Re: Why is this failing SPF???

2007-04-13 Thread Gino Cerullo
=spf1 a -all Which resolves to: hamhock.hoovers.com. IN A 66.179.38.137 Which does not match 66.179.38.26 -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-14 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 14-Dec-06, at 10:30 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm not the one who brought it up. Gino Cerullo wrote: Marc, I get the impression that you run a business that markets itself as an anti-spam solution and it's based on forwarding email and that business model is threatened by the growing

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-14 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 14-Dec-06, at 4:35 PM, j o a r wrote: On 14 dec 2006, at 20.40, Gino Cerullo wrote: I presume the answer you gave is an admission that you are, in fact, using email forwarding as the method behind your spam filtering system. The link from perkel.com - junkemailfilter.com is pretty

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-13 Thread Gino Cerullo
. To subscribe to the list send an email to subscribe-spf- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 This email address protect by SPF! Want to protect your domain's email from forgery? Visit openspf.org

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-13 Thread Gino Cerullo
of the rewritten envelope from. You just need to make your conditionals match the SRS version. You have to rewrite all your conditionals to support the broken technology. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 This email address protect by SPF

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-13 Thread Gino Cerullo
those to try and prove the ineffectiveness of the protocol. Just because someone writes an article, one lacking any real evidence and citing an ancient study, doesn't make it true. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 This email address

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-13 Thread Gino Cerullo
and now you think you have proof of something. Did you fail to notice the overwhelming number of graphics that have good domain and bad domain in them. I know you didn't bother to actually read any of it otherwise you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself by linking to it. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel

Re: failure notice / spaassassin.apache.org

2006-09-29 Thread Gino Cerullo
. [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are the ones you should be taking this up with. We can't help you. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Earthlink emails

2006-09-26 Thread Gino Cerullo
SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on relay2.corp.good-sam.com update to 3.1.5 if posible and enable spf check How does this help? Earthlink does not publish SPF records. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 smime.p7s Description: S

Re: Strange SPF problem/wrong result

2006-09-01 Thread Gino Cerullo
through mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200]) then this would explain the SOFTFAIL. Forwarding breaks SPF. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Hacked E-Trade Phishing Site

2006-09-01 Thread Gino Cerullo
Bastard Controller' :P Whooop! -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Spammed by Non-delivery-report? (someone is using my email to spam)

2006-08-31 Thread Gino Cerullo
be able to use spamassassin to help me with this? would sa-learn be the most efficient way? I can think of using procmail to filter them into a seperate mailbox, but the mail headers all very random. Your help would be much appreciated. Sorry, correction to URL. http://www.openspf.org -- Gino

Re: The grey hats are at it in force

2006-08-31 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 31-Aug-06, at 8:08 PM, Chris wrote: This is even better than the last one: http://194-144-135-77.du.xdsl.is/~ingi/.change/index.php? MfcISAPICommand=ChangeFPP Who are these masked avengers? ;-) -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: source SENDER authentication ? (as opposed to SPF HOST authentication)

2006-08-30 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 30-Aug-06, at 1:10 PM, Michael Grey wrote:Are there any SA methods that allow verification of the ‘sender’ of an email ? I am aware of SPF which can confirm that a host at ip address x.x.x.x is authorized to send mail as from domain “A”, but how about a means to confirm that ‘[EMAIL PROTECTED]’

Re: source SENDER authentication ? (as opposed to SPF HOST authentication)

2006-08-30 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 30-Aug-06, at 1:44 PM, Justin Mason wrote: Gino Cerullo writes: part 1.2 text/plain1027 On 30-Aug-06, at 1:10 PM, Michael Grey wrote: Are there any SA methods that allow verification of the ‘sender’ of an email ? I am aware of SPF which can confirm that a host at ip

Re: catching fake usernames?

2006-08-30 Thread Gino Cerullo
this at the MTA. Depending on your MTA you may be able to address this by checking against the user database but I wouldn't do it in SpamAssasin. It's a content filter, it shouldn't be verifying user accounts for this purpose. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416

Re: Stupid phisher

2006-08-29 Thread Gino Cerullo
the un-successful log-in attempts, then the bogus credentials you supply are useless. They would disregard them resulting in a big waste of time on your part. A better use of your time is to fill-in the input fields with Russian swear words until you get board. ;-) -- Gino Cerullo Pixel

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Gino Cerullo
the email we get, sometimes we forget that honest mistakes sometimes happen. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Gino Cerullo
know of any online tools to evaluate the Domain Key. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Discourage broken configs (was: Discourage broken content (was: Broken images in mails)

2006-08-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
time we encouraged proper and correct server and DNS configurations so we can use all the tools at our disposal to our advantage. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: SPF Scoring... SPF_NEUTRAL

2006-08-23 Thread Gino Cerullo
the general consensus is to leave it alone. Especially since SPF is still quite new and still technically in an experimental stage. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: SPF Scoring... SPF_NEUTRAL

2006-08-23 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 23-Aug-06, at 1:09 PM, John D. Hardin wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Gino Cerullo wrote: So the big question is really this : Should NONE get an SPF score ? That is a matter of internal policy on your part. If you want to penalize domains for not having an SPF record you could give

Re: SPF Scoring... SPF_NEUTRAL

2006-08-23 Thread Gino Cerullo
is no you shouldn't. Their is no score to cover NONE. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740

Re: SA-LEARN Question

2006-08-22 Thread Gino Cerullo
-learn. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 416-247-7740 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Is there a new spambot army on the march?

2006-08-20 Thread Gino Cerullo
Yeah, I've been getting hammered by these too. I've configured Postfix to do HELO checks and the vast majority (95%) are failing at the MTA. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: SPF and SORBS problems

2006-08-15 Thread Gino Cerullo
another ISP, are hitting RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK.' -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503

Re: users Digest 14 Aug 2006 13:38:56 -0000 Issue 1597

2006-08-14 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 14-Aug-06, at 9:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Now that even spammers are using SPF, is there a way to penalize those with SPF records that are too broad?[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ host -t txt topsyvwkh.nettopsyvwkh.net descriptive text "v=spf1 ip4:51.0.0.0/2 ip4:66.0.0.0/2 ip4:145.0.0.0/2

Re: SPF Relay

2006-08-06 Thread Gino Cerullo
Unless you post real domains it is very difficult to help with SPF questions. Since we cannot query your DNS, we can't determine whether there are errors in the SPF record.   On 5-Aug-06, at 4:29 PM, Benu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I need help also, I am seeing the same messages. In

Re: SPF Relay

2006-08-06 Thread Gino Cerullo
'mx:smtpd.domain.net' in the record for 'domain.net' does not mean 'smtpd.domain.net' has an SPF record or that it is cover by the record of 'domain.net' The test you show above shows a PASS. Which test gave you a problem? -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M

Re: spf fails for smtp auth clients

2006-08-02 Thread Gino Cerullo
Hi Benny,I just tried to send you an email directly and got this back.Aug  2 17:39:33 server postfix/smtpd[13818]: BFB481BD016: client=unknown[216.138.200.230], sasl_method=CRAM-MD5, sasl_username=gcerulloAug  2 17:39:33 server postfix/cleanup[13821]: BFB481BD016: message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED]Aug 

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

2006-08-02 Thread Gino Cerullo
For someone who was worried about breaking forwarding with SPF just a little while ago. What you propose below blows forwarding out of the water. On 2-Aug-06, at 4:53 PM, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Allowing IMAP/POP to Send EmailThe email SMTP protocol was created in simpler times. One of

Re: Am I wasting my time with SpamCop?

2006-08-02 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 2-Aug-06, at 4:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Anyone serious about stopping SPAM should not use SpamCop. They have no real checking method, it's like AOL's spam blocking method...they just let users submit what they think is spam and then block it. It's pointless. There's not even a way to

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

2006-08-02 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 2-Aug-06, at 6:29 PM, Jason Haar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:FYI: Courier-IMAP has had this feature for some time. You can configure it so that any mail message dropped into an IMAP subfolder named (e.g.) "Outbox" will be auto-sent - i.e. piped into /usr/sbin/sendmail. Completely removes the need

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email

2006-08-02 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 2-Aug-06, at 7:29 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Sniffers exist. Passwords are NOT the solution. They may evolve into part of the problem. Traffic analysis and slow downs for sending too many emails too rapidly are part of the solution. Forcing authenticated SMTP submission finishes the solution.

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-27 Thread Gino Cerullo
). Then both SPF and forwarding would work fine. And furthermore be consistent. Hamish. That's the basic idea behind SRS. The forwarding server re-writes the header and takes responsibility for the forwarded email. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-26 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 26-Jul-06, at 4:00 AM, Rolf Kraeuchi wrote:Gino Cerullo schrieb:[...] Hey, I never claimed checking and rejecting before DATA to be ready for'large scale' deployments. ;-) But, I have to say that in the six monthsthat I've been doing it I've never had a false positive. knocks onwood Also, I've

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-26 Thread Gino Cerullo
but because SA scans the outgoing email regardless, it scores that message as a FAIL. If the score was too high for FAIL then these legitimate messages could be rejected even before they left the sending server. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
that an email message claiming to come from one of my domains or from one of my IP addresses does in fact originate there. Thanks -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
not that SPF is a broken technology, it's that SMTP, at best, hasn't caught up to it yet or at worst, as has been stated already, is broken. Also, no one is forcing you to implement SPF, or are they? Tell me who they are, I'll send my boys. Gino Cerullo wrote: Whether it's SPF, DKIM

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 25-Jul-06, at 5:05 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote:I'd settle for just well defined, and actually usable.Or we could just wait until it actually works right.That sounds reasonable. If the protocol is as sound as it appears to be, the MTA developers will make an effort to implement it. If not, then

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
are really interested you can subscribe to their mailing lists here http://new.openspf.org/Forums If you like you can email me directly as well. I would imagine that people are getting tired of us going off-topic on this list by now. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
this thread. I am curious though. Why do you think SRS is a bad idea and what makes it clearly a mistake. You appear to feel strongly about this but without an explanation it's hard to fathom why. Please elaborate. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247

Re: SPF breaks email forwarding

2006-07-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
in NEUTRAL (?all) do you have a tale to tell or are you just being overly cautious for now? -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503

Re: users Digest 18 Jul 2006 15:14:24 -0000 Issue 1541

2006-07-18 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 18-Jul-06, at 11:14 AM, Logan Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: I'm a postmaster working with spamassassin (now debian sarge) for the last years, we habe one filter-host for all mails, so at the moment we have only one global bayes-database.. We are a

Spamassassin and SPF

2006-07-10 Thread Gino Cerullo
in a more recent version of Spamassassin? Any suggestions would be appritiated. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Spamassassin and SPF

2006-07-10 Thread Gino Cerullo
dynamically to his router by his cable company (ISP). Like I said the Postfix policy daemon that checks SPF correctly ignores this IP address as it represents the MUA (Mail User Agent.) I guess I'm expecting SA to know that as well but I guess it doesn't. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21

Re: Spamassassin and SPF

2006-07-10 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 10-Jul-06, at 7:39 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Gino Cerullo wrote: On 10-Jul-06, at 5:49 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: If the MSA in question is *ONLY* an MSA, you're easiest quickest fix is to just not trust it (or mark it as trusted but not internal). If I'm understanding you

Re: Spamassassin and SPF

2006-07-10 Thread Gino Cerullo
in your head. Off to the archives I go. BIG STASH OF FIREWORKS! Boy I'm glad you don't live in my neighbourhood. :-O Daryl -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto, ON M3M 1W6 T: 416-247-7740 F: 416-247-7503 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Looking for Turn-key SA solution

2006-07-05 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 5-Jul-06, at 3:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does anybody know of a vendor that sells boxes with SpamAssassin pre-installed, with a pretty GUI with quarantine ability? (My company won't allow home-brewed solutions, as they want a vendor to call if I get hit by a spam bus).-- Burton Windle      

Re: users Digest 29 Jun 2006 09:48:58 -0000 Issue 1518

2006-06-29 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 29-Jun-06, at 5:48 AM, Leigh Sharpe wrote:1) Bayes is still in training. I've only recently given everybody the opportunity to feed  it spam. I expect it to get better soon. My question was more related to why this stuff is  getting through now, when it used to get blocked. I'm guessing your

Re: Bounced messages for email from forged email addresses for a hosted domain - need opinions

2006-06-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 25-Jun-06, at 12:58 PM, "Jim Hermann - UUN Hostmaster" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Does it do any good to complain to the ISP that accepted the original emailwith a forged email address that uses a domain name that I administer?I administer a number of domain names that are being used in the

Re: Bounced messages for email from forged email addresses for a hosted domain - need opinions

2006-06-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 25-Jun-06, at 5:51 PM, John D. Hardin wrote: On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Gino Cerullo wrote: Does it do any good to complain to the ISP that accepted the original email with a forged email address that uses a domain name that I administer? Personally, nowadays I believe bouncing messages

Re: Bounced messages for email from forged email addresses for a hosted domain - need opinions

2006-06-25 Thread Gino Cerullo
Server C about NOT using SPF to reject the email from SMTP Server B. Agreed. Again, this has merit but your approach will determine how successful you are. Also, it may be easier to determine who to approach about the subject. -- Gino Cerullo Pixel Point Studios 21 Chesham Drive Toronto