[SAtalk] Re: Will Recipe work to skip certian messages?

2003-12-11 Thread era
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:50:16 -0500, Mitchell Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > What I want to do is skip an message that originates from our domain... > I have the following in the /etc/procmailrcfile: > :0: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ${DEFAULT} > # From system.rose-hulma

[SAtalk] SA Long Process Times / Memory Utilization (Possible Bug?)

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Tappin
I have tracked down an issue with my SA installation that has been reported by others on the list. Basically large messages (one with multiple attachments in this case) being hung up by SA. I just tried to send a 1 MB e-mail with multiple message and pdf attachments. SA sat there for over 6 mi

[SAtalk] Re: One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-11 Thread Bryan Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For many of these, one can observe that the "user name" in the From: > header often also occurs in the Subject line. This could be a useful > rule pattern, although there are bound to be false positives, so the > score should be rather low. > > I don't know off-hand if t

[SAtalk] Re: Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread era
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:10:29 -0500, Adam Denenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I would like to be > able to allow people to submit confirmed ham and/or spam to a large > bayes corpus repository (or maybe just spam) where p

[SAtalk] Re: new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread era
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:02:06 -0800, Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > --On Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:46 PM -0300 Ceva > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( >> procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is don

RE: [SAtalk] Batching files with spamc

2003-12-11 Thread Brian Sneddon
The default is for spamd to spawn multiple processes. The -m flag is used to limit the max number of processes that will be spawned. Brian -Original Message- From: Pedro Sam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] B

RE: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Mark Muller
Updated regex from my friend: uri CUSTOM_IE_URL_SPOOF /\x01\s*\@|&\#01\s*\@|\%01\s*\@/ He missed the %01 encoding. -Original Message- From: Ivar Snaaijer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Need

Re: [SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:46 PM 12/11/03 -0300, Ceva wrote: Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail? You must configure your mail tools (ie: sendmail) to call SA.

Re: [SAtalk] Training based on previously detected spam

2003-12-11 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Graham, Thursday, December 11, 2003, 7:21:52 AM, you wrote: GB> I'm about to start training sa with spam and ham. Is it a good or bad idea GB> to use spam which has already been detected by sa's non-trained tests, or is GB> that a waste of time

Re[2]: [SAtalk] making my own Evil rule list

2003-12-11 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Douglas, Thursday, December 11, 2003, 8:58:29 AM, you wrote: DK> Ok, now is there any way in the user_prefs file to turn on or off a DK> block of rules? For example, the rules that are in the 10_local.cf DK> file on the site files. There's no

Re: detoken (was: RE: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish)

2003-12-11 Thread guenther
FYI: Solved. > This is the only rule that failes for me: > > rawbody W_B64_HALL =~ /Z3VlbnRoZXJAcnVkZXJzcG9ydC5kZQ/ > describe W_B64_H Listwashing token found in head - Base64 > score W_B64_H 1.0 I just have been informed that this little bug has been fixed. The rule should read: hea

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] Amavis-New - SpamAssassin - Evil Rules....

2003-12-11 Thread List Address
If one had the capability to do so, would it not be more efficient to use the domain list in an RHSBL? Granted that it uses a net lookup, but if you secondary the zone on a localhost DNS server, I would think that it would make it a lot easier for people to keep the file updated.. Don't get me

RE: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:03 PM 12/11/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example - I don't have an ASCII chart handy, but suppose %03 is also non-printable - http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/exploit /format/c ">Read this or risk legal action!!! Um.. the exploit doesn't work if the character is escaped with a %.. it only work

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn and bayes

2003-12-11 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Dan Tappin wrote: [...] > bayes_auto_expire 1 > bayes_learn_to_journal 0 > > My maillog still shows 'permission denied' errors on the /var/root/.spamassassin > folder. When I run sa-learn (as root) my bayes > files are created in /var/root/.spamassassin/ but as user

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn and bayes

2003-12-11 Thread Pedro Sam
On December 11, 2003 06:00 pm, Dan Tappin wrote: > After setting-up spamassassin, RTFM and monitoring the list I am still very > confused about the correct way to set-up and run spamassassin with bays > (sa-learn). > > The basics: > > I am running Post.Office as a MTA on OS X client 10.2.8. Post.O

Re: [SAtalk] False positive

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:16 PM 12/11/2003, Satya wrote: Okay, it seems to me that blocking because someone is in a dynablock is the same class as blocking because the email comes from .ru or East Asia or is in the wrong langauge. I guess I'll just start blocking all email from Earthlink (I don't know anyone there), S

RE: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew . van . Eerde
This may be redundant to the existing rule: 2.4 HTTP_ESCAPED_HOST URI: Uses %-escapes inside a URL's hostname > -Original Message- > From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:47 AM > To: 'Fred'; Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: RE: [SAtal

RE: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Matthew . van . Eerde
It'll need to be a little more general than that. The way I read the vulnerability, any non-printing character will cause the bug, not just %01. Also, it doesn't have to immediately precede the @ - anywhere before the @ will do. For example - I don't have an ASCII chart handy, but suppose %03 is

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Evan Platt wrote: > I haven't seen a IM spam in.. MONTHS. AOL, MSN, Yahoo OR ICQ. I hadn't gotten any in a while, but I got about 6 AOL IM spams yesterday. == Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestN

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin lint errors

2003-12-11 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Aaron Levitt wrote: [...] > check_for_content_type_just_html and check_for_bad_dialup_ips. I > verified that the PerMsgStatus was loaded, but I'm not sure where to go > from here. This is running SA 2.5x. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! did you updating /us

Re: [SAtalk] False positive

2003-12-11 Thread Satya
On Dec 11, 2003 at 13:05, Ryan Moore wrote: >Their database isn't wrong, as the IP is listed as being in a dialup >range, which would appear to be accurate by my guess. I would think that Okay, it seems to me that blocking because someone is in a dynablock is the same class as blocking because th

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread MIKE YRABEDRA
on 12/11/03 1:08 PM, Jonathan Vanasco at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe its an ichat only thing -- because everyone i know running iChat > gets 10+ AOL IM spams a day. I'm averaging 15. I have not gotten a single one. Guess I am lucky :-) ---

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin lint errors

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:12 PM 12/11/2003, Aaron Levitt wrote: Greets everyone- Digging a bit more, I unpacked some ancient tarballs for my collection. You're using parts of code from SA version 2.31, or older, not SA 2.55. The code you're getting errors on exists in versions 1.5, 2.0, 2.01, 2.10,2.11, 2.20, 2.30,

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Ray Dzek
I can tell ya were SA would be wonderful... is on cell phones. The amount of spam pouring into our corporate cell phones makes the email/text messaging virtually unusable. And I get complaints about it all the time because the message indicators are always one and it takes forever to weed through

RE: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread James
I used to get spams with the native Aol messenger, got trillian and haven't had a problem (I checked "only allow buddies in my list" to send me messages, this seems to have solved the problem, the same goes for ICQ, don't use yahoo or msn, so can't help you there. Thanks, James -Original

[SAtalk] perllocal.pod conflict with 2.61

2003-12-11 Thread Mike Vanecek
What is the safest way to resolve this 2.61 install error? Can I safely use --force? What is the purpose of perllocal.pod? [EMAIL PROTECTED] i386]# rpm -Uvh --test spama*.rpm perl-Mail* Preparing...### [100%] file /usr/lib/perl5/site_

Re: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivar Snaaijer writes: >Fred wrote: > >>Hello, >>I am out the door on my way to work but we need a rule for a new IE exploit >>just released, >>Visit this page, the exploit is harmless but to the spoofer, it's man's best >>friend. >> >>http://www.zapth

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin lint errors

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Levitt
Yep, I found it in the source of 2.31 in the 20_head_tests.cf. I somehow still had the older cf after I upgraded to 2.52. I copied the head_tests.cf from the 2.52 source in place of the old one and everything seems to be groovy now. Thanks for the quick response! -=Aaron -Original Messag

Re: [SAtalk] Batching files with spamc

2003-12-11 Thread Pedro Sam
On December 10, 2003 12:35 pm, Dimitar Haralanov wrote: > Hi, I was trying to find any information on batching messages with > spamc and could not find anything so I am asking the list: > Is it possible to batch multiple files with spamc? In other words > instead of redirecting messages

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin lint errors

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:12 PM 12/11/2003, Aaron Levitt wrote: Greets everyone- Um, your SA install appears to be badly corrupted, or based on some VERY ancient version (older than 2.43). Re-install from scratch. "check_for_from_to_equivalence" appears to be no part of SA 2.43, 2.44, 2.50, 2.52, 2.53, 2.54, 2.55,

Re: detoken (was: RE: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish)

2003-12-11 Thread guenther
[ Cc: to the detoken rules maintainer ] > However, seems there are issues with the full-address detoken rules and > SA 2.61 (using Perl v5.8.0). Any ideas? > > # spamassassin --lint > Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping: > (Bareword "ALL" not allowed while "strict subs" in

[SAtalk] Re: SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Barnes
Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yahoo IM? AOL IM? ICQ IM? MSN IM? All of the above would be good, but AOL seems the worst. > I haven't seen a IM spam in.. MONTHS. AOL, MSN, Yahoo OR ICQ. I had gone almost 2 years without one, but in the last 2 weeks, I've started getting 3-4 / day. Fwi

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:02 PM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: So, it seems the DYNABLOCK check will hit for any email sent from a PC on dialup/cable/dsl that uses an SMTP server for their domain and the destination is on the same server as the SMTP server. Just trying to fully understand the 2.6 point rule before

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Mangiafico writes: >> >Email thru our server from home PC: >> >--- >> >Received: from fico (ct-nrwch-cuda1-xxx.nwchct.adelphia.net >> >[68.170.14x.4x]) >> > by lexiconn.serverhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id >> >hBB0Wcp23535 >> >

Re: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Ivar Snaaijer
Fred wrote: Hello, I am out the door on my way to work but we need a rule for a new IE exploit just released, Visit this page, the exploit is harmless but to the spoofer, it's man's best friend. http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm I think this should be put in the next SA release!

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rende ring streams

2003-12-11 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 08:42:16 -0800, "Gary Funck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > One implementation might be to convert the rewrite rules into an > > > equivalent flex description, and let flex generate the automaton in > > > C. Compile the C, and build a Perl binding to it. > > Scott repl

Re: [SAtalk] False positive

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:42 PM 12/11/2003, Chris Barnes wrote: I got a false positive this morning, where it looks like the main culprit was bad information in SORBS and RJABL. The sender is a local Earthlink customer. Any idea on how to get the SORBS & RJABL databases fixed? Those lists that fired off are dial-up

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
AOL IM Maybe its an ichat only thing -- because everyone i know running iChat gets 10+ AOL IM spams a day. I'm averaging 15. On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:00 PM, Evan Platt wrote: --On Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone think of trying to do

[SAtalk] Spamassassin lint errors

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Levitt
Greets everyone- I was just recently updating some rules and I ran spamassassin --lint as per the instructions. This was the first time I had ever run it and got the following errors: Failed to run FROM_AND_TO_SAME SpamAssassin test, skipping: (Can't locate object method "check_for_from_

Re: [SAtalk] False positive

2003-12-11 Thread Ryan Moore
Their database isn't wrong, as the IP is listed as being in a dialup range, which would appear to be accurate by my guess. I would think that the default rulesets are setup in such a way that it wouldn't catch that sort of hit, since they did relay through the ISP's server, perhaps someone else

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:06 PM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: ok. For example, we are a web host, and I often email from my home PC on a cable modem utilizing the mailserver of our own dedicated server in our datacenter. If I do that, my email trips the dynablock check in SA. The header you mentioned before was on

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Mangiafico
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: > > At 11:52 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > > >ok, this one makes sense. I guess dynablock will hit on anyone who emails > > >from their mail program and has the smtp server set to their hosted server > > >instead of the ISP's mailserver. Will prob

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone think of trying to do this yet? Hijacking ims and routing them > through SA... I get way too many spam ims every day. Yahoo IM? AOL IM? ICQ IM? MSN IM? I haven't seen a IM spam in.. MONTHS. A

[SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
Anyone think of trying to do this yet? Hijacking ims and routing them through SA... I get way too many spam ims every day. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sig

Re: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Thielen
Bill Landry said: > Hmmm, Jennifer was hosting her excellent rules at > http://spamhammers.nxtek.net, but the site appears to be inaccessible > right > now. You can also fine them at Jennifer moved her rulesets to: http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm -- Chris Thielen Easily generate SpamAss

detoken (was: RE: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish)

2003-12-11 Thread guenther
[ Cc: to the detoken rules maintainer ] On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 17:17, Tom Meunier wrote: > http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl > > Most of the gibberish I see is encoded tracking information. I plugged > in my domain name to the little script thingy, saved the .cf file, and > it catches '

[SAtalk] False positive

2003-12-11 Thread Chris Barnes
I got a false positive this morning, where it looks like the main culprit was bad information in SORBS and RJABL. The sender is a local Earthlink customer. Any idea on how to get the SORBS & RJABL databases fixed? * * Received: from sdn-ap-015dcwashp0233.dialsprint.net ([63.188.144.233]

Re: [SAtalk] mysql user rules (no local.cf definition)

2003-12-11 Thread Marcello Lupo
Hi to all, i write to know if some one have thinked a solution for the problem of the definition of the tests inside the mysql database, becouse i have the same problem. I have to define the rules in the local.cf too and after i can override the score in the database. Thanks to all, Bye, MArece

Re: [SAtalk] Batching files with spamc

2003-12-11 Thread Dimitar Haralanov
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:35:22 -0800 Dimitar Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I was trying to find any information on batching messages > with > spamc and could not find anything so I am asking the list: > Is it possible to batch multiple files with spamc? In other >

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Greg Cirino - Cirelle Enterprises
Isn't dynablock off line as of 12/1/3?? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admi

Re: [SAtalk] Can't locate AAAA.pm

2003-12-11 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Matt Kettler wrote: At 11:46 AM 12/11/2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: amavisd is running chroot'ed /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/RR/.pm exists on the system. But does it exist relative to the root of the chroot? No, but OTOH none of the Perl stuff does. The error

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Mangiafico
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 11:52 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: > >ok, this one makes sense. I guess dynablock will hit on anyone who emails > >from their mail program and has the smtp server set to their hosted server > >instead of the ISP's mailserver. Will probably hit o

Re: [SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:46 PM -0300 Ceva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( > procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start > spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail? Nope, you need

Re: [SAtalk] Can't locate AAAA.pm

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:46 AM 12/11/2003, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: amavisd is running chroot'ed /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/RR/.pm exists on the system. But does it exist relative to the root of the chroot? --- This SF.net emai

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:52 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: ok, this one makes sense. I guess dynablock will hit on anyone who emails from their mail program and has the smtp server set to their hosted server instead of the ISP's mailserver. Will probably hit on very high % of hams as well, since most people wit

Re: [SAtalk] making my own Evil rule list

2003-12-11 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:53, Bret Miller wrote: > > I am pulling my example off the following url. > > > > http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf > > > > I have setup the following rule in my user_prefs file. > > > > uri

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Mangiafico
> >Email thru our server from home PC: > >--- > >Received: from fico (ct-nrwch-cuda1-xxx.nwchct.adelphia.net > >[68.170.14x.4x]) > > by lexiconn.serverhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id > >hBB0Wcp23535 > > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:32:38 -0500 > >From: "LexiCo

RE: [SAtalk] Running mass-check with local rules

2003-12-11 Thread Smart,Dan
I'm trying to do the mass-check corpus cleanup. I'm assuming that the mass-check-results-to-mbox, mboxget, and extract-message-from-mbox are used to help in this process. Can someone tell me how to run these? Is there anything that needs to be passed? <> | -Original Message- | Fro

Re: [SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Ceva
Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail? $ spamassassin < some_email_file.txt Is "some_email_file.txt" a rule file? thanks in advance one mo

[SAtalk] Can't locate AAAA.pm

2003-12-11 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
I'm having trouble with a newly installed server. OpenBSD 3.4 GENERIC#0 i386 amavisd-new latest stable clamav latest stable SA 2.61 Net::DNS 0.42 amavisd is running chroot'ed /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/RR/.pm exists on the system. Not all mails will trigger the

[SAtalk] RE: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rende ring streams

2003-12-11 Thread Gary Funck
> > > One implementation might be to convert the rewrite rules into an > > equivalent flex description, and let flex generate the automaton in > > C. Compile the C, and build a Perl binding to it. Scott replied: > I considered that and did a prototype (which was useful for > performance estimate

Re: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:22 AM -0500 "Billy A. Pumphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any help on this is appreciated. I know its blocking it there because > when I took it down it came through. I do not know how to look at > anything on spamassassin either, I'm new to it. So some t

Re: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Bill Landry
Hmmm, Jennifer was hosting her excellent rules at http://spamhammers.nxtek.net, but the site appears to be inaccessible right now. You can also fine them at http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm, listed as: popcorn.cf, backhair.cf, and weeds.cf. There may be a combined set

Re: [SAtalk] Training based on previously detected spam

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:21 AM 12/11/2003, Graham Borland wrote: I'm about to start training sa with spam and ham. Is it a good or bad idea to use spam which has already been detected by sa's non-trained tests, or is that a waste of time? Should I only train it with spam which is currently managing to slip through? W

Re: [SAtalk] Running mass-check with local rules

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:57 AM 12/11/2003, Smart,Dan wrote: How do you get mass-check to use your local "custom" rules in local.cf and other .cf files? I usually run mass check from within the masses sub-dir of an unzipped SA tarball directory. It will automatically use ../rules/*.cf instead of /usr/share/spamass

Re: [SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:04 AM 12/11/2003, Rob Mangiafico wrote: After upgrading to 2.61, we re-enabled the DYNABLOCK RBL checks. They still seem to hit on emails that I do not believe should be matching DYNABLOCK IP's. Here are a few headers they hit on: Email thru our server from home PC: --- Received: from fico

Re: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Terry Milnes
Are you sure the earthlink servers don't have another name prepended? eg mail server name = mail1.earthlink.com, therefore it would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] tm. Billy A. Pumphrey wrote: I added a few entries in the local.cf to let all earthlink email come through hopefully but it didn’t work. Her

RE: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Meunier
http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl Most of the gibberish I see is encoded tracking information. I plugged in my domain name to the little script thingy, saved the .cf file, and it catches 'em like crazy. -tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn ... R/W: tie failed!

2003-12-11 Thread AthlonRob
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 23:38, David B Funk wrote: > Just try completely removing those bayes_toks & bayes_seen files > and do a 'sa-learn --rebuild'. It should take that bayes_journal file > and use its data to create a new database. Good to go, I think... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$ rm ba

[SAtalk] Sender of email receive a copy of email sent in his/her Inbox!

2003-12-11 Thread Kooi Lim
Help! We are running running SA 2.6 with Postfix. in Mandrake 9.2. This server acts as a spam filter that forwards mail to an actual mail server on another machine. Everything works well (filtering, tagging and forwarding) except for one thing - every sender of email to us gets a copy of the

[SAtalk] Re: Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:49:48 -0600, Larry Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that many SPAM emails, end with seversl lines of gibberish, > such as: > > lvwpdfobv qkviylqr qlmwacbc hpimhdty > mdmrkb lvivhdc xovwul wpcxeqj > lhaxomaje vrucjj ybxegs > > > Has any

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rende ring streams

2003-12-11 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 07:31:10 -0800, "Gary Funck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The major catch with this particular implementation is that it cannot > > deal with nondeterministic transformations. What this means is that > > any consequent for a substitute rule must be a single character. ( '4

[SAtalk] Running mass-check with local rules

2003-12-11 Thread Smart,Dan
How do you get mass-check to use your local "custom" rules in local.cf and other .cf files? TIA <> --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Lin

[SAtalk] Will Recipe work to skip certian messages?

2003-12-11 Thread Mitchell Baker
What I want to do is skip an message that originates from our domain... I have the following in the /etc/procmailrcfile: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${DEFAULT} # From system.rose-hulman.edu :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${DEFAULT} # This seems to work most of the time we when certain messages have rose-hul

[SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Larry Starr
I have noticed that many SPAM emails, end with seversl lines of gibberish, such as: lvwpdfobv qkviylqr qlmwacbc hpimhdty mdmrkb lvivhdc xovwul wpcxeqj lhaxomaje vrucjj ybxegs Has anyone developed a rule that can detect this sort of thing? Perhaps a check for consecuti

[SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-11 Thread Fred
Hello, I am out the door on my way to work but we need a rule for a new IE exploit just released, Visit this page, the exploit is harmless but to the spoofer, it's man's best friend. http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm I think this should be put in the next SA release!! ---

RE: [SAtalk] Re: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rende ring streams

2003-12-11 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: Scott A Crosby > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 6:49 AM [...] > > The major catch with this particular implementation is that it cannot > deal with nondeterministic transformations. What this means is that > any consequent for a substitute rule must be a si

[SAtalk] Training based on previously detected spam

2003-12-11 Thread Graham Borland
I'm about to start training sa with spam and ham. Is it a good or bad idea to use spam which has already been detected by sa's non-trained tests, or is that a waste of time? Should I only train it with spam which is currently managing to slip through? -- Graham Borland

RE: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Billy A. Pumphrey
How do I tell what has been tagged as spam? Thank You Billy Pumphrey -Original Message- From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:49 AM To: Billy A. Pumphrey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink - Original Messa

[SAtalk] Wishlist - ABL for SA

2003-12-11 Thread Fred
I know this has been discussed before and many people said to use bayes for this but it'd really be nice to have an "Automatic IP Blacklist" for SA. AWL takes this too far as spammers just use random e-mail address in the from. Bayes takes everything into consideration and does too much for what I

[SAtalk] 2.61 and DYNABLOCK, issues still?

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Mangiafico
After upgrading to 2.61, we re-enabled the DYNABLOCK RBL checks. They still seem to hit on emails that I do not believe should be matching DYNABLOCK IP's. Here are a few headers they hit on: cgiemail email --- Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by lexiconn.serverhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6)

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Adam Denenberg
well ham is very site dependant (point taken especially with security reasons), so i dont think sending ham will really be something that can be accomplished very easily so i think sticking to spam only would be best. By only sending spam, i would hope to achieve a large spam corpus that someone c

RE: [SAtalk] Possible FP on big evil list

2003-12-11 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Helloo. FP Notice. FP forwarded to me this morning on an ebay "Bid Confirmed" notice. BigEvilList_133 contains "pics.ebaystatic.com" which is in the source of the "bid confirmed" emails from ebay auctions. It pushed it to 8.34; we tag at 7.0. Other custom rules contributed 0.7 to the score, d

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rende ring streams

2003-12-11 Thread Scott A Crosby
On 11 Dec 2003 08:11:43 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Getting back on topic, the problem with a stepwise normalization of > the message is that you sort of assume that transformations are > applied consistently and mechanically. What would be really neat would > be to have an automaton which

Re: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Fred
- Original Message - From: Billy A. Pumphrey I know its blocking it there because when I took it down it came through. SA does not block e-mail, it only identifies mail as ham or spam, something else in your system must be doing the blocking! Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Fred
Adam Denenberg wrote: > SA List, > > What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I would like to be > able to allow people to submit confirmed ham and/or spam to a large > bayes corpus repository (or maybe just spam) where people could then > download (or somehow do an sa-learn remotely) to

Re: [SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:48 AM 12/11/03 -0300, Ceva wrote: I a new user of spamassassin, so I have some doubts. I installed spamassassin at a server running FreeBSD 4.9 and sendmail. I want to know how spamassassin works. Simple.. SA exists as a mail filter.. programs call it, feed it mail, it runs some rules agai

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Pedro Sam
On December 11, 2003 09:10 am, Adam Denenberg wrote: > SA List, > > I am writing for feedback about a new project i would like to start > and would love feedback/help from the excellent community that has been > built here on the SA lists. > > What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I w

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:10 AM 12/11/03 -0500, Adam Denenberg wrote: SA List, What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I would like to be able to allow people to submit confirmed ham and/or spam to a large bayes corpus repository (or maybe just spam) where people could then download (or somehow do an sa-le

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Meunier
What would differentiate the proposed public corpus from the public corpus at http://www.spamassassin.org/publiccorpus/? -tom > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Adam Denenberg > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:10 AM > To: [EMAI

[SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Billy A. Pumphrey
I added a few entries in the local.cf to let all earthlink email come through hopefully but it didn’t work.  Here is what is in there: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] earthlink.net whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] earthlink.com   Any help on this is appreciated.  I know its b

[SAtalk] Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-11 Thread Adam Denenberg
SA List, I am writing for feedback about a new project i would like to start and would love feedback/help from the excellent community that has been built here on the SA lists. What i want to start is a Bayes Corpus Project. I would like to be able to allow people to submit confirmed ham and

[SAtalk] Re: 2.61 Build Problems

2003-12-11 Thread Rick Cooper
Sorry to reply to myself but I found the problem I had a tainted directory in my path. I was watching the running processes during the make test run and noticed that spamd started and died almost immediately, and I recalled something about 2.61 using taint checks as a default, so I checked all the

[SAtalk] 2.61 Build Problems

2003-12-11 Thread Rick Cooper
Having major problems building SA 2.61. All dependant and optional modules are installed and up to date. Make works fine but when I make test: # Failed test 3 in t/spamd_hup.t at line 35 # t/spamd_hup.t line 35 is: ok (-e $pid_file); # Failed test 4 in t/spamd_hup.t at line 37 # t/spamd_hup.t li

[SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Ceva
Hi everibody, I a new user of spamassassin, so I have some doubts. I installed spamassassin at a server running FreeBSD 4.9 and sendmail. I want to know how spamassassin works. Exmaple: Should I tell something at local.cf to spamassassin to work with sendmail? Someone can send me a local.cf

[SAtalk] Re: Wacky postmaster whitelist questions

2003-12-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Evan Platt wrote: > Josh Endries wrote: > > I get a lot of postmaster emails, and I'm trying to whitelist them so > > they aren't marked as spam. > > How are you calling SpamAssassin? Why not just (assuming you're using > procmail), create a procmail rule? Agreed. I use something like this. :

Re: [SAtalk] META: Does spamassassin-talk have a working mail archive?

2003-12-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Apthorpe writes: >Hi, > >After spending tireless minutes directing people to the SA-Talk >archives[1], I can't seem to get at them. Does >http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=spamassassin-talk >work, and if not, is there a better pla

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn ... R/W: tie failed!

2003-12-11 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, AthlonRob wrote: > > Just for S&G, try doing a 'sa-learn --dump magic' and see if it > > likes what it sees. If you cannot even --dump magic then it's > > truly corrupted, no repair, just delete and start fresh. > > I got some funky output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassi

[SAtalk] Re: Help with DCC setup for use with Spamassaian

2003-12-11 Thread Bryan Hoover
stan wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:22:23AM -0500, Bryan Hoover wrote: > > stan wrote: > > > Yes, I just erviewd the firewall config. It will pass all trafic > > > originating on the innsied. I see that may not be a good general case, but > > > it should be OK here (Small home network). > >