Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 20:59:29 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: > understood why I can't get a report headers at all. I could modify > james to get the modified msg returned with the headers and replace > the original msg with the updated msg. But I don't see that as > necessary. In other words, this

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Groach
On 19/08/2016 11:58, Axb wrote: Question: Does it also support adding 3rd party (native Perl) plugins? or are you tied to the precomplied collection delivered by JAM? Jams product runs with Perl - so any perl plugins provided for Spamassassin should work on the windows versions too. FYI: i

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Axb
Question: Does it also support adding 3rd party (native Perl) plugins? or are you tied to the precomplied collection delivered by JAM? As to the list's hostility, imo, most of the beginner's questions could be answered by reading the docs or using a search machine. Instead, many new users expe

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-19 Thread Groach
FYI I and many others use Jam's windows port of Spamassassin. It is exactly the same as the linux version in what it can and cant do. Users can modify with plugins, rules, scoring overrides etc just the same as you do on linux. Spamd, spamc, spamassassin... all the same. The only thing th

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 8:34 PM, jdow wrote: On 2016-08-18 17:11, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of the spamd invocation on port 783.

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread jdow
On 2016-08-18 17:11, RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of the spamd invocation on port 783. I can't seem to find the documentati

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 18:14:47 -0500 Jerry Malcolm wrote: > I'm still trying to see why I'm not getting the report back. I've > gone all the way back to the source code that does the streaming of > the spamd invocation on port 783. I can't seem to find the > documentation anywhere on the format

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 2:15 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 3:05 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hit

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 5:39 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2016-08-18 21:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Hmm. I do not have any forwarding statements. Is there a way via command line (e.g. nslookup, etc) that I can determine if BIND is recursing or forwarding? I assume that might be in the SA report header. B

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 21:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Hmm. I do not have any forwarding statements. Is there a way via command line (e.g. nslookup, etc) that I can determine if BIND is recursing or forwarding? I assume that might be in the SA report header. But see my previous response that I can't seem

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:48, Jerry Malcolm wrote: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-query, allow-query-cache, etc. Is recursion the only one that might be affecting SA? Or should I enable other options? this is safe if you only listen to 127.0.0.1 if you use it on

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:36, Jerry Malcolm wrote: ok, I discovered the hidden ctrl-u fn in Tbird to show the full source. Updated pastebin: http://pastebin.com/eRurR7Mv DBL_SPAM: 6.50 URIBL_SBL_CSS: 6.50 URIBL_BLACK: 7.50 ABUSE_SURBL: 5.50 FUZZY_DENIED: 8.54 ONCE_RECEIVED: 0.10 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MIME_

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bill Cole
On 18 Aug 2016, at 15:08, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any;

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/18/2016 3:05 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling a

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Axb
On 08/18/2016 08:48 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 1:35 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with name

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 21:08 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any;

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: On 8/18/2016 12:16 PM, John Hardin wrote: There are also potential DNS issues that may contribute. In addition to describing your environment, perhaps you could post the X-Spam-Status header from a couple of the low-scoring spams. John, This is t

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 21:05 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: I see the local.cf file, it is already configured with 'all report'. But I looked at a msg that was flagged a spam. It doesn't have a report header either. I guess it's possible that the JAMES invoker mailet is stripping the headers. But I don't

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:50 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-quer

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:45 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report*

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:48 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is encouraging. I looked up how to set recursion in Bind. It looks like it's just requires adding a field to the options: |allow-recursion { any; }; |But it lists other options such as allow-query, allow-query-cache, etc. Is recursion the o

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:35 PM, Joe Quinn wrote: On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with names like you mentioned. There is only the X-Sp

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 8/18/2016 2:21 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report* header By default, the report header is o

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:27 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: On 8/18/2016 1:17 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which wou

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I hate to say this, but - perhaps you should be asking JAM *first*... Here is a pastebin.com link to an example u

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:23 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On 2016-08-18 20:10, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 MISSING_DATE: 1.00 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MISSING_TO: 2.00 MISSING_MID: 2.50 MISSING_SUBJECT: 2.00 w

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Joe Quinn
On 8/18/2016 2:27 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I haven't figured out a way to get Thunderbird to allow me to copy/paste the headers. But I did look at all of the headers. There are no headers in the email with names like you mentioned. There is only the X-Spam-Status header and X-Spam-Flag header

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 1:17 PM, li...@rhsoft.net wrote: Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which would show the matching rules including major mista

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 2016-08-18 20:10, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 MISSING_DATE: 1.00 DCC_BULK: 2.00 MISSING_TO: 2.00 MISSING_MID: 2.50 MISSING_SUBJECT: 2.00 was what it scored as in pastebin, rspamd test

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:18 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: This is the X-Spam-Status header I got back on an uncaught spam. No, hits=0.3 required=5.0. The spam was selling an all-in-one charger we need the *report* header What kind of DNS issues? I lease a server from Peer1 and use their name servers.

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
On 2016-08-18 2:10 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I ran the installer, and that's it. I'm sorry that I don't know more. But I don't know much about the inner work

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
On 8/18/2016 12:16 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread li...@rhsoft.net
Am 18.08.2016 um 20:10 schrieb Jerry Malcolm: Here is a pastebin.com link to an example uncaught spam message. SA scored it a 4.7. http://pastebin.com/T1CfVgP4 useless without any headers which would show the matching rules including major mistakes like URIBL_BLOCKED but even passing that "

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
Thanks for the quick response. I'll try to reply with what I know. But I purchased a package "SpamAssassin In A Box" from JAM Software. I ran the installer, and that's it. I'm sorry that I don't know more. But I don't know much about the inner workings. I was just hoping it would work. I

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are get

Re: New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Axb
On 08/18/2016 06:47 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote: I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are ge

New Install - Tons of Spam Getting Through

2016-08-18 Thread Jerry Malcolm
I installed the latest SpamAssassin In a Box yesterday (Win Server 2008 r2). I kept all of the defaults. It is up and running. But I'm getting a huge amount of spam, and I mean 'obvious' spam mentioning body parts in the subject line that are getting low scores (averaging about 15 uncaug

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-22 Thread Greg Ledford
>Changed and Amavis has been restarted. I’ll check the headers on the next >piece of spam to come through. Thanks I’m still trying to figure out how illegitimate stuff like this is getting through. It’s obviously a virus (which was caught) but then why did the email get through? I see the flag

Re: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? On 19.08.14 13:05, John Hardin wrote: SA headers look like this: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.138 tagged_above=-100 required=5 tests=[MISSING_MID=0.14, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.0

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-19 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? SA headers look like this: X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.138 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.138 tagged_above=-100 required=5 tests=[MISSING_MID=0.14, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, S

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-19 Thread Greg Ledford
What exactly are SA headers supposed to look like? I’m still getting quite a bit of spam coming through. It’s blocking quite a bit but I’m not so sure SA is even doing its job. Is there maybe a way to just block everything from anything .us? Stuff like this is being missed (what’s really amusin

RE: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>Use sa_tag_level_deflt = -100; >All your emails will have the SpamAssassin headers. Changed and Amavis has been restarted. I’ll check the headers on the next piece of spam to come through. Thanks for the great help!

Re: FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Karl Johnson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Greg Ledford wrote: >>Take a look at the "sa_tag_level_deflt" in your amavisd configuration > file. > > $sa_tag_level_deflt = 5.5; > > $sa_tag2_level_deflt= 6.0; > > $sa_spam_subject_tag= '***POSSIBLE SPAM***'; > > $sa_kill_level_deflt= 7.0; >

FW: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>Take a look at the "sa_tag_level_deflt" in your amavisd configuration file. $sa_tag_level_deflt = 5.5; $sa_tag2_level_deflt= 6.0; $sa_spam_subject_tag= '***POSSIBLE SPAM***'; $sa_kill_level_deflt= 7.0; I did. I bumped the levels a bit because they were catching some legitimate e

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: They may take a couple of different forms depending on how SA is hooked into your mail infrastructure. Basic SA headers start with "X-Spam", like X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Report. If you're using Amavis, then there would be some Amavis headers. (Note

Re: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Karl Johnson
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Greg Ledford wrote: > > It should just be called by Amavis directly. Sometimes it scans and > sometimes it doesn't. I just found another obvious piece of email that SA > and Amavis scanned and missed. I tried to attach the headers but they are > so blatant that th

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>They may take a couple of different forms depending on how SA is hooked into >your mail infrastructure. >Basic SA headers start with "X-Spam", like X-Spam-Status and X-Spam-Report. >If you're using Amavis, then there would be some Amavis headers. (Note that >the mention of Amavis in the Receiv

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by S

RE: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
>> Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of >> very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I >> know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. >Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by SA. >Do messages that SA *does* p

Re: Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, Greg Ledford wrote: Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Those headers don't seem to claim that message was even scanned by S

Tons of spam getting through

2014-08-12 Thread Greg Ledford
Can someone tell me why Spamassassin/Amavis are missing these types of very obvious emails? I'm still trying to figure all of this out and I know I missed something somewhere. Thanks. Received: from es300.phhwtechnology.com (10.0.1.3) by mail.phhwtechnology.com (10.0.1.5) with Microsoft SMTP Se