Re: [SAtalk] Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Petersen
MAN, that's a lot of code for such a simple task. mine is just: #!/bin/sh # List of files to grab files=" http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf http://www.emtinc.ne

[SAtalk] Re: Is my spamtrap working?

2004-01-17 Thread Bryan Hoover
Paul Fielding wrote: > > I recently set up a shared database with spamtrap and hamtrap accounts, as per: > > http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting > > You can see the details of the procmail and local.cf files at the link above, > but the sort story is that the

RE: [SAtalk] UPDATES Tripwire 1.16 and Bigevil 2.06k

2004-01-17 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
> Link in sig, it's late and I'm tired. If you don't know where to find them > by now, you must be under a rock (Or a Colts Fan ;) Go Pats! ...okaynow that hurt! We'll talk tomorrow. J. --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon

Re: [SAtalk] UPDATES Tripwire 1.16 and Bigevil 2.06k

2004-01-17 Thread Tim Litwiller
If you change the version number lines to all be the same number of digits, the script given earlier today will report the update correctly for example # Version 1.00 Initial release # Version 1.01 Avoid FPs with Forwards, Embedded images and PGP. # Version 1.02 Avoid FPs with Yahoo Groups #

[SAtalk] Re: Where are values kept for the built-in rules?

2004-01-17 Thread Bryan Hoover
"Yackley, Matt" wrote: > > I would like to increase one of the built-in rule hit values. > > Tnx - John > > > > Hi John, > The standard location is in /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf file, > however any changes made to the file would be wiped out by an upgrade or > re-install. The best way

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Pierre, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 6:28:37 PM, you wrote: PT> Bob, PT> Thanks for the mass check. I don't have a big corpus handy, PT> just what trickles through the gateway. PT> There should be no problem with a few extra keywords; we could PT> even squeeze "postmaster" in there for go

RE: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Fred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > FYI -- I'm noticing SPAMs which con

[SAtalk] UPDATES Tripwire 1.16 and Bigevil 2.06k

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Santerre
I actually thawed out! And so did my car!! Yup, it actually FROZE while I was driving around 80 mph! No damage at all! Oh happy day :) So everyone in the cold go out and check your water/antifreeze ratio. And ALWAYS let your car warm-up before driving like a mad person ;) Anywho, like the subject

RE: [SAtalk] (OT) Spam Conference 2004 re-cap?

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Gary Funck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 9:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] (OT) Spam Conference 2004 re-cap? > > > > > > > There was an excellent presentation by John Graham-Cumming at the > > 2004 Spam Confe

[SAtalk] Re: Where are values kept for the built-in rules?

2004-01-17 Thread Bryan Hoover
John Fleming wrote: > > I would like to increase one of the built-in rule hit values. Tnx - John Do it in your .spamassassin/user_prefs file, or for site wide, local.cf in your rules directory. Look in rules/50_scores.cf for the rules, and scores to copy/paste, and change. Bryan > ---

[SAtalk] Is my spamtrap working?

2004-01-17 Thread Paul Fielding
I recently set up a shared database with spamtrap and hamtrap accounts, as per: http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting You can see the details of the procmail and local.cf files at the link above, but the sort story is that the database is in /home/sharedspam/.s

RE: [SAtalk] Where are values kept for the built-in rules?

2004-01-17 Thread Yackley, Matt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of John Fleming > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 8:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Where are values kept for the built-in rules? > > I would like to increase one of the built-in

[SAtalk] Where are values kept for the built-in rules?

2004-01-17 Thread John Fleming
I would like to increase one of the built-in rule hit values. Tnx - John --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in A

[SAtalk] (OT) Spam Conference 2004 re-cap?

2004-01-17 Thread Gary Funck
> > There was an excellent presentation by John Graham-Cumming at the > 2004 Spam Conference about this and how your experience is what most > people find. The issue being that spammers don't know what tokens are > considered hammy in your Bayes DB, so random dictionary words tend to fail > very

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Fred, Thomas, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 12:53:45 PM, you wrote: >> FYI -- I'm noticing SPAMs which contain ONLY an image are not being >> filtered at all. ... F> Try this out for size, they are a few custom rules I have created myself. F> # Catch Image ONLY spams! F> rawbody __FVGT_rb_

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Pierre Thomson
Bob, Thanks for the mass check. I don't have a big corpus handy, just what trickles through the gateway. There should be no problem with a few extra keywords; we could even squeeze "postmaster" in there for good measure, though rules which line-wrap sometimes cause grief for text downloads.

Re[2]: [SAtalk] what can we do with those spam mails

2004-01-17 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Martin, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 10:39:15 AM, you wrote: MR> I've added the following rules to my local.cf: MR> header L_MIME_BOUND_MANY_DIG Content-Type =~ /boundary=\"\d{19,}\"/ MR> describe L_MIME_BOUND_MANY_DIG MIME boundary contains lots of digits MR> scoreL_MIME_BOUND_MA

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Pierre, Saturday, January 17, 2004, 9:30:47 AM, you wrote: PT> I made a rule that catches many of these bogus HTML tags, based PT> on the fact that there are only three valid standalone tags of 9 PT> characters or more (according to the list at PT> http://devedge.netscape.com/library/xref/2

Re: [SAtalk] New circulation of emails

2004-01-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:06:47PM -0500, Pedro Sam wrote: > I keep on reading these concerned postings on so-called "bayes-posion" ... My > personal experience is that *NONE* of these had managed to get through my > well trained bayes database. There was an excellent presentation by John Graham

Re: [SAtalk] New circulation of emails

2004-01-17 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 17, 2004 07:03 am, Chris Connell wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I read in a recent IT magazine about a new circulation of spam which > contain a bunch of meaningless sentances (but with legitimate words) in the > body of the mail (actually they are placed at the end) These spams are > obvioul

Re: [SAtalk] Is this thing trying to assassinate my CPU?

2004-01-17 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 17, 2004 02:13 pm, Philip Mak wrote: > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 616 pmak 15 0 719M 247M 928 R 3.3 24.6 7:42 spamassassin > > Any idea why SpamAssassin is using such a huge amount of memory? I'm > running version 2.60 and th

RE: [SAtalk] Yikes.. rules_du_jour

2004-01-17 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
> > rules_du_jour is kind of neat, but I hope it's not going to drive up > Chris & Jennifer's bandwidth bills or som 'em over a quota. :P > > Would it be possible to add a mirror or two? I've got a fairly empty T1 > that could help out.. I think mine _should_ be okay, especially if it's staggere

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.62 is released!

2004-01-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 04:39:00PM -0800, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: > Hey Theo - does this fix this bug as well? > > Don't see it updated in the bug list, so thought I'd check. > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2906 Nope, that's a 2.70 milestone bug currently. BTW: please don't

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.62 is released!

2004-01-17 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Hey Theo - does this fix this bug as well? Don't see it updated in the bug list, so thought I'd check. http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2906 Thanks! > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Summary of major changes since 2.61 > ---

Re: [SAtalk] unfakeable Habeas watermark?

2004-01-17 Thread Jonas Eckerman
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:02:04 +0100, Cahya Wirawan wrote: >  find and sue everyone who misused their watermark. And for us they >  have rbl system we can use to check violator, but it works only >  after people get the spam and report it to them. it is not [...] >  possible to sign every emails (se

[SAtalk] Yikes.. rules_du_jour

2004-01-17 Thread Jonathan Nichols
rules_du_jour is kind of neat, but I hope it's not going to drive up Chris & Jennifer's bandwidth bills or som 'em over a quota. :P Would it be possible to add a mirror or two? I've got a fairly empty T1 that could help out.. -Jonathan --- Th

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.62 is released!

2004-01-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited commercial/bulk email). Downloading --- Pick it up from: http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62.tar.gz http://SpamAssassin.org/released/Mail-

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, January 17, 2004 3:54 PM -0600 Scott A Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: NTP taught this lesson of this mistake. Systems getting hundreds of queries a minute that haven't run NTP in 13 years. And the linksys DDOS attack on UWisc. Proper use of DNS should deal with this. The supplie

[SAtalk] Re: Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:15:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) writes: > Chris Thielen wrote: > > "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets. > > http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RulesDeJour > > # Get latest SpamAssassin rules. Runs at 4:28AM every day. > 28 4 * *

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Thielen
On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 11:15, Bob Proulx wrote: > If this script becomes popular then there will be an impulse spike on > the servers at that time (within each timezone) every day. This has > been known to create problems in other similar cases. Better to > randomize a delay to make sure that thes

Re: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Fred
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FYI -- I'm noticing SPAMs which contain ONLY an image are not being > filtered at all. Specifically, the HTML message only contains simple > open/close BODY and HTML tags with just the IMG SRC tag in the middle > - which in turn loads a spam-related promotion from somewhe

[SAtalk] New circulation of emails

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Connell
Hi Everyone, I read in a recent IT magazine about a new circulation of spam which contain a bunch of meaningless sentances (but with legitimate words) in the body of the mail (actually they are placed at the end) These spams are obvioulsy designed to confuse spam filtering software and were re

[SAtalk] How to reject bad local mail addresses with spamassassin and exim 3

2004-01-17 Thread James Lamanna
Hello, I've recently installed SpamAssassin with Exim 3, and I've noticed that I'm getting a lot of "Message is Frozen" error messages. The reason is I get spam sent to my domain with an invalid local address and it goes through SpamAssassain first, but then it doesn't seem to check if the local

[SAtalk] Is this thing trying to assassinate my CPU?

2004-01-17 Thread Philip Mak
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 616 pmak 15 0 719M 247M 928 R 3.3 24.6 7:42 spamassassin Any idea why SpamAssassin is using such a huge amount of memory? I'm running version 2.60 and this seems to happen a lot. -

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn, mbox deleted messages

2004-01-17 Thread Gary Funck
> > You could use formail/procmail, > > formail -s procmail sa_learn.rc < mbox | sa-learn > > where sa_learn.rc might appear as follows: > > > LOGFILE=$HOME/sa_learn.log # While debugging > VERBOSE=yes# """" > LOGABSTRACT=yes# """" > SENDMAIL=

Re: [SAtalk] what can we do with those spam mails

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Thu Jan 15 08:49:37 2004, =?Windows-1252?Q?S=F6nke_Ruempler?= wrote: > > hi list, > > I wonder if i can to something against these spam messages: I've picked out the following, which are common to other similar messages I've seen: > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="3

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn, mbox deleted messages

2004-01-17 Thread Gary Funck
> From: Barton L. Phillips > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 9:28 AM > > I am using Mozilla and when I delete a message it is marked: > Status: RO > X-Status: D > > When I run sa-learn the deleted messages are learned. I can "compact > this folder" but I sometimes forget. Is there a way to ha

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie queries, install and configuration

2004-01-17 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 January 2004 05:44, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Hi all, > > My SPAM has reached an unprecedented level ie up to 50% SPAM and so I > have decided to install and investigate SA. I have been a member of the > mailing list for a littl

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin and Outlook Exchange Server

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 14:13:27 2004, Sally Denhart wrote: [Apologies to the list if this has been anwswered already -- I've checked in the archives and can't see a reply to this. I'm a couple of days behind with my mail.] > I just installed Spam Assassin 2.61 on my Solaris 7 box. It > interfaces with

[SAtalk] Newbie queries, install and configuration

2004-01-17 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi all, My SPAM has reached an unprecedented level ie up to 50% SPAM and so I have decided to install and investigate SA. I have been a member of the mailing list for a little while and have read the presentations on the www.spamassassin.org site but I am still partially lost on how SA works. I kn

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 17:54:19 2004, Todd Seeleman wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v > 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the > system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all

[SAtalk] Re: Filter rule f. invalid HTML tags?

2004-01-17 Thread Pierre Thomson
I made a rule that catches many of these bogus HTML tags, based on the fact that there are only three valid standalone tags of 9 characters or more (according to the list at http://devedge.netscape.com/library/xref/2001/html-element/ ): # check for invalid HTML tags of 9 characters or more rawb

[SAtalk] sa-learn, mbox deleted messages

2004-01-17 Thread Barton L. Phillips
I am using Mozilla and when I delete a message it is marked: Status: RO X-Status: D When I run sa-learn the deleted messages are learned. I can "compact this folder" but I sometimes forget. Is there a way to have sa-learn not look at X-Status: D messages, or do I have to write a perl front end?

[SAtalk] Re: Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Thielen wrote: > "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets. > http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RulesDeJour # Get latest SpamAssassin rules. Runs at 4:28AM every day. 28 4 * * * /root/bin/rules_de_jour If this script becomes p

RE: [SAtalk] Problems running begevil and tripwire together (possibly solved)

2004-01-17 Thread Scott Harris
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott Harris > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Problems running begevil and tripwire together > > I think I've narrowed it down to this by try

Re: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Martin Radford wrote: > At Sat Jan 17 13:53:50 2004, Carl R. Friend wrote: > > > The version in my case is 2.60 with a custom ruleset of my own > > called 20040105_00. 2.60 handles this image-spam. Here's the > > header generated from a test of your message and some dumm

Re: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Sat Jan 17 13:53:50 2004, Carl R. Friend wrote: > The version in my case is 2.60 with a custom ruleset of my own > called 20040105_00. 2.60 handles this image-spam. Here's the > header generated from a test of your message and some dummy > headers presented to spamssassin: This isn't a very

RE: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered? > > > FYI -- I'm noticing SPAMs which contain ONLY an image are not > being filtered > at all.

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX)

2004-01-17 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, snowchyld wrote: > how does one go about setting up an SMTPReject wrt SA ? > are there docs for sendmail/exim/qmail etc ? > > i would love to 5xx say spam above certain threshold with a rude message ^_^ For Sendmail, take a look at spamass-milter. Unfortunately, you w

Re: [SAtalk] Image-ONLY e-mails not filtered?

2004-01-17 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry I don't know the product version as I didn't install this, but it's > one of the more recent releases. The headers will tell you: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-crf_2.60_20040105_00 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on scanner.e

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Collecting

2004-01-17 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 16, 2004 12:55 pm, Rich Puhek wrote: > I use a slightly different approach. > > I filter my emails into 4 different IMAP folders: slightly-spammy, > somewhat-spammy, pretty-spammy, and very spammy. The filtering is based > on increasing number of SA hits (actually the X-Spam-Level: heade

Re: [SAtalk] [OT and long] Port Blocking (was: Spamwriter).

2004-01-17 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 16, 2004 03:56 pm, Charles Gregory wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Pedro Sam wrote: > > Here's another analogy, I leave my legally owned and licensed firearm > > in plain view in the fore mentioned car. Robbers then proceed to > > steal my big ass gun and rob a bank ... well, you see whe

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX)

2004-01-17 Thread snowchyld
how does one go about setting up an SMTPReject wrt SA ? are there docs for sendmail/exim/qmail etc ? i would love to 5xx say spam above certain threshold with a rude message ^_^ thanks in advance - Original Message - From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

RE: [SAtalk] Acronym Update

2004-01-17 Thread Pete Henshall
Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool = LART = big stick to hit stupid users with UCE/UBE unsolicited Bulk/commercial email. Trying typing LART or UCE into google, not really to do with SA at all. Pete -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of jean-chri

Re: [SAtalk] Acronym Update

2004-01-17 Thread jean-christophe valiere
More Generally you can use : labs.google.com On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:13:21PM -0600, Carl Chipman wrote: > For the new people on the list, I was wondering what the following acronyms > mean: > > LART > UBE/UCE > > Are the acronoyms in the FAQ? > > Carl Chipman > Nomadics, Inc. > [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-17 Thread Chris Thielen
"Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets. http://www.exit0.us/index.php/RulesDeJour -- Chris Thielen Easily generate SpamAssassin rules to catch obfuscated spam phrases: http://www.sandgnat.com/cmos/ --- The SF.N