[SAtalk] spamc required_hits command line parameter

2002-10-08 Thread Sönke Ruempler
hi list, spamassassin is very nice, but i wanna pass the required_hits value as command line parameter to spamc, but didn't find anything about this in the manual. any solution? thx, soenke. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek We

[SAtalk] NO_MX_FOR_FROM false +ves and "rtn"

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Lyall
I'm getting a few false positives and noticed that a common factor seems to be that the first component is "rtn" . The lists appear to be legit but they are getting picked up for NO_MX_FOR_FROM , FROM_AND_TO_SAME, COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,CTYPE_JUST_HTML and the like. Looks like a few music companies a

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread listuser
Rich, I have a suggestion for your scripts that would make the grepping far less CPU intensive in my experience. With your current setup your grepping the entire file at each running. I use the logtail part of the logcheck package to keep tabs on appenging log files. logtail records an offset

Re: [SAtalk] Get SpamAssassin for your Woody!

2002-10-08 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:41:44PM +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:18:43 +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: > > >Was > >"libnet-smtp-server-perl" backported by anyone that you know of? > > You should be able to use the "testing" version of that package without any > prob

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin for Exchange Beta

2002-10-08 Thread Craig Hughes
Putting on my Commercial Software hat, Deersoft is entering final beta on our SpamAssassin for Exchange product. We're looking for beta testers. If anyone's interested, please contact me quickly to get in. Current version of the product is targeted at Exchange 2000; 5.5 is in the pipeline b

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution

2002-10-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:46:56PM -0700, Steve Thomas wrote: > Verify PGP signatures > >The Sendmail source distribution is cryptographically signed with the >following PGP key: > > pub1024R/678C0A032001-12-18 Sendmail Signing Key/2002 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

[SAtalk] [OT] CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
An FYI for anyone that's downloaded the sendmail source recently... -Original Message- From: CERT Advisory [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CERT Advisory CA-2002-28 Trojan Horse Sendmail Distribution -BEGIN PGP SIG

[SAtalk] routing problems

2002-10-08 Thread Chad Frerer
hey, I'm new to this list and ..well.. new to Linux. :)    The problem I'm having is that when mail is received via fetchmail (cron job)... all the mail is being delivered to root.  It only has this problem when I specify the MDA in .fetchmailrc as spamasassin. When I remove the mda line and

Re: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:10 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > I just got some spam that included an URL like: > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now, we all know the www.yahoo.com bit is a username, but the "hostname" > threw me off. Sure enough, at least IE and Mozilla both convert the > hex to IP.

[SAtalk] if SCORE = x, delete

2002-10-08 Thread Kris
Running qmail and executing SA via qmail-scanner. Everything setup to only mark the subject as spam. Now, I want to delete messages that contain words from a wordlist. I have a custom test in /etc/mail/spamassassin which successfully finds the test word and flags as spam. The question: how do

[SAtalk] glmrtg (spamd log to mrtg)

2002-10-08 Thread Chadwick Sorrell
Here is the script that I just made available. http://hrtc.net/~csorrell You can use this to monitor anything that logs through syslog, so long as you have the facility name and a unique key phrase to trigger on. It was designed around spamd, but I quickly incorporated my pop3 daemon and a f

RE: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg (with exim)?

2002-10-08 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:03, Dallas Engelken wrote: > > On 08 Oct 2002 13:01:34 -0500, you wrote: > > >Would anyone be interested in a script that pipes spamd data > > into mrtg > > >to be graphed? > > Yes. I already graph inbound and outbound mail to MRTG. A > > spam one would be > > nice, to

Re: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-08 Thread Frank Pineau
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 14:37:57 -0700, you wrote: >| 0xD5.0xEF.0x8F.0x9D > >resolves to www.amsterdamcash.com (213.239.143.157) > >It scares me to think that spammers might be starting to evolve into having >the same intelligence level as a human. This trick's been going on for years, but this is th

Re: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-08 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 23:10 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: > I just got some spam that included an URL like: > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now, we all know the www.yahoo.com bit is a username, but the "hostname" > threw me off. Sure enough, at least IE and Mozilla both convert the > hex to IP.

RE: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
| 0xD5.0xEF.0x8F.0x9D resolves to www.amsterdamcash.com (213.239.143.157) It scares me to think that spammers might be starting to evolve into having the same intelligence level as a human. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek We

[SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
I just got some spam that included an URL like: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, we all know the www.yahoo.com bit is a username, but the "hostname" threw me off. Sure enough, at least IE and Mozilla both convert the hex to IP. Stupid browsers. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Quiet, you kids! If

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
| IIRC, I recall an arguement that strongly says you aren't supposed to put | an A on a domain. I forget what the main reasons were though. I'd be interested in finding out. I typically put an A record on 'domain.tld', then CNAME the 'www' host to it. That way, a person can type "domain.tld" or

RE: [SAtalk] Another SA upgrader question

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
| Is it "acceptable" to just run the CPAN install command while my mail | server is up and running, and probably going to invoke SA to run during | the upgrade, or should some/anything be disabled/suspended? Probably. You could turn off your MTA for the moment or two it'll take to upgrade if you'

RE: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
Yep. I've thought about doing it, but haven't found the time/motivation for it. Which stats were you thinking of graphing? | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of | Chadwick L. Sorrell | Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:02 AM | To: [EMAI

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread Rich Puhek
Dallas Engelken wrote: > > if there is a more elegant way than this.. i'm happy to hear others solutions > dallas > > I've got another way (not necessarily more elegant, though) at http://users.2z.net/rpuhek/scripts_public/spamd/ My approach currently relies on grepping the syslog file

Re: [SAtalk] Razor and spamassassin-- request more info

2002-10-08 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SWS" == Sunil William Savkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SWS> However, I also remember reading that i need to have an account set up to SWS> even use razor. But in my case, it would be a pain for every one of my SWS> users to have a razor account. Is there a way to set up only one accoun

Re: [SAtalk] Another SA upgrader question

2002-10-08 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SY" == Steve Yuroff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SY> I currently have 2.11 installed and running fine, and am ready to move SY> to 2.42. I'll be using the CPAN intaller, and have 2 simple questions: SY> Is it "acceptable" to just run the CPAN install command while my mail SY> server is u

[SAtalk] Another SA upgrader question

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Yuroff
I currently have 2.11 installed and running fine, and am ready to move to 2.42. I'll be using the CPAN intaller, and have 2 simple questions: Is it "acceptable" to just run the CPAN install command while my mail server is up and running, and probably going to invoke SA to run during the upgrad

[SAtalk] Razor and spamassassin-- request more info

2002-10-08 Thread Sunil William Savkar
ok. I am about to download razor2 and install, however, I still wanted some clarification. Currently it looks like the razor servers are only used if I actually have razor client software installed. That is, without it, no go. Is this correct? I was looking at Dns.pm for this behavior, which

[SAtalk] Errors while installing Spamassassin on my virtual host

2002-10-08 Thread Rene Verharen
Hi all, While installing Spamassassin on my virtual host I'm encountering some errors : opendir(./../..): Permission denied at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Pod/Html.pm line 784 and make: execvp: ./configure: Permission denied make: *** [binaries.mk] Error 127 I have no root access. How do I s

RE: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread Dallas Engelken
> > On 08 Oct 2002 13:01:34 -0500, you wrote: > > >Would anyone be interested in a script that pipes spamd data > into mrtg > >to be graphed? > > > Yes. I already graph inbound and outbound mail to MRTG. A > spam one would be > nice, too. > > i do this already via qmail-scanner-queue.pl

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread listuser
One of the many reasons I never put an A record on a domain name. I had a hell of a conversion at an ISP I consult with when they moved from a one server to many server setup. Previously they'd advertised domain.tld for *everything*; MX, www, POP, SMTP, you name it. Everything was domain.tld. T

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Burger
It's a normal behavior. If you do not have a specific MX record for the domain, the mail servers will look to the A record for the domain. So, if www.domain.com has the same A record as domain.com, or if domain.com is CNAME'd to www.domain.com, than that system will receive the mail for doma

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread Frank Pineau
On 08 Oct 2002 13:01:34 -0500, you wrote: >Would anyone be interested in a script that pipes spamd data into mrtg >to be graphed? Yes. I already graph inbound and outbound mail to MRTG. A spam one would be nice, too. --- This sf.net email

[SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

2002-10-08 Thread Chadwick L. Sorrell
Would anyone be interested in a script that pipes spamd data into mrtg to be graphed? -- Chadwick L. Sorrell Internet Technician Hancock Internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http:

Re: [SAtalk] How to add on the end of all lines in report summary?

2002-10-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:31:22PM -0400, Michal wrote: > But now when user gets html spam , he sees SA summary report joined into one > line which is really hard to read. > > Is there way how to attach on the end of each SA report line ? At the moment, the appropriate solution is to put the re

Re: [SAtalk] spamd and syslog new line issue

2002-10-08 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 18:42 CET John McCoy, Jr. wrote: >[...] > For every message I get three lines first is fine, second two get \n on > the end of each. Works fine just looks funky. There were some newline characters in some spamd syslog messages. I removed them, either 2.43 or 2.50 (what

RE: [SAtalk] Installing 2.4.2 via CPAN

2002-10-08 Thread Steve Thomas
Try updating CPAN with perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN' and then updating SA. You shouldn't need to update Perl in order to update CPAN. HTH, St- | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of | Odhiambo Washington | Sent: Tuesday, October

[SAtalk] Running SA

2002-10-08 Thread listuser
I'm preparing to roll out SA on another test box in preparation for a production installation soon. I'm testing it on another box because my first test box is testing way to many different (but related things right now). My current test install is Sendmail 8.12.6 Procmail 3.22 SpamAssassin 2.4

[SAtalk] Installing 2.4.2 via CPAN

2002-10-08 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I did try installing 2.4.2 via CPAN perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin' ..this ended up tryingto install ver 5.8.0 of CPAN and a loop that never ended Anyone seen that? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wanan

Re: [SAtalk] Installing 2.4.2 via CPAN

2002-10-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > I did try installing 2.4.2 via CPAN > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::SpamAssassin' > > > ..this ended up tryingto install ver 5.8.0 of CPAN and a loop that never > ended > > Anyone seen that? Try: perl -MCPAN -e 'install CPAN' first. Then upgrade SpamAssass

[SAtalk] spamd and syslog new line issue

2002-10-08 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
Of course I could always be the issue but here goes: On Sol7 Perl 5.6.1 SA 2.4.2 Release tar ball (saw it with CVS too) For every message I get three lines first is fine, second two get \n on the end of each. Works fine just looks funky. Oct 8 09:29:42 koko.mills.edu spamd[24078]: server sta

RE: [SAtalk] Get SpamAssassin for your Woody!

2002-10-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:18:43 +0200, DEFFONTAINES Vincent wrote: >Was >"libnet-smtp-server-perl" backported by anyone that you know of? You should be able to use the "testing" version of that package without any problems. This is what I'm doing. -- L I N U X .~. The Choice /V

[SAtalk] How to add on the end of all lines in report summary?

2002-10-08 Thread Michal
I use on my server SA with mime defang function turned off. But now when user gets html spam , he sees SA summary report joined into one line which is really hard to read. Is there way how to attach on the end of each SA report line ? I know I can use custom templates, but all lines with test

Re: [SAtalk] spamd error messages

2002-10-08 Thread rODbegbie
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > After being bitten by bugs in 2.41, I've downgraded to 2.31 but now spamd > spews errors like I've never seen before: Delete the contents of /usr/local/share/spamassassin and reinstall. There are some files that were new to v2.4x, so they won't be overwritten when yo

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread Terry Poperszky
That explains it, thanks. Terry Poperszky MCSE, CCNA Network Manager SOS Staffing Services 801-257-5706 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 8:23 AM To: Terry Poperszky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:07:11AM -0600, Terry Poperszky wrote: > I maintain about 20 different domain registrations, only a couple of > which receive emails (At least legitimate ones). One domain that had > been receiving emails and was now defunct, was still receiving hundreds > of SPAM mails p

[SAtalk] Success- was Newbie help-RH7.2+Postfix

2002-10-08 Thread Chris Bartram
Thanks to all that replied to this (two replies below). The CPAN install worked (not something I'd heard of before, which is why I didn't try it). In the end though, I upgraded the server to RH8 (which worked perfectly!), and installed the RH RPM of SA, as it just seemed a lazy way to ensure I was

RE: [SAtalk] Get SpamAssassin for your Woody!

2002-10-08 Thread DEFFONTAINES Vincent
Adding this to my sources.list and trying to upgrade spamassassin gets apt complain about package "libnet-smtp-server-perl" not existing. I checked, just in case my sources.list would be inconsistent, but no such package exists on Debian woody. Is there any other line I am missing in my sources.l

Re: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-08 Thread Rob Mangiafico
I agree. I think a system whereby the weighted average of long term scores dictates how well each email is received. ie, a friend that sends you 20 good emails should have a heavily weighted negative average to offset the occassional spam type email they may send you. And a spammer that sends

Re: [SAtalk] spamd error messages

2002-10-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 04:05:10PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > How do I solve the issue below??? > > > After being bitten by bugs in 2.41, I've downgraded to 2.31 but now spamd spews > errors like I've never seen before: > > Oct 8 16:03:37 ns2 spamd[97835]: Failed to run MSN_GROUPS Spa

[SAtalk] SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question

2002-10-08 Thread Terry Poperszky
Title: SPAM related, but not SPAMASSASSIN question If there is a better list for this, please feel free to direct me to it. I maintain about 20 different domain registrations, only a couple of which receive emails (At least legitimate ones). One domain that had been receiving emails and was

RE: [SAtalk] sendmail+spamassassin

2002-10-08 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: Stephane Lentz > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 6:52 AM > > > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > "viviane.correge" said: > > > > > I am running on a Readhat 7.1 system : > > > > > > Compil

[SAtalk] tru64 ( ver < 5.? ) and other platforms without snprintf

2002-10-08 Thread Chris Myers
I found a portable sprintf at: http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/ After compiling the snprintf i added snprintf.o to CFLAGS = -g -O2 in binaries.mk and did a make. SpamAssassin 2.42 compiled and is working great. I did this on Digital Unix (tru64) 4.0e Chris Myers ---

[SAtalk] spamd error messages

2002-10-08 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Ahoy! How do I solve the issue below??? After being bitten by bugs in 2.41, I've downgraded to 2.31 but now spamd spews errors like I've never seen before: Oct 8 16:03:37 ns2 spamd[97835]: Failed to run MSN_GROUPS SpamAssassin test, skipping: (Can't locate object method "check_for

RE: [SAtalk] Spamc/spamd setup with Postfix

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Schrauder
That is what this config is doing. By any chance are you using Debian linux? This setup that I tried (badly) to explain does not deliver locally. It is the public looking MX that receives all SMTP for the domain. After postfix sends through filter.sh (which calls spamc) it reinjects it to pos

[SAtalk] Outlook users reporting spam

2002-10-08 Thread zenn
hi all how do you guys recommend i setup a system where by our local outlook users are about to report spam to razor or to a local blacklist resist the irresistible comments about world calamity that they are able to inflect with this magic bullet :-) what i'd really like to be able to do it allow

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelisting SpamCop messages?

2002-10-08 Thread Jost Krieger
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:23:35PM +0200, Per Goetterup wrote: > I'm using SpamAssassin and I'm also handling our abuse-mails, which is a > somewhat bad combination because all complaint messages from SpamCop also gets > tagged as spam, which in a way is correct but very unfortunate because then

RE: [SAtalk] Spamc/spamd setup with Postfix

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Burger
In that case, my suggestion is to download/install mailscanner or amavisd-new, and configure it to make use of spamassassin for you. I personally use amavis to do virus scanning, and SA via procmail, but am planning on configuring amavis to call SA. In any event, amavis (and mailscanner) acts

Re: [SAtalk] sendmail+spamassassin

2002-10-08 Thread Stephane Lentz
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:32:18AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > "viviane.correge" said: > > >I am running on a Readhat 7.1 system : > > > >Compiled/installed sendmail 8.12.5, installed > > spamassassin 4.32 from ports, and installed spama

RE: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-08 Thread Michael Moncur
> Well, the initial idea behind the AWL was to exploit the fact that > spammers typically forge their From addresses randomly, whereas legit > senders do not. I've found that a surprising number of spammers don't bother to use different From addresses between spam runs. Another thing I run into i

Re: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-08 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Moncur said: > Justin Mason Wrote: > > > That's exactly what is intended; the idea is that legit senders who > > habitually score just > 5, will eventually get out of "AWL hell" after > > 6-10 messages. > > Whoa. This sounds very wrong to me. What's the difference between a legit > send

Re: [SAtalk] sendmail+spamassassin

2002-10-08 Thread Justin Mason
"viviane.correge" said: >I am running on a Readhat 7.1 system : > >Compiled/installed sendmail 8.12.5, installed > spamassassin 4.32 from ports, and installed spamass-milter-0.1.1 > got everything configured and running ...

Re: [SAtalk] messages scoring under required_hits marked spam

2002-10-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
Mike Whitaker wrote: > Debian woody install of spamassassin, unchanged from the defaults except > for some additions to the whitelist: > > Running > > zcat sample-nonspam.txt.gz | spamassassin -t > > gets me the following headers inserted: > > >>X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 >> t

[SAtalk] messages scoring under required_hits marked spam

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Whitaker
Debian woody install of spamassassin, unchanged from the defaults except for some additions to the whitelist: Running zcat sample-nonspam.txt.gz | spamassassin -t gets me the following headers inserted: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 > tests=GAPPY_TEXT,LINES_OF_YELLING,PGP_SIGNA

[SAtalk] sendmail+spamassassin

2002-10-08 Thread viviane.correge
Hello, I am running on a Readhat 7.1 system : Compiled/installed sendmail 8.12.5, installed spamassassin 4.32 from ports, and installed spamass-milter-0.1.1 got everything configured and running

Re: [SAtalk] Get SpamAssassin for your Woody!

2002-10-08 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Mon, 07 Oct 2002 23:41:42 -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: >Spamassassin 2.42 packages for Debian GNU/Linux "woody" are now available! > >Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: >deb http://people.debian.org/~duncf/debian/ woody main > >Now, apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade. You will h

RE: [SAtalk] Spamc/spamd setup with Postfix

2002-10-08 Thread Nicolai Strøm Gylling
I guess I forgot to say that it's on a mail-relay, which is supposed to scan the mail, and not deliver locally. So what I basically need, is the way to apply a contentfilter in postfix, inject the mail in spamd/spamc, and then reinject the mails in the postfix queue. Just like a virus-scanner