Re: sa-update - no updates for 3 weeks?

2017-04-06 Thread Terry Stewart
Hi James Just to let you know it isn't just you. Tried this this morning with same result. Retried just now, where it seems to have found an update (1786640), but still doesn't update, exiting with error code 1 (no updates available), as below Apr 6 15:05:52.617 [22842] dbg: channel: usin

Re: sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
Tried that when I read Kevin's message. It failed, until I unset a http_proxy env variable, which I'v now tracked down and eliminated. Everything is working fine now, thanks On 30/03/17 13:40, RW wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 10:45:59 +0100 Terry Stewart wrote: Hi I'm havin

Re: sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
Hi Kevin Thanks, that was an easy one. For some reason the shell had a http proxy set (though I couldn't see this when I ran env) So unset http_proxy fixed it. Now all I have to do is track down where this is coming from, but that's my problem nothing to do with sa-update. Rega

sa-update failing

2017-03-30 Thread Terry Stewart
Hi I'm having trouble using sa-update where it says "channel: could not find working mirror, channel failed". I'm running this on a Solaris 10 server. DNS works fine (the mail server also acts as our DNS server) as below nslookup http://sa-update.space-pro.be Non-authoritative answer: Nam

Regex Rule Help?

2011-03-21 Thread Terry Carmen
uot;; I tried using the perl negative look-ahead as both : (?!/) and (?!\/) without success. Can anybody toss me a clue? Thanks! Terry

Re: OT::Making a PC explode (was Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?)

2010-02-10 Thread terry
entirely possible to select a refresh rate or resolution that would cause a monitor to smoke and die. AFAIK, this is not possible with current hardware. Terry

Re: Newest spammer trick - non-blank subject lines?

2010-02-09 Thread terry
result in strange things being displayed in the Outlook Express subject line. If T'bird scrolls the subject in that case you'd get the effect he's talking about. I'm guessing that it's nothing more interesting than a bunch of backspaces. If so, it's a *really* old trick. Terry

Re: Anyone Notice Spam Drop 11 Hours Ago?

2010-01-29 Thread terry
as Nov 2008 when McColo went offline. We're down slightly, but nothing that couldn't be attributed to normal fluctuations. Is your non-spam traffic normal? Terry

Re: Anyone Notice Spam Drop 11 Hours Ago?

2010-01-29 Thread terry
as Nov 2008 when McColo went offline. We're down slightly, but nothing that couldn't be attributed to normal fluctuations. Is your non-spam traffic normal? Terry

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
"Thank you!". 8-) Terry

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
sounds like the most likely suspect. They're probably waiting for a confirm email to come back to the address they posted, to see if they can use the form to send spam from the website. Maybe I'll send a response to one of the addresses and see the page starts getting more hits. Thanks for the help guys! Terry

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
ters. I'll see how well the IP restriction works and take additional steps if necessary. Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. Can SA handle plain text (not an email with headers?). The garbage characters are pretty obvious. Thanks, Terry

[OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread terry
dy would bother to fill out the form with random data in the first place. Anybody have any ideas what anybody would hope to accomplish with this? Terry

Re: pill image spam learns to walk

2010-01-11 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/11/2010 12:57 PM, Terry Carmen wrote: exactly every (or any) domain Should be "exactly *matches* every (or any) domain" -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC 315.382.3939 http://cnysupport.com

Re: pill image spam learns to walk

2010-01-11 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/11/2010 12:42 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Terry Carmen wrote: On 01/11/2010 05:22 AM, Jason Haar wrote: Hi there We've been getting a few of these leaking through in the past couple of weeks. http://pastebin.com/m574da717 They aren't triggering (enough) network rule matches,

Re: pill image spam learns to walk

2010-01-11 Thread Terry Carmen
n it's tracks at your MTA. If there isn't any reverse DNS, the chances of it being a legitimate mail server are pretty slim. Terry

Re: spamassassin or spamd with amavisd-new?

2010-01-06 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/06/2010 02:05 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Terry Carmen wrote on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:23:28 -0500: How/where is this turned on in amavisd-new-2.6.4? I'd be happy to get rid of useless instances of spamd This has nothing to do with amavis. spamd is a separate daemon that

Re: spamassassin or spamd with amavisd-new?

2010-01-06 Thread Terry Carmen
here is this turned on in amavisd-new-2.6.4? I'd be happy to get rid of useless instances of spamd Terry

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now!

2010-01-05 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/05/2010 02:22 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: On Tuesday 05 January 2010 19:43:59 Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:37 -0500, Terry Carmen wrote: I just did a "find" and have: /usr/local/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.c

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now!

2010-01-05 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/05/2010 01:43 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:37 -0500, Terry Carmen wrote: I just did a "find" and have: /usr/local/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now!

2010-01-05 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/05/2010 12:06 PM, Jason Bertoch wrote: Terry Carmen wrote: /usr/share/spamassassin/72_active.cf contains < header FH_DATE_PAST_20XXDate =~ /20[1-9][0-9]/ [if-unset: 2006] < describe FH_DATE_PAST_20XXThe date is grossly in the future. /var/lib/spamassassin/3.

Re: Apache SpamAssassin Y2K10 Rule Bug - Update Your Rules Now!

2010-01-05 Thread Terry Carmen
thing else I need to do to get /usr/share/ updated or should it be deleted? (or something else?) Thanks, Terry

Re: How to score "jokes" from non-spam sources

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Carmen
Per Jessen wrote: Terry Carmen wrote: Some of my users have people they normally to corrospond with, but who also send large numbers of massivly CC'd "jokes". Does anybody have an example of a rule that would score messages with large numbers of CCs higher, without hosing fi

Re: How to score "jokes" from non-spam sources

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Carmen
Charles Gregory wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: Some of my users have people they normally to corrospond with, but who also send large numbers of massivly CC'd "jokes". Does anybody have an example of a rule that would score messages with large numbers of CCs

How to score "jokes" from non-spam sources

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Carmen
Some of my users have people they normally to corrospond with, but who also send large numbers of massivly CC'd "jokes". Does anybody have an example of a rule that would score messages with large numbers of CCs higher, without hosing filtering for the user's normal messages? Thanks! Terry

Re: use passwd file to control senders

2009-11-13 Thread Terry Carmen
er because the user f...@example.net does not exist. That's a nice idea! One option (definitely a hack) would be to get SA to pull the message_id, then scan the maillog for rejected recipients. Terry

Re: use passwd file to control senders

2009-11-13 Thread Terry Carmen
ipient, fbaz, doesn't exist, and to read it from the headers rather than the envelope recipients (the way an MTA does). If your MTA is configured properly, SA will never see a message for a non-existent recipient. What are you trying to do? Terry

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Terry Carmen
from outside the country, un-typable un-recognizable characters won't help. Terry

Re: there goes the uri scripts..

2009-10-30 Thread Terry Carmen
that some of it's customers can't read or type. Terry

Re: emails lost

2009-10-29 Thread Terry Carmen
, but whatever it is still has the message. In any case, Spamassassin doesn't delete anything, it only analyzes content. Terry

Re: dns query timed out while sa-update

2009-10-14 Thread Terry Carmen
asons. Unfortunately, I don't know of any way to reliably detect it from the client side. Terry

Re: dns query timed out while sa-update

2009-10-14 Thread Terry Carmen
ISP is intercepting your DNS requests to opendns? Terry

Re: Harvested Fresh .cn URIBL

2009-10-07 Thread Terry Carmen
John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: Instead of blacklisting new domains (which is apparently difficult to do), why not blacklist all .cn domains (or simply all domains) newer than xxx days? If they're older than xxx days and not yet on another blacklist for se

Re: Harvested Fresh .cn URIBL

2009-10-07 Thread Terry Carmen
er. Instead of blacklisting new domains (which is apparently difficult to do), why not blacklist all .cn domains (or simply all domains) newer than xxx days? If they're older than xxx days and not yet on another blacklist for sending actual spam, return a neutral response. Terry

Re: unsubscribe

2009-09-30 Thread Terry Carmen
This is on par with the classic form submit message "The following fields are required: . . . " Well if the fields are required, the submit button shouldn't be active until they're filled. It's no wonder non-technical people feel intimidated by computers. Software st

Re: using external spamassassin server with postfix

2009-08-25 Thread Terry
for spam decisions then drop or relay accordingly.   This is for >> outbound email only.  I would prefer that spamassassin live outside of >> these relay servers.  Is this possible? >> >> Thanks! > > Terry, > > Are you saying you want the spam processing to be on an

using external spamassassin server with postfix

2009-08-25 Thread Terry
Hello, We have a cluster of postfix servers through a load balancer. I would like to set up an external set of spamassassin servers where these postfix servers simply query the spamassassin servers over the network for spam decisions then drop or relay accordingly. This is for outbound email on

Re: Image Spam

2009-08-19 Thread Terry Carmen
zzy distorted letters. 8-) Even if it gets past the filters, if it doesn't bring in business, it's not useful for spam. Terry

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 21:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: >> > Sorry. But yes, I've got personal responses from pretty >> > much *all* over the world. >> >> As a geek, "I" receive mail from all over the world. However as a business >> owner,

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:28 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: >> Anything that I receive from an IP address located with maybe 50 miles of my location is almost 100% guaranteed Ham. However, I've never received even a single email from China that wasn't spam. . . . >So

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:28:06 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> > Personally, I think you'd have just about as much success scoring 1 >> > additional point to any email originating from the US. >

Re: Geographical distance

2009-08-06 Thread Terry Carmen
Ps and created "hammy" and "spammy" area mappings, and used distance from these as a weighting factor. Terry

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:33:40 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> The backscatter would not have been received, since the sender is on >> a number of RBLs. > > It's the IP address of the botnet PC that's on the RBLs, the backscatter > doesn'

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:04:35 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 >> > "Terry Carmen" wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > I have received many emails in the last hour which wer

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > I have received many emails in the last hour which were >> > undeliverable, NOT sent by me. >> > It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain >> &g

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
l server use an RBL, which would have stopped this before you received it. http://www.mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx Terry

Re: Score -71 for VERY spammy message!

2009-07-25 Thread Terry Carmen
s going on here! How can it get a score like that? > The message contained just an image and a link. --> USER_IN_WHITELIST Terry

Re: OT: Website protection

2009-07-11 Thread Terry Carmen
y of the "damaged" content with a fresh copy from the secure server and remove any "extras", making any unauthorized content changes vanish. Terry

Re: Never ending spam flood www.viaXX.net?

2009-07-10 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > >>> Because of Apache.org spam filters I can't send here my message about >>> spammers again: >> . . . >> >>> http://pastebin.com/f6a83e9fb >> >> I'm new to this list, and may be missin

Re: Never ending spam flood www.viaXX.net?

2009-07-10 Thread Terry Carmen
ule. Is there any reason you don't just drop the packets instead of wasting time deciding if they're spam? In fact, you can get fail2ban to do this automatically for IPs that create a significant number of spammy messages. Terry

Re: Perl Error: CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS on SA

2009-07-09 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > >> I'm running: >> >> #spamassassin --version >> SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 >> running on Perl version 5.8.8 >> >> and would greatly appreciate a help in troubleshooting this problem. >> >&g

Re: Perl Error: CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS on SA

2009-07-08 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: > >> SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 > > That's *way* old. Is there any chance you can upgrade to 3.2.5? I'm actually upgrading the entire server, but wanted to make sure I didn't migrate the problem along with the config

Perl Error: CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS on SA

2009-07-08 Thread Terry Carmen
gus, since CHARSETS_LIKELY_TO_FP_AS_CAPS is defined in /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Mail/SpamAssassin: Any ideas? Thanks! Terry / # These are generic constants that may be used across several modules @SA_VARS = qw( HARVEST_DNSBL_PRIORITY MBX_SEPARATOR MAX_BODY_L

Re: Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-01 Thread William Terry
John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, William Terry wrote: Is there anything I can do to mitigate this? Do you publish SPF records? We haven't as of yet. I have been looking at it though since this last burst of backscatter. Any idea how widely SPF record checking has been adopte

Dramatic increase in bounce messages to forged addresses

2008-04-01 Thread William Terry
I mostly lurk here, gleaning bits of wisdom from those far more knowledgeable than me, however... I am getting a dramatic increase in bounce messages with my domain forged sent to me. At least some of the messages still retain the headers so I can tell that we did not originate the message.

Re: Innovative Host Blacklisting Idea

2007-06-15 Thread Terry Soucy
To assume that legitimate mail servers won't use legitimate methods of delivering mail in the instance of service unavailability, IMHO, is a mistake. __ Terry Soucy, Systems Analyst Integrated Technology Services University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus http://www

Re: DKIM / DomainKeys

2007-02-12 Thread Terry Soucy
compensate for the RFC rules that will more than likely fire off. Terry Terry Soucy, Systems Analyst Integrated Technology Services University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Campus http://www.unbf.ca/its Voice: 506.447.3018Fax: 506.453.3590 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: relay

2007-01-23 Thread Terry Soucy
You might want to try asking that question in a mailing list specific for qmail. Check www.qmail.org for access to support and forums. Also check the Life with qmail book, available for download at http://www.lifewithqmail.org, which addresses this question. Terry Terry Soucy, Systems Analyst

Re: add point to certain hosts

2006-11-28 Thread Terry Soucy
record to their DNS, adding the A record for it, but not actually having system there. Spammers attempt to send to the third host, make no connection, and then move on. Just my $0.02 CDN Terry Terry Soucy, Systems Analyst Integrated Technology Services University of New

Re: Problems running Spam Assassin

2006-11-27 Thread Terry Allen
. all within a web interface. -- Bye for now, Terry Allen ___ hEARd Postal Address: hEARd, 26B Glenning Rd, Glenning Valley, NSW 2261, Australia Internet - WWW: http://heard.com.au http://itavservices.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Installing URIDNSBL

2006-10-23 Thread Terry Allen
On Friday, October 20, 2006, 9:26:29 PM, Terry Allen wrote: Hi all, I'm a long time SA user - my system runs Mac OSX 10.4.x, running Postfix, Maia Mailguard, ClamAV, Amavisd-new & now SpamAssassin 3.1.7 since upgrading 4 days ag, the SA installation intercepts all inbound

Re: Installing URIDNSBL

2006-10-23 Thread Terry Allen
On Sat, October 21, 2006 06:26, Terry Allen wrote: if it's an optional extra, can anyone let me know how to install it or point me to a how-to to get it running successfully with SA - many thanks for any help with this. find /etc/mail/spamassassin/ look for any file there ends wit

Installing URIDNSBL

2006-10-20 Thread Terry Allen
elp with this. -- Bye for now, Terry Allen ___ hEARd Postal Address: hEARd, 26B Glenning Rd, Glenning Valley, NSW 2261, Australia Internet - WWW: http://heard.com.au http://itavservices.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED

outlook web access - valid emails getting marked

2006-08-09 Thread Terry
Hello, Our OWA server sits inside of our network. I just tried sending an email to a valid outside recipient. The email wasnt anything crazy but here are the tests that were ran: FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML=2.514,FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS=2.369,HTML_MESSAGE=0.001,HTML_TAG_EXIST_TBODY=0.126,MIME_HTML_ONLY=0.

Will SpamAssassin work with my mail setup?

2006-06-26 Thread Terry Wray
I checked the FAQ's and the searched the WIKI but couldn't find an answer to this question... My email client (thunderbird) connects directly to my remote POP Mail Server, which is hosted by my ISP. Is there a configuration of SpamAssassin that will work for me? -- Terry Wra

Re: ALL TRUSTED - not natted - getting negative scored spam

2006-03-18 Thread Terry
On 3/18/06, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry a écrit : > > Actually, > > > > I got the ALL_TRUSTED I think but I cannot get the x-spam-status > > header to show up to even start debugging. > > What tells you you "got the ALL_TRUSTED" if you

Re: ALL TRUSTED - not natted - getting negative scored spam

2006-03-18 Thread Terry
On 3/18/06, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:54 -0600, Terry wrote: > > Actually, > > > > I got the ALL_TRUSTED I think but I cannot get the x-spam-status > > header to show up to even start debugging. SA is being called from >

Re: ALL TRUSTED - not natted - getting negative scored spam

2006-03-18 Thread Terry
; $sa_dsn_cutoff_level = 9; $sa_quarantine_cutoff_level = 20; The first one says I should get headers no matter what, no? Only relevant header I am getting is: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at domain.org Any ideas? On 3/18/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Terry wrote: > > I am not on a

ALL TRUSTED - not natted - getting negative scored spam

2006-03-17 Thread Terry
I am not on a natted machine but it is firewalled. So, I set trusted_networks to my local machine IP because that's really the only one I trust. I am still, after setting this, getting spams with negative scores. What am I missing?

RE: Exiscan + subject rewrite not working

2006-02-19 Thread Terry Miller
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:40 PM To: Terry Miller Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Exiscan + subject rewrite not working On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Terry Miller wrote: > I looked this up and can't see where I'm doing anything wrong, but the >

Exiscan + subject rewrite not working

2006-02-19 Thread Terry Miller
I looked this up and can't see where I'm doing anything wrong, but the subject is not being rewritten. Some relevant data: /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf # How many hits before a message is considered spam. required_score 3.0 # Change the subject of suspected spam rewrite_header Subject *S

Re: Configuring SA for DNSBL's

2005-02-23 Thread Terry Poperszky
Never mind, I found the rule set. Thank you for the help, Terry Poperszky SOS Staffing Services Network Manager 801-257-5709 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Terry Poperszky wrote: Thanks, just checked the logs and it is working. When you ask "beyond the default ones", what BL's is SA 3.02 u

Re: Configuring SA for DNSBL's

2005-02-23 Thread Terry Poperszky
Thanks, just checked the logs and it is working. When you ask "beyond the default ones", what BL's is SA 3.02 using by default? Terry Poperszky SOS Staffing Services Network Manager 801-257-5709 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:13:11PM -0700,

Configuring SA for DNSBL's

2005-02-23 Thread Terry Poperszky
orate environment.) -- Terry Poperszky

-L switch on spamd

2005-02-22 Thread Terry Poperszky
What exactly am I losing when I use the -L switch on spamd? Terry Poperszky

RE: SA not modifying headers

2005-02-16 Thread Terry Poperszky
ss to say the 2.64 spamd didn't work well with the 3.0.2 libraries. Thanks Terry -Original Message----- From: Terry Poperszky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:59 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: SA not modifyi

RE: SA not modifying headers

2005-02-16 Thread Terry Poperszky
Suggestions? I installed using perl -MCPAN -e shell, is there a way to remove the old and then reinstall the new? Terry -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 2:38 PM To: Terry Poperszky; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: SA not

SA not modifying headers

2005-02-16 Thread Terry Poperszky
I just upgraded from 2.64, to 3.02 this morning. Spamd is running just fine, but it is not modifying the headers of the email at all. I find the following errors in my mail log. Can someone point me in the proper direction?     Terry   SuSe 9.1 Postfix 2.0.4 SpamAssassin 3.0.2