Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Henrik K
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:50:45PM -0700, Mike Cappella wrote: > On 8/6/09 6:31 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: > >> No it doesn't. Header fields names are case-insensitive. >> >>> A space after : is shown in every example in 2822, but I don't see a >>> requirement that it be there. It is extremely unusu

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, > I find ordinary header and meta rules are all I need: > > http://pastebin.com/f5e5232d1 Among those rules you have: meta RELAYCOUNTRY_MED ! RELAYCOUNTRY_HIGH && ( __RELAYCOUNTRY_AF || __RELAYCOUNTRY_AS || __RELAYCOUNTRY_EU_S || __RELAYCOUNTRY_OC_S || __RELAYCOUNTRY_AM_S ) It's p

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
Le jeudi 6 août 2009 21:55:33, Karsten Bräckelmann a écrit : > > What I don't understand is that it knows which country its relayed > > through, because it prints the rules in the "tests=" section: > > > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=21.8 tag1=-300.0 tag2=4.9 kill=4.9 > > use_bayes=1 tests=BAYES_50,

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, > This is also why the plugin works and you do get the per-country rule > hits, but don't get the SA Relay-Countries header. Yes, you are correct. Thanks for the lead and the explanation. Here's a thread that talks about how to add the header for amavisd: http://www.mail-archive.com/amavis-u

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> What I don't understand is that it knows which country its relayed > through, because it prints the rules in the "tests=" section: > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=21.8 tag1=-300.0 tag2=4.9 kill=4.9 > use_bayes=1 tests=BAYES_50, BODY_ENHANCEMENT, BOTNET, > FH_HELO_EQ_D_D_D_D, RDNS_NONE, RELAYCOUNT

Re: Again AWL confusion

2009-08-06 Thread LuKreme
On 5-Aug-2009, at 02:15, a...@exys.org wrote: The point is that scores below 2 are never spam, Er... that's certainly not true. -- *** AgentSmith sets mode: +m

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> > From your mail's Received headers, first hop, using a random service I > > quickly googled. Your DSL (dial-up?) IP is reported to be in Cleveland, > > Ohio. Your SMTP is in Dallas, Texas. Which one is "near" you? > > If you tried something with more accuracy like MaxMind.com, you would see > "

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, >> [23760] dbg: metadata: X-Relay-Countries: >> > The --lint test is *NOT* valid for this. --lint is *ONLY* to verify your > config files are parseable. Yes, thanks, I should have known that, and I think I did. I mentioned in the previous post that I tried it with a real message, and even vie

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: >> > Sorry. But yes, I've got personal responses from pretty >> > much *all* over the world. >> >> As a geek, "I" receive mail from all over the world. However as a business >> owner, my statement holds true. My clients are clustered near me

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread Matt Kettler
MySQL Student wrote: > Hi, > > >> I don't know if it makes a difference, but I call it Relay-Countries to >> match the name of the pseudo-header used in the tests >> >> add_header all Relay-Countries _RELAYCOUNTRY_ >> > > It doesn't appear to make a difference. I must be doing some

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > > Sorry. But yes, I've got personal responses from pretty > > much *all* over the world. > > As a geek, "I" receive mail from all over the world. However as a business > owner, my statement holds true. My clients are clustered near me. >Fro

Re: Anti-Phishing and Spear-Phishing Version 2

2009-08-06 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:28 -0400, MySQL Student wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried the phishing rules generated by Julian Field and > developed by Google? It looks really neat: > > http://www.jules.fm/Logbook/files/anti-phishing-v2.html > > It's basically a list of 3.5k email addresses found in

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:28 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: >> Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50 miles of my location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received even a single email from China that wasn't spam. . . . >Sorry. But yes, I've got personal

Anti-Phishing and Spear-Phishing Version 2

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Has anyone tried the phishing rules generated by Julian Field and developed by Google? It looks really neat: http://www.jules.fm/Logbook/files/anti-phishing-v2.html It's basically a list of 3.5k email addresses found in email thought to be spam. Looks to be developed by Google, so it's "saf

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, > I don't know if it makes a difference, but I call it Relay-Countries to > match the name of the pseudo-header used in the tests > > add_header all Relay-Countries          _RELAYCOUNTRY_ It doesn't appear to make a difference. I must be doing something else wrong. Using "spamassassin --lint

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:34 +0100, RW wrote: > > Somewhat of a basic question, but once I do manage to get that header > > working, I know I can parse that and make decisions based on it. Are > > there any pre-written perl routines or utilities that can make that > > information useful? > > I fin

Re: Making this FN correctly scored as spam

2009-08-06 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:55 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: > > http://pastebin.com/m5e126ea > > This came to one of my address where what I usually get is 99% spam and > > was scored as ham, no matter what I've done... > > I find it *extremely* rare for a spammer

Re: Making this FN correctly scored as spam

2009-08-06 Thread Chris
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 03:52 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:12 -0500, Chris wrote: > > This came to one of my address where what I usually get is 99% spam and > > was scored as ham, no matter what I've done I can't get it to score the > > Without looking at the sample

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread d . hill
Quoting "McDonald, Dan" : On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:34 -0600, LuKreme wrote: On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:35, d.h...@yournetplus.com wrote: > Quoting LuKreme : > >> On 3-Aug-2009, at 18:36, Dennis G German wrote: > > If you use the lists as an RBL to reject at SMTP, you will end up > rejecting legitima

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:28 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50 miles of my > location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received even a > single email from China that wasn't spam. I did. Same for almost any country you can

Re: AW: AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:48 +, Tobias Eichner wrote: > > Amavis headers. These are not added by SA, but Amavis. I keep forgetting > > this, but I believe the option whether to rewrite the Subject *also* is > > an Amavis setting. > > > > Not SA. You are looking at the wrong configuration files.

Re: AW: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:46 +, Tobias Eichner wrote: > > SA checks, what it is being fed. If you do not want to check outgoing > > messages, you need to set up your mail processing chain accordingly. > > > > Point being: From what you just said, you are scanning your outgoing > > messages. SA

AW: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
> If you are running amavis-new as a Postfix service (i.e. defined in > master.cf as a service that re-injects checked messages into Postfix) > then all mail arriving via SMTP will be scanned - and this normally > includes outbound as well as inbound messages. Okay, then it is intended this way

AW: AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
> Amavis headers. These are not added by SA, but Amavis. I keep forgetting > this, but I believe the option whether to rewrite the Subject *also* is > an Amavis setting. > > Not SA. You are looking at the wrong configuration files. Are you sure ? "all_spam_to" is a SA setting, not affiliated

AW: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
> SA checks, what it is being fed. If you do not want to check outgoing > messages, you need to set up your mail processing chain accordingly. > > Point being: From what you just said, you are scanning your outgoing > messages. SA just does, what you asked for. Sure, but the problem isn't solv

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Backscatter.org is the worst RBL on the planet. If you use it you will get a lot of false positives. Lets compare backscatterer's recommended usage of their list in your favourite MTA against your own recommendation for usage of your hostkarma RBL i

Re: AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:35 +, Tobias Eichner wrote: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-101.195 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=BAYES_00, > BLANK_LINES_70_80, USER_IN_ALL_SPAM_TO Amavis headers. These are not added by SA, but Amavis. I keep forgetting this, but I believe the option whether to rewr

Re: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:34 +, Tobias Eichner wrote: > I not understand is why messages are checked for spam overall ? My > assumption is that SpamAssassin checks only INCOMING mails, but not the > outgoing ones. Strange. SA checks, what it is being fed. If you do not want to check outgoing me

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:38:53 -0400 MySQL Student wrote: > add_header all Relay-Country _RELAYCOUNTRY_ > ... > I was hoping to also have the X-Spam-Countries header added, but that > doesn't seem to work. I don't know if it makes a difference, but I call it Relay-Countries to match the name of t

Re: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
I got information about the mail flows (from the technician managing the BlackBerry phones): Message --> Send from an account on our server ---> to a mailbox at O2 (cell phone provider) ---> and from there directly to the phone What I not understand is why messages are checked for spam overall

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:34 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:35, d.h...@yournetplus.com wrote: > > > Quoting LuKreme : > > > >> On 3-Aug-2009, at 18:36, Dennis G German wrote: > > > > If you use the lists as an RBL to reject at SMTP, you will end up > > rejecting legitimate email. He

Re: [sa] AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Tobias Eichner wrote: not examine the delivery envelope. Thus BCC'ed emails, those delivered by mailing lists, or those with fake TO: lines will not have the negative score modifier applied. What do you mean with "fake TO:" ? Spammer enters a random address as the

Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Cappella
On 8/6/09 6:31 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: No it doesn't. Header fields names are case-insensitive. A space after : is shown in every example in 2822, but I don't see a requirement that it be there. It is extremely unusual not to see it. There is no requirement for a space after a colon. (but

RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm trying to configure RelayCountry. I have it installed, and SA recognizes it: # spamassassin --lint -D 2>&1|grep -i country [4278] dbg: diag: module installed: IP::Country::Fast, version 604.001 [4278] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry from @INC [4278] dbg: plug

AW: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
>The SpamAssassin ALL_SPAM_TO mechanism only works if the given email >address appears in the TO: or CC: lines of the email itself. It does Yes, it does. >not examine the delivery envelope. Thus BCC'ed emails, those delivered >by mailing lists, or those with fake TO: lines will n

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread J.D. Falk
Marc Perkel wrote: If someone is doing sender address verification then they are filtering spam and those who filter spam are not sending spam. Do you have any stats on that? -- J.D. Falk Return Path Inc http://www.returnpath.net/

Re: "all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Tobias Eichner wrote: all_spam_to bbpe...@domain.tld bbchar...@otherdomain.tld Although this is set up, people are still reporting that they sometimes receive mails tagged with "SPAM..." subject. As per, http://www.mail-archive.com/spamassassin-t...@lists.sourceforge.net/

Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Neil Schwartzman
The geniuses send their regards; they are a customer so I pinged them: Hi Neil, Thanks for heads-up. I've forwarded the information to our corporate domain/smtp management folks. Sincerely, MUNGED Lead Operations Man

"all_spam_to" seems to be ignored sometimes...

2009-08-06 Thread Tobias Eichner
Hello, I'm currently facing the following problem with SpamAssassin (version 3.0, I think, but not sure): I configured SpamAssassin to mark spam mails by adding the string "SPAM..." to the beginning of the original mail subject. So far, this works well. Users can now configure a sorting rule

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Martinec
Terry Carmen wrote: > Actually, I was looking at it from the other (ham) direction. > > Say I live in Rochester, NY. Chances are pretty good that mail I receive > from IP addresses in or near Rochester would be ham (friends/business/etc.) > > Email becomes more "hammy" as it's origination point get

Re: Using ASN plugin on internal SA scanner

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Scheidell
Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:53 PM -0400 Michael Scheidell wrote: enable the ASN plugin.. it will create bayes tokens. then train your system, any ASN that sends you mostly spam will hit bayes_>50%? Is there a way to get the ASN plugin to report on other than the

Using ASN plugin on internal SA scanner

2009-08-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:53 PM -0400 Michael Scheidell wrote: enable the ASN plugin.. it will create bayes tokens. then train your system, any ASN that sends you mostly spam will hit bayes_>50%? Is there a way to get the ASN plugin to report on other than the first hop in the heade

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> > Personally, I think you'd have just about as much success scoring 1 >> > additional point to any email originating from the US. >> >> It actually works very well with very small and very large dista

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > Kenneth Porter wrote: > > Personally, I think you'd have just about as much success scoring 1 > > additional point to any email originating from the US. > > It actually works very well with very small and very large distances. > >

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Scheidell
Terry Carmen wrote: What would seem to be really useful is if spamassassin kept the geographic coordinates for all sender IPs and created "hammy" and "spammy" area mappings and used distance from these as a weighting factor. enable the ASN plugin.. it will create bayes tokens. then tr

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> Kenneth Porter wrote: >> A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance >> from sender to recipient correlates with spam, > > I'm really not sure how given that the majority of spam appears to > originate from the USA: > > http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lass

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Ned Slider
Kenneth Porter wrote: A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance from sender to recipient correlates with spam, I'm really not sure how given that the majority of spam appears to originate from the USA: http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/countries.lasso with nea

Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
A recent thread on spam detection suggested that geographical distance from sender to recipient correlates with spam, and that spammers tend to cluster geographically. Are there any plugins that can calculate these distances? I suppose the output would be two rules (or two sets of rules, with mu

Re: DB structure information

2009-08-06 Thread Dan Schaefer
Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: Hi SAs, I wonder to know if there is a document that explains how is relation-entity database schema designed. TIA LD Is this even a SA question? -- Dan Schaefer Web Developer/Systems Analyst Performance Administration Corp.

DB structure information

2009-08-06 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
Hi SAs, I wonder to know if there is a document that explains how is relation-entity database schema designed. TIA LD

Re: Detecting email from my domain

2009-08-06 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
Le jeudi 6 août 2009 03:57:23, Martin Gregorie a écrit : > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 02:02 -0500, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > > Le mercredi 5 août 2009 18:31:04, David B Funk a écrit : > > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > > > > Hi SAs, > > > > > > > > Well, as far as i am r

Re: Making this FN correctly scored as spam

2009-08-06 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Chris wrote: http://pastebin.com/m5e126ea This came to one of my address where what I usually get is 99% spam and was scored as ham, no matter what I've done... I find it *extremely* rare for a spammer to use their own e-mail address and server to send their mail. So this

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Perkel wrote: Backscatter.org is the worst RBL on the planet. If you use it you will get a lot of false positives. Lets compare backscatterer's recommended usage of their list in your favourite MTA against your own recommendation for usage of your hostkarma RBL in your favourite MTA:

Re: Making this FN correctly scored as spam

2009-08-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:12:07 -0500 Chris wrote: > -2.2 KHOP_RCVD_TRUSTDNS-Whitelisted sender is verified Personally I don't see the point of this one. It's the |IP address that's trusted, any additional domain-based authentication tells you nothing. If spam comes from a semi-legitimat

Re: Backscatter.org used as RBL??

2009-08-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Backscatter.org is the worst RBL on the planet. If you use it you will get a lot of false positives. Lets compare backscatterer's recommended usage of their list in your favourite MTA against your own recommendation for usage of your hostkarma RBL i

Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Martinec
Joseph Brennan writes: > > date:31 Jul 09 10:13 -0800 > Do they really write "date:" instead of "Date:"? That violates RFC 2822. No it doesn't. Header fields names are case-insensitive. > A space after : is shown in every example in 2822, but I don't see a > requirement that it be there. It is

Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
Michael Scheidell wrote: and did you ever hear of Y2K? can't you afford to send out two more digits in the year? date:31 Jul 09 10:13 -0800 Do they really write "date:" instead of "Date:"? That violates RFC 2822. A space after : is shown in every example in 2822, but I don't see a requ

Re: Geniuses at expedia.com

2009-08-06 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > tests=[BAYES_00=0.1, DCC_CHECK=1.5, DCC_REPUT_60_69=0.1, > > HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, INVALID_DATE=1.245, > > MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.957, NO_REAL_NAME=1, > > RELAY_COUNTRY_US=0.001, SARE_OEM_S_PRICE=1, > > SPF_SOFTFAIL=1] autolearn=no received:from On 06.08.09 09:36, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > Why positiv

Re: Making this FN correctly scored as spam

2009-08-06 Thread Ralph Bornefeld-Ettmann
Chris schrieb: http://pastebin.com/m5e126ea This came to one of my address where what I usually get is 99% spam and was scored as ham, no matter what I've done I can't get it to score the minimum +5 points. After learning it as spam with sa-learn and using spamassassin -r to report to razor/pyzo

Re: Detecting email from my domain

2009-08-06 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 02:02 -0500, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > Le mercredi 5 août 2009 18:31:04, David B Funk a écrit : > > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > > > Hi SAs, > > > > > > Well, as far as i am receiving email from my domain to my domain. I dont > > > want to blo

Re: Detecting email from my domain

2009-08-06 Thread Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz
Le mercredi 5 août 2009 18:31:04, David B Funk a écrit : > On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz wrote: > > Hi SAs, > > > > Well, as far as i am receiving email from my domain to my domain. I dont > > want to block it because there are about 10% of email that is okay. I'd > > like to know