Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread corpus.defero
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 16:22 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: > Not sure. I get this: > > http://pastebin.com/0U3WrgSS > The answer is at the botton: 40.152.71.64.list.dnswl.org. 43200 IN A 127.0.6.3 ;; Received 61 bytes from 208.67.172.131#53(c.ns.dnswl.org) in 76 ms So, according to c.ns.d

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 17:22, Jeremy Morton skrev: Not sure. I get this: http://pastebin.com/0U3WrgSS this is working as designed, no refused or errors, if its not working again then report it as so, with a +trace, report the last ns that fails if it do

syswrite() to parent failed:

2012-05-24 Thread Andy Jezierski
Just installed a new instance of spamassassin to offload some of the spam processing from our main server. Occaisionally the following message will appear and I'll have to restart spamd in order to get things going again. syswrite() to parent failed: Broken pipe at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_per

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
Not sure. I get this: http://pastebin.com/0U3WrgSS -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 24/05/2012 16:12, Benny Pedersen wrote: Den 2012-05-24 17:03, Jeremy Morton skrev: Nope, but it doesn't actually give an answer section as part of its output. where it timeout or rejected ?, where in

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 17:03, Jeremy Morton skrev: Nope, but it doesn't actually give an answer section as part of its output. where it timeout or rejected ?, where in the dns chain is it failing ?

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
Nope, but it doesn't actually give an answer section as part of its output. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 24/05/2012 16:06, Benny Pedersen wrote: Den 2012-05-24 16:41, Jeremy Morton skrev: I actually get: Host 40.152.71.64.list.dnswl.org not found: 5(REFUSED) dig +trace 40.152.71.

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 16:41, Jeremy Morton skrev: I actually get: Host 40.152.71.64.list.dnswl.org not found: 5(REFUSED) dig +trace 40.152.71.64.list.dnswl.org refused ?

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 16:06, Kevin A. McGrail skrev: Normally, I blame a DNS server. See pages like this for more information: http://www.surbl.org/faqs#dnsproxy surbl.org is one of the problematic dns servers for me, sent a email about it to surbl, got nothing in return Darxus, you wrote a go

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 24/05/2012 15:30, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 05/24, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Normally, I blame a DNS server. See pages like this for more information: http://www.surbl.org/faqs#dnsproxy Yup, that could do it. Icky. Jeremy: You could manually check if you're getting the wrong DNS re

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread darxus
On 05/24, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Normally, I blame a DNS server. See pages like this for more information: > > http://www.surbl.org/faqs#dnsproxy Yup, that could do it. Icky. Jeremy: You could manually check if you're getting the wrong DNS results by running: $ host 26.13.94.59.list.dnsw

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread darxus
On 05/24, Benny Pedersen wrote: > reject spf_softfail in mta, or report to http://www.dnswl.org/ SPF_SOFTFAIL kind of sucks: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?daterev=20120519-r1340375-n&rule=%2Fspf MSECSSPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME WHO/AGE 0 3.2640 27.9430 0.105

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/24/2012 10:02 AM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 05/24, Jeremy Morton wrote: -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, medium trust [59.94.13.26 listed in list.dnswl.org] I don't think this was ever actually listed by dnswl.org. I h

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread darxus
On 05/24, Jeremy Morton wrote: > -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at > http://www.dnswl.org/, medium > trust > [59.94.13.26 listed in list.dnswl.org] I don't think this was ever actually listed by dnswl.org. I have archives back to last June, which don't show it, a

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread darxus
On 05/24, corpus.defero wrote: > I'm not 100% but isn't http://www.dnswl.org/ a 'DIY' whitelisting site > that anyone can kind of abuse? No. I'm a (basically inactive) dnswl.org admin. Anybody can request to be added to the list, but all changes get looked over pretty thoroughly by a human, us

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 11:37, corpus.defero skrev: I'm not 100% but isn't http://www.dnswl.org/ a 'DIY' whitelisting site that anyone can kind of abuse? as long users can report spamming ips aswell as get listed for not sending spam at all, its fine with me that some use it, for my self its a way t

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-05-24 11:14, Jeremy Morton skrev: Any ideas why the sender would be in the dnswl with medium trust? I did recently change my machine's hostname to ip.game-point.net. reject spf_softfail in mta, or report to http://www.dnswl.org/ (why did thay list a dynamic ip ?) if sender is legi

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread corpus.defero
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 11:11 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: > Where would the rules for these blocklists be, so I can check my rules > files to see whether they're there? > In later rulesets (forget when they added it) it looks something like this: ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DNSEval header

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Jeremy, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 11:11:22 AM, you wrote: JM> Where would the rules for these blocklists be, so I can check my rules JM> files to see whether they're there? Mine are in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.003002/updates_spamassassin_org -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
Where would the rules for these blocklists be, so I can check my rules files to see whether they're there? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) On 24/05/2012 11:09, Niamh Holding wrote: Hello Jeremy, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:53:33 AM, you wrote: JM> Interesting that they didn't show up i

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Jeremy, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:53:33 AM, you wrote: JM> Interesting that they didn't show up in my SpamAssassin headers; do you JM> think I need to add some extra rules for these blocklists? Maybe the listings came after you got your email? -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 24/05/2012 10:37, corpus.defero wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:14 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: I've gotten a lot of false positives coming into my inbox lately, and the principle reason for most of them seems to be that they are matching the following rule: -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL:

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Jeremy Morton
On 24/05/2012 10:37, corpus.defero wrote: But that's just my default settings on every instance of SA that I work on. Sometimes I add points for Return Path as it seems to help BLOCK spam rather than pass ham - but that's a can of worms and a different subject. Ham, spam, and worms. Sounds lik

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread corpus.defero
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 10:14 +0100, Jeremy Morton wrote: > I've gotten a lot of false positives coming into my inbox lately, and > the principle reason for most of them seems to be that they are matching > the following rule: > -4.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread João Gouveia
- Original Message - > From: "Jeremy Morton" > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:14:11 AM > Subject: Suddenly getting lots of false positives. > > I've gotten a lot of false positives coming into my inbox lately, and > the principle reason for most of t

Re: Suddenly getting lots of false positives.

2012-05-24 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Jeremy, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 10:14:11 AM, you wrote: JM> [59.94.13.26 listed in list.dnswl.org] Doesn't seem to be listed any more- http://dnswl.org/s?s=59.94.13.26 -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpUnhy0X1zUq.pgp Description: PGP sign