Whitelisting Mails depend of Receiving Headers

2017-10-05 Thread sebastian
eipzig.de (lists.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.1.37]) Tnx Sebastian

whitelisting mails depend of receiving header lines

2017-10-06 Thread sebastian
eipzig.de (lists.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.1.37]) Tnx Sebastian

Modul für Spamassassin gesucht

2011-05-15 Thread sebastian
Hallo, ich suche ein Modul für Spamassassin, mit welchem ich jede AbsenderIP welche mehr als XX Punkte in der zugehörigen Mail hat, in eine Textdatei oder Datenbank eintragen kann? Gibt es sowas oder hat jemand sowas mal gebaut? gruß Sebastian

Re: A lot of spams go through, see example

2008-12-26 Thread sebastian
Igor Chudov schrieb: http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/spam005.txt I get a lot of these, all seemingly sent by the same software and the same person, any way of filtering them out? i perhaps you can check it whith http://www.openrbl.org and then you can modificate your config on your mail server

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

2015-11-30 Thread Sebastian Arcus
OK - this might be a basic question, but recently the detection rate on my SA install has been really unreliable, so I decided that the first step is to be sure it is using the public dns blocklists and razor. My setup: 1. Spamassassin 3.4.1 2. I have Bind configured as recursive, non-forwardi

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

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

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

2015-11-30 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 30/11/15 18:01, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 30.11.2015 um 18:30 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: spamassassin -D < /path/to/spam-example.eml Thank you Harald. I did - and it looks like SA does contact lots of DNSBL's and it receives various messages in reply. Nothing that looks like fai

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

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 01/12/15 18:59, RW wrote: On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:45:25 + Sebastian Arcus wrote: After setting up a site-wide bayes database as per the wiki instructions and fixing file permissions etc., and feeding it about 300 spam messages (I don't get a lot of spam in general) and 12,00

Detecting which shortcircuit rule fires

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
After properly configuring a bayes database and training it following the great advice from this list, I am now having this problem where some spam is not detected properly due to a shortcircuit rule. However, I'm having some difficulty figuring out which one of them is causing the problem. Her

Re: Detecting which shortcircuit rule fires

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 02/12/15 09:49, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: After properly configuring a bayes database and training it following the great advice from this list, I am now having this problem where some spam is not detected properly due to a shortcircuit rule

Is it worth transferring bayes data between different sites?

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I hope I'm not exceeding the patience of the list by posting a third question in two days :-) I realise the above question is a "soft" question, probably without a definite "yes" or "no" answer. I am hoping that people with experience of using SA in various environments might be able to throw

Re: Detecting which shortcircuit rule fires

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 02/12/15 12:56, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 12:29 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: On 02/12/15 09:49, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 10:30 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: After properly configuring a bayes database and training it following the great advice from this list, I am now

Re: Is it worth transferring bayes data between different sites?

2015-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 02/12/15 12:55, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I hope I'm not exceeding the patience of the list by posting a third question in two days :-) I realise the above question is a "soft" question, probably without a definite "yes&q

Re: Is it worth transferring bayes data between different sites?

2015-12-03 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 03/12/15 00:29, Charles Sprickman wrote: Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 21:50 schrieb Charles Sprickman: Reindl Harald wrote: Am 02.12.2015 um 12:51 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I hope I'm not exceeding the patience of the list by posting a third question in two days :

Re: Is it worth transferring bayes data between different sites?

2015-12-03 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 03/12/15 01:40, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.12.2015 um 01:14 schrieb Alex: On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Dave Warren wrote: On 2015-12-02 09:14, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Perfect - that's exactly the sort of real-life based advice I was looking for. Many thanks! I run a small s

Strange behaviour by the AWL module

2015-12-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
One of my servers received a spam message which SA missed, with the following report: Content analysis details: (3.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender

Re: Strange behaviour by the AWL module

2015-12-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/12/15 18:21, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Sebastian Arcus wrote: One of my servers received a spam message which SA missed, with the following report: -0.4 AWLAWL: Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address After learning the messages as spam

Re: Strange behaviour by the AWL module

2015-12-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/12/15 13:06, Benny Pedersen wrote: Sebastian Arcus skrev den 2015-12-12 12:51: Why would AWL now tilt things heavily towards ham, after the message has just been learned as spam? its how AWL works It seems to be making things worse instead of better. Unless I am misunderstanding

Re: Strange behaviour by the AWL module

2015-12-13 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/12/15 19:57, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 12/12/15 18:21, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, Sebastian Arcus wrote: > One of my servers received a spam message which SA missed, with the > following report: > &g

Re: Strange behaviour by the AWL module

2015-12-13 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/12/15 23:43, Benny Pedersen wrote: On December 12, 2015 8:33:28 PM Sebastian Arcus wrote: I guess I must be using the default settings - as I don't think I've configured anything in particular for AWL change default /16 cidr to new default /24 for ipv4, for ipv6 use /64, i

Re: Word macros

2015-12-22 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 22/12/15 08:04, Axb wrote: On 12/21/2015 11:46 PM, Alex wrote: Hi all, For the past few days we've been hit with Word macro viruses/spam that isn't being tagged by clamav or spamassassin, and I thought someone might be able to take a look: http://pastebin.com/cAWcAbm2 This one still isn't

Re: Word macros

2015-12-22 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 22/12/15 10:07, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.12.2015 um 10:26 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: In terms of ClamAV, I've had next to zero hit rates for new viruses arriving over email in the last few months (although it is being updated regularly) - so I'm starting to wonder if there is an

Support for custom rule, rule seems to be ignored

2016-01-01 Thread Sebastian Wolfgarten
QzZUA/VFDhDApEMEc7bBr5cB3mpxfSAUo69eZDtPyLsjCd27LMQ+FMGwi xddezXrzEhGlMeVLsHw=; (...) Any thoughts on how to best deal with this? Many thanks. Kind regards Sebastian signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: Support for custom rule, rule seems to be ignored

2016-01-01 Thread Sebastian Wolfgarten
arning: no description set for FR_Spam2 Any other thoughts? Ideas? Many thanks. Best regards Sebastian > Am 01.01.2016 um 19:52 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail : > > On 1/1/2016 1:37 PM, Sebastian Wolfgarten wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I wish you and your families a happy, prospe

Re: Support for custom rule, rule seems to be ignored

2016-01-02 Thread Sebastian Wolfgarten
Hi, many thanks for your feedback. This is to confirm the following rule seems to work: header French_Spam10 ALL =~ / e\d{1,2}\.\S+\.fr /i score French_Spam10 3.5 Many thanks for all those that supported me in the troubleshooting process. Best regards Sebastian > Am 02.01.2016 um 15

Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the servers though, the database is not accepted. I re-transferred them several times over ssh, to make sure they were not corrupted. The database files are in the correct lo

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 16:59, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.02.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the servers though, the database is not accepted. I re-transferred them several

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 16:59, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.02.2016 um 17:29 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the servers though, the database is not accepted. I re-transferred them several

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 19:14, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 12.02.2016 um 20:06 schrieb Marc Perkel: Any chance that the parent directory structure doesn't have enough permissions? The error message says it can't access it so there's your clue. Since the files themselves seem to have good permissions I would

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 20:31, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 12 February 2016 at 17:29:23, Sebastian Arcus wrote: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the servers though, the database is not accepted. Are the servers all

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 20:49, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 2/12/2016 3:45 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 12/02/16 20:31, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 12 February 2016 at 17:29:23, Sebastian Arcus wrote: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 21:40, Kris Deugau wrote: Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 12/02/16 20:31, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 12 February 2016 at 17:29:23, Sebastian Arcus wrote: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/02/16 21:40, Kris Deugau wrote: Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 12/02/16 20:31, Antony Stone wrote: On Friday 12 February 2016 at 17:29:23, Sebastian Arcus wrote: As per advice from this list, I have been re-using my bayes databases on several different servers running SA. On one of the

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-13 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 13/02/16 04:32, Bill Cole wrote: On 12 Feb 2016, at 17:34, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Thanks for that suggestion. I think we might be getting somewhere. On original machine: #file bayes_seen bayes_seen: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 9, native byte-order) # file bayes_toks bayes_toks: Berkeley

Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-13 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 13/02/16 18:58, Bill Cole wrote: On 13 Feb 2016, at 3:49, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Thank you. The donor machine has db42, db44 and db44 packages installed, Based on the question below, I'll assume the second db44 above was a typo for db48, i.e. a Berkeley DB v4.8.x package. Yes -

[Solved] Re: Error when trying to re-use Bayes database from one server to another

2016-02-14 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 13/02/16 18:58, Bill Cole wrote: On 13 Feb 2016, at 3:49, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Thank you. The donor machine has db42, db44 and db44 packages installed, Based on the question below, I'll assume the second db44 above was a typo for db48, i.e. a Berkeley DB v4.8.x package. Tangent

Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-16 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have a particular server running spamd which uses bayes every time I test it by hand, but apparently never when it goes through exim/spamd. I run everything (both the spamd daemon and the manual tests) as user spamd. I checked the permissions on the bayes database. I use a global bayes datab

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/06/16 03:46, Yu Qian wrote: you can use spamd -D to check the log for exactly what bayes db path your spamd was using. Thank Yu. Based on the output below, it appears to find and use the sitewide bayes files ok: # spamd -D 2>&1 | grep -i bayes Jun 17 13:32:51.719 [4380] dbg: plugin: l

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/06/16 00:03, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.06.2016 um 19:46 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I have a particular server running spamd which uses bayes every time I test it by hand, but apparently never when it goes through exim/spamd then you need to run it as the correct user or train it as the

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/06/16 13:42, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 17.06.2016 um 14:29 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: On 17/06/16 00:03, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.06.2016 um 19:46 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I have a particular server running spamd which uses bayes every time I test it by hand, but apparently never when

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/06/16 04:46, Bill Cole wrote: On 16 Jun 2016, at 13:46, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have a particular server running spamd Which must run on a particular platform. Since SpamAssassin and Exim can run on a decade's worth of versions of at least 9 different OSs and one of those (Linux

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 16/06/16 18:46, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have a particular server running spamd which uses bayes every time I test it by hand, but apparently never when it goes through exim/spamd. I run everything (both the spamd daemon and the manual tests) as user spamd. I checked the permissions on the

Re: Spamassassin uses bayes, but spamd doesn't

2016-06-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/06/16 14:49, RW wrote: On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:07:33 +0100 Sebastian Arcus wrote: Site-wide bayes files are owned by spamd. Regarding the daemon, it is started with --socketowner=spamd and socketpath=spamd. Is this enough, or should it be actually started with "su" as &q

Different bayes results from command line and through MTA

2016-12-23 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I know this hot potato has been discussed before - but I'm afraid it's back to haunt me and I can't fathom it out. I'm getting again different bayes results if I test a message on the command line, compared to it going through exim -> spamassassin. The header of the message received in the Inb

Re: Different bayes results from command line and through MTA

2016-12-23 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 23/12/16 10:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I know this hot potato has been discussed before - but I'm afraid it's back to haunt me and I can't fathom it out. I'm getting again different bayes results if I test a message on the command line, compared to it going through

Re: Different bayes results from command line and through MTA

2016-12-23 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 23/12/16 17:18, Paul Stead wrote: On 23/12/2016, 13:35, "Sebastian Arcus" wrote: As soon as I manually delete the SA headers and report in the .eml file, and pass the message again through spamc, I get identical Bayes scores to the ones when the message passes initial

Re: Different bayes results from command line and through MTA

2016-12-23 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 23/12/16 17:02, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 23/12/16 10:12, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I know this hot potato has been discussed before - but I'm afraid it's back to haunt me and I can't fathom it out. I'm getting again different bayes results if I t

Dns Blocklists always returning 0 records

2017-03-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have a server with SA where I just can't seem to get DNS based block lists / RBL working. I have tested the same email message against another server, and it gets hits from DNS block lists. But on this particular server they just don't seem to work - but the dns queries are not blocked either

Re: Dns Blocklists always returning 0 records

2017-03-27 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 26/03/17 14:12, David Jones wrote: From: Sebastian Arcus Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2017 4:23 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Dns Blocklists always returning 0 records I have a server with SA where I just can't seem to get DNS based block lists / RBL working. I have teste

Re: Dns Blocklists always returning 0 records

2017-03-27 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 27/03/17 11:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 3/27/2017 5:28 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: And yet, no dns block lists make it to the final scores I have only filed the thread briefly but check your versions of Net::DNS. The good server has Net::DNS 0.83 - so way out of date. The problem

SA not performing DNSBL queries correctly

2017-05-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have 2 servers with SA 3.4.1 running on Slackware, with Bind in caching/recursive mode. For months one of them has been unable to correctly do dns blocklists (but the queries are not blocked). I have pored over the logs, and the main difference is that, although both of them pick up on the ba

Re: SA not performing DNSBL queries correctly

2017-05-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/05/17 14:21, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 5/17/2017 8:22 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have 2 servers with SA 3.4.1 running on Slackware, with Bind in caching/recursive mode. For months one of them has been unable to correctly do dns blocklists (but the queries are not blocked). I have

Re: SA not performing DNSBL queries correctly

2017-05-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/05/17 14:54, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 17/05/17 14:21, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 5/17/2017 8:22 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have 2 servers with SA 3.4.1 running on Slackware, with Bind in caching/recursive mode. For months one of them has been unable to correctly do dns blocklists

Re: SA not performing DNSBL queries correctly

2017-05-17 Thread Sebastian Arcus
h the package supplied by Slackware at slackbuilds.org - and I am chasing it up with them there. But thanks to the advice on this list, I've managed to narrow things down - so I am grateful for the hints. On 5/17/17, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 17/05/17 14:54, Sebastian Arcus wrote:

Re: SA not performing DNSBL queries correctly

2017-05-20 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 17/05/17 18:11, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 17/05/17 16:53, David Mehler wrote: Hi, I don't see your SA issue here, but since your running 3.41 can I get a look at your SA configuration to compare against mine? Thanks. Dave. Yes - you are correct. As I pointed out in my last emai

Which is the accepted format of the HashCash header?

2017-06-05 Thread Sebastian Nielsen
fying program installed for hashcash to be enabled? (Can't SpamAssassin verify hashcash's itself?) Best regards, Sebastian Nielsen smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Config option to skip pyzor check on empty body emails?

2017-09-11 Thread Sebastian Arcus
Is there any way to tell SA to skip pyzor checks on emails with an empty body (even if there are attachments). I've noticed for a while now that emails which don't contain any text in their bodies seem to automatically trigger PYZOR_CHECK (even if they have an attachment) - although they are pr

Re: Config option to skip pyzor check on empty body emails?

2017-09-11 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 11/09/17 20:20, RW wrote: On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:39:16 +0100 Sebastian Arcus wrote: Is there any way to tell SA to skip pyzor checks on emails with an empty body (even if there are attachments). I've noticed for a while now that emails which don't contain any text in their bodi

Re: Config option to skip pyzor check on empty body emails?

2017-09-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/09/17 00:56, RW wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 00:37:40 +0100 Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 11/09/17 20:20, RW wrote: This is why pyzor has the local_whitelist command. At very least it's a good idea to pipe an empty string through "pyzor local_whitelist" (probably as t

Re: Config option to skip pyzor check on empty body emails?

2017-09-12 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 12/09/17 12:33, RW wrote: On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 08:41:01 +0100 Sebastian Arcus wrote: The confusing part is that left to its devices, Pyzor creates a .pyzor dir in the home dir of the user it is run as. But if --homedir is specified, it dumps stuff directly there, instead of creating a

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

2017-09-14 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 14/09/17 19:59, Loren Wilton wrote: Should be easy to block.  Just block the cron-job.org domain. As someone else mentioned that address is an obvious joe-job. And scoring it high doesn't help that much. It worked for the first few weeks, then they went to contact@ to presumably get arou

SA not receiving fixed FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA update?

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I am having problems with false positives for FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA for Yahoo emails. I see this has been already dealt with here and pushed to the 3.4 and trunk branches: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7411 However, even after running sa-update, the file 20_meta_tests.cf stil

FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD still causing false positives

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I see this has come up again and again. Since FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD seems to work by checking the address of the Yahoo smtp server in the headers against a predefined list of Yahoo servers in SA, and Yahoo seems to add new servers all the time - which causes false positives, is there much point to

Re: SA not receiving fixed FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA update?

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/09/17 11:41, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/15/2017 6:11 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I am having problems with false positives for FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA for Yahoo emails. I see this has been already dealt with here and pushed to the 3.4 and trunk branches: https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin

Re: SA not receiving fixed FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA update?

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/09/17 12:21, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/15/2017 6:54 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Thank you for the reply. Does that mean that no new rules have been pushed to SA installations in the past 5 months - or only some rules get pushed through? The system has been "down" since M

Re: FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD still causing false positives

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/09/17 14:34, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/15/2017 8:26 AM, RW wrote: The rule was created and scored when spoofing Yahoo was very common, but it isn't any more. I don't think it's worth keeping as it is - high maintenance and error prone. Agreed.  Score FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD to zero locally

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

2017-09-18 Thread Sebastian Arcus
This is a bit off topic as it is not directly related to SA, but I'm hoping that with the email and spam expertise on this group, someone might throw in a useful idea - which would be much appreciated. I have this problem on one site where most emails we send to Hotmail/Outlook.com/Live.com em

MISSING_SUBJECT not triggered if subject contains whitespace

2017-09-19 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I've had a number of emails with no subject not triggering the MISSING_SUBJECT rule - only to discover that the spammers have added a white space after 'Subject:' - which appears to fool the code into thinking that there is an actual subject. Would it be possible to 'smarten up' the code a bit

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sebastian Arcus
e all dead. Has this form been removed? On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Sebastian Arcus <mailto:s.ar...@open-t.co.uk>> wrote: This is a bit off topic as it is not directly related to SA, but I'm hoping that with the email and spam expertise on this group, someone

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sebastian Arcus
spicious. Theres not much yo can do about it.   More info here: https://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx On 19/09/2017 07:25, Sebastian Arcus wrote: This is a bit off topic as it is not directly related to SA, but I'm hoping that with the email and spam expertise on this group, someo

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sebastian Arcus
it is blacklisted or greylisted, but they don't want to unblock it. On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Sebastian Arcus <mailto:s.ar...@open-t.co.uk>> wrote: On 19/09/17 10:29, Zulma Pape wrote: There are tons of ways to get your IP a good reputation with Hotm

Re: MISSING_SUBJECT not triggered if subject contains whitespace

2017-09-21 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 19/09/17 15:05, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/19/2017 9:11 AM, David Jones wrote: I have had these in place for years.  Maybe Kevin can consolidate and integrate this into his KAM.cf so I could remove them or we could eventually get them into the default SA ruleset after some testing. Hi

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

2017-09-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 21/09/17 11:13, Zulma Pape wrote: It means that your ip is greylisted in their end. There are many solutions to fix this issue, but the easiest and cheapest one is the get a new ip, and refill the form and see their feedback about it. If it qualifies for mitigation then you'll start friendly

The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have noticed in the last half a year or so the rise in much more focused email campaigns. I have some solicitor and accountant clients who receive these scam emails which are a notch above the rest. The English is good and correctly spelled. The footers look professional and just like the one

Re: The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/11/17 09:55, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 08:41 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: The emails often contain links to various popular cloud platforms - such as SharePoint, DropBox etc. Most of the emails come from clean domains, or from large webmail providers. I'd say

Re: The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/11/17 09:56, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.11.2017 um 09:41 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I can't really train the bayesian filter on these emails, as it would start to affect ham emails classification this is a unproven claim! we have here phishings in bayes which are classified

Re: The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-16 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/11/17 15:16, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.11.2017 um 15:47 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: On 15/11/17 09:56, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 15.11.2017 um 09:41 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: I can't really train the bayesian filter on these emails, as it would start to affect ham emails classific

Re: The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-16 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 15/11/17 18:11, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 14:44 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I initially decided that an archive was A Good Thing to have, simply because retrieving mail from it should be a lot faster than searching through huge mail folders. This turned out to be

Re: The rise of highly targeted spam emails

2017-11-16 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 16/11/17 12:16, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 09:15 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 15/11/17 18:11, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 14:44 +, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I initially decided that an archive was A Good Thing to have, simply because retrieving

HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* generating too many FP's

2017-11-28 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I'm having more and more problems with the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* set of rules recently generating false positives. Plenty of business emails will include a logo at the bottom - and not everybody is a graphics expert to make their logo a tiny optimised gif or png - so some of these are slightly big

sa2dsnbl "Insecure dependency in connect while running setuid"

2011-05-17 Thread Sebastian Deißner
,__MOZILLA_MSGID,__MSGID_OK_HOST,__MUA_TBIRD,__NAKED_TO,__NONEMPTY_BODY,__NOT_SPOOFED,__RCVD_IN_BRBL,__RCVD_IN_DNSWL,__RCVD_IN_SORBS,__RCVD_IN_ZEN,__RFC_IGNORANT_ENVFROM,__SANE_MSGID,__TOCC_EXISTS,__TO_NO_ARROWS_R M How can I solve the problem? Thnx Sebastian

Re: Using ZMI_GERMAN ruleset

2011-12-19 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
t; Is the update with sa-update still supported? Michael, could you answer that? Regards, Sebastian -- New GPG Key: 0x93A0B9CE (F4F6 B1A3 866B 26E9 450A 9D82 58A2 D94A 93A0 B9CE) Old GPG Key-ID: 0x76B79F20 (0x1B6034F476B79F20) 'Are you Death?' ... IT'S THE SCYTHE, ISN'T

Re: HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* generating too many FP's

2017-12-01 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 30/11/17 12:45, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 28.11.17 19:39, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I'm having more and more problems with the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* set of rules recently generating false positives. Plenty of business emails will include a logo at the bottom - and not everybody

Re: HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* generating too many FP's

2017-12-01 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 01/12/17 10:54, Axb wrote: On 12/01/2017 11:17 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 30/11/17 12:45, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 28.11.17 19:39, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I'm having more and more problems with the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* set of rules recently generating false positives. Plen

Re: HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* generating too many FP's

2017-12-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 02/12/17 13:06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 12/01/2017 11:17 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: -0.2 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2  RBL: Average reputation (+2) [212.227.126.131 listed in wl.mailspike.net] 0.4 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY   BODY: Multipart message mostly text

Re: HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_* generating too many FP's

2017-12-05 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 02/12/17 18:45, David Jones wrote: On 12/02/2017 11:22 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: On 02/12/17 13:06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 12/01/2017 11:17 AM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: -0.2 RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2  RBL: Average reputation (+2) [212.227.126.131 listed

IADB whitelist

2017-12-23 Thread Sebastian Arcus
What is the process of including whitelists in SA default configs? It is not the first time I see pretty obvious mailing list spam which has quite high minus scores from 2-3 whitelists included in SA: -1.5 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN RBL: IADB: All mailing list mail is opt-in

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-25 Thread Sebastian Arcus
idea why are there 6 different rules associated with this particular whitelist? Regards, KAM On December 23, 2017 3:03:26 AM EST, Sebastian Arcus wrote: What is the process of including whitelists in SA default configs? It is not the first time I see pretty obvious mailing list spam

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-25 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 25/12/17 10:45, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.12.2017 um 09:28 schrieb Sebastian Arcus: On 23/12/17 10:01, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: The 1st step is that a representaive of the rbl asks us to consider for inclusion. Thank you. If enough people receive spam sanctioned by a particular

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-26 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 25/12/17 23:57, Bill Cole wrote: On 25 Dec 2017, at 3:28 (-0500), Sebastian Arcus wrote: Also, any idea why are there 6 different rules associated with this particular whitelist? IADB has many independent return codes that each have distinct meaning. See http://www.isipp.com/email

Re: Spamassassin DNS problems

2018-01-15 Thread Sebastian Arcus
5/17 18:11, Sebastian Arcus wrote: Just a follow-up and clarification on this issue - after more testing, it seems that it was the Spamassassin version which was the problem. I have had to upgrade SA on 7 servers running 3.4.1 on Slackware - as the dns rbl's weren't working on any of the

IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-01 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I know I have brought up this issue on this list before, and sorry for the persistence, but having 7 different rules adding scores for the IADB whitelist still seems either ridiculous, or outright suspect: -0.2 RCVD_IN_IADB_RDNS RBL: IADB: Sender has reverse DNS record

Re: IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 01/03/18 19:04, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2018, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I know I have brought up this issue on this list before, and sorry for the persistence, but having 7 different rules adding scores for the IADB whitelist still seems either ridiculous, or outright suspect

Re: IADB whitelist - again

2018-03-02 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 01/03/18 19:50, David Jones wrote: On 03/01/2018 12:29 PM, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I know I have brought up this issue on this list before, and sorry for the persistence, but having 7 different rules adding scores for the IADB whitelist still seems either ridiculous, or outright suspect

Extremely persistent sex/make money spam with very little text in the body

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have this one email account receiving, for more than a year, a very specific type of spam which I find very difficult to block: 1. The messages are all kept very short, generally below 20 words - I assume so that Bayes is less efficient at classifying them? 2. Although they are all invitati

Re: Extremely persistent sex/make money spam with very little text in the body

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 07/03/18 09:08, Daniele Duca wrote: On 07/03/2018 09:52, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I have this one email account receiving, for more than a year, a very specific type of spam which I find very difficult to block: 1. The messages are all kept very short, generally below 20 words - I assume

Re: Extremely persistent sex/make money spam with very little text in the body

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 07/03/18 11:25, Leandro wrote: 2018-03-07 5:52 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Arcus <mailto:s.ar...@open-t.co.uk>>: 6. The links they include in the body of the email are almost never flagged up either by Clam or Spamassassin - and they point to a different domain in every singl

T_DKIM_INVALID false positives with Gmail

2018-03-19 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I've been seeing a number of false positives recently from T_DKIM_INVALID with Gmail emails. Are some Gmail servers misconfigured, or could something be going on at my end? The DKIM record which is flagged as invalid is below: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.

Re: T_DKIM_INVALID false positives with Gmail

2018-03-19 Thread Sebastian Arcus
On 19/03/18 15:53, Bill Cole wrote: On 19 Mar 2018, at 11:29, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I've been seeing a number of false positives recently from T_DKIM_INVALID with Gmail emails. Are some Gmail servers misconfigured, or could something be going on at my end? The DKIM record which is fl

BODY custom rule not working if text and html parts are different?

2018-03-31 Thread Sebastian Arcus
I have a really simple rule looking for custom text string contained in spam urls in the body of the email, like so: body SHORT_BITCOIN_DATING/specific_string_here/i score SHORT_BITCOIN_DATING3.0 describe SHORT_BITCOIN_DATINGBody URL signature of spam I just realised that

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