Re: Spam Assassin Rejecting Comcast Validation Emails

2010-03-02 Thread LuKreme
On 02-Mar-10 09:58, MGW-Discussions wrote: when the test email comes through, it is rejected with a score of 5.2/5.0 You are REJECTING at a score of 5.0? That's a bad idea. Generally if you run SA at transaction you will tag at a score of 5.0 through maybe 10.0 or maybe even 12.0, it is only

Re: Spam Assassin Scoring Comcast Validation Emails as spam

2010-03-02 Thread MGW-Discussions
Thanks for the advice guys. I will try to get a good sample, however, I will have to tweak some rulesets to even get it to stay in citadel long enough to view it. I haven't been able to play with my spamassassin install very much, other than automating the updates on rules. Thanks again, an

RE: Custom Rules Question SOLVED(ish)

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Dilworth
The problem was multiline rules with rawbody. Changing it to full and things work. (I missed that little detail in the wiki, and there are body rules in the dist that have /is) A rule in-between rawbody/full? I.e. the whole body, but not the headers? Or even better, in addition to that, p

Re: Finding URLs in html attachments

2010-03-02 Thread Jason Haar
On 03/03/2010 01:54 PM, John Hardin wrote: > > mimeheader OBFU_PDF_ATTACH Content-Type =~ > m,application/octet-stream;.+\.pdf\b,i > describe OBFU_PDF_ATTACH PDF attachment with generic MIME type > scoreOBFU_PDF_ATTACH 0.25 FYI I've noticed Outlook sends all PDF att

Re: Finding URLs in html attachments

2010-03-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, John Hardin wrote: Would you be willing to test this and see how well it does in practice? {grumble} reply-to {grumble} Sorry for spamming the list with this, it was meant just for Chip. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@im

Re: Finding URLs in html attachments

2010-03-02 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Chip M. wrote: Since these started, they've had 19 of these phish: 1 "Bank of America" 1 "PayPaI" 1 "Paypal Inc." 1 "serv...@irs.gov" 1 "serv...@paypal.com" 1 "serv...@paypal.com" 3 "serv...@paypal.com" 1 "U.S. Bancorp" 1 "Wachovia" 1 "Wells Fargo Online" 1 Bank of

Re: Now with trusted_networks support Re: DNSWL --report plugin

2010-03-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 10:32 -0500, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > If you have spamassassin's trusted_networks value configured properly, this > module will now always report the correct IP to DNSWL when you run > spamassassin --report. > > trusted_networks needs to be right for all DNS Blacklist

Re: Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Lucio Chiappetti wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. Hmm ... how dead is dead ? :-) We had for some time three domains (our institute was moved fro

Re: Finding URLs in html attachments

2010-03-02 Thread Chip M.
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, LuKreme wrote: > SPF! > > You're a brave person. ;) It's easier to understand the challenge Dave faces, if we look at some actual From headers. In my stream, these started in early November of last year, so I just checked a few months of data from one domain which has h

Re: Spamhaus DBL

2010-03-02 Thread Chip M.
I've been running it since 1:51 Eastern (US) time, yesterday. >You risk wrongly flagging legitimate email if you make IP queries >to the DBL. For now, I'm :) cheating, by mapping one of the (officially) unused high bits to a negative score, which should wipe out the positive score for a raw IP UR

Re: [sa] Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-02 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. (SNIP) The sender has to do several other things in order to be blacklisted. Simple question: Does your 'harvester' have

Re: Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-02 Thread d . hill
Quoting Lucio Chiappetti : On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. Hmm ... how dead is dead ? :-) We had for some time three domains (our institute was moved f

Re: Spam Assassin Rejecting Comcast Validation Emails

2010-03-02 Thread Big Wave Dave
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:58 AM, MGW-Discussions wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am sure that I would be better able to diagnose this problem if I was able > to capture the incident email traffic, however, at this point I have not > been able to retrieve the emails. > > The situation is that upon reg

Re: Putting your dead domains to use

2010-03-02 Thread Lucio Chiappetti
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth - if any of you have domains you don't use you can point them to my virus harvesting server for spam harvesting. Hmm ... how dead is dead ? :-) We had for some time three domains (our institute was moved from one national organizatio

Re: Spam Assassin Rejecting Comcast Validation Emails

2010-03-02 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 11:58 -0500, MGW-Discussions wrote: > I am sure that I would be better able to diagnose this problem if I was > able to capture the incident email traffic, however, at this point I > have not been able to retrieve the emails. Check your logs for the rules the email triggere

Spam Assassin Rejecting Comcast Validation Emails

2010-03-02 Thread MGW-Discussions
Greetings all. I am sure that I would be better able to diagnose this problem if I was able to capture the incident email traffic, however, at this point I have not been able to retrieve the emails. The situation is that upon registration of a new username for comcast services, which is actu

Now with trusted_networks support Re: DNSWL --report plugin

2010-03-02 Thread Darxus
If you have spamassassin's trusted_networks value configured properly, this module will now always report the correct IP to DNSWL when you run spamassassin --report. trusted_networks needs to be right for all DNS Blacklist checks (and DNSWL) to know which IP to check. Mine currently looks like:

Re: can I roll back to an earlier version of updates

2010-03-02 Thread Lee Dilkie
You'll love this.. My nightly sa-update cron ran last night and upgraded my "modified" rules (was version 916621) to a newer version (version 917420). This, of course, undid my changes. And equally surprising, --lint passed. I looked at the diffs and sure enough, the same lines were back (number

Re: Spamhaus DBL

2010-03-02 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1:16:17 AM, Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: > "ram" wrote in message > news:1267506187.16095.11.ca...@darkstar.netcore.co.in... >> http://www.spamhaus.org/dbl/ >> I think sa-folks would have this already in some URIBL rule. What are >> the scores you assign for a dbl positive h

Re: Spamhaus DBL

2010-03-02 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
"ram" wrote in message news:1267506187.16095.11.ca...@darkstar.netcore.co.in... http://www.spamhaus.org/dbl/ I think sa-folks would have this already in some URIBL rule. What are the scores you assign for a dbl positive hit ? I assume my current datafeed would already extend to data access on t