Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Linda A. Walsh
Alex wrote: Hi, > The only response my ISP will give is to turn on their spam filtering. I tried that. > In about a 2 hour time frame, over 400 messages were blocked as spam. Of those less > than 10 were actually spam, the rest were from various lists. > > So having them censoring my incomi

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2014-08-15 Thread Dave Funk
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Rajesh M. wrote: hi we are getting spam with a lot of hashes & Ꭼmа i checked out KAM.cf but not able to trap such emails any solution please ? thanks rajesh Search the July archive of this list for postings with the subject of: "More text/plain questions" There were

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2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, > we are getting spam with a lot of hashes & > Ꭼmа > > i checked out KAM.cf but not able to trap such emails Post a sample with all the message headers to pastebin.com so it can be reviewed. Provide information about your version of spamassassin you're currently using, and any changes you ma

Re: Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, > The only response my ISP will give is to turn on their spam filtering. I tried that. > In about a 2 hour time frame, over 400 messages were blocked as spam. Of those less > than 10 were actually spam, the rest were from various lists. > > So having them censoring my incoming mail isn't gon

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2014-08-15 Thread Rajesh M.
hiwe are getting spam with a lot of hashes &Ꭼmаi checked out KAM.cf but not able to trap such emailsany solution please ?thanksrajesh

Advice sought on how to convince irresponsible Megapath ISP.

2014-08-15 Thread Linda A. Walsh
My old email service was bought out by Megapath who is letting alot of services slide. My main issue is that my incoming email scripts follow the SMTP RFC's and if the sender address isn't valid, then it's not a valid email that should be forwarded. My script simply check for the domain exist

Re: Dealing with suspicious unicode in domains

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Just came across this article about measures Google is taking to block >> domains using suspicious unicode characters: >> >> http://threatpost.com/google-tweaks-gmail-to-help-limit-spam/107732 >> >> Does SA yet have similar measures? I seem to recall some discussion about >> this probably a

Re: Hotfix/phishing spam

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, >> That's a really good question. >> >> Perhaps it was a malware attempt and the attacker forgot to replace the valid MSFT URL with their own URL... > > This isn't the first time I've seen ratware malfunction. Other possibility > some scammer test-driving a shiny new toy but wants to first tes

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, >> This is a sandbox rule which was autopromoted/published by sa-update. >> Due to lack of hits I removed it and re-added back yesterday. >> It may be republished if masschecks decide it is worth it. > > > Ok. I didn't recognize the prefix and didn't find it in my rules directory, so I assume

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 12:21 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of August 15, 2014 1:23:37 PM +0200, Antony Stone is alleged to have > said: > > http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf > > .html#language_options > Both of these links are out of date. The whitelis

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Dave Warren wrote: On 2014-08-15 12:05, John Hardin wrote: "exists:"? (looks up SPF syntax) (boggle) WTF is the sane use case for "exists:"?? With other types of macro expansion, you could query a DNS backend that returns responses from database or algorithmically rath

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-08-15 10:34, Robert Schetterer wrote: yes this is what i awaited, any idea about DKIM ? While spammers aren't doing it yet, DKIM can be done trivially easily as well for spammers that already register throwaway domains. The private key can be shared the same way the list of throwaway

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread Dave Warren
On 2014-08-15 12:05, John Hardin wrote: "exists:"? (looks up SPF syntax) (boggle) WTF is the sane use case for "exists:"?? Imagine something like: exists:%{l}.%{o}.%{i}._spf.webhost.example This might allow me to PASS only messages coming from addresses that actually exist, and are from the

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/15/2014 4:19 PM, Axb wrote: On 08/15/2014 10:07 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/15/2014 3:05 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S is a rule that fires when the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header is found. I have a sample which has this header, yet the rule doesn't fire, and wondered if someo

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Axb
On 08/15/2014 10:07 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/15/2014 3:05 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, >> AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S is a rule that fires when the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header is found. I have a sample which has this header, yet the rule doesn't fire, and wondered if someone could help me figure out why:

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/15/2014 3:05 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, >> AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S is a rule that fires when the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header is found. I have a sample which has this header, yet the rule doesn't fire, and wondered if someone could help me figure out why: >> >> http://pastebin.com/vRQXxgJH >> >>

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Alex
Hi, >> AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S is a rule that fires when the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header is found. I have a sample which has this header, yet the rule doesn't fire, and wondered if someone could help me figure out why: >> >> http://pastebin.com/vRQXxgJH >> >> I'm using spamassassin-3.4, and I tested

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: SPF is so easy ("v=spf1 +all") Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself. Yes. I even through about implementing it, but there a

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 15.08.2014 um 19:54 schrieb Joe Quinn: > On 8/15/2014 1:50 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) >> John Hardin wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: SPF is so easy ("v=spf1 +all") >>> Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself.

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/15/2014 1:50 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: SPF is so easy ("v=spf1 +all") Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself. Yes. I even through about implementing it, but there are

Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: > > SPF is so easy ("v=spf1 +all") > Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself. Yes. I even through about implementing it, but there are so many ways to achieve this: v=spf1 +a

DKIM statistics and spam (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:34:04 +0200 Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 15.08.2014 um 19:28 schrieb David F. Skoll: > > Looks like about 66% of our spam samples had SPF "pass". > yes this is what i awaited, any idea about DKIM ? Less spam has DKIM 'pass'; our stats show about 22%. I suspect the overw

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: SPF is so easy ("v=spf1 +all") Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 --

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 15.08.2014 um 19:28 schrieb David F. Skoll: > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:45:39 +0200 > Robert Schetterer wrote: > >> are there any stats how much spam is send with right/exist >> SPF/DMARC/DKIM (TLS) > > I have some statistics for SPF: > > spam=> select count(*) from incidents where status = 'sp

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:45:39 +0200 Robert Schetterer wrote: > are there any stats how much spam is send with right/exist > SPF/DMARC/DKIM (TLS) I have some statistics for SPF: spam=> select count(*) from incidents where status = 'spam' and incident_report like '%SPF query returned ''pass%'; c

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Noel
On 8/15/2014 11:45 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 15.08.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Noel: >> On 8/15/2014 10:27 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: >>> Am 15.08.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail: On 8/15/2014 2:30 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Question: Would it make sense to have rules based

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 15.08.2014 um 18:33 schrieb Noel: > On 8/15/2014 10:27 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Am 15.08.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail: >>> On 8/15/2014 2:30 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Question: Would it make sense to have rules based on dnssec / dane records exist for a maildomain ?

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Noel
On 8/15/2014 10:27 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > Am 15.08.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail: >> On 8/15/2014 2:30 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: >>> Question: Would it make sense to have rules based on dnssec / dane >>> records exist for a maildomain ? >>> >> A) rules have to be used for things

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 15, 2014 1:23:37 PM +0200, Antony Stone is alleged to have said: On Friday 15 August 2014 at 13:05:26 (EU time), Timothy Murphy wrote: 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian and turkish? http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassi

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Axb
On 08/15/2014 05:21 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/15/2014 11:07 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:02:14 -0500 Steve Bergman wrote: So basically, elevate it to the level of an absolute blacklist. I'm not sure I trust Zen that much. I'm more a Bayes proponent than a DNSBL proponen

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 15.08.2014 um 16:26 schrieb Kevin A. McGrail: > On 8/15/2014 2:30 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Question: Would it make sense to have rules based on dnssec / dane >> records exist for a maildomain ? >> > A) rules have to be used for things that indicate ham or spaminess > B) you can only autom

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:21:47 -0400 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Considering only the spam: > 67% Spamhaus rejections > 33% Marked by SA > YMMV, but it works quite well for me. Indeed, MM does V. :) spam=> select count(*) from incidents where status = 'spam'; count --- 2391 spam=> select coun

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/15/2014 11:07 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:02:14 -0500 Steve Bergman wrote: So basically, elevate it to the level of an absolute blacklist. I'm not sure I trust Zen that much. I'm more a Bayes proponent than a DNSBL proponent. Me too. I'm also surprised that the OP c

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Timothy Murphy wrote: 2) I get some email wrongly marked spam - always from the same site. I'm tried marking this as ham (and running "sa-learn --ham") but this has surprisingly little effect. A few fairly standard things to consider, in case you aren't already awar

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:02:14 -0500 Steve Bergman wrote: > So basically, elevate it to the level of an absolute blacklist. > I'm not sure I trust Zen that much. I'm more a Bayes proponent than a > DNSBL proponent. Me too. I'm also surprised that the OP claimed it caught 70% of his spam. I see

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/15/2014 09:37 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: Yes, it is part of the default rule set. But what I am saying is to add it to your MTA as a blacklist. That way anything matched by Zen will be rejected by the MTA without ever having to run SA. So basically, elevate it to the level of an absolute

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/15/2014 10:33 AM, Steve Bergman wrote: On 08/15/2014 09:14 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: The best way to quickly cut spam is to add the zen.spamhaus.org blacklist to your MTA. http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/ Is that not included in the default rule set? If not, I'm not sure where mine came from.

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/15/2014 09:14 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: The best way to quickly cut spam is to add the zen.spamhaus.org blacklist to your MTA. http://www.spamhaus.org/zen/ Is that not included in the default rule set? If not, I'm not sure where mine came from. -Steve Bergman

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 15.08.14 13:05, Timothy Murphy wrote: Having got SA working at last on my CentOS-7 home server, I'm thinking of improving its use for me (no-one else). It's finding about 65% of my spam, and I'd like to increase that to 80%. 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian and t

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Steve Bergman
On 08/15/2014 06:05 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian and turkish? Is the spam actually written in Chinese, Russian, and Turkish languages? Or does it come from Chinese, Russian, and Turkish domains? The spam my users accounts receive c

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/15/2014 10:14 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/15/2014 7:05 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Having got SA working at last on my CentOS-7 home server, I'm thinking of improving its use for me (no-one else). It's finding about 65% of my spam, and I'd like to increase that to 80%. The best way to quic

Re: dnssec / dane

2014-08-15 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/15/2014 2:30 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: Question: Would it make sense to have rules based on dnssec / dane records exist for a maildomain ? A) rules have to be used for things that indicate ham or spaminess B) you can only automate something you have done manually So have you looked at

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/15/2014 7:05 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Having got SA working at last on my CentOS-7 home server, I'm thinking of improving its use for me (no-one else). It's finding about 65% of my spam, and I'd like to increase that to 80%. The best way to quickly cut spam is to add the zen.spamhaus.org

Re: AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S not fired

2014-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/14/2014 9:03 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, AXB_X_FF_SEZ_S is a rule that fires when the X-Forefront-Antispam-Report header is found. I have a sample which has this header, yet the rule doesn't fire, and wondered if someone could help me figure out why: http://pastebin.com/vRQXxgJH I'm using spa

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Antony Stone
On Friday 15 August 2014 at 13:05:26 (EU time), Timothy Murphy wrote: > 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian > and turkish? http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#language_options > 2) I get some email wrongly marked spam - always

Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
Having got SA working at last on my CentOS-7 home server, I'm thinking of improving its use for me (no-one else). It's finding about 65% of my spam, and I'd like to increase that to 80%. 1) What is the simplest way to reject mail in chinese, russian and turkish? 2) I get some email wrongly marked