new spam getting through

Daniel Straka Dstraka at caspercollege.edu
Fri Dec 3 15:34:06 GMT 2010


I copied them to /etc/mail/spamassassin, ran spamassassin --lint and that generated a bunch of errors. So until I have time to look closer, I removed them.

>>> On 12/3/2010 at 8:29 AM, in message
<1511442244.26578.1291390144929.JavaMail.root at mail021.dti>, Peter Ong
<peter.ong at hypermediasystems.com> wrote:
> Has anyone else tried these sa plugins? I've implemented them in our 
> gateways, so no results yet. I did a rudimentary test on it... seems to be 
> okay.
> 
> p
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: "Jim Barber" <jim.barber at ddihealth.com>
>> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 5:35:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: new spam getting through
>> 
>> On 2/12/2010 8:01 PM, Steve Freegard wrote:
>> > Try my short URL decoder plug-in that I wrote for SA:
>> >
>> > http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.pm 
>> > http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.cf 
>> >
>> > You'll need to add x(dot)co to the shortener list though; the other
>> 
>> > defaults should work fine.
>> >
>> > Put both files in /etc/mail/spamassassin and restart MailScanner to
>> 
>> > get SA to start using the new plugin.
>> >
>> > This will allow SA to 'see' the decoded URI and check it against URI
>> 
>> > blacklists or local 'uri' rules, so you have plenty of options to 
>> > start blocking these.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Steve.
>> 
>> Thank you! :)
>> 
>> I've been getting a lot of the same sort of emails with encoded short
>> 
>> URLs slipping in in the past week or so.
>> This plugin should go a long way towards stopping them.
>> 
>> ----------
>> Jim Barber
>> DDI Health
>> 
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