RE: [SAtalk] Re: RBL for URLs, E-Mail Addresses, Phone Numbers, etc.?

2002-07-11 Thread Michael Moncur
> > system is automating the submission process. The trouble is > that spammers > > do sometimes include other people's e-mail addresses and so forth in > > their spam -- for example, I get plenty of spam saying "your site > > www.tigertech.net is not listed in search engines!" -- and an automated

[SAtalk] Minor but annoying bug

2002-07-11 Thread Bob Sully
(I posted this earlier but never got it back on the list; was monkeying around with Sendmail earlier today, so.) Well, I've figured out the reason for the problem I previously reported, that being the fact that some (not all) of my "whitelisted" messages still get tagged as spam, even th

[SAtalk] Not caught: Luis Boma $30M

2002-07-11 Thread Andre Bonhote
Hi SA-folks! This just dropped in this morning and got -0.3 hits. There might be something wrong somewhere. CU André -- Real programmers use "cat > a.out" >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Jul 12 08:05:56 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin + aliases + exim

2002-07-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Chris, > I've been trying to work out one things but seem to not have enough > of a clue to get anywhere. I can briefly describe this problem I am > having as 'problem with filtering using user prefs when dealing with > an aliased addresses ?' Either you run SA after the alias has been resolved

[SAtalk] Simple Relay

2002-07-11 Thread Willie Twonk
Hi, I am looking to set up a simple relay host to run SpamAssassin on using RH7.3 If possible, I would like to avoid any additional processing, eg not use MailScanner, mimedefang etc. Is there a simple way to just have sendmail pass ALL incoming mail to SpamAssassin for a spam checm then forwar

[SAtalk] Spamassassin + aliases + exim

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Goh
Hi all, I've been trying to work out one things but seem to not have enough of a clue to get anywhere. I can briefly describe this problem I am having as 'problem with filtering using user prefs when dealing with an aliased addresses ?' Firstly, I use exim with the following to deliver

[SAtalk] Fwd: Seeking enterprise spam-filtering quotes

2002-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
This came across another mailing list I'm on. I don't know if anyone is interested, but if you're involved in spam blocking for the enterprise and feel like chatting for an article (with a very near-term deadline) ... -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Seeking enterprise spam

Re: [SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 11 July 2002 19:17 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:08:40PM -0400, Vince Puzzella wrote: > > Thanks, that worked. BTW, what is it's purpose and why is it generated > > by default? Just curious. >[...] > > Although in thinking about it, people don't really use SA

[SAtalk] Another one for the RATWARE check?

2002-07-11 Thread Bill D
The X-Mailer header "e-Campaign" in this one sure sounds like ratware. The tag turns up in the Content-type header too so it might be useful to filter on that instead. - Forwarded message from Marketing/Publicateonline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-T

[SAtalk] Re-write of subject

2002-07-11 Thread NetGuy's eMail
Hi all I have SA 3.21 defang 2.15 I have searched the on-line archives for the .subject AND have found lots of folks with questions on what the problem is, but no answers. Did I miss something? sa.mimedefang.cf lives in /etc/mail/spamassassin with: rewrite_subject 1 use_terse_reports 1 defa

[SAtalk] X-EM-Registration and X-EM-Version

2002-07-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
In rules/20_head_tests.cf is this comment: # Headers that seem to only be used by a single spamming software and # are found together in the same message: # 1. X-MailingID and X-ServerHost # 2. X-EM-Registration and X-EM-Version # 3. X-Stormpost-To and X-List-Unsubscribe Today I got a completely

Re: [SAtalk] OT Reverse spam.

2002-07-11 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:34:19PM -0600, Mike Diehl wrote: > > The other day, I got this little jewel in my e-mail. So I decided to have a > little fun. I sent a reply to the sender indicating that I was very > interested in their investment offer. Never heard back from them. So, I've > b

Re: [SAtalk] Bouncing spam as if I never got it?

2002-07-11 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 10 Jul 2002 at 17:54, Marc MERLIN wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 07:46:13PM -0400, Brian Kendig wrote: > > I'm using spamd/spamc via fetchmail and procmail. When > > SpamAssassin flags an email as spam, is there any way for me to > > 'bounce' that mail back to the sender as if I never rec

Re: [SAtalk] Pass through to smart host?

2002-07-11 Thread Nels Lindquist
On 9 Jul 2002 at 12:16, Hess, Mtodd, /mth wrote: > I'm sure this has been done and is probably documented somewhere... > > I would like my Linux machine running Spam Assassin to simply filter the > messages and pass them on to my Exchange server. I don't want to create > individual user account

[SAtalk] Minor but annoying bug

2002-07-11 Thread Bob Sully
Well, I've solved the problem I previously reported, that being the fact that some (not all) of my "whitelisted" messages still get tagged as spam, even though the user_prefs file is being read (see my previous message to the list which displayed a header which, despite having -94.4 points, still

[SAtalk] OT Reverse spam.

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Diehl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 04 July 2001 10:56 pm, BASSY OKON wrote: > SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results > -- SPAM: This mail is probably spam. The original > message has been altered SPAM: so you can recognis

Re: [SAtalk] Yahoo and hotmail are all tagged as spam.

2002-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Mike Burger wrote: =>You could put yahoo.com and hotmail.com into your whitelist. => =>On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote: => =>> When people send me mail from these domains, they have ads added to the =>> end opf their messages, which SA picks up as spam. Anyway to pr

RE: [SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Smart, Dan
I do this in Procmail with the following right before copying tagged messages to MBOX files for logging. - snip -- procmailrc - # Put From at beginning for MBOX format so Pine can read :0 fhw | formail -I "From " -a "From " - snip --- <> |-Original Message- |From:

Re: [SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:08:40PM -0400, Vince Puzzella wrote: > Thanks, that worked. BTW, what is it's purpose and why is it generated > by default? Just curious. Most people use mbox style mail folders, the "From " at the start of a line indicates a new message in the folder, so (indented):

RE: [SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Vince Puzzella
Thanks, that worked. BTW, what is it's purpose and why is it generated by default? Just curious. v i n c e p u z z e l l a s o f t w a r e d e v e l o p e r (905) 762-5229 http://bluecatnetworks.com -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "GW" == Greg Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> Does SpamAssassin 2.31 now require Perl 5.6? I'm trying to build it on GW> a Red Hat 6.2 box that only has Perl 5.005 installed and running into GW> all sorts of problems: the spamassassin script now requires Pod::Usage, GW> which requires

Re: [SAtalk] "DCC is not available"

2002-07-11 Thread Ryan Cleary
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Justin Mason wrote: > > "rODbegbie" said: > > > Did the "fix" to stop the DCC not found messages cause SA to stop finding > > DCC? > > yes, it did. whoops. current CVS is now fixed. A ! got added somewhere between the patch I submitted to bugzilla, and the code that got

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 11 July 2002, Ryan Cleary said: > I'm using it with perl 5.005: > > [tryanc@steward tryanc]$ perl --version > > This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux > > There were a number of prerequisites that needed to be installed, but it > does work just fine. Yeah, I did get it working

Re: [SAtalk] Yahoo and hotmail are all tagged as spam.

2002-07-11 Thread Mike Burger
You could put yahoo.com and hotmail.com into your whitelist. On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote: > When people send me mail from these domains, they have ads added to the > end opf their messages, which SA picks up as spam. Anyway to prevent this > from happening? > > --

Re: [SAtalk] "DCC is not available"

2002-07-11 Thread Justin Mason
"rODbegbie" said: > Did the "fix" to stop the DCC not found messages cause SA to stop finding > DCC? yes, it did. whoops. current CVS is now fixed. --j. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases & mo

[SAtalk] "DCC is not available"

2002-07-11 Thread rODbegbie
DCC was working fine on my system. I installed the latest CVS, and now I see this in my maillog: Jul 11 12:02:49 blazing spamd[5952]: debug: DCC is not available: system failed Did the "fix" to stop the DCC not found messages cause SA to stop finding DCC? Anyone else? rOD. -- Sell to them th

Re: [SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:41:03AM -0400, Vince Puzzella wrote: > The screwedupmessage.txt file contains an additional line at the top > that breaks the header format. It looks like this: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]Thu July 11 11:26:34 2002 > > This is corrupting our messages. Does anyone el

[SAtalk] Yahoo and hotmail are all tagged as spam.

2002-07-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
When people send me mail from these domains, they have ads added to the end opf their messages, which SA picks up as spam. Anyway to prevent this from happening? -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your dri

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Ryan Cleary
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Greg Ward wrote: > Does SpamAssassin 2.31 now require Perl 5.6? I'm trying to build it on > a Red Hat 6.2 box that only has Perl 5.005 installed and running into > all sorts of problems: the spamassassin script now requires Pod::Usage, > which requires File::Spec 0.8 or late

[SAtalk] Corrupt Header

2002-07-11 Thread Vince Puzzella
Title: Corrupt Header I'm in the process of integrating spamassassin with zmailer. After running: spamassassin -t < origmessage.txt > screwedupmessage.txt The screwedupmessage.txt file contains an additional line at the top that breaks the header format. It looks like this: From [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Re: RBL for URLs, E-Mail Addresses, Phone Numbers, etc.?

2002-07-11 Thread Justin Mason
Robert L Mathews said: > I'd definitely recommend including phone numbers as well as URLs and > e-mail addresses. I have a manual content blocking list that I maintain > for egregious spammers, and I've found that the most spam is blocked by > URLs, followed by phone numbers, then e-mail addr

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:12:03AM -0400, Greg Ward wrote: > Does SpamAssassin 2.31 now require Perl 5.6? I'm trying to build it on > a Red Hat 6.2 box that only has Perl 5.005 installed and running into > all sorts of problems: the spamassassin script now requires Pod::Usage, > which requires Fi

[SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Ward
Does SpamAssassin 2.31 now require Perl 5.6? I'm trying to build it on a Red Hat 6.2 box that only has Perl 5.005 installed and running into all sorts of problems: the spamassassin script now requires Pod::Usage, which requires File::Spec 0.8 or later, etc. Thanks -- Greg

[SAtalk] Spamassasin and Exim pipe

2002-07-11 Thread Simon Barr
Hi all, Apologies for the long post but I really like being able to filter spam and would like to get this fixed. Exim 3.30 Spamassassin 2.20 Debian Linux 2.2r6 I hope someone may have an idea whats going wrong here. I've searched the Exim list archive and can find only one other person who ha

[SAtalk] delete spam?

2002-07-11 Thread Bill Omer
Is there a way that I can delete high scoring spam with spamass-milter/spamd (without procmail)? -Bill Omer --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases & more http://thinkgeek.com/sf _

Re: [SAtalk] porn rules vs. linux-kernel -- SOLVED

2002-07-11 Thread Ryan Cleary
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Justin Mason wrote: > >>... > >>ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Namely, they trigger on every instance of 'aic7xxx' for me. :) > >>... > > > > > > aha, now it makes sense ;) > > Gratuitous use of \b should fix that. And "CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA

[SAtalk] Tips on avoiding filters

2002-07-11 Thread Bill Kearney
http://www.emailsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=2102 Tips on Avoiding Spam Filters: Yes Even Opt-In Email Lists Are in Danger Recently a well-known email marketing executive called us up to share her excitement about her new viral campaign. We were psyched too - viral friend-tell-a-friend camp

Re: [SAtalk] problem with "equals 20" at line endings.

2002-07-11 Thread Stephane Lentz
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:53:07AM -0700, Russ Gilman-Hunt wrote: > This question has probably been asked a billion times before. Please be > patient with me.. > > After installing Sendmail (8.19) and SpamAssassin (together) and swapping the > old email server (an old clunky MacIntosh thing) fo

Re: [SAtalk] porn rules vs. linux-kernel -- SOLVED

2002-07-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
Justin Mason wrote: >>... >>ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Namely, they trigger on every instance of 'aic7xxx' for me. :) >>... > > > aha, now it makes sense ;) Gratuitous use of \b should fix that. Matt. --- This sf.net email is

[SAtalk] porn rules vs. linux-kernel -- SOLVED

2002-07-11 Thread Justin Mason
>... > ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Namely, they trigger on every instance of 'aic7xxx' for me. :) >... aha, now it makes sense ;) --j. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases & more http:

Re: [SAtalk] Disable Porn Filtering

2002-07-11 Thread Justin Mason
Andrew Kohlsmith said: > I disagree. Why on earth are kernel config options tripping porn tests? an > ALL_CAPS test sure, but porn tests?! yep -- agreed, Andrew! --j. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek PC Mods, Computing goo

[SAtalk] broken pipe after install test

2002-07-11 Thread Fi Mail
Hi, Env: Redhat 6.1 I have installed SpamAssassin from tar file when running the test after installation with the debug mode on (-D) if get a 'Broken Pipe'. Here is the output [root@linuxnol:~]#spamassassin -D -t < sample-nonspam.txt > nospam.out debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for defa

[SAtalk] install test gives 'broken pipe'

2002-07-11 Thread Fi Mail
Hi, Env: Redhat 6.1 I have installed SpamAssassin from tar file when running the test after installation with the debug mode on (-D) if get a 'Broken Pipe'. Here is the output [root@linuxnol:~]#spamassassin -D -t < sample-nonspam.txt > nospam.out debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for defa