Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/27/2015 10:13 PM, David Jones wrote: The invaluement RBL is not expensive either and it is awesome. We pay thousands per year for a Spamhaus feed because of our volume and mailboxes. The invaluement RBL is only hundreds per year and it's almost as good as Spamhaus Zen. I have Spamhaus i

how to download updated rules and transfer.

2015-03-27 Thread Anant Athavale
Dear list, i have a system with SpamAssassin 3.4.0 installed. I have installed the rules provided in Downloads link. http://apache.bytenet.in//spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin -rules-3.4.0.r1565117.tgz the system is not connected to internet. I need to download the rules (new) from a syste

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Dave Pooser
>You also may want to look at the Invaluement IP/URI lists. >(Invaluement.com). Detection rate is real good and FP level is >extraordinary. +1. Very happy with invaluement at $DAYJOB. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
David Jones skrev den 2015-03-28 03:13: I have Spamhaus in front of invaluement in my postfix configuration but I may try flipping the order just to see if it will start blocking more than Spamhaus. with postfix posttscreen one can test all ips on all rbls in same single smtpd client check, s

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Richard Doyle
On 03/27/2015 03:44 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: > On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle > wrote: > >> All of these were "From:" domains created today. > Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable > some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me know how...) When I

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread David Jones
>From: Amir Caspi >Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 7:30 PM >To: RW >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Uptick in spam >On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:19 PM, RW wrote: >> There are deep checks for SBL (via zen) and SPAMCOP. XBL/PBL are >> last-external only >Interesting. I wonder why I see t

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 6:19 PM, RW wrote: > There are deep checks for SBL (via zen) and SPAMCOP. XBL/PBL are > last-external only Interesting. I wonder why I see those XBL/PBL hits, then. Maybe Zen timed out on those queries from sendmail... or something. Either way I guess this means I shoul

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/28/2015 12:40 AM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb wrote: DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too long, it's no longer DOB, it's "few-DOB"... I would have imagined that a DOB server would operate in a caching m

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:40:58 -0600 Amir Caspi wrote: > On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb wrote: > > > DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. > > That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too > long, it's no longer DOB, it's "few-DOB"... I think it's 5 days, and the "day-old" bit is

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Axb wrote: > DOB isn't realtime/zero hour. That kind of defeats the point, isn't it? I mean, if you wait too long, it's no longer DOB, it's "few-DOB"... I would have imagined that a DOB server would operate in a caching mode where the first query on a domain woul

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 11:44 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: All of these were "From:" domains created today. Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me know how...) When I ran the th

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 3:34 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: > All of these were "From:" domains created today. Shouldn't they have been picked up by DOB? Or do I need to manually enable some DOB plugin in SA? (If so, please let me know how...) When I ran the third spample manually a few hours ago, I s

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 2:09 PM, Axb wrote: > As an AV product I'd recommend Sophos AND ESETS/Nod32. I'll look into Sophos, I'm not entirely sure if I can deploy it on my system or not. We have to use RPMs that can be distributed to the virtual hosts, etc... I'll definitely look into it. Haven't

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Alex Regan
Hi, Yes, that's true. But if I'm right, new mails stay in "new" until the appropriate folder in the IMAP client has been opened, right? I just assume, if the use has some false negatives in the folder, he will either immediately delete it or just move it into the Spam folder. People can have m

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 20:03:18 +0100 Michael wrote: > On 27.03.2015 19:09, RW wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:16:13 + > > "cur" doesn't imply that the mail has been read; for that you > > need to check the seen flag in the filename, an S somewhere after > > the colon. > > Yes, that's true. B

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Richard Doyle
On 03/27/2015 11:51 AM, Amir Caspi wrote: > On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb wrote: > >> - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to >> mailing lists > Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in > pastebin but there are so many of them,

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Are you using network tests? These are scoring pretty high for me. I presu

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:38 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the "wavefront" of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chanc

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 08:45 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Axb wrote: Are you using Mailscanner? if yes then it's you munging URIS so they breaking lookups on any hash type as in Yes, I am using MailScanner. Some URIs are munged, others are not. For example, you can see in that

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:38 PM, sha...@shanew.net wrote: > Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any > greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the > "wavefront" of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chance of > triggering the network-based t

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Axb wrote: > Are you using Mailscanner? if yes then it's you munging URIS so they breaking > lookups on any hash type as in Yes, I am using MailScanner. Some URIs are munged, others are not. For example, you can see in that very pastebin you noted that there are

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread shanew
Apologies if this is an overly obvious answer, but are you using any greylisting? This would (potentially) move your user away from the "wavefront" of a spam's distribution, and give it a better chance of triggering the network-based tests. On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: This is my whol

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 08:20 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Are you using network tests? These are scoring pretty high for me. I pre

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:20 PM, Axb wrote: > These three samples are very different in the sense that #1 is a hacked > site, #2 & #3 are the regular snowshoe. Of course, I picked three different samples on purpose. But, I have hundreds that replicate these. > What I miss in your sample's SA repo

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 07:51 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Here are a few spamples: http://pastebin.com/3nSLurGv (this scored BAYES_99 but would still have been FN with BAYES_999) http://pastebin.com/LaKT5ZZK (I have a rule template for these URIs but recent spams have modified them to cause high risk of FPs

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I see no network checks here... do you use network checks? On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > Are you using network tests? These are scoring pretty high for me. I presume you're talking about things like Razor,

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.03.2015 19:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: the easiest way is to train on false positives and false negatives. dovecot imapd has plugin to train when mail is moved from/to spam. On 27.03.15 20:10, Michael wrote: My concerns are the following: Sometimes new kind of spam is appearing. Th

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 3/27/2015 2:51 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb wrote: - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to mailing lists Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in pastebin but there are so many of them, and there a

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael
On 27.03.2015 19:54, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 27.03.15 15:16, Michael wrote: >> I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the >> following way: >> >> Do the following once a day for each user: >> 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur >> 2.) sa-learn -u userna

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael
On 27.03.2015 16:21, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 27.03.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Michael: >> I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the >> following way: >> >> Do the following once a day for each user: >> 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur >> 2.) sa-learn -u use

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael
On 27.03.2015 19:09, RW wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:16:13 + > Michael wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the >> following way: >> >> Do the following once a day for each user: >> 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur >> 2.) sa-lear

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.03.15 12:51, Amir Caspi wrote: Here are a few spamples: http://pastebin.com/3nSLurGv (this scored BAYES_99 but would still have been FN with BAYES_999) http://pastebin.com/LaKT5ZZK (I have a rule template for these URIs but recent spams have modified them to cause high risk of FPs for s

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:22 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > we have currently 577 different subjects and subject-parts scored , i don't > want to publish them because i'd like the spammers don't change to new ones > :-) Sadly, that doesn't help me. I don't have time to compile hundreds of subject r

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.03.15 15:16, Michael wrote: I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the following way: Do the following once a day for each user: 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur 2.) sa-learn -u username --spam ../maildir/.Spam/cur What do you think about this strate

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Mar 27, 2015, at 12:20 PM, Axb wrote: > - Please post missed spam samples in pastebin.com - do not post samples to > mailing lists Of course, I would never post it to the list. I will put up a few in pastebin but there are so many of them, and there are a few different templates in use, s

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:13:30 -0600 Amir Caspi wrote: > On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail > wrote: > > > I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system > > to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact > > opposite. > > So, one of my users has been

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.03.2015 um 19:13 schrieb Amir Caspi: On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting dozens (sometimes

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Axb
On 03/27/2015 07:13 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting dozens (sometimes nea

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-03-27 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 16, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > I'm happy to look at a recent sample and throw it through my system to see > what it hits but overall, I've been seeing the exact opposite. So, one of my users has been getting dozens (sometimes nearly 100) FNs per DAY over the last few w

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:16:13 + Michael wrote: > Hi, > > I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the > following way: > > Do the following once a day for each user: > 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur > 2.) sa-learn -u username --spam ../maildir/.Spam/cur >

Re: How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.03.2015 um 16:16 schrieb Michael: I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the following way: Do the following once a day for each user: 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur 2.) sa-learn -u username --spam ../maildir/.Spam/cur The idea is to train the Bayes

How to automatically train each users Bayes?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael
Hi, I would like automatically learn each users Bayes database in the following way: Do the following once a day for each user: 1.) sa-learn -u username --ham ../maildir/cur 2.) sa-learn -u username --spam ../maildir/.Spam/cur The idea is to train the Bayes for each user without the need to