Re: [SAtalk] too much spam...

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:12:30AM -0500, AltGrendel is rumored to have said: > > > > scoreSUBJECT_ENCODED_MY_TEST 5.0 > > > > X-Spam-Score: 3.422 > > BAYES_00 I think that's what's getting your score down. > > ??? > > Not sure what you're getting at here, try: I think he d

Re: [SAtalk] bayes learning and sa-talk list

2004-01-26 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:03:45PM +0100, PieterB is rumored to have said: > > Is there some way to prevent spamassassin from using SA-talk messages > for Bayes auto_learning. My bayes filter seems to be less effective > since a lot of spamphrases/tokens are discussed on this list. It depends on

Re: [SAtalk] Turning off Habeas?

2004-01-19 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:01:36PM -0600, Michael Satterwhite is rumored to have said: > > You'd have to agree that a message with the > headers is more likely spam than not ... right now. ...unless you converse with me via e-mail with any regularity... Have you actually checked to see how many

Re: [SAtalk] Delete vs tagging spam

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:44:40PM -0600, Kang , Joseph S. is rumored to have said: > > > > Here's the thing, though. SA is a *filter*. The MTA (or > > procmail, or whatever) hands the message to SA and expects to > > get something back. If SA had the cability to delete > > messages, it would b

Re: [SAtalk] Delete vs tagging spam

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:21:50PM -, Andrew Cranson is rumored to have said: > > I've read the archives, and I've seen numerous answers to posts saying > that it's not supported. My question was to the developers - would they > (you) consider adding it to a future version of spamassassin? He

Re: [SAtalk] most rules hit (so far)

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Thomas
wire (1.14) posted today. It's been beechwood > aged for twice the flavor! > > --Chris > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Steve Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:29 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sub

[SAtalk] most rules hit (so far)

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Thomas
Using the Tripwire set (obviously): X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=30.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_60,BIZ_TLD, FVGT_TRIPWIRE_AJ,FVGT_TRIPWIRE_AV,FVGT_TRIPWIRE_BF,FVGT_TRIPWIRE_BH,

Re: [SAtalk] HABEAS_SWE

2004-01-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 08:48:52AM -0500, Matt Kettler is rumored to have said: > > I'd also be hesitant to say *every* message with the mark is spam.. At > least one of the SA-devels (Theo) puts it on most of his messages. As do I. These people who arbitrarily decide to change the score of a

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas Responds to Spammer Violation of Habeas Warrant Mark

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 06:57:13PM -0700, Jon Trulson is rumored to have said: > > Hmmm... Can you go after the website owners/operators themselves? > Regardless of where the spam originated? They are likely hosted on zombie servers as well. The only link in the chain that can't be screwed

Re: [SAtalk] [MAILER-DAEMON@chips.sthomas.net: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:09:39AM -0800, Robin Lynn Frank is rumored to have said: > > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:51, Steve Thomas wrote: > > BTW, Paradigm-Omega, your "private RHSBL" (rhsbl.paradigm-omega.net) is > > borked. I read your Email Policy and there

[SAtalk] [MAILER-DAEMON@chips.sthomas.net: Returned mail: see transcript for details]

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Thomas
sbl.paradigm-omega.net; Unauthorized source/domain listed by paradigm-omega.net RHSBL - http://paradigm-omega.com/email_policy.php Last-Attempt-Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:43:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:42:47 -0800 From: Steve Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Robin Lynn Frank <[EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] OT: forged habeus mark

2004-01-13 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:19:45PM -0800, Robin Lynn Frank is rumored to have said: > > Some time ago, I changed the Habeas rule from -8 to a low positive number. So you give points to personal or list e-mail from me, just because I use the Habeas headers? I would think that zeroing the test w

Re: [SAtalk] Delete SPAM

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:27:11PM -, Andrew Cranson is rumored to have said: > > Is there a mySQL preference can be used to force spamassassin to > drop/delete all emails above a certain score? > SpamAssassin does not, and can not, delete mail. It's simply a filter - data goes into it, the

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Fresh WhoIs data (emails, phones, etc.) on sale!

2004-01-09 Thread Steve Thomas
Yay. Yet another a-hole blatantly disregarding the various WHOIS directorys' terms of use and raping it for marketing purposes. Gee, I can't wait to get three more copies of the same spam for every domain I own... On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:46:41AM -0800, Matt Van Gordon is rumored to have sai

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:53:53PM -0500, WA9ALS - John is rumored to have said: > > header MY_CUSTOM_RULE Subject =~ /texttolookfor/i (I used the text I > wanted, which included square brackets - Is that a problem? - e.g. [text to > look for]) Square brackets are special characters within a re

Re: [SAtalk] Stopping SPAM with subjects like "Re: ABC, settled high under"

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:20:09PM -0600, Scott Gurley is rumored to have said: > > Anyone have a rule to stop this type of spam for cable filters and more. I > get tons of these. They all have a subject like this: > Re: BUESQY, with a completely > Re: BAZYUQ, telegrams of inquiry > Re: ABF, conti

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:07:59PM -0500, John Fleming is rumored to have said: > > I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it > exists, the msg will NOT be considered spam, no matter what else might be > wrong with it. In your /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, add this

Re: [SAtalk] SA for home use, with POP server at ISP?

2004-01-05 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:25:15PM -0500, Andrew Lazarewicz is rumored to have said: > > Is it possible to run SA in my configuration at home? I am techincally savvy > with UNIX / Linux, but not familiar with detailed configuration of mail > servers (e.g., POP, IMAP). What you'll probably wa

Re: [SAtalk] SA report on an email ?

2003-12-12 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:35:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have said: > > How can I see a spamassassin report of an email ? I'd like to do something > like pipe the email through a command. spamassassin -t < email.txt -- "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Grouc

Re: [SAtalk] Ideas

2003-11-25 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 01:22:51PM -0500, Tony Bunce is rumored to have said: > > I have been seeing lots of spam like this getting through recently > > Anyone have any ideas how to reduce this type of spam from getting > through? I noticed that this guy's using our domain name as the argument t

Re: [SAtalk] Getting SA going

2003-11-21 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:26:02PM -0800, John Oliver is rumored to have said: > > I installed SpamAssassin from CPAN a couple of weeks ago, so version > 2.55 I believe. I have a .spamassassin directory in my home now, but > it's empty. The docs tell me I should have a user_prefs file, but I > c

Re: [SAtalk] AT&T PATENTS ANTI-ANTISPAM TECHNOLOGY

2003-11-19 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:12:51AM -0800, Harold Hallikainen is rumored to have said: > > AT&T PATENTS ANTI-ANTISPAM TECHNOLOGY > ... I read this on TheRegister.com yesterday. The only reasonal explaination is that they wanted to make sure that the concept was never put into practice and they ne

Re: [SAtalk] Empty Return-Path?

2003-11-14 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:26:33PM -0500, Charles Gregory is rumored to have said: > > Another spam today, with the infamous empty return path. > (Return-Path: <>) > > But I didn't see any test that was catching this. Is there something > legitimate about an empty return path that makes it a bad

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

2003-11-11 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:51:37PM -0800, Robert Leonard III is rumored to have said: > > Okay, this one makes me mad.. anybody see or stop this one yet? How did > this get through! ? It didn't. You have your required hits set too high. > -- > > > X-AntiVir

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-SA article: "ISP Assassin"

2003-11-06 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 07:40:24PM -0500, Terry Milnes is rumored to have said: > > Haha this guy "Doctor Electron" is a moron oops I defamed him... As any lawyer (I'm not one) would tell you, the truth is an absolute defense. If what you say is true, it can't be considered slander/defamati

Re: [SAtalk] Did SA crash? SA 2.60 entirely skipped a few messages.

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:13:25PM -0500, David A. Roth is rumored to have said: > > I found several messages today which were entirely skipped by SA 2.60. > The odd thing is, those addresses in the To: line had previously been > blacklisted on my site. So this is very puzzling, and the headers

Re: [SAtalk] Am I nuts

2003-11-04 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:14:13PM -0600, Chris Barnes is rumored to have said: > > I turned SA off in Mailscanner, letting it handle just > the the running of ClamAV. SA is still being called by procmail. > > Q: Is it just a "wierd way"? Not weird to me - it's how I do it. I prefer separate to

Re: [SAtalk] "Connection Refused" on remote spamd box

2003-10-30 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is rumored to have said: > > What am I missing?? firewall? what happens if you try telnetting to port 783 on the remote machine? -- "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is r

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

2003-10-22 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 03:23:28PM -0700, Ian Douglas is rumored to have said: > > Currently I have most of Asia Pacific blocked since I don't personally > know anybody over there that would have any need to Email me or the few > remaining web hosting clients I have on my server. I use cn-kr.blac

Re: [SAtalk] 30 seconds to process an email???

2003-09-30 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 06:32:23PM -0400, Jeff Koch is rumored to have said: > > Does it make sense that our maillog would report it take 30 seconds for > spamassassin to analyze a message - and they seem to be short messages. > We're running 2.55 via maildrop on a qmail system. The machine is a

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc6 released

2003-09-21 Thread Steve Thomas
I just installed this and am now seeing this in the logs when Razor2 is called (yes, I patched razor [2.36] before compiling): razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Insecure dependency in connect while running setuid at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/IO/Socket.pm line 108. I wasn't getting

Re: [SAtalk] Rule for MS Security Alert

2003-09-19 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 02:29:21PM -0400, Frank DeChellis is rumored to have said: > > I was just fiddling around and I entered a rule to catch some of the text in > the MS Security Alert patch but it never seems to go over the threshold. > > Has anybody come up with a solid rule for this email w

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] new messages pet-peeve

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 01:15:53AM +, Jim is rumored to have said: > > People, > > if you are posting to this (or any) list to start a new thread, can you > please REALLY start a new message from scratch instead of replying to one > that's already gone by on the list? > > For those of us usi

Re: Fw: [SAtalk] The Verisign folly

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Thomas
network ... they are in a FIDUCIARY role, > enTRUSTed to carry out a role by that pulicly accepted standard. Their > action simply *breaks* that public trust. > > - Burt > > > Steve Thomas wrote: > > >On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:31:55PM -0700, Matt Beland is rumored

RE: [SAtalk] Re: The Verisign folly

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Thomas
| If Verisign are stupid enough to do this, let's make sure | they get ALL the traffic :-). The idea was to keep them from getting paid. No web hits = no clicks on sponsored links. | Also port 80 isn't the biggest problem: think mail think | what happens if something returns legal DNS entr

Re: Fw: [SAtalk] The Verisign folly

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:31:23PM -0700, Matt Beland is rumored to have said: > > On the other hand, Paul Vixie has been participating in the discussion over on > NANOG and it sounds like ISC is aware of the potential pitfalls and they're > working to dodge them. They are actively developing th

Re: [SAtalk] Re: The Verisign folly

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:36:01PM -0500, Rich Puhek is rumored to have said: > > We haven't null-routed it, nor have our upstream providers. Traceroute > goes through fine, pings die, webpages don't come up. router(config)# access-list 101 deny tcp any host 64.94.110.11 eq 80 :) The pings cou

Re: Fw: [SAtalk] The Verisign folly

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:31:55PM -0700, Matt Beland is rumored to have said: > > I stopped laughing, it occurred to me that hypocritical or no, that could > mean trouble for ISC if VeriSign chose to push the issue. What kind of trouble? Certainly not legal trouble. There's nothing that says th

[SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-09-16 Thread Steve Thomas
Don't forget to vote with your wallet. * Move your domains from Network Solutions to any other registrar. * Don't renew your SSL certs and find another CA (if possible). Don't use Thawte - Verisign owns them. * Sell your VRSN stock and get out of any funds that invest

Re: [SAtalk] Has anyone written rules for Sobig:F

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:57:27PM +0200, Kristian Koehntopp is rumored to have said: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:34:40PM -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote: > > 2. SobigF expired on September 10th. There may be a few > > errant worms floating around from computers that have their > > dates wrong, b

Re: [SAtalk] Has anyone written rules for Sobig:F

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 05:09:02PM -0400, Steven W. Orr is rumored to have said: > > What I'm looking for is a set of recipes for rejecting the Sobig:F virus > based on the text that appears in the Subject line. Filenames would be better. I wrote a rule a couple of weeks ago for the filenames fo

Re: [SAtalk] spamd performance

2003-09-12 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Scott Rothgaber is rumored to have said: > > If performance is an issue, how about an option like... > > HIT_AND_RUN 1 > > ...that would cause spamd to stop processing once your threshhold had > been met? IOW why keep scanning text once the message has

[SAtalk] Nigerian, er, Afghani scam

2003-09-11 Thread Steve Thomas
This may not be new, but it's the first one I've seen... It only scored 2.513 on my company's mail server which runs a CVS version of 2.60 from a couple months ago. The only tests it hit are NIGERIAN_BODY1 and US_DOLLARS. We're not using bayes here. ---

Re: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 03:22:59PM -0600, Alan Fullmer is rumored to have said: > > Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR > SPAM? Or get on some lists? First, I'd use a throw-away address (I'm guessing you were going to do this already). Then, just post a fe

[SAtalk] Fw: Re: Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com

2003-08-27 Thread Steve Thomas
It's official. An announcement is forthcoming. I'll bet the spammers are dancing around gleefully right about now. - Forwarded message from George William Herbert - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:07:33 -0700 >> returning 127.0.

[SAtalk] SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Steve Thomas
Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable for a while and now I'm getting this: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.26 Server at spamassassin.org Port

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:11:45PM -0700, Justin Mason is rumored to have said: > > Tim Buck writes: > > I installed 2.60 rc1 (upgraded from 2.55) yesterday afternoon. Two > > of my users today reported several very obvious spam messages got > > through; none has on my account. I looked at the off

Re: [SAtalk] SoBig Virus

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:41:40AM -0500, Patrick Bores is rumored to have said: > > I'd like to add spamassassin rules to match certain attachment > filenames, but I can't seem to get it right. I'm trying things like: > > rawbody SOBIG_VIRUS > /filename="?application.pif|document_all.pif|t

Re: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-20 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0700, Erick Calder is rumored to have said: > > the complaints are legit so SA and even the Bayesian filter let them > through... any suggestions out there? what are others doing about this? Grin and bear it. Not much else you can do. -- "The concept is inte

Re: [SAtalk] catching the Banned CD spam!

2003-08-18 Thread Steve Thomas
What's the rule you've written? On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:44:24PM -0400, John McGivern is rumored to have said: > > Hi everyone, > > I don't know if you guys get the SPAM that advertises the > "Banned CD" I get dozens of them. Anyway, I've added a body rule ... -- "Men and nations behave

Re: [SAtalk] this one slipped through and really ticked me off . . .

2003-08-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:08:51AM -0400, Louis LeBlanc is rumored to have said: > > do one more thing - forward each message to the government uce > address, but I can't remember the exact address (is it [EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] This just got me wondering about something... I wonder

Re: [SAtalk] [SA talk] Little OT: getting my outgoing mail blocked for no reverse dns

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:56:34PM -0400, Indii is rumored to have said: > > My email server is a debian box while my dns server is an MS 2000 server. > Which would i need to setup the reverse dns on and how would i go about > doing this? This is usually handled by your ISP. You'll need them to

Re: [SAtalk] sudden roll of FNs

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
I've also noticed a couple of FNs per day lately. All but one of the messages you sent scored over 5 points on my box. I'm running a CVS version of SA that's a few weeks old. Make sure that whatever mechanism you're using to run SA (procmail?) is doing it's job, and that the server isn't being o

[SAtalk] Habeas cans spammer

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
Not sure if this has been posted already - I apologize if it has. http://www.theregister.com/content/7/32266.html -- "Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour." - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) --- This SF.Net email spo

Re: [SAtalk] De-spamming one domain only

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:59:54PM -0700, Abel Rauch is rumored to have said: > > Uhhh... I was just going to install via Redhat RPM. I think I should do one > more run-though of the documentation. (Yes, I know, RTFM) I'd install via CPAN instead of using the RPM, but that's me. I prefer RPMs for

Re: [SAtalk] De-spamming one domain only

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:10:39PM -0700, Abel Rauch is rumored to have said: > > Does anyone know how to set spamassassin to only filter spam on a specific > domain? > > > > I am running: > Redhat Linux > Sendmail (with LDAP) > > I would be running Spamassassin 2.5.x. How is SA being cal

Re: [SAtalk] SA - Seems to not want to work :(

2003-08-14 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:04:58PM +0100, Angel Gabriel is rumored to have said: > > 2) Edited ~/.procmail file That should be ~/.procmailrc. > I still get all the spam I can handle. What have I missed, if anything? > Also, remember that SA doesn't remove spam, it just adds headers and such.

Re: [SAtalk] SA - Seems to not want to work :(

2003-08-11 Thread Steve Thomas
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:26:50PM +0100, Angel Gabriel is rumored to have said: > > Can someone give me a working example of how procmail should be calling > spamassasin? This is all I have in my ~/.procmailrc file. > > > :0fw | /usr/bin/spamassassin Try this: ---cut--- VERBOSE=on LOGABSTRAC

Re: [SAtalk] general question

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:58:09PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter is rumored to have said: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:16:00PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > Given that it's RedHat, I bet it's 2.4x. > > RH9 has 2.5x I believe. fyi. > Linux puma 2.4.20-19.9smp #1 SMP Tue Jul 15 17:04:18 EDT 2003 i68

Re: [SAtalk] general question

2003-08-05 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:23:50AM -0700, Steve Thomas is rumored to have said: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:58:09PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter is rumored to have said: > > > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:16:00PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > Given that it's RedHa

Re: [SAtalk] spamd is not filtering mails properly

2003-08-03 Thread Steve Thomas
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:12:39AM -0700, swapna ghosh is rumored to have said: > > The spamassassin verion is 2.41. I had set the procmailrc file under You need to upgrade SpamAssassin. Like antivirus software, it needs to be updated somewhat regularly to remain effective. The spam you includ

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes must be working...

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:42:49PM -0700, Gary Funck is rumored to have said: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5693626 > and Mark's reply: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2883539&forum_id=1981 > Yep, that's it. I hadn't been reading the v*agra threa

[SAtalk] Bayes must be working...

2003-08-01 Thread Steve Thomas
Just got a spam which slipped through undetected... it was just an image with a bunch of hidden text in an HTML page. Probably porn, but I didn't see the image in mutt... admirations potash bodyguard powered practicably hunk mediate albania practiced evaporation aug blumenthal bismark excee

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] Interesting results from emporium :)

2003-07-29 Thread Steve Thomas
What he said, but I'll add that you should install Tripwire. On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:58:59PM -0400, William Stearns is rumored to have said: > > Good afternoon, Chris, > > On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > > > It seems that since the SA Rule Emporium has been up, I've been the ta

Re: [SAtalk] spammers using my domain, any advice?

2003-07-29 Thread Steve Thomas
You've been joe-jobbed. There's not much you can do except maybe put a notice on your website if you're getting enough bounces to warrant it. One nit-picky note - please don't start a new thread by replying to a message. It munges up the flow of messages in mail clients which make proper use of

Re: [SAtalk] spammers using my domain, any advice?

2003-07-29 Thread Steve Thomas
You've been joe-jobbed. There's not much you can do except maybe put a notice on your website if you're getting enough bounces to warrant it. One nit-picky note - please don't start a new thread by replying to a message. It munges up the flow of messages in mail clients which make proper use of

[SAtalk] FW: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Thomas
Heads up to all qmail users out there... - Forwarded message from John Brown - Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:34:00 -0600 From: John Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: qmail smtp-auth bug allows open relay seems that there are installs of the smtp-auth patch to qmail th

Re: [SAtalk] Procmail script to handle SA marked messages

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:43:31AM -0500, Chris Barnes is rumored to have said: > > I need a simple procmail script so that any messages marked as spam by > SA get put into a folder named "Filtered" (I use IMAP, so using the MUA > is not an option). > Here's the procmail stuff I use for SA: ###

Re: [SAtalk] Advice

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:44:09PM -0700, Marek Dohojda is rumored to have said: > > On the same note, I didn't see documentation for local.cf and user_defaults. > Is there a place for this? man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf -- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas W

Re: [SAtalk] SA Learn from emails collected in Exchange (Outlook)?

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:46:59AM -0700, Nichols, William is rumored to have said: > > these are in .eml format. How could I save these so that they could be > used to learn the SA box? Any ideas here? You could try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox I've never used it, so I can'

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-virus suggestions requested

2003-07-10 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 08:23:25PM -0400, Rick Macdougall is rumored to have said: > > Ummm, except for the fact that MailScanner in and of itself is not a > virus scanner. Points for trying though. Doh! I misread the original mail. I thought he was looking for a scanning mechanism, not the sc

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-virus suggestions requested

2003-07-09 Thread Steve Thomas
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:27:26PM -0500, Thomas Cameron is rumored to have said: > > Can anyone make a recommendation as to an AV package, preferably one which > can be built into an (S)RPM without too terribly much work and which will > play nice with Sendmail? MailScanner. 'Nuff said. http://

Re: [SAtalk] Long list of rules that must be broken

2003-07-08 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:59:08AM -0400, Pat Traynor is rumored to have said: > > In my .procmailrc file is: > INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmailrc-local > ... I don't mean to snipe, but this has nothing to do with SA at all. It really belongs on a procmail list. To answer the question, I'm no procmail

Re: [SAtalk] why not use SA on this SA list?

2003-06-30 Thread Steve Thomas
ears to be a SF.net list, so perhaps "we can't slip in a > spamfilter, as we don't own the site"? Bingo. > BTW, love how you guys just love to quote the whole message in your > replies, the more bytes, the merrier, yummm, headers and all. Gue

Re: [SAtalk] DUMBO! Send the SPAM for big $$$$

2003-06-16 Thread Steve Thomas
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:46:36AM +, MAKE BIG $$$ is rumored to have said: > > THIS IS NOT SPAM!! YOU and YOU ALONE Opted-In and Subscribed Directly with Us to >receive the TWICE PER WEEK SPAM E-mail Money Making Newsletter" Uh, yeah. I think I remember that. --

Re: [SAtalk] OT: SCO may have violated GNU

2003-06-12 Thread Steve Thomas
ears. I'd heard (don't remember where) that they were using a stripped down linux and ipchains/ipmasq as the software controlling their routers. -- Steve Thomas -- "...subatomic matter in a particle accelerator that exists for

Re: [SAtalk] Really OT: Microsoft buys out RAV

2003-06-11 Thread Steve Thomas
(especially considering the average level of clue that their users have) -- Steve Thomas -- "...subatomic matter in a particle accelerator that exists for only a few microseconds seems to exhibit more uptime than the RIAA's website.&

Re: [SAtalk] Really OT: Microsoft buys out RAV

2003-06-10 Thread Steve Thomas
fected e-mail and you'll quickly find out just why you need to be every bit as security concious on the LAN as at the edge. -- Steve Thomas -- "...subatomic matter in a particle accelerator that exists for only a few microsecond

Re: [SAtalk] Spamtrap account?

2003-06-06 Thread Steve Thomas
> routine. The point is, that whatever you do to show to human readers that it > is a spam trap address, a spammer can anticipate and filter out - or the > harvester ignore. Am I missing something here? > -- Steve Thomas -- "

Re: [SAtalk] What's your spam level?

2003-06-06 Thread Steve Thomas
Size: 5728 Clean messages:1076 Avg Clean Score: -32.38 Avg Clean Size: 5079 I'm sure there's a lot of people that can beat those numbers. I also run SA on our servers at work, but I don't run any stats on them. I'd guestimate that it's w

Re: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-27 Thread Steve Thomas
? I've got a buck that says he didn't... -- Steve Thomas -- "...subatomic matter in a particle accelerator that exists for only a few microseconds seems to exhibit more uptime than the RIAA'

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin on CNN!

2003-05-27 Thread Steve Thomas
will even make a dent in the volume of spam flowing around the 'net. The only thing that a bunch of useless laws will accomplish is generating some good PR for the politicians while wasting taxpayer dollars. Frankly, I'd rather see that money being spent on homeland security. -- S

RE: [SAtalk] inttypes.h

2003-02-21 Thread Steve Thomas
| things, I can't seem to install the module HTML::Parser because it can't | find the file inttypes.h. It isn't on my system. I've done a | search in the | FAQ at http://spamassassin.taint.org/faq/index.cgi, and it | doesn't find any | hits. Where can I find the appropriate version of inttypes.h

RE: [SAtalk] CONFIDENTIAL

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Thomas
Hooray! I'm going to be rich! | From:Mr. Samuel Tefah | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Attn: The Managing Director, | | | I do recognize the surprise this urgent but confidential letter | will bring to you especially as it came from a stranger, but be | rest assured that it came

RE: [SAtalk] Independent Customer Services (subscriber offers) (fwd)

2003-02-07 Thread Steve Thomas
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RE: [SAtalk] fighting against "Say GOOD BY to spam"

2003-02-06 Thread Steve Thomas
No hits in 47M of spam here, either. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Theo | Van Dinter | Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 6:04 PM | To: John Rudd | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: [SAtalk] fighting against "Say GOOD BY to spam"

RE: [SAtalk] Pros and Cons on putting the Hits points in the Subject line

2003-02-06 Thread Steve Thomas
| Hi! have anyone tried adding the number of | Hits(points) | in the Subject line of the message? Yep. | In other words, is it helpful to have the Hits in the | Subject line? Like: I like having it there. Here's what I have configured for our server here at work: subject_tag ***SPAM*** (_HITS_)

RE: [SAtalk] How Do I Get Off This List?

2003-01-30 Thread Steve Thomas
| See? This is one reason that I want to leave. | | Everyone seems to *rude.* If the people here seem rude, by all means stay away from the procmail list. Your head is likely to explode if you join that one. I've been on a lot of lists over the years - ISP, OSS, musical bands, bird owners & watch

RE: [SAtalk] FormMail.pl spam

2003-01-14 Thread Steve Thomas
| Back around 1987 a 15 year old kid named Matt Wright wrote a FormMail | script. The original insecure version is still in use on a million | sites (no exageration). Spammers figured out how to send email through | it. I wrote my own formmail.pl script which e-mails the spammer and the abuse@ a

RE: [SAtalk] Turn off SA in user_prefs?

2003-01-12 Thread Steve Thomas
They could set required_hits to 1000 or something - that wouldn't disable it completely, but it'd keep messages from being flagged. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On | Behalf Of Victor Brilon | Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 10:32 PM | To: s

RE: [SAtalk] Question

2003-01-12 Thread Steve Thomas
report_header use_terse_report | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On | Behalf Of Nick Marino | Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 1:27 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [SAtalk] Question | | | Where do you configure SA to tell it to put the spa

RE: [SAtalk] How does TO_HAS_SPACES

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Thomas
| was triggered. I don't get it; the To: line that I see is | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | and there don't appear to be any extraneous spaces in there. There's a space after your e-mail address. --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: So

RE: [SAtalk] RE: OT: Dynamically updating /etc/mail/access

2003-01-09 Thread Steve Thomas
Isn't that the point of DNS RBLs? | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of | Andrew M. Hoying | Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 9:29 AM | To: MailScanner mailing list | Cc: SpamAssassin Users' list | Subject: [SAtalk] RE: OT: Dynamically upda

[SAtalk] Too quick to delete...

2003-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
Can someone forward me the message with the new mass-check instructions? I seem to be a bit too quick with the delete key this morning and the archives aren't working... TIA -- Steve Thomas Network Administrator APEX Voice Communications

RE: [SAtalk] How do I filter by subject?

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Thomas
There's a couple of ways you could do this. You could write a rule that assigned a negative score, such as: header SUBJECT_FOOBAR Subject =~ /FOOBAR/ describe SUBJECT_FOOBAR Subject contains FOOBAR scoreSUBJECT_FOOBAR -100.0 OR... you add a condition to your procmail recipe: :0fw *

RE: [SPAM] [SAtalk] a very smart spammer. (score only 1.6)

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Thomas
all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have *@lists.sourceforge.net instead as I'm on a number of lists there. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of | Bolero (Kai Maillists) | Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 2:38 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sub

RE: [SAtalk] a very smart spammer. (score only 1.6)

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Thomas
They've been doing that one-pixel-graphic trick for quite some time. BTW, it scored 3.4 on the 2.50 SA that I installed today. Still not high enough, but getting better, especially for something with very little actual message content. | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mai

RE: [SAtalk] Goodbye

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Thomas
Pardon my french, but this SUCKS. This is all the result of sha^H^H^Hlawyers... Are you sure that they can't differentiate between the OS project and the commercial product? Yes, you'd be contributing to NAI's product, but you'd also be contributing to my anti-spam efforts (which has zero to do wi

RE: [SAtalk] Rule Based on Message-ID

2003-01-06 Thread Steve Thomas
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RE: [SAtalk] Where is the spam

2002-12-30 Thread Steve Thomas
That's up to whatever you're using to call SA. If you used the example procmail recipe in the documentation, it's put into a folder called (IIRC) 'caughtspam'. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeremy Dold Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:49

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