Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 04.08.14 12:51, RobertGrimes wrote: I have changed the user that runs the spamd service to be the same as when I ran from command line. I will see what, if any changes occur. I will leave Bayes alone for the moment; just try one thing at a time to keep the confusion down. It's better to

RE: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread RobertGrimes
Kevin Miller-18 wrote Easy to test. Go to a command line, and run nslookup. From the prompt, type: Server DNS-SERVER-NAME-OR-IP Then type in any domain you want to query. If it returns a valid address it's working. I think DNS servers cache lookups by default. What's referred to

Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread RobertGrimes
Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 13:02 -0700, Robert Grimes wrote: Robert Grimes wrote I have changed the user that runs the spamd service to be the same as when I ran from command line. I will see what, if any changes occur. I will leave Bayes alone for the moment;

Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: RobertGrimes gri...@rgconsulting.com Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:50:44 -0700 (PDT) I don't know if this is fair to ask, but would you (or anyone) care to see if the message I am posting should be rated higher than 1.9? I appologize if this is not appropriate. The

Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/5/2014 11:50 AM, RobertGrimes wrote: I don't know if this is fair to ask, but would you (or anyone) care to see if the message I am posting should be rated higher than 1.9? I appologize if this is not appropriate. The message is at http://pastebin.com/UZeDtLWZ The debug log from spamd is

Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread Axb
On 08/05/2014 06:06 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/5/2014 11:50 AM, RobertGrimes wrote: I don't know if this is fair to ask, but would you (or anyone) care to see if the message I am posting should be rated higher than 1.9? I appologize if this is not appropriate. The message is at

rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Balholm
The last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of spams that have a similar pattern. They are plain-text messages, and each one ends with a paragraph from a restaurant review (apparently to confuse bayesian filters), with some numbers inserted. There is an 8-digit decimal number and a 32-digit hex

Pattern SPAM seen today with full-name ending with dot-digits.

2014-08-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Saw the following SPAM: http://pastebin.com/eLm1iRpN Note that: header From:name =~ /\.\d{7,8}$/ seems to detect it reliably. Easier than trying to detect the “notice” or “ref.no.” etc. that some have at the end of the subject line.

Re: Yahoo no longer accepting spam reports -- time to block.

2014-08-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
On Aug 2, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com wrote: When you send an e-mail to yahoo's published abuse contact, you get back an e-mail saying to report the issue at http://abuse.yahoo.com/. Now, I really and truly hate people who think that you should do their job for them,

Re: Pattern SPAM seen today with full-name ending with dot-digits.

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Balholm
On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: Saw the following SPAM: http://pastebin.com/eLm1iRpN That’s the same group of spams that I just posted a rule for, but I’m looking at the repeated numbers in the last paragraph.

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/5/2014 1:08 PM, Andy Balholm wrote: The last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of spams that have a similar pattern. They are plain-text messages, and each one ends with a paragraph from a restaurant review (apparently to confuse bayesian filters), with some numbers inserted. There is an

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Andy Balholm wrote: The last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of spams that have a similar pattern. They are plain-text messages, and each one ends with a paragraph from a restaurant review (apparently to confuse bayesian filters), with some numbers inserted. There is an

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Balholm
On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:31 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: There's already a rule for this sort of thing in the sandbox. http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20140804-r1615505-n/HEXHASH_WORD/detail How do I find the actual rule that the page is about?

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Andy Balholm wrote: On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:31 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: There's already a rule for this sort of thing in the sandbox. http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20140804-r1615505-n/HEXHASH_WORD/detail How do I find the actual rule that the page is

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Balholm
On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:48 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Unfortunately the masscheck pages' links to SVN got broken in the recent rebuild. That rule lives here: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/20_misc_testing.cf?view=log It should be

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Andy Balholm wrote: On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:48 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Unfortunately the masscheck pages' links to SVN got broken in the recent rebuild. That rule lives here:

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Andy Balholm
On Aug 5, 2014, at 11:16 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: It can hit on embedded phone numbers, which are, strictly speaking, valid hexadecimal strings... I suspect it's hitting on all those dates as well, and needs some more tightening. In the spams I’m looking at, all the hex

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/5/2014 1:48 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Andy Balholm wrote: On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:31 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: There's already a rule for this sort of thing in the sandbox. http://ruleqa.spamassassin.org/20140804-r1615505-n/HEXHASH_WORD/detail How do I

Re: stable branch vs trunk

2014-08-05 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 8/4/2014 9:56 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Sun, 2014-08-03 at 09:22 -0400, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Hi Karsten, I did bring this up a few months ago discussing releases. I'm currently catching up on list mail, and figured recent threads might be more important than revising old-ish,

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 8/5/2014 1:48 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Andy Balholm wrote: On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:31 AM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: There's already a rule for this sort of thing in the sandbox.

Re: More text/plain questions

2014-08-05 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:39 PM +0100 Martin Gregorie mar...@gregorie.org wrote: On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 11:45 -0600, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: I'm definitely considering writing a rule to catch #x0[0-9]{3}; patterns. I'm definitely worried it could cause FPs, but are there common

Re: Ready to throw in the towel on email providing...

2014-08-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What do other people do? Or are we just going to end up with an Internet in about 10 years where every single email box is either on Microsoft 365 or Gmail and the NSA has a wonderful interface to use to hunt through whatever they want without bothering with a warrant?

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Re: Pattern SPAM seen today with full-name ending with dot-digits.

2014-08-05 Thread Alex
Hi, On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2014, at 10:16 AM, Philip Prindeville philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com wrote: Saw the following SPAM: http://pastebin.com/eLm1iRpN That’s the same group of spams that I just posted a rule for, but

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