Re: [SAtalk] surprising low score for this spam mail

2004-01-30 Thread Bill Landry
Try Jennifer's chickenpox ruleset, it is geared to catch these. You can find it at: http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm Bill --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integrat

Re: [SAtalk] new chicnpox --lint failed

2004-01-26 Thread Bill Landry
+^~'\$*=\#|013467\(\)\[\]\{\}<>"][a-zA-Z]{2}(? at /usr/share/spamassassin/chickenpox.cf, rule J_CHICKENPOX_32, line 1. Check for line wrapping, as chickenpox.cf contains some very log lines that need to remain on a single line and not wrap. Bill -

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.63 is released!

2004-01-21 Thread Bill Randle
-1mdk.src.rpm -Bill Randle [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 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 Anaheim, CA. http

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam.

2004-01-21 Thread Bill
> The most appropriate response would be to demand Microsoft fix > their software. That is about as effective as trying to catch your breath in a vacuum. :) --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Too

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil location

2004-01-19 Thread Bill Randle
location is. Both files are identical. > I know bigevil list is being used because I can see them in the reports. > > Can you tell me which one is the correct location? The one in /etc/mail/spamassassin will be used; the other one is ignored. (I made the same mis

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.62 is released!

2004-01-18 Thread Bill Randle
rg/spamassassin-2.62-1mdk.src.rpm md5sum: 65d95956ead44c0f92e76700eb55c924 perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.62-1mdk.i586.rpm 2174632461453879253930e7190e3909 spamassassin-2.62-1mdk.i586.rpm 9e42f0f61608142167258060fb9ea44b spamassassin-tools-2.62-1mdk.i586.rpm dd58ed97ef5e35929ede17d9a08b6a79 spamassassin-2.62-1mdk.src.rpm

RE: [SAtalk] Spamwriter

2004-01-14 Thread Bill
> No Hosting Servers > No Email Servers > No FTP Servers > > Just consuming. My mail and web server generates about 10-20MB of traffic per month and is a far far more secure connection than my neighbor's connection which generates 100+MB of outbound traffic per day playing online multiplayer game

Re: [SAtalk] Exchange and autolearn

2004-01-13 Thread Bill Randle
"|/usr/bin/sa-learn --spam --norebuild" hamlearn: "|/usr/bin/sa-learn --ham --norebuild" Other tools can be used as the imap client to grab the mail of the exchange server, but this was recommended in something I read and so far has been working fine. -Bill

Re: [SAtalk] Mass-Check

2004-01-11 Thread Bill Landry
Wow, very nice Bob! Thanks for sharing this with the list. I'll give it a try this next week and see how it goes. Bill - Original Message - From: "Robert Menschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 3:31 PM Subject: [

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie: delete only spam from server

2004-01-11 Thread Bill Landry
Check-out amavisd-new, it can invoke SA and, based on the result score, apply any of several different options, including quarantining or discarding the message. Bill - Original Message - From: "Andrew Cranson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sund

[SAtalk] Abused REDIRECTOR URL

2004-01-09 Thread Bill Larson
vism&href=http://www.lacerate.com You also have MSN joining in as a late comer perhaps intending to take over the spam url masking world. http://g.msn.com/1SUenus/CT?http://www.2026.com/F/index.html Maybe they hope to embrace and extend this technique also. We would appreciate a response.

Re: [SAtalk] Email Not Caught

2004-01-07 Thread Bill Landry
ile lives (typically /etc/mail/spamassassin) then restart whatever app you use to call spamassassin. Bill --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced bra

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2004-01-05 Thread Bill
> Can Anybody tell me how to configure spamassassin on redhat > 8.0/ sendmail > > With Regards, > Sarvesh Singhal > > Abhikalak Consultants > (Systems and Security Division) > B-326, Sarita Vihar, > New Delhi - 110 044 > Ph: +91 11 2695 2234-35 > web:www.abhikalak.com Perhaps a good first step

[SAtalk] New unsecure redirector.

2004-01-02 Thread Bill Larson
Abused url http://g.msn.com/1SUenus/CT?http://www.Nicole.name-williams.com/E/4156.html my url http://g.msn.com/1SUenus/CT?http://www.compu.net Rule to catch. uri MY_URI_REDIRECT2/http:\/\/g.msn.com\/1SUenus\/CT\?*/i score MY_URI_REDIRECT2 4.0 describe M_URI_REDIRECT2 contains url o

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Chickenpox Update

2003-12-31 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Martin Radford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At Thu Jan 1 00:53:48 2004, jennifer wrote: > > > Bill Landry contacted me with some nice edits on Chickenpox. More > > punctuation included (in addition to "."), and the s

Re: [SAtalk] Bigevil 2.05m updated + question for devs

2003-12-29 Thread Bill Landry
Chris, check the "uri BigEvilList_14" line, you have a couple of dots "." in front of the escape character "\" instead of behind it. That's what's causing the "Illegal octal digit" warning when you --lint the new BigEvil.cf file. Bill - Orig

RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Bill
Subject: [SPAM 50.63] Would You Like to Save Tons on Health Care? lilly Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:07:06 + (GMT) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up

Re: [SAtalk] NJABL Dialup test

2003-12-23 Thread Bill Landry
27;s dynamic IP listings) dynamic IP DNSBL. Some people considered it too aggressive (too likely to generate false positives), so rather than import it into dnsbl.njabl.org, it was added as a separate sub-zone so that those who wanted to use it could, and those who d

RE: [SAtalk] ... SA 2.61 eats mails ...

2003-12-22 Thread Bill
> You say you believe you changed noting important, but apparently > _something_ important was changed. What can you remember > about settings you > changed since it last worked? One of the easily missed gotcha's is editing the file in windows notepad or another unix-unaware editor. This insert

Re: [SAtalk] SPF Support in SA?

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:49:37AM -0800, Bill Landry wrote: > > I was wondering if the SA developers are considering adding support > for > > "Sender Permitted From" (SPF) i

[SAtalk] SPF Support in SA?

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Landry
quite well. Although it will take wide support to make SPF a really viable spam test, by including native support for SPF in SA, this would certainly go a long way in helping to make SPF a more widely adopted standard. Thoughts? Bill --- This SF.ne

[SAtalk] send all Spam to myself

2003-12-19 Thread XLNC Studios (Bill Pogue)
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[SAtalk] Possible rule for IE_Redirect exploit

2003-12-19 Thread Bill Larson
Comments and suggestions on this rule are appreciated. full LOCAL_IEREDIR /[EMAIL PROTECTED](\/|htm|html|php|shtml)?/ score LOCAL_IEREDIR 150 describe LOCAL_IEREDIR Possible phishing/URL Masking attempt detected. Bill Larson Network Administrator Compu-Net Enterprises (931) 920-0043 or (877

[SAtalk] IE redirect rule

2003-12-18 Thread Bill Larson
http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/malicious.html returns http://www.trusted_site.com/ in the browser address line this can be done with any website. It can also be done with a https site as well. Any suggested rulesets for this one. Bill Larson

FW: [SAtalk] send all Spam to my email

2003-12-18 Thread XLNC Studios (Bill Pogue)
Great! How is this done. Where and how do I tell SA to not scan messages that have the string *SPAM* in the subject line. I am guessing that it goes in procmailrc, but what is the command / syntax that does this? Bill --On Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:38 PM -0800 "XLNC Studios (Bill

[SAtalk] send all spam to my email

2003-12-18 Thread XLNC Studios (Bill Pogue)
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Re: [SAtalk] DCC ? Vipul's Razor? skip_rbl_checks?

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
. Bill - Original Message - From: "Jeff Lasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:11 PM Subject: [SAtalk] DCC ? Vipul's Razor? skip_rbl_checks? > I'm using spamassassin version 2.55 with Exim version 4.24, as

[SAtalk] Score reduction test

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
out being held inadvertently as a possible FP, by applying these very basic e-mail tests to reduce the overall score. Thoughts and feedback appreciated... Bill --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expe

Re: Custom Rules (was Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...))

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
you want to make sure there are no problem, you can run: spamassassin --lint. Bill - Original Message - From: "Raquel Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 11:06 PM Subject: Custom Rules (was Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (fir

[SAtalk] chickenpox.cf

2003-12-13 Thread Bill Landry
nly punctuation make you saw being used, or because you had problems when adding other punctuation marks? Bill --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for

Re: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-11 Thread Bill Landry
set also. Bill - Original Message - From: "Larry Starr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish > > I have noticed that many SPAM emails, end with seversl lin

Re: [SAtalk] Using dccifd instead of dccproc

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Landry
It's pretty straight forward, just make sure that the config options point to the correct directory and file locations for your setup. If you have specific questions after you have done this, let me know. Bill - Original Message - From: "Smart,Dan" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SAtalk] Using dccifd instead of dccproc

2003-12-10 Thread Bill Landry
environment than dccproc, since it does not need to be instantiated for each message scanned. Bill - Original Message - From: "Smart,Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:57 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Using dccifd instead of

[SAtalk] Preparing a spam corpus?

2003-12-10 Thread Bill
server and would like to set up a spam corpus for the new server. I have several thousand spams saved in an outlook folder. Do I need to extract each of those spams from the report or can I submit the encapsulated report message? Will SA strip the added headers/encapsulation? TIA, Bill

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Can I auto report spam to Razor & DCC using spamassain?

2003-12-09 Thread Bill Landry
o get around to reading my mail and doing it? > > If so, how. I sure hope not, since auto-reporting invites lots of false reports. No matter how accurate you think your spam rules are, human interaction is still necessary to validate and confirm a message is actually spam before r

RE: [SAtalk] another SpamAssassin ???

2003-12-09 Thread Bill
> If you don't then you can expect exactly this type of > activity from Mcafee. > > Considering that Spamassassin is now the "preferred" spam > tool for ISPs, and getting some great press, they would be > stupid not to take this logical step soon. Exactly my point! I have had dealing with thei

RE: [SAtalk] Header problems

2003-12-09 Thread Bill
> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 > tests=BAYES_50,BIZ_TLD,CASHCASHCASH, > DNS_FROM_RFCI_DSN,HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE,HTML_FONT_BIG, > HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=2.60 The message was not spammy enough to trigger SA. Your bayes gave it a neutral value

RE: [SAtalk] another SpamAssassin ???

2003-12-09 Thread Bill
> > Yep, it was trademarked by Deersoft, and now owned by > McAfee following > > their acquisition of Deersoft. > > > Crap! I hope McAfee does not get the idea to start licensing > SA. That would suck! Now that the name SpamAssassin is getting to be known as the premier product on the market

RE: [SAtalk] Delete mail with a score above n

2003-12-08 Thread Bill
Title: Message Please search the archives or RTFM, this subjesct has been covered dozens of times. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike DSent: Monday, December 08, 2003 12:09 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SAtalk] Del

RE: [SAtalk] Delete mail with a score above n

2003-12-08 Thread Bill
IMHO, the best way to handle html mail is bit-bucket the message and send a note to the sender that html messages are not accepted by the server and include a link on how to kill html in their mailer. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM

RE: [SAtalk] filtering spam tagged email before hitting exchange 2000

2003-12-08 Thread Bill
Title: Message It would be easy to set up a procmail rule to move all tagged spam into a folder on the SA machine however this is a very dangerous thing to do as falsely tagged mail (FP) will never be delivered and the recipient has no way to recover the mail. It is much better to just tag t

Re: [SAtalk] amavisd-new & spamassassin = no headers. Ugh!

2003-12-07 Thread Bill Randle
t); if it's less than that, no headers will be added 5. in amavisd.conf, set $log_level = 2 for more logging. This should show both SPAM and SPAM-TAG in the mail log file. This will help verify spam is detected and tagged at the requested level. -Bill ---

Re: [WL] Re: [SAtalk] ATTN DEVELOPERS: Rule out-of-date??

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Landry
0_scores.cf:score FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML 1.101 1.101 1.100 1.000 /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGS 1.101 1.101 1.001 1.001 will be ignored if you set different scores for these tests in your local.cf file. Bill --- This

RE: [SAtalk] BIG HUGE EVIL RULE NEWS!!!!

2003-12-04 Thread Bill
> What if we were to setup some kind of automatic update script > that would wget the latest version of the file every evening? > That way we would all be up to date all the time. To that > end, we could even setup a little web-based app whereby a > coalition of we vigilantes could add spammy

[SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-12-03 Thread Bill
I just got this virus message that appears to have come from sourceforge. Did anyone else get this or did my antivirus FP on me? ---snip- The virus checker has found potentially malicious code in a mail by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery has been stopped. The recipient(s) for

RE: [SAtalk] Re[2]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?s=tc

2003-11-24 Thread Bill
> > I've read numerous antispam articles, and NONE have given SA justice. > I think the main reason for the poor reporting of SA is mainly due to the fact that every one of the reviews has been done by a company that has an agenda. That agenda being, collecting advertising funding from commercia

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.55 running sweet, upgrade to 2.60 and no workie =(

2003-11-24 Thread Bill Goudie
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 06:17:54AM -0800, James Nonya wrote: > I'm running Slackware 8.1 which comes with perl 5.6.1. I've been > running spamd just fine since 2.55 was released. I compile and > install SA 2.60 and all goes well. When I try to start spamd here's > what I get: > > Insecure direc

RE: [SAtalk] Really bad Infoworld article

2003-11-23 Thread Bill
> And now for the real world. > > only 50 or less users: > > Brightmail$ 2,998 for 2 years > FrontBridge $ 2,700 for 2 years > Postini $ 2,700 for 2 years > ProofPoint$ 2,000 for 2 years > SpamAssassin $ 3,100 for 2 years > That assumes that the small co

RE: [SAtalk] bug with AWL in 2.60?

2003-11-15 Thread Bill
Sounds like you forgot to restart spamd after your change. --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! ht

RE: [SAtalk] LIST ADMIN - SUGGESTION: pool.com

2003-11-15 Thread Bill
> I don't know whether this is possible at SourceForge, but if > it is, it might make sense to turn on these settings once in a while. Would it be possible for SF to release the entire subscription list to someone, say the list admin, who could then generate the "mailing run" locally? That might

RE: [SAtalk] SA 2.60, Exim 4.24: Large messages aren't passed to spamd correctly

2003-11-14 Thread Bill
yet to see a spam message anywhere close to that large so its a safe thing to do. Hope this helps. Bill --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP

RE: [SAtalk] problem with mail

2003-11-13 Thread Bill
> Hi folks. > > I have exim4, exiscan and spamassassin 2.60 > It works great, but not always. > > Normaly SA does not report any errors, warings etc. > I use debian version (testing). > > As I say it work ok, but when remote server send to me from > mail-daemon > (zmailer) (mail with HTML and a

RE: [SAtalk] Okay, this one makes me mad.. anybody see or stop this one yet? How did this get through!!!!! ?????

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Polhemus
I'll say. I have mine set at 4, which I have found (for my setup) is pretty near perfect, even though it is lower than the default setting of 5. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] Comments on CBL DNSBL (cbl.abuseat.org)

2003-11-12 Thread Bill Polhemus
I added this to my Sendmail configuration a couple of weeks back, and I have been amazed at how much SPAM has been rejected as a result. I prefer to have Sendmail reject it at the get-go, rather than have it come all the way through to SA. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Compan

RE: [SAtalk] What Dynamic IPs rbl list?

2003-11-11 Thread Bill
> I want to block those selling [EMAIL PROTECTED]@, asian porn, and such > un-wanted material, which represents about 50% of the traffic > (pure guess). There will be some spam that will then be > easaly downloaded by our customers and then filtered. Again, I feel deleting ANY mail addressed to

RE: [SAtalk] What Dynamic IPs rbl list?

2003-11-11 Thread Bill
> The intention is to disallow any adsl, dial-up or > dynamic/static address on such lines to send any mail to this > server. I will have a separated smtp server for my customers... ;) Bad, bad, bad idea!!! There are many many people running home networks in dynamic space who send their mail th

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn --rebuild --force-expire stuck using huge memory?

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Polhemus
This sounds like my earlier problem trying to sa-learn "large" mailboxes. Others here commented that it "must be a hardware problem," but my box is fairly new with very decent components (built from scratch by me but with "good" MB and memory, etc.) and nothing else I do, including using X, gives

Re: [SAtalk] Is punctuation really needed? (fwd)

2003-11-10 Thread Bill Larson
Simple solution 1.Spamassassins reads in the message 2. It then stores the original message in two variables 3. In the second variable remove all punctuation, spaces, special encoded characters, foreign language characters, html including html comments, and other methods used for obscufaction. 4.

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn doesn't work!

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Baker
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 11:49, Evan Platt wrote: > --On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:29 PM -0500 Bill Baker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I received 3 identical spams from the same e-mail address that did not > > get classified as spam. I tried to do a sa-

[SAtalk] sa-learn doesn't work!

2003-11-05 Thread Bill Baker
I received 3 identical spams from the same e-mail address that did not get classified as spam. I tried to do a sa-learn --spam on the message, and it said it learned from 1 message, but when I tried to filter the message again, the Bayesian filter says that the spam probability is 0 to 1%. I even

[SAtalk] white on white spam

2003-11-05 Thread Bill Anderson
I found a rule to check for white on white text to spot possible spam. However, I am finding that spammers are not including the body color as white since the email client background default color is white. Thanks. How could you write the following rule to give the email a score if , was missing

[SAtalk] Procmail rule to delete spam on a per user basis.

2003-11-04 Thread Bill Larson
lly out of your spam filtering. SA_OPTOUT_FILENAME="$HOME/.optout.spamassassin" :0 * ? test ! -f $SA_OPTOUT_FILENAME { :0fw * < 256000 | spamc } Bill Larson Network Administrator Compu-Net Enterprises ---

RE: [SAtalk] What on earth is this? FW: Undeliverable Mail: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Open source is Naughty!!!

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Polhemus
Definitely SPAM, and of a particularly nasty sort. Somehow someone is snagging emails off the archive or some other way, and fabricating these replies. Bad business. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mai

[SAtalk] SA-LEARN Actually Crashes System!

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Polhemus
I am running SA 2.60 installed from the RPMs on Red Hat 9, on an AMD 2100+ based system with a half-gig of RAM.   This has now happened for the second time. Before when it happened, about two weeks ago, I figured it was just a coincidence. Now, I’m positive that it’s SA-LEARN that is the

RE: [SAtalk] Exessive HTML Code

2003-10-29 Thread Bill
> > Do you really think it would be a problem if we found more > than 3 instances of in each email to mark it as spam? > Maybe I could just score it lower per instance, say .2 > > There were 58 instances of in this email and 63 > instances of . > A test that counted .1 per instance in a me

RE: [SAtalk] How can I mark all mails with specific words in the subject as spam?

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Polhemus
It isn't SA you want, it's procmail. The formail tool in the procmail package will do anything like this that you want. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerhard Hofm

RE: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Polhemus
am. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Radford Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:23 PM To: Bill Polhemus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn At Tue

RE: [SAtalk] sendmail and spamassassin

2003-10-29 Thread Bill Polhemus
I use Sendmail with SA, but I do use procmail. Do you not have access to the ability to install packages on your server?   Otherwise, you’re going to have to use the Spamass milter, which means you’ve STILL got installation to do.   Without the ability to install stuff on your server,

RE: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Polhemus
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Radford Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:23 PM To: Bill Polhemus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Auto-Learn "autolearn=no" indicates that this particular message was not learned fr

[SAtalk] Auto-Learn

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Polhemus
How can I know for sure if Auto-Learn is functioning correctly?   It does seem to be working for SOME messages but the headers in many of them say:   X-Spam-Status: … autolearn=no   William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA

RE: [SAtalk] Moving SPAM to a separate Mailbox

2003-10-27 Thread Bill Polhemus
Yes. In fact, I have a .procmailrc file that uses the ${HOME} variable among other "generics", and can be put in the HOME directory of any user. That way the user can also add their own recipes if they like. Oh, and I also have a /etc/procmail file that has some "site-wide" recipes (it adds stuff

RE: [SAtalk] help with sa-learn

2003-10-25 Thread Bill Polhemus
IIRC, it should be Sa-learn --spam --mbox kill William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joseph P. Wetstein Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 7:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] Mistake-based training

2003-10-24 Thread Bill
> i use postfix with sa and procmail to delivier the mails > local to the outlook 2000 clients. my problem now is: how can > i report a false negative from an outlook client to sa? in > the faq i've seen the the posibility to forward the message with > > > (double-click to open the mail in its

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Larson
#9 Donghuan Plaza, Dong Zhong Street address: East District, Beijing, China (100027) country: CN phone:+86-10-6418-5885 fax-no: +86-10-64182174 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nic-hdl: JM97-AP mnt-by: MAINT-CNNIC-AP changed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20020819 sour

RE: [SAtalk] Looking for some interview subjects

2003-10-22 Thread Bill Polhemus
Let me guess: You're hiring hit men to track down and eliminate, not just the Spam, but the Spammers themselves! Then, you're going to invest in genetic research that will find the "Spammer gene" and provide an inoculation for all the children in the world, to eradicate any possibility that they w

RE: [SAtalk] Scoring of 5.0 means spam. ist possible to drop mails with a scoring of i.e. 15?

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Polhemus
I do it using a procmail recipe, such as: =BEGIN PROCMAIL RECIPE== :0 * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes { # Mails with a score of 15 or higher are almost certainly spam (with 0.05% # false positives according to rules/STATISTICS.txt). Let's delete them # completely. :0: * ^X-Spam-Level

RE: [SAtalk] custom rules >> local.cf

2003-10-21 Thread Bill Polhemus
Yes. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Kinghorn Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 6:50 AM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: [SAtalk] custom rules >> local.

RE: [SAtalk] Easy way to join two Bayes databases?

2003-10-19 Thread Bill Polhemus
I cannot speak as an expert on this score, but my understanding is that a "combination" of such Bayesian databases would likely do more harm than good because the residual spam corpus that would get through the general SA filtering would be very specific to the recipient. That is, combining databa

Re: [SAtalk] New dnsbl to use?

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Landry
the obvious fact is that I have no idea how to do it. :) You don't say what version of SA you are running, but if it's 2.60, sorbs is already defined as a SA DNSBL test. See: /usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsbl_tests.cf Bill --

RE: [SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Polhemus
ick Morris Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 3:18 PM To: Bill Polhemus Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen" Bill Polhemus wrote: > I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me diagnose > this? I know next to NOTHING about Per

[SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Polhemus
I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me diagnose this? I know next to NOTHING about Perl.   The following is an error message I get when attempting to run SA from an email alias under Sendmail:        - Transcript of session follows - Insecure dependency in sy

RE: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Polhemus Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 6:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail

[SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
I have wanted to set up a “spam trap” for some time. First, I created an account, called “spamtest,” on my system. Then, I went to Usenet and posted a ton of “test” messages to every newsgroup I could think of (mostly the pr0n ones) where the address would be harvested, and  tried using the

RE: [SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
This one got through. Can we figure out how and why? Notice purposeful misspellings as obfuscations. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Begin Included Message- 16121g11n4m06a8a53594548b10126vx 291uqs7rz3xo63jl8w5ie14f3q3c3770The stoicism which she

RE: [SAtalk] Off Topic BUT packages vs source

2003-10-16 Thread Bill Polhemus
I always use the SRPMs when they are available. However, I have never attempted to build SRPMS myself. Is this difficult to do? William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dav

RE: [SAtalk] OOPS! Razor2 Problem Still There!

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
Well, a follow-up:   I figgered out that I probably had to “remake” and “remake install”, etc.   Which I then proceeded to do, and then *BOOM!* I get a “compile error” on Razor2.   Bear in mind that I had no problem installing it before. Further bear in mind that I even erased the who

[SAtalk] OOPS! Razor2 Problem Still There!

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
Okay, so I applied the patch as shown at:   http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi?req=show&file=faq02.006.htp   But I get the following message, STILL:   razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/s

RE: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN (SA 2.60) "Segmentation Fault"

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
] SA-LEARN (SA 2.60) "Segmentation Fault"   --> Maybe you can make the spam corpus available on a web page so other people can test if it segfaults on their machine too ?   JS -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Bill Po

[SAtalk] "Razor2 Check Skipped" - Anyone seen this?

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
Running SA 2.60, I am seeing the following in my procmail logs:   razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/Razor2/Client/Config.pm line 414, line 1.     Can any

[SAtalk] SA-LEARN (SA 2.60) "Segmentation Fault"

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
I noticed that if I try to feed SA-LEARN a mailbox full of SPAM, it now “craps out” claiming “segmentation fault.” Anyone have any ideas?   William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA     <>

RE: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's?

2003-10-15 Thread Bill Polhemus
I think this thing about RH "dropping" their boxed sets is really, really overblown. They will continue to make updates available, and they will release new distributions. You just won't be buying them in stores. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Orig

[SAtalk] What Does This Error Message Mean (Custom Rules)

2003-10-14 Thread Bill Polhemus
I implemented some of the rules others have posted on this list regarding “obfuscating text”. Now that I am running SA 2.60, I note that I’m getting the following error message.   Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping:     (Bareword "i" not allowed while "strict subs" i

[SAtalk] New rule for disguised html?

2003-10-14 Thread Bill Anderson
I am no rule coder, so I was wondering if anyone has a rule to catch spammers that hide their url in their email. Here is an example of what it getting through my spam filters: href="http://wewillneed.com/c/ 05;ron.html?farrow=elrlnm" It looks to me that a rule that find's http://, &, and number

RE: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Polhemus
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith C. Ivey Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through Bill Polhemus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They use the > spu

[SAtalk] Any Idea When RH RPMs are coming out?

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Polhemus
I really would prefer to implement something as complex as SA through the RPMs on my Red Hat 9 system. So far, they are only up to SA 2.55. That has worked fine up until recently, when the HTML obfuscation has begun cropping up. Perhaps 2.60 can fix that. Any idea when those will be available? Wi

[SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through

2003-10-13 Thread Bill Polhemus
Here's another one from a batch of several that have gotten through SA 2.55 over the last several days. They use the spurious HTML tags to break up the text and get it through the Bayesian filter. I'm running these through every time I get one--and luckily, there've only been about one or two per

RE: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Bill
> Kinda makes you wonder where the world is heading when more > email is junk than legitimate :/ > I see the email world heading towards secure email. A world where you cannot send an email until/unless your mailer software has a key installed that validates all mail leaving your site. If you re

Re: [SAtalk] Using only one RBL

2003-10-11 Thread Bill Shupp
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 07:30 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: At 05:03 PM 10/10/03 -0700, Bill Shupp wrote: How do I setup SpamAssassin to query only bl.spamcop.net, and set a very high score for that? I'm using spamd with vpopmail support. Go to /usr/share/spamassassin. look th

[SAtalk] Using only one RBL

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Shupp
Hello, How do I setup SpamAssassin to query only bl.spamcop.net, and set a very high score for that? I'm using spamd with vpopmail support. Thanks, Bill Shupp --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForg

[SAtalk] Another example of obfuscating text

2003-10-10 Thread Bill Polhemus
-- Message Text - Here's one that I got today, that slipped through (the first in over a week). Not sure why SA 2.55 didn't get it: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:23:22 -0400 From: Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: )US D-oct

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