Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread SM
At 16:56 23-10-2008, Luis Croker wrote: I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new+spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that our susbribers are sending to internet, the PCs have some malware or are botnets. These PCs generates a lot of spam each day.

Re: OT: DNS restrictions for a mail server

2008-10-23 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Ries wrote: > Hi there > > I just want to know some opinions on the following DNS Setup for a mail > server: > > # host -t MX example.com > example.com mail is handled by 100 mail.example.com. > > # host mail.example.com > mail.example.com

RE: sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread Richard Doyle
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 19:43 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > I used to get about 19-15 spam messages in my box per week, now , eve today I > got 11- > > and they are hardly hitting any rules, anything new (rbl's etc..) I should > look into? jm_sought rules are useful http://wiki.apache.org/spam

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Nelson Serafica
I suggest you setup smtp authentication. I setup this kind of smtp and it seems viruses cannot authenticate by themselves. Nelson Serafica http://nelsontux.blogspot.com - Original Message From: Jean-Paul Natola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apa

report_contact Won't Change

2008-10-23 Thread asai
Greetings, I've been trying to stop Spamassassin from sending any more spam notices to me, so I changed it in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf but I'm still getting messages sent to the same email address...what am I missing here? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/report_con

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, October 24, 2008 01:56, Luis Croker wrote: > How can I catch more spam than the seerver is filtering ? The server > blocks many messages but another spam messages goes to internet cause > the score does not reach the parameters to be blocked. go the smtp auth route, when spam comes in f

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, October 23, 2008 20:43, mouss wrote: > subdomains, as used to be the case when all the internet was unix, > but this is no more the case). lets hope thay are deploying dkim next then, it was newer meant to rewrite any header from sender to tecipient, but still some do this -- Benny Ped

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, October 23, 2008 19:29, Michael Scheidell wrote: > we arn't arguing rfc's, and by '99% of the time', actually, it works > 100% of the time unless you use the rfc-ignorant blacklists. being rfc compliant olso works > rfc means 'request for comment'. and rfc's change as technology changes

Re: sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread Jim Knuth
Am 24.10.2008 1:31 Uhr, schrieb mouss: > Jean-Paul Natola a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> I've been out of the loop for a couple of months do a rollout, so I came back >> to my SA today as I have seen A LOT more spam coming in than normal, I >> upgraded to 3.2.5 today, and ran sa-update but , i don

RE: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
maybe if you block messages with no rdns record? if its from infected pc's there shouldnt be a record? From: Luis Croker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/23/2008 19:56 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Spamassassin+amavis Hi...

Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Luis Croker
Hi... I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new +spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that our susbribers are sending to internet, the PCs have some malware or are botnets. These PCs generates a lot of spam each day. The server filters a los of Spam

RE: sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I used to get about 19-15 spam messages in my box per week, now , eve today I got 11- and they are hardly hitting any rules, anything new (rbl's etc..) I should look into? From: Luis Croker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/23/2008 19:38 To: Jean-Paul Nat

Re: doesn't drop email above required hits

2008-10-23 Thread Nelson Serafica
It is now working. I forgot to patch qmail-scanner to have --sa support. It is now doing quarantine. Thanks for clarification. - Original Message From: RobertH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:52:15 PM Subject: RE: doesn't

Re: sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread Luis Croker
I did it today... I have the server in FREBsd and the new rules are in /var/db/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org. The conventional rules are in /usr/local/share/spamassassin. Maybe you can find any directory named spamassassin to check where they are. Regards. On Th

Re: sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread mouss
Jean-Paul Natola a écrit : > Hi all, > > I've been out of the loop for a couple of months do a rollout, so I came back > to my SA today as I have seen A LOT more spam coming in than normal, I > upgraded to 3.2.5 today, and ran sa-update but , i dont seem to see any new > rules, and i;m getting

sa-update

2008-10-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I've been out of the loop for a couple of months do a rollout, so I came back to my SA today as I have seen A LOT more spam coming in than normal, I upgraded to 3.2.5 today, and ran sa-update but , i dont seem to see any new rules, and i;m getting clobbered with spam. Has something

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell a écrit : > we arn't arguing rfc's, and by '99% of the time', actually, it works > 100% of the time unless you use the rfc-ignorant blacklists. > > rfc means 'request for comment'. and rfc's change as technology changes. > > I don't know if, or, since you are the expert in this

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread SM
At 10:29 23-10-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: we arn't arguing rfc's, and by '99% of the time', actually, it works 100% of the time unless you use the rfc-ignorant blacklists. If it works 100% of the time for you, what can I say. I don't know if, or, since you are the expert in this, maybe you

Re: Whitelist_from dont work at all

2008-10-23 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 10:27 -0700, mathiasadsl wrote: > I'm trying hard to make my whitelist_from work. > I want to whitelist my own domain (i know... it can be dangerous but it's > for testing purpose). Yes, for production you should use whitelist_from_rcvd instead, if there is a need for white-l

Re: Whitelist_from dont work at all

2008-10-23 Thread Evan Platt
mathiasadsl wrote: Hi, I'm trying hard to make my whitelist_from work. I want to whitelist my own domain (i know... it can be dangerous but it's for testing purpose). This is an example of unormaly tagged email: unormaly ? If you're trying to say your example isn't being whitelisted... It

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
we arn't arguing rfc's, and by '99% of the time', actually, it works 100% of the time unless you use the rfc-ignorant blacklists. rfc means 'request for comment'. and rfc's change as technology changes. I don't know if, or, since you are the expert in this, maybe you can enlighten us.. What m

Whitelist_from dont work at all

2008-10-23 Thread mathiasadsl
Hi, I'm trying hard to make my whitelist_from work. I want to whitelist my own domain (i know... it can be dangerous but it's for testing purpose). This is my local.cf : # These values can be overridden by editing ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs.cf # (see spamassassin(1) for details) # These should b

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread SM
Hi Michael, At 08:58 23-10-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: Why? Its being widely used by 'email experts' and hosted email anti-spam companies now. The section of the SMTP standard that discusses about MX records is commonly misinterpreted by some people. Even if CNAMEs are widely used, that

Re: shortcircuit

2008-10-23 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:15:33PM +0200, mouss wrote: > Brent Clark a écrit : > > Hiya > > > > I would like to know, what are the implications of using / enabling > > shortcircuit. > > > > Other than speeding up the scan processing, from my side, I cant see a > > downgrade in spam detection. > >

Re: bogusmx [Was: DNS restrictions for a mail server]

2008-10-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> At 15:01 22-10-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: >> Maybe rfc's need to change.. There is no modern software that can't send to >> a cnamed mx or mx'ed cname, whatever. > > I doubt that it will be changed to accommodate that. It's not only a > matter of software. Such a change would have an impac

RE: doesn't drop email above required hits

2008-10-23 Thread RobertH
nelson i have typed this up before on other lists and possibly this one it is a qmail-scanner-queue.pl issue and requires delicate config changes also, because of that, we changed the clamav config to the spamassassin clamav plugin way as well and stopped it in the above qmail-scanner-queue

RE: doesn't drop email above required hits

2008-10-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Nelson Serafica wrote: > Anyone uses qmail here. I just recently setup qmail with > qmail-scanner and clamav and spamassin as scanner array. I just > noticed in my spamassassin log that even though the required hits in > spamassassin is 5, it still allow those email which has greater value > of 5.

Re: Rule writing - spamassassin-3.2.5-1

2008-10-23 Thread Tom Brown
That was discussed within the past week, check the mailing list archives. thanks - i have resolved this now

Re: shortcircuit

2008-10-23 Thread mouss
Brent Clark a écrit : > Hiya > > I would like to know, what are the implications of using / enabling > shortcircuit. > > Other than speeding up the scan processing, from my side, I cant see a > downgrade in spam detection. > if you don't have performance issues, don't shortcircuit. The more you

Re: why did spamassassin block this ?

2008-10-23 Thread mouss
Lucio Chiappetti a écrit : > We have been very happily running spamassassin 3.0.4 under amavisd-new > milter on Suse 9.2 since a couple of years, using the standard > configuration recommended by the Italian GARR network. > > Please avoid comments on "old version" or so, we are planning an overall

Re: shortcircuit

2008-10-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Brent Clark wrote on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:43:32 +0200: > I cant see a > downgrade in spam detection. you *may* see an "upgrade" in FPs. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: why did spamassassin block this ?

2008-10-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: > Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > >> We have been very happily running spamassassin 3.0.4 under amavisd-new >> milter on Suse 9.2 since a couple of years, using the standard >> configuration recommended by the Italian GARR network. >> >> Please avoid comments on "old version" or so

Re: why did spamassassin block this ?

2008-10-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > We have been very happily running spamassassin 3.0.4 under amavisd-new > milter on Suse 9.2 since a couple of years, using the standard > configuration recommended by the Italian GARR network. > > Please avoid comments on "old version" or so, we are planning an > overall u

Re: why did spamassassin block this ?

2008-10-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.10.08 11:05, Lucio Chiappetti wrote: > We have been very happily running spamassassin 3.0.4 under amavisd-new > milter on Suse 9.2 since a couple of years, using the standard > configuration recommended by the Italian GARR network. > > Please avoid comments on "old version" or so, we are p

Re: shortcircuit

2008-10-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.10.08 10:43, Brent Clark wrote: > I would like to know, what are the implications of using / enabling > shortcircuit. > > Other than speeding up the scan processing, from my side, I cant see a > downgrade in spam detection. important rules may not be applied thus you can have FPs and FNs

why did spamassassin block this ?

2008-10-23 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
We have been very happily running spamassassin 3.0.4 under amavisd-new milter on Suse 9.2 since a couple of years, using the standard configuration recommended by the Italian GARR network. Please avoid comments on "old version" or so, we are planning an overall update following an OS update in

shortcircuit

2008-10-23 Thread Brent Clark
Hiya I would like to know, what are the implications of using / enabling shortcircuit. Other than speeding up the scan processing, from my side, I cant see a downgrade in spam detection. Kind Regards Brent Clark

Re: OT: DNS restrictions for a mail server

2008-10-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> >># host mail.example.com > >>mail.example.com is an alias for hostname.example.com. > >>hostname.example.com has address 1.2.3.4 > > > > > >Wrong. The MX record has to point to an A name, not a CNAME. On 22.10.08 21:21, Len Conrad wrote: > what? > > MX record's data field is a domain name >