[SAtalk] spamd still sucking up CPU time

2002-01-22 Thread Cayce Will
Even with the spamassassin.cf fix in place, spamd processes occasionally don't close and start to monopolize the CPU. I'm not sure if it is related but in the procmail log I'm seeing this: procmail: Timeout, terminating "spamc" procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded It sounds like sp

Re: [SAtalk] HTTP/URL rules

2002-01-22 Thread rODbegbie
Perhaps something that looks for a "%" symbol between "http://"; and the next "/" (or whitespace). I'm no regex wiz, but would http://[\w\.-]*%[\w\.-]*/? do the job? rOD. -- "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back

[SAtalk] LINE_OF_YELLING mismatch

2002-01-22 Thread Damian Gerow
We get daily statistics from our mail servers, and the following message comes up with a hit on LINE_OF_YELLING: --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail stats From mailer.sentex.ca Statistics from Mon Jan 21 01:00:00 2002 M msgsfr bytes_from msgstobytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer

[SAtalk] HTTP/URL rules

2002-01-22 Thread Bill Becker
I've noticed a new wave of spam with obfuscated URLs lately. There seem to be a lot of them, and they are getting pretty fancy EG: href="http://www.g%65%6f%63%69t%69es.%63o%6d%2fto%70so%66t%77%253fh%2569%257%34%2e%25%36%33tr%2e%2540%2565s.g%65%6f%256%33i%2574%256%39%256%35%2573.%25%36%33om%252f

Re: [SAtalk] 2.0 failing for me on "make test"

2002-01-22 Thread Lisa Applegate
> "JM" == Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> Looks like there's a corrupted or old spamassassin.cf in /etc. JM> Try doing "make install" first... Yes, I think this was the problem; although "make install" didn't fix it, I did eradicate every single spamassassin.cf I could f

RE: [SAtalk] false positives on conference announcements

2002-01-22 Thread Tom Lipkis
> > Conference announcements often contain the phrase "the > > following format" > > when requesting submissions, which matches the > > THE_FOLLOWING_FORM rule, > > which has a quite high score. Adding \W to the end of the > > pattern prevents > > this, and seems safe in general. > > \b would

[SAtalk] a couple of potential body tests

2002-01-22 Thread Wayne A. Tucker
I seem to get a lot of spam that matches one of these two REs.. any thoughts? I haven't been watching the list closely, so please forgive me if somebody has already suggested these: /for (?:just|only) pennies a day/i /for (?:just|only) \$?\d+\.?\d*[^\.]*!/i The second one may be a little too br

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist improvement ideas

2002-01-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
- Original Message - From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Matt Sergeant said: > > > Can you tell us how the auto-whitelist algorithm works? Surely it should be > > an average system, so that 3 spams over time don't have much effect on the > > overall score. A simple way to do this

RE: [SAtalk] false positives on conference announcements

2002-01-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lipkis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Conference announcements often contain the phrase "the > following format" > when requesting submissions, which matches the > THE_FOLLOWING_FORM rule, > which has a quite high score. Adding \W to the end of the > p

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist improvement ideas

2002-01-22 Thread Craig Hughes
All go here. C On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 01:23, Justin Mason wrote: Matt Sergeant said: > Can you tell us how the auto-whitelist algorithm works? Surely it should be > an average system, so that 3 spams over time don't have much effect on the > overall score. A simple way to do this is

Re: [SAtalk] 2.0 failing for me on "make test"

2002-01-22 Thread Justin Mason
Lisa Applegate said: > I'm hoping this is just a stupid pilot error mistake on my part, but > whenever I do "make test" on my SpamAssassin install, it fails with a > huge list of errors, all relating to "Failed to run MISSING_HEADERS SpamAssassin > test". > > I've put the entire error message o

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist improvement ideas

2002-01-22 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Sergeant said: > Can you tell us how the auto-whitelist algorithm works? Surely it should be > an average system, so that 3 spams over time don't have much effect on the > overall score. A simple way to do this is to make two keys for each address: > score:=2.3, and count:=57. Then every ti