Re: [SAtalk] Selectivly disabling DYNABLOCK

2004-01-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Peter McGarvey wrote: > Greetings all, > > I have a mailserver which handles all my incomming and outgoing mail. > > Outgoing mail (stuff I send) is passed to the server via ASMTP. > Incomming mail (stuff sent to me) comes in via SMTP. There is > absolutely no way my server w

[SAtalk] spamsources.sh - see who's spamming your Postfix server

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, Use Postfix? Use spamd? Have a small mail log? Ever wonder which hosts are sending the most spam into your system? Wonder no longer - spamsources.sh is here to answer all your questions about who is spamming you. Maybe. http://www.cynistar.net/~apthorpe/code/sa-contrib/spamsources.sh This 's

RE: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Lambert > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:54 AM > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'? > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:37:09A

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:12:06 -0600 Wagner One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/22/2004 1:15 PM, Bob Apthorpe wrote: > > > Note: I think this my hacked-up version of sa-stats.pl at > > http://www.cynistar.net/~apthorpe/code/sa-contrib/sa-stats.pl > > > > I'm not sure where the canonical ver

Re: [SAtalk] All-upper-case Message-ID

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Brent, Thursday, January 22, 2004, 8:33:25 AM, you wrote: BJN> Comments on this one? Some spam has been slipping through (FN) with this BJN> in the header. The only ham I have that hit this rule (FP) are a few from BJN> back in 2001, of the form BJN> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BJN> header BCS_U

[SAtalk] Selectivly disabling DYNABLOCK

2004-01-22 Thread Peter McGarvey
Greetings all, I have a mailserver which handles all my incomming and outgoing mail. Outgoing mail (stuff I send) is passed to the server via ASMTP. Incomming mail (stuff sent to me) comes in via SMTP. There is absolutely no way my server will relay mail unless it arrives via ASMTP. However, wh

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:25:02 +0100 (MET) Matthias Fuhrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > > > Matthias... > > > > Argh, that looked abysmally easy. I guess I could have taken a crack at > > that after all. > > may i take this as a sign of success (my e

FW: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:13 PM > To: Larry Gilson > Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'? > > Hello Larry, > > Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 11:37:09 PM, y

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin doesn't appear to be running...?

2004-01-22 Thread Webmaster
> -Original Message- > From: marc jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 10:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin doesn't appear to be running...? > > > your mta should call spamc which would then interact with the spamassassin > da

[SAtalk] Now that the sa-stats.pl script works...

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Thanks to our discussion today (many thanks again to all of you for your help)... I've finally gotten sa-stats.pl to run and... shocker. ratio of spam/ham: 52% spam 48% ham On this server I use Postfix's blacklist check abilities, so naturally this doesn't even count the stuff that never made

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] spammers write rules for us

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Regis, Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7:25:30 AM, you wrote: RW> Got a spam that's so easy, the spammers write the rules for us: RW> Message-ID: RW> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RW> So, RW> header MESSAGEID_RATWAREALL =~ RW> /\nMessage-ID:.<[^-]{7,13}-[^-]{3,11}-[^-]{2,6}/i RW>

Re[3]: [SAtalk] Recieved From database

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Sylvain, Thursday, January 22, 2004, 7:39:22 AM, you wrote: RM>> Results against my corpus: RM>> SYL_BAD_XOIP -- 73662s/14971h of 91714 corpus (74113s/17601h) 01/21/04 SR> Yes, that's pretty consistent with what I realized it was doing ... :-( SR> I can't even begin to thank you enough f

Re: [SAtalk] Auto White-Lists

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:49 PM 1/22/04 -0600, Chris wrote: I'm new to using spamassassin and have a question about auto white-listing. I have a file, auto-whitelist.db in my /var/spool/spamassassin directory however its empty. The file was created 6 days ago when I installed spamassassin. Should something be in thi

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jack L. Stone wrote: At 05:17 PM 1.22.2004 +0100, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:53:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: Theo and/or anyone -- please help if you know the answer. I would like to keep using this function now disabled. BTW: here are a few of the errors that appeare

Re: [SAtalk] Recent List Archive

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Thielen
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 17:13, Carl Chipman wrote: > Ok, I delete the messages from earlier in the month that had the "string of > 10 or more random character groupings" I went to go check the archive > (provided by clicking on the link at the bottom of an e-mail) but it seems > the archive only sho

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:26 PM 1/22/2004, Chris Thielen wrote: > Where would I add, say big_evil.cf? Are there any other recommended files I > download and install? Maybe this helps: http://lists.altn.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee9117d/1 Don't I want to avoid adding to the local.cf? That's overwritten during an upgrade,

[SAtalk] Auto White-Lists

2004-01-22 Thread Chris
I'm new to using spamassassin and have a question about auto white-listing. I have a file, auto-whitelist.db in my /var/spool/spamassassin directory however its empty. The file was created 6 days ago when I installed spamassassin. Should something be in this file? There are also two other f

Re: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Lambert
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:37:09AM -0500, Larry Gilson wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Along the same lines, I had the following: > > describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 MY: Invisible text size > rawbody MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 /font\s+.*\bsize=.-\d\D/i > scoreMY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 0.5 I have something similar. The

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Erik Slooff
written by Randal, Phil > Some mistake here: > > > CF_URLS[4]="http://www.emtinc.net/includes/weeds.cf";; > CF_FILES[4]="weeds.cf"; > CF_NAMES[4]="Jennifer's Weeds Set (1)"; > PARSE_NEW_VER_SCRIPTS[4]="${PERL} -ne 'print if > /^\s*#.*(vers?|version|rev|revisi

Re: [SAtalk] Surprise mail from myself

2004-01-22 Thread Brad Hazledine
That will teach me to RTFM. Thanks. Brad On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: > Why not change your domain whitelist to a whitelist_from_rcvd command, > instead of whitelist_from. > > You'll avoid the forgery problem outright. --- The

Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Larry, Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 11:37:09 PM, you wrote: LG> Along the same lines, I had the following: LG> describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 MY: Invisible text size LG> rawbody MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 /font\s+.*\bsize=.-\d\D/i LG> scoreMY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 0.5 LG> describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2

[SAtalk] Recent List Archive

2004-01-22 Thread Carl Chipman
Ok, I delete the messages from earlier in the month that had the "string of 10 or more random character groupings" I went to go check the archive (provided by clicking on the link at the bottom of an e-mail) but it seems the archive only shows till Dec 2003. Any way to see January? Carl Chipm

[SAtalk] [RD] Pox Request - language assistance

2004-01-22 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
I have a strange request. I was wondering if some of you who speak a language other than English, or if you know someone who does, could write me (offlist) an email full of contractions in that language. Also please tell me what the language is. :) It would be very helpful. Say whatever you li

RE: [SAtalk] Activeperl taxing the cpu

2004-01-22 Thread Bret Miller
> I have sa 2.55 running fine with activeperl on a 3.06 ghz > 512megs ram system. My only issue is that occasionally the > multiple perl sessions will bring the processor to a crawl > which is in turn causing problems for other programs running > on the server. > > Is there a way of getting better

[SAtalk] Activeperl taxing the cpu

2004-01-22 Thread Kevin Roberts
I have sa 2.55 running fine with activeperl on a 3.06 ghz 512megs ram system. My only issue is that occasionally the multiple perl sessions will bring the processor to a crawl which is in turn causing problems for other programs running on the server. Is there a way of getting better memory manag

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:36 PM 1.22.2004 -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:05:49PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> >From what I have read, we don't meed to move up on perl (perl5.8x) until >> SA-2.70 is released. > >2.70 (which is actually going to be 3.0.0) only requires 5.6.1, not 5.8.x. FYI

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > Matthias... > > Argh, that looked abysmally easy. I guess I could have taken a crack at > that after all. may i take this as a sign of success (my english isnt that good in all terms ...) ? :) > You might want to try Bob's 1.5 script though... doesnt wor

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Thielen
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 21:50, Evan Platt wrote: > Ok, I'm running SA under Alt-N Mdaemon. AFAICT, it's a standard install, > albeit Windows. It's got a Spamassassin.dll file - Is there anywhere to > update this? I did a yahoo /google but turned up blank. I don't know if you can update the SA engine

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Smart,Dan
Thanks. Will try in the AM. <> | -Original Message- | From: Chris Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 5:18 PM | To: Smart,Dan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b | | On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:57, Smart,Dan wrote: | > That

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Thielen
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 22:57, Smart,Dan wrote: > That works great! Thanks. > > I added the following command for SA_RESTART "/usr/sbin/postfix stop && > sleep 15 && /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart && /usr/sbin/postfix start" > but it doesn't seem to work, even though it works for command line.

[SAtalk] Recent List Archive

2004-01-22 Thread Carl Chipman
Ok, I delete the messages from earlier in the month that had the "string of 10 or more random character groupings" I went to go check the archive (provided by clicking on the link at the bottom of an e-mail) but it seems the archive only shows till Dec 2003. Any way to see the archives from Janu

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Bob Apthorpe wrote: Hi, [...] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for filter:500. > > Jan 22 09:05:10 sara-too spamd[14936]: identified spam (8.2/5.0) for > > filter:500 in 1.9 seconds, 1756 bytes. > > I fixed the regex[1] in 1.3 and made some other changes; try > > http://www.cynistar.n

RE: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Nathan Johanson
Phew... That 5.8x requirement scared me a little. Glad to see this correction. -Nathan -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots On Thu, Jan

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Smart,Dan
That works great! Thanks. I added the following command for SA_RESTART "/usr/sbin/postfix stop && sleep 15 && /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart && /usr/sbin/postfix start" but it doesn't seem to work, even though it works for command line. I also need to make sure postfix starts if the SA_REST

[SAtalk] Detect IE urlspoof.

2004-01-22 Thread Lucas Albers
Rule to detect IE exploit. http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100927.htm Your virus scanners detect this exploit. (mcafeee/clamscan...) Your mileage may vary. Will match these exploits: Replace ttp with http (so it will slip by my scanner and mcafee.) ttp://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html ttp://[

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Matthias... Argh, that looked abysmally easy. I guess I could have taken a crack at that after all. You might want to try Bob's 1.5 script though... --JM > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Matthias Fuhrmann > Sent: Thursday, Jan

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 04:05:49PM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >From what I have read, we don't meed to move up on perl (perl5.8x) until > SA-2.70 is released. 2.70 (which is actually going to be 3.0.0) only requires 5.6.1, not 5.8.x. FYI. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "And the next time you

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
That did the trck for me, Bob. Thanks much! --JM > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob Apthorpe > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 2:55 PM > To: SATalk list > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] stats > > > I fixed the regex[1] in 1.3 and ma

[SAtalk] auto-whitelisting recipients

2004-01-22 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hello everyone, My boss recently suggessted we try to whitelist all outgoing recipients of emails. This should reduce the number of false positives we're seeing - after all, if I send out an email, I almost certainly would like to read the response. Does anyone have a script/prog

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:44 AM 1.22.2004 -0800, Douglas Kirkland wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Thursday 22 January 2004 07:53, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> Perhaps this question needs to be directed to Theo Van Dinter who most >> likely knows the answer I need. My server is going down freque

[SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Evan Platt
Ok, I'm running SA under Alt-N Mdaemon. AFAICT, it's a standard install, albeit Windows. It's got a Spamassassin.dll file - Is there anywhere to update this? I did a yahoo /google but turned up blank. I'd like to add some of the rules that appear here from time to time, bigevil.cf, etc. Looking

[SAtalk] SOLVED! user_prefs on a gateway machine

2004-01-22 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I got it solved! Thanks again, Rick & everyone :-D Here's a sorta-sloppy writeup on what ended up working: http://www.pbp.net/~jnichols/filtering.html So far, everything is working great. The only things I cannot change the spam scores for are alias addresses, but that's ok. (ie when [EMAIL PR

RE: [SAtalk] Making SA on Windows with Perl 5.8.2

2004-01-22 Thread Bret Miller
> While I haven't done what you are looking for, I'd be > most interested in any info you get off-list. I am getting > ready to embark on this same process for a customer and would > love to have the dirty insight before I begin. OK... While you might stumble across this on Bugzilla if you

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Wagner One
On 1/22/2004 1:15 PM, Bob Apthorpe wrote: > Note: I think this my hacked-up version of sa-stats.pl at > http://www.cynistar.net/~apthorpe/code/sa-contrib/sa-stats.pl > > I'm not sure where the canonical version of sa-stats.pl lives since the > migration from Sourceforge/CVS to Apache/SVN. I worke

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: hi, [...] > Jan 22 09:05:08 sara-too spamd[14936]: info: setuid to filter succeeded > Jan 22 09:05:08 sara-too spamd[14936]: processing message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for filter:500. here we have a diff in out log files: > Jan 22 09:05:10 sara-too spamd[1493

[SAtalk] SA 2.63, Backhair, Chickenpox and UUencoded .pdf file

2004-01-22 Thread Mike Bostock
Received false negative due to its attachment. Header of attachment was "begin 666 docname-12345.pdf" The contents of the email which was from an insurance company together with this attachment produced the following output. 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name 0.6 J

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I still get the same > results. I'm with you, I'm sure the regexp is wrong, but I don't know > perl so I'm not helping I'm sure. The bug is a known issue and IIRC it's been resolved in sa-stats.pl beyon

Re: [SAtalk] SA under MIMEDefang, how to I get autolearn flags added?

2004-01-22 Thread Mike Batchelor
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:17 PM -0800 Ian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try the following bit of code in your filter_end before you write the headers. if (!defined($SASpamTester->{auto_learn_status})) { $learn = "no"; } elsif ($SA

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Hi Matthias... I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I still get the same results. I'm with you, I'm sure the regexp is wrong, but I don't know perl so I'm not helping I'm sure. I made sure that all of the code was on one line in vim too, but still the same results. Shall I post my l

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Brad Hazledine
I had the same problem and found out why. The log has to be the current year only. The code inserts the current year and my log went back to July. After I moved everything out prior to Jan 1st it worked fine. Brad On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > Hi Bob... Tried this and still got the s

Re: [SAtalk] mail aliases and SA-learn

2004-01-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:56 AM -0600 Kenneth Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The server has been configured in such a way that mail users shell to > /dev/null Just curious why you do that instead of using /bin/false or /sbin/nologin?

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Hi Bob... Tried this and still got the same results: sara-too root # ./sa-stats.pl -l /var/log/mail/maillog -s midnight Report Title : SpamAssassin - Spam Statistics Report Date : 2004-01-22 Period Beginning : Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 2004 Period Ending: Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 2004 Reporting

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Alan Munday
> hmm, sorry mate. > i should have said this earlier, so i do it now. i was able > to fix it for > sendmail/milterassassin/spamd . at laest the spam/ham count > works ( top > spam receiver dont). > it works here using 'spamstats0.4b5.pl-fixed /var/log/syslog' > w/o any further options, grabbing

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Bob Apthorpe wrote: [...] based on sa-stats.pl 1.3 i did a quick fix (yes again...) all u have to do is this: cut all line between # Agh... this is ugly. [...] <<< delete all these lines here #Split line into components and replace it with this one:

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin doesn't appear to be running...?

2004-01-22 Thread marc jackson
Hello, So, you're using qmail .. Did you "patch" qmail-queue? All the documentation I've seen calls for qmail-queue to be patched. You then set a "QMAILQUEUE" var to be either qmail-spamc or qmail-scanner.pl. The method in qmail-scanner.pl has the substitution in /etc/tcp.smtp or whatev

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > Hi Bob... > > Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded the latest sa-stats.pl from > www.sf.net CVS (v1.3) and tried as you suggested, but I'm still getting > all zeros. > > Details... > > My mail logs are at /var/log/mail/maillog. Try this: sa-stats

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Thoene
On Thursday, January 22, 2004 @ 5:55:05 AM [-0700], Matthias Fuhrmann wrote: > i've fixed couple things of spamstats0.4b5.pl a while ago. > see attached version. just have a try. Oh my gosh...this thread motivated me to run a quick check today. I run a smaller server with only 10 or so domains bu

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Alan Munday wrote: > Matthias > > I tried your spamstats, which appears to work fine. > > The only exception is that it does not show the counts for HAM/SPAM. > hmm, sorry mate. i should have said this earlier, so i do it now. i was able to fix it for sendmail/milterassassin/s

[SAtalk] DB_File slowness on Perl 5.8/Windows

2004-01-22 Thread Barry Jaspan
I recently started testing SA 2.62 with ActiveState Perl 5.8.2-808 on Windows XP. When training Bayes on an mbox file with 323 messages in it, I found it took about 135 seconds longer than the same test with Perl 5.6 on Windows. Looking further, I discovered that BayesStore::tok_get() calls D

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 January 2004 07:53, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Perhaps this question needs to be directed to Theo Van Dinter who most > likely knows the answer I need. My server is going down frequently and has > been traced to SA. > > Yesterday I posted a

[SAtalk] mail aliases and SA-learn

2004-01-22 Thread Kenneth Andresen
Hello, I am about to train Spamassassin with large quantities of my good and bad emails. I understand I need to do this for each user, but am wondering whether this works: 1) The server has been configured in such a way that mail users shell to /dev/null 2) We are mostly using the sendmails "/mai

RE: [SAtalk] RFC822ness of a message

2004-01-22 Thread Steven Manross
I'm going to look at this more on my end.. It looks like I need to streamline the SA perl script that processes the message. I may be creating my own problem. I.E. I forgot that I manip the txt file before giving it to SA. :( Thanks for the help (to see the answer to my own problem). Steven

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:17 PM 1.22.2004 +0100, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: >On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:53:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: >> Theo and/or anyone -- please help if you know the answer. I would like to >> keep using this function now disabled. >> >> BTW: here are a few of the errors that appeared every f

Re: [SAtalk] DCC, pyzor, razor

2004-01-22 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, David Roback wrote: > We are currently using SA without DCC, pyzor or razor and have a > detection rate of about 75-90% (but getting slightly better as we feed > bayes). > > What improvement could we expect by implementing one (or all) of the above? With DCC & razor you would

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Ray Dzek
When I run sa-stats I get a bunch of lines of this: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x78, immediately after start byte 0xf3) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 6488. And then all zero's for the report. - Original Message - From: "Scott Har

RE: [SAtalk] trouble sending mail to this list

2004-01-22 Thread Steven Manross
A message I sent yesterday around noon took 5.5 hours to show up. Just guessing it got deferred for whatever reason. Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:40 AM To: Spyros Tsiolis Cc: Spama

Re: [SAtalk] trouble sending mail to this list

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
Define "refuses to send it to the list"? Does it bounce, or has it just not shown up yet? The sourceforge.net lists are on occasion incredibly slow.. 4-hour posting delays are NOT unheard of, although uncommon. Just because it takes a while, don't assume it's not in the queue.. sf.net processe

RE: [SAtalk] Multi-line matching workarounds?

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: sckot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Multi-line matching workarounds? > > > Some archive searching has revealed that multi-line > matching isn't > available yet. Is the

Re: [SAtalk] Help: Still getting through the 2.62

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:05 AM 1/22/2004, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: I have attached a few mails that are still getting through. These are scoring extremely low. The number of mails like these that slip through is on the increase. Any ideas as to how I can block them? I am using SA2.62, Exim 4.30 (with the exiscan 4.

[SAtalk] DCC, pyzor, razor

2004-01-22 Thread David Roback
Hi, We are currently using SA without DCC, pyzor or razor and have a detection rate of about 75-90% (but getting slightly better as we feed bayes). What improvement could we expect by implementing one (or all) of the above? What kind of processing delays are there for each? If we were to implem

[SAtalk] All-upper-case Message-ID

2004-01-22 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
Comments on this one? Some spam has been slipping through (FN) with this in the header. The only ham I have that hit this rule (FP) are a few from back in 2001, of the form <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> header BCS_UPPER_MESSID Message-Id =~ /^<[A-Z]{12,}@/ describe BCS_UPPER_MESSID Message-I

Re: [SAtalk] Set up

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:21 PM 1/21/04 -0600, George Matos wrote: I just got my domain name and am trying to setup spam assassin. I have never used it before so I was looking for some setup instructions etc. what kind of MTA (mailserver software) are you running? What OS/distro are you running it on? -

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:53:23AM -0600, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Theo and/or anyone -- please help if you know the answer. I would like to > keep using this function now disabled. > > BTW: here are a few of the errors that appeared every few mins: > Jan 22 04:59:54 sage-american /kernel: pid 810 (

RE: [SAtalk] Surprise mail from myself

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Brad Hazledine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 4:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Surprise mail from myself > > > > Has anyone written a rule that catches mail supposedly sent > by yourself to > yourself? > >

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Adam Beatham
I'm having the same issue. I have the same setup as Scott, as well (sendmail -> md -> spamassassin) all logging to /var/log/maillog, and sa-stats always reports well, nothing :) -adam on 1/22/2004 10:04 AM Vermyndax said the following: Hi Bob... Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded the

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Thielen
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 14:49, Smart,Dan wrote: > Chris: > Great job on the scripts. I have modified the munging on Tripwire (set name > to TW) and BigEvil (comment out WXYZ). How do I add these custom munges to > my_rules_du_jour? Dan, I'm going to suggest that you ignore the warning in my_rules

[SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
Perhaps this question needs to be directed to Theo Van Dinter who most likely knows the answer I need. My server is going down frequently and has been traced to SA. Yesterday I posted a question about a perl5 function breaking and apparently doing so on just about every message processed by SA. It

[SAtalk] [RD] Antidrug 0.4 posted

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
I would have posted this sooner, but the editor I use on my home machine got mangled and won't run. (yay, time for a physical disk test). Changes: -Added an optional X to the end of the v-drug test, to catch another spelling. -Fixed a typo in the mis-spelled c-drug test. -added a few c

[SAtalk] Re: SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 22 January 2004 14:35, Brent J. Nordquist wrote: > > Sometimes it's terminated with tag end:"font-size: 0pt>" > [e.g. the whole style= tag attribute isn't quoted.] > > Sometimes the space is left out: "font-size:0pt" > Sometimes it's a 1-point font, equally bogus:

[SAtalk] [RD] spammers write rules for us

2004-01-22 Thread Regis Wilson
Got a spam that's so easy, the spammers write the rules for us: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So, header MESSAGEID_RATWAREALL =~ /\nMessage-ID:.<[^-]{7,13}-[^-]{3,11}-[^-]{2,6}/i describe MESSAGEID_RATWARE Message-ID has ratware pattern score MESSAGEID_RATWARE 0.5 I've s

[SAtalk] Re: How to stop this kind of stuff?

2004-01-22 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 21 January 2004 22:52, Kurt Buff wrote: > This one got through, yet it's obvious. > > I'm including two different versions of the message, both saved from our > Exchange 5.5 server. Bare 2.60 reports: X-Spam-Report: * 0.1 SAVE_UP_TO BODY: Save Up To * 1.5 MORTGAGE_PI

RE: [SAtalk] doing a kind of "! whitelist_from_rcvd" possible ?

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:52 PM 1/21/2004, Mitch \(WebCob\) wrote: I've been told this can filter legitimate mail. Agreed Mitch.. if you read the rest of my message, I had a long warning about that. courier added a freemail concept, BUT, the yahoo servers send directly from the webmail appliances, which are not mx

Re: [SAtalk] Phoneme and Grammar anti-noise scanning ?

2004-01-22 Thread Kurt Yoder
John August said: > This just an idea, in the tradition of 'I've got a good idea and > hope > someone else will carry it through'. I don't expect it, but thought > I'd > throw it in :) > > I've noticed a lot of spam which tries to dilute scanners by > including a lot > of strings of random charact

RE: [SAtalk] trouble sending mail to this list

2004-01-22 Thread David Groce
What were you trying to send? This list is filtered for spam, so if you were trying to post a sample of a spam message it might be getting filtered. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Spyros Tsiolis Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 1:42 AM To: [

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Recieved From database

2004-01-22 Thread Sylvain Robitaille
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Robert Menschel wrote: > Results against my corpus: > SYL_BAD_XOIP -- 73662s/14971h of 91714 corpus (74113s/17601h) 01/21/04 Yes, that's pretty consistent with what I realized it was doing ... :-( I can't even begin to thank you enough for having taken the time to test that

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Hi Bob... Thanks for the suggestions. I downloaded the latest sa-stats.pl from www.sf.net CVS (v1.3) and tried as you suggested, but I'm still getting all zeros. Details... My mail logs are at /var/log/mail/maillog. Here's a sample of a log line concerning spamd: Jan 22 09:00:49 sara-too spam

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Smart,Dan
Chris: Great job on the scripts. I have modified the munging on Tripwire (set name to TW) and BigEvil (comment out WXYZ). How do I add these custom munges to my_rules_du_jour? tia <> | -Original Message- | From: Chris Thielen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, January 22,

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-22 Thread Rose, Bobby
No because weeds.cf and weeds2.cf are basically the same except weeds2 is more aggressive. You don't want both and this most likely ensure that the SA config dir doesn't have both. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: Thursd

RE: [SAtalk] v+word problem

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Santerre
Very interesting. Notice the attempt to get confuse the url. Not sure if that is attempted at my old bigevil mining scripts. I'll add plus66.com into bigevil for next update. MrWiggly rule is only for that one type V-drug spam. It has had NO false positives to date. So I'm jacking my score up to

Re: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like a good idea. I built and tested the following: > > rawbody RM_rbh_0ptFont /font-size: 0pt;/i > describe RM_rbh_0ptFont HTML includes zero-point font size; invisible text > scoreRM_rbh_0ptFont 1.00 Suggested i

[SAtalk] Re: ALERT - GroupShield ticket number OA4_1074781220_ZETXCH01_3 was generated

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, GroupShield for Exchange (ZETXCH01) wrote: > Action Taken: > The attachment was quarantined from the message and replaced with a text > file informing the recipient of the action taken. > > To: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: > Matthias Fuhrmann <[EMAIL PRO

RE: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Scott Harris
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Vermyndax > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 4:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] stats > > Greetings all... > > I am trying to implement a way to generate statistics for > Spam

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Vermyndax wrote: > Greetings all... > > I am trying to implement a way to generate statistics for Spamassassin. > I've tried numerous perl scripts but most of them return all zeros for > the stats. The biggest example I can think of is the sa-stats.pl > script. No matter wha

Re: [SAtalk] v+word problem

2004-01-22 Thread John Fleming
BTW, I AM using BigEvil and Anti_Drug... - Original Message - From: "WA9ALS - John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:19 AM Subject: [SAtalk] v+word problem > I received a dreaded v word spam that got past MRWIGGLY with a tiny spam > score (0

Re: [SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 06:57:02 -0600 "Vermyndax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all... > > I am trying to implement a way to generate statistics for Spamassassin. > I've tried numerous perl scripts but most of them return all zeros for > the stats. The biggest example I can think of i

Re: [SAtalk] Making SA on Windows with Perl 5.8.2

2004-01-22 Thread Eric W. Bates
Sorry, thot we were using 5.8.2. However, after checking more closely: perl 5.8.1 SA 2.62 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Works well. Bret Miller wrote: Has anyone successfully made SA on Windows with Perl 5.8.2? I finally gave up on it and went back to Perl 5.6.1. Any suggestions? Bret ---

[SAtalk] stats

2004-01-22 Thread Vermyndax
Greetings all... I am trying to implement a way to generate statistics for Spamassassin. I've tried numerous perl scripts but most of them return all zeros for the stats. The biggest example I can think of is the sa-stats.pl script. No matter what I do, the script returns all zeros. Is it becau

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Obfusticated URI?

2004-01-22 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Larry Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have devised the following rule, intended to identify URI's that > contain no dot(s). > > uri FCS_URI_NODOTS /^[^\.]*$/ > describeFCS_URI_NODOTS URI found with no Dots (.) > score FCS_URI_NODOTS 3

Re[4]: [SAtalk] what can we do with those spam mails

2004-01-22 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MR> header L_MIME_BOUND_MANY_DIG Content-Type =~ /boundary=\"\d{15,}\"/ > > MR> changed from \d{19,} to \d{15,} > > I've changed the copy in my files to 13. Frequencies: The ratware has morphed. I'm now seeing messages tha

[SAtalk] v+word problem

2004-01-22 Thread WA9ALS - John
I received a dreaded v word spam that got past MRWIGGLY with a tiny spam score (0.1), even with my ultaconservative threashhold of 2.4, using Bayes and networks etc. Trying to put the message here for analysis bounces back to me. Where can I put it so that someone could look at it and tell me wha

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