Re: [SAtalk] Re: W32.Novarg.A@mm virus

2004-01-27 Thread Brad Hazledine
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/local-rules.procmail and look at the bottom of the file you will see what you need to look for. Brad --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Inte

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

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

[SAtalk] Surprise mail from myself

2004-01-21 Thread Brad Hazledine
fargo.caledoncard.com" in the header and thinks that all is well. If anyone out there has encountered this and found a way around it then I would appreciate some input. Thanks. Brad --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premi

Re: [SAtalk] Hello, new to list ! :-)

2004-01-21 Thread Brad Hazledine
http://www.emtinc.net/spamhammers.htm There is also this list. > > Would anyone out there bother giving me a real-world example for a simple > spam mail message ? I don't know what to say here. Simply firing up the mail server should provide you wi

[SAtalk] SA Rule idea: whois

2004-01-19 Thread Brad Koehn
w how to do it all, especially when it comes to tying it into the Bayes system. I suspect that systems like this could help target a fair amount of spam, but I'm also not sure what it would do to the poor whois servers (I notice SpamCop caches whois listings itself). Anybod

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn always learns only one message in a directory

2004-01-16 Thread Brad Hazledine
Are you using the --mbox flag with sa-learn? Brad On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Marcus Frischherz wrote: > Hi! > > I use SA 2.61, exim 4.24 and WU imapd, I use IMAP4 and keep my mails on the > server. The folders seem to be in the mbx format. When I run sa-learn on one of > them it, s

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas violator list

2004-01-15 Thread Brad Hazledine
I was catching them with all of the other rules, I was just unsure as to whether or not it was even checking the violator list. The sample that Seth sent me came back positive so I know it is working. Brad On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > > Rather that takeing o

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas violator list

2004-01-15 Thread Brad Hazledine
Thanks Seth, that did the trick. Brad On 15 Jan 2004, Seth wrote: > If you run the attached email through SpamAssassin, it should flag as a > HABEAS_VIOLATOR. > > Seth --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2

[SAtalk] Habeas violator list

2004-01-15 Thread Brad Hazledine
?ip=66.136.203.220>] 1.5 RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RBL: Received via a relay in bl.spamcop.net [Blocked - see <http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?66.136.203.220>] Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Brad Hazledine <[

Re: [SAtalk] Start Trek "Darmok at Tanagra" subjects

2004-01-14 Thread Brad Hazledine
Hi, You want http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/spamassassin/rnd_uc_char.cf Works great! Brad On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Hein Zelle wrote: > Hello, > > (new to this list, so please notify me if this has already been > discussed or should be posted elsewhere. I've checked

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas scoring

2004-01-12 Thread Brad Hazledine
score HABEAS_SWE 0.0 in your local.cf Brad On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, SAtalk Mail User wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been getting alot of HABEAS based spam and I have been reporting > the spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] But in the mean time I would like to > figure out a way to eith

Re: [SAtalk] hits over five yet not marked as spam...

2004-01-09 Thread Brad Hazledine
I use the procmail sanitizer ... http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html Been using it for years and it traps all of the garbage that people try to send. Wonderful tool. Brad On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Jeff Lasman wrote: > We're being hit by MS security update emails.

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Brad Hazledine
How about giving the test a negative score? i.e. -20.0 Brad On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, John Fleming wrote: > > 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 > w

Re: [SAtalk] Those Re: Bunch of capital letters messages

2004-01-06 Thread Brad Hazledine
Excellent!! Thanks for the help. Brad On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm using this set of rules posted to the list last month. Drop this in > /etc/mail/spamassassin as rnd_uc_char.cf. --- This SF.net email is s

[SAtalk] Those Re: Bunch of capital letters messages

2004-01-06 Thread Brad Hazledine
skin campion bunny beverage diathesis reception ave stasis washbowl chromatic embolden brad bismark chill me darken conifer here caribou build ticklish predilect slum joan scotsman kyoto bog plastic kamchatka attribution between width paraxial claude way absentee colatitude pedro otherwise bili

[SAtalk] online degree glop

2004-01-05 Thread Brad Koehn
I've been getting a bunch of messages either squeaking by SA 2.61 or nearly so (bigevil is nice), and added some rules to make them less likely (I couldn't come up with a better name than glop, sorry): describeglop_15 15 or more alphas in sequence bodyglop_15 /[a-zA-Z]{15}/ s

Re: [SAtalk] Script to update bigevil.cf

2004-01-02 Thread Brad Koehn
also generate a fake MD5, you need the right private key to generate a fake digital signature). I'm moderately surprised that this hasn't happened already, as hackers have gotten to other open-source projects like Debian, sendmail, etc. Brad On Jan 1, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Barry Port

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spamd --auth-ident

2003-12-30 Thread Brad Koehn
t should be good enough to authenticate. Good luck! Brad Koehn --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from

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

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
them and yet have an intelligible message. Lastly, RBLs adapt quickly, so you need a fresh supply of machines/IPs to transmit the message. We've made it pretty tough on the spammers. I'm glad I'm in another line of work. Brad Martin Radford wrote: At Mon Dec 15 15:12:42 2003

Re: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
Oh boy am I dumb! Never mind, the Received headers are correct, it's the attached spam message that shows the full chain of headers back to the originating server. That whole Received... with Spamassassin thing through me for a loop. My bad, sorry for the waste of bandwidth. Brad Brad

[SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
I've noticed that my Received: headers seem to have disappeared, at least in messages that are marked as spam. For example, my subscription to this list came in with the following Received headers: Received: from mail.koehn.com ([unix socket]) by mail.koehn.com (Cyrus v2.1.15) with LMTP;

[SAtalk] Obfuscation by Punctuation

2003-12-10 Thread Brad Wilkin
efore doing the pattern matching, SA will be able to identify these. Thanks. Brad Wilkin Lewis and Clark College - Brad Wilkin    Information Technology Director of Information Sy

[SAtalk] Local Install?

2003-11-29 Thread Brad Marcoux
Hey Everyone, I'm having a problem trying to install spamassassin locally (my provider's box crashed, and the new one doesn't have it installed site-wide): I run: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sausr SYSCONFDIR=~/saetc and then make ; make install This is the error I get: mkdir /usr/local/lib/per

Re: [SAtalk] SA doesn't learn?

2003-10-16 Thread Brad
0; } --- Regards, Brad On Thursday 16 October 2003 08:49, you wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On October 15, 2003 02:15 pm, Brad wrote: > > SA doesn't appear to learn from my SPAM mailbox: > > >

[SAtalk] SA doesn't learn?

2003-10-15 Thread Brad
SA doesn't appear to learn from my SPAM mailbox: sa-learn --mbox --spam /home//SPAM Learned from 0 message(s) (521 message(s) examined). Does anyone know why this is? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.

Re: [SAtalk] SA newbie question...

2003-10-12 Thread Brad
Thanks Chris. That's all it was: restart spamd. :-)) Is there a good help reference available for local.cf? I have searched on Google and looked on th SA website but haven't foud anything so far. There is no local.cf man page on my system. Cheers, Brad On Saturday 11 October

[SAtalk] SA newbie question...

2003-10-09 Thread Brad
In the message below, I have substituted the word "moon" for the male organ waker upper drug. If I use the V word it'll be blocked. I have a RH9 mail server and have done a default installation of SA 2.6. It appears to be working as I am getting 75% of spam marked as *SPAM* However, I

RE: [SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning..

2003-10-01 Thread Brad Tarver
Title: Message  The header info isn't stripped, but it the .msg files are still wrapped in TNEF.   Another way to save them (this is how I do it) is to setup an IMAP account thru Outlook Express, sync the messages, then drag them out to a folder on your filesystem. This will expor

RE: [SAtalk] Installation Problem with 2.60

2003-09-28 Thread Brad Tarver
Put LANG="en_US" in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, log out and log back in and start over. You should be ok then -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Ennis Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 04:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Installati

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM still in SpamAssassin version 2.60-rc3??

2003-09-11 Thread Brad Tarver
I would for sure set this one to zero since Osirusoft is defunct for the time being -Original Message- From: Ken Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM still in SpamAssassin version 2.60-rc3

RE: [SAtalk] Help, Where are the awards, List of companies using it?

2003-09-10 Thread Brad Tarver
Title: Message RH8 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SAtalk] Help, Where are the awards, List of companies using it? P.S. Anyone know when spamassassin was i

RE: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-09-09 Thread Brad Tarver
Your FEATURES go in your sendmail macro file for creating your sendmail.cf. Should be /etc/mail/freebsd.mc on FreeBSD and /etc/mail/sendmail.mc on Red Hat. -Original Message- From: Céline REDON [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:39 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn

2003-09-09 Thread Brad Tarver
Title: Message use UNINST=1 when you upgrade your installation   like: perl Makefile.PL make make test make UNINST=1 install -Original Message-From: Chuck Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 10:55 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SAtalk] sa

[SAtalk] Installing spamassasin...

2003-06-27 Thread Brad
confined to arcane editing of configuration files? Regards, Brad --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or

[SAtalk] Re: Pine Not Able to Read Mailboxes Correctly

2003-06-25 Thread Brad Marcoux
elps at all: most of the documentation I've found either relates to sendmail, and the QMail docs I found didn't seem to work with my setup. I'm sure I'm just missing something obvious, but feeling myopic after staring at this for so long. Again, thanks for any help. B

[SAtalk] Pine Not Able to Read Mailboxes Correctly

2003-06-14 Thread Brad Marcoux
GE message rather than as individual messages. I haven't encountered this problem on any of the lists: any idea what this is and how to fix? Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! C

[SAtalk] filtering an mbox after installing SA (Forgive me if this is askedalot)

2003-03-12 Thread Brad Wyman
I'm trying to figure out a good way to send mail from my mbox threw SA on a machine that i just finished installing SA on. ie the mail was recived before SA was installed and i want to process it now if i can. anyone got a good one liner for me? -- Brad

[SAtalk] USER_IN _ALL_SPAM_TO affects ALL recipients of multi-recipient email

2003-01-13 Thread Brad Jackson
own fix or workaround for this?  Am I just being stupid?  (Wouldn't be the first time!)   I'd appreciate off-list copies of any replies.   Thanks,   Brad Jackson Net Admin I-1 Internet Group, Inc. "i1" + at-sign + "i-1.net"     PS: Personal email stats for today: Receiv

[SAtalk] Newbie question...

2002-12-09 Thread Brad
We have a Red hat 7.3 mail server and I am looking for a way to filter out SPAM email from our server. We have about 30 email accounts. Can Spam Assassin do this? --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://t

[SAtalk] local.cf

2002-10-25 Thread Brad Reichert
hat wasn't spam. Thanks, Brad --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirec

[SAtalk] Razor?

2002-10-23 Thread Brad Reichert
y help would be great. Thanks, Brad --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirec

Re: [SAdev] Re: spamd -m safety? (WAS Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.43 released)

2002-10-18 Thread Brad Jorsch
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:12:48PM -0400, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:45:39AM -0700, Jeremy Zawodny wrote: > > > > Where can I get more informaiton on that? I *really* need "-m" to > > work. It semed to have been reliably on Linux w/Perl 5.6.1. > > > > If "-m" is hopeless

[SAtalk] SA-2.41 installation problems

2002-09-18 Thread Brad Koehn
rified that I have the latest versions of all of my perl modules. I'm running Perl 5.8.0 on Linux. Has anybody else seen this? Any ideas on how to get past? TIA, Brad --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: AMD - Your access to the experts

[SAtalk] SpamBouncer and SpamAssassin?

2002-07-18 Thread Brad Koehn
no idea why this happens, but I'm sure someone out there can set me straight... right? Thanks in advance!! Brad smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[SAtalk] sa troubles

2002-06-10 Thread Brad Koehn
g that if I'm using spamc/d, I need to invoke "| spamc -u $LOGNAME" from /etc/procmailrc? TIA, Brad Koehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conferenc

Re: [SAtalk] BSD rc.d script and HTML spam

2002-02-26 Thread brad
My freebsd 4.4 startup script is much simpler then yours and it seems to work for me. in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ #!/bin/sh [ -x /usr/bin/spamd ] && /usr/bin/spamd -u nobody -L -d > /dev/null && echo -n ' spamd' The file is executable brad On Tue, 26 Feb 2002,

[SAtalk] My own follow up to procmail issue

2002-01-25 Thread brad
Should I remove the : after 0fw? :0fw: | spamc -f :0e { EXITCODE=$? } ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Procmail question

2002-01-25 Thread brad
>procmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from "spamc" What could be causing this? - Transcript of session follows - >... while talking to mail-incoming.hostsave.com.: > >>> DATA ><<< 550 5.7.2 Refused at request of postmaster >554 5.0.0 Service unavailable >procmail: Coul

[SAtalk] Auto white listing.

2002-01-21 Thread brad
How can I enable the directory and not db based whitelisting? I am getting these messages in the debug? ebug: DB addr list: untie-ing and destroying lockfile. debug: DB addr list: file locked, breaking lock. ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAI

[SAtalk] I never expected this!

2002-01-19 Thread brad
I just turned on SA in an ISP environment using spamd with no auto-whitelist for about 5000 users. I have received about 50 complaints from people Yelling at me to disable this for them. I was reading the docs and I don't know how to disable on a per user basis when using spamd. I used to use t

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling to 100k emails per day.

2002-01-17 Thread brad
seen some at 2 seconds. I have contacted mail-abuse and I am going to get a secondary of their zone files and run it locally for the DNS based lookup, and I think that it will be ok. brad On 17 Jan 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 12:29, brad wrote: > > :0fw:

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling to 100k emails per day.

2002-01-17 Thread brad
Are you recomending spamd -d -L -D is ok and then call it with the procmailrc of spamc -f Brad On 17 Jan 2002, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:51, brad wrote: > > SA takes 5-7 seconds per message and can leave > > hundreds of procmail processes running. >

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling to 100k emails per day.

2002-01-17 Thread brad
:0fw:spam.lock | spamc -f :0e { EXITCODE=$? } and no there are not hundreds of spamc processes that I noticed. I did mention that the perl Net::DNS module was found, and in the -D debug it is not installed. Could this be part of the issue? I am doing razor lookups and rbl lookups. brad On 17

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling to 100k emails per day.

2002-01-17 Thread brad
Has anyone successfully used the milter as a direct plugin yet? My procmailrc in /usr/local/etc/ is just invoking the spamc -f process. Brad On 17 Jan 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 10:51, brad wrote: > > Problem: CPU usage with procmail to high, MTA stops

[SAtalk] Scaling to 100k emails per day.

2002-01-17 Thread brad
onnects to a SPAMD machine to do the scanning and then then processes the mail and sends it to "main mail server" running no SA just MTA / LDA / pop3 / IMAP keep existing config + popper / imap Brad ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd question

2002-01-16 Thread brad
you mention "up to date" are you inquiring if I run mergemaster and then add the new users into the master.passwd file? Thank you for your help thus far. brad On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Thomas Hurst wrote: > * brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Still running as root: u

[SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

2002-01-16 Thread brad
Running SA 1.5 / SPAMD -u nobody -d on a machine that accepts 88k mails per day. Today was the big test, and there was a huge failure. The issue is that I get so many procmail processes opening that the CPU average on the machine pegs and the load average then causes sendmail to die. I get on

[SAtalk] Spamd question

2002-01-16 Thread brad
I am running spamd -d -D to start out with I am getting this error message Still running as root: user not specified, not found, or set to root. Fall back to nobody. on a freebsd system should I run it as spamd -u nobody -d ? brad ___ Spamassassin