Re: I need professional help

2014-07-14 Thread Matthew Newton
/dnsblusage/ Cheers, Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. m...@le.ac.uk Systems Specialist, Infrastructure Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, ith...@le.ac.uk

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-07-04 Thread Matthew Newton
off-list a complete copy of the headers of this test message? I can't guarantee anything, but I'll run it through SpamAssassin here to see if I can work anything out. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. m...@le.ac.uk Systems Architect (UNIX and Networks), Network Services, I.T. Services

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-30 Thread Matthew Newton
, there could be a problem if it's picked up a v4 address to test, when the mail actually came to you from a v6 address. I'm no expert in SA/BOTNET here, but at a guess, maybe your list of trusted hosts is wrong? Cheers, Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. m...@le.ac.uk Systems Architect (UNIX

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-30 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:06:06PM +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Doesn't seem to work. It's a false positive again. And Botnet recognises the incoming IPv6 address as some IPv4 address and reports that one. That doesn't look right - unless your munging has really messed it up. BOTNET seemed

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-30 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 04:07:57PM +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: (I'm Cc'ing to Matthew in case he wants to check how it turns out on his mailer). Arrived over IPv6 fine here, and did not hit (patched) BOTNET. Cheers Matthew -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. m...@le.ac.uk Systems Architect

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-13 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 02:44:19AM +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: 11.6.2011 0:41, Matthew Newton kirjoitti: I've therefore hacked together the following patch to Botnet.pm (0.8). It should fix the main issue that BOTNET does not do any lookups for IP addresses that look like

BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-10 Thread Matthew Newton
# permutations of combined decimal octets into single decimal values -- Matthew Newton, Ph.D. m...@le.ac.uk Systems Architect (UNIX and Networks), Network Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, ith...@le.ac.uk

SOUGHT ruleset FP

2010-04-16 Thread Matthew Newton
Publishing (spaces added!) which is the name of their company. I know SOUGHT is an auto-generated ruleset; just wondering if there is there any way to remove false positives before the set is generated? Otherwise I'll add local rules to compensate against this one. Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew

Re: SOUGHT ruleset FP

2010-04-16 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi, On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:53:55PM +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 12:20 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: We had a legitimate e-mail hit the JM_SOUGHT_3 yesterday. It also hit a few other rules that pushed it over our reject threshold of 10, and easily over

Re: Getting hammered by backscatter

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew Newton
://www.postfix.org/BACKSCATTER_README.html#real but still getting pounded. Here is the header from on such mail: I don't know how easy it is in Postfix (I use exim, and it's fairly trivial in that), but one effective solution for this is BATV. http://mipassoc.org/batv/ Cheers Matthew -- Matthew Newton

OT: Re: newbie question: scan msgs smaller than certain size

2007-10-09 Thread Matthew Newton
expansion. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Support and UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chickenpox.cf ham

2007-08-30 Thread Matthew Newton
Maximum chickenpox score with this is 3.5, if over 9 rules hit. HTH, Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Support and UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253

Re: OBSCURED_EMAIL ?

2007-05-31 Thread Matthew Newton
real typesetting software. ;-) Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Support and UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Services, I.T. Services, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom For IT help contact helpdesk extn. 2253, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:27:38PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: What's this use bytes thing and where do you add it and what does it do? #! /usr/bin/perl use Google; -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Services, I.T. Services, University

Re: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-31 Thread Matthew Newton
in /etc/mail/spamassassin ... or wherever you want to put your plugins) are: I'll drop it on our mailers (probably with a smaller score than the default) and let you know how many times the phone rings before I have to tweak it or remove it ;-). Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX

Yahoo Received header problem?

2006-08-16 Thread Matthew Newton
anything by sending a direct SMTP message rather than using their ISP; they were just using their webmail. Comments? Thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH

Re: alternate lcoation

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew Newton
. I'd be more inclined to just dump it into a mail store on the exim box for administrator investigation if necessary. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United

Re: mkdir /dev/null: File exists with every email thru SA 3.1.0

2005-12-19 Thread Matthew Newton
task. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: Cry for help: What to do with spam like this:

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Newton
(definitely adjust score until you are happy: it seems OK for me but you should start lower...) Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: Cry for help: What to do with spam like this:

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:59:22AM -0700, jdow wrote: From: Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:57:44PM +0200, Jon Kvebaek wrote: Hi, we are currently receiving a lot of mail like the one listed beneath. No rules seem to hit it at all, and it gets a low negative

Re: Explosion in uk.geocities.com spam

2005-10-10 Thread Matthew Newton
:\/\/..\.geocities\.com\/[A-Za-z0-9_]{2,40}\/\?[\w=\.]{3}/ Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: SUMMARY: sudden performance problems...

2005-10-06 Thread Matthew Newton
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:28:48AM +0100, John Hodson wrote: I have solved this problem with the help of suggestions from Rick Macdougall, Matthew Newton, and Bob Menchal. Thanks chaps! Excellent! suggestions were using spamassassin -D to debug, corrupt Rule in .cf file, and corrupt bayes

Re: Backhair ruleset and current Microsoft e-mail

2005-09-08 Thread Matthew Newton
thing, together with the fact that Word is trying to use XML stuff which doesn't stick to the standard HTML tags. It's strange that there are tags around single letters, generally l, but if Word's HTML generator is creating that then I'm not particularly surprised. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL

Regular expression whoops

2005-07-08 Thread Matthew Newton
isn't good to use (as people have said before), and that if you do use them they will come back to get you later! Removed the rules and all is happy again. I can finally rest for the weekend! Yup, I've learnt my lesson now ;-). Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems

Re: Regular expression whoops

2005-07-08 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:33:50AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Let me guess -- these were full rules, too? yep, * really isn't a good thing to use. ;) Yes...! Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator

Re: report settings

2005-06-20 Thread Matthew Newton
a file lookup as the condition, of course. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Bounces to forged sender addresses

2005-05-11 Thread Matthew Newton
not all bounces include info about the original message, but this might help cut down some of them, maybe? Any comments? Thanks Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1

Anyone else seem spam like this?

2005-04-22 Thread Matthew Newton
and distinctly, and to repeat words and phrases. However, don't underestimate your baby's grasp of what you are saying. Well before they can respond with words, babies and toddlers can understand a lot of what is said. Have a good day. - End forwarded message - -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL

Re: Anyone else seem spam like this?

2005-04-22 Thread Matthew Newton
is corrupt, just that we have a very wide range of different types of e-mail coming in here. Thanks Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Newton
writing my own. I'm no expert, but basic rule-writing isn't that hard if you can write regular expressions. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:53 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site

Re: Annoying Job Offer spam

2005-04-06 Thread Matthew Newton
UOLCC_ZETA_TRADE UOLCC_ZETA_TRADE Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: SA Rules

2005-04-02 Thread Matthew Newton
-- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Rule for downwards writing spam

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Newton
*** -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Obvious spam (from subject) getting through

2005-03-10 Thread Matthew Newton
probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5000] 0.1 HTML_FONT_BIG BODY: HTML tag for a big font size If there isn't a standard rule out there then I'll put one together for it. Thanks! -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SURBL missing this spam

2005-03-05 Thread Matthew Newton
:/ is not picked up http://blocked-domain.com:80/ is picked up Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

ALL_TRUSTED rule hit, but haven't set any trusted networks

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Newton
BODY: HTML tag for a big font size 0.2 MIME_HTML_ONLY BODY: Message only has text/html MIME parts 0.0 MIME_QP_LONG_LINE RAW: Quoted-printable line longer than 76 +chars -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network

Re: ALL_TRUSTED rule hit, but haven't set any trusted networks

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:57:37AM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:23 AM 3/4/2005, Matthew Newton wrote: Just had a spam arrive that was given a -3.3 score for ALL_TRUSTED. Funny thing is that my local.cf contains the following: # we trust our local network

Re: ALL_TRUSTED rule hit, but haven't set any trusted networks

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Newton
(getting increasingly confused about the whole issue!) -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: ALL_TRUSTED rule hit, but haven't set any trusted networks

2005-03-04 Thread Matthew Newton
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Matthew Newton wrote: OK, thanks. I still have problems exactly understanding the difference between trusted_networks and internal_networks is, though. My understanding is that trusted_networks is our entire ip address range

Re: hostname to --fqdn?

2005-01-29 Thread Matthew Newton
by this on Solaris 9. Sent an e-mail with a suggested fix to the module creator a couple of months ago, but heard nothing back. -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX and e-mail Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United

Bayesian database merging?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Newton
on this. I would guess that something like the output of sa-learn --dump all from each server could be merged, and then uploaded with sa-learn --restore? Thanks -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester

Re: Bayesian database merging?

2005-01-06 Thread Matthew Newton
, --restore will not read the --dump all format. OK, thanks. It was just a guess! Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

Re: Watches and pain relief

2004-12-15 Thread Matthew Newton
Hi On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:43:28PM -0800, jdow wrote: I've seen another variant about by Matthew Newton that makes a bunch of rules for both subject and body separately. I generally don't do this as the body rules will match the subject line, so there's really no need, other than

Re: SpamAssassin memory usage

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:32:22AM +, Matthew Newton wrote: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:51:27PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: try turning off AWL -- if the usage goes down, it's either a massive AWL file or a bug in DB_File on solaris... Thanks, I've now tried that. Unfortunately, memory

Re: New rules

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Newton
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 02:22:07PM +0100, Alex Broens wrote: Matthew Newton wrote: I've recently installed SA 3.0.1, and found some junk was getting through with scores too low for my liking, especially before the URLs made it into SURBL. I've put together a few rules to match some

SpamAssassin memory usage

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Newton
it swapping? The machines each process around 8 mails/day and we have something like 25000 users. Thanks for any help/advice you can give. Matthew -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester

Re: SpamAssassin memory usage

2004-12-08 Thread Matthew Newton
it uses, if that's useful. The machines are configured to give them around 5Gb memory including swap, but I couldn't do this on all machines because of the perfomance hit of using swap. Thanks! -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer

New rules

2004-12-07 Thread Matthew Newton
begin with caps letter score UOLCC_CAPWORD_TEST 0.1 Hope these are of use to someone. If anyone can show me that they are likely to pick up false positives, I'd be most grateful. Thanks, -- Matthew Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] UNIX Systems Administrator, Network Support Section, Computer Centre