What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-24 Thread John
etwork? I cannot be the only one with this problem! ==John ffitch

Cron has been receiving this for months apparently.

2018-09-24 Thread John
please? TIA John

KAM_Back rule

2018-10-26 Thread John
from using the KAM rules. Clearly I can reduce the score but I am struggling to see what was wrong with the message, attached. ==John ffitch>From paul.linf...@historicengland.org.uk Fri Oct 26 17:53:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: j...@codemist.co.uk Delivery-date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:53:17 +0

Building problem with 3.4.4

2020-01-30 Thread John
(Wstat: 256 Tests: 9 Failed: 1) Failed test: 9 Non-zero exit status: 1 Files=174, Tests=2390, 800 wallclock secs ( 0.83 usr 0.26 sys + 88.42 cusr 12.14 csys = 101.65 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 2/174 test programs. 2/2390 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 What have I got wrong/ misunderstood/ whatever. ==John ffitch

Re: Building problem with 3.4.4

2020-01-30 Thread john
Sorry; third machine is openSuSE but old 11.4; second machine was opensSuSE 13.1 Peraps the perl is too old... On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Henrik K wrote: On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 04:49:37PM +, John wrote: i have built 3.4.4 from sources on three different computers. The first two worked OK

Testing SPF in 3.0-rc2

2004-09-02 Thread John
IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/23 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/23 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com ?all" What is that I am not understanding? TIA, John From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 1 17:05:30 2004 R

Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
at I used to test. I ran the tests with no remote tests and no bayes to as these new scores were generated for set 0. So if someone could comment on what I am misunderstanding of the results or what I did wrong in generating the scores and/or testing I would be grateful. Thanks, John

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:56 AM 12/23/2004, John wrote: > >This is surely better performance but I would > >have thought that the new false negative total would be close to zero > >since these rules were generated on the same spam corpus that I used

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 12:06 PM 12/23/2004, John wrote: > >Matt, > >I appreciate this info! Is there a place where I can go to find more about > >how this all works? > > Not that I'm aware of. There's some bits of information in th

Re: Question on my mass-check scores

2004-12-23 Thread John
On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, John wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > At 12:06 PM 12/23/2004, John wrote: > > >Matt, > > >I appreciate this info! Is there a place where I can go to find more about > > >how this all works? > &

Mass-Checks on Custom rules

2005-05-17 Thread John
just pot luck if someone happened to do a mass-check on particular set? Any help is appreciated, John

Re: Mass-Checks on Custom rules

2005-05-18 Thread John
Bob, On Tue, 17 May 2005, Robert Menschel wrote: > Hello John, > > Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 2:02:16 PM, you wrote: > > J> Hi, > J> I have been searching around with no luck. I have been playing with > J> mass-checks on my corpus using some the SARE rules sets and wa

Re: Is overall spam volume down?

2007-02-04 Thread John
We're seeing the same here, however they'll probably be back shortly with double the volume ;-) On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:50:11PM +0100, Michael Beckmann wrote: > Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:50:11 +0100 > From: Michael Beckmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Andy Figueroa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > us

Re: bayes autolearn - nonspam threshold

2007-05-23 Thread john
Quoting Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:50:41PM +0200, John Wilcock wrote: I don't see what harm could be done by adding a note in the documentation to point out that this default can be (and has been) updated using sa-update. So, hypothetically, nex

Re: blocking compute-1.amazonaws.com

2024-10-11 Thread John Hardin
reverse lookup of the sender's IP and whitelist/blacklist for domain names from that so you block the sender at SMTP time. Don't get tunnel vision about SpamAssassin being the only tool available for this sort of thing... :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.

Re: docusign fraud using docusign

2024-11-10 Thread John Hardin
stead informational score 0.0001, ALL_TRUSTED is used in metas. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873

Re: Whitelist or BAYES?

2024-09-26 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 26 Sep 2024, joe a wrote: So, on the one hand I can add them to whitelist and be done with it, or I can add them to missed HAM for re-learning. Which is the best approach? Do both. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: BIMI pilot at Google

2020-07-24 Thread John Hardin
o image itself? If not, what is to prevent a spammer from obtaining all the needed certificates, and then changing the logo image they are hosting to match the entity they are spoofing? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholi

Re: Constructive solution to the blacklist thread

2020-07-25 Thread John Hardin
n further. If this project was being written from scratch, "red", "amber" and "green" *would* be appropriate terminology to use for the concepts. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-08-03 Thread John Wilcock
On 2020-08-01 21:23, bugzilla-dae...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: > https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 > > --- Comment #58 from Kevin A. McGrail --- > (In reply to John Hardin from comment #57) (In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from > comment #55) > > T

Re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-08-03 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, John Wilcock wrote: On 2020-08-01 21:23, bugzilla-dae...@spamassassin.apache.org wrote: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 --- Comment #58 from Kevin A. McGrail --- (In reply to John Hardin from comment #57) (In reply to Kevin A. McGrail from

Re: Spamassassin not triggering on LMTP mail

2020-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 5 Aug 2020, Guido Goluke, MajorLabel wrote: Sorry, I have no idea what you mean by 'backscatter' or 'making the problem bigger for the world'. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=email+backscatter -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-07 Thread John Hardin
to check for errors like that. Are you sure the plugin is really disabled? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-10 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Matthias Rieber wrote: Hello John, On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 2020, Matthias Rieber wrote: I'm wondering if the linter is supposed to respect the ifplugin statement. I've disabled the Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::WLBLEval module and

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-10 Thread John Hardin
oes NOT stop sa-update or a lint check. What the heck, then? I wonder why I'm not getting that error... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: linter ignores ifplugin

2020-08-11 Thread John Hardin
amassassin --lint" in a loop, oncxe for each plugin. On Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 00:09 John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Yeah, I saw that. It's *possible* that I don't see the problem because I'm running my sandbox lint tests against trunk, where

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
king on it... Thanks. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-20 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, Loren Wilton wrote: I've started receiving a bunch of spam or more likely phish mails that contain the following sort of trash in large quantities between almost every word of the visible text. The invisible font rules don&#

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
t is rendered before being scanned. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
e user to avoid arousing suspicion. The other approach (as reported here) is to break up the body text like so: spammy words Scanning for "spammy words" in the raw HTML is defeated, but rendering the text as the user would see it before doing the scanning yields: spammy text ...whi

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
rules don't seem to catch this. lzdtec On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I have noticed those some time ago. I wonder what's the point of sending such mail. On 21.08.20 09:21, John Hardin wrote: It's an attempt to obstruct spam detection via naïve text matching

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK, it doesn't catch those. One more fix c

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-21 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one with this tag: Another: OK, it

Re: Zero-point garbage text that isn't caught by the small-font rules

2020-08-22 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 20, 2020 5:30 PM -0700 John Hardin wrote: Fix committed. Where will this show up? It will probably be published tonight. I just got one

Re: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
lways has "amazon" in the sender name. Perhaps: meta SUBRULE13 SUBRULE13a && !SUBRULE13b -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 3

RE: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Marc Roos wrote: You should use spf for this. Duh. +1 whitelist_auth *@amazon.com blacklist_from *@amazon.com whitelist_auth *@*.amazon.com blacklist_from *@*.amazon.com -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp

Re: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Mon, 2020-08-24 at 11:51 -0700, John Hardin wrote: Might want some \b in there, just to be safe. The from check would also hit domains like "amazon-river.org". Perhaps: header SUBRULE13a From:name =~ /\bAmazon\b/ header SUBRULE13b

RE: Amazon, dhl, fedex, etc. phishing

2020-08-24 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, micah anderson wrote: John Hardin writes: On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, Marc Roos wrote: You should use spf for this. Duh. +1 whitelist_auth *@amazon.com blacklist_from *@amazon.com whitelist_auth *@*.amazon.com blacklist_from

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-25 Thread John Capo
your Postfix directory postfix reload John Capo Tuffmail.com

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-25 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, John Capo wrote: Create a file like this from the ids in https://www.invaluement.com/spdata/sendgrid-id-dnsbl.txt /^bounces\+2191708-[0-9a-f]{4}-/ REJECT Phish from compromised Sendgrid account /^bounces\+4227563-[0-9a-f]{4}-/ REJECT Phish from compromised Sendgrid

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement 'Service Provider DNSBLs' - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-26 Thread John Capo
On Tue, August 25, 2020 23:07, Rob McEwen wrote: > Thanks, John Capo, for the suggestions! Honestly, I'm at the end of my rope - > completely burned > out from creating this - desperately needing to catch up in other areas of my > business so that I > can pay my bills. And I

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for Sendgrid-spams!

2020-08-26 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Rob McEwen wrote: On 8/25/2020 11:04 PM, John Hardin wrote: I just wrote something similar to generate a rule, in case for some reason you don't want to use a plugin. Let me know if there's any interest in it. yes - please share! http://www.impsec.or

Re: questions on spamassassin

2020-09-05 Thread John Hardin
27;ll tell us what MTA you're using, perhaps the list can provide suggestions for that approach. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Re: Check HELO

2020-09-14 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Philipp Ewald wrote: Does anyone else checks the HELO/ELHO? I don't check for FCrDNS explicitly, but I do reject non-FQDN HELO strings (e.g. no dots present) from the Internet. That catches a surprising percentage of garbage up front. -- John Hardin K

Re: Check HELO

2020-09-14 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Bill Cole wrote: On 14 Sep 2020, at 11:22, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 14 Sep 2020, Philipp Ewald wrote: Does anyone else checks the HELO/ELHO? I don't check for FCrDNS explicitly, but I do reject non-FQDN HELO strings (e.g. no dots present) from the Internet.

Re: Why is SENDGRID_REDIR score so high?

2020-09-15 Thread John Hardin
sages privately (zipped, with all message headers intact) then I might be able to do a better job of that. As a workaround, you could whitelist the spiceworks.com help desk email address. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jha

Re: blacklisting the likes of sendgrid, mailgun, mailchimp etc.

2020-09-18 Thread John Hardin
L for compromised sendgrid user IDs. See the thread starting at: https://marc.info/?l=spamassassin-users&m=159803815425176&w=2 -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79

Re: Character encoding in Report Templates

2020-09-22 Thread John Hardin
d text verbatim? Explicit hex values shouldn't be needed. See the report lines of this for example: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/TranslateFrench -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
oming from Mozilla. But it is not forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla. What is triggering this? meta FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA (__MOZILLA_MUA && !__UNUSABLE_MSGID && !__MOZILLA_MSGID) It doesn't believe the Message-ID was generated by Thunderbird. What's the

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Grant Taylor wrote: On 9/23/20 11:46 AM, John Hardin wrote: It doesn't believe the Message-ID was generated by Thunderbird. What's the message ID? This piques my interest because I tell Thunderbird to use a custom Message-ID domain. Where can I read more

Re: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA Forged mail pretending to be from Mozilla

2020-09-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 9/23/2020 12:46 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I am sending test emails from one of my hosting environments to another of my hosting environments.  I get this line in the SA report: 1.6 FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA

Re: mark emails as being spam originating from an ip range owner

2020-09-29 Thread John Hardin
discard them? If the latter, then the most efficient approach is to tell your MTA to reject SMTP sessions from that IP block with an appropriate message. Avoid the SA scanning overhead entirely. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/

Re: mark emails as being spam originating from an ip range owner

2020-09-29 Thread John Hardin
block connections from hostile ASNs. Hostile email sources should be TCP tarpitted. :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
gi?id=6896 That was converted from a warning to an info, so it looks like your SA version may be a bit stale. I don't think we ever pulled the trigger on normalizing ".." ⇒ "." for URIBL lookups as a URL with a malformed FQDN like that doesn't work in a browser.

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Chris wrote: On Tue, 2020-10-06 at 18:54 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Chris wrote: The complete error looks like this: spamd[435769]: dns: new_dns_packet (domain=o279.send.iheartdogs.com..xx/dbl.dq .spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
that is indeed the cause, then it might be worthwhile to open a bug to strip leading dot(s) from urirhssub config lines to avoid this, or at least generate a lint warning if they are present. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: spamhaus.net. type=A class=IN) failed: a domain name contains a null label

2020-10-06 Thread John Hardin
/spamassassin Riccardo and see no extra '.' anywhere. Do you find a urirhssub line for {anything}dbl.dq.spamhaus.net there? Did you check *all* of the local .cf files? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: The most efficient SPAM implementation ever

2020-10-11 Thread John Hardin
client. Please help. Without actual samples of the spam, there's nothing anyone else can do to help figure out why SA isn't catching it and how it might get caught. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org p

Re: SV: Character encoding in Report Templates

2020-10-15 Thread John Hardin
urrently have. Thanks Tim Wetterek Andersson Digitaliseringsavdelningen, Norrköpings kommun Telefon/SMS: +46725935115 -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: John Hardin Skickat: den 22 september 2020 19:51 Till: users@spamassassin.apache.org Ämne: Re: Character encoding in Report Templates On Tue,

Re: Google Docs spam and __URI_GOOGLE_DOC

2020-10-16 Thread John Hardin
ou can upload some spamples to pastebin and post their URIs here so that we can see what they look like, that would be very helpful. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 --

Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-24 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 24 Oct 2020, Benny Pedersen wrote: John skrev den 2020-10-24 21:30: A regular source of spam is outlook.com; is spamassassin say is not spam ? in that case: blacklist_from *@outlook.com ...and then whitelist specific desireable-correspondent outlook.com addresses. -- John

Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-25 Thread John Capo
On Sat, October 24, 2020 16:33, Benny Pedersen wrote: > John skrev den 2020-10-24 21:30: > >> A regular source of spam is outlook.com; >> > > is spamassassin say is not spam ? > > in that case: > > blacklist_from *@outlook.com > > if it contains urls, is t

Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-25 Thread John Hardin
no way for them to reel in victims via that contact address. The fact that after five months of reporting that contact address they are still using it to lure victims strongly suggests to me that google is ignoring such reports. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.or

Re: What can one do abut outlook.com?

2020-10-26 Thread John Wilcock
Amazon all have millions of legitimate customers from whom you might receive genuine email, and if you block them because of their (relatively few) unwelcome customers, you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. -- John On 2020-10-25 18:48, Marc Roos wrote: Are you guys working for Go

Re: Problem with matching regex against long body

2020-11-03 Thread John Hardin
away backtracking and scan timeouts. rawbody LONG_HIDDEN m']{0,99}style\s*=\s*"font-size:0px"[^>]{0,99}>[^<]{500}'si (Caveat: not tested, just off-the-cuff. There's room for improvement in the style spec as well.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Email coming in being identified as SPAM

2020-11-04 Thread John Hardin
acher to always provide a meaningful message subject, that's longer than a word or two. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key:

Re: Email coming in being identified as SPAM

2020-11-04 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, RW wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:48:48 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: On 4 Nov 2020, at 13:31, Thomas Anderson wrote: * 1.8 MISSING_MIMEOLE Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE In addition to what John noted, that one looks like a candidate for constructing

Re: Email coming in being identified as SPAM

2020-11-05 Thread John Hardin
s not forward DNS requests to ISP's nameservers" part... For small environments like this, the DNS resolver that you use for SA needs to do all the queries itself rather than passing them off to be aggregated by the ISP's nameservers, and hit the DNSBL free use limits due to that agg

Re: Email coming in being identified as SPAM

2020-11-05 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Axb wrote: On 11/5/20 4:31 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, RW wrote: On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 18:48:48 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: On 4 Nov 2020, at 13:31, Thomas Anderson wrote: *  1.8 MISSING_MIMEOLE Message has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE In addition

Re: SPF_FAIL

2020-11-05 Thread John Hardin
d probably be a good idea. By default, for all domains, not so much. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: Spamssassin seems to append .com TLD to uri link domains found

2020-11-07 Thread John Hardin
;-) But that's another story Have a good weekend i followed this thread, it was mentioned it was firefox that try to help usefull domain name ? but i lost how this went over to a bug in spamassassin ? The bug was to implement the same (mis)behavior in SA URI parsing. -- John Hardin K

Re: Spamssassin seems to append .com TLD to uri link domains found

2020-11-07 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, RW wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:10:18 + RW wrote: However, I can't get an up-to-date Firefox to add .com, so the feature may already be obsolete. It take that back, it does. What does it do for the example at hand, http://www.ch ? -- John Hardin K

Re: Spamssassin seems to append .com TLD to uri link domains found

2020-11-07 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, RW wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 10:05:21 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, RW wrote: On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:10:18 + RW wrote: However, I can't get an up-to-date Firefox to add .com, so the feature may already be obsolete. I take that back, it

Re: Crap getting through

2020-11-08 Thread John Hardin
*@bankofamerica.com whitelist_auth *@*.bankofamerica.com blacklist_from *@*.bankofamerica.com -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507

Re: USER_IN_SPF_WHITELIST vs freemails

2020-11-12 Thread John Hardin
SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP,T_GB_FREEM_FROM_NOT_REPLY,USER_IN_SPF_WHITELIST -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E

Re: USER_IN_SPF_WHITELIST vs freemails

2020-11-12 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Darrell Budic wrote: On Nov 12, 2020, at 11:54 AM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Darrell Budic wrote: Got a few of these 411 google form spams recently and was wondering why they weren’t getting caught by SA. Looks like the Return-Path: is triggering a

Re: USER_IN_SPF_WHITELIST vs freemails

2020-11-12 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Darrell Budic wrote: On Nov 12, 2020, at 12:31 PM, John Hardin wrote: I'd have to see a spample to tell whether that would hit your particular case, though. Can you upload an example to pastebin for us? Sure, it’s at https://paste.centos.org/view/045312a7 The

Re: Apache SpamAssassin and Spammers 1st Amendment Rights

2020-11-20 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, AJ Weber wrote: I think you should keep politics out of this. +1 *PLEASE* -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76

Re: contact from blacklist

2020-11-20 Thread John Hardin
ack forms would be handy, but data collection and maintenance seems problematic. I don't think one currently exists. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Re: contact from blacklist

2020-11-20 Thread John Hardin
that. Based on the sample that was posted, it looks to me like abuse of a web-based feedback form - post a spammy feedback using the email address of your victim and you spam the victim via the confirmation (and the domain hosting the feedback form at the same time). -- John Hardin K

Re: Are these valid email headers?

2020-12-05 Thread John Capo
29 Nov 2009 > 00:17:08 + Except for mailid: I see those headers in mail from Facebook. Anyone can add Facebook headers to a message. John Capo

Re: Possible spam sign

2020-12-08 Thread John Hardin
: https://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?rule=%2FFROM_2_ -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6

Re: Possible spam sign

2020-12-08 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020, Loren Wilton wrote: That probably should have hit at least one scored base rule: https://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?rule=%2FFROM_2_ Nope. I think my rules are up to date, but maybe not. Feel free to pastebin it and I'll take a look. -- John Hardin K

Re: Possible spam sign

2020-12-08 Thread John Hardin
) are ham-only combos in the masscheck corpus. I've added some new rules for masscheck eval based on it. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C

Re: __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS broken ?

2020-12-10 Thread John Hardin
ains : header __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS From =~ /(?:\W|^)([\w+.-]+\@[\w.-]+\.\w\w++)(?:[^\n\w<]{0,80})?<(?!\1)[^\n\s]*\@/i The "(?!\1)" is intended to prevent that. ...okay, I found the problem. None of my tests had a username with a period. Fixing. -- John Hardin

Re: __PDS_FROM_2_EMAILS broken ?

2020-12-11 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, Benoit Branciard wrote: Le 10/12/2020 à 17:08, John Hardin a écrit : ...okay, I found the problem. None of my tests had a username with a period. Fixing. Good ! I cherry-picked your regex fix from https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin

Re: google and spam

2020-12-14 Thread John Hardin
he IPs all seem to be Google's (within CIDR 209.85.128.0/17). I'm going to add a couple of points scoring to anything from trix.bounces.google.com. I'll add a rule for that to my sandbox and we'll see what happens. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.

Re: More undetected hidden test spam signs

2020-12-17 Thread John Hardin
o see that specific form of "invisible text". -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 64

Re: Scoring Based on IP Address

2020-12-18 Thread John Hardin
.1 Seven 419 spams in one hour - go away. 213.171.44.75 550 5.7.1 Open relay - email worms - go away. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec

Re: A few noob questions

2020-12-20 Thread John Hardin
detect *random* in a simple RE. A long string of characters from a given set, easy. Characteristics about that string? complicated. A rule like that might potentially hit on legitimate (for values of "legitimate") tracking analysis URIs or caching URIs, unless there is some kind of

Re: A few noob questions

2020-12-20 Thread John Hardin
an start a subscription for an alternate address, for example "john@host.domain", just add a hyphen and your address (with '=' instead of '@') after the command word: Many thanks for your help. On 2020-12-20 15:26, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Alan wrote: The

Do the Yahooniverse domains share email address space?

2020-12-21 Thread John Hardin
doesn't matter)? Or is a mailbox/account separate and distinct from ? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873

Re: Do the Yahooniverse domains share email address space?

2020-12-22 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Axb wrote: On 12/21/20 7:19 PM, John Hardin wrote: Quick question for anyone who knows: Are the email addresses in the various domains in the yahoo family (e.g. yahoo.com, yahoo.com.hk, yahoo.com.my, yahoo.com.sg, yahoo.com.vn, yahoo.co.jp, yahoo.co.nz, yahoo.co.th

Re: More undetected hidden test spam signs

2020-12-22 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, @lbutlr wrote: On 16 Dec 2020, at 23:21, Loren Wilton wrote: I just got a batch of spams containing Interesting. I remember in the early days of html spam there were various rules to tag messages as spam when they had content

Re: More undetected hidden test spam signs

2020-12-22 Thread John Hardin
t also had poor S/O. It wasn't as simple as yours, though - perhaps I'm allowing for too many syntactically-valid cases to try to avoid trivial avoidance by spam? Of course that is a pretty heavy rule It would be lighter if you didn't look for the tag closing. Is ther

Re: Do the Yahooniverse domains share email address space?

2020-12-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Axb wrote: I misunderstood.. domain wise they are distinct users. Server_wise, they share servers except yahoo.co.jp which runs their own Ok. Thanks! -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: Bypass RBL checks for specific address

2020-12-23 Thread John Hardin
liarity with it, though. It is fairly current, last released in September 2019. That last option sounds to me like the first one you should explore. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key:

Re: UNSUBSCRIBE

2020-12-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Richard Ozer wrote: In the headers of every message from the mailing list: list-unsubscribe: <mailto:users-unsubscr...@spamassassin.apache.org> -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@imps

Re: Bypass RBL checks for specific address

2020-12-23 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Grant Taylor wrote: That's all considerably more complicated than I'm comfortable with at the moment. Did you see my mention of this earlier? https://milter-manager.osdn.jp/reference/introduction.html -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.

Re: Bypass RBL checks for specific address

2020-12-24 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 23 Dec 2020, Grant Taylor wrote: On 12/23/20 2:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: spamass-milter has a -u flag for a username to pass to SA. If these are single-recipient messages that may be enough to reliably tie into per-user config to disable the RBL check. It seems as if spamass-milter

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