Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2015-04-01 19:23, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:21 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there an ETA for 3.4.1? And, is there anything else I can do mean time? 3.4.1 is planned to announce for release during ApacheCon in about 2 weeks. 1 - Make sure you are using the new Registrar Bounda

RE: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
Phooey. Make that header CBJ_SCIENCE From =~ /\.science\b/i The former example clobbers stuff from India... ...Kevin -- Kevin Miller Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept. 155 South Seward Street Juneau, Alaska 99801 Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4500 Registered Linux User

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/1/2015 8:21 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there an ETA for 3.4.1? And, is there anything else I can do mean time? 3.4.1 is planned to announce for release during ApacheCon in about 2 weeks. 1 - Make sure you are using the new Registrar Boundary with the TLDs that are plaguing you. 2 - Ar

RE: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
I simply added them to my sendmail access file with a REJECT. Problem solved. Of the ones that came in, I couldn't find any ham so didn't think twice about being ruthless. If you need to take a more cautious approach, just write a rule to score them higher. For instance, dropping this in a .c

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2015-04-01 19:23, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:21 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there an ETA for 3.4.1? And, is there anything else I can do mean time? 3.4.1 is planned to announce for release during ApacheCon in about 2 weeks. 1 - Make sure you are using the new Registrar Bounda

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/1/2015 8:18 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: On 2015-04-01 19:15, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:13 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: I've been getting pounded with stuff from "new" tld's (cricket, science, work, et al). I'm wondering how to make SA more immune to it. Spamples: http://pastebin.

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2015-04-01 19:20, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:18 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: On 2015-04-01 19:15, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:13 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: I've been getting pounded with stuff from "new" tld's (cricket, science, work, et al). I'm wondering how to make SA

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
On 2015-04-01 19:15, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/1/2015 8:13 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: I've been getting pounded with stuff from "new" tld's (cricket, science, work, et al). I'm wondering how to make SA more immune to it. Spamples: http://pastebin.com/jc3efYju Are you using a recent SA from

Re: Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/1/2015 8:13 PM, Larry Rosenman wrote: I've been getting pounded with stuff from "new" tld's (cricket, science, work, et al). I'm wondering how to make SA more immune to it. Spamples: http://pastebin.com/jc3efYju Are you using a recent SA from trunk? The RegistrarBoundaries.pm for new T

Help with today's (and previous) spam uptick?

2015-04-01 Thread Larry Rosenman
I've been getting pounded with stuff from "new" tld's (cricket, science, work, et al). I'm wondering how to make SA more immune to it. Spamples: http://pastebin.com/jc3efYju Thanks! -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail:

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
On Apr 1, 2015, at 3:03 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: > You can reject on RDNS (or lack thereof) in sendmail depending on the > version. Search for "require_rdns". Thanks, I'll look into it. Sadly I don't think I have time to manually whitelist misconfigured servers, since I suspect there are not

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Axb
On 04/01/2015 10:45 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Certainly it would be interesting to add such capability to SA (to add points for known spammy DNS providers and/or registrars), though I imagine that could be a recipe for FPs in some cases. Then again, we did it for .pw URIs, so... You can do it run

RE: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
> -Original Message- > Ah, I see... you killed them at the firewall itself, before they even > got to sendmail. I was wondering how blocking the name servers > themselves would help, since (at least in my configuration) sendmail > doesn't reject just due to bad rDNS (not sure if that's eve

Re: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:26 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: > I blocked the RRPPROXY.NET name servers at the firewall. [...] After I did > that, almost instantly the spam dropped dramatically. [...] > There was some discussion in this group about blocking on DNS providers about > a month or so ago, spawned

RE: Uptick in spam

2015-04-01 Thread Kevin Miller
I'm a bit late to the party (was on vacation) but your woes sounded awfully familiar. I was getting slammed by spam a couple months ago. The domains changed daily, but the one consistent thing was they were all served by RRPPROXY.NET. I blocked the RRPPROXY.NET name servers at the firewall.

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Paul Stead
On 01/04/15 17:41, Amir Caspi wrote: Going back to this: On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: Well, this wouldn't be the first or only rule that doesn't work for everyone... plus, I would certainly make it case sensitive, so that "John" wouldn't match "john@", for example. This

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/1/2015 12:41 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Going back to this: On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: That might be reasonable for most email addresses, but there are quite a few people who have a usable name or nickname as the user part of their email. (j...@example.com). It would

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
Going back to this: On Apr 1, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That might be reasonable for most email addresses, but there are quite a few > people who have a usable name or nickname as the user part of their email. > (j...@example.com). It would not make sense to score an email just

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Amir Caspi wrote: On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: The way it's written, it will only hit if the Subject header follows the To header. I thought John modified the rule to fix that, about a year ago... did that not get implemented in production? It will

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/1/2015 10:20 AM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: The way it's written, it will only hit if the Subject header follows the To header. I thought John modified the rule to fix that, about a year ago... did that not get implemented in production? Apparent

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Amir Caspi
On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > The way it's written, it will only hit if the Subject header follows the To > header. I thought John modified the rule to fix that, about a year ago... did that not get implemented in production? --- Amir thumbed via iPhone

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Bowie, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 3:08:10 PM, you wrote: BB> The way it's written, it will only hit if the Subject header follows the BB> To header. Ho Hum! -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpmInVp50o64.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/1/2015 9:58 AM, Niamh Holding wrote: Hello Amir, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 4:44:08 AM, you wrote: AC> I'm guessing that TO_IN_SUBJ only pops when the Subject: contains the full email address in To: Didnit hit on this- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:05:53 + Return-Path: Subject: ad...@ho

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Amir, Wednesday, April 1, 2015, 4:44:08 AM, you wrote: AC> I'm guessing that TO_IN_SUBJ only pops when the Subject: contains the full email address in To: Didnit hit on this- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:05:53 + Return-Path: Subject: ad...@holtain.co.uk Reply-To: marketingmodelstrat..

Re: TO_IN_SUBJ for username?

2015-04-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 3/31/2015 11:44 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: Hi, I'm guessing that TO_IN_SUBJ only pops when the Subject: contains the full email address in To:, not just the user part... is that right? I've been getting a bunch of spam (some of which ends up as FNs) with just the username portion of To