Re: CommuniGate Pro Received header (was: whitelist_from_rcvd not working)

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
SM wrote: > Hi Victor, > At 21:40 09-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: > >This is the standard CommuniGate Pro "Received:" header. > >When HELO matches the hostname, this header always looks this way, > >with the word "verified" added to it. > > SpamAssassin is not parsing that "Received:" header as

CommuniGate Pro Received header (was: whitelist_from_rcvd not working)

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Victor, At 21:40 09-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: This is the standard CommuniGate Pro "Received:" header. When HELO matches the hostname, this header always looks this way, with the word "verified" added to it. SpamAssassin is not parsing that "Received:" header as one with a hostname whi

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
SM wrote: > >OK, this was a poor example. Here is a better one. Let's start anew :) > > > >The rule is > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mncs.tomsk.ru > > > >The relay is mncs.tomsk.ru, as you see, whose forward and reverse DNS > >mapping is correct. > > The forward and reverse DNS mapping

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
SM wrote: [dd] > > dbg: received-header: found fetchmail marker outside trusted area, ignored > dbg: received-header: parsed as [ ip=213.183.100.11 rdns= > helo=gw.dtdm.tomsk.ru by=relay2.tomsk.ru ident= envfrom= intl=0 > id=9838562 auth= msa=0 ] > dbg: received-header: relay 213.183.100.11 tr

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > OK, this was a poor example. Here is a better one. Let's start anew :) > > The rule is > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mncs.tomsk.ru > > The relay is mncs.tomsk.ru, as you see, whose forward and reverse DNS > mapping is correct. > > Why does the rule not work w

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Victor, At 19:54 09-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: OK, this was a poor example. Here is a better one. Let's start anew :) The rule is whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mncs.tomsk.ru The relay is mncs.tomsk.ru, as you see, whose forward and reverse DNS mapping is correct. The forward an

Re: trustedopinion.com

2008-04-09 Thread info-spamassassin-talk
Eloise Carlton writes: > Thank you for taking the time to report and share this information. We > have initiated an investigative process on this report and during the > investigative period we have downgraded the sender's accreditation > level. Thank you, Eloise. I greatly appreciate Habeas' re

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Victor, At 19:38 09-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: Yes, the output is here Sorry, I missed that. Which lines show whether the host matches "dtdm.tomsk.ru" and why? From your output: dbg: received-header: found fetchmail marker outside trusted area, ignored The Received header inserted

Re: trustedopinion.com

2008-04-09 Thread Eloise Carlton
Hello, Thank you for taking the time to report and share this information. We have initiated an investigative process on this report and during the investigative period we have downgraded the sender's accreditation level. The original message was launched on 4/3 with the subject line "Hey ;)" and

Re: Listing all rules and all scores

2008-04-09 Thread Loren Wilton
There probably is no feature to just get Spamassassin to output all of that data. It shouldn't have to, however, because what you're looking for is kept in flat text files. There is something to be said for this as a debug or lint-like option. SA will combine rules and scores from many files,

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Dave Funk wrote: > > >>>I have the following rule in local.cf: > >>>whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru > > >>>[snip..] > > >>>Received: from mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5] > >>> by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru with POP3 (fetchmail-6.3.8) > >>> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
SM wrote: > >No, the host shows up as "gw.dtdm.tomsk.ru" which matches "dtdm.tomsk.ru". > > You can see how the Received headers in the message are parsed by > saving the entire message to a file and running it through SpamAssassin: > > spamassassin -t -D < filename > > The output will show whe

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > SM wrote: > > > At 22:02 08-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > >I have the following rule in local.cf: > > > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru > > > > > > > >Please help me figure out why the rule does not work. Below is a sample > > > >message

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Steve Prior
mouss wrote: But back on topic... the OP has been joe-jobbed. he's not the only one... seems there's a lot of backscatter coming in these days. Thanks for confirming that spf doesn't fix the problem. The main problem with SPF is that most other servers out there don't check it even if you

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Bob Proulx
decoder wrote: > We recently discovered that even our own mailserver (Postfix) was a > backscatter source (and 1-2 weeks ago spammers started to actively use > it), there were several reasons and I'd like to share these points with > the list so nobody does the same mistakes. Thanks for the dis

Re: how do I create a rule?

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
ahgu wrote: How do I create a rule for spamassasssin that it looks for the following string in the message box and give it high score? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Everything you will probably ever need to know about basic and intermediate rule-writing can be found at: http://wiki.a

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: 2008/4/9, John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, mouss wrote: Thanks for confirming that spf doesn't fix the problem. There's no silver bullet. SPF will tend to reduce the problem. Would't DKIM help also? I've implemented both

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread decoder
mouss wrote: he's not the only one... seems there's a lot of backscatter coming in these days. I guess the reason is that it is so easy to make a mistake in a mailserver configuration that enables backscatter... We recently discovered that even our own mailserver (Postfix) was a backscatter

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2008/4/9, John Hardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, mouss wrote: > > > > Thanks for confirming that spf doesn't fix the problem. > > > > There's no silver bullet. SPF will tend to reduce the problem. Would't DKIM help also? I've implemented both methods, and encouraged my colleagues

RE: Listing all rules and all scores

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Hutchinson
> -Original Message- > From: Craig Cocca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 April 2008 6:40 a.m. > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Listing all rules and all scores > > Spamassassin Users, > > Is there an easy way to get spamassassin to list out all of the rules > and all o

Re: BATV and whitelisting

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Rose, Bobby wrote: I'm staring to see BATV use increasing. Has anyone thought about how this effects whitelists, mta acls, etc? It looks like such things are broken because if an end-user whitelists [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BATV has the mail from as [EMAIL PROTECTED], then that whitelisting has no

Re: Site-wide config check

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Ralph B wrote: Thanks for the response, Matt. Matt Kettler wrote: Ralph B wrote: I've tried to set up spamassissin approximately as described in http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup. When my users (only 5 of us) receive a spam we redirect it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Periodically

Re: Site-wide config check

2008-04-09 Thread Ralph B
Thanks for the response, Matt. Matt Kettler wrote: > Ralph B wrote: >> I've tried to set up spamassissin approximately as described in >> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup. >> >> When my users (only 5 of us) receive a spam we redirect it to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Periodically I

Re: BATV and whitelisting

2008-04-09 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Rose, Bobby wrote: I'm staring to see BATV use increasing. Has anyone thought about how this effects whitelists, mta acls, etc? It looks like such things are broken because if an end-user whitelists [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BATV has the mail from as [EMAIL PROTECTED], then tha

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, mouss wrote: Thanks for confirming that spf doesn't fix the problem. There's no silver bullet. SPF will tend to reduce the problem. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED

BATV and whitelisting

2008-04-09 Thread Rose, Bobby
I'm staring to see BATV use increasing. Has anyone thought about how this effects whitelists, mta acls, etc? It looks like such things are broken because if an end-user whitelists [EMAIL PROTECTED] and BATV has the mail from as [EMAIL PROTECTED], then that whitelisting has no effect. And since t

Re: how do I create a rule?

2008-04-09 Thread Evan Platt
What is the "message box"? Do you ever intend to see [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the return path as a valid message? If not, delete it via procmail or some other method. ahgu wrote: How do I create a rule for spamassasssin that it looks for the following string in the message box and give it high sc

Re: Site-wide config check

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
Ralph B wrote: I've tried to set up spamassissin approximately as described in http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup. When my users (only 5 of us) receive a spam we redirect it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Periodically I do a "sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam /home/spam/mbox" from root

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Kris, At 09:12 09-04-2008, Kris Deugau wrote: Anyone have any suggestions on tuning a large global Bayes db for stability and sanity? I've got my fingers in the pie of a moderately large mail cluster, but I haven't yet found a Bayes configuration that's sane and stable for any extended per

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Kris Deugau
John Hardin wrote: How varied is the character of your message traffic? Is manual learning an option, especially with larger autolearn thresholds? What is this... "manual learning"... you speak of? Not really an option in the short term, although in the long term I'd *like* to have a syste

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread mouss
Jonathan Nichols wrote: Yup. Even used the wizard and that exact same verification tool, as well as dnsstuff.com and it reports that the SPF records I added are just fine. Yet, I still got plenty of junk thanks to some russian spammer using my hostmaster@ as the From. :( But back on topi

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Jonathan Nichols
On Apr 9, 2008, at 2:16 PM, mouss wrote: Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:04, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Guys? He's been joe-jobbed. From the original email: "somebody is using my email as the bounce- back return email. How do I avoid the problem?" If SPF is supposed to prev

Site-wide config check

2008-04-09 Thread Ralph B
I've tried to set up spamassissin approximately as described in http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SiteWideBayesSetup. When my users (only 5 of us) receive a spam we redirect it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Periodically I do a "sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam /home/spam/mbox" from root. Spamassassin's

Re: Configuring SA as frontend to Exchange

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Helm
> I was wondering how you would feed unmarked spam to the SA frontend? > Since email is passed through to Exchange, it isn't stored on the SA server > anymore like it is now. We do this. I have set up a public folder in Exchange named SPAM. The users self police their emails and drop any unmarked

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:04, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Guys? He's been joe-jobbed. From the original email: "somebody is using my email as the bounce- back return email. How do I avoid the problem?" If SPF is supposed to prevent this, I can say that it sure as heck

SA Not Rewriting Subject on NDR's

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Helm
Any ideas why SA isn't rewriting the subject line on NDR's? We get tons of backscatter. Spam score is good but the subject line hasn't been rewritten. Non NDR spa, emailss are rewritten fine. We are using version 3.1.9 with Postfix on Linux.

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:04, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:50 PM, McDonald, Dan wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 12:36 -0700, ahgu wrote: > >> They forged the header with my email addr as the return address. > >> When it get bounced back by a server, everything is valid. Sin

Re: Configuring SA as frontend to Exchange

2008-04-09 Thread Jonathan Armitage
Henry Kwan wrote: Hi, Have been running SA on CentOS for a few years now and everything has been working great. But the powers that be want to move to Exchange so I am trying to plan a SA frontend that feeds the Exchange server. As I was thinking over how SA works now and how it might work in

Listing all rules and all scores

2008-04-09 Thread Craig Cocca
Spamassassin Users, Is there an easy way to get spamassassin to list out all of the rules and all of the rule scores it's currently using? The debug output only tells you what modules and configuration files are loaded, but we're looking for a comprehensive accounting of all of the rule na

Re: Configuring SA as frontend to Exchange

2008-04-09 Thread Robert Schetterer
Henry Kwan schrieb: Hi, Have been running SA on CentOS for a few years now and everything has been working great. But the powers that be want to move to Exchange so I am trying to plan a SA frontend that feeds the Exchange server. As I was thinking over how SA works now and how it might work i

how do I create a rule?

2008-04-09 Thread ahgu
How do I create a rule for spamassasssin that it looks for the following string in the message box and give it high score? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks Andrew -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-do-I-create-a-rule--tp16593499p16593499.html Sent from the SpamAs

Configuring SA as frontend to Exchange

2008-04-09 Thread Henry Kwan
Hi, Have been running SA on CentOS for a few years now and everything has been working great. But the powers that be want to move to Exchange so I am trying to plan a SA frontend that feeds the Exchange server. As I was thinking over how SA works now and how it might work in the my future setup

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Jonathan Nichols
On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:50 PM, McDonald, Dan wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 12:36 -0700, ahgu wrote: They forged the header with my email addr as the return address. When it get bounced back by a server, everything is valid. Since the server strip off most of the content, it can pass the spamass

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Scheidell
> From: Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: ViaNet Internet Solutions > Reply-To: > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:36:56 -0400 > To: > Subject: Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning? > > Michael Scheidell wrote: >> Bayes on cluster begs the question: what if you didn't replicate the bayes >

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Kris Deugau wrote: John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Kris Deugau wrote: > autolearn is picking up ~1.5M+ from ~300K messages on a daily basis. Push your autolearn thresholds out to reduce the overall volume of learned spam and ham? I've thought about that. It m

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Kris Deugau
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Kris Deugau wrote: autolearn is picking up ~1.5M+ from ~300K messages on a daily basis. Push your autolearn thresholds out to reduce the overall volume of learned spam and ham? I've thought about that. It makes it more difficult to get Bayes data on

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Michael Scheidell wrote: Bayes on cluster begs the question: what if you didn't replicate the bayes tables, and left them server specific? It may yet take that. :( (If only for overall cluster reliability - any one of the current three machines could handle the current load without any trou

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Scheidell
> From: Kris Deugau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: ViaNet Internet Solutions > Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:12:43 -0400 > To: > Subject: Large-scale global Bayes tuning? > > Anyone have any suggestions on tuning a large global Bayes db for > stability and sanity? I've got my fingers in the p

Re: Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Kris Deugau wrote: autolearn is picking up ~1.5M+ from ~300K messages on a daily basis. Push your autolearn thresholds out to reduce the overall volume of learned spam and ham? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Large-scale global Bayes tuning?

2008-04-09 Thread Kris Deugau
Anyone have any suggestions on tuning a large global Bayes db for stability and sanity? I've got my fingers in the pie of a moderately large mail cluster, but I haven't yet found a Bayes configuration that's sane and stable for any extended period. Wiping it completely about once a week seems

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread Jonas Eckerman
age85 wrote: we have a default slox 9 installation, please have a look at the attached output. We can see two different spam scores in one message. I can't see that you get two scores in one message in the output you attached. You atteched *one* multipart message. That single message only

Re: Error: incomplete data at .../DNS/RR.pm

2008-04-09 Thread Yves Goergen
On 09.04.2008 12:41 CE(S)T, Justin Mason wrote: Yves Goergen writes: I keep getting this error since I installed SpamAssassin 3.2.4 on my Debian 3.1 Linux machine: Apr 9 11:52:20 mond spamd[2087]: Exception: incomplete data at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 513, line 275. Apr

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Dave Funk
On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: SM wrote: At 22:02 08-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: I have the following rule in local.cf: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru [snip..] Received: from mail.sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.5] by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru with POP

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread SM
Hi Victor, At 00:59 09-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: No, the host shows up as "gw.dtdm.tomsk.ru" which matches "dtdm.tomsk.ru". You can see how the Received headers in the message are parsed by saving the entire message to a file and running it through SpamAssassin: spamassassin -t -D < fil

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.04.08 15:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks Matt for clarification, I understand Matus complete wrong...and now > I'm completely confused. > I would understand the following: > - I check this mail first time and get eg. 3 points. > - After a while I check this mail again (the hashes and b

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread age85
Thanks Matt for clarification, I understand Matus complete wrong...and now I'm completely confused. I would understand the following: - I check this mail first time and get eg. 3 points. - After a while I check this mail again (the hashes and blacklist are updated) and get now eg. 6 points. - T

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread Matt Kettler
age85 wrote: Thanks for the very quick response. But how to I do that? Do I need another script? Or is it a setting somewhere (eg in local.cf)? How do you do what? Matus explained the results, but there's nothing to be changed, unless you want to invent time travel. URIBL and IXHASH are

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread age85
Thanks for the very quick response. But how to I do that? Do I need another script? Or is it a setting somewhere (eg in local.cf)? On 09.04.08 05:47, age85 wrote: > > we have a default slox 9 installation, please have a look at the > attached > > output. We can see two different spam scores in

Re: Different score again

2008-04-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.04.08 05:47, age85 wrote: > we have a default slox 9 installation, please have a look at the attached > output. We can see two different spam scores in one message. We receive the > message with the lower spam value in the header. What's the reason for this? > What happens with the higher val

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> SM wrote: > > At 22:02 08-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > >I have the following rule in local.cf: > > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru > > > > > >Please help me figure out why the rule does not work. Below is a sample > > >message where I think the rule should work but actu

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, April 8, 2008 21:10, ahgu wrote: > > > Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Message will be retried for 2 more day(s) On 08.04.08 21:20, Benny Pedersen wrote: > what mta have 2 days of notifying as default ? the bounce was from g

Re: SA 3.2.4 speedup

2008-04-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> >>Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > >>>if you want to turn those off, simply disable network rules. Many rules > >>>have different scores when used with network and without it, and simply > >>>disabling network rules would increase FN (maybe even FP) rate for you. [...] On 08.04.08 14:06, DAve wr

Re: Error: incomplete data at .../DNS/RR.pm

2008-04-09 Thread Justin Mason
Yves Goergen writes: > I keep getting this error since I installed SpamAssassin 3.2.4 on my > Debian 3.1 Linux machine: > > > Apr 9 11:52:20 mond spamd[2087]: Exception: incomplete data at > > /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 513, line 275. > > Apr 9 11:52:20 mond spamd[2087]: c

Error: incomplete data at .../DNS/RR.pm

2008-04-09 Thread Yves Goergen
Hi, I keep getting this error since I installed SpamAssassin 3.2.4 on my Debian 3.1 Linux machine: Apr 9 11:52:20 mond spamd[2087]: Exception: incomplete data at /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 513, line 275. Apr 9 11:52:20 mond spamd[2087]: caught at /usr/local/share/perl/

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > >I have the following rule in local.cf: > > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru > > > > > >Please help me figure out why the rule does not work. Below is a sample > > >message where I think the rule should work but actually does not. > > > > [snip] > > >

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2008-04-09 Thread Victor Sudakov
SM wrote: > At 22:02 08-04-2008, Victor Sudakov wrote: > >I have the following rule in local.cf: > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] dtdm.tomsk.ru > > > >Please help me figure out why the rule does not work. Below is a sample > >message where I think the rule should work but actually does not.