Re: [SAtalk] bayes permission errors (still)

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Since you're using bayes do you get the same errors when you try to use sa-learn? If this was me I'd simply run sa-learn in the perl debugger and debug how the bayesstore is being written. I don't think your problem is spamd specific. On Dec 19, 2003, at 3:06 AM, Lukreme wrote: I make sure th

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 issues with perl 5.8.0?

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm not seeing any problems with 5.8.0 and I'm making heavy use of SpamAssassin in my perl filter scripts. On Dec 22, 2003, at 10:22 AM, J. S. Greenfield wrote: I've seen a few comment here that SA has issues with perl 5.8. Anybody have a thumbnail sketch of what the issues are? Looks like R

Re: [SAtalk] [RD]X-MT-nn: header (variable headers in general)

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
I cannot think of any legimate emails that would contain X-MT in their header so why not just right the rule to check for that instead of worrying about which digits are present. Then you only have to worry about what happens when they change the two characters after the X- :-) On Dec 22, 2003,

Re: [SAtalk] Re: We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
All of this sounds like where you then have you put your faith in Bayes. Surely there are terms in these emails that are sent that Spammers aren't using in theirs. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert i

Re: [SAtalk] We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Part of my spam filter checking consists of a known domains list. ie. I never thru any mail that is from a user from that domain into SpamAssassin. Likewise my whitelist. This could eventually be abused by spammers quite easily but so far I haven't found it to be a problem. I can always resort

Re: [SAtalk] Image-only spam

2003-12-21 Thread Robert Nicholson
Are you making use of any of the distributed clearing houses such as DCC etc? On Dec 21, 2003, at 4:05 PM, Barry Callahan wrote: I installed Spamassassin from a RedHat RPM as a test a day or two ago, and it's properly flagging about 1/3 of the incoming SPAM as such. I have not played around w

Re: [SAtalk] get_pristine_body?

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
me as ham? On Dec 19, 2003, at 11:04 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:12:25AM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote: So how do you forget a message then? why do you want to forget a message? #forget old spam $spamtest->learn($learnmail, undef, 0, 1); #lear

Re: [SAtalk] get_pristine_body?

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
e nham, hspam counts haven't changed. On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:47 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote: Yes I've seen the comments. Mail::Audit supports Maildir and implements forward. Two things I need for my solution. Again though it's puzzling to me why sometimes I can learn and other times I

Re: [SAtalk] get_pristine_body?

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
the Mail::Audit. On Dec 19, 2003, at 7:53 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:06:17AM -0600, Robert Nicholson wrote: Other than this I've been able to use Mail::Audit with Spamassassin but is there another way to go about this then? We've pretty much already dropped

[SAtalk] check vs learn (Design issues with SA)

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm guessing a little here but it looks to me as though if I have create a brand new Mail::Audit and I wish to call learn. The way things are setup at the moment is that it assumes I've previously called check or something because otherwise the mail object won't be a NoMailAudit which I think Ba

[SAtalk] get_pristine_body?

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm using Mail::Audit as my mail object but i think I have a problem with Bayes expecting there to be a get_pristine_body method on a Mail::Audit There isn't one. Other than this I've been able to use Mail::Audit with Spamassassin but is there another way to go about this then? -

Re: [SAtalk] Mail::SpamAssassin::learn

2003-12-19 Thread Robert Nicholson
the mail as ham but forget what we already recorded On Dec 13, 2003, at 6:26 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: At 06:53 PM 12/13/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote: $status = $f->learn ($mail, $id, $isspam, $forget) suggests that both $isspam and $forget are significant however it will only ever do one

Re: [SAtalk] Maintaining Bayes from an MUA

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
MUA easily allowed me to include the original mail as a MIME attachment but I have to save each message to disk in order to do that. Way too tedious. On Dec 18, 2003, at 4:47 PM, David Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 16:27, Robert Nicholson wrote: So I was thinking about how one could maintain Baye

[SAtalk] Maintaining Bayes from an MUA

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
So I was thinking about how one could maintain Bayes from an MUA for certain messages. Specifically whenever you see false positives in your spam that perhaps were learnt by bayes you could have something described below. Assuming you can fetch mail with courier IMAP thru it's message-id and n

[SAtalk] Anybody using OSX's Mail app for learn or forget bayes?

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
Anybody know how to reply or forward but still have the original message-id in order to forget an incorrect learnt spam message? The idea is that my filter is gonna learn spam or ham depending on status->is_spam but I just want to reply thru my filter and capture the original message id and un

Re: [SAtalk] new spamming techniques are flooding me. Any suggestions?

2003-12-18 Thread Robert Nicholson
I have my own domain and I have rules that automatically kick out any message not addressed to recognised users at my domain. None of these messages get anywhere near SpamAssassin. Those that do I'm finding that required_hits of 0.6 is working quite well for me. On Dec 18, 2003, at 2:09 PM, mai

Re: [SAtalk] always_add_report?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I think in this case the spammer has found a way to fool SA because SA 2.61 simply won't process this message. On Dec 15, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote: I'm confused how this is suppose to work. I've got this message that I think SA is ignoring. I'm not gettin

[SAtalk] always_add_report?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm confused how this is suppose to work. I've got this message that I think SA is ignoring. I'm not getting any X-Spam headers at all over putting this message thru SA. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 15 00:51:53 2003 Received: (qmail 10603 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2003 06:51:41 - Recei

[SAtalk] DCC, Razor rbl checks only when necessary?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm just curious in what order does eval_tests execute the tests? Specifically are the offsite clearing houses only contacted whenever my current score is less than required_hits? ie. is there a way to conditionally do those offsite checks only if they are necessary? ie. my current score is less

Re: [SAtalk] This is an ebay phish right?

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
Look at the body of the message and you should see a bunch of %'s in the url. You don't see them? Does your MUA allow you to look at the raw text of the message? On Dec 14, 2003, at 12:40 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: At 01:24 PM 12/14/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote: When you see encoded

[SAtalk] This is an ebay phish right?

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
When you see encoded urls like that you have to suspect that this is an ebay phish right? Does anybody know what the url is? Received: (qmail 7380 invoked from network); 14 Dec 2003 00:45:49 - Received: from 12-229-8-208.client.attbi.com (HELO earthling.net) (12.229.8.208) by grub.camro

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SA 2.61 and this annoying spammer?

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Nicholson
Yes yesterday I enabled Net::DNS as well as adding DCC check and now I'm pleased to say that spammer is no longer a concern. I have a question a perl question and I'm not sure where in the various Perl docs you are suppose to look for this but I want to know exactly what this means. package Ma

[SAtalk] Mail::SpamAssassin::learn

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
The way this interface is defined $status = $f->learn ($mail, $id, $isspam, $forget) suggests that both $isspam and $forget are significant however it will only ever do one or the other not both. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linu

[SAtalk] Why isn't this being learnt?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
So I'm executing my $status = $spamtest->learn ($mail); and the status in the debugger shows all the right things suggesting it's been learnt however the nham count in sa-learn --dump isn't changed. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: I

[SAtalk] Can somebody sending me something that DCC catches?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
Is there anyway I can arrange for a message that DCC would catch to be sent to me? If you can do that just send it over I want to see if DCC is working correctly. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert i

[SAtalk] Is SpamAssassin a version specific module?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
Hi, Is this the correct place for SA to put installed when installed locally and not system wide? /home/robert/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail ie. does it belong in a 5.8.0 specific directory? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux

[SAtalk] Uninstalling 2.60 and SITEARCHEXP

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
So I wanted uninstall 2.60 which is installed in a version specific directory on my setup. bash$ ls SpamAssassin SpamAssassin.pm bash$ pwd /home/robert/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail However when I do this with the Makefile used to build it I get bash$ make uninstall no packlist file found:

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SA 2.61 and this annoying spammer?

2003-12-13 Thread Robert Nicholson
nd an active checking account. Get your advance today. http://lc.orderfreebies.com/newlc/go/2746 Follow this link if you no longer wish to be contacted. http://lc.orderfreebies.com/central/[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Dec 13, 2003, at 12:00 AM, Bryan Hoover wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: Anybody who's

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 and this annoying spammer?

2003-12-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
Your double address was different if you compare it to the one below. yours only has one set of angle brackets. Anyway I'm not suggesting that this is suitable criteria for determining spam. It's just a reliable signature for this particular spammer. On Dec 12, 2003, at 10:09 PM, JRiley wrote:

[SAtalk] SA 2.61 and this annoying spammer?

2003-12-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
Anybody who's installed A 2.61 Can you tell me what the score for the following email was From: Advance in Pay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Need cash in the bank ASAP? Date: December 12, 2003 4:28:24 PM CST To: Robert David Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] One persistent spammer defeating SA.

2003-12-06 Thread Robert Nicholson
ractive Homeowner News - December 2003 Date: December 6, 2003 10:23:27 AM CST To: Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Loyalty Interactive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Hot Holiday Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Get a Remote

[SAtalk] Possible to not add any headers?

2003-11-16 Thread Robert Nicholson
In addition to SA I use a local baysien based filter and I'm wondering if having X-Spam-Flag: YES as a header in all messages will cause this local filter to not be able to correctly identify false positives set by SA. Is it possible to simply possible to invoke is_spam() and in the process no

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

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Nicholson
Any of this possible .. you just have to post process the headers of the email You would just look at the X-Spam-Status eg. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=0.6 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 How you determine the score will depend on you are invoking SA. On Tuesday, October 21, 20

[SAtalk] Whitelist?

2003-10-12 Thread Robert Nicholson
My previous setup involved a combination of procmail, spamassassin call from filtmail which is a perlscript that runs from my .procmailrc. I am reimplementing the lot in perl using SpamAssassin and Mail::Audit with qmail. so far everything works quite nicely. However, in the past I used my own

Re: [SAtalk] Does Spamassassin support Maildir?

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Nicholson
Mail::SpamAssassin::NoAudit implements accept Never mind I found this in it's accept implementation # we don't support maildir or qmail here yet. use the real Mail::Audit # for those. On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 12:06 AM, Rich Puhek wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: Currently

Re: [SAtalk] Does Spamassassin support Maildir?

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Nicholson
folks here don't seem to like much) can write out maildir's. Q. As SA can be used as a Mail::Audit plugin via NoAudit can it also write in maildir format or only mailboxes? On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 11:43 PM, Rich Puhek wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: I'm calling SA from

Re: [SAtalk] Does Spamassassin support Maildir?

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Nicholson
er 3, 2003, at 10:41 PM, Rich Puhek wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: Any Maildir afficionados here? My ISP has just moved from mailboxes to Maildir with qmail. Anybody know if qmail will support box folder types concurrently? Likewise courier-imap is the imap server I need to communicate with. No, s

[SAtalk] Does Spamassassin support Maildir?

2003-10-03 Thread Robert Nicholson
Any Maildir afficionados here? My ISP has just moved from mailboxes to Maildir with qmail. Anybody know if qmail will support box folder types concurrently? Likewise courier-imap is the imap server I need to communicate with. --- This sf.net

[SAtalk] Using Mail::Spamassassin with MailTools?

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Nicholson
Has anybody here used both Spamassassin and MailTools? specifically has anybody tried to remove attachments from the Message objects that SA provides? But if I'm using Spamassassin's Mail::Audit plugin methods or Mail:Audit's directly how can I then specify the newer message that I built withou

[SAtalk] Replacing procmail with Mail::Audit?

2003-10-01 Thread Robert Nicholson
I currently call perlscripts from Procmail and I invoke Spamassassin within those perlscripts however I notice that the developers of SA no longer trust Mail::Audit, at least according to some of the comments in spamassassin so what exactly are the concerns about using Mail::Audit instead of pro

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learning

2003-09-30 Thread Robert Nicholson
So really the crux of this task is to correctly reforward the email as a *.txt attachment and correctly identify said attachment before passing it to sa-learn. The first part being the toughest. as it's the kind of thing you want to automate or at least have done for you via a keystroke. So thi

[SAtalk] Invoking sa-learn from procmail?

2003-09-30 Thread Robert Nicholson
Just an idea to integrate sa-learn into the Mail (MUA) workflow. Since I already invoke spamassassin from within perl I assume it's possible to sa-learn a message via perl as well. I suppose it should be possible to set up a service invoked via procmail such that you can email any spam that sho

[SAtalk] What gets auto learnt?

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Nicholson
So, just exactly where is the documentation that defines the criteria for what gets auto learnt? --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sp

[SAtalk] 2.55 and FAILURE NOTICE's

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Nicholson
Hi, have any improvements been made to sort out spammers who are forging failure notices? From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:05:39 PM Asia/Bangkok To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Return-Path: <> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] required_hits < or =?

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Nicholson
Forgive me but do the # of hits actually have to be more than required_hits? I was under the impression that if I set required_hits to 6 then whenever hits was greater than or equal to required_hits then that mail would be considered spam. From: "Mei Kwan NG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Sep

Re: [SAtalk] required_hits 10 email scores a 7 and is blocked

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Nicholson
What was always_add_report set to? I noticed in 2.55 even if the report was included in HAM the wording still suggested the message was spam. What was X-Spam-Status set to for this message that you claim was interpreted as spam? On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 06:58 PM, CHRISTOP TATRO wrot

Re: [SAtalk] Why is auto-learn set to no?

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
It seems i didn't appreciate that autolearn in that line relates to how that particular message was autolearnt. So things are working as I expect them to. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgee

[SAtalk] Why is auto-learn set to no?

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
RE: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=10.7 required=0.6 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_03_06, DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K,FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK,FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML,HTML_60_70, HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE,HTML_FONTCOLOR_GREEN,HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED, HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MIME_HTML_ONLY_MULTI,MISSING_MIMEOLE, NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP autolea

Re: [SAtalk] Proposal for X-Spam-Status

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Never mind I just learnt about always_add_report On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 08:19 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote: In addition to the tests that were performed I'd like to see the effect on the overall score each test had. so instead of X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=0.6

[SAtalk] Proposal for X-Spam-Status

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
In addition to the tests that were performed I'd like to see the effect on the overall score each test had. so instead of X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.6 required=0.6 tests=IN_REP_TO,NO_REAL_NAME,REFERENCES,X_AUTH_WARNING,X_LOOP version=2.55 I'd like to see (-1.0) etc after each test. so that I

Re: [SAtalk] 2.55 and FAILURE NOTICE's

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
This problem I'm seeing is because folks are using my domain when forging emails. On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 06:49 PM, Ralf Guenthner wrote: - Original Message - From: "Robert Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, Septemb

[SAtalk] 2.55 and FAILURE NOTICE's

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Nicholson
Hi, have any improvements been made to sort out spammers who are forging failure notices? From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:05:39 PM Asia/Bangkok To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown Return-Path: <> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SAtalk] This guys annoying.

2003-09-16 Thread Robert Nicholson
ok folks Spamassassin isn't doing a very good job with this guys spam From: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:16:00 AM Asia/Bangkok To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I heard from them :) Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECT

[SAtalk] Are there scoring bugs in 2.50?

2003-03-26 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm getting a lot of messages come back with -xx.x hits lately. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.2 required=1.0 tests=BAD_CREDIT,BAYES_20,CLICK_BELOW,FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK, IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,USER_AGENT_PINE autolearn=ham version=2.50 This was obvious spam that was sent me. Ar

[SAtalk] bayes_msgcount correct?

2003-03-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
What is this counter suppose to reflect? I use the sa-learn with the mbox option with a mailbox with 733 messages this counter increases by one. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here