Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Wed, 24.02.2010 at 22:18:04 -0500, alexus wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Toni Mueller > wrote: > > On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus wrote: > >> is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? > -bash-3.2# man preline > No manual entry for preline > -bash-

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread ram
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 18:33 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Jeff Koch wrote: > > > > In an effort to reduce spam further we tried implementing SPF > > enforcement. Within three days we turned it off. What we found was that: > > > > - domain owners are allowing SPF records to be added to their zone

Re: OT: SPF: Some statistics

2010-02-24 Thread LuKreme
On 24-Feb-10 21:26, Bart Schaefer wrote: Coincidental to the recent thread on SPF comes this from Terry Zink: http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/02/23/some-stats-and-figures-on-dkim-and-spf.aspx The comment is spot on. SPF and DKIM are not anti-spam technologies per se, they are verified

OT: SPF: Some statistics

2010-02-24 Thread Bart Schaefer
Coincidental to the recent thread on SPF comes this from Terry Zink: http://blogs.msdn.com/tzink/archive/2010/02/23/some-stats-and-figures-on-dkim-and-spf.aspx

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread alexus
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 14:08 -0500, alexus wrote: >> is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? >> one more my emails getting spam'd big time... >> i get nothin' but spam at this email >> so i'd like to redirect all of that to s

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread alexus
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Toni Mueller wrote: > > On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus wrote: >> is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? > > man preline > > HTH, > --Toni++ > -bash-3.2# man preline No manual entry for preline -bash-3.2# -- http://alexus.org/

Re: Yahoo Feedback Loop - off topic

2010-02-24 Thread J.D. Falk
On Feb 19, 2010, at 9:09 AM, Jeff Koch wrote: > The only large ISP that seems to have an FBL friendly approach is AOL. We've > been on their FBL for years. If anyone knows of another ISP with a friendly > FBL I'd love to know. What's your definition of "friendly" in this context? -- J.D. Falk

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: I guess it doesn't really matter since the message was actually hitting another rule (T_LOTS_OF_MONEY) that I somehow missed. It also hits some of the testing ADVANCE_FEE_NEW rules. I hope to bring those live soon... -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed 24 Feb 2010 05:58:02 PM CET, Kelson wrote And as people on this list have pointed out 5,000 times, including myself yesterday: whitelist_from_spf *...@example.com def_whitelist_auth *...@example.com whitelist_auth u...@example.com freemail_whitelist u...@example.com this way its

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Ned Slider
Christian Brel wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:31:19 +0100 Kai Schaetzl wrote: Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in 'my networks'. Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter if you get the mail via

RE: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Gary Smith
> > SPF works great as a selective whitelist in SpamAssassin. (And I don't > > mean whitelisting all SPF passes. That would be stupid. I mean > > whitelisting mail coming from domain X, but only when it passes SPF > > and demonstrates that yes, it really came from domain X.) > > > > I'd say that wh

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:37:47 -0600 "Dennis B. Hopp" wrote: > > > It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a > > comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal > > separator. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping > > >

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Karl Pearson
On Wed, February 24, 2010 2:28 am, Per Jessen wrote: > Christian Brel wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 >> Per Jessen wrote: >> >>> LuKreme wrote: >>> >>> > On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: >>> >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you >>> >> specified. The o

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:31:19 +0100 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: > > > But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in > > 'my networks'. > > Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter if you get the mail > via 25 or 58

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kelson
On 2/23/2010 6:33 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: I agree. I've been in the spam filtering business for many years and have yetto find any use for SPF at all. It's disturbing this useless technology is getting the false positive support we are seeing. And as people on this list have pointed out 5,000 ti

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:09:31 +0100 Per Jessen wrote: > > Tell you what, wouldn't it be a great idea to save all the messing > > around and use something universal and simple for the job? Something > > lightweight and easy to deploy. I know! What about using SPF! > > Christian, I suspect we don'

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:49 +: > But that would reject *everything* that was not authenticated or in 'my > networks'. Indeed, that's the purpose. And it doesn't matter if you get the mail via 25 or 587. 587 is just a convenience. Any other access to use your server for

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:49 +0100 > Per Jessen wrote: > >> Christian Brel wrote: >> >> >> > Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to >> >> > either a different IP or port? >> >> >> >> IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on >>

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. > >> The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own > >> domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and vice-versa for the decimal separator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousands_separator#Digit_grouping I knew it was common in other parts of the world, but for some reason was thinkin

Re: [SPAM:9.6] [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:39:47 +: > What about my home workers? they use SMTP AUTH. It works, believe us. With a standard postfix. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
Nevermind...it was also hitting T_LOTS_OF_MONEY and once I expired old bayes tokens it no longer hit BAYES_00. Now I just have to figure out whats up with my bayes db. --Dennis Quoting "Dennis B. Hopp" : I have been seeing a few spam mails slip past that talk about being able to get bogu

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/24/2010 10:14 AM, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: ... but where there should be a comma it puts a period. I put an example of one of these messages at: http://pastebin.com/SXuGELUS It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and vice-ve

Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Dennis B. Hopp
I have been seeing a few spam mails slip past that talk about being able to get bogus dollar amounts. What I mean by that is it will give a large value in the e-mail but where there should be a comma it puts a period. I put an example of one of these messages at: http://pastebin.com/SXuGE

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Christian Brel wrote: > No, they submit on 25 using TLS+SASL. Would making > the changes to Firewall, MTA, plus potentially thosands of clients be > easier than SPF? Would all those angry users screaming because they > can't send mail at all be a good thing? I don

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:37:49 +0100 Per Jessen wrote: > Christian Brel wrote: > > >> > Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to > >> > either a different IP or port? > >> > >> IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on > >> different IP-ranges. > > > > Wha

Re: Phish - two simple techniques that make the "obvious" tests viable

2010-02-24 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Chip M. wrote: Note that an IP-based exception must be made for Paypal (the From domain is always different for user transactions). I'd wager whitelist_auth is a better way to do that. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@imps

office 12/14 and MISSING_MIMEOLE in sa330

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Scheidell
looks like office12/14 forgets to put in the ole headers and FP's on MISSING_MIMEOLE 20_head_tests.cf:meta MISSING_MIMEOLE(__HAS_MSMAIL_PRI && !__HAS_MIMEOLE && !__HAS_SQUIRRELMAIL_IN_MAILER) 20_head_tests.cf:describe MISSING_MIMEOLEMessage has X-MSMail-Priority, but no X-MimeOLE

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. >> The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own >> domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. >>

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: >> > Humour me. Does this not mean a need to change the outbound to >> > either a different IP or port? >> >> IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on different >> IP-ranges. > > What about my home workers? I don't have a VPN, they hook in by DSL > from a

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Christian Brel wrote: > > IP yes. I assume your external and internal network are on different > > IP-ranges. > > What about my home workers? I don't have a VPN, they hook in by DSL > from any number of different providers from outside using SASL/TLS. They shoul

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:38:55 +0200 Henrik K wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30:25AM +, Christian Brel wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 > > "Rob Sterenborg" wrote: > > > > > On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > > > > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemon

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:41:29 +0100 Per Jessen wrote: > Christian Brel wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 > > "Rob Sterenborg" wrote: > > > >> On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> > >> > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for > >> > >> > You don't have

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: > > I guess you could start hashing things around > > with IPTables to redirect certain requests, but once you've done all > > of this, changed all the clients etc. etc, you are saying this would > > be *easier* than SPF? > See Mariusz Kruks sugg

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 > "Rob Sterenborg" wrote: > >> On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> >> > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for >> >> > You don't have to run two postfixes for this. >> >> I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes,

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Henrik K
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30:25AM +, Christian Brel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 > "Rob Sterenborg" wrote: > > > On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for > > > > > You don't have to run two postfixes for this

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:02:02 +: > >> So you would reject outbound mail from your domain? I'm sure that's a >> typo. > > He just didn't show the full configuration. It's obvious that you put > your allowance checks first. > > Kai I did also say 'th

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Rob Sterenborg wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100: > I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes.. and I meant what he meant ;-) Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:39:43 +0100 "Rob Sterenborg" wrote: > On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for > > > You don't have to run two postfixes for this. > > I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes.. > > > -- > Rob

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Christian Brel wrote on Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:02:02 +: > So you would reject outbound mail from your domain? I'm sure that's a > typo. He just didn't show the full configuration. It's obvious that you put your allowance checks first. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http:

RE: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Rob Sterenborg
On 2010-02-24, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Postfix: I would have two different smtpd daemons - one for > You don't have to run two postfixes for this. I think Per means: 2 smtpd processes, not 2 Postfixes.. -- Rob

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > You don't have to run two postfixes for this. > > Kai I wasn't suggesting two postfixes, only two smtpds, but what Mariusz said is even easier. /Per Jessen, Zürich

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
You don't have to run two postfixes for this. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

new (small) shortener campaign & suggestion for URLRedirect

2010-02-24 Thread Chip M.
Jonas, do you have any performance and/or efficacy stats for your URLRedirect plugin? After months of near silence, I'm seeing an interesting (albeit low volume) shortener campaign, that's picking up volume AND effectiveness. Only one of my 40-ish domains was getting these, then this week two oth

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.02.10 16:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: > SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. > The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own > domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. And what is this, if not enforcing SPF at MT

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.02.10 15:38, Jeff Koch wrote: > In an effort to reduce spam further we tried implementing SPF > enforcement. You should implement SPF in order to prevent mail forgery, not spam. SPF is a tool to reduce forgery, not spam. The fact that most of spam has forged address only helps you. > Withi

Phish - two simple techniques that make the "obvious" tests viable

2010-02-24 Thread Chip M.
Every few months, someone suggests detecting phish by looking for a different domain in the target vs display URL in HTML links. Other suggestions have included testing for different domain in the SMTP envelope Sender and the hostname of the sending IP. Every time, the grizzled veterans patiently

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:28:24 +0100 Per Jessen wrote: > Christian Brel wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 > > Per Jessen wrote: > > > >> LuKreme wrote: > >> > >> > On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you > >> >> spe

Re: .qmail

2010-02-24 Thread Toni Mueller
On Tue, 23.02.2010 at 14:08:30 -0500, alexus wrote: > is there a way to put sa-learn --spam inside of .qmail? man preline HTH, --Toni++

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Mariusz Kruk wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: >> >> Well, I guess it depends on your point of view - how difficult is >> >> it to set up an MTA to reject mails pretending to be from >> >> that didn't originate on your MTA? >> > Good question - how would you do it? >>

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
On Wednesday, 24 of February 2010, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Well, I guess it depends on your point of view - how difficult is it > >> to set up an MTA to reject mails pretending to be from > >> that didn't originate on your MTA? > > Good question - how would you do it? > > Postfix: I would have tw

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Christian Brel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 > Per Jessen wrote: > >> LuKreme wrote: >> >> > On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you >> >> specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy >> >> for you

Re: [SPAM:9.6] Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Christian Brel
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:18:38 +0100 Per Jessen wrote: > LuKreme wrote: > > > On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you > >> specified. The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy > >> for your own domain, you can use it to rej

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
LuKreme wrote: > On 23-Feb-10 14:17, Bowie Bailey wrote: >> SPF enforcement at the MTA is useless for the reasons you specified. >> The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own >> domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your >> users. > > And that makes i

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-24 Thread Per Jessen
Kelson wrote: > SPF works great as a selective whitelist in SpamAssassin. (And I don't > mean whitelisting all SPF passes. That would be stupid. I mean > whitelisting mail coming from domain X, but only when it passes SPF > and demonstrates that yes, it really came from domain X.) > > I'd say tha