Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Ed, > I'm looking to set up a spam filtering server to replace our ISP's > spam filtering service. > > I've seen this tutorial ( > ftp://orn.mpg.de/pub/unix/mail/Fairly-Secure_Anti-SPAM_Gateway_Using_SpamAssassin.html#antivirus > ) and I'd be very interested in YOUR opinion; do you think, > fundam

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Ed Flecko
Gentlemen, Thank you for your feedback! I'll be sure to check into Postgrey. Are there any special considerations to installing/configuring it or is it simply a matter of installing, reading the docs and configuring? Ed

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 29.11.2012 17:04, schrieb Ed Flecko: > Gentlemen, > Thank you for your feedback! > > I'll be sure to check into Postgrey. > > Are there any special considerations to installing/configuring it or > is it simply a matter of installing, reading the docs and configuring? > > Ed > yes dont do gr

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Ed Flecko wrote: I'll be sure to check into Postgrey. Are there any special considerations to installing/configuring it or is it simply a matter of installing, reading the docs and configuring? The biggest consideration is not technical, it's managing the expectations of

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Ed Flecko
Good thoughts...thank you John. Ed

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Frederic De Mees
From: "John Hardin" Some users are extremely allergic to any delays in their email; you may have to maintain a list of exception destination addresses to keep them happy, or for addresses where no delay is acceptable, e.g. or I fully agree. When I purchase an air-line ticket, I want the

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread vectro
> From: "John Hardin" > I fully agree. When I purchase an air-line ticket, I want the mail > immediately in my inbox. > > If the greylisting software replies a "4xx Please come back in 299 > seconds", > the truth is that you will have to wait an undetermined amount of time, > depending on the send

Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:36:45 -0500 vec...@vectro.org wrote: > I've never had any > complaints about delivery speed, but some senders have broken mail > servers that don't retry on receiving a temporary failure. Many such servers use broken SMTP implementations that can't handle a 4xx code in resp

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Ned Slider
I'll expand a little on John's comments below On 29/11/12 18:44, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Ed Flecko wrote: I'll be sure to check into Postgrey. Are there any special considerations to installing/configuring it or is it simply a matter of installing, reading the docs and configu

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2012 12:01, Ned Slider wrote: Indeed. But do also play around with the delays in postgrey (--delay). A minimal delay of 60 seconds is enough to force a retry and is adequate - legit hosts will retry, non-legit hosts won't so a longer delay is generally unnecessary. This is only one

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 11/29/2012 08:46 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > [...] > Also, once a given IP passes greylisting, we remember that and we don't > greylist that server for 40 days. If you have a large-enough user population, > this can greatly mitigate the problems caused by initial greylisting delays. Do you trea

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2012 12:27, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: On 11/29/2012 08:46 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: [...] Also, once a given IP passes greylisting, we remember that and we don't greylist that server for 40 days. If you have a large-enough user population, this can greatly mitigate the problems caused by

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 29.11.2012 20:46, schrieb David F. Skoll: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:36:45 -0500 > vec...@vectro.org wrote: > >> I've never had any >> complaints about delivery speed, but some senders have broken mail >> servers that don't retry on receiving a temporary failure. > > Many such servers use broken

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 11/29/2012 09:31 PM, Dave Warren wrote: > On 11/29/2012 12:27, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: >> On 11/29/2012 08:46 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: >>> [...] >>> Also, once a given IP passes greylisting, we remember that and we don't >>> greylist that server for 40 days. If you have a large-enough user >>>

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:27:19 +0100 "Andrzej A. Filip" wrote: > Do you treat "yahoo like" spam sources in the same way? With respect to greylisting, of course. If a machine passes greylisting once, it's extremely likely to pass it in future and it's an utter waste of time to greylist it. Regard

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Andrzej A. Filip
On 11/29/2012 09:53 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:27:19 +0100 > "Andrzej A. Filip" wrote: > >> Do you treat "yahoo like" spam sources in the same way? > With respect to greylisting, of course. If a machine passes greylisting once, > it's extremely likely to pass it in future

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:59:45 +0100 "Andrzej A. Filip" wrote: > Does greylisting increase chances of bulk detectors (razor/pyzor/dcc) > in case of "yahoo like" spam sources? > [ based on your experience ] I suppose it might, but I don't use razor, pyzor, dcc or anything similar so I have no perso

FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-29 Thread Kris Deugau
I've just had another couple of reports of false positives due to hits on one or more of the FROM_MISSP_* rules. Curious coincidence: Almost all of the reports to date have involved webform email for real estate companies. Most of the rest have involved scan-to-email multifunction devices - most

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Matt
>> I've never had any >> complaints about delivery speed, but some senders have broken mail >> servers that don't retry on receiving a temporary failure. > > Many such servers use broken SMTP implementations that can't handle > a 4xx code in response to RCPT properly. > > We greylist after the end

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Axb
Just wondering how many boxes: rcpt domains: rcpt users: you guys are sending through greylisting. Axb

Trouble with bayes poisoning spam

2012-11-29 Thread Alex
Hi, I have an example of spam that I just can't reliably detect: http://pastebin.com/YuuLuA1x It's basically some HTML with a URL to an ad for "Lantern with 9 LED bulbs". I've trained hundreds of these, and they still report BAYES_50. I've just tested it now, a few hours after having first recei

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Kris Deugau wrote: I've just had another couple of reports of false positives due to hits on one or more of the FROM_MISSP_* rules. Curious coincidence: Almost all of the reports to date have involved webform email for real estate companies. Most of the rest have involved

Re: Trouble with bayes poisoning spam

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Alex wrote: I have an example of spam that I just can't reliably detect: http://pastebin.com/YuuLuA1x I was just wondering if there was something else that could be triggered on in the header to catch these sooner? I'm assuming the sending IP part of a botnet? I'm using v3

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:27:19 +0100 "Andrzej A. Filip" wrote: Do you treat "yahoo like" spam sources in the same way? With respect to greylisting, of course. If a machine passes greylisting once, it's extremely likely to pass it in future and it's

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:47:45 +0100 Axb wrote: > boxes: About 50 000 > rcpt domains: About 2000 > rcpt users: Lots. I don't have an exact figure. > you guys are sending through greylisting. This is on our machines. Our larger customers have significantly higher numbers. Regards, David.

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 11/29/2012 05:43 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Kris Deugau wrote: > >> I've just had another couple of reports of false positives due to hits >> on one or more of the FROM_MISSP_* rules. >> >> Curious coincidence: Almost all of the reports to date have involved >> webform email

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread John Levine
>Does greylisting increase chances of bulk detectors (razor/pyzor/dcc) in >case of "yahoo like" spam sources? No. A remarkable fraction of ratware still doesn't bother to retry, so the most simple minded greylister will deter them. That's why it's useful. I've never seen any support for the the

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 30 Nov 2012, John Levine wrote: Does greylisting increase chances of bulk detectors (razor/pyzor/dcc) in case of "yahoo like" spam sources? No. A remarkable fraction of ratware still doesn't bother to retry, so the most simple minded greylister will deter them. That's why it's useful

Re: FROM_MISSP_* causing FPs

2012-11-29 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 11/29/2012 05:43 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, Kris Deugau wrote: I've just had another couple of reports of false positives due to hits on one or more of the FROM_MISSP_* rules. Curious coincidence: Almost all of the reports to

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread David F. Skoll
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:01:38 -0800 (PST) John Hardin wrote: > It's not so much the host being blacklisted, as a checksum of the > spam being published by pyzor et. al., or for spamvertised websites > in the spam being published by URIBLs, so that when the sender tries > again the score for that m

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2012 17:37, John Levine wrote: Does greylisting increase chances of bulk detectors (razor/pyzor/dcc) in case of "yahoo like" spam sources? No. A remarkable fraction of ratware still doesn't bother to retry, so the most simple minded greylister will deter them. That's why it's useful.

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-11-29 Thread Dave Warren
On 11/29/2012 18:54, David F. Skoll wrote: [My gut instinct says that a reasonable greylisting interval is too short for most DNSBLs to react. Pyzor/Razor/DCC may be somewhat more adept at reacting quickly.] Something trap-driven like NIX is a candidate. No, it's not safe enough to reject bas