Help understanding TxRep errors.

2016-03-15 Thread Philip
After turning on TxRep I get these lines in my /var/log/spamd.log file. Wed Mar 16 08:21:55 2016 [16629] warn: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in addition (+) at /etc/spamassassin/TxRep.pm line 1414. Wed Mar 16 08:21:55 2016 [16629] warn: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in subtraction

How to know if TxRep is white listing out going email.

2016-03-29 Thread Philip
I've enabled outgoing white listing using the TxRep plugin is there a way to find out if outbound emails are actually being white listed? A log somewhere... a file being updated? -- Phil

Tone of emails with subject: 'hey'

2018-02-05 Thread Philip
So lately I'm getting LOTS of emails coming directly though the filters so most likely time to investigate how to create one. The subject is always 'hey' Subject: hey Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 09:07:40 +0300 From: Darya Message-ID: <8f35b00fb4e07d18ce82448ec9747...@112it4u.ro> X-Mailer: PHPMailer

Loading custom rules.

2018-02-25 Thread Philip
How do you load custom rules... is it as simple as dropping the .cf file in the spamassassin directory and restart? I'm looking at these: https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets Phil

Re: Spammers, IPv6 addresses, and dnsbls

2018-03-07 Thread Philip
Hi there, Providers like Linode assign a single IPv6 address from a /64. I had to request my own block of /64 to use on my server as my IP neighbors were always getting the /64 blocked... since I've had my own I've been all good.  Before this my IPv6 IP was getting blocked daily because of so

How to text that TxRep is working?

2018-05-22 Thread Philip
I've added TxRep to spamassassin and set in my local.cf. Following the instructions: http://truxoft.com/resources/txrep.htm # TXTREP use_txrep 1 Is there a way to test that it's actually working? Phil

Rule for detecting two email addresses in From: field.

2019-10-03 Thread Philip
Morning List, Lately I'm getting a bunch of emails that are showing up with two email addresses in the From: field. From: "Persons Name " When you look in your mail client (Outlook, Thunderbird) it's showing only "Persons Name " Is there a way I can mark From: that has 2 email addresses i

White listing this mailing list.

2019-12-18 Thread Philip
How do I white list this mailing list for some reason all the messages are now going to spam.

Re: Freshdesk (again)

2020-08-17 Thread Philip Prindeville
ldct.sendgrid.net > > Inside your loca.cf > > And while you are at it also add: > > util_rb_2tldpage.link > > Bye, Raymond Hmmm… not my experience. I’ve been calling out phishing from the same (IP) address for 10 days without any apparent (observable) action from Sendgrid. At this point I’m wondering if they have compromised relays. -Philip

Re: SendGrid (Was: Re: Freshdesk (again))

2020-08-17 Thread Philip Prindeville
I just add an extra 5.0 points for coming from Sendgrid now so it goes straight to the Junk folder. Users can pull it out of there if they really want it. Sendgrid is becoming to ASP’s what OVH and Softlayer are to ISP's. > On Jun 27, 2020, at 3:56 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > > Sendgrid i

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

2020-08-21 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Aug 21, 2020, at 1:28 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: > > ANNOUNCEMENT: The NEW invaluement "Service Provider DNSBLs" - 1st one for > Sendgrid-spams! > > ...a collection of a new TYPE of DNSBL, with the FIRST of these having a > focus on Sendgrid-sent spams. AND - there is a FREE version of this

dbip-country-lite database

2020-11-15 Thread Philip Prindeville
Is anyone else using this database? I’ve been using it with xt_geoip and Mimedefang and Plugin::URILocalBL to block countries since Maxmind retired support for GeoIP on RHEL. But I keep running into cases where parts of the database are very obviously wrong. It’s showing about 50% of 183.128.0

Re: dbip-country-lite database

2020-11-19 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 15, 2020, at 11:48 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote: > > > > On Sun, 15 Nov 2020, 18:27 Philip Prindeville, > wrote: > Is anyone else using this database? > > I’ve been using it with xt_geoip and Mimedefang and Plugin::URILocalBL to > block countries sin

Re: Apache SpamAssassin and Spammers 1st Amendment Rights

2020-11-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Free Speech doesn’t require anyone to pay for your soap box or megaphone. But Spam is exactly that: having other people subsidize your speech through the theft of services. > On Nov 19, 2020, at 2:25 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > Afternoon Everyone, > > So over the years, I have gotten a

Re: Apache SpamAssassin and Spammers 1st Amendment Rights

2020-11-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
Actually, the notion is much older than that… 12th or 13th century I believe. Students of universities (like Oxford or Sorbonne or Geneve) would get together, interview professors, and pay them directly. There was no “administration”. The professors marketed their knowledge and insight directl

Seeing "razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info"

2021-08-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
azor/razor-agent.conf Which contains one line: logfile none Anyone else seeing a similar issue or know a fix? Thanks, -Philip

Re: Seeing "razor2 had unknown error during get_server_info"

2021-08-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
Asked and answered: http://forum.centos-webpanel.com/index.php?topic=5505.0 Need to open outgoing port 2703 (TCP) for the mail server. > On Aug 14, 2021, at 12:37 PM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: > > Hi all, > > A few days ago, I started seeing this in my /var/log/maillog:

Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
_LOWER_E ==> got hit: "e" Should this be capped to a maximum number of matches the way __HIGHBITS is? And I'm not sure I want messages that haven't been fully scanned being delivered. Should I crank TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED to 20.0? Thanks, -Philip

Re: spam from gmail.com

2021-11-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
ech conveyed to me decades ago: "Problem's leaving > here fine!" > > Google should practice what they preach: SANITIZE USER INPUT. Instead, their > careless attitude presents a security threat to us all. > > -- Jared Hall > What... you mean "do no evil" is just lip-service? I'm so... so... disillusioned! -Philip

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-15 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 12, 2021, at 8:49 PM, John Hardin wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> I got the message, saved it to a flat file, and ran "spamassassin -t -D >> rules < netdev.eml" and saw: >> >> ... >>

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-15 Thread Philip Prindeville
Nov 15 16:16:00.876 [54834] dbg: async: timing: 385.726 X NS:http.sh ... Why would resolving http.sh take this long? And can we bring down the timeout? Hard to imagine DNS requests taking more than a couple of seconds. -Philip

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-15 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 15, 2021, at 5:06 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > > Philip Prindeville writes: > >> Ah, the rule _eval_tests_type11_pri0_set1() took 4:20. >> >> Why can't I even find the rule? > > That looks very familiar. I was having timeouts, and saw

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
Replies... some duplication of conversation on "mimedefang". > On Nov 15, 2021, at 10:34 PM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 2021-11-15 at 18:08:20 UTC-0500 (Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:08:20 -0700) > Philip Prindeville > is rumored to have said: > >>> On Nov

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 15, 2021, at 11:12 PM, Henrik K wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 04:25:55PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 12, 2021, at 10:35 PM, Henrik K wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:49:00PM -0800, John Hardin wr

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-11-16 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 16, 2021, at 3:30 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-11-15 at 17:12 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 15, 2021, at 5:06 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: >>> >>> >>> Philip Prindeville writes: >&g

SPF_NONE scoring

2021-11-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
e SPF records... So how is this score arrived at? And of Ham, how much of it has a valid SPF? And of Spam, how much of it lacks a valid SPF? Has anyone run some numbers? Thanks, -Philip

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-11-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
HTML-Entity naming, which is also ASCII-friendly, i.e. é instead of Latin1 é etc. or raw 8bit characters. -Philip

Re: MIME_BASE64_TEXT only on us-ascii

2021-12-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 30, 2021, at 1:10 PM, Matija Nalis wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:03:15PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> On Nov 17, 2021, at 9:50 AM, Bill Cole >>> wrote: >>> SpamAssassin rules are not laws in any sense. They do not prescribe or &

Re: Seeing "check: exceeded time limit in ..." and need to resolve it

2021-12-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Nov 16, 2021, at 8:03 PM, Henrik K wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:08:16PM -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> Or http.sh points to an NS that's offline... > > Your resolver shoukd time out _way_ sooner than some minutes. > >> Can the

Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
*none* of the headers are standard ones, so that won't work... I really need to examine the headers one-by-one. Thanks, -Philip

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 10, 2022, at 4:58 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > > On 5/10/2022 6:10 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> Anyone have a rule to detect the following nonsense headers seen in this >> message I got? > > Interesting. Those look more like something that Bayesian l

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 10, 2022, at 5:57 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-05-10 at 17:29 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> You're correct that they're different in every message received. >> > So write a rule that fires on any header name that *

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 10, 2022, at 5:57 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Tue, 2022-05-10 at 17:29 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> You're correct that they're different in every message received. >> > So write a rule that fires on any header name that *

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 11, 2022, at 1:44 AM, Henrik K wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:19:38PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> See my original message. >> >> I can't think of a single way to match each header, and then test for any of >> them not matchin

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 11, 2022, at 1:53 AM, Henrik K wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:49:32AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: >> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:44:05AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: >>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:19:38PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> See my

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 11, 2022, at 9:24 AM, John Hardin wrote: > > On Tue, 10 May 2022, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> Anyone have a rule to detect the following nonsense headers seen in this >> message I got? >> >> Return-Path: >> Received: from cp24

Re: Rule to detect non-standard headers that aren't X- prefixed

2022-05-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 11, 2022, at 1:53 AM, Henrik K wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:49:32AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: >> On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 10:44:05AM +0300, Henrik K wrote: >>> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:19:38PM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> See my

Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
otherwise. Insights? Thanks, -Philip

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
Oh, and this is on Fedora, so I'm running 3.4.6... > On Apr 24, 2023, at 2:32 PM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the following line: > > whitelist_from_rcvd *@ceipalmm.com mailgun.net > > And tried it on a message that had: >

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-28 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Apr 25, 2023, at 6:28 AM, Bill Cole > wrote: > > On 2023-04-24 at 16:32:55 UTC-0400 (Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:32:55 -0600) > Philip Prindeville > is rumored to have said: > >> I thought the matching included subdomains, and seem to remember that >> working

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-28 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Apr 28, 2023, at 10:24 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 28.04.23 um 18:11 schrieb Philip Prindeville: >>> On Apr 25, 2023, at 6:28 AM, Bill Cole >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 2023-04-24 at 16:32:55 UTC-0400 (Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:32:55 -0

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-04-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Apr 28, 2023, at 12:17 PM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: > > > >> On Apr 28, 2023, at 10:24 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> >> >> Am 28.04.23 um 18:11 schrieb Philip Prindeville: >>>> On Apr 25, 2023, at 6:28 AM, Bill Cole &

Re: Did the whitelist_from_rcvd semantics change?

2023-05-01 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 1, 2023, at 3:48 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 30.04.23 um 20:54 schrieb Philip Prindeville: >>> On Apr 28, 2023, at 12:17 PM, Philip Prindeville >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> On Apr 28, 2023, at 10:

DKIM absence

2023-05-02 Thread Philip Prindeville
Is there a way to add scoring that says, "If the sending domain has DKIM records, but there's no DKIM signature on this message, then attach a high score to it?" We seem to attach negative scores when DKIM is present and valid, but what about the opposite direction? If it's absent, but it shou

Re: DKIM absence

2023-05-02 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On May 2, 2023, at 9:37 AM, Thomas Johnson wrote: > > >> On May 2, 2023, at 8:27 AM, Philip Prindeville >> wrote: >> >> Is there a way to add scoring that says, "If the sending domain has DKIM >> records, but there's no DKIM signature

ATT RBL f---wits

2023-11-27 Thread Philip Prindeville
We're being blacklisted by att.net with the following message: (reason: 550 5.7.1 Connections not accepted from servers without a valid sender domain.flph840 Fix reverse DNS for 24.116.100.90) I don't know what the hell is up with these pinheads: philipp@ubuntu22:~$ dig -tmx redfish-solution

Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
ce of “FWS” preceding the first instance of “utext” in “unstructured”? -Philip signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
ceding the first instance of “utext” in “unstructured”? -Philip

Re: Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Dec 29, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/29/2015 3:38 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> Is there a reason that headers are left with leading spaces? >> >> I’ve noticed that I have to write rules as: >> >> Subject =~ /^ Great [Jj]ob [Oo]

Re: Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/29/2015 3:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> On Dec 29, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> >>> On 12/29/2015 3:38 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> Is there a reason that

Re: Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:39 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/29/2015 4:29 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:14 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> >>> On 12/29/2015 3:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Kevin

Re: Omitting leading whitespace on headers?

2015-12-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Dec 29, 2015, at 3:15 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 12/29/2015 5:12 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> I did recall that I used the patch here: >> >> https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6360#c4 >> >> to be able to debug my rules, using a ru

Uninitialized values in URIDNSBL

2017-02-02 Thread Philip Prindeville
stderr: Use of uninitialized value $2 in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm line 1042. I’m seeing these right after upgrading from Fedora 23 (EOL) to Fedora 24 so evidently a bunch of files got updated… -Philip

Re: Uninitialized values in URIDNSBL

2017-02-03 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Feb 2, 2017, at 5:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Am 02.02.2017 um 23:41 schrieb Martin Gregorie: >> On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 15:23 -0700, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> Anyone else seeing this? >>> >> Yes - in Fedora 25 > >

Re: Uninitialized values in URIDNSBL

2017-02-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
so I can dedicated time to the process. > > Regards, > KAM Good to hear. While we’re waiting for that, can I just grab Util.pm and Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm out of trunk, or are there more dependencies than that to splice the fix back into 3.4.1? Thanks, -Philip

Re: RFC compliance pedantry (was Re: New type of monstrosity)

2017-02-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
Having been through the process of authoring 2 RFC’s, perhaps I can shed some light on the process for you. All proposed standards started life as draft RFC’s (this was before the days of IDEA’s but after the days of IEN’s). If it were validated by the working group and passed up to the IAB and

Relitigating TB's behavior because of "villainous" SpamAssassin... hiss!

2017-02-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
What an incredible waste of time: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417942#c19 I actually think I might be dialoging with a highly argumentative variant of Eliza. In which case, it’s passed the Turing Test.

Re: Relitigating TB's behavior because of "villainous" SpamAssassin... hiss!

2017-02-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
> On Feb 12, 2017, at 4:53 PM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: > > What an incredible waste of time: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417942#c19 > > I actually think I might be dialoging with a highly argumentative variant of > Eliza. > > In w

Email address as fullname in To: field

2017-07-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
themselves—and sometimes not even those correctly, since I’ll see Spam addresses to Message-Id: values, References: values, etc. Thanks, -Philip

Re: Email address as fullname in To: field

2017-11-10 Thread Philip Prindeville
, conversely, they could simply not put any full name field in at all and just use the raw email address… It’s like someone made the conscious decision to choose the worst of both worlds… > On Jul 13, 2017, at 11:49 AM, Philip Prindeville > wrote: > > I’m getting more and m

Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034

2010-10-31 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 10/29/10 9:18 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 10/29/10 12:11 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: Sure, go ahead, can't hurt. The patch is now in the SA trunk. Is it worth opening a ticket and putting it into the 3.3 branch too? Mark looks like Freebsd ports has an older version, so it should be ok.

Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034

2010-11-07 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 11/2/10 7:35 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: One suggestion: currently it is not possible to store 0 and 1 as a data item associated with each net, because a 0 is treated the same as undef and replaced by the key. And the AF_NET6 argument to new() needs to be documented in a POD. Thanks for your e

Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034

2010-11-07 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 11/7/10 9:19 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: Try the following patch. If it works for you, I'll rerelease as 1.19: Actually, I released it as Net-Patricia-1.18_01

Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034

2010-11-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=32362 and represents a defect in Socket6. The work-around is to include Socket before Socket6. -Philip

Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034

2010-11-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 11/8/10 5:58 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: Philip, Thanks for your off-list reply. Unfortunately I cannot reply, as your mailer is refusing connections: $ host -t mx redfish-solutions.com redfish-solutions.com mail is handled by 10 mail.redfish-solutions.com. $ telnet -s mail4.ijs.si

Yahoo webmail spam from Africa

2010-11-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
14:22:21 PST if (/ via HTTP$/&&/^\[(${IP_ADDRESS})\] by (\S+) via HTTP$/) { $ip = $1; $by = $2; goto enough; } (I note that HTTP$ seldom matches, by the way, since all of my examples have "via HTTP;" instead.) Is it worth having an explicit rule for this? Thanks, -Philip

Re: SA and SELinux

2010-11-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 11/10/10 11:39 AM, John Williams wrote: No on my server I have a hard requirement to run SELinux. I cannot turn that off. I find that when i enable SA with SELinux turned on, my CPU rate sky rockets eventually forcing my system to stop responding. I've seen this thread several times through

Deciphering the geography of Yahoo domains

2010-12-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
rsue legal recourse if we need to). I figured out that: ird.yahoo.com = Ireland tp2.yahoo.com = Taipei sp2.yahoo.com = Spain Anyone know what the entirety of domains are for Yahoo? Thanks, -Philip

Re: blacklist.mailrelay.att.net

2010-12-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
act by adding an excursion detection system, that watches for bursty outbound traffic patterns, like a sudden spike in outbound SMTP or HTTP connections to a wide spread of addresses. -Philip

perl-Net-Patricia-1.19 is out

2010-12-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
It's been released for F13 and F14. And of course, it's upstream on CPAN. It's the promotion of the development version 1.18_81 to production.

Re: blacklist.mailrelay.att.net

2010-12-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
Aruba.it so poorly reputed? g I can't speak for their reputation, but when an entire ISP's CIDR blocks get blacklisted (like we did with iWeb.ca) it's usually because they aren't very responsive in dealing with issues when they occur and not proactive about trying to prevent them. -Philip

Re: DNSBL for email addresses?

2010-12-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
convert the '@' to a '.' as is the format still used in SOA records. Not just SOA records, but the MB records were supposed to use this as well. They just never caught on. -Philip

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-19 Thread Philip Prindeville
f=... And port 587 forces a different rule than 25 does. This can't be forged. -Philip

Re: Irony

2011-02-14 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 2/7/11 1:28 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:49:36 -0500 Michael Scheidell wrote: because HELO doesn't match RDNS. On 01.02.11 09:54, David F. Skoll wrote: Rejecting on that basis would also cause tons of false-positives. It's also violation of all SMTP RFCs (forme

Re: Chickenpoxed subjects

2011-11-08 Thread Philip Prindeville
'm not familiar with perl-String-Approx... reading up on it, it uses the Levenshtein distances just like agrep does... so it would be ideal for doing approximate matches. http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/String-Approx-3.26/Approx.pm -Philip

No X-Spam- headers appearing

2013-09-26 Thread Philip Colmer
t pure ham messages, but I've checked a message that got a score of 10.7 and there are no headers in it. What am I misunderstanding or what have I overlooked? Thanks. Philip

Re: No X-Spam- headers appearing

2013-09-26 Thread Philip Colmer
Thanks, Karsten, for your explanation. That makes sense and I'll have to see whether the lack of headers is going to cause problems going forwards or if looking in syslog will suffice. Regards Philip On 26 September 2013 16:33, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 14:

Testing the _REMOTEHOSTNAME_ in a rule

2013-10-18 Thread Philip Prindeville
I'm trying to write a rule that gives some spamminess score to messages received from any host that resolves to protection.outlook.com. I tried to use _REMOTEHOSTNAME_ to do this, but I think I got the header syntax wrong. Can someone set me straight? Thanks, -Philip

Re: Testing the _REMOTEHOSTNAME_ in a rule

2013-10-21 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Oct 19, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-18 at 18:34 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> I'm trying to write a rule that gives some spamminess score to messages >> received from any host that resolves to protection.outlook.com. &

Can't keep up with spam from SolarVPS sites

2014-06-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
there an easy way to do a domain lookup on the host portion of the URL and then filter it if it’s in this subnet? Thanks, -Philip

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

2014-06-06 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Axb wrote: > If you have to post a spam sample, pls use pastebin and post the full msg > Here’s a prototype: http://ur1.ca/hgxkx

Local BL support?

2014-06-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
database without network access, it could happen synchronously… Thanks, -Philip

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

2014-06-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Axb wrote: > If you have to post a spam sample, pls use pastebin and post the full msg > > On 06/06/2014 11:32 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> We’re getting a lot of spam that contains URL’s which look like (remove the >> ): >>

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

2014-06-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 9, 2014, at 3:10 PM, Axb wrote: > On 06/09/2014 11:03 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:50 PM, Axb wrote: >> >>> If you have to post a spam sample, pls use pastebin and post the full msg >>> >>> On 06/06/201

Re: Local BL support?

2014-06-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 9, 2014, at 3:36 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Axb wrote: > >> On 06/09/2014 10:46 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> I’d like to add a plugin (and eventually share it once the bugs are >>> out) that uses either Net::CIDR::Lite to allo

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

2014-06-09 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:25 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >>>>>> We’re getting a lot of spam that contains URL’s which look like (remove >>>>>> the ): >>>>>> >>&g

Re: Local BL support?

2014-06-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 9, 2014, at 4:27 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> >> On Jun 9, 2014, at 3:36 PM, John Hardin wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Axb wrote: >>> >>>> On 06/09/2014 10:46 PM, Philip

Re: Local BL support?

2014-06-12 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Okay, might have a module ready to test. Here’s what I came up with. I should probably add uri_block_isp as well, but this is more problematic. It requires a licensed database which the user may or may not have, so I have to det

Dubious hyperlinks

2014-06-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
I’ve been seeing spam with such as: and the style=“VISIBILITY: hidden” is also dubious (why would normal mail have hidden text???). Anyone have rules to catch these they could point me at? Or any empirical evidence about how successful they’ve been with such? Thanks, -Philip

Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
I was surprised that my SPAM filters didn’t find this. Not sure what code page it’s using… whatever 0x04xx is in… what? Is this UTF-8? There’s no explicit charset given. Also, I noticed that a lot of these types of SPAMs have ‘b’ replaced by cyrillic soft sound, i.e. the word “about” is writte

Re: Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
individual mime part. It doesn’t do me any good if there’s one text/plain section that is 7bit, followed by another text/html section that’s “base64” which fires the BODY_8BITS rule too. On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > I was surprised that my SPAM filters didn’t find t

Re: Dubious hyperlinks

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 25, 2014, at 3:09 AM, Axb wrote: > On 06/25/2014 03:07 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> Anyone have rules to catch these they could point me at? Or any empirical >> evidence about how successful they’ve been with such? > > Wouldn't use this for a rule

Re: Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 25, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Axb wrote: > On 06/25/2014 10:21 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> http://pastebin.com/qLyKx40b > > "This paste has been removed!" :( I’ve temporarily posted it on ftp://ftp.redfish-solutions.com/pub/harp.eml > >&g

Re: Dubious hyperlinks

2014-06-25 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 25, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Axb wrote: > On 06/25/2014 10:37 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> On Jun 25, 2014, at 3:09 AM, Axb wrote: >> >>> On 06/25/2014 03:07 AM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >>> >>>> Anyone have rules to ca

Re: Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 25, 2014, at 5:29 PM, RW wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:21:33 -0600 > Philip Prindeville wrote: > > >> Here’s the other thing I don’t get. >> >> The message claims to be 7-bit and text/plain, yet it uses encoded >> characters which exceed 7-bi

Re: Dubious hyperlinks

2014-06-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 25, 2014, at 3:47 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> Including 6 distinct UUID’s would seem to be useful. Including the same >> UUID 6 times seems broken. >> >> Perhaps a pattern like: >> >> body /((

Re: Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:02 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > On Jun 25, 2014, at 5:29 PM, RW wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:21:33 -0600 >> Philip Prindeville wrote: >> >> >>> Here’s the other thing I don’t get. >>> >>> The me

Re: Dubious hyperlinks

2014-06-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 26, 2014, at 7:31 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Philip Prindeville wrote: > >> On Jun 25, 2014, at 3:47 PM, John Hardin wrote: >> >>> That still doesn't hit *only* the same GUID repeated. Try this: >>> >>> rawbody L_RE

Re: Funky HARP Spam

2014-06-27 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Jun 27, 2014, at 7:30 AM, RW wrote: > > As I mentioned before, the real violation is in the previous mime > section, which claims 7bit, but contains octets with the high-bit set. Yup. Just submitted a patch for this: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7063

Re: Lots of spam getting thru

2014-06-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
multi.uribl.com. A 2 body L_URIBL_BLACK eval:check_uridnsbl('L_URIBL_BLACK') describe L_URIBL_BLACK Contains a URL listed in the URIBL blacklist tflags L_URIBL_BLACK net score L_URIBL_BLACK4.95 But like I said, the canned rules should already include URIBL_BLACK. -Philip

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