Re: Bounce Back Spam

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi Matus: Thanks but I don't even see these rules getting triggered. We have the plugin enabled and the 'whitelist_bounce_relays mailserver_name' line in local.cf At 12:09 PM 3/25/2008, you wrote: >On 25.03.08 12:00, Jeff Koch wrote: > > Our users are getting tons of bounce-back (joe job) spa

Bounce back spam

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Koch
Our users are getting inundated with bounce-back, joe-job spam. We have the Vbounce.pm plugin enabled (v3.2.4) and have a 'whitelist_bounce_relays' with the name of the mailserver in the local.cf file and the 'failure notices', 'mail delay' and undeliverables don't seem to be getting any scor

Detail Spam Scoring

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Koch
We used to get detailed spam scoring in the email headers but it seems to have disappeared after installing 3.2.4. Is there some command for turning the detailed scoring back on. Can someone please tell me what it is? Thanks Best Regards, Jeff Koch, Intersessions

Re: Unsubscribe

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Femitha Majeed wrote: Hi, Can you please tell me how to unsubscribe to this mailing list. I tried all that they suggested on the website but failed. Could you be more specific? The SpamAssassin lists website (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists) advises you send mail to [EMAIL

Unsubscribe

2008-03-27 Thread Femitha Majeed
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Re: Header of a false negative mail

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Sn!per wrote: I would appreciate if folks can explain to me about the header of a false negative email that I received: ... ... Reply-To: Gene Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: vPharmacy Big Saving, the very best generic med

Re: What to do about address spoofing

2008-03-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 16:05, R.Smits wrote: > Hello, > > Is there something I can do that our company addresses cannot be used > for sending spam ? Is DKIM an answer ? > A lot of our users get "delivery failed" messages. So a spammer is > sending spam with our addresses :-( > > A difficult proble

Re: Net::DNS .060 allows remote attackers to cause DOS

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: From: http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.63/Changes Fix rt.cpan.org #30316 Security issue with Net::DNS Resolver. Net/DNS/RR/A.pm in Net::DNS 0.60 build 654 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS response (ht

Re: tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread NFN Smith
Kris Deugau wrote: NFN Smith wrote: I'll check the MD archives for release notes, and see what's in the Testing branch. Just checked the changelog; there was a fix for this in MD 2.63 upstream: Yep. I found that shortly after I posted. Backporting the Debian package should be a matter

Re: tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread Kelson
NFN Smith wrote: The Debian release number of MIMEDefang I'm running is 2.57-5. It may be that when Debian froze what went into etch, the current copy of MD was the one with that glitch in it. I'll check the MD archives for release notes, and see what's in the Testing branch. The fix went

Re: tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread Kris Deugau
NFN Smith wrote: Hmmm... So this may be an issue with MIMEDefang. The Debian release number of MIMEDefang I'm running is 2.57-5. It may be that when Debian froze what went into etch, the current copy of MD was the one with that glitch in it. I'll check the MD archives for release notes, and

Re: What to do about address spoofing

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
R.Smits wrote: Hello, Is there something I can do that our company addresses cannot be used for sending spam ? Is DKIM an answer ? A lot of our users get "delivery failed" messages. So a spammer is sending spam with our addresses :-( A difficult problem I think ? you can reject (or tag) so

Re: tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread NFN Smith
Jason Bertoch wrote: I just discovered that over the last several weeks, I'm getting an accumulation of hidden .spamassassin temporary files accumulating in /tmp, that aren't getting deleted, and as a result, that volume is filling up. There was a version upgrade to SpamAssassin some time a

RE: tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread Jason Bertoch
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NFN Smith Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:35 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: tmp file handling >I'm currently running spamassassin 3.2.1-1~bpo.1 from the Debian >etch-backports branch > >On my installatio

tmp file handling

2008-03-27 Thread NFN Smith
I'm currently running spamassassin 3.2.1-1~bpo.1 from the Debian etch-backports branch (yes, I know that backports now has 3.2.4 available, and I'll be upgrading shortly). On my installation, I'm calling SpamAssassin from MIMEDefang, and so I'm not running spamc and spamd . I just discovered

RE: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Jari A LOT of clueless mail server admins send us reports about mailscanner.info We have a standard reply telling them to get a $clue, but I'd prefer that my staff's time was spent dealing with proper issues :) -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection ht

Re: purge byes in sql

2008-03-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:32:17AM -0600, Miguel wrote: > Hi, does SA takes care of purging old bayesian records stored in mysql > similar what it does to the traditional DB files? Yes. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right."

Re: What to do about address spoofing

2008-03-27 Thread Bookworm
Bowie Bailey wrote: R.Smits wrote: Hello, Is there something I can do that our company addresses cannot be used for sending spam ? Is DKIM an answer ? A lot of our users get "delivery failed" messages. So a spammer is sending spam with our addresses :-( A difficult problem I think ? Greeti

purge byes in sql

2008-03-27 Thread Miguel
Hi, does SA takes care of purging old bayesian records stored in mysql similar what it does to the traditional DB files? If not, what is the recommended procedure to do so? regards

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> As long as you whitelist MailScanner.info > > I am sick to my teeth of receiving abuse reports about a > domain that never sends email and is used to block spam > > /me wanders off to rant elsewhere WTF? is this all about? Who has reported MailScanner.info as a spammer?

RE: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
As long as you whitelist MailScanner.info I am sick to my teeth of receiving abuse reports about a domain that never sends email and is used to block spam /me wanders off to rant elsewhere -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection http://www.blacknight.co

RE: What to do about address spoofing

2008-03-27 Thread Bowie Bailey
R.Smits wrote: > Hello, > > Is there something I can do that our company addresses cannot be used > for sending spam ? Is DKIM an answer ? > A lot of our users get "delivery failed" messages. So a spammer is > sending spam with our addresses :-( > > A difficult problem I think ? > > Greetings...

RE: :DNS .060 allows remote attackers to cause DOS

2008-03-27 Thread Robert - elists
From: http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.63/Changes Fix rt.cpan.org #30316 Security issue with Net::DNS Resolver. Net/DNS/RR/A.pm in Net::DNS 0.60 build 654 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS response (http://nvd.nist.gov/n

What to do about address spoofing

2008-03-27 Thread R.Smits
Hello, Is there something I can do that our company addresses cannot be used for sending spam ? Is DKIM an answer ? A lot of our users get "delivery failed" messages. So a spammer is sending spam with our addresses :-( A difficult problem I think ? Greetings... Richard Smits

Re: Net::DNS .060 allows remote attackers to cause DOS

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
Justin Mason wrote: This issue has no security impact. The flaw will cause Net::DNS to "croak", which in turn should be handled by the calling application. In the case of RHEL, the only known application that uses this functionality is Spamassassin. Spamassassin handles this failure

Re: Net::DNS .060 allows remote attackers to cause DOS

2008-03-27 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Scheidell writes: > From: > http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.63/Changes > > Fix rt.cpan.org #30316 Security issue with Net::DNS Resolver. > > Net/DNS/RR/A.pm in Net::DNS 0.60 build 654 allows remote attackers to > cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS

Blogspot spam update information (NetCraft statistics)

2008-03-27 Thread Bookworm
According to the Netcraft News for March, 2008, they showed some interesting growth in Blogspot. "Google increases its developer share by gaining 842 thousand hostnames; most of which are used for blogspot.com blogs." I wonder how many of those 842,000 blogspot.com blogs were autocreated spa

Re: OT: uribl.com folks awake?

2008-03-27 Thread Dallas Engelken
Jonathan Nichols wrote: Sorry for the OT. I've been trying to get in touch with whoever is in charge of URIBL zonefile mirrors without success. Is this thing on? Ping me offlist, por favor. I may have just been pinging the wrong people. http://www.uribl.com/contact.shtml ---> For DNS que

Net::DNS .060 allows remote attackers to cause DOS

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
From: http://search.cpan.org/src/OLAF/Net-DNS-0.63/Changes Fix rt.cpan.org #30316 Security issue with Net::DNS Resolver. Net/DNS/RR/A.pm in Net::DNS 0.60 build 654 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program "croak") via a crafted DNS response (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
James Gray wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: James Gray wrote: Sorbs sux, don't use it. Last time we had this problem they wanted money (and not an insignificant amount either) to remove a listing from their systems. They arbitrarily add addresses to a database the IP's owner can't control, then

Re: Celebrity spams

2008-03-27 Thread --[ UxBoD ]--
why not :- util_rb_2tld grupogsv.com as that appears as part of the link ? Regards, -- --[ UxBoD ]-- // PGP Key: "curl -s http://www.splatnix.net/uxbod.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: F57A 0CBD DD19 79E9 1FCC A612 CB36 D89D 2C5A 3A84 // Keyserver: www.keyserver.net Key-ID: 0x2C5A3A84 // P

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread ram
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:04 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > From: ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:04 +0530 > > To: spamassassin-users > > Subject: Spam abuse report plugin > > > > I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by SA though are > > generated by i

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Scheidell
> From: ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:36:04 +0530 > To: spamassassin-users > Subject: Spam abuse report plugin > > I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by SA though are > generated by innocent mail servers. > > We see a lot of mail users have insanely simpl

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread Justin Mason
James E. Pratt writes: > > Do your own queries and whois lookups...but these address blocks are > > INCORRECTLY LISTED BY SORBS and they refuse (yes, I've heard from > > them) to remove them. Apparently because our inbound and outbound > > MTA's don't use the same addresses! I have no idea what

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Justin Mason
Jari Fredriksson writes: > > I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by > > SA though are generated by innocent mail servers. > > > > We see a lot of mail users have insanely simple passwords > > , spammers are using these accounts and send spam. By the > > time the administrator rea

Re: Celebrity spams

2008-03-27 Thread penny/dell
here is the raw body of one of the emails http://pastebin.com/m71e204d Luis HernĂ¡n Otegui wrote: > > > > Could you please post a full message to some place accessible to > everybody? (e.g., pastebin). > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Celebrity-spams-tp16

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by > SA though are generated by innocent mail servers. > > We see a lot of mail users have insanely simple passwords > , spammers are using these accounts and send spam. By the > time the administrator realizes the server has sent > 1000's of

Header of a false negative mail

2008-03-27 Thread Sn!per
I would appreciate if folks can explain to me about the header of a false negative email that I received: ... ... Reply-To: Gene Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: vPharmacy Big Saving, the very best generic medication on net

RE: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James E. Pratt
> > Do your own queries and whois lookups...but these address blocks are > INCORRECTLY LISTED BY SORBS and they refuse (yes, I've heard from them) > to remove them. Apparently because our inbound and outbound MTA's > don't > use the same addresses! I have no idea what crack-monkey at SORBS > wro

Re: Howto stop SPF_FAIL from internal network?

2008-03-27 Thread Enrico Scholz
"Benny Pedersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > spamassassin 2>&1 -D spf -t /tmp/msg > /tmp/msg.spf.debug > > post the debug file https://www.cvg.de/people/ensc/spf_fail.txt (full debug with configuration of | $ sed '/^\(#.*\)\?$/d' ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs | internal_networks 62.153.82.

Re: Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
ram wrote: I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by SA though are generated by innocent mail servers. We see a lot of mail users have insanely simple passwords , spammers are using these accounts and send spam. By the time the administrator realizes the server has sent 1000's of s

Spam abuse report plugin

2008-03-27 Thread ram
I get a lot of spam on my servers which get detected by SA though are generated by innocent mail servers. We see a lot of mail users have insanely simple passwords , spammers are using these accounts and send spam. By the time the administrator realizes the server has sent 1000's of spam If spam

Re: all emails are tagged SPAM

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Umar Murtaza wrote: hmmm it looks like pretty much messedup. I have the following lines for "Spam List" which is probably related to present issue: --- Spam List Definitions = %etc-dir%/spam.lists.conf Spam List = ORDB-RBL SBL+XBL # You can un-comment this to ena

Re: spamd stops after about 90 seconds?

2008-03-27 Thread Justin Mason
Skip writes: > That looks like it is the problem.A I have sent BH an email asking them > about it.A By any chance do you know the name of the watchdog program > that they run to keep an eye on the user processes?A Or is it something > compiled into the kernel?A I have seen where sometimes depe

Re: all emails are tagged SPAM

2008-03-27 Thread Umar Murtaza
hmmm it looks like pretty much messedup. I have the following lines for "Spam List" which is probably related to present issue: --- Spam List Definitions = %etc-dir%/spam.lists.conf Spam List = ORDB-RBL SBL+XBL # You can un-comment this to enable them --

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread James Gray
Matt Kettler wrote: James Gray wrote: Sorbs sux, don't use it. Last time we had this problem they wanted money (and not an insignificant amount either) to remove a listing from their systems. They arbitrarily add addresses to a database the IP's owner can't control, then demand money to re

Re: SA-update error

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Dennis Clark wrote: Using Spamassassin 3.1.8. I haven't updated SA in about six months. Ran SA-update -D using the default channel of updates.spamassassin.org, received error "new version is 585884, skipped channel". What exactly is going wrong here. Has the sa update default channel been

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
James Gray wrote: Sorbs sux, don't use it. Last time we had this problem they wanted money (and not an insignificant amount either) to remove a listing from their systems. They arbitrarily add addresses to a database the IP's owner can't control, then demand money to remove the listing; wh

Re: all emails are tagged SPAM

2008-03-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Umar Murtaza wrote: Thanks, that solved the problem. I had that entry under /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.conf "ORDB-RBL relays.ordb.org." Removing/commenting it out solved the problem. Well, that introduces another problem. Really you need to remove ORDB-RBL from your "

Re: SORBS_DUL

2008-03-27 Thread mouss
James Gray wrote: [snip] I didn't ASK FOR HELP! I asked what people's thoughts were on keeping a list like SORBS_DUL in the base/default spamassassin rules. I'm quite capable of fixing the mess I inherited. As long as - it doesn't cause FPs - it helps catch spam - it is free for use/access

Re: all emails are tagged SPAM

2008-03-27 Thread Umar Murtaza
Thanks, that solved the problem. I had that entry under /etc/MailScanner/spam.lists.conf "ORDB-RBL relays.ordb.org." Removing/commenting it out solved the problem. I hope MailScanners daily update will not revert this settings back. Umar Umar Murtaza <[EMAIL PROTECTE