new spam getting through

Peter Ong peter.ong at hypermediasystems.com
Mon Dec 6 17:47:51 GMT 2010


Gaah!!! Thanks... I'll schedule the updates.

p

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Steve Freegard" <steve.freegard at fsl.com>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Monday, December 6, 2010 9:27:25 AM
> Subject: Re: new spam getting through
> 
> On 06/12/10 16:04, Peter Ong wrote:
> > To further test, here's what I did.
> >
> > I created an empty text file. Pasted only the shortened urls in
> them. Then, I ran spamassassin on them:
> >
> > I ran:
> > spamassassin -t<  spam3.txt
> > spam3.txt is the text file I created with only the shortened urls
> inside.
> >
> > ------------=_4CFD0930.09ACA586
> > Content-Type: message/rfc822; x-spam-type=original
> > Content-Description: original message before SpamAssassin
> > Content-Disposition: inline
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> >
> > https://mail021.dti/zimbra/
> > http://goo.gl/m4PzL
> >
> > ------------=_4CFD0930.09ACA586--
> 
> ^^^ That is not a valid RFC822 message; which is the problem - SA saw
> a 
> completely empty message (hence EMPTY_MESSAGE rule fired).
> 
> Create a file like this:
> 
> ---- CUT HERE ----
> Subject: testing
> Content-type: text/plain
> 
> <paste shortened URLs here>
> ---- CUT HERE -----
> 
> Then run it through SA like this:
> 
> spamassassin -D -t < file 2>&1 | grep DecodeShortURLs
> 
> And if you are still running 3.2.5 it won't work based on a previous
> bug 
> report; you'll need to be running 3.3.1 due to a bug in 3.2.5 causing
> 
> eval rules to be merged incorrectly.
> 
> Regards,
> Steve.
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