[SAtalk] osirusoft offline

2003-08-27 Thread Lucas Albers
via http://www.slashdot.org http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126 ariehk writes "As of today, Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and open relay blocklists, among others, is no longer operational. Servers using these lists (including the FTC) are currentl

Re: [SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:48:03PM +, Jim wrote: > I may be paranoid, but I suspect malicious fraud. Just out of further curiosity, I Googled for one of their "testimonial" texts on that site. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22An+unobtrusive+spam-basher%22&btnG=Google+

[SAtalk] spamd & user_prefs

2003-08-27 Thread Jason McCormick
Hi all, I just upgraded to 2.55 and followed the directions for changing local.cf (allow_user_rules 1) to allow the user_prefs file to be read from ~/.spamassassin however I'm still not seeing spamd reading this file. I just installed spamc to run as a filter in postfix and call spamd which

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Martin Radford
At Tue Aug 26 13:03:59 2003, 'Carlo Wood' wrote: > > Ah, damn... there are FOUR types of Message ID's: > > Message-id: > Message-Id: > Message-ID: > MessageID: That bottom one is not a "Message-ID" - there's no hyphen present. The header is case-insensitive - so "MessaGe-iD" is also possible (al

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
Thanks, For people having the same problem as I do: This was the solution: at /usr/share/spamassassin/local.cf score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_S

Re: [SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:52:17PM -0400, Chuck Peters wrote: > http://vww.spamcop.com/download.aspx?PID=A22090C and no mention of Note that the "real" SpamCop is spamcop.net, NOT spamcop.com. I may be paranoid, but I suspect malicious fraud.

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:43:41PM -0400, Larry Gilson wrote: > And shouldn't the first received line indicate > that the host that sent the message? Not necessarily, for example, I use a single copy of Mutt to send mail from address is several domains. Each outbound message will use the same HE

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
jeje... I can´t beleive it! :) I install the last version of SA today with 'perl -MCPAN -e shell' I think SA should be updated with this.. don't you? About the conf... then I should put a line link this (at ~user/.spamassassin/user_pref)... and that's all? score*OSIRU*0 David

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 02:33 PM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:15:44PM -0500, David Vel?squez Restrepo wrote: 1. Pentium IV - 2.4Ghz - 512 Ram RIM 2. Pentium III - 1000Mhz - 512 Ram DIM The problem is, that the good machine (PIV) is taken a lot of time in one of th

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Veryrare problem

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Rosenman
See the thread from yesterday and news.spamassassin.org. osirusoft is DEAD, GONE, Forget it. Yes, turn it off. LER --On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 16:15:02 -0500 David Velásquez Restrepo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks man You're right. What´s happening with osirusoft? Can I jump this verif

[SAtalk] Using -D to debug RTBLs

2003-08-27 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Hello, I seen a post a few days back which explained that you could use -D with an extra parameter to specify the debug the RTBL tests.   Can someone re-post this information, I find the docs for 2.55 to be lacking this information.   Thank you, Frederic TaraseviciusInternet Information Servic

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning, only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 02:12:38PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Yes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sa-learn --dump magic | grep ntokens > 0.000 0461 0 non-token data: ntokens > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sa-learn --dump data | wc -l > 1131 Just curious, are there by chanc

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:15:02PM -0500, David Vel?squez Restrepo wrote: > Thanks man You're right. What?s happening with osirusoft? Can I jump this > verification (only osirusoft) from the conf? haha. you haven't been reading the list (or slashdot, or ...) lately? Osirusoft is dead. you shoul

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning,only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Theo Van Dinter wrote: Are there more than the listed count of tokens if you did a "sa-learn --dump"? Not only is my newly-created database out of sync with regards to ntokens, nspam, and nham, my old one is even more out of sync when upgraded to 2.60rc2. If I run sa-learn --dump data on my ol

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
Thanks man You're right. What´s happening with osirusoft? Can I jump this verification (only osirusoft) from the conf? . . . debug: Check_rbl returning 0 debug: checking RBL results in set njabl for 127.0.0.2 debug: checking RBL results in set osirusoft for 127.0.0.2 debug: checking RBL query.bond

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning,only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Theo Van Dinter wrote: What DB library are you using? Looks like Berkeley DB: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$ file bayes_toks bayes_toks: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, native byte-order) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$ dpkg -l 'libdb*' | grep ^.i ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7The Berk

[SAtalk] Problem starting spamd after installing updated milter.

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher Crowley
Hello - I am running an older version of SA (2.51). I just installed an updated to version 0.2.0 of spamass-milter. The intent of this change is to offload the spamd processing to another box. This config works okay with the new milter. But now, I cannot start spamd on the original box. I wou

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning,only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Theo Van Dinter wrote: how about just a -D output? Theo, Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, I backed up my old tokens and seen files, and re-ran 2.60rc2's sa-learn -D on all my 16,000+ spams. The end result: Learned from 16263 messages (16397 messages examined). debug: bayes: 4026 untie-ing d

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning, only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:59:47PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, I backed up my old tokens and seen > files, and re-ran 2.60rc2's sa-learn -D on all my 16,000+ spams. The > end result: hrm. > Do I just have too many spams? Or is auto-learning somehow messing

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:44:19PM -0500, David Vel?squez Restrepo wrote: > What exactly do you think is bad? > - DNS works fine and fast > - Razor2 works fine and fast > - DCC works fine and fast The easy check: run with -L. if it fixes your speed problem, it's definately net related. > What c

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
What exactly do you think is bad? - DNS works fine and fast - Razor2 works fine and fast - DCC works fine and fast What can I do to make a debug to understand what is timing out? Thanks, David - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Vel?squez Restrepo

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
BTW further discussion on this should go "on the record" by using http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2321 . --j. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

RE: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks for taking the time to discuss this with me Dave. You probably have a better understnding than me which helps educate me! I guess this whole discussion is really moot as mail can easily be forged. > -Original Message- > From: Yorkshire Dave > > I think the problem lies in that t

Re: [SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Hello, Just a FYI the domain name is also mis-spelled, it says: spamasassin.org where the proper name is: spamassassin.org They are missing an S in the first ASS. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chuck Peters w

Re: [SAtalk] Text in Subject: Triggering BODY Rule?

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/27/03 11:15 AM , Kris Deugau wrote: > I don't understand why this is happening. Why should the FOOBAR_CAPS > rule -- a body rule -- be triggering at all? For whatever reason, the Subject: line is considered part of the message body in SA's processing. So, you mean all those rules I've been t

RE: [SAtalk] pyzor or razor

2003-08-27 Thread Covington, Chris
> -Original Message- > how sucessfull is pyzor in detecting spam? Any experiences? > I'm alread > using razor, which works quite nice. Would I get better results using > pyzor instead or should I use a combination of both? I've been using SA w/Pyzor for about 2 months now with ~600 or s

Re: [SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:15:44PM -0500, David Vel?squez Restrepo wrote: > 1. Pentium IV - 2.4Ghz - 512 Ram RIM > 2. Pentium III - 1000Mhz - 512 Ram DIM > > The problem is, that the good machine (PIV) is taken a lot of time in one of the > steps of spamassasin, but the other no, with exactly the

RE: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread AltGrendel
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 14:01, jherschel wrote: > Thanks for your input, though I never really gave this a second thought as > someone trying to promote a legitimate business. > > I think the point to my original message has gotten lost. Basically, this > is still spam and I'm pleading ignorance on

RE: [SAtalk] pyzor or razor

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Marcus, > -Original Message- > From: Marcus Schopen > how sucessfull is pyzor in detecting spam? Any experiences? > I'm alread using razor, which works quite nice. Would I get better > results using pyzor instead or should I use a combination of both? I can't remember who, but I beli

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Jim writes: >qmail also sets Return-Path. > >Recent versions of Postfix can add an X-Original-To header. Just to confirm -- that's what's used in RCPT TO: , right? >Another nice method of passing these data along would be through command- >line arguments or environment variables, which could be

RE: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/27/03 11:01 AM , jherschel wrote: Thanks for your input, though I never really gave this a second thought as someone trying to promote a legitimate business. Indeed, it seems to be a (black-hat) hacker forum site with a sense of humor. I think the point to my original message has gotten lost.

RE: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Meunier
Keep in mind when you modify 20_head_tests.cf it'll be overwritten with each subsequent upgrade of SpamAssassin. Your local.cf won't. > -Original Message- > From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:06 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTE

[SAtalk] Very Slow checking something.... over 30 seconds. Very rare problem

2003-08-27 Thread David Velásquez Restrepo
I have 2 machines, their Both have Linux Red Hat 7.3   1. Pentium IV - 2.4Ghz - 512 Ram RIM 2. Pentium III - 1000Mhz - 512 Ram DIM   The problem is, that the good machine (PIV) is taken a lot of time in one of the steps of spamassasin, but the other no, with exactly the same email file.   Pl

[SAtalk] Trademark improperly used in deceptive ad?

2003-08-27 Thread Chuck Peters
Hi, I was having a minor problem with spamassassin 2.53 (OSIRUSOFT) and decided to do a search for backports of Debian stable (Google spamassassin site:people.debian.org) and this deceptive ad comes up, see below. The ad mentions "SpamAssassin for Outlook" and links to wwv.SpamAsassin.org, note

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Pete Hanson
I had something very similar to this a few days ago - the bastard was running through every possible email address: a b c ... z aa ab .. zy zz aaa ... zzz. He was up into low 4-letter combos before I discovered it. Fortunately, though, he was using two IPs that I was able to blackhole. I f

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/27/03 09:37 AM , Robin Witkop-Staub wrote: I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in them. Why? body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|ganigbainged|duides|hairdciore|Ex

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hey Chris, > -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre > See why I don't need bayes or net tests ;) I catch 99% of > spam. I've had a breakthru today that should catch the ones > that have been sneaking in. (Matt and JMason, the doc I sent > you guys has a pattern in the Message-ID he

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Larry Gilson writes: >There was another suggestion that the tests could be commented out in >20_head_tests.cf. Which is the best and/or recommended method? either works fine. This way is easier. >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> >> Alexander Skwar writes: >> >Good

RE: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hey Justin, There was another suggestion that the tests could be commented out in 20_head_tests.cf. Which is the best and/or recommended method? --Larry > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Alexander Skwar writes: > >Good morning, > > > >now that osirusoft is officially

"Joe job" (Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site)

2003-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 27 Aug 2003, K Old wrote: > Why is it called a "joe-job"? http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Joe%20Job --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf __

Re: [SAtalk] OT funny spam

2003-08-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 09:31 AM, Fred I-IS.COM wrote:   Welcome to the site  it's us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list: 1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form. 2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only). 3. Other rockets (Air-to-Air), orders in bat

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread alexander
hi. i think authentication is not really the issue here. and a firewall would not do much good in this situation either. it would if you could identify a set of ips or domains, but if it´s completely random there´s really no way to block that. i think you should implement some kind of logrotation

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Jim
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:31:44AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > We currently support: > > Envelope-Sender - qmail > X-Envelope-From - procmailrc says this may occur > Return-Path - Postfix, sendmail, rfc821 qmail also sets Return-Path. Recent versions of Postfix can add an

[SAtalk] pyzor or razor

2003-08-27 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, how sucessfull is pyzor in detecting spam? Any experiences? I'm alread using razor, which works quite nice. Would I get better results using pyzor instead or should I use a combination of both? Thanks, Marcus -- Marcus Schopen(0> P.O. Box 10 25 25 //\ Deutsche Zope User Grou

RE: [SAtalk] Not sure how...

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/27/03 06:00 AM , Chris Santerre wrote: This has been discussed. The rules will not hit because of the embedded mime code. They simply ignore past the first level. I'm hoping someone will write an eval for this. As far as I know, no version of SA handles this. So we really need a simple eval

[SAtalk] Runaway spamd when Bayes journal can't be written

2003-08-27 Thread Jeff Lessem
I am running spamassassin 2.55 out of spamass-milter 0.2.0, and I recently had a problem in which spamd went crazy because it couldn't write to a user's Bayes journal. Is there a way to have spamd give up if it can't write to the journal? Below are detail of exactly what happened. As I said, spa

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Martin Radford
At Tue Aug 26 13:15:59 2003, 'Carlo Wood' wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:21:46AM +0100, Martin Radford wrote: > > >From my own collections: > > > >with FQDNwith hostname only > > ham: 2331 (85.6%) 391 (14.4%) > > spam: 1925 (76%)

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 08/27/03 05:52 PM, David sat at the `puter and typed: > > The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any evidence > > in my logs that I have an open relay. The problem is that I got a > > LOT of connections from someone that tries t

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning,only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Theo Van Dinter wrote: I can put up my bayes_seen and bayes_toks files, if it will help for debugging purposes. how about just a -D output? I assume you mean spamassassin -D, not sa-learn -D, but I've attached both a run of spamassassin -D on a spam (which was missed due to Bayes not bei

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Marian Eichholz writes: >As far as I can see in FAQ and manpages, there is no official way to provide >the envelope-sender (the SMTP-"MAIL FROM:" argument) to SA for furtehr >reference. > >There are good reasons to have the Envelope-Sender at hand: > >- the Sender: (as best bet) might be forged >

[SAtalk] [RD] Rule change. Spammer changed tactic.

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
Just saw this come thru: Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="---3832313337353739393830303030303031393433---" So we need to change this rule from: header L_MIME_BOUND_SIMPLE Content-Type =~ /boundary="-Simple-Boundry-"/ describe L_MIME_BOUND_SIMPLE Spam tool pattern in M

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread K Old
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 13:40, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > Before you react, think joe-job, think fake. Why is it called a "joe-job"? Kevin -- K Old <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. htt

RE: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi David, > -Original Message- > From: David > The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any > evidence in my logs that I have an open relay. The problem is > that I got a LOT of connections from someone that tries to > send e-mail to fake users at my domain. The logfile

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Alexander Skwar writes: >Good morning, > >now that osirusoft is officially dead, what should we SA admins do? Set >all scores for OSIRUSOFT related test to 0? Which are all the tests? Is >the following sufficient? > >score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 >score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 >score X_O

[SAtalk] SA rejection

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
I received 2 spamassassin rejections from your server today. bottlenose.demon.co.uk 1) Orisoft is dead. Remove the test from SA ASAP. it Blacklists everyone now. 2) Don't scan the spamassassin list. We often talk about spam. 3) Sending rejections based on Spamassassin score has generally been frow

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning, only X spam(s) < 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:19:08AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > Has all my nice Bayes training from < 2.60r2 been expired away? When I > run sa-learn on my collection of 16,000 old spam mails, it correctly > reports that it's already learned all those Message-IDs: No, the tokens get a new tim

Re: [SAtalk] Text in Subject: Triggering BODY Rule?

2003-08-27 Thread Kris Deugau
Kai MacTane wrote: > In particular, I want to catch use of their "real name" info in the > Subject:, or capitalized versions in the body. For easy testing, I'm > supposing just one user, a Mr. Foobar Wombat. My rules to catch > things are as follows: [snip extra rule bits] > header SUBJ_FOOBAR_CA

Re: [SAtalk] forwarded spam with embedded SA messages not caught

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
John Owens writes: >I've got a small problem with SpamAssassin that I hope you can help me >with. I receive a significant amount of email forwarded through >another account. I don't have any access to the way SpamAssassin is >run on this account; it's run on every piece of mail. And it wraps the >

Re: [SAtalk] using lint to check config

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Fred writes: > Hello, > I'm using 2.60 rc2. > > Proposal: Should --lint check for orphan test scores? > > Reasons: When we upgrade and we have custom scores in local.cf or user prefs > this will help us identify which tests are no longer in use. > Other: If we somehow spell a test name wrong i

RE: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread jherschel
Thanks for your input, though I never really gave this a second thought as someone trying to promote a legitimate business. I think the point to my original message has gotten lost. Basically, this is still spam and I'm pleading ignorance on how to tweak my rules to get something as absurd as thi

RE: [SAtalk] Whitelist by IP?

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Blaise
> Having a problem with some users on our local network writing > emails that get marked as spam. I dont want to whitelist by > domain as this is easy to forge is there a way to whitelist > by IP (and mask) that the mail was recieved from, being these > users are all local on rfc1918 network s

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:37 AM 8/27/2003 -0500, Robin Witkop-Staub wrote: body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|ganigbainged|duides|hairdciore|ExcIude|pIz)/ i describe RAVEN_MaskedWordsFmasked spam word(s) scoreRAVEN_MaskedWordsF10.0 1) I bet you'll find that the "plz" isn't an L, i

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread mikea
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:37:26AM -0500, Robin Witkop-Staub wrote: > I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing > page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in > them. Why? > > body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF > /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
The ending, pIz It's a cap I, and the /i at the end tells it to ignore case. I think you want a number 1 in there? Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. Robin Witkop-Staub wrote: > I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script > sharing page. For some re

RE: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:03, Larry Gilson wrote: > Hi Dave, > > > -Original Message- > > From: Yorkshire Dave > > > I'm not sure that having an @foo or @foo.localdomain > > message-id actually breaks any standards, although it may bend them > > slightly. > > > > RFC822/2822 seem to refe

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/27/03 11:37 AM, Robin Witkop-Staub sat at the `puter and typed: > I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing > page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in > them. Why? This is why. Notice the pIz? you have the case insensitive flag

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer fights back!

2003-08-27 Thread Harry Waddell
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:59:42 +0200 (CEST) Morten Kjeldgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed recently that spam is starting to creep through the cracks of > SA. I looked at one of them, and it seems this spammer is trying to foil > the spam-filters, especially Bayes. > > The spam mess

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 18:06, Rick Macdougall wrote: > Patrick Morris wrote: > > > That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long > > time. :) > > > > jherschel wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- > >> *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> *Sent:*

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread David Olbersen
Thus spake Robin Witkop-Staub ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing > page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in > them. Why? > > /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|ganigbainged|duides|hairdciore|ExcIude|pIz)/i

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Rick Macdougall wrote: > Patrick Morris wrote: > > > That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long > > time. :) > > > > jherschel wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- > >> *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> *Sent:* Wednesd

[SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting "bayes: Not available for scanning, only X spam(s)< 200" when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hi, SpamAssassin folks. I've been using SpamAssassin happily for the past 6 months or so, and it's dramatically reduced my amount of spam. Recently, I upgraded to 2.60rc2 for the upgraded rules sets (I was getting a ton of spams with false X-Mailer headers set to Emacs Gnus coming through).

RE: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread jherschel
Lol - yeah, I think it's DEA or something trying to set up a sting ;-) ... But is there a rule I could tweak to get something as obvious as "child pornography" blasted as spam? James Herschel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Morris Sen

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:37:26 -0500 Robin Witkop-Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in them. Why? body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF /\b(?:excIusive|

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Patrick Morris wrote: That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:05 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Best Child Pornogra

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/27/03 05:52 PM, David sat at the `puter and typed: > Hi gurus, > > Sorry if this is a little bit off topic but I´m in deep trouble. I´m > running a Postfix server for a couple of domains with just a few > users. > > The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any evidence > in m

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Céline REDON
Thanx Bob, Would you know also how to integrate them in Spamassassin? In the local.cf file?? Thanx!! CR Selon Bob Apthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:56:19 +0200 Céline REDON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer fights back!

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > eutectic scarf tailing identifiable corresponded Whenever I've seen this, it's looke like: eutectic scarf tailing identifiable corresponded ie -- opening a font over and over. I wrote a simple procmail rule to catch that: :0 B * <1 * ^^$?$?

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:56:19 +0200 Céline REDON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?? Yes, see http://openrbl.org and http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm -- Bob --- This sf.ne

[SAtalk] Inconsistent Headers and Body scores

2003-08-27 Thread sa
Hi all, I'm getting this bizarre problem. My email accounts are hosted somewhere where SpamAssassin is already installed. I enabled it and it works great. However, they don't provide SpamBox, so I had to use procmail to automatically move spam to a spam folder. I'm basically piping the mail throug

[SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Robin Witkop-Staub
I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word "pizza" in them. Why? body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|ganigbainged|duides|hairdciore|ExcIude|pIz)/ i describe RAVEN_MaskedWordsFma

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Russ GilmanHunt
Yes, I was thinking it was an FBI project :) -Russ On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 08:46, Patrick Morris wrote: > That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long > time. :) > > jherschel wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] Whitelist by IP?

2003-08-27 Thread Thomas Reed
Having a problem with some users on our local network writing emails that get marked as spam. I dont want to whitelist by domain as this is easy to forge is there a way to whitelist by IP (and mask) that the mail was recieved from, being these users are all local on rfc1918 network seems like the

[SAtalk] Qmail-scanner + SpamAssassin / domain-specific filters/databases

2003-08-27 Thread Brian Ipsen
Hi! I'm not quite sure where to put this, that's why it is cross-posted to both mailing-lists. Anyway, I wonder whether a "sort-of" domain setup is possible with qmail-scanner and SpamAssassin ? What I want to achieve, is that all mail for a specific domain uses its own bayesian database - and m

[SAtalk] Re: user_prefs question

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Barnes
Gerry Maddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been using spamassassin for a few days now and love it! I have > been able to set up whitelists for users in in user_prefs with no > problems so far. I do have two users that receive email from a yahoo > group. Normally I'd add the email of the list

[SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread David
Hi gurus, Sorry if this is a little bit off topic but I´m in deep trouble. I´m running a Postfix server for a couple of domains with just a few users. The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any evidence in my logs that I have an open relay. The problem is that I got a LOT of co

[SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Céline REDON
Hi all, Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?? CR --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Email Book Reviews

2003-08-27 Thread Wes Schardenzar
Greetings SA Community, I have a simple Sendmail->Procmail->SA setup working on RH 9.0. It is great!! Thank you SA developers and list posters. I have been reading this list for a few weeks in order to scale the learning curve and do more advanced things with all three of these tools. Although

[SAtalk] OT funny spam

2003-08-27 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Hi all, I just received this spam, It made me laugh so I thought to pass it on.     Welcome to the site  it's us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list: 1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form. 2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only). 3. Other rockets (Air

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Patrick Morris
That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:05 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Best Child Pornography Site Welcome to th

Re: [SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Blomquist
jpf wrote: Is there someway that I can edit the subject line to get the SA score in there? I am using SA 2.55 and procmail. TIA jpf Here is the top two lines from my local.cf file. Works great rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag [SA Says: _HITS_] It gives the following results: [SA Says: 63.3

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:26:19PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Rainer Sokoll wrote: > > > I think it is better to disable rblcheck for osirusoft completly in > > 20_head_test.cf: > > Okay. What about those X_OSIRU_ tests? Are they related to As far as I understand this, by disabling check_rb

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:24 AM > To: 'Chris Santerre'; spamassassin_list > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd > > > Hi Chris, > > > -Original Message- > > From: Chris Santerre > > > Nope,

[SAtalk] Spammer fights back!

2003-08-27 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
I've noticed recently that spam is starting to creep through the cracks of SA. I looked at one of them, and it seems this spammer is trying to foil the spam-filters, especially Bayes. The spam message contains a large number of dictionary words written in HTML in WHITE, so they don't appear on the

Re: [SAtalk] Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... butnow does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread AltGrendel
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 15:47, Jennifer Fountain wrote: > in the articles I am reading, you should see this in your > /var/log/maillog: > > Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: info: setuid to qmailq succeeded > Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: checking message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for qmailq:545

Re: [SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Tim Litwiller
Here is how I do it - these lines are in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf on my system # Whether to change the subject of suspected spam rewrite_subject 1 # Text to prepend to subject if rewrite_subject is used subject_tag [SPAM-Score-_HITS_] jpf wrote: Is there someway tha

RE: [SAtalk] question/idea for whitelisted sender handling

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
I think that would be a bad idea. I jacked up the MS executable test to +110 to make sure if some one was dumb enough to send an MS executable, but was white listed, that the mail would still get tagged. Maybe as an option it would be nice for some, such as HALT_ON_WHITELISTED 1 or something s

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rainer Sokoll wrote: > I think it is better to disable rblcheck for osirusoft completly in > 20_head_test.cf: Okay. What about those X_OSIRU_ tests? Are they related to osirusoft.com? Seems so. Alexander Skwar -- -> Keine Kopien senden - ich lese die Listen in denen ich schreibe! <- -> Do not

Re: [SAtalk] different notification emails depending on domain

2003-08-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:56:02 -0400 Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:34:46AM +0200, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > I use amavisd-0.1. My sendmail is responsible for two domains (privat > > and work stuff). > > > > Depending on to which domain a user is sendi

RE: [SAtalk] Testing site-wide custom rules, how to?

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:02 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Testing site-wide custom rules, how to? > > > Good-day! > > We're using SA along with amavisd-new. After adding custom > rule

[SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread jherschel
Wow – I can’t believe this only scored a 4.8 …this is way more offensive than the “get a bigger ” emails that get caught no problem.  I assumed there would be a basic rule that would look for “child pornography” in the title.   Any ideas on how to boost scores on this kind of filth?   J

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