Googlegroups spam Re: MAILING_LIST_MULTI

2025-02-25 Thread Dave Funk
filtering? (short of writing my own custom module). I've got my own local RBL that I use for spamvertizing DNS names but the default SA processing doesn't seem to 'see' those imbedded names. Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of

Re: Fake paypal email triggers -7.5 USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL From: address is in the default DKIM

2025-01-29 Thread Dave Funk
y the "discourages use of" message.  Also, I noticed Spamassassin 3.4.6 is being used.  Would Spamassassin 4.0 have done a better job at processing these headers? Thanks! Tom -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FA

Re: Fake paypal email triggers -7.5 USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL From: address is in the default DKIM

2025-01-29 Thread Dave Funk
  (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: TYZPR04MB790 -- For SpamAssassin Users List -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol

Re: Strategy for collecting spam to feed Bayes?

2025-01-13 Thread Dave Funk
rs, the Bayes parser knows to ignore such data. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include

Re: Blocking Malformed "From" Headers

2024-07-17 Thread Dave Funk
documentation for confFROM_HEADER is a somewhat cryptic: https://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/tweaking_config.html#confFROM_HEADER I'd rather it say instead, or reject it entirely. Thanks, Kirk -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engine

Re: whitelist_auth return_path / from

2024-07-03 Thread Dave Funk
SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_INVALID=0.1 So eventho you think 'passed DKIM' SA clearly does NOT think it does. That DKIM_INVALID will prevent the whitelist_auth from firing, thus you need to investigate what's going wrong there. -- Dave Funk Universit

Re: Catch a rejected message ?

2023-12-01 Thread Dave Funk
ing messages to figure out the problem ? Thanks -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

Re: Really hard-to-filter spam

2023-08-02 Thread Dave Funk
ew database should be too empty for SA to be willing to use it. So if you -are- getting Bayes scores then that indicates that SA is using some database other than what you think it has. Now start manually training more messages (spam & ham). When you hit the 200 count threashold Bayes score

Re: authres missing when ran from spamass-milter

2023-05-31 Thread Dave Funk
iguration to run that milter before the spamassassin 'glue' milter. Milter results are chained so any headers explicitly added by one milter are passed on to succeeding milters. If those headers are being generated by the MTA then it may not be possible for milters to see the

Re: comparing sender domain against recipient domain

2023-05-12 Thread Dave Funk
'PayPaI' to try to fool people. I've also seen attempts using European character sets with letters that look like O or e to fake common domain names. I've hand coded rules to check for this stuff when frequently abused but I don't know of a programmatic algorithm to do it a

metholdless URLs bypass DecodeShortURLs link shortner checking

2022-08-29 Thread Dave Funk
this an issue with the DecodeShortURLs plugin or with SA? Where would I find the most recent version of DecodeShortURLs plugin? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S

Re: Matching on missing To field?

2022-07-20 Thread Dave Funk
header data and match if there's none of Subject, From, To, Reply-To entries. IE a really malformed message. Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103

Re: Add header, not beginning with X?

2022-02-14 Thread Dave Funk
o do it just for your own messages then some kind of custom delivery filter (EG procmail) would be the way to go. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postm

Re: page.link spam

2021-10-31 Thread Dave Funk
secretadultnightclub.page.link but not just page.link Think of it like you would link shortner URLs (EG bit.ly). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin

SA 3.4.6 add From:addr host to URIHOSTS list?

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Funk
In SA 3.4.1 the host value of From:addr was automagically added to the URIHOSTS list and thus exposed to URIBL lookups. SA 3.4.6 does not do that. Is there a configuration option to reactivate that feature? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa

Re: handle_user and connect to spamd failed

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Funk
ter -i 127.0.0.1 -4" Add the option "-D 127.0.0.1" in that spamass-milter OPTIONS. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell

Re: handle_user and connect to spamd failed

2021-10-18 Thread Dave Funk
md" IE the '--helper-home-dir' option needs an '=' with no spaces, or use the -H -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell

Re: elf signature for clamav

2021-09-26 Thread Dave Funk
but meta with other things such as Bayes to jack up the score. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242

Re: Message-ID with IPv6 domain-literal

2021-09-21 Thread Dave Funk
8.1.30]" is the representation of IPv4: 193.168.1.30 which is a Public IP address, thus that 'hit' is in error. This should be considered a parsing bug. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Se

Re: An interesting bit of HTML from a spam

2021-09-12 Thread Dave Funk
ains: value: avg.com So why is SA 3.4.6 much less sensitive about picking up hosts in URLs? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

Re: spamass-milter (sa daemon loads config different to shell ?)

2021-07-27 Thread Dave Funk
spamass-milter specifically because of this issue. Writing a milter that directly talks the spamd protocol via a socket (local or network) is more work but safer and more efficient. (been there, done that, got the code to prove it). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa

Re: SA 3.4.5 meta with RBL rules not working.

2021-07-19 Thread Dave Funk
Henrik K wrote: How about upgrading to latest 3.4.6? This release includes fixes for the following: - Fixed URIDNSBL not triggering meta rules On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 01:42:51AM -0500, Dave Funk wrote: I recently updated from SA 3.4.1 to 3.4.5 and noticed that a number of my "meta" rul

SA 3.4.5 meta with RBL rules not working.

2021-07-18 Thread Dave Funk
massassin -D" does not give any clues what's going wrong. Any suggestions about how to debug this? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capito

Re: Email Phishing and Zloader: Such a Disappointment

2021-07-11 Thread Dave Funk
quot; plugin with extra rules and heuristics/algorithms enabled. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527

Re: spamass.sock - No such file or directory

2021-06-27 Thread Dave Funk
    0 Jun 26 09:26 spamass.sock > > or > > srw-rw  1   spamass-milter spamass-milter 0 Jun 26 09:26 spamass.sock > >/etc/group > spamass-milter:x:128:postfix > > thanks for any help -- Dave Funk

Re: Scan Attachment Content Using Spamassassin

2021-06-03 Thread Dave Funk
bly better to use a whole different tool that comes with that kind of capability built-in (EG ClamAV). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cel

Re: Scan Attachment Content Using Spamassassin

2021-06-02 Thread Dave Funk
mework to take what ever kinds of actions you want based on what components 'fired'. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin

Counting number of instances of a particular header

2021-05-03 Thread Dave Funk
As the header would have at least 6 characters but less than 150 I then tried: header L_MY_HEADER X-My-Header =~ /^.{5,200}/ Which would fire only once, even if there were 5 or more instances of the header. What am I doing wrong? How should I craft a rule to count the number of instances of that h

Re: Error "cannot open bayes databases" lock failed: File exists

2021-01-20 Thread Dave Funk
: ls -la /var/spamassassin/bayesdb/bayes* (taken from the bayes_path parameter) should get you what you want. even better: ls -la /var/spamassassin/bayesdb/ (to see if there's any leftover lock files in that directory) -- Dave Funk University of Iowa Co

Re: BCC Rule and Subject change for specific rule

2021-01-05 Thread Dave Funk
me special status/command that spamd returns to the milter for this kind of modification? If so the milters may need to be recoded to implement it. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Cen

Re: Bypass RBL checks for specific address

2020-12-23 Thread Dave Funk
egardless of how high the SA score is. (needed for "postmaster" messages). What version of sendmail are you using? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_

Re: Bypass RBL checks for specific address

2020-12-23 Thread Dave Funk
s if the tests are still run, and it's just the score is artificially offset based on which setting is used. I'm wanting to not run RBL tests for the specific recipient email address. -- Grant. . . . unix || die -- Dave Funk University of Io

Re: adding AV scanning to working Postfix/SA system

2020-12-02 Thread Dave Funk
in "clamav.pm" # full L_CLAMAV eval:check_clamav() describe L_CLAMAV Clam AntiVirus detected a virus score L_CLAMAV 5 # header T__MY_CLAMAV X-Spam-Virus =~ /Yes/i header T__MY_CLAMAV_SANE X-Spam-Virus =~ /Yes.{1,50}Sanesecurity/i # -- Dave Funk

Re: adding AV scanning to working Postfix/SA system

2020-12-02 Thread Dave Funk
er in other rules to add points for various kinds of things detected or "meta"ed with other rules. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Post

Re: amazonses.com doubble dkim sign

2020-11-09 Thread Dave Funk
e creator of a given signature is. There's nothing to prevent each system in the SMTP hand-off chain from adding their own signature, provided they do nothing to invalidate earlier signatures. More than two is unusual/overkill, but it's not uncommon to see two. -- Dave Funk

Re: questions on spamassassin

2020-09-05 Thread Dave Funk
m rule if they don't like how that particular rule works. See: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/WhereDoLocalSettingsGo Once all the rules are read and parsed spamassassin has an internal order to how specific rules get run. -- Dave Funk Univ

Re: Thanks to Guardian Digital & LinuxSecurity for the nice post about SpamAssassin's upcoming change

2020-07-23 Thread Dave Funk
the letter G brought to you by Oscar the grouch. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05491256 Seamans Center, 103 S Capitol St. Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin Iowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better

Re: score sender domains with 4+ chars in TLD?

2020-06-12 Thread Dave Funk
write/update the data file, no need to restart spamd) and could create a custom scoring value based on the DNS data (EG 127.0.0.2 for really 'good' TLDs, 127.0.0.4 for 'so-so' and 127.0.0.8 for truely spammy names). -- Dave Funk University of

Re: Somewhat OT: DMARC and this list

2017-05-20 Thread Dave Funk
y of users' mail to O-365 so this is a battle I'm fighting now). Bottom line, in this brave new world address based auth(n/z) decisions are going to be increasingly problematic and an increasing reliance on things such as digital signatures. Dave -- Dave Funk

Re: R: learn ham

2017-01-05 Thread Dave Funk
g for trouble. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

Re: Detecting Valid Message Replies

2017-01-03 Thread Dave Funk
pient & creator). And then there's the case where somebody forwards to you a reply that they got so you get a message "Re: blah de blah (fwd)" -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-05

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Dave Funk
otentially with the "want recursion" bit set) and then doing the work of chasing down all the different stake-holders necessary to answer the question (performing the recursive query) VS handing the query off to a 3'rd party and letting them do the

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-22 Thread Dave Funk
dicators) but the other components of that message (such as that '.vn.local' message ID) would be learned as spam signs. This is why you MUST also train your Bayes with HAM messages (and train them with the --ham flag) so Bayes knows how to recognise 'hammy' or 'neutral&#x

Re: Spam by IP-address? Spamassassin with geoiplookup?

2016-09-22 Thread Dave Funk
RBLs here, including some that I use at the SMTP level to out-right block incoming traffic (such as cbl.abuseat.org , Spamhaus PBL, SBL). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center

Re: scan an HTML file, possible?

2016-08-03 Thread Dave Funk
ch. I once wrote a rule to detect such obfuscation but it had too many FPs. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 5

Re: Paragraph Length Limit (new rule)

2016-08-03 Thread Dave Funk
   B_PLL __B_PLL describe     B_PLL Body: Paragraph Length Limit score          B_PLL 1.0 I would be most grateful if you could spot the but in the above rule. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384

Re: SA bayes file db permission issue

2016-06-11 Thread Dave Funk
0000111 001 So it works. It's a single data byte but since the display field is a two byte object, where within that two byte object does that single byte show up? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384

Re: Spamassassin not capturing obvious Spam

2016-05-31 Thread Dave Funk
in my generation of the RFC 2822. I did not change it as spamassassin did not assign a score. 2) I have set a threshold of -10 to see how spamassassin assigns a score for every mail. On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Dave Funk wrote: That message is either a fabrication or something f

Re: Spamassassin not capturing obvious Spam

2016-05-30 Thread Dave Funk
le relay lines  2.0 XPRIO                  Has X-Priority header Notice that none of the  other body tags are triggered. Thanks, Shivram -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_ad

Re: malware campaign: javascript in ".tgz"

2016-04-21 Thread Dave Funk
he hard way by doing mime-checks on webservers +1 for this, similar experience here. I've seen "application/octet-stream" typing on ".htm" components of mail messages created by major brand e-mail clients. The lazy authors assume that the correct file ex

Re: HEADER_HOST_IN_BLACKLIST

2016-03-12 Thread Dave Funk
. Look up enlist_uri_host in your SA Conf documentation. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is

Re: Missed spam, suggestions?

2016-03-11 Thread Dave Funk
a Bayes that is mostly fed via auto-learning. I occasionally hand feed corner cases that get mis-classified (usually things like phishes, or conference announcments that can look shakey). -- Dave Funk  University of Iowa    College of Engineering 319/335-5751

Re: Interesting rule combo results

2016-03-09 Thread Dave Funk
e 132983 hits on the combo of DKIM_SIGNED MAILTO_LINK RDNS_DYNAMIC but only 59189 hits on DKIM_SIGNED by itself? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/ce

Re: URIBL/DNSBL from a database

2016-02-13 Thread Dave Funk
they'll never even see it to try pounding on it. To provide fault tolerance, you can set up rbldnsd's on multiple machines and put multiple addresses in that 'forwarders' stanza. You will need to put that zone definition in your primary bind and each secondary. -- Dave Funk

Re: Question about spam report header

2016-02-02 Thread Dave Funk
VICTIM describe CT_GOD_BENEFICIARY God and Beneficiary score CT_GOD_BENEFICIARY 4 meta CT_GOD_BEGGER__CT_GOD && __CT_BEGGER describe CT_GOD_BEGGERBegging in Religious Language score CT_GOD_BEGGER3 -- Dave Funk

Re: OUTPUT OF SPAMASSASSIN

2016-01-24 Thread Dave Funk
m.eml" Then: if (spamc -c < spam.eml ) ; then echo "is ham" else echo "is spam" fi will execute the 'echo "is spam"' clause and if you feed it the ham.eml will execute the 'echo "is ham"'

Re: Help with RegEx Rule

2015-09-19 Thread Dave Funk
? The '*' repeat operator is "zero or more" instances. So that pattern degenerates to // which will match everything. Guaranteed FP generator. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549

Re: Help with RegEx Rule

2015-09-19 Thread Dave Funk
to distinguish them for debugging. And then when things don't work as expected (EG: FPs) it helps to determine if the problem is self-inflicted. Final note; now that we've discussed this spam sign, it will probably become useless as spammers follow this list and mutate their crap accordi

Re: URIBL_BLOCKED while using local BIND

2015-09-15 Thread Dave Funk
hat's 271 times faster than root-servers's lookup. did you EMPTY cache after each query? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin

Re: Bayes Filtering

2015-08-02 Thread Dave Funk
tings. You might argue about the clarity, but the info is there. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

Re: Classifying mail as unsolicited

2015-07-07 Thread Dave Funk
As others have alluded to, forwarding opens up a while can-of-worms but forwarding to gmail is the most problematic. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster

Re: local.cf, user_prefs etc

2015-05-21 Thread Dave Funk
s built with non-standard internal settings. Invoke spamassassin with the "--lint -D" flags and it will tell you which config files it's using. The 'local' variants of the config files that it says it's reading are the ones you want to modify. For the last method you&#

Re: Rejecting without backscatter (was Re: Spamassassin not catching spam (Follow-up))

2015-03-26 Thread Dave Funk
d some kind of business logic that sets the compatibility matrix at the beginning of a session and 452's any recipient that isn't compatible. Note that Gmail is already doing something like this (the "multiple destinations not supported in one transaction" status). -- Dave Funk

Re: Handling very large messages (was Re: Which milter do you prefer?)

2015-03-15 Thread Dave Funk
ied headers and doesn't mess with the body. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd not working, WAIDW

2015-02-28 Thread Dave Funk
ur report to see if things are working as expected. Note that a DNS fubar (even temporary) will break whitelist_from_rcvd. Also if the sender changes MSP, it will break thus is a maintanance head-ache. I see that message has a valid DKIM signature, why not use whitelist_auth. Same goodness with l

Re: no BAYES checking

2015-02-25 Thread Dave Funk
re running spamassasin: $ sudo -u debian-spamd sa-learn --dump magic and see what you get. Other possibility is that sa-learn is looking at a different bayes database. Try running that "sa-learn --dump magic" with the "-D" option to see what bayes database it's looking at

Re: Recent spate of Malicious VB attachments II

2015-02-19 Thread Dave Funk
uft inside them. Are you saying that doesn't work or are you saying that the malware is mutating fast enough that the ClamAV signatures aren't keeping up with it? If the latter case, is there -any- AV kit that is? Are the Sanesecurity add-in ClamAV signatur

Re: Recent spate of Malicious VB attachments II

2015-02-19 Thread Dave Funk
|wll|wpc|wsc|wsf|wsh))(?:\?=)?"?\s*(;|$)/x REJECT Attachment Blocked (Executables And RAR-Files Not Allowed) "$1" (.rar because ClamAV can't scan the content on Fedora) Is that a politically inspired limitation? If you build ClamAV from source it can scan RAR. -- Dave Funk

Re: regex: chars to escape bsides @

2015-01-03 Thread Dave Funk
=~ /^(\)$/i score CUST_MANY_SPAM_TO -4.0 describe CUST_MANY_SPAM_TO Custom Scoring Umm, SA is written in Perl, not PHP. So you should look at Perl regex documentation, not PHP docs. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751

Re: Gmail password reset FPs

2014-12-17 Thread Dave Funk
ence but those are things that I've done here to help improve deliverability. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA

Re: Honeypot email addresses

2014-12-04 Thread Dave Funk
ve got the smartest, best educated users who will never make that mistake and a totally perfect spam filtering system that never has a FN there are other people/systems in the world which may be on that "shotgun" spam recpient list which may be less than perfect. -- Dave Funk

Re: Honeypot email addresses

2014-11-22 Thread Dave Funk
're currently going with a pretty simple HTML comment. Is that too obvious? Should we put it into a CSS invisible div as well? Any other ideas? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 S

Re: URIBL_RHS_DOB #fail

2014-11-09 Thread Dave Funk
ing a "bad hair day" this morning. I saw a number of FP hits on DOB for stuff that hadn't changed in years (EG amtrak.com ). It looks better now. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549

Re: yahoo rcvd bug?

2014-10-20 Thread Dave Funk
have been plenty of posts to this list about URIBL_BLOCKED and how to fix it. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242

Re: .link TLD spammer haven?

2014-10-13 Thread Dave Funk
add a similar comment about ".link" URLs inside the message. Last week I created a uri rule to fire on any ".link" hosted URL and so far havn't seen a single FP. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FA

Re: punctuation in subjects

2014-09-01 Thread Dave Funk
ng spam characteristics can cause them to adapt their tactics. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

users@spamassassin.apache.org

2014-08-15 Thread Dave Funk
t; There were a couple of possible solutions discussed, including new features added to the latest version (trunk) of spamassassin. I took one of them (new functions in MIMEEval) back-ported it to my SA kit and it has been hitting pretty regularly on that kind of spam.

Re: Somewhat OT - how do I whitelist a host which is in a DNSBL in sendmail?

2014-07-24 Thread Dave Funk
sbl checks for auth'ed mail submissions. You could whitelist your client IP address in your 'access' file but what happens when that address changes? (I assume your ISP gives you a DHCP address). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of

Re: Bayes, Manual and Auto Learning Strategies

2014-07-02 Thread Dave Funk
rning at a site with ~3000 users and have had to flush & restart our Bayes database twice in 10 years. Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin

Re: Bayes, Manual and Auto Learning Strategies

2014-07-02 Thread Dave Funk
ay, could be in some kind of memory resident set of tables, or something else???). So you have a multi-dimensional matrix WRT your Bayes system configuration, and manual VS auto learning is just one factor. It's been this way for the past 10+ years AFAIK (well, maybe 10 years

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread Dave Funk
resence of those headers aren't definitive spam signs but I was hoping to combine that info with other clues to create meta rules. However cannot test out this hypothesis with out the ability to detect those headers. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa

Re: FYI - ahbl.org and BIND DNS errors

2014-06-10 Thread Dave Funk
l.org" what do you expect? That's truth in advertising. It's 'invalid', as a matter of fact all of those addresses aren't usable, they're either RFC-1918 or multicast/local-scope. So none of those are valid for remote queries. Do NOT use rhsbl

Re: some questions on sa-compile

2014-05-03 Thread Dave Funk
t be used at all but just with care. So if you see that warning about uncompileable rules, take a second look at those specific rules. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_ad

Re: Missing header when skipping mail

2014-04-18 Thread Dave Funk
ncation feature in the milter so no need to modify the MTA nor spamd. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #i

Re: meta test HEXHASH_WORD has undefined dependency '__KAM_BODY_LENGTH_LT_512'

2014-04-06 Thread Dave Funk
won't fire at all because it's missing some necessary component and thus that rule will be effectively disabled but the whole SA engine should still run. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549

Re: Remove spam results from mail header

2014-03-16 Thread Dave Funk
ncluded in message   0.8 BAYES_50   BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.4901]   0.8 RDNS_NONE  Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: x.x.x.x X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: xxx X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on ); SAEximRunCond expa

Re: tons of forged bills in german

2014-01-18 Thread Dave Funk
e SPF or DKIM, create a whitelist_auth entry for them then either black list them or create rules to hit on any sign of the comnpany's messages. The whitelist_auth will override any rules so real messages will get thru and the blacklist/targeted rules will hit the

Re: dependency hell (completely off-topic...)

2013-11-15 Thread Dave Funk
the MiB who snoop all incoming & outgoing emails (would perplex the c**p outta them, they'd assue he was up to something ;). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center

Re: Explanation of message of RDNS_NONE??

2013-10-22 Thread Dave Funk
to hostmas...@ngdc.net and ask them to fix that. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is

Re: How do I find a parent rule for a test?

2013-09-16 Thread Dave Funk
rdin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 --- WSJ on the Fi

Re: Rules not working

2013-09-08 Thread Dave Funk
File system permissions issues? Are the new rules files readable by the "exim" user? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_admin

Re: Catching fake LinkedIn invites

2013-08-28 Thread Dave Funk
100) to make them balance out each other. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa City, IA 52242-1527 #include Better is not better, 'standard' is better. B{

Re: Errors when processing mail.

2013-07-14 Thread Dave Funk
("/nonexistent/") it's something that you need to explicitly create and change your configuration to point to. -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/P

Re: False negatives/positives on debian

2013-06-22 Thread Dave Funk
ack) but it still simplifies configuration. (allow all queries on lo0 and selected queries on eth*). -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Postmaster/cell_adminIowa

Re: False negatives/positives on debian

2013-06-21 Thread Dave Funk
A scanner machine (are you running a local caching DNS server? Are you using some explicit DNS forwarder? Does your ISP do anything special with DNS queries? ... -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549

Re: MariaDB instead of MySQL

2013-05-17 Thread Dave Funk
was about 6-7 times as fast on random reads as Berkeley DB. If CDB is read-only, how do you store the a-time values on lookups so you know which tokens aren't being used to facilitate expiry? -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 31

Re: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam

2013-05-05 Thread Dave Funk
Donesh, Thanks for your prompt response. Do you just want the domain names or do you also want copies of the spam? Dave On Sun, 5 May 2013, doneshlaher wrote: Hello Dave Funk, Thank you for providing us with the list of domain names. We are acting on them and will be taken down within 24/48

Re: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam

2013-05-04 Thread Dave Funk
e.pw specialzland.pw specialztoday.pw successtopdeals.pw superbtopdeals.pw supertopdeals.pw usdirects1.pw vision-virtualhosting12.pw vision-virtualhosting14.pw visionsvirtualwebhost2.pw zbidnow.pw avanheertyu.pw getsuperiordeal.pw sleeplessdaysnow.pw gwampuer.pw treelendnews.pw getmatchedn

Re: rule problem basing on X-Spam-ASN - not a rule problem

2013-04-25 Thread Dave Funk
ty L_UI_PHISHs # meta MY_CLAMAV_SANE (L_CLAMAV && T__MY_CLAMAV_SANE) meta MY_CLAMAV_MSRBL (L_CLAMAV && T__MY_CLAMAV_MSRBL) [snip..] -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549

Re: re-learning ? was - bayes - large message

2013-04-21 Thread Dave Funk
it to copy your IMAP spam/ham folders to local (on your SA server) 'mbox' format folders and then learn from them. Dave -- Dave Funk University of Iowa College of Engineering 319/335-5751 FAX: 319/384-0549 1256 Seamans Center Sys_admin/Po

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