Re: Spoofed From: names

2020-04-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
from the original From address while providing a functional From address using a domain name which passes SPF, a sufficient condition for passing DMARC. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The world is full of monsters with friendly FMP Computer Services | faces and angels with scars." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| - Heather Brewer

Re: Spoofed From: names

2020-04-09 Thread Lindsay Haisley
use with email redirection via the Courier MTA. The Mailman code substitutes the word "at" in the comment field for the ampersand to avoid this sort of problem, but other implementation may not. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The world is full of monsters with friendly FMP Comput

Re: Two types of new spam

2020-01-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
getting a number of these, and someone else on this list reported the same format. I haven't seen a SA rules solution to blocking these. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: SPAM message format, or not ?

2019-12-19 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ut I doubt if it does any good. The Big Guys don't need to allocate any of their hard-earned resources to clamping down on spam sent trom their customers' accounts :( -- Lindsay Haisley | "UNIX is user-friendly, it just FMP Computer Services | chooses its friends." 512-259-1190 | -- Andreas Bogk http://www.fmp.com|

SPAM message format, or not ?

2019-12-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
es, so I'm looking for a way to block them with a finer tool. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-24 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 00:15 -0500, Dave Funk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 19:03 -0400, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net > > wrote: > > > > > > consider that, to do the work described as "for

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
; What am I missing? Justin Ellingwood, who wrote the DigitalOcean piece, is a very experienced documenter. From his rather impressive resume, I'd be inclined to trust what he posts. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Friends are like potatoes. FMP Computer Services |If you eat them,

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
gh. So why is this bad informaton? -- Lindsay Haisley | "The voice of dissent was arrested before FMP Computer Services | the president cleared his throat to 512-259-1190 |speak of freedom" http://www.fmp.com| |-- Chris Chandler

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

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
en vetted and reviewed by competent peers, as is the way of the world with open source software. -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com| -- Hiram W Johnson

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

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
surface in itself and is a richer prize if hijacked, either  > directly or as a consequence of a general system compromise. > > On 23 Sep 2016, at 16:10, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:28 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > > > > >

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

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 20:21 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > On 23 Sep 2016, at 16:10, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:28 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > > > > > > As much as I love BIND (no, seriously, I do) it's very hard to  > >

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 17:10 -0400, btb wrote: > On 2016.09.23 16.16, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 18:43 +0100, RW wrote: > > > > > > Right, but the question here is why isn't a forwarding server also a > > > recursive s

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
821/what-s-the-difference-between-recursion-and-forwarding-in-bind -- Lindsay Haisley | "The difference between a duck is because FMP Computer Services |one leg is both the same" 512-259-1190 | - Anonymous http://www.fmp.com|

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

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ents { 1.2.3.0/24;     4.5.6.0/24;     127.0.0.1;     etc }; options {         .. recursion yes; allow-query { goodclients; };         etc... }; -- Lindsay Haisley | "The first casualty when FMP Computer Services | war comes is truth." 512-259-1

Re: DNS Terminology

2016-09-23 Thread Lindsay Haisley
can be. options { directory "/var/cache/bind";     recursion yes; allow-query { goodclients; };         etc }; -- Lindsay Haisley | "Never expect the people who caused a problem FMP Computer Services | to solve it." - Albert Einstein 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com|

Style Gibberish spammers are one step ahead of me !!!!

2016-09-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
No sooner did I complete a small python filter to divert untrapped style gibberish spams than I started getting these without the

Re: Anyone else just blocking the ".top" TLD?

2016-09-08 Thread Lindsay Haisley
his may be out of the realm of SA. I apply this test using a python program written to work with Gordon Messmer's courier-pythonfilter for Courier-MTA. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We have met the enemy and he is us." FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | -- Pogo http://www.fmp.com|

Stuff slipping through STYLE_GIBBERISH filter!

2016-09-07 Thread Lindsay Haisley
I'm getting a _lot_ of spam slipping through the STYLE_GIBBERISH filter, probably more than is getting caught (although some of it _is_ getting caught). An example body is http://82.145.55.127//ql.html?r=ref_02*mbsEcorbeag1039osdfrj=oth.sh4a.j6ujae.44yoh.c0497__0sv4Yb82/ln";>http://82.145.55

Re: netlawyers: why is this patentable?

2009-02-20 Thread Lindsay Haisley
> example is a U.S. company that uses recombinant DNA to put an unusual > color in a bean. Then they patent it and sue a Mexican company and block > imports of a bean that the Mexicans have been growing for generations. > That's just nucking futs. Sounds like Monsant

Re: Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
he bounces is mailer-dae...@linda.intranet which is obviously bogus, likewise violating RFCs. The envelope sender on the bounces is "<>", which is correct. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
user". I would expect that a list devoted to making the Internet mail system run to everyone's benefit rather than to everyone's detriment would be operated in a more professional manner! Is anyone minding the store -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Ac

Is anyone minding the store ????

2009-02-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
user". I would expect that a list devoted to making the Internet mail system run to everyone's benefit rather than to everyone's detriment would be operated in a more professional manner! Is anyone minding the store -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Ac

Re: KnujOn - Registrars

2009-02-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t; videos, Slashdot for illegal content (egregious copyright violation), > and registrars for aiding identified spammers. > > I would expect all those who need to be in the supply path for a > misdeed to work to remove themselves from that supply path upon proper > notification. I would NOT expect them to be proactive in this regard. > Reactive is fine and proper. > > {^_^} Joanne -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: KnujOn - Registrars

2009-02-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
r whois database, although they do have the authority to disable a name for which they're the registrar of record. I'm as offended by spam to me and my customers as anyone, but I'm also a big proponent of open source and net neutrality, and like to see pressure applied where the act

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
It may explain exactly why it didn't work when you tried it. It'll take you less time to read the relatively short section than it will to reply to this email :-) -- Lindsay Haisley |"Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like |

Re: DNS MX Question [OT]

2009-02-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
tried that and it didn't work. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_DNS_record> and in particular the quote from RFC 1912. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
this, but it appears that this isn't the case. Instead I've found several people of good will who don't seem to know a whole lot more about SA than I do, but have given me some good points to think about. Do you have any idea where I might inquire to get advice from people with mor

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
em a little more intelligently. Thanks! -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: Two servers, one database. A question - a correction.

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 16:51 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Scenario 2: spamc on box A communicates with a _local_ spamd, which > accesses local config files but uses a MySQL connection _over the > network_ to box A to access the Bayes/userpref database. Sorry, this should read: S

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
communicates with a _local_ spamd, which accesses local config files but uses a MySQL connection _over the network_ to box A to access the Bayes/userpref database. Sorry if I wasn't entirely clear before. I hope this clarifies the choice, which looks at this point as if I'd be better off with

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
) I think I agree with you. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:24 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Although I appreciate your advice, my question here is not _whether_ I > should do the integration, but which of the two methods of integrating > the databases will be most efficient of bandwidth and other resources. After think

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 15:21 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > I have two servers. Currently they're both running instances of spamd > > with separate mysql databases, however I'd like run both instances from > > the same database on one of the

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:43 -0600, McDonald, Dan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 12:20 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 17:43 +, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > I've heard it said that IPV6 will... > > You can always spoof an IP address of any

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Lindsay Haisley
il header you can trust absolutely is the topmost Received header in an email. This address can't be spoofed. If it were, it would have been technically impossible to send the email. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you l

Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-12 Thread Lindsay Haisley
conservative of bandwidth between the boxes? -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works|Accredited FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | by the 512-259-1190 |(The Roadie) | Austin Better http://www.fmp.com| | Business Bureau

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST ??

2007-07-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
cores.cf on the basis of a call to > > eval:check_from_in_whitelist() in 60_whitelist.cf. > > > What about whitelist_from_rcvd, or whitelist_from_spf? > > Do you have any whitelist commands at the site config level (ie: > local.cf or add-on rulesets)? -- Lindsay Haisley

USER_IN_WHITELIST ??

2007-07-15 Thread Lindsay Haisley
_ in my AWL database which should assign a much smaller (possibly positive) spam score, and shouldn't evoke a hit on USER_IN_WHITELIST. Am I missing something here, or is this a SA bug? -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who n

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: DNS list service to detect the registrar barrier

2007-07-02 Thread Lindsay Haisley
* 2.3 SPOOF_COM2COM URI: URI contains ".com" in middle and end > * -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% > * [score: 0.] -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Wi

Re: config clarification

2007-06-30 Thread Lindsay Haisley
alled. Defaults to "/etc/mail/spamassassin". If your local.cf is in /etc/mail/spamassassin, then apparently the answer is yes. My undersanding is that everything in that directory gets read. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP p

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-06-29 Thread Lindsay Haisley
worth mentioning that, as someone pointed out to me yesterday, there's a mirroring service for SARE rules at http://saupdates.openprotect.com, along with instructions on incorporating these into sa-update, thus avoiding problems with rules_du_jour altogether. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Figh

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-29 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 06:46 -0700, jdow wrote: > You will have to wait for up to a day for the Prolexic block to go > away. I got blocked for checking out their anti-DDoS measures. The block went away in about 15 minutes. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Fighting against human | PGP

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:56 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > By running a curl hit repeatedly on the RE server I reproduced the > problem. By running this test a couple of times I'm apparently now blocked by RE :-P Oh well . Hope the info I sent was useful. -- Lindsay Haisley

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
t; I'd rather fix the actual problem and not patch around it. Absolutely!! -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!! - found it!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
with -D and looking at my log files produced the answer. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
asked for some suggestions on how best to do this, so specific suggestions will be welcome. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
he same rules data as per the instructions at http://saupdates.openprotect.com . -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:43 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an > > earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is >

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
aupdates.openprotect.com/ has instructions for this, I see. I may try this. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ch works just fine on my installation. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates"| http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com| |

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:39 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Why not just use sa-update and not deal with this? sa-update and rules_du_jour deal with different rules repositories. I use both. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
.06.2007 08:14, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:24 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > >>> I just upgraded from SA 3.1.8-gr1 to SA 3.2.1-gr1 (Gentoo) and notice > >>> that I'm no longer getting any BAYES_NN test notices in my X-Spam-Status

Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
--lint failure in spamassassin. -- Lindsay Haisley |"Fighting against human | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | creativity is like | available at 512-259-1190 | trying to eradicate |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com| dandelions&qu

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ng in the > >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/ directory and rerun RDJ by hand. > >> > >> That worked for me on CentOS 4.5 > >> > >> The bug has been reported and a fix is due in 3.2.2 I believe. > > > >Huh? What's SA have to do with RDJ triggering Prolexic's DoS protection? > > > Daryl is right, there is no fix due in 3.2.2 - I got the RDJ and the > sa-update errors confused. I guess maybe I should dye my hair blonde. > > Apologies for any confusion I've caused. > > Kind regards > > Nigel -- Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FMP Computer Services

No Bayes!!

2007-06-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:24 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I just upgraded from SA 3.1.8-gr1 to SA 3.2.1-gr1 (Gentoo) and notice > that I'm no longer getting any BAYES_NN test notices in my X-Spam-Status > summary in my mail headers, or in the content analysis details in >

Bayes filters an SA 3.2.1-gr1 not active

2007-06-27 Thread Lindsay Haisley
since I'm well over the minimum required count of both spam and ham. Is there something I need to do to turn this on? I have all Bayes stuff in MySQL, and seem to remember someone else posting with a similar problem a while back with 3.2.0. Where should I look for the answer to this? -

New patch for rules_du_jour re HTML redirect pages

2007-06-18 Thread Lindsay Haisley
ep -il 'META HTTP-EQUIV' ${TMPDIR}/*|xargs -n1 rm -f + cd ${OLDDIR}; exit; rules_du_jour will still fail, but this will clean up the mess and next time (hopefully) it'll run properly. I'm plumb out of time to figure this out today so I'll revisit it later and submit a bett

Re: rules_du_jour script and HTML files

2007-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
n1 rm * This won't pick up the problem file on the current run, but will clear the way for it to be retrieved next time. On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:43 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:24 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Although r

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-17 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:24 -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: > Although rule_du_jour is still giving me HTML for SARE_OEM. Delete /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem* (or /etc/spamassassin/RulesDuJure/70_sare_oem*) and run rules_du_jour again. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In

Re: Testing Bayes filters

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
that contain half spam and > half mumbo-jumbo of unrelated random text that should probably irritate > bayes filters, score in fact almost always bayes_99. I can only imagine > that the additional random text is not really random but taken from a > fixed library that is not very big

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 15:49 -0700, SM wrote: > Unfortunately, nobody reads that or else we would not be seeing one > week of messages about SARE RBJ failures. Oh well I guess you have to be an old-time UNIX geek to know to look in script files for clues on how to use them. -- L

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Rules Emporium has been having some issues with a DDoS attack and made some configuration changes pursuant to overcoming this and probably balancing their load. Looks like they had a redirect and curl doesn't understand a http-equiv="refresh" or else the HTML was incorrect and curl just barfed on

Re: Turning the Screws

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
at it with your favorite text editor. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www

Testing Bayes filters

2007-06-16 Thread Lindsay Haisley
on here is on a commercial server, and is in beta until I can determine whether or not it's working as expected. My wife and I are beta testers until I determine that everything is working properly, at which point I'll turn it loose on my customers :-) -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an o

Re: missing tag

2007-06-14 Thread Lindsay Haisley
spamc will return the email unmodified, as it should. I've only been using SpamAssassin for a couple of days and have seen one such instance already. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-2

Selectively disabling RBL services in SpamAssassin

2007-06-11 Thread Lindsay Haisley
s in one of the files in /etc/spamassassin. The Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf is silent on this issue. Is there a way to do this? -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190