Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Yet Another Ninja
This could be a DNS problem returning a .2 (positive response) for all queries. what DNS are you using for your queries? On 7/20/2008 4:03 PM, Yves Goergen wrote: Hello, I just received an e-mail with the following report: X-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: 0.0 URIBL_RED

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Skip wrote: mouss wrote: Skip wrote: [snip] Anyway, please bear with me as I do have a few more questions. In this thread before, some people thought I should look at a possible DNS problem, or perhaps my system is exceeding the daily threshold for spamhaus. All they say at the spamhaus

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread Skip
mouss wrote: Skip wrote: mouss wrote: Skip wrote: [snip] Anyway, please bear with me as I do have a few more questions. In this thread before, some people thought I should look at a possible DNS problem, or perhaps my system is exceeding the daily threshold for spamhaus. All they say

UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY gone

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Boyer
I see that the UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY test has gone away from 3.0 to 3.1. Is there another method somewhere for testing for other languages now? -- Tim Boyer Denman Tire Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread Kai Schaetzl
@pelorus.org Reply-To: users@spamassassin.apache.org X-Rcpt-To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Skip wrote on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:57:22 -0400: I'm pretty sure all they do is stop serving up web pages when you get a in CPU exceeded situation. I don't think they'd turn off internal DNS

Re: UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY gone

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Tim Boyer wrote: I see that the UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY test has gone away from 3.0 to 3.1. Is there another method somewhere for testing for other languages now? Um, what makes you think it's gone? It's been made into a plugin, but it's still there. It's now the TextCat plugin, and works

RE: UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY gone

2008-07-21 Thread Tim Boyer
Um, what makes you think it's gone? [EMAIL PROTECTED] updates_spamassassin_org]# fgrep UNDESIRED_LANGUAGE_BODY * [EMAIL PROTECTED] updates_spamassassin_org]# and I apparently made a silly assumption. Didn't notice anything in the release notes. It's been made into a plugin, but

change from compiled SA mode back to regular SA mode

2008-07-21 Thread Robert - elists
I didn't see anything on the www, so after a lil investigation, it appears that on a centos 4.6 box with SA 3.2.5, that the default compiled SA ruleset is in /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled And below... Question(s) So, to go back to standard SA processing config, basically I just need to admin

Re: change from compiled SA mode back to regular SA mode

2008-07-21 Thread Justin Mason
Robert - elists writes: I didn't see anything on the www, so after a lil investigation, it appears that on a centos 4.6 box with SA 3.2.5, that the default compiled SA ruleset is in /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled And below... Question(s) So, to go back to standard SA processing

RE: change from compiled SA mode back to regular SA mode

2008-07-21 Thread Robert - elists
Robert - elists wrote: I didn't see anything on the www, so after a lil investigation, it appears that on a centos 4.6 box with SA 3.2.5, that the default compiled SA ruleset is in /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled And below... Question(s) So, to go back to standard SA

Re: change from compiled SA mode back to regular SA mode

2008-07-21 Thread Justin Mason
Robert - elists writes: Robert - elists wrote: I didn't see anything on the www, so after a lil investigation, it appears that on a centos 4.6 box with SA 3.2.5, that the default compiled SA ruleset is in /var/lib/spamassassin/compiled And below...

syslog error?

2008-07-21 Thread Adam Harrison
I saw this error a couple times over the weekend. Is this something I should worry about? Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Logger/Syslog.pm It seems to relate to this bit of code: local $SIG{'PIPE'} = sub {

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Skip wrote: mouss wrote: Skip wrote: mouss wrote: Skip wrote: [snip] Anyway, please bear with me as I do have a few more questions. In this thread before, some people thought I should look at a possible DNS problem, or perhaps my system is exceeding the daily threshold for spamhaus.

[OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Bort
This is really not a SpamAssassin issue, but since this list is populated by people who are interested in spammer behavior, I'm throwing it out for comment. If it's too far off topic, my apologies and I'll let it go at that. At $DAYJOB I run a mail server and a name server for several

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Yves Goergen
On 20.07.2008 22:42 CE(S)T, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Run such a message through 'spamassassin' again, to see what it reports *now*. Do you still see these strange, multiple URIBL hits? spamassassin message out It still reports that. Also, check other email (including spam!) for

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Yves Goergen
On 20.07.2008 16:18 CE(S)T, Yet Another Ninja wrote: This could be a DNS problem returning a .2 (positive response) for all queries. what DNS are you using for your queries? What do you mean? My mail server uses the DNS servers of the computing centre. What SpamAssassin does, I don't know.

X-Spam-Report

2008-07-21 Thread Matt
Is there a way to tell Spamassassin to add the detailed X-Spam-Report to every message rather then just those that have X-Spam-Status: Yes? Reason being is I want an easier way to study junk messages that get by Spamassassin. Matt

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Christopher Bort wrote: This is really not a SpamAssassin issue, but since this list is populated by people who are interested in spammer behavior, I'm throwing it out for comment. If it's too far off topic, my apologies and I'll let it go at that. At $DAYJOB I run a mail server and a name

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread DAve
Christopher Bort wrote: This is really not a SpamAssassin issue, but since this list is populated by people who are interested in spammer behavior, I'm throwing it out for comment. If it's too far off topic, my apologies and I'll let it go at that. At $DAYJOB I run a mail server and a name

Re: X-Spam-Report

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Matt wrote: Is there a way to tell Spamassassin to add the detailed X-Spam-Report to every message rather then just those that have X-Spam-Status: Yes? Reason being is I want an easier way to study junk messages that get by Spamassassin. this depends on how you are running spamassassin. with

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Yves Goergen wrote: On 20.07.2008 22:42 CE(S)T, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Run such a message through 'spamassassin' again, to see what it reports *now*. Do you still see these strange, multiple URIBL hits? spamassassin message out It still reports that. Also, check other email

RE: X-Spam-Report

2008-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matt wrote: Is there a way to tell Spamassassin to add the detailed X-Spam-Report to every message rather then just those that have X-Spam-Status: Yes? Reason being is I want an easier way to study junk messages that get by Spamassassin. Add this to your local.cf or user_prefs file:

warn/error after enabling network tests. + scantimes

2008-07-21 Thread Diego Pomatta
Hello list. I want to start using URIBL tests, so I added urirhssub URIBL_BLACK multi.uribl.com.A 2 bodyURIBL_BLACK eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_BLACK') describeURIBL_BLACK Contains an URL listed in the URIBL blacklist tflags URIBL_BLACK net score

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Yves Goergen
On 21.07.2008 22:10 CE(S)T, mouss wrote: view source (CTRL-U) and copy-paste to a file on your server. then run # spamassassin -t message.eml Look through each single message from all my folders that I have received within the last two weeks, view the source, copy it into a file, upload it

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Bort
On 07/21/08 13:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mouss) wrote: Christopher Bort wrote: For a while now, I've been seeing attempts to send mail to the home server for addresses in $DAYJOB domains. This is not a problem since the volume is low and they are being properly rejected as third-party relay

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Christopher Bort wrote: In all of the relay attempts I'm seeing on this mail server, the recipient addresses are in domains for which the server is an NS. They are looking for any connection possible. A nameserver is an association. They will hope that perhaps it allows mail. Unlikely to the

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Matthias Leisi
Yves Goergen schrieb: # cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 213.133.100.100 nameserver 213.133.99.99 nameserver 213.133.98.98 nameserver 213.133.98.97 Ah, Hetzner. I had a lot less problems since I started to run my own: main:~ cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 #nameserver

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 21:50 +0200, Yves Goergen wrote: On 20.07.2008 22:42 CE(S)T, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Run such a message through 'spamassassin' again, to see what it reports *now*. Do you still see these strange, multiple URIBL hits? spamassassin message out It still

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:17 +0200, Matthias Leisi wrote: Yves Goergen schrieb: What do you mean? My mail server uses the DNS servers of the computing centre. What SpamAssassin does, I don't know. The IP addresses are: The same as everyone else... Sic. # cat /etc/resolv.conf

Re: Spam flooding recent days

2008-07-21 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, [ISO-8859-2] Micha? J?czalik wrote: Hello, I've noticed a huge increase of spam rate in past 2-3 weeks. Most of it are messages with some quite normal Subject:, often (but not neccesarily) referring to some fake event (i.e. some politician stabbed to death) and there's

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread Skip
I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my host and what I got in response. *sigh* Maybe tomorrow I'll have better luck with them. FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SITE: pelorus.org ADDR: 68.231.250.115 Why would I be getting this on box106? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host

Re: Spam flooding recent days

2008-07-21 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 22:50 +0200, Michał Jęczalik wrote: Hello, I've noticed a huge increase of spam rate in past 2-3 weeks. Most of it are messages with some quite normal Subject:, often (but not neccesarily) referring to some fake event (i.e. some politician stabbed to death) and

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:58 -0400, Skip wrote: I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my host and what I got in response. *sigh* Maybe tomorrow I'll have better luck with them. FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SITE: pelorus.org ADDR: 68.231.250.115 Why would I be

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread SM
At 14:58 21-07-2008, Skip wrote: I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my host and what I got in response. *sigh* What response did you expect? :-) Regards, -sm

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Christopher Bort wrote: This is really not a SpamAssassin issue, but since this list is populated by people who are interested in spammer behavior, I'm throwing it out for comment. If it's too far off topic, my apologies and I'll let it go at that. At $DAYJOB I run a mail server and a name

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Christopher Bort
On 07/21/08 14:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: Christopher Bort wrote: In all of the relay attempts I'm seeing on this mail server, the recipient addresses are in domains for which the server is an NS. They are looking for any connection possible. A nameserver is an association.

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Christopher Bort wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: You are trying to apply logic to a situation to which no reason can be applied. Spammers do not operate with a sanity of reason and logic. There is intelligence. But bludgeoning others for their own gain only makes sense to them and not to

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 12:30 -0700, Christopher Bort wrote: For a while now, I've been seeing attempts to send mail to the home server for addresses in $DAYJOB domains. This is not a problem since the volume is low and they are being properly rejected as third-party relay attempts

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:01 -0700, Christopher Bort wrote: I suppose they could be looking for back doors, but that seems like it would be a very low probability undertaking. Other people's CPU cycles and net bandwidth are cheap (at least for spammers). If they hit one in fifty thousand as

Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Yves Goergen wrote: On 21.07.2008 22:10 CE(S)T, mouss wrote: view source (CTRL-U) and copy-paste to a file on your server. then run # spamassassin -t message.eml Look through each single message from all my folders that I have received within the last two weeks, view the source, copy it

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread Skip
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 17:58 -0400, Skip wrote: I thought you guys would like a little humor. Here's what I sent my host and what I got in response. *sigh* Maybe tomorrow I'll have better luck with them. FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SITE: pelorus.org ADDR:

Re: DNS Tests not always getting done

2008-07-21 Thread mouss
Skip wrote: [snip] Anyway, forget them. I am on my own again. I ran a few other commands. What do you think of this? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.yahoo.com Host 2.0.0.127.yahoo.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [~]# host 2.0.0.127.google.com Host 2.0.0.127.google.com

Re: [OT] Odd spammer tactic?

2008-07-21 Thread Ramprasad
Christopher Bort wrote: This is really not a SpamAssassin issue, but since this list is populated by people who are interested in spammer behavior, I'm throwing it out for comment. If it's too far off topic, my apologies and I'll let it go at that. At $DAYJOB I run a mail server and a name

Re: Re: Incorrect DNSBL evaluation

2008-07-21 Thread Dallas Engelken
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 23:17 +0200, Matthias Leisi wrote: Yves Goergen schrieb: What do you mean? My mail server uses the DNS servers of the computing centre. What SpamAssassin does, I don't know. The IP addresses are: The same as everyone