Re: [Bug 7331] channel: SHA1 verification failed, channel failed

2018-01-11 Thread Bill Cole
.tar.gz. If there was no download, the attempt to hash a nonexistent file would fail without generating a hash and emitting some error. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https

Re: Scoring Issues

2018-01-26 Thread Bill Cole
range: SPF is informative but not probative. These rules somehow got set intentionally to sabotage-level scores somewhere that only the amavisd-new process is looking. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently

Re: Body rules hit on Subject

2018-02-03 Thread Bill Cole
/(?!\A).*\bdocusign\b.*\n/mi meta DOCUSIGN_BODY (HAS_SUBJECT && __DOCUSIGN_BODY_NOT1ST) || (__DOCUSIGN_BODY_1ST || __DOCUSIGN_BODY_NOT1ST) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://link

Re: Body rules hit on Subject

2018-02-03 Thread Bill Cole
On 3 Feb 2018, at 16:37 (-0500), Bill Cole wrote: On 2 Feb 2018, at 16:59 (-0500), Kevin A. McGrail wrote: There is no solution at the moment.  The subject is appended to the body of the text for rule parsing.  The 2nd sentence is wrong: the subject is *prepended* to the body. Also

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-10 Thread Bill Cole
to do dumb things. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Barracuda Reputation Block List (BRBL) removal from the SA ruleset

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Cole
no sense at all and require many more SOA queries than actually happen. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Email filtering theory and the definition of spam

2018-02-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Feb 2018, at 16:20 (-0500), Antony Stone wrote: Strange that I can't find SMTP under www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/std/std-index.txt ‎though, other than STD0060 and STD0071, which are both extensions. STD10 is SMTP (RFC821), STD11 is message format(RFC822). -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com

Re: Train SA with e-mails 100% proven spams and next time it should be marked as spam

2018-02-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Feb 2018, at 9:33, Horváth Szabolcs wrote: This is a production mail gateway serving since 2015. I saw that a few messages (both hams and spams) automatically learned by amavisd/spamassassin. Today's statistics: 3616 autolearn=ham 10076 autolearn=no 2817 autolearn=spam 134

Re: URIBL_BLOCKED

2018-02-15 Thread Bill Cole
nesses that essentially use their connections in the same ways as home users, but it's lethal for mail systems. My provider (WOW Business) does it by default. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work:

Re: problem with spamassassin for WIndows

2018-02-17 Thread Bill Cole
.@libero.it>) scritto: Hi Bill, this is the result of the command you suggested to type: feb 16 07:21:09.678 [21824] warn: Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in hash eleme nt at Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 571, line 717. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@

Re: Junk mixed in with ham on whitelists

2018-02-20 Thread Bill Cole
waves of transient spammers. It makes them hard to pigeonhole either way. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: spamasssassin vs mimedefang scores

2018-02-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Feb 2018, at 4:15, saqariden wrote: Hello guys, i'm using mimedefang with spamassasin, when I test an email with the command "spamassain -t file.eml", I got results like this: Dails de l'analyse du message: (-5.8 points, 3.0 requis) -5.0 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI RBL: Sender listed at

Re: problem with spamassassin for WIndows

2018-02-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Feb 2018, at 15:33, Gianluca Furnarotto wrote: Hi, I am trying to use Bayes with spamassassin, now it seems stop to learn, and when I use a command as "sa-learn --dump magic", or "sa-learn --sync", or other sa-learn commands, it appears this error: "Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in

Re: Run expensive test last, and skip if meaningless

2018-02-25 Thread Bill Cole
st uneconomic choice available to addressing your root problem. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: IADB whitelist

2017-12-25 Thread Bill Cole
wn system to how IADB results are scored, but those specific adjustments are probably not fit for most other sites. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-02 Thread Bill Cole
RECOMMENDED that the right-hand side contain some domain identifier (either of the host itself or otherwise) such that the generator of the message identifier can guarantee the uniqueness of the left-hand side within the scope of that domain. >> Note the use of RFC2119 terms.

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
make it break hard. HOWEVER, the idea of enforcing any standard on MIDs beyond gross format (e.g.: <[[:ascii:]]{3,996}>) on a system where the admin isn't the sole user is ludicrous. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsu

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Jan 2018, at 10:33 (-0500), David Jones wrote: On 01/01/2018 09:29 AM, Bill Cole wrote: On 1 Jan 2018, at 9:59 (-0500), David Jones wrote: I think some mail systems will keep the same message-ID per email thread so your system must reject some replies. I have not seen such behavior

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Jan 2018, at 12:47 (-0500), Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 1 Jan 2018, at 11:41 (-0500), Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: the gross format in RFCs 822,2822 and 5322 describes message-id consisting of local and domain part, thus is must contain "@". On 01.01.18 12:17, Bill

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Jan 2018, at 14:30 (-0500), Alan Hodgson wrote: On Mon, 2018-01-01 at 10:29 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: [...] HOWEVER, the idea of enforcing any standard on MIDs beyond gross format  (e.g.: <[[:ascii:]]{3,996}>) on a system where the admin isn't the sole  user is ludicrous. I've ha

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
pecification of "local" and "domain" parts. Also note that if you demand that MIDs contain '@' with conforming strings on both sides, you risk losing mail that users want. This is a mistake I have made. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpy

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-01 Thread Bill Cole
IMPOSSIBLE* for a receiving system to reliably determine whether the right-hand part of a MID is a valid host or domain identifier for the generator of the MID. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking S

Re: Malformed spam email gets through.

2018-01-03 Thread Bill Cole
On 2 Jan 2018, at 20:39, Alex wrote: Is it possible to at least enforce that the message-ID has a valid domain? Not reliably. About 1.5% of my personal non-spam email over the past 20 years has had "localhost" as the right hand side of the MID. This implies a de facto RFC violation because

Re: Periodic error

2018-08-01 Thread Bill Cole
are using a Net::DNS of a similar age to the antique SA. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Phish with xps attachment

2018-08-07 Thread Bill Cole
at region is linked to a URL (MUNGED: hxxps://ssllink(dot)me/1sta) which at present redirects to a Brazilian domain which yields a 500 reply with a "bandwidth exceeded" message. Presumably the payload used to be there... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: Update to Ubuntu 18.04.1 seems to have partially broken SA

2018-08-17 Thread Bill Cole
0]gbp)/is > header__KAM_LOTTO8From =~ > /Lottery|powerball|western.union/i If you're using KAM.cf, you should set up a mechanism for keeping that file up to date. This typo was fixed over 2 months ago (as far back as I have online backups of it) and the current KAM.cf

Re: spample: porn extortion with pure numeric From domain and base64 body

2018-07-17 Thread Bill Cole
FOR_FROM is not hitting enough to have a meaningful score and a pure numeric TLD in the envelope sender would always hit NO_DNS_FOR_FROM. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: spample: porn extortion with pure numeric From domain and base64 body

2018-07-17 Thread Bill Cole
And in addition... On 17 Jul 2018, at 20:00 (-0400), Chip M. wrote: > 3. Pure numeric TLDs appear to be non existent (so far!) I expect that this will hold true for a long time. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.

Re: Best practice for learning submissions

2018-07-23 Thread Bill Cole
en...) you might even get them to use specific keywords and/or archival mailboxes and use those to feed ham training. In a POP3 environment, this is a much harder problem to solve. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Best practice for learning submissions

2018-07-24 Thread Bill Cole
On 24 Jul 2018, at 13:39, Nick Bright wrote: On 7/23/2018 11:49 PM, Bill Cole wrote: The goal is to get a copy of the message that is identical to what SA saw when it arrived. For IMAP users, this is easiest to get with a 'missed spam' mailbox into which users can move messages for learning

Re: Line too long [rfc 2822, section 2.1.1]

2018-07-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Jul 2018, at 14:49, Rupert Gallagher wrote: A little survey on your local policies... What do you do when a subject line is longer than 78 characters? A. Reject B. Accept as spam C. Accept Accept, absent some actual spam sign. Note that the 78-character recommendation is not

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Aug 2018, at 12:40, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 08/30/2018 10:16 AM, Bill Cole wrote: >> It's hard to understand this circumstance based on the generic description. >> >> It appears that you have a configuration where a relay is in >> trusted_networks (i.e.

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Aug 2018, at 15:56, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 08/30/2018 01:08 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >> If that MSA is requiring authentication (as it should) and recording that in >> the Received header (as it should) then as I understand it, the handoff of >> the message w

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Aug 2018, at 10:01, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 30.08.18 09:49, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I feel that you are fighting a bigger battle than one rule in SA. two rules actually ;-) (with two more possible). Without RDNS, you are running afoul of the postmaster rules of virtually

Re: Non-ascii subjects with images

2018-09-01 Thread Bill Cole
f that work is done. On the other hand, it may be a consequence of SA parsing rules too harshly and mangling that particular odd RE syntax. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-31 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Aug 2018, at 4:53, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Note that I list internal clients as trusted, not as internal. Maybe this is the problem. Yes, maybe... Long time ago I learned to configure dynamic IP addresses (dialups) as trusted, but not as internal. They probably should be

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-31 Thread Bill Cole
On 31 Aug 2018, at 4:05, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 08/30/2018 10:16 AM, Bill Cole wrote: It's hard to understand this circumstance based on the generic description. It appears that you have a configuration where a relay is in trusted_networks (i.e. you believe what it asserts

Re: __HDR_ORDER_FTSDMCXXXX hitting windows live mail (and outlook express)

2018-08-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 30 Aug 2018, at 18:02, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 08/30/2018 03:50 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >> That will depend on how that particular MTA constructs its Received headers >> in relation to the parsing in >> Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Metadata::Received, which is non-tr

Re: From name containing a spoofed email address

2018-01-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Jan 2018, at 10:20 (-0500), Rupert Gallagher wrote: > Empty Message You're repeating yourself... -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: From name containing a spoofed email address

2018-01-19 Thread Bill Cole
when I see a "To: John" or other name than mine it's automatically spam, especially when it cannot even get the gender right. That can be useful even without a nym in the From header, although it is helpful to have a tricky name. e.g. no one has ever called me "Willy" except

Re: From name containing a spoofed email address

2018-01-19 Thread Bill Cole
than VWoA had a decade ago, but I doubt that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Maxium URL acceptable length

2018-01-23 Thread Bill Cole
to worry much about FPs. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: how to grep multiline add-header X-Spam lines

2018-03-01 Thread Bill Cole
If you want to use grep, you can pipe the files through an awk one-liner to unfold the headers. That works, but it is probably more convenient (if one has the procmail package installed or can install it easily and doesn't have awk syntax in the wetware) to use formmail -cs -- Bill Cole b

Re: Dealing with links to malicious documents

2018-03-13 Thread Bill Cole
to the DEBUG_README file posted. The example provided was apparently to a directory (URL ending in '/') but redirected to a .doc. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com

Re: Problems with SORBS?

2018-04-07 Thread Bill Cole
On 6 Apr 2018, at 8:08, Martin Gregorie wrote: I'm getting a lot of SORBS lookups rejected due to an "unexpected RCODE". Is anybody else seeing these? I'm sure someone is... There are none of those where I see. If the "unexpected RCODE" is SERVFAIL, it was likely transient on their end. If

Re: FSL_BULK_SIG still active?

2018-04-07 Thread Bill Cole
ave a valid reason to believe that your mail flow fits that divergence. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: low score on very spammy email

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Apr 2018, at 18:28, Motty Cruz wrote: reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org, That is redundant. The Zen list includes the CBL and Spamhaus has taken over operation of the CBL so there's no lag time between them any more.

Re: FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD and USER_IN_DEF_SPF_WL

2018-04-11 Thread Bill Cole
for def_whitelist_auth. Messages of this sort make an irrefutable argument for removing the general pass given to Google in the default ruleset, as it is clearly based on a use model of the domain which no longer is true. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: URI_TRY_3LD fp's with QuickBooks Intuit emails

2018-04-13 Thread Bill Cole
ni Yes, but it is published in 72_scores.cf with a trivial score: score URI_TRY_3LD 0.001 0.001 0.001 0.001 -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://link

Re: MSGID_SPAM_CAPS fp's hitting messages from The Pension Regulator in UK

2018-04-07 Thread Bill Cole
with that name (and mot with a 'T_' or developer's tag prefix) implies that at some point in the past it was reliable enough as an indicator of spam to be part of the default set. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses

Re: plugin: eval failed: __alarm__ignore__(xxx) how to troubleshoot

2018-04-20 Thread Bill Cole
for either perl or SA. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: anyone recognize these headers? From SA or are they from another spam product?

2018-04-24 Thread Bill Cole
that is an entity with whom you have a direct relationship. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: SpamAssassin 3.4.2.

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Apr 2018, at 16:54, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, David Jones wrote: On 04/17/2018 03:29 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Dave, why would it go into EPEL?  SpamAssassin is a core RPM. I will be updating my main SA platform servers to CentOS 7 this summer so this should be good

Re: SpamAssassin 3.4.2.

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Apr 2018, at 18:13, David Jones wrote: Why hasn't the packaging in RHEL/CentOS been updated to 3.4.1? At my last job where there were supported RHEL machines, I asked a RH support person a similar question regarding Postfix and got the answer: "If you want Fedora, you know where to

Re: SpamAssassin 3.4.2.

2018-04-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Apr 2018, at 16:38, David Jones wrote: On 04/17/2018 03:29 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Dave, why would it go into EPEL?  SpamAssassin is a core RPM. Oh yeh. I guess because it's been so long since we had an update and my main boxes are running CentOS/SL 6.9 that I forgot it was a

Re: Differing scores on spamassassin checks

2018-04-16 Thread Bill Cole
and spamd can't even TRY to use because it refuses to run as root and drops to 'nobody' if run by root. With a global bayes_path, the bayes_* files will become owned by root and everything else trying to use them (i.e. everything) will fail. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: Lots of money, score of 0??

2018-03-27 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Mar 2018, at 10:24, Robert Boyl wrote: Guys, Do you usually tune up Lots of money rule? Strange, our spamassassin/EFA scores 0 and false negative. Imho it should score at least something, few people would write Million dollars in an email, why not add up score? LOTS_OF_MONEY 0.00

Re: This sucks

2018-04-01 Thread Bill Cole
' will give you all the details. Figuring out what spamd is using is less simple (and system-specific) but since you've been maintaining a system by hand for a long time I expect you'll be able to figure out how to do so safely. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: Spam from addresses where full name mirrors left-hand side of address

2018-04-02 Thread Bill Cole
(\w+) (\w+) (\w+) <\1.\2.\3/ And assuming it can be done, is it *worthwhile* to do it?  Not a clue. Maybe worth a try? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: This sucks

2018-04-02 Thread Bill Cole
're adventurous, from the SVN 'trunk' that will eventually yield v4.0. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steady Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole Index: lib/Mail/

Re: T_DKIM_INVALID false positives with Gmail

2018-03-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Mar 2018, at 11:29, Sebastian Arcus wrote: I've been seeing a number of false positives recently from T_DKIM_INVALID with Gmail emails. Are some Gmail servers misconfigured, or could something be going on at my end? The DKIM record which is flagged as invalid is below: DKIM-Signature:

Re: Spam from compromised accounts scoring just under block threshold

2018-03-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Mar 2018, at 15:14, David Jones wrote: FYI This could be something for KAM.cf potentially... I have seen a few of these this morning that would be scoring just under the default SA threshold of 5.0 and are just under my MailScanner 6.0 threshold. https://pastebin.com/r2eZJaef I am

Re: Why emails relayedfrom trusted/internal networks trigger rules?

2018-04-26 Thread Bill Cole
use RFC1918 IPs and a generic name in a non-resolvable domain doesn't matter: SA cannot trust these because the chain of trust and working DNS is already broken. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently See

Re: Method of setting score for a custom rule to be the required_score ?

2018-06-28 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Jun 2018, at 22:17, J Doe wrote: I went back to “man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf” and can see mention of the shortcircuit plugin . . . is there more documentation (perhaps in another man or perldoc), where the shortcircuit keyword is mentioned ? perldoc

Re: Error 74 with spamc

2018-10-22 Thread Bill Cole
to connect to? The man pages for spamc and spamd can help you understand how to determine the answers to these questions. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com

Re: Error 74 with spamc

2018-10-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Oct 2018, at 11:08, Cecil Westerhof wrote: "Bill Cole" writes: On 21 Oct 2018, at 21:14, Cecil Westerhof wrote: When executing spamc I do not get output and the exit status is 74 (EX_IOERR: IO error). This would be the result of spamc not being able to communicate

Re: URI_WPADMIN fp

2018-10-19 Thread Bill Cole
On 19 Oct 2018, at 9:37, Alex wrote: Hi, Should we be adding 3 points for just this, or is there never a reason users should be using /wp-admin in their URLs? The score is coming out of RuleQA, so the score is derived empirically, not by a logical process based in arbitrary axioms. That

Re: Status Authenticated Received Chain (ARC) Support

2018-10-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Oct 2018, at 14:27, Markus Kolb wrote: Hi, what is the status of ARC Support (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmarc-arc-protocol-16)? It is not supported in any way in SA as of 3.4.2 and I am unaware of anyone proposing an operational model for supporting it. There is no

Re: KAM_Back rule

2018-10-26 Thread Bill Cole
for the fact that people discuss criminality in non-spam. Personally, I just zeroed the score for that on my personal system. Thanks for bringing it to light. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire

Re: Rule for a link with an numeric IP in body?

2018-10-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Oct 2018, at 9:55, Anders Gustafsson wrote: Is there such a rule already in 3.3.x? Do not run SpamAssassin 3.3.x. It is not safe. There have been multiple serious security bugs fixed in the 3.4.x series. However, the rules for 3.3.x and 3.4.x are identical. And yes, the rule

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Nov 2018, at 9:44, RW wrote: I created an A-record at Namecheap for a_b.mydomain.tld and neither firefox nor chromium had a problem with it. That's interesting and unfortunate because 'a_b' is unequivocally a violation of the syntax for hostnames. It may be acceptable as a DNS label,

Re: private networks are default rbl tested :/

2018-11-06 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Nov 2018, at 20:04, RW wrote: On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 23:37:59 +0100 Benny Pedersen wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network why are this network not default internal_networks trusted_networks msa_networks They are if you let SA guess your networks. If you specify the

Re: Bayes underperforming, HTML entities?

2018-11-08 Thread Bill Cole
a message with regular text in an HTML part encoded as entities and then scanned a message with the same text as text, and I got a 1.000 Bayes score (BAYES_999) for the second one. YMMV -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com

Re: Bayes underperforming, HTML entities?

2018-11-08 Thread Bill Cole
. But that IS just a guess: I haven't traced the code. Empirically, I had SA learn a message with regular text in an HTML part encoded as entities and then scanned a message with the same text as text, and I got a 1.000 Bayes score (BAYES_999) for the second one. YMMV -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com

Re: Warnings when enabling URILocalBL plugin

2018-11-08 Thread Bill Cole
> on all the GeoIP stuff? Giovanni mostly. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: Bayes underperforming, HTML entities?

2018-11-08 Thread Bill Cole
the other 3 places that it needs to match. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: googleapis hosted phish

2018-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Nov 2018, at 7:52, RW wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 01:22:00 -0500 Bill Cole wrote: On 14 Nov 2018, at 20:11, Alex wrote: Where is it getting these long hostname strings from? There's a bunch of garbage HTML using invisible text (font-size: 0) between tiny bits of visible text to break

Re: googleapis hosted phish

2018-11-14 Thread Bill Cole
h intends to generate widespread collateral damage. Of course, I could be wrong. You could test how wrong I might be with this: clear_uridnsbl_skip_domain googleapis.com -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Availabl

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
d dumb bounce models were when I talked about the master config file for Postfix on the Postfix Users list, the same week that someone was spamvertising URLs under master (dot) cf. -- Bill Cole signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
domain names that could have CNAME or DNAME records mapping them to working hostnames. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole

Re: config files in spamasassin is unintended tlds :/

2018-11-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Nov 2018, at 14:48, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 4 Nov 2018, at 11:45, Grant Taylor wrote: Why does it matter if there's a naming collision between DNS domain names and file names? Bill Cole skrev den 2018-11-04 19:25: Discussion of config files for SpamAssassin and Postfix has

Re: FPs on FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA (for my own hand-typed messages from my latest-version Thunderbird)

2018-10-02 Thread Bill Cole
On 2 Oct 2018, at 9:36, Rob McEwen wrote: SIDE NOTE: I don't think there was any domain my message that was blacklisted on URIBL - so I can't explain the "URIBL_BLOCKED", but that only scored 0.001, so that was innocuous. I suspect that that rule is malfunctioning on their end, and then they

Re: FPs on FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA (for my own hand-typed messages from my latest-version Thunderbird)

2018-10-02 Thread Bill Cole
I suspect that that rule is malfunctioning on their end, and then they changed the score to .001 - so just please ignore that for the purpose of this discussion. On 02.10.18 11:48, Bill Cole wrote: No, "URIBL_BLOCKED" means that the URIBL DNS returned a value that is supposed to be a mes

Re: Dependency: fetch binary

2018-09-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 Sep 2018, at 10:56 (-0400), Jari Fredriksson wrote: > What is this binary? It's a core FreeBSD utility used to fetch remote files. > I could not find any package providing this… I need it for debian (Raspbian) > and CentOS 7. As Kevin noted, you do not. -- Bill Cole b...@scco

Re: Bayes not learning, blacklist not filtering

2018-11-16 Thread Bill Cole
added useful functionality. Substantial parts of the default ruleset are wrapped in version checks because they demand 3.4.x features. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com

Re: SPF weirdness...

2019-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jan 2019, at 11:08, Grant Taylor wrote: Does anybody know off the top of their head—don't dig, I'll do that later—what might cause SpamAssassin to apply SPF processing to earlier Received: headers (lower in the message source)? Check both the contents and documentation of

Re: SPF weirdness...

2019-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jan 2019, at 12:15, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 01/15/2019 09:24 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> What is your glue for SA? Is it getting the received header you are >> expecting in time for the parsing? > > Both SA and my spfmilter are are milters on the same inbound Internet edge > MTA. > >

Re: SPF weirdness...

2019-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jan 2019, at 14:24, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 01/15/2019 11:39 AM, Bill Cole wrote: >> This strikes me as a flaw in whatever milter you're using. Some (e.g. >> MIMEDefang) milters deal with the fact that they don't get a local Received >> header by constructing on

Re: SPF weirdness...

2019-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jan 2019, at 15:05, Grant Taylor wrote: > I will investigate to see if spamass-milter can fabricate a satisfactory > Received: header. A quick look at the issue tracker for it implies that it does so. A milter that actually works with SA really needs to. Unfortunately, it is a nuisance

Re: Phishing.pm

2019-01-21 Thread Bill Cole
that the data file is re-read for each scan, so no restart is needed. even if I'm mis-reading, it would be re-read for each new spamd child process (or mimedefang worker) so a restart would not be *needed* if you can tolerate a delay until children are respawned. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com

Re: Phishing.pm

2019-01-22 Thread Bill Cole
[Pulling this conversation back on-list where I can misinform everyone publicly] On 22 Jan 2019, at 5:04, Ian Evans wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:15 AM Bill Cole < sausers-20150...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: [snip] Note that because the plugin is disabled by default, the d

Re: Subtest __E_LIKE_LETTER and __LOWER_E listed many times in message header

2018-12-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 9 Dec 2018, at 18:23, Chris Pollock wrote: > On Sun, 2018-12-09 at 13:06 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: >> On 9 Dec 2018, at 12:04, Chris Pollock wrote: >> >>> This is probably very trivial and doesn't affect anything except >>> maybe >>> the size of t

Re: Spamassassin using remote rules definition source?

2018-12-10 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Dec 2018, at 13:28, ozgurerdogan wrote: Can you give me some more step by step for : "set up your own local published ruleset source and configure your instances to include that in their rule sources for the standard sa-update processing (will require managing DNS entries and generating

Re: Subtest __E_LIKE_LETTER and __LOWER_E listed many times in message header

2018-12-13 Thread Bill Cole
On 13 Dec 2018, at 16:24, Chris Pollock wrote: > On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 15:14 -0600, Chris Pollock wrote: >> On Tue, 2018-12-11 at 19:00 -0500, Bill Cole wrote: >>> On 11 Dec 2018, at 16:37, Chris Pollock wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 201

Re: sa-update is broken on updates.spamassassin.org channel [was: Re: config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24]

2018-12-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Dec 2018, at 11:55, Marcus Schopen wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2018, 12:35 +0100 schrieb Marcus Schopen: >> Hi, >> >> I get a warning, when updating the channel: >> >> -- >> config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24 >> >> channel: lint check of update

Re: sa-update is broken on updates.spamassassin.org channel [was: Re: config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24]

2018-12-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Dec 2018, at 13:41, Bill Cole wrote: This should now be fixed for the next rules update. And, On 20 Dec 2018, at 17:04, (ignoring an explicit Reply-To header in a direct message to me!) Frank Giesecke wrote: How can I force the rules update? You cannot. The "rules upda

Re: sa-update is broken on updates.spamassassin.org channel [was: Re: config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24]

2018-12-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Dec 2018, at 17:54, Bill Cole wrote: If you cannot wait 5 more hours and have an updated SVN checkout of the 'trunk' code, you can run: make clean ; echo |perl Makefile.PL ; make build_rules That will leave a proper set of rules files in the rules/ directory. If you copy rules

Re: sa-update is broken on updates.spamassassin.org channel [was: Re: config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24]

2018-12-20 Thread Bill Cole
On 20 Dec 2018, at 17:56, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: We've had a few occurrences of essentially the same problem (a bad rules package due to an ignored lint failure in a nightly update) over the past few years. In addition to correcting the problematic rule I have also fixed the script which

Re: sa-update is broken on updates.spamassassin.org channel [was: Re: config: warning: description exists for non-existent rule EXCUSE_24]

2018-12-21 Thread Bill Cole
On 21 Dec 2018, at 15:57, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/20/18 7:00 PM, Bill Cole wrote: >> >> mkdir /tmp/saupdate-1849156 > > Never use a fixed path under /tmp =) Fine: #!/bin/sh cd `mktemp -d -t HappyMichael???` curl -O http://sa-update.spamassassin.org/1849156.tar

Re: Another form of obfuscation email.

2018-12-10 Thread Bill Cole
unreadable to me. The text/plain part is garbage, but the text/html part renders to a mostly readable phish. -- Bill Cole

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