Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Axb
On 06/03/2013 11:51 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in both cbl.abuseat.org & pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell appliances that filter for many more. Paying for RBLs

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread John Hardin
are there that don't add Received: headers? Hopefully none. There are already "direct-to-MX" subrules, and rules that use them in combination with other signs: http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/?daterev=20130603-r1488897-n&rule=%2FDIRECT Suggestions for likely combinations

Re: Content rules don't seem to be firing

2013-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, William Thackrey wrote: Is there a setting somewhere in Spamassassin to restrict checks to headers and ignore body content? No. A couple of questions: In the current ruleset there is an EMPTY_BODY rule. Is that hitting consistently? What is your MTA, and how is SA glued

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Alex
Hi, >> Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in >> both cbl.abuseat.org & pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. > > We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell appliances > that filter for many more. Paying for RBLs is not cost-effective at > th

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-06-03 14:02, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@n

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send compla

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:34:30 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: > Do you not like connection-oriented RBLs? That client IP address is in > both cbl.abuseat.org & pbl.spamhaus.org lists as an infected client. We run an anti-spam service for about 100K users and sell appliances that filter for many mo

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:11:28 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I believe you are able to track network admins of connecting IPs. Or, simply check theis rDNS (forward-confirmed) and contact abuse@delegated.domain... Well yeah, but in the example I

Content rules don't seem to be firing

2013-06-03 Thread William Thackrey
We're running Spamassassin 3.3.2 (Perl 5.10.1) on Scientific Linux 6.2 (BlueOnyx 5108R). In trying to fine tune our configuration, I note that the header rules are working as expected. I'm seeing hits on myriad structure and header related rules like: URIBL_BLACK, FROM_12LTRDOM, RDNS_NONE, FAKE_R

Re: "2" Seems To Be My Sweet Spot

2013-06-03 Thread darxus
The default rule scores are generated with an assumed threshold of 5 and a target of 1 false positive in 2,500 non-spams. It sounds like you may be substantially increasing the false positive rate. Which you are certainly entitled to do, but I would not recommend. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassa

"2" Seems To Be My Sweet Spot

2013-06-03 Thread Bill Polhemus
Hello. I am not a major admin. I have used a Linux box w/ Sendmail + Spamassassin off and on for years, just for personal and small-biz email. I have only two dozen or so accounts allocated among three domains. Using third-party email service for many years, which supposedly includes Spam fi

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 16:11:28 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I believe you are able to track network admins of connecting IPs. Or, > simply check theis rDNS (forward-confirmed) and contact > abuse@delegated.domain... Well yeah, but in the example I posted the machine 77.30.72.215 is a Wind

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send complaints.. On 03.06.13 08:52, David F. Skoll w

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 03 Jun 2013 15:08:55 +0200 Benny Pedersen wrote: [DFS says no Received: headers] > and your own mta will not add one ? :) My MTA will add a header if I let it relay the mail. These messages were intercepted and stopped as they came in, so I see whatever headers they had *at the time th

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-06-03 14:52: There were no Received: headers in my samples. They were directly injected by compromised Windows boxes. and your own mta will not add one ? :) hmp! -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you like

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:28:36 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > you should look at Received: headers to see who passed the mail to > you and complain to abuse@ there. If the mail came from nacha.org, the > ab...@nacha.org is the right place to send complaints.. There were no Received: headers

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: What's interesting to me is that nacha is the "standards" (my term) association (www.nacha.org) for ach (the automated check clearing house) which does such things as direct deposit and other transactions. On 03.06.13 12:08, Axb wrote: As they're a

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> On 6/3/2013 at 6:08 AM, Axb wrote: > On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: > On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: >>> In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: >>> 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain >>> >>> 2 days ago, we received

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Axb
On 06/03/2013 12:04 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain 2 days ago, we received hundreds of mails with that envelope sender domain containing

Re: Bizarre and seemingly pointless spams

2013-06-03 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
>>> On 6/2/2013 at 12:30 PM, Wolfgang Zeikat wrote: > In an older episode, on 2013-06-02 16:16, David F. Skoll wrote: > >> 3) Envelope sender is in the nacha.org domain > > 2 days ago, we received hundreds of mails with that envelope sender > domain containing malware like > Case_05312013_28192