Greetings, > > I'd like to integrate SpamAssassin with the sendmail vacation(1) > autoresponder program. According to sendmail's vacation(1) man page: > > 'Messages will not be replied to if any of the following conditions are true: > ... > - A ``Precede

Re: Blocking mail from one specific user to another

2007-03-23 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Loren Wilton wrote: > Well, of course you can't "block" with SA itself. But I assume you knew that. > > You can't do what you want quite the way you showed it. But you can get the > effect you want: > > header __MC_MY_FROMFrom =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i > header __MC_MY_EN

Re: Problems with spamassassin milter

2007-05-24 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Doug Phillips wrote: > Hi all. I'm working with an issue that has been really driving me > crazy. I've searched the archives and not found anything that is really > pertaining to my problem, so I'd like to run this by the list and see > what I'm missing. > > First off, confi

Re: not everyone is happy with SA

2007-07-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Dave Pooser wrote: > Actually I've seen one C/R variant that addresses the backscatter C/R issue > quite nicely; it dropped the suspected spam in a quarantine folder and > issued an SMTP fakereject after DATA that included a link to a website where > the sender could release t

Re: Rule not firing in spamd

2007-07-19 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Matthew Dickinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using milter-p0f to add a "X-milter-p0f-Report:" to emails. Email are > passed via spamassass-milter to spamd. I've written some rules, that I > thought would catch things in the headers with spamd, but unfortunately they > don't appear t

Re: not everyone is happy with SA

2007-07-20 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, John Rudd "@ucsc.edu" wrote: > Jonas Eckerman wrote: > > > What do they think will happen when someone who doesn't know english > > tries to send to a user of such a system that outputs english error > > mesages that directs the sender to web pages with english instructions? >

Re: Now its zip attachments ^^

2007-07-23 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, John Scully wrote: > > >... After adding the sanesecurity sigs to clamd last > > week not one PDF has made it through. And since clamd unpacks and examines > > every attachment anyway it is no additional loa

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