Re: PerMsgStatus Util warnings

2015-05-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 5/15/2015 10:00 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 5/15/2015 9:49 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 5/15/2015 9:43 AM, Axb wrote: Kartsten's GUDO plugin also uses uri_to_domain What do we have to replace that function with? The uri_to_domain is now in Mail::SpamAssassin::RegistryBoundaries

Re: DNSWL fp and other problems

2015-05-11 Thread Joe Quinn
On 5/11/2015 9:42 AM, Alex Regan wrote: Hi, I have a fp that was passed through thomsonreuters, hitting RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, receiving -5 points, from an obvious hacked account. http://pastebin.com/5LYS7s2v This is with v3.4.1, but an older bayes database, so perhaps it needs to be rebuilt.

Re: Particularly annoying spam

2015-05-01 Thread Joe Quinn
On 5/1/2015 10:55 AM, Larry Rosenman wrote: http://pastebin.com/4gck7uLD This one and one's like it seem to get through multiple times/day. Any help here? Today's is WITH 3.4.1.. That's a variant on a pretty old campaign that I haven't seen get through in a long while. I've updated

Re: TxRep $msgscore warning

2015-04-30 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/30/2015 9:10 AM, Birta Levente wrote: On 30/04/2015 15:55, Joe Quinn wrote: On 4/30/2015 7:09 AM, Birta Levente wrote: Hi I saw the bug report about TxRep warning: _WARN: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in addition (+) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin

Re: TxRep $msgscore warning

2015-04-30 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/30/2015 9:22 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 4/30/2015 9:10 AM, Birta Levente wrote: On 30/04/2015 15:55, Joe Quinn wrote: On 4/30/2015 7:09 AM, Birta Levente wrote: Hi I saw the bug report about TxRep warning: _WARN: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in addition (+) at /usr/share/perl5

Re: TxRep $msgscore warning

2015-04-30 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/30/2015 7:09 AM, Birta Levente wrote: Hi I saw the bug report about TxRep warning: _WARN: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in addition (+) at /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/TxRep.pm line 1415. _WARN: Use of uninitialized value $msgscore in subtraction (-) I

Re: v=spf1 +all

2015-04-24 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/24/2015 9:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 24.04.2015 um 15:22 schrieb Dianne Skoll: On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:17:45 +0200 Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: v=spf1 exists:gmail.com -all makes no sense - the spammer don't own the domain in most cases and if they do then they just

Re: v=spf1 +all

2015-04-24 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/24/2015 11:23 AM, Dianne Skoll wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:20:41 +0100 Paul Stead paul.st...@zeninternet.co.uk wrote: I've had thoughts of an extension which calculates the number of IP addresses specified in an SPF record, then calculating the % of world-wide addresses this SPF

Re: Awl on Redis

2015-04-17 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/17/2015 7:58 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/17/2015 6:46 AM, ma...@nucleus.it wrote: Hi to all, a saw that from spamassassin 3.4 Bayes can be stored on a Redis database. Is it possible also for Awl (auto_whitelist) ? Or maybe in the future ? We are currently looking at TxRep as a

Re: blacklist_uri_host

2015-04-03 Thread Joe Quinn
On 4/2/2015 4:23 PM, Axb wrote: Gals (3?) Guys If you're being plagued by the new TLD spams AND using SA 3.4.x don't forget blacklist_uri_host per default it's scored score URI_HOST_IN_BLACKLIST 100 but you may want to be less radical and just use a score butnot treat as a poison pill rule

Re: blacklist_uri_host

2015-04-03 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Sorry if this seems newbie-ish, but . . . I just got (a) phish purporting to be a major CC and had to scroll way down the html stuff to find the phishy link. Will this address that problem? joe a. Axb axb.li...@gmail.com 04/02/15 4:25 PM Gals (3?) Guys If you're being plagued by the new

Re: RBL/SPF if header exists

2015-03-31 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/31/2015 12:12 PM, Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:59:39AM -0400, Joe Quinn wrote: Is it possible to enable or disable RBL and/or SPF checks according to the existence or lack of a header? Without going into too many details, I need a way of transmitting

Re: RBL/SPF if header exists

2015-03-31 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/31/2015 12:23 PM, Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:15:31PM -0400, Joe Quinn wrote: Here's an example from when Yahoo's internal Received headers were hitting RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP, taken from here: http://www.pccc.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf header

Re: RBL/SPF if header exists

2015-03-31 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/31/2015 11:45 AM, Mike Cardwell wrote: Is it possible to enable or disable RBL and/or SPF checks according to the existence or lack of a header? Without going into too many details, I need a way of transmitting to SpamAssassin at scan-time that it should not run SPF or RBL checks on a

Re: Spamassassin not catching spam (Follow-up)

2015-03-26 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/26/2015 9:19 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 26.03.2015 um 14:13 schrieb David F. Skoll: On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:02:19 +0100 Robert Schetterer r...@sys4.de wrote: Silent discard mail is mostly forbidden in the EU, Is it? Could you perhaps point me to the EU directive stating this? I'm

Re: Recent spate of Malicious VB attachments II

2015-02-18 Thread Joe Quinn
On 2/18/2015 2:10 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 18.02.2015 um 20:00 schrieb David F. Skoll: On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:52:49 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Macros are not inherently evil. No, they're not, but AutoRun macros are guilty until proven otherwise, IMO. (And adding

Re: sa-update cron failure

2015-02-04 Thread Joe Quinn
Perhaps /usr/local/bin is not on PATH for the cron user? On 2/4/2015 10:50 AM, LuKreme wrote: Cron is sending me an error: error: gpg required but not found! It is not recommended, but you can use sa-update with the --no-gpg to skip the verification. However, if I run sa-update -D from the

Re: ping

2015-01-24 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 1/17/2015 at 9:22 PM, cool hand luke coolhandl...@coolhandluke.org wrote: On 01/17/2015 03:59 PM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: Just checking. From http://www.list.org/mailman-member/node25.html: 7.6 I don't seem to be getting mail from the lists. What should I do? There are a few

Re: after months of training still most messages treated as SPAM

2015-01-23 Thread Joe Quinn
To start, there are several very real things wrong with your example message. In my opinion, that message was correctly classified. Do you have any better-representative samples that you can paste in full? (http://pastebin.com/) Have you tried using -D bayes to see what tokens are being

ping

2015-01-17 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Just checking.

Gmail password reset FPs

2014-12-17 Thread Joe Quinn
We've been having password reset emails marked as spam by Gmail. We've tried rephrasing the email body/subject/from email, to no avail. We've even tried registering as a bulk sender (https://support.google.com/mail/contact/bulk_send_new?rd=1) and googling for anyone having similar issues. Has

Re: Can't change SpamAssassin score without enabling the Spam Auto-Delete function

2014-12-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/15/2014 12:20 PM, Herbert Eppel wrote: I use QiQ.co.uk for web hosting and associated e-mail services. QiQ offer SpamAssassin as an integrated feature that is accessible via cPanel -- see screenshot below. In view of the fact that some of my domains are increasingly inundated with

Re: Can't change SpamAssassin score without enabling the Spam Auto-Delete function

2014-12-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/15/2014 12:34 PM, Herbert Eppel wrote: On 15.12.2014 17:27 UK Time, Joe Quinn wrote: On 12/15/2014 12:20 PM, Herbert Eppel wrote: I use QiQ.co.uk for web hosting and associated e-mail services. QiQ offer SpamAssassin as an integrated feature that is accessible via cPanel -- see

Re: different results when using --debug

2014-12-08 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/8/2014 9:28 AM, btb wrote: Apparently in the first case a score set 1 was chosen, and in the second case a score set 3. Availability of a bayes scanner choses between the two. i'm ignorant here - what is a score set? is there documentation i can read up on? The term score set refers to

Re: Multiple subject headers - most blank

2014-12-05 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/5/2014 1:19 PM, Gibbs, David wrote: On 12/5/2014 11:25 AM, John Hardin wrote: FWIW: here's the rule I came up with ... seems to work adequately. header __COUNT_SUBJ Subject =~ /.*/ You might want to be a little bit more paranoid and explicitly anchor that: header __COUNT_SUBJ

Re: message sent to list yesterday

2014-12-04 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/4/2014 11:17 AM, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net wrote: hi- i sent a message to the list yesterday, but have not yet seen it appear. can someone check? my logs indicate successful delivery to mx1.us.apache.org: Dec 3 17:48:24 mta postfix/smtp[10226]: 3jtFgN6Dfmz9s2b:

Re: message sent to list yesterday

2014-12-04 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/4/2014 1:40 PM, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net wrote: On Dec 04, 2014, at 12.18, Joe Quinn jqu...@pccc.com wrote: On 12/4/2014 11:17 AM, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net wrote: hi- i sent a message to the list yesterday, but have not yet seen it appear. can someone check? my logs

Re: Argument perl_version isn't numeric

2014-12-01 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/1/2014 10:24 AM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 12/1/2014 10:11 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 12/1/2014 9:21 AM, Burnie wrote: On 11/30/2014 11:29 PM, John Hardin wrote: Would a corrected syntax version of this work? if version 3.004001 perl_version = 5.01 body

Re: Argument perl_version isn't numeric

2014-12-01 Thread Joe Quinn
On 12/1/2014 10:11 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 12/1/2014 9:21 AM, Burnie wrote: On 11/30/2014 11:29 PM, John Hardin wrote: Would a corrected syntax version of this work? if version 3.004001 perl_version = 5.01 body NON_588_COMPATIBLE_RE_SYNTAX /\w++/ endif Yes. That *does* work.

Honeypot email addresses

2014-11-21 Thread Joe Quinn
We are setting up some honeypot email addresses, and were wondering if anyone here had tips on how to include those addresses on webpages and other places. We're currently going with a pretty simple !-- honey...@example.com -- HTML comment. Is that too obvious? Should we put it into a CSS

Re: FPs on URI_HEX NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR

2014-11-12 Thread Joe Quinn
On 11/9/2014 11:07 AM, David B Funk wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2014, David B Funk wrote: For NUMERIC_HTTP_ADDR the rule is: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}/is If that pattern were terminated like: /^https?\:\/\/\d{7}(?::\d+)?(?:\/|$)/is it should prevent the FPs (hopefully with out destroying its

163.com

2014-11-12 Thread Joe Quinn
We've been getting hammered by spam from 163.com for quite a while now, and I really /really/ want to blacklist it, but it's one of the largest websites in the world. Everything I have found on Google points to them being blatant spammers, down to the Wikipedia talk page. Does anyone else

Re: 163.com

2014-11-12 Thread Joe Quinn
On 11/12/2014 12:57 PM, Axb wrote: On 11/12/2014 06:45 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: We've been getting hammered by spam from 163.com for quite a while now, and I really /really/ want to blacklist it, but it's one of the largest websites in the world. Everything I have found on Google points to them

shellshock via SMTP?

2014-10-29 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Comments on the ZD net article that claims shellshock exploit via crafty SMTP headers? Just asking, that's all . . . I attached a link to it below, please excuse if that is improper behavior. http://www.zdnet.com/shellshock-attacks-mail-servers-735094/

Re: __CBJ_GiveMeABreak2

2014-10-27 Thread Joe Quinn
We got this from Kevin Miller kevin_mil...@ci.juneau.ak.us who posted it to users@ on 15 May 2014. We've made some tweaks since then and because it's not ours we are hesitant to post it in KAM.cf, but here is what we are currently using: # HTML BR rawbody __CBJ_GiveMeABreak1 /(?:\/?br

Re: unsubscribe

2014-10-27 Thread Joe Quinn
On 10/27/2014 3:52 PM, Chris Brandstetter wrote: A Chris Brandstetter Linux/UNIX System Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University ⌘ You should email users-unsubscr...@spamassassin.apache.org to unsubscribe. Before you do though, where did you read that this was how to unsubscribe from the

Re: KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC - multi.pccc.com - listing btconnect.com

2014-10-24 Thread Joe Quinn
On 10/24/2014 7:25 AM, Paul Stead wrote: Not sure if this is a legit listing, however it's causing problems for some of my user base. I've added btconnect.com to my uridnsbl_skip_domain list Paul -- *Paul Stead* Systems Engineer *Zen Internet* Nothing legit came up when we were spot-checking

Re: SpamAssassin false positive bayes with attachments

2014-10-06 Thread Joe Albertson
After reading your reply, I re-examined the message and found the case was an incorrect Content-Type: ~~~ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250; name=pdfname.pdf Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=pdfname.pdf ~~~ So it was scanning the base64 as

Where spam comes from

2014-09-10 Thread Joe Quinn
http://qz.com/263013/for-390-you-can-buy-a-harvard-email-account-on-chinas-biggest-online-marketplace/ Most of the article is off topic, but I liked the mention of being able to buy *.edu email addresses. We see them from time to time, especially Harvard, and it always makes me wonder how much

Re: Dumping email with blank To: header ?

2014-09-04 Thread Joe Quinn
On 9/4/2014 1:51 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, LuKreme wrote: For the record, using sql for babes is considerably faster. Is that anything like SQL for Dummies? I've heard good things about the Derek Zoolander Center for Kids who can't SQL Good and who Wanna Learn to do Other

Re: Outlook, we do love to hate you....

2014-08-27 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/27/2014 11:56 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: *sigh* Just got a FP report... ... about an Out of Office message... ... generated by Outlook 15... ... which, among other things, seems to go to great lengths to look like spam, by way of the HTML formatting overkill that hits a local rule for HTML

Re: writing own rbl rules

2014-08-26 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/26/2014 8:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Hi i am tyring to write own RBL rules for blacklisting and especially whitelisting using internal DNSBL/DNSWL but my first try results in warnings at startup sadly the Wiki don't refer to check_rbl() https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules

Re: KAM rules keep me giggling

2014-08-20 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/20/2014 3:34 PM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: What poison pills are they ;) Someone suggested using kam and I'm happy now. I figure they are not with SA spirit that no one rule should make that happen but... yeah. One helluva rules! :) We're always curious how our rules work for other

OT -postfix config

2014-08-20 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Sorry to be OT. I thought this would be simple, but I am getting muddled, at this time of day. Have setup a postfix host to accept email from various (local) hosts and forward. The initial idea was to simply create a list of people for whom to forward email to another domain (translating the

Re: Second step with SA

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/15/2014 10:14 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/15/2014 7:05 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Having got SA working at last on my CentOS-7 home server, I'm thinking of improving its use for me (no-one else). It's finding about 65% of my spam, and I'd like to increase that to 80%. The best way to

Re: Bogus SPF +all (was Re: dnssec / dane)

2014-08-15 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/15/2014 1:50 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 10:39:03 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, David F. Skoll wrote: SPF is so easy (v=spf1 +all) Doing *that* should be worth a point or two by itself. Yes. I even through about implementing

Re: FPs on KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC

2014-08-13 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/13/2014 12:24 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Both of those are recent, I believe and both have reasons to blacklist. Reporting here is fine. Joe will look at moving them to our marketing list but in the end you might have to consider a custom score because we consider places with convicted

Re: spamassassin at 100 percent CPU

2014-08-11 Thread Joe Quinn
additional rules? Cheers, Noah On 7/31/14 12:27 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 7/31/2014 3:19 PM, Noah wrote: Hi there, what are some things to check with spamassassin commonly running at 100 percent? I used apt-get to reinstall of spamassassin 3.3.2-2ubuntu1 and no cure. nothing in the syslog

Re: rule for repeated tracking numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/5/2014 1:08 PM, Andy Balholm wrote: The last few days, I’ve been getting a lot of spams that have a similar pattern. They are plain-text messages, and each one ends with a paragraph from a restaurant review (apparently to confuse bayesian filters), with some numbers inserted. There is an

moving from fetched mail to direct deliver mail

2014-08-04 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
For some time have been fetching (POP-ing) mail from a provider. Now have sprung for static IP and an allotted pipe size and was going to change my MX to deliver directly to me. Suddenly, I am struck with the question of what happens to my wonderful stockpile of HAM'n'SPAM (corpus I think

Re: moving from fetched mail to direct deliver mail

2014-08-04 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 8/4/2014 at 5:03 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:22:03 -0400 Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: For some time have been fetching (POP-ing) mail from a provider. Now have sprung for static IP and an allotted pipe size and was going to change my MX to deliver

Re: spamassassin at 100 percent CPU

2014-07-31 Thread Joe Quinn
On 7/31/2014 3:19 PM, Noah wrote: Hi there, what are some things to check with spamassassin commonly running at 100 percent? I used apt-get to reinstall of spamassassin 3.3.2-2ubuntu1 and no cure. nothing in the syslog that seems relevant. Ubuntu 12.04 Linux 3.15.4-x86_64 Cheers, It

Re: duplicate key value violates unique constraint awl_pkey

2014-07-30 Thread Joe Quinn
On 7/30/2014 10:47 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On July 30, 2014 12:28:44 PM ML mail mlnos...@yahoo.com wrote: It looks like SpamAssassin tries to INSERT an entry (e-mail address) which already exists. Shouldn't SpamAssassin AWL code first check if an entry exists or not and use UPDATE instead

No SPF/DKIM/DMARC rule

2014-07-25 Thread Joe Quinn
Something we have noticed is that Google blocks email from servers that use IPv6 but do not have an SPF record. Is there any value to implementing a similar rule for SA with a relatively small score? If your domain does not use SPF, DKIM, or DMARC, you're not even trying to prevent forgeries.

Re: No SPF/DKIM/DMARC rule

2014-07-25 Thread Joe Quinn
On 7/25/2014 1:18 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:07:34 -0400 Joe Quinn jqu...@pccc.com wrote: Something we have noticed is that Google blocks email from servers that use IPv6 but do not have an SPF record. Really? We have not noticed that. We have a number of customers

Re: Obfuscated Windows excecutables (was Re: Ideas sought for blocking new variant of cryptolocker)

2014-07-10 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
://lwn.net/Articles/178409/ which points out that some UNIX desktop environments are repeating the mistake made by Windows.) Regards, David. Actually, that goes back to the days of XX-DOS, CP . . err, umm . . . Lordy, now I do feel old. joe a.

postfix question - virtual alias, from field

2014-06-26 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
like this to simply be from the original sender. Is this possible and how? joe a

Re: postfix question - virtual alias, from field -

2014-06-26 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Well, err, umm, please excuse the intrusion. Operator malfunction. (it helps to actually have mail sent from off box . . . ahem) Joe Acquisto-j4 j...@j4computers.com 06/26/14 12:58 PM OT, but hoping someone can cut thru the weeds for me. A new setup, with the intent that this machine do

Re: sa-update NOT updating.

2014-06-16 Thread Joe Quinn
On 6/16/2014 9:42 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 5/30/14 11:11 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: Good time for an update to the users list about the issue. The box that processed the updates at the ASF collo failed catastrophically during a power surge that took down some other boxes

Re: Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/local/bin/sa-heatu line 227, near s/... //r

2014-06-13 Thread Joe Quinn
On 6/12/2014 10:27 PM, Tom Robinson wrote: Hi, Sorry to bother you with this. As referenced on the ApacheSpamAssassin Wiki for AutoWhiteList (https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AutoWhitelist) I downloaded the Truxoft version of the sa-heatu utility

Spam Rule Slowness

2014-06-12 Thread Joe Quinn
We received a report that our published ruleset is slow on large emails (http://www.pccc.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf) After doing our own profiling (using Finding slow rules under http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance), we have not been able to reproduce anything

Re: Spam Rule Slowness

2014-06-12 Thread Joe Quinn
On 6/12/2014 10:57 AM, Axb wrote: On 06/12/2014 03:11 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: We received a report that our published ruleset is slow on large emails (http://www.pccc.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf) After doing our own profiling (using Finding slow rules under http://wiki.apache.org

Re: Spam score range and distribution statistics?

2014-06-09 Thread Joe Quinn
On 6/9/2014 11:34 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 6/9/2014 3:47 AM, Ben Stover wrote: As far as I found out SpamAssassin calculates the spam score and puts the value into the email header. What is the maximum range of the score? -10,,+10 or other? There are no limits on the score. The

Re: Capture vs non-capture groups

2014-05-28 Thread Joe Quinn
On 5/28/2014 12:46 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 5/28/2014 12:44 PM, Arthur Glennie wrote: Specific to spamassassin, are capture groups ever useful, or should I always use non-capture groups? Eg. (lit) vs. (?:lit) I believe ?: will always be ever so slightly more efficient. He's asking if

Re: Capture vs non-capture groups

2014-05-28 Thread Joe Quinn
On 5/28/2014 2:10 PM, Arthur Glennie wrote: [quote] The only place I've found backreferences useful is when writing a header rule that is looking for the same string in multiple headers. Other than that, captures are very rare. If SA had a way to capture a match from rule1 and use that in rule2

Re: How the rules __TO_EQ_FROM_1 __TO_EQ_FROM_2 work?

2014-03-27 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/27/2014 12:34 PM, Marcin Mirosław wrote: W dniu 24.02.2014 16:24, John Hardin pisze: Hi! On Mon, 24 Feb 2014, Marcin Mirosław wrote: Sorry for silly question. I'd like to know if mentioned rules catches all email address or only user part? It's not a silly question. All of the

Re: KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC and KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC

2014-03-20 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/20/2014 4:25 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC and KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC are clobbering a lot of legitimate mail. I'd like to drop the score. Can I just put score KAM_BODY_URIBL_PCCC1.0 score KAM_FROM_URIBL_PCCC1.0 in local.cf? Since KAM.cf changes

Re: bit.ly and Spamhaus DBL

2014-03-05 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/5/2014 7:18 AM, Ben wrote: On 05/03/2014 05:47, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2014-03-04 18:52, Ben wrote: Just for my reference, is there a way to affect the score rather than skip completely ? score FOO (1) (1) (1) (1) add one point to FOO rule it also works with negative scores that

Re: bit.ly and Spamhaus DBL

2014-03-05 Thread Joe Quinn
On 3/5/2014 9:57 AM, Neil Schwartzman wrote: On Mar 5, 2014, at 10:40 PM, Neil Schwartzman n...@cauce.org wrote: Yeah. An abused, and abusive redirector. They only deal with abuse Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:00.* They never break links, but put an interstitial in between the victim and the

Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Quinn
This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one that had the scene where Daisy first meets Jay Gatsby. Sometimes they add some

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Quinn
On 2/12/2014 3:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one

Odd email pattern

2014-02-10 Thread Joe Quinn
I've attached a munged example of a strange pattern we've just started getting. It consists of BODY_8BITS, plus an empty text/plain, nearly empty text/html, and some other office attachment. Is there a good way to match for the empty plain and html parts? The __KAM_BODY_LENGTH_LT_XXX rules

Re: Odd email pattern

2014-02-10 Thread Joe Quinn
On 2/10/2014 12:14 PM, Axb wrote: On 02/10/2014 05:16 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: I've attached a munged example of a strange pattern we've just started getting. It consists of BODY_8BITS, plus an empty text/plain, nearly empty text/html, and some other office attachment. Is there a good way

Re: Help with a regex to catch spam with gibberish html tags

2014-01-29 Thread Joe Quinn
On 1/29/2014 11:53 AM, Andy Jezierski wrote: I've been noticing a lot of spam getting through with the same traits, a bunch of random words within brackets. They all seem to come after the /body or the /html tag. Anyone much more knowledgeable than me care to assist with a rule to detect

Automatically extracting AOL scomp attachments

2013-12-31 Thread Joe Quinn
We semi-frequently get notified of spam in the form of AOL's notorious abuse reports. The actual spam is an attachment of mime type message/rfc822, which we have to extract by hand to make them easier to organize. We would like to have a tool that operates on all of these messages in one

Re: Automatically extracting AOL scomp attachments

2013-12-31 Thread Joe Quinn
Magnificent! Thanks for the quick reply. I will try this out when I get a chance. Do I have permission to copy your code below, with attribution of course? On 12/31/2013 10:57 AM, Kris Deugau wrote: Joe Quinn wrote: We semi-frequently get notified of spam in the form of AOL's notorious

Detecting very recently registered domain names

2013-12-19 Thread Joe Quinn
We are noticing a lot of spam coming from domains that are less than two months old. Is there a good way to detect this automatically? We've thought about whois, but do not want to get blocked for looking like we are harvesting information. Regards, JMQ

Re: Detecting very recently registered domain names

2013-12-19 Thread Joe Quinn
have to chalk this one up as not worth the effort. :( On 12/19/2013 10:13 AM, Alex wrote: Hi, On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Joe Quinn jqu...@pccc.com wrote: Isn't that where Kevin works too? Couldn't you just walk down the hall and ask him? lol We are noticing a lot of spam coming from

Get count of URLs in message

2013-12-06 Thread Joe Quinn
The file 10_hasbase.cf has the following rule: uri __HAS_URI /./ Is there a similar rule anywhere (or a way to write one), which could match against emails containing many URIs? I have searched for __HAS_.*_URIS to see if the concept exists, and I cannot think of any combination of

Re: How to get removed from spamcop?

2013-10-29 Thread Joe Sniderman
) and if we fail to block a spam it can appear we are the source. and ?, do you see your own logs who use spamcop.com as rbl ? http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/spamcop.com users of wot dont trust them o rly: https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/spamcop.net -- Joe Sniderman joseph.snider

Re: How to get removed from spamcop?

2013-10-28 Thread Joe Sniderman
mails you've already accepted on their behalf (sounds like this may be the case) do you then generate a bounce? Could some of those bounces be what caused the listing in the first place? Just throwing some ideas out there.. -- Joe Sniderman joseph.snider...@thoroquel.org

Re: Exchange 2013 and rejection of invalid RCPTs (was Re: one word spam (continued))

2013-10-16 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
David F. Skoll d...@roaringpenguin.com 10/16/13 2:32 PM . . . .as long as they don't mind paying extra and don't mind the NSA having access to their email. :) Regards, David. Of course you mean easier access . . . ? joe a.

Score = 4.9

2013-09-14 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
I've been having various issues with changes to local.cf not taking. Seem to have resolved these, yet there is one more issue that troubles. (mostly typos apparently, BTW) So today, after getting changes to BAYES weights to take, I found some SPAM gets thru anyway as the score come up short,

Re: Score = 4.9

2013-09-14 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 9/14/2013 at 7:40 AM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 07:24:31 -0400 Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: I've been having various issues with changes to local.cf not taking. Seem to have resolved these, yet there is one more issue that troubles. (mostly typos apparently

Re: Score = 4.9

2013-09-14 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 9/14/2013 at 11:24 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On 14.09.13 08:12, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: Yes the displayed scores are all rounded. Yet, just now, I got this: (which apparently did not round the same way ?? Just trying to understand) X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status

Re: Score = 4.9

2013-09-14 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 9/14/2013 at 10:47 AM, Kevin A. McGrail kmcgr...@pccc.com wrote: On 9/14/2013 7:24 AM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: I've been having various issues with changes to local.cf not taking. Seem to have resolved these, yet there is one more issue that troubles. (mostly typos apparently, BTW) So

SA not honoring customs in local.cf - was Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-09-06 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
should repost this with details of what I have done so far, as even those of kind and gentle nature may not be inclined to search it out. But I won't clutter further, if there is no interest. joe a. Joe Acquisto-j4 j...@j4computers.com 08/21/13 9:45 AM Bear in mind, that will tell

Re: SA not honoring customs in local.cf

2013-09-06 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Thanks for the leads. On 9/6/2013 at 10:05 AM, Kris Deugau kdeu...@vianet.ca wrote: Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: . . . I read back a bit in the thread; you've definitely got something strange going on. I don't see a couple of bits of information that might help narrow it down: - which

Re: SA not honoring customs in local.cf

2013-09-06 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
Thank you for the advice. I will attempt to follow it. For today, it's been a long one and my stamina is not yet up to par. So more tomorrow perhaps. joe a. On 9/6/2013 at 9:42 AM, Axb axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: if you need help, the best way is to: - stay *concise* at all times

Re: skipped due to message size

2013-08-30 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
joe a. Well, now that I increased the size, they did too. However, now it slips thru without a word as to why. mime below (large section of fill words snipped to meet pastebin limit): http://pastebin.com/7hSxDZmg Should it at least tell me it skipped due to size? OK, so

Re: skipped due to message size

2013-08-28 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 8/23/2013 at 6:43 AM, Joe Acquisto-j4 j...@j4computers.com wrote: On 8/23/2013 at 3:42 AM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: !-- On Wed 21.Aug'13 at 14:51:56 BST, Matus UHLAR - fantomas (uh...@fantomas.sk), wrote: On 21.08.13 09:47, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: I find a few

Re: skipped due to message size

2013-08-23 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 8/23/2013 at 3:42 AM, James Griffin j...@kontrol.kode5.net wrote: !-- On Wed 21.Aug'13 at 14:51:56 BST, Matus UHLAR - fantomas (uh...@fantomas.sk), wrote: On 21.08.13 09:47, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: I find a few of those 3 link (sudden craving for an IHOP breakfast spams, that contain

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-21 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
of references, for example, to BAYES_99 in /usr/share/spamassassin/blah.cf. I certainly don't know if these would override the setting in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. joe a.

skipped due to message size

2013-08-21 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
the default is 256000. If that is so, can someone clue me as to where to adjust this? A quick scan of the usual sources did not satisfy. joe a.

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-21 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
user (me) and the defined spam user (whose name I do see in logs) use /etc/spamassassin/local.cf (per lint), is that still worth trying? joe a. John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-20 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 8/20/2013 at 5:00 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: On 19.08.13 18:23, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: So, I have this in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: is that the same as /etc/spamassassin/local.cf? Don't have one of those. /etc/mail/spamassassin is where bayes_db, sa

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-20 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
, which is quite verbose. But has not lead me to a solution. It may be trying to . . . joe a.

Re: SUBJ_ALL_CAPS

2013-08-20 Thread Joe Sniderman
, it appears your message did not trigger the rule... Subject: SUBJ_ALL_CAPS X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=10.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS Maybe a string of multiple words separated by underscores is not considered multiword... -- Joe Sniderman joseph.snider

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-19 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
So, I have this in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: score RP_MATCHES_RCVD 0 Yet, even after restart of spamd, mail comes thru with a -2.8. What should I look at? I know other stuff is read as I changed trusted and local network IP's and had a typo in one. lint called me out on it. joe a.

Re: RP_MATCHES_RCVD letting in SPAM

2013-08-19 Thread Joe Acquisto-j4
On 8/19/2013 at 6:54 PM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Mon, 19 Aug 2013, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: So, I have this in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: score RP_MATCHES_RCVD 0 Yet, even after restart of spamd, mail comes thru with a -2.8. I assume you mean

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