Re: Question about forwarding email (not specifically SA, pointers greatly appreciated)

2024-01-03 Thread admin
Hello Thomas, This might help too: These failures are often due to SPFs that have a hard fail (meaning they end with ‘-all’). When I dealt with this in the past, the original sending domain was one where we could modify the SPF. So we had the email sender change “-all” to “~all” and since that

Re: problems updating when using a cron job on debian 11

2021-09-02 Thread Admin
Hello ^^) Le 02/09/2021 à 20:49, Bill Cole a écrit : On 2021-09-02 at 06:03:22 UTC-0400 (Thu, 2 Sep 2021 12:03:22 +0200) Jean-François Bachelet is rumored to have said: Hello folks ^^) I've installed the latest spamassassin version on a new Debian 11 server and configured it to work with

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-11 Thread hospice admin
7;tip of the hat' towards diversity. Judy. From: Bill Cole Sent: 10 July 2020 21:21 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave On 10 Ju

Re: IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR PEOPLE RUNNING TRUNK re: [Bug 7826] Improve language around whitelist/blacklist and master/slave

2020-07-10 Thread hospice admin
$0.02 from a woman of colour ... I personally find stuff like this just a little bit patronising ... more of a matter of kicking the real problem into the weeds than actually doing anything practical to 'fix' it. Right up there with Mercedes decision to paint their $100 Million F1 cars black.

Re: dcc-servers.net seems to have gone away

2020-05-24 Thread hospice admin
a domain name renewal. On 5/23/2020 2:33 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >>> On Sat, 23 May 2020 at 09:55, hospice admin >>> wrote: >>> > Looks like DCC/Rhyolite has stopped working. First noticed problems >>> > around 19:30 last night UK time. >&g

dcc-servers.net seems to have gone away

2020-05-23 Thread hospice admin
Hi Gang, Looks like DCC/Rhyolite has stopped working. First noticed problems around 19:30 last night UK time. Problem seems to be that DNS for dcc-servers.net has gone away. Have checked with the likes of mxtoolbox and intoDNS and they appear to agree. When I do a 'whois' for the domain I noti

Re: Facebook notifications sent from dynamic address

2019-10-05 Thread Admin
I noticed the same thing this morning. This is new for me as of yesterday. They appear legit, but they get caught up in my filters for the dyn ip "appearance". From: Kenneth Porter Sent: Saturday, October 5, 2019 10:05 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sub

Re: Line breaks in X-Spam-Report

2018-07-27 Thread Admin
erver/hmailserver/issues/115 (Fyi Your question put to the hmailserver forum would have answered this for you.) On 27 July 2018 10:08:22 BST, Admin wrote: OK. That explains why I've seen it that way in some examples online. I'm running hmailserver. Thanks.

Re: Line breaks in X-Spam-Report

2018-07-27 Thread Admin
ort they are there let me guess you use dbmail? blame gmime at message reconstrcut time Am 27.07.2018 um 00:44 schrieb Admin: Hello. I was wondering if there is a setting to force line breaks in X-Spam-Report. It’s kind of a trivial issue, but it would be so much easier to read. Like b

Line breaks in X-Spam-Report

2018-07-26 Thread Admin
Hello. I was wondering if there is a setting to force line breaks in X-Spam-Report. It's kind of a trivial issue, but it would be so much easier to read. Like below as an example (that I manually altered). Many thanks. X-Spam-Report: * 1.2 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in

Re: I know what I want to do ... BUT ...

2017-08-12 Thread hospice admin
ianne Skoll wrote: > > > On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 15:27:52 +0000 > > hospice admin wrote: > > > > > text = "v=spf1 exists:%{i}._spf.xyz.com ~all" > > > What I'd like to do is turn this into an RBL check, but > > > eval:check_rbl('Evil-E

I know what I want to do ... BUT ...

2017-08-11 Thread hospice admin
Hi Team, There's a particularly annoying ESP bugging us. Their clients always include a reference to them in their SPF records, which look something like this: text = "v=spf1 exists:%{i}._spf.xyz.com ~all" So, if a message is dropped from 1.2.3.4 nslookup 1.2.3.4._spf.xyz.com returns

Re: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::EmailBL??

2017-07-27 Thread hospice admin
Thanks. From: Kevin Golding Sent: 27 July 2017 14:41 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::EmailBL?? On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 08:28:06 +0100, hospice admin wrote: > the above plugin doesn't seem to be distributed

Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::EmailBL??

2017-07-27 Thread hospice admin
Hi, the above plugin doesn't seem to be distributed with the version of SpamAssassin I'm running: spamassassin --version SpamAssassin version 3.4.0 running on Perl version 5.16.3 Also, I can't find mention of a download location anywhere. Am I right in thinking this was an experiment that

Way to set user-prefs without a database?

2016-05-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, We have a couple of user accounts (really, role aliases) that need a different required_score from our global defaults. Since they're role accounts, they don't have a homedir. We're using a milter that passes the whole username (including domain name) along, anyway. Is there a d

DNS deferrals on *HEADER* addresses

2015-08-20 Thread hospice admin
Guys, I've been beating my head against a problem for a couple of days now ... maybe someone can point me in the right direction ...? I'm running SA 3.4.1 on Fedora 22. I think this problem started happening when I upgraded from 3.4.0 on Fedora 21. In both cases, SA is running from within MimeD

Good rules for PGP-Signed/Encrypted mail?

2014-11-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, The Day Job (and some of you may know what job that is) does enough PGP related stuff that we've had encrypted messages get dropped on occasion, and we'd like to whitelist this stuff. It looks like Mail::Spamassassin::Plugin::OpenPGP is way way old and has requirements that aren't e

RE: Advice re- SA 3.4.0

2014-06-07 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:43:37 +0200 > From: axb.li...@gmail.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Advice re- SA 3.4.0 > > On 06/07/2014 01:33 PM, hospice admin wrote: > > > > > > > >> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:22:13 +

RE: Advice re- SA 3.4.0

2014-06-07 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 13:22:13 +0200 > From: axb.li...@gmail.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Advice re- SA 3.4.0 > > On 06/07/2014 01:09 PM, hospice admin wrote: > > I was wondering about this one and had put it to one side until I had >

RE: Advice re- SA 3.4.0

2014-06-07 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 12:49:32 +0200 > From: axb.li...@gmail.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Advice re- SA 3.4.0 > > On 06/07/2014 12:19 PM, hospice admin wrote: > > Just wondering if anyone had any advice along the lines "you really &g

Advice re- SA 3.4.0

2014-06-07 Thread hospice admin
Hi Team, Ive finally completed the upgrade of all my mail servers from FC18 + SA 3.3.2 + Perl 5.15.3 to FC20 + SA 3.4.0 + Perl 5.18.2. I run SA from within MineDefang 2.74 in both cases. I've simply moved across all the rules and plug-ins I used 3.3.2 to 3.4.0, and during our beta testin

RE: Mystery SpamWare

2014-05-29 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 17:13:24 -0700 > From: jdeb...@garlic.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Mystery SpamWare > > On Thu, 22 May 2014 18:23:48 +0100 > hospice admin wrote: > >> Hi Team, >> >

Mystery SpamWare

2014-05-22 Thread hospice admin
Hi Team, All of a sudden I've started noticing a lot of spam coming in with some fairly unique headers like this: x-track-version: 4 x-track-source: notifire_XXX x-track-spooler-id: x-track-spooler-split-id: x-track-spooler-segment-id: x-render: render- Precedence: bulk x-trac

sa-learn from a cronjob?

2014-04-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, Most of my users aren't command-line friendly. I'd like to basically have my IMAP server default to handing out two imap mailboxes that get auto-crontabbed to training bayes. Ideally, I'd also like to make it so that things dropped in the learn_spam folder are deleted, and stuff in the

What is the view re- SPF_FAIL these days?

2014-01-15 Thread hospice admin
Hi Team, I was wondering what folks were doing with SPF_FAIL ,   TO_EQ_FM_SPF_FAIL and   TO_EQ_FM_DOM_SPF_FAIL   these days? I personally have never seen an FP with any, but understand from the reading I've done that some people do. My approach has always been to combine with DCC/Pyzor/Razor h

RE: Detecting very recently registered domain names

2014-01-09 Thread hospice admin
> From: hospice...@outlook.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Detecting very recently registered domain names > Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:45:07 + > > >> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:26:08 + >> F

RE: Detecting very recently registered domain names

2014-01-06 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:26:08 + > From: andrew.he...@aaisp.net.uk > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Detecting very recently registered domain names > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:02:39 -0500 > Joe Quinn wrote: > >> We are noticing a lot

RE: dns*.registrar-servers.com as a rogue registrar?

2013-05-08 Thread hospice admin
> From: lcon...@go2france.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: dns*.registrar-servers.com as a rogue registrar? > Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:15:24 -0500 > > > Nearly all of the .pw domains have their authoritative NS at > dns*.registrar-servers.com. > > that registrar and few othe

OT: Hopefully of interest to someone out there

2013-05-02 Thread hospice admin
http://www.nominet.org.uk/whoweare/structure/agm/board-election It would be great if someone from our community (ideally wiser them me), could get elected. Judy.

RE: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam

2013-05-01 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 16:34:48 +0200 > From: axb.li...@gmail.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam > > On 05/01/2013 04:28 PM, hospice admin wrote: > > I don't care what some folks are saying about .pw, compared

RE: .pw / Palau URL domains in spam

2013-05-01 Thread hospice admin
I don't care what some folks are saying about .pw, compared to Nominet they totally rock. When was the last time anyone saw Nominet suspend a .UK spammer? Judy > Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 06:58:41 -0700 > From: dones...@directi.com > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: .pw / Palau URL do

RE: Seminar Spam

2013-04-30 Thread hospice admin
> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:13:30 -0400 > From: b...@indietorrent.org > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Seminar Spam > > > > On 4/24/2013 12:12 PM, hospice admin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we're having problems with an outfit

Seminar Spam

2013-04-24 Thread hospice admin
Hi, we're having problems with an outfit called 'Bite Sized Seminars' in the UK, who seem to be sending mail out through another company called 'Communicado'. A quick google suggests we aren't the only ones. We have developed a number of rules that identify their mail by looking for their phone

Re: [sa-list] Re: Weighted MIRRORED.BY files?

2013-03-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Mark Martinec wrote: On Sunday March 24 2013 05:57:49 Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: sa-update also uses a mirror file which lists all of the URLs where the update can be downloaded from, optionally including weights for different mirrors. But there's no documentati

Weighted MIRRORED.BY files?

2013-03-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there. The SA wiki says: sa-update also uses a mirror file which lists all of the URLs where the update can be downloaded from, optionally including weights for different mirrors. But there's no documentation or examples given for weighting. Anyone closer to the code know what this wou

Re: [sa-list] Re: How to log detected locale/language?

2013-03-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 8 Mar 2013, Axb wrote: On 03/08/2013 04:46 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there all, It seems a pretty core function in SA is the ok_languages and ok_locales function. I'd like to be able to turn on LOGGING of detected locales before I set which are "ok" (

Re: [sa-list] Re: Yahoo single link spam

2013-03-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 2/22/2013 3:27 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:20:22 -0800 Marc Perkel wrote: We need a rule to catch this. It looks like more data than it is but it's really little more than a single link. Like to see a rule that identifies i

How to log detected locale/language?

2013-03-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there all, It seems a pretty core function in SA is the ok_languages and ok_locales function. I'd like to be able to turn on LOGGING of detected locales before I set which are "ok" (or specifically, which are "less ok") I'm sure there's a knob for this somewhere, can anyone tell me wher

pyzor 401/unauthorized?

2013-03-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I was in the process of "linting" my SA config when I discovered that the pyzor servers are handing back this response to all commands: /usr/local/bin/pyzor --homedir /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/.pyzor ping public.pyzor.org:24441 (401, 'Unauthorized: User is not authorized to request the

Re: [sa-list] Re: Supporting spamcop "quick" reporting

2013-02-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: On 02/19/2013 08:53 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: On 02/19/2013 03:47 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Spamcop has an undocumented feature that they allow you (if they trust you) to "

Re: [sa-list] Re: Supporting spamcop "quick" reporting

2013-02-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 2/18/2013 9:47 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, Spamcop has an undocumented feature that they allow you (if they trust you) to "quick report" spam, where you send to a different mail address, and it's reported ins

Re: [sa-list] Re: Supporting spamcop "quick" reporting

2013-02-19 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Andrzej A. Filip wrote: On 02/19/2013 03:47 AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Spamcop has an undocumented feature that they allow you (if they trust you) to "quick report" spam, where you send to a different mail address, and it's reported instantly, wi

Supporting spamcop "quick" reporting

2013-02-18 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, Spamcop has an undocumented feature that they allow you (if they trust you) to "quick report" spam, where you send to a different mail address, and it's reported instantly, without having to hit the web interface. When you do this, you are still free to report spam in the usual way

Re: Still no apparent fix on ipv6 spamd?

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/25/2012 5:02 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I mentioned this on the mailing lists a few years ago. I notice that there still doesn't seem to be a clean way to just make spamd listen on all (v4 and v6) addresses by default, nor is

Re: Still no apparent fix on ipv6 spamd?

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 9/25/2012 5:02 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I mentioned this on the mailing lists a few years ago. I notice that there still doesn't seem to be a clean way to just make spamd listen on all (v4 and v6) addresses by default, nor is

Still no apparent fix on ipv6 spamd?

2012-09-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, I mentioned this on the mailing lists a few years ago. I notice that there still doesn't seem to be a clean way to just make spamd listen on all (v4 and v6) addresses by default, nor is there a way to listen on multiple addresses with multiple -A options. This means that if you want to

SpamAssassin Hanging on RTF Attachments

2012-08-14 Thread admin
Greetings, I've spent many hours spread out over weeks scouring the Internet and message archives and FAQs and such, and am unable to find a solution to the problem I'm having. I have a Postifx+AmavisNew+SpamAssassin+ClamAV setup for my mail server. It's all running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 LT

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamhaus Whitelist

2010-11-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, David F. Skoll wrote: On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:41:53 -0700 Bill Landry wrote: You could also test the envelope sender: header SPAMHAUS_ENV eval:check_rbl_envfrom('SPAMHAUS_ENV', '_vouch.dwl.spamhaus.org.') But that's an abuse... you should not be using Vouch-by-r

Re: [sa-list] Re: Learing spam/ham with Pine

2010-11-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Nov 2010, Pat Traynor wrote: I've been running Spamassassin on my linux server for some time, and I use Pine to read my mail. Hello, fellow fossil! Aah, yonder fossils. I've found, by the way, that if you're not using Alpine, you sure shou

Spamhaus Whitelist

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, Has anyone come up with a ruleset yet to score against the new spamhaus whitelists, and deduct points appropriately? -Dan -- "Let me tell you something about regrowing your dead wife Lucy, Harry. It's probably illegal, potentially dangerous, and definitely crazy." -Harry nods- Vincent

Pyzor occasionally dying when called from spamassassin.

2010-07-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, I just enabled pyzor as part of spamassassin (freebsd 6.4, pyzor built from ports), and occasionally get this message in my logs: Jul 9 05:40:59 quark spamd[11607]: spamd: connection from prime.gushi.org [72.9.101.130] at port 51280 Jul 9 05:40:59 quark spamd[11607]: spamd: proce

Re: [sa-list] Re: Passing preferences to spamd?

2010-07-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 8 Jul 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 18:09 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: It seems the only way to pass a preference from spamc to spamd is by having a different user-id. In my specific case, I'd like to report to spamcop using their "quic

Passing preferences to spamd?

2010-07-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
All, It seems the only way to pass a preference from spamc to spamd is by having a different user-id. In my specific case, I'd like to report to spamcop using their "quick" UID for some mails, but keep all my preferences otherwise the same (so I still get the benefits of bayes, dcc, awl, etc

Minor Doc Issue on spamc config file?

2010-07-07 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, In my spamc config file I have: -d 72.9.101.140 -l --connect-retries=10 --retry-sleep=30 However, procmail scripts that I was using to report, via "spamc -C report", were simply returning the message. When I added -d 72.9.101.140, the message was properly reported. The manpage stat

Re: [sa-list] Re: Adding headers on spamassassin ignores?

2010-07-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 02:31 -0400, Dan Mahoney wrote: The greater problem is, that if for some reason spamassasin doesn't run (for example, a spamc timeout(*)) it produces exactly the same effect. Is there a way to have spamassasin/dspamd not scan

Adding headers on spamassassin ignores?

2010-07-04 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, From what I've gathered, there's both a recommended way to call spamassassin/spamd from procmail with a message-size-limit, as well as an overrideable builtin-default (-s option to spamc). These both cause the usual spamassasin headers to be missing from messages. The greater prob

Re: [sa-list] Re: Autoreplies from RT are hitting on ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE

2010-06-29 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 2010-06-28 11:33, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > Hey there, > > Perhaps this is by design, but rt replies are, strictly speaking, not > bounce messages. > > Message attached, let me know if it looks "normal". &

Re: [sa-list] Re: Learning and reporting with spamc in a single step?

2010-06-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 16:52 -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Can spamc do this, or must it be forked to "tee" or something. Ideally I'd like to both report and learn in a single step (such as in a pipe from alpine

Autoreplies from RT are hitting on ANY_BOUNCE_MESSAGE

2010-06-28 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, Perhaps this is by design, but rt replies are, strictly speaking, not bounce messages. Message attached, let me know if it looks "normal". -Dan -- Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gu

Learning and reporting with spamc in a single step?

2010-06-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Can spamc do this, or must it be forked to "tee" or something. Ideally I'd like to both report and learn in a single step (such as in a pipe from alpine). I note that spamassassin -r also has the option to learn (by default!), but spamc doesn't for some reason. Or if it does, the manpage neg

Does spamd support ipv6 yet?

2010-06-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
I previously asked this question and was told the best answer might be to wait for 3.3. Was there ever support ratified for ipv6 including proper -A ipv6 access lists, and proper ability to listen on both the ipv6 default and the v4 default at the same time, when specifying -i? I'm not sure

need to uninstall Spamassassin 3.3.1

2010-03-21 Thread Security Admin (NetSec)
Have tried upgrading Spamassassin 3.2.5 to 3.3.1 and the result was a disaster. Currently have the spamassin* of one version and perl-Mail-spamassassin* of another. Running "rpm -e spam*" I get the following error: error: package spamassassin-3.2.5-1.x86_64.rpm is not installed error: package

Re: [sa-list] Re: Adding remote-ip/ESMTPID/X-Envelope to logging output?

2009-12-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
case with sendmail logs). -Dan On Sat, 26 Dec 2009, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, Background: Sendmail with spamd running on a different box, spamc called from global procmail file. I'm doing some nightly log-combing to look for interesting patterns, including against o

Adding remote-ip/ESMTPID/X-Envelope to logging output?

2009-12-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey there, Background: Sendmail with spamd running on a different box, spamc called from global procmail file. I'm doing some nightly log-combing to look for interesting patterns, including against other network traffic (like erroneous DNS lookups, I think I might be on to something). Howe

bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/user/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: tie failed: No such file or directory

2009-07-12 Thread Admin
Hi there, Any clues how I can fix the following error? sa-learn is failing $ sa-learn --no-sync --spam --mbox ~/mail/Spam bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/user/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /home/user/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Ba

Re: processing of mail considered spam

2009-07-12 Thread Admin
Jari Fredriksson wrote: Hi there, Some spam is getting past the spamassassin. So I;d like to devise a scheme where I manually place the emails not caught by spamassass in my 'spam-mail' folder. Is there any way to get spamassassin to process the contents of the folder so I those accepted messa

processing of mail considered spam

2009-07-12 Thread Admin
Hi there, Some spam is getting past the spamassassin. So I;d like to devise a scheme where I manually place the emails not caught by spamassass in my 'spam-mail' folder. Is there any way to get spamassassin to process the contents of the folder so I those accepted messages are considered spa

spamassassin not working

2009-07-10 Thread Admin
Hi there, I do not see spamassassin processing information in the SMTP header of incoming messages. So I am fairly sure that the processing is not working. I am hoping to get the postfix->procmail->spamc processing path working system-wide. I need some help though since it is not working.

Re: [sa-list] Re: A rant about FUZZY_OCR

2009-04-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Jo Rhett wrote: On Apr 27, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: The problem exists now, there is PNG spam, and there will continue to be, because it gets through. Right now the only way I find this blocked is if spamcop blocks it. Just as a point of

Re: [sa-list] Re: A rant about FUZZY_OCR

2009-04-27 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Henrik K wrote: Nothing of this makes sense. If you don't have a test server, too bad. If you don't trust the "score-changing values" too bad. It all worked for me. It's a great idea, but I'd like to see it mature some first, especially with respect to its documentation, te

Code Rot?

2009-04-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, While there's a decent amount of spamassassin list traffic to imply otherwise, is the SA project falling dormant? the sare-rules claim they won't be updated due to lives, wives, and hockey. the fuzzyOCR project claims the only thing that works with 3.2 is the SVN version, and on t

Re: [sa-list] Re: Image spam and failing rule

2009-04-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Gary Forrest wrote: We are receiving the same image spam many times, random text within the body. FuzzyOCR. It seems Spammers are trying image spam again, after giving up on it for a year or so. Is there a version of FuzzyOCR th

Re: [sa-list] Spamd and ipv6

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Also, sorry about the subject headers. I think I've fixed my procmail recipe. -Dan -- "I love you forever eternally." -Connaian Expression Dan Mahoney Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/u

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd and ipv6

2008-12-05 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, SM wrote: At 18:23 02-12-2008, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Are you using FreeBSD or NetBSD? If so, i understand you. Unfortunately, SA developers do not care about IPv6 yet. So here SA program at first do action with "127.0.0.1" than "::1", i guess ;; This was tested on a BSD

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd and ipv6

2008-12-01 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, SM wrote: At 23:01 30-11-2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: So then, you're saying the behavior for ipv4 and ipv6 is somehow different? If you start spamd without specifying the IP addresses to listen on, spamd will listen on the 127.0.0.1 IP address only. A

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamd and ipv6

2008-11-30 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, SM wrote: At 21:45 30-11-2008, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Since getting my hosts natively speaking ipv6, I've been seeing a lot of initial timeouts connecting to spamc, because I believe it's apparently trying ipv6 first. spamc: connect to spamd on 200

Spamd and ipv6

2008-11-30 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Since getting my hosts natively speaking ipv6, I've been seeing a lot of initial timeouts connecting to spamc, because I believe it's apparently trying ipv6 first. spamc: connect to spamd on 2001:470:1f07:a7f::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused spamc: connect to spamd on 2001:470

Re: [sa-list] Re: Blogger URLs

2008-04-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:39:29PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Can someone do a spam-versus-ham comparison for included links to blogger.com (I don't have the corpus handy, nor do I know how to set up a "proper" test.)

Blogger URLs

2008-04-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, A lot of the spam I'm seeing sneak past spamassassin has a blogger url in it (this seems to be a new favorite for spammers). I've got about 200 such spams that have managed to sneak past (no idea how many of the 2 spams in my confirmed-kills folder also match). So, that said:

Re: Slow processing with 3.2.4

2008-03-20 Thread Spam Admin
Details on configuration. Both machines, ma1 and ma2 are identical. We are running: sendmail spamhaus.org blacklist which rejects the majority of mail so SpamAssassin does not have to process that chunk of mail. spamd (spamassassin) - 2 instances of spamd on each machine. mimedefang clamav a f

Re: Slow processing with 3.2.4

2008-03-13 Thread Spam Admin
bout 1.5 Gig of this. Swap usage is the same on both machines at 500M each. Thanks for the suggestions. They are good factors to consider. Dan Zachary Kris Deugau wrote: Spam Admin wrote: I have two mail servers running Spamassassin. One is running 3.1.9 and the other 3.2.4, both with

Slow processing with 3.2.4

2008-03-13 Thread Spam Admin
I have two mail servers running Spamassassin. One is running 3.1.9 and the other 3.2.4, both with the same set of local rules, plus the standard rules that come with each version. The 'load' on the processors for 3.2.4 is about *4 times more *than the 'load' on 3.1.9. Do others have the sam

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2007-12-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
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Re: [sa-list] Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Woick schrieb: [Spamcop] I understand the two step reporting process too, and I too find it annoying and timeconsuming to ack my (manually reviewed) 50 spams per day to them, so I ceased to do it. T

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-25 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, ram wrote: Sorry I meant "like spamcop" .. I think I must proof-read my own mail now before Ctrl-Enter :-) The problem with SpamCop is: the two step reporting process makes things a bear to do. I understand the logic behind it, but once or twice I've taken a couple hund

Rule for TLS verify=OK?

2007-10-24 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hey all, In looking through my sendmail logs, I've found that some connecting mail servers actually are correctly configured with a signed, valid cert from one of the major CA's. Is there a rule that can match this, on sendmail, based on the connecting ip on your network edge? This could b

Re: [sa-list] Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Alex Woick wrote: Matthias Leisi schrieb am 17.10.2007 09:46: Correct. But by setting (in your local.cf or equivalent) | trusted_networks 204.9.177.18 you are telling SpamAssassin that this relay is not operated by a spammer and that it should apply all black-/whitelist

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Matthias Leisi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: Livejournal's purely a mail forwarding service (i.e. there's no way to POP/IMAP that account) As far as I know, there are mails originating from LJ

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Matthias Leisi wrote: I forwarded over 200 of them earlier today (as an attachment -- total email size was about one meg). OK, I now could have a look at them (well, a sample of them, not each of the > 200 individually). All samples in that set have been forwarded through

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-17 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Henrik Krohns wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:48:49AM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:16:49PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: dnswl.org is either full of it, or not well maintained

Re: [sa-list] Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Henrik Krohns wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:16:49PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: dnswl.org is either full of it, or not well maintained. I've gotten at least 20 spams which I see are listed in dnswl.org as "low trust" (which still merits -1

Re: RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Matthias Leisi wrote: I forwarded over 200 of them earlier today (as an attachment -- total email size was about one meg). It would have been from this address. -Dan -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Mahoney, System Admin schrieb: dnswl.org is

RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW

2007-10-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
dnswl.org is either full of it, or not well maintained. I've gotten at least 20 spams which I see are listed in dnswl.org as "low trust" (which still merits -1.0). Could we maybe please add a feature to spamassassin -r (or some other hook to the generic whitelisting code) which reports this t

Re: [sa-list] Re: Advice on MTA blacklist

2007-10-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, David B Funk wrote: On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Jo Rhett wrote: On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:22 PM, Chris Edwards wrote: Your server then enforces encryption and SMTP-AUTH, and the SSL will (hopefully) defeat any man-in-the-middle attacks by trans-proxies. That's exactly the problem I

Re: [sa-list] RE: Auto-RBL was: Why did this not hit more? (SPF, DKIM, Ironport, X-originating-ip)

2007-10-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Bret Miller wrote: sa-update does NOT feed a local blocklist generated by *my* particular corpus of spam emails. Think of it as the RBL equivalent of sitewide-bayes. Or think of it as a way of SA saying "when I get twelve spams of score 10+ from ip 208.23.118.172...I w

A compound bounce/(spf/dk/dkim) rule I'd like to see.

2007-10-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
In pseudocode... IF (message is a recognizable bounce || message is from <>)... AND (we can guess the domain being sent to (can't trust the "to" header, but maybe the X-Envelope-To or some MTA token?) AND the domain being sent TO supports SPF and/or DKIM...(i.e. implying a misdirected bounce

Re: Auto-RBL was: Why did this not hit more? (SPF, DKIM, Ironport, X-originating-ip)

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: Parsing the SA logs would be easy, but the connecting IP isn't listed there. As I mentioned, I'm parsing exim's logs. It contains the spam score and the IP address. Oh, that's true enough. I was musing on parsing my own logfiles as opposed to plugi

Re: Auto-RBL was: Why did this not hit more? (SPF, DKIM, Ironport, X-originating-ip)

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Steven Kurylo wrote: Or think of it as a way of SA saying "when I get twelve spams of score 10+ from ip 208.23.118.172...I will feed the auto-expiring RBL, which *SENDMAIL* works off of, thus keeping my *SPAMASSASSIN* load lower. Thus a spam deluge via a dictionary attack

Re: [sa-list] Re: Auto-RBL was: Why did this not hit more? (SPF, DKIM, Ironport,

2007-10-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Rob McEwen wrote: Therefore, I recommend that you re-think your choices here! Don't let your quest for "guaranteed long-term perfection" keep you from making **substantial** progress today! Rob, Then help rally the SA team to include those RBLs that you mentioned in the

Auto-RBL was: Why did this not hit more? (SPF, DKIM, Ironport, X-originating-ip)

2007-10-08 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Rob McEwen wrote: FWIW... that IP, 220.226.197.15, is currently listed on four spam blacklists ("RBLs"): 1) uceprotect 2) no-more-funn 3) psbl 4) ivmSIP.com (mine) On 07.10.07 05:55, Dan Mahoney, System Admin

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