Announce August 2004

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[SURBL-Announce] Fwd: Geturi 1.4 released! (The SURBL URI classification helper)
by Jeff Chan 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

Ryan Thompson has written some code to extract URIs from messages, using SpamAssassin 3.0 code. It could be useful for spam fighters in general, and in particular those feeding URI domains and IP addresses into URI blocklists such as SURBLs. Jeff C. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:13:46 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: SURBL Discussion list Subject: Geturi 1.4 released! (The SURBL URI classification helper) Finally. I've been taunting you poor folks for weeks, now. :-) Here it is: http://ry.ca/geturi/ -- geturi v1.4 >From the DESCRIPTION: geturi is designed to process a directory containing a list of RFC822 messages (one message per file). It analyses each message, attempts to strip out as many unclickable URIs as possible, and then compiles the list of found URIs, putting HTML output on STDOUT. What I'd *like* to see are a bunch of people using this, and some suggestions for improvement (I already have quite a few, some of which are in the TODO section of the documentation). I'd call this alpha code at the moment, for want of testers, but I don't know of any huge bugs. Feedback more than welcome! - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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[SURBL-Announce] ASTPS 0.50h adds SURBL support to Clearswift MAILsweeper, NetIQ Mailmarshal, and other Windows mail scanners
by Jeff Chan 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

ASTPS 0.50h adds SURBL support to Clearswift MAILsweeper, NetIQ Mailmarshal, and other Windows mail scanners. http://www.angelfire.com/ms3/mswtools "ASTPS is an Anti Spam Tool which can be used as a plug-in for Clearswift MAILsweeper, NetIQ Mailmarshal and any other scanner platform running on Windows 2000/XP/2003 which supports external programs. ASTPS detects obfuscation techniques used by spammers and it detects messages send by common e-mail worms. It supports a local hostname list, parallel IP and URL RBL queries, and it has a single DNS timeout period." Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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[SURBL-Announce] STAT AntiSpam adds open-source Windows SURBL support to freeware Mercury/32 mail server
by Jeff Chan 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

STAT Communications has added SURBL support to their antispam filter set for the freeware Windows mail server Mercury/32. http://www.stat-communications.com/antispam/ Their STAT AntiSpam rule set is an open-source, perl-based anti-spam system for use with Pegasus Mail's Mercury/32. http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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[SURBL-Announce] Policy Patrol adds commercial Windows SURBL support to Exchange
by Jeff Chan 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Red Earth Software has added SURBL support to version 3.5 of their Policy Patrol commercial anti-spam add-on for Exchange. Here's the press release about it: http://www.redearthsoftware.com/PolicyPatrolSURBLpr.htm This may the first commercial support for SURBLs with Exchange. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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ANNOUNCE: SURBL rsync clean up
by Jeff Chan 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

We are cleaning up some of the redundant zone files in the SURBL rsync server: 1. surbl.rbldnsd - going away, use sc.surbl.org.rbldnsd instead 2. *.rbldns - going away when no traffic, use *.rbldnsd instead 3. surbl.bind - going away, use surbl.org.bind instead In all cases the replacement files use the preferred names, already exist, and have identical content. If you are using any of the old names, please change them to the new names. This should be a simple change to your scripts, and should not affect too many people. (Raymond posted some of the relevant logs on the SURBL discussion list.) Thanks, Jeff C.

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[SURBL-Announce] ANNOUNCE: Deprecating be.surbl.org, please use ws.surbl.org instead
by Jeff Chan 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

We are deprecating be.surbl.org, the SURBL list made from a stale snapshot of the BigEvil list before it got ws added into it. BE probably isn't too useful anymore since it's not getting updated, so please change to using ws.surbl.org instead. Eventually we would like to get rid of BE entirely. http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#ws WS has: 1. BigEvil by Chris Santerre and his SARE cohorts 2. Paul Barbeau's MidEvil.cf 3. Bill Stearns' sa-blacklist 4. filtered spamtrap records from Joe Wein's jwSpamSpy 5. MailSecurity's formerly proprietary SURBL lists 6. data from Raymond Dijkxhoorn's Prolocation RBL 7. some other manual lists, mostly maintained by Chris. So if you were using BE, please change to WS instead. Config file entries for SpamAssassin look like this: An SA 2.63/2.64 rule and score using SpamCopURI (but not the SpamCop data!) looks like this: uri WS_URI_RBL eval:check_spamcop_uri_rbl('ws.surbl.org','127.0.0.2') describe WS_URI_RBL URI's domain appears in sa-blacklist tflags WS_URI_RBL net score WS_URI_RBL 3.0 An SA 3.0 rule and score using URIBL's urirhsbl looks like this: urirhsbl URIBL_WS_SURBL ws.surbl.org. A header URIBL_WS_SURBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_WS_SURBL') describe URIBL_WS_SURBL Contains a URL listed in sa-blacklist tflags URIBL_WS_SURBL net score URIBL_WS_SURBL 3.0 An SA 3.0 rule and score using URIBL's urirhssub looks like this: urirhssub URIBL_WS_SURBL multi.surbl.org. A 4 header URIBL_WS_SURBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_WS_SURBL') describe URIBL_WS_SURBL Contains a URL listed in the WS SURBL blocklist tflags URIBL_WS_SURBL net score URIBL_WS_SURBL 3.0 Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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ANNOUNCE: SURBL zone file TTLs lowered to 1 hour
by Jeff Chan 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

We have lowered the TTLs on SURBL zone files to 1 hour. This includes multi.surbl.org, but does not include sc.surbl.org which already had a 10 minute TTL. This should cause new records to take effect sooner since the negative caching TTL should also be 1 hour. We may reduce TTLs further if we can do some testing and tuning of name server traffic as we adjust TTLs. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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MEDIA: winnetmag.com 8/12/04 SURBL mention
by Jeff Chan 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Paul Robichaux mentions SURBLs in his winnetmag.com article: http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/43660/Windows_43660.html I wrote to let him know that SURBLs can be used with Exchange through: http://www.2150.com/regexfilter/ with hopefully more applications to follow. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Welcoming more public name servers
by Jeff Chan 07 Aug '04

07 Aug '04

We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of more public SURBL name servers administered by: Dirk Bonengel of login-solutions.de James Stahr of berbee.com Without the help of all of our public nameservers and their administrators, SURBLs would not be possible. Our thanks to all! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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ANNOUNCE: Mail::SpamAssassin::SpamCopURI 0.22
by Eric Kolve 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

SpamCopURI 0.22 has been released. This fixes any incompatibilities 2.64 users may have seen when trying to install. 0.22 Thu Aug 5 13:09:15 PDT 2004 - Updated Makefile.pl to support 2.64 and including PerMsgStatus.pm from 2.64 release. Install process now figures out what version you have and installs correct patched version of PerMsgStatus.pm. SpamCopURI now supports both 2.63 and 2.64 version of SA. Package is on both sourceforge and CPAN: http://sourceforge.net/projects/spamcopuri/ --eric

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