Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-28 Thread Rick Beebe
Todd Seeleman wrote: I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all causes other than the spamd process. I've throttled i

[SAtalk] Spam reports exceeding maximum header size with Exiscan

2004-01-26 Thread Matthew Trent
I (and a few other people) have reported this with Tripwire, but I've just installed Backhair and now the problem is much worse. Basically those two rulesets output an entry in the report for every hit on each of a gazillion rules. This is nice FYI stuff, but it results in headers that exceed a

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Ex change

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Van Gordon
/anti-spam/ -Original Message-From: Dustin O Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:38 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS ExchangeI have a RedHat 9.0 box that I want to turn into a Spam

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange

2004-01-21 Thread Mike Kercher
ECTED] On > Behalf Of Dan Kennedy > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:03 AM > To: Dustin O Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward > Mail to MS Exchange > > Try MailScanner. That's what we use. It works well for jus

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Kennedy
TED] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange I have a RedHat 9.0 box that I want to turn into a Spam Filtering Device. Basically all that I want the RedHat box to do is: 1). take in the emails, 2). then f

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Ex change

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Hutchings
] -Original Message- From: Dustin O Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 January 2004 15:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange I have a RedHat 9.0 box that I want to turn into a Spam Filtering Device. Basically all that I

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange

2004-01-21 Thread Dustin O Williams
I have a RedHat 9.0 box that I want to turn into a Spam Filtering Device. Basically all that I want the RedHat box to do is: 1). take in the emails, 2). then filter them with Spam Assassin, 3). mark the subject lines as *** SPAM ***, 4). and finally pass all of the emails to my MS Exchange Serv

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 05:06, Marc Morgan wrote: > Hi There, > > I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail is > installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest version, > but had errors wh

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Marc Morgan
Hi There, I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail is installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest version, but had errors when starting spamd or spamassassin so i downloaded the latest version 2.70 and installed that, but still get the

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:28:00 +0200 Marc Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail > is installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest > version, but had errors when starting spamd or spamas

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Marc Morgan
Hi There, I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail is installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest version, but had errors when starting spamd or spamassassin so i downloaded the latest version 2.70 and installed that, but still get the

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin and Outlook Exchange Server

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 14:13:27 2004, Sally Denhart wrote: [Apologies to the list if this has been anwswered already -- I've checked in the archives and can't see a reply to this. I'm a couple of days behind with my mail.] > I just installed Spam Assassin 2.61 on my Solaris 7 box. It > interfaces with

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 17:54:19 2004, Todd Seeleman wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v > 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the > system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Collecting

2004-01-17 Thread Pedro Sam
On January 16, 2004 12:55 pm, Rich Puhek wrote: > I use a slightly different approach. > > I filter my emails into 4 different IMAP folders: slightly-spammy, > somewhat-spammy, pretty-spammy, and very spammy. The filtering is based > on increasing number of SA hits (actually the X-Spam-Level: heade

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Collecting

2004-01-16 Thread Rich Puhek
Gary Funck wrote: It is a pain, esp. on a big mailbox, and you need large sample, of say, 2000/so each of ham and spam to train the Bayes engine. What I did is fired up 'mutt', and used its 'tag' capabilities to tag the spam that I wanted to extract and deposit into my spam sample. It is impor

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Collecting

2004-01-16 Thread Gary Funck
> From: cube > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:52 AM > > Does anyone have a good way of collecting ham for the bayesian > filters. I > can collect spam quite easily, but mixed in with my ham is all > kinds of spam. > (There is a buttload of spam with less hits than 1.) > > I read everywhere t

[SAtalk] Spam Collecting

2004-01-16 Thread cube
Does anyone have a good way of collecting ham for the bayesian filters. I can collect spam quite easily, but mixed in with my ham is all kinds of spam. (There is a buttload of spam with less hits than 1.) I read everywhere that I should do this process manually to ensure the quality of ham; th

[SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-15 Thread Todd Seeleman
Greetings, I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all causes other than the spamd process. I've throttled it down to

Re: [SAtalk] Spam confuses bayes auto_learn

2004-01-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:14 AM 1/15/04 +0100, Gunther Heintzen wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=3.9 tests=FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.61 It should be autolearn=no because hits=2.6 ist beetween 0.1 and 12.0 Autolearning is not based on the normal message score, it's based o

Re: [SAtalk] Spam maildir

2004-01-15 Thread jean-christophe valiere
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 11:25:37AM +, Technical Services wrote: > Can I run sa-learn on a maildir? and if so how? Yes you can. for i in Maildir/cur; do sa-learn --spam $i; done > > Best regards, > Owen Franssen > Technical Services Manager > WASP (a division of Insight Web Marketing Ltd.) >

[SAtalk] Spam maildir

2004-01-15 Thread Technical Services
Can I run sa-learn on a maildir? and if so how? Best regards, Owen Franssen Technical Services Manager WASP (a division of Insight Web Marketing Ltd.) +353 64 54094 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the

[SAtalk] Spam confuses bayes auto_learn

2004-01-15 Thread Gunther Heintzen
Hello In the last time we often got spam emails containing random word lists. example: nagasaki gazette rood cod dual gradate clifford babysitting newel latin adenoma francisco aspheric express atavism guardia photo section copperas ... Some of them are recognized as spam some as ha

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin and Outlook Exchange Server

2004-01-14 Thread Sally Denhart
Hi, I just installed Spam Assassin 2.61 on my Solaris 7 box. It interfaces with sendmail and procmail for the delivery. Spam Assassin correctly flags the e-mail as Spam and I can see this in my Solaris mail box and for all my Unix users. Unfortunately, most of my users are using Outlook from an

Re: [SAtalk] ***SPAM*** Tag in subject line

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:56 AM 1/13/2004, Kevin Roberts wrote: Is there a way for sa 2.55 to add a spam tag to the actual filename that is saved in the \etc\mail s/d? I am hoping that the answer is yes. I want to be able to easily sort the messages that sa thinks is spam and ham so when I go and check the messages,

[SAtalk] ***SPAM*** Tag in subject line

2004-01-13 Thread Kevin Roberts
Hello all, Is there a way for sa 2.55 to add a spam tag to the actual filename that is saved in the \etc\mail s/d? I am hoping that the answer is yes. I want to be able to easily sort the messages that sa thinks is spam and ham so when I go and check the messages, it will not take as long for me

[SAtalk] Spam links with remove ID ?

2004-01-11 Thread Brian Ipsen
Hi! In most of the spam I receive at the moment there seems to be a link/text like: http://www.domain.com/rid?=1142 Everything is (of course) base64 encoded - The main issue is to detect the .domain.[com|net|biz]/rid?[1-x digits] ... Is it possible to make a rule for this ? I have only seen it

RE: [SAtalk] spam/ham corpus in outlook

2004-01-07 Thread Mathew Hendry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been developing a spam / ham corpus from those things > which my config of SA doesn't catch. Problem is I get these > in Outlook, and now I want to Bayes them. How do you guys get > your spam corpus set up? Do you just not use Outlook? Is > there a way to get t

[SAtalk] spam/ham corpus in outlook

2004-01-07 Thread Russell Mann
Hello, I've been developing a spam / ham corpus from those things which my config of SA doesn't catch. Problem is I get these in Outlook, and now I want to Bayes them. How do you guys get your spam corpus set up? Do you just not use Outlook? Is there a way to get these exported so that SA Baye

[SAtalk] spam archiving

2004-01-07 Thread Bryan Hoover
In case anyone's interested in routines to auto-archive spam, I improved the Procmail recipes I recently pointed to, so that archiving is done in the more appropriate FIFO fashion. I made a few other changes too. ftp://ftp.wecs.com/procmail/archcron-fifo.zip Bryan -- Were I to wish for anything

[SAtalk] spam messages. rmail in emacs.

2004-01-01 Thread Don Saklad
Would any of you nice folks out there knowledgeable about rmail in emacs have any ideas, hints, tips or pointers about modifying for the better any of the lines of this program?... ;; sa-spam-removal.el ;; ;; Copyright (c) 2003 Trevis J. Rothwell tjr at gnu.org ;; ;; This program is free softwar

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM Identifer on Subject Line Question

2003-12-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:35 PM 12/19/2003, R. Alan McFarland wrote: I would like to simply tune my ScoringThreshold and DeleteTheshold, but I first need to get a sense of the numbers. For me getting each number requires about seven clicks and some visual scanning which is too time consuming to be useful. Is there

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM Identifer on Subject Line Question

2003-12-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, December 19, 2003 11:35 AM -0800 "R. Alan McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to simply tune my ScoringThreshold and DeleteTheshold, but I > first need to get a sense of the numbers. For me getting each number > requires about seven clicks and some visual scanning

[SAtalk] SPAM Identifer on Subject Line Question

2003-12-19 Thread R. Alan McFarland
I would like to simply tune my ScoringThreshold and DeleteTheshold, but I first need to get a sense of the numbers. For me getting each number requires about seven clicks and some visual scanning which is too time consuming to be useful. Is there a way that the subject line could be marked s

RE: [SAtalk] Spam: Behind the scenes

2003-12-19 Thread Chris Santerre
*snip* > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 12:34 p.m. > To: Robert J. Aitken > Cc: Justin Champion > Subject: Re: More complaints from false headings > > We send out 10 million plus emails a day and you on average send me 2 > complaints or less in a day. Today 3 complaints. I

[SAtalk] Spam: Behind the scenes

2003-12-18 Thread Gary Funck
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/001161.html December 18, 2003 Spam: Behind the scenes Ever wonder about the mindset of the people who clog your inbox with unsolicited e-mail? The lawsuits filed today by Microsoft and the New York Attorney General against an alleged spam ring

[SAtalk] Spam Domain & Subject BlackLists for SA/Postfix/Modusgate

2003-12-12 Thread Dave Schneider
Compiled list of domains that are known spammers and compiled list of various subject lines used by spammers. http://www.exit0.us/index.php/SpamDomainBlackList or http://www.spamfighter.org/bb/article.php?42.0 --- This SF.net email is sponsore

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Spam that got through question

2003-12-08 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:45 PM 12/8/03 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: MK> That's definitely bayes poison. Well, it's definitely an attempt at bayes poison, and/or a checksum poison. I used to treat it as bayes poison, and keep those out of my bayes database. I no longer bother. To me it's become bayes fodder. Well, g

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Spam that got through question

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Matt, Sunday, December 7, 2003, 8:46:16 PM, you wrote: MK> At 07:15 PM 12/7/03 -0800, Scott Harris wrote: >>The spam attached has the following random words at the bottom: >> >>automata childhood reflectance trevelyan tile captious hollingsworth >>cornstarch chinaman chicanery >> >>Is this

Re: [SAtalk] Spam that got through question

2003-12-07 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:15 PM 12/7/03 -0800, Scott Harris wrote: The spam attached has the following random words at the bottom: automata childhood reflectance trevelyan tile captious hollingsworth cornstarch chinaman chicanery Is this to try to poison bayes or to just try and fool things to get it through or so

[SAtalk] Spam that got through question

2003-12-07 Thread Scott Harris
Title: Spam that got through question The spam attached has the following random words at the bottom: automata childhood reflectance trevelyan tile captious hollingsworth cornstarch chinaman chicanery Is this to try to poison bayes or to just try and fool things to get it through or some

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Santerre
I'd like a copy of the 'tweaked' version :) > -Original Message- > From: mikea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:17 PM > To: Spamassassin List > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics > > > On Thu, Dec 04, 200

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:09:31AM -0800, Gary Funck wrote: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Assuming my minor tweaks to the original script I saw posted here are > > correct, here are my latest spam stats.. *sheesh* > > > > Mail Statistics; > > Mails spam

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread mikea
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:10:01AM -0500, Rubin Bennett wrote: > WEhat are you all seeing for spam vs. ham stats out there? I just ran > my list statistics script and here's what I'm experiencing (much WORSE > than the current "accepted" statistics of about 50/50): > > Stats since the 1st of the

Re: [SAtalk] Spam received with a return path of

2003-12-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:25 AM 12/4/2003, Clive Dove wrote: No big deal at the moment as it is only one message, but what happens when other spammers discover that this is a way to distribute their junk? It's been a problem for a LONG time and is nothing new at all.. This very issue forced sa-talk to become list tha

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread tnelson
CTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ceforge.net cc: Su

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread tnelson
Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:45 AM > To: Rubin Bennett > > > Assuming my minor tweaks to the original script I saw posted here are > correct, here are my latest spam stats.. *sheesh* > > Mail Statistics; >

[SAtalk] Spam Statistics

2003-12-04 Thread Rubin Bennett
WEhat are you all seeing for spam vs. ham stats out there? I just ran my list statistics script and here's what I'm experiencing (much WORSE than the current "accepted" statistics of about 50/50): Stats since the 1st of the month (that's right, 4 days only!!!) Total messages: 50467 Clean Messages

[SAtalk] Spam received with a return path of

2003-12-04 Thread Clive Dove
OK, now what do we do about this. The following spam came to me after having been passed by mailfilter and spamassassin, It was correctly passed as I had set a Mailfilter ALLOW rule and a Spamassassin whitelist entry for Mailfilter-dev messages. If I run this one through the spamassassin sa-l

RE: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-04 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:41 PM To: Fritz Mesedilla; Spamassassin-Talk Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spam report in headers To my knowledge amavisd-new is limited to using those headers, it ignores the verbose ones added by SpamAssassin. Ryan Moore -- Perigee.net Corporation 704-

RE: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
ubject: Re: [SAtalk] spam report in headers To my knowledge amavisd-new is limited to using those headers, it ignores the verbose ones added by SpamAssassin. Ryan Moore -- Perigee.net Corporation 704-849-8355 (sales) 704-849-8017 (tech) www.perigee.net Fritz Mesedilla wrote: > How does

Re: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Ryan Moore
To my knowledge amavisd-new is limited to using those headers, it ignores the verbose ones added by SpamAssassin. Ryan Moore -- Perigee.net Corporation 704-849-8355 (sales) 704-849-8017 (tech) www.perigee.net Fritz Mesedilla wrote: How does spamassassin include the spam report in the head

RE: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
dilla; Spamassassin Mailing List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spam report in headers At 12:51 PM 12/4/03 +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote: >How does spamassassin include the spam report in the headers? >I only get these headers: You can reconfigure the headers added by SA.. see the "add_header&quo

RE: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
: [SAtalk] spam report in headers At 12:51 PM 12/4/03 +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote: >How does spamassassin include the spam report in the headers? >I only get these headers: You can reconfigure the headers added by SA.. see the "add_header" config option and the "TAGS" secti

Re: [SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:51 PM 12/4/03 +0800, Fritz Mesedilla wrote: How does spamassassin include the spam report in the headers? I only get these headers: You can reconfigure the headers added by SA.. see the "add_header" config option and the "TAGS" section for a list of different items you can insert. http://a

[SAtalk] spam report in headers

2003-12-03 Thread Fritz Mesedilla
How does spamassassin include the spam report in the headers? > X-Spam-Score: 0.9 (/) > X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by sourceforge.net. > See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. > Report problems to https://sf.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=21 >

[SAtalk] Spam or Bounce?

2003-11-29 Thread Gorm Jensen
The attached email looks like a legitimate bounce, but I'm not sure whether it is just a spam message masquerading as a bounce. How can one tell which is correct? >From root Sat Nov 29 07:30:07 2003 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from typhoon.skynet.be (typhoon.skynet.be [195.238.2.8

RE: [SAtalk] Spam filtering for an ISP

2003-11-24 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Brook Humphrey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 10:28 PM > To: ML-spamassassin-talk > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spam filtering for an ISP > > > On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:52 pm, William Stearns wrote:

Re: [SAtalk] Spam filtering for an ISP

2003-11-22 Thread Brook Humphrey
On Saturday 22 November 2003 02:52 pm, William Stearns wrote: > > SpamAssassin 2.55 > > It's _well_ worth upgrading to 2.60. Just curious what is so much better about 2.6. If it is just the filters used I already run a bunch of custom ones that fit my needs really well with 2.55. I get a

Re: [SAtalk] Spam filtering for an ISP

2003-11-22 Thread William Stearns
Good evening, Rubin, On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Rubin Bennett wrote: > I want to set up a central email address for my users to forward spam to > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] for example). I would like to have that address be fed to > a script that runs sa-learn on the message, but not as root: I want > sa-lea

[SAtalk] Spam filtering for an ISP

2003-11-22 Thread Rubin Bennett
Hello list - I apologise if this question has been answered before; I briefly searched the archives and Googled a lot, and didn't find anything that fully answered my question, but it's quite possible I missed the "magic" keyword in my search. I'll begin by describing what I want to set up, and th

Re: [SAtalk] Spam nets

2003-11-20 Thread Kai MacTane
At 11/19/03 03:47 PM , Regis Wilson wrote: Just thought I'd share. I don't have access to the rbls so I did a grep on two day's worth of spam IPs (received: line from mailserver). I have this: no. spamnetwork 472366.0.0.0 And then I broke it down smaller: 587 66.2

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Message not nearly picked up by rules

2003-11-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:03 PM 11/18/03 -0500, erin o'brien wrote: I am not a programmer, so I could not think of any "rule" to catch this one. I only hope that someone here can. I have gotten quite a few of these (at least two per day), and it's always from my forged email address from someone named wilfred or ar

RE: [SA Hits: 14.10] [SAtalk] Spam Message not nearly picked up b y rules

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
not crop up so no guarantees! --Larry -Original Message- From: erin o'brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA Hits: 14.10] [SAtalk] Spam Message not nearly picked up by rules I am not a programmer, so I could not

[SAtalk] Spam Message not nearly picked up by rules

2003-11-19 Thread erin o'brien
I am not a programmer, so I could not think of any "rule" to catch this one. I only hope that someone here can. I have gotten quite a few of these (at least two per day), and it's always from my forged email address from someone named wilfred or arthur. Thanks. Original Message -

[SAtalk] Spam nets

2003-11-19 Thread Regis Wilson
Just thought I'd share. I don't have access to the rbls so I did a grep on two day's worth of spam IPs (received: line from mailserver). I have this: no. spam network 7849 24.0.0.0 6819 68.0.0.0 4723 66.0.0.0 4200 200.0.0.0 3139

RE: [SAtalk] Spam-trapping and Bayes

2003-11-18 Thread Kurt Buff
Robert wrote: |Hello Kurt, Howdy. |Monday, November 17, 2003, 11:03:24 AM, you wrote: | |KB> I've just put up 2.60 on FreeBSD, and consider myself a bit of a |KB> newb, but I've been reading the man page for spamassassin, |and found |KB> a section on spamtrapping. We've got 40 or so addresses o

Re: [SAtalk] Spam-trapping and Bayes

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kurt, Monday, November 17, 2003, 11:03:24 AM, you wrote: KB> I've just put up 2.60 on FreeBSD, and consider myself a bit of a KB> newb, but I've been reading the man page for spamassassin, and found KB> a section on spamtrapping. We've got 40 o

Re: [SAtalk] spam stats

2003-11-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 03:03, Thomas Kinghorn wrote: > Hi List. > > Does anyone know of any good spam stats software / scripts available. > > I tried spamstats but could not get it to work properly. > > ... A brute force approach, effective if you don't have much volume. One of these days I'll

[SAtalk] Spam-trapping and Bayes

2003-11-17 Thread Kurt Buff
Howdy, I've just put up 2.60 on FreeBSD, and consider myself a bit of a newb, but I've been reading the man page for spamassassin, and found a section on spamtrapping. We've got 40 or so addresses of former employees that would be ideal for this purpose, but I'm not much interested in Razor/DCC, e

[SAtalk] SPAM Trap Errror

2003-11-17 Thread Albert Whale
I'm running SpamAssassin 2.60 on Linux Mandrake using the MILTER Option for Sendmail. It's working fantastic, with the exception of tracking SPAM for a SPAM Trap. Any suggestions? - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "| /usr/bin/spamassassin -r -w somewhere -l /sysadm

[SAtalk] spam stats

2003-11-17 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Hi List. Does anyone know of any good spam stats software / scripts available. I tried spamstats but could not get it to work properly. Number of spams : n/a Number of clean messages: n/a Average message analysis time : 1.85 sec

Re: [SAtalk] Spam score in the subject?

2003-11-15 Thread Carl R. Friend
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: > Is it possible to put the spam score in the subject? Yes. A quick read of the FM ((friendly|fine) manual) shows: subject_tag STRING ...(default: *SPAM*) Text added to the "Subject:" line of mails that are

[SAtalk] Spam score in the subject?

2003-11-15 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
Is it possible to put the spam score in the subject? -- Rick Kitty5 NewMedia http://Kitty5.com POV-Ray News & Resources http://Povray.co.uk TEL : +44 (01270) 501101 - ICQ : 15776037 PGP Public Key http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x231E1CEA ---

[SAtalk] Spam that's consistently sneaking through

2003-11-14 Thread Josh H. Turiel
I've been getting a particular spam repeatedly that manages to slip through SA virtually every time - I've posted most of it (edited for inoffensiveness, and to munge the URL's so he doesn't get hits) here along with the SA analysis: (begin spam) Received: (qmail 5167 invoked by alias); 14 Nov 200

Re: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-14 Thread Margit Meyer
Hi Dan, > Hey guys! > > Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto another mailbox? Right now > I have being trapped in /var/virusmails. > with this procmail recipes ham mails are put in the user's "normal" mailbox, spam mails are put into a user specific spambox. LOGNAME is the name of the

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread Zlatko Hristov
I use Postfix and amavisd-new, many options including send spam to mailbox. Zlatko. -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:34 AM To: SATalk list Hey guys! Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto another mailbox? Right now I h

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread ian douglas
> Now you've got me interested. how did you get those stats? I can't take credit for it. I turned on logging in SpamAssassin and MailScanner, and Mike Andrews on the list here submitted a script a few weeks ago that I tweaked a tiny bit although his worked fine on its own. My maillogs rotate on

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread mwestern
Now you've got me interested. how did you get those stats? -Original Message- From: ian douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward > err, i'm not sure how you setup your spamassas

Re: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:34 PM 11/12/2003, Dan wrote: Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto another mailbox? Right now I have being trapped in /var/virusmails. That totally depends on what tool you're using to call SA. SA itself can't even trap them in /var/virusmails, much less forward messages. It's the

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread ian douglas
> err, i'm not sure how you setup your spamassasin but i have > mailscanner going well cos it supports a virus scanner as well. I second that opinion. MailScanner/ClamAV/SA 2.60, and working great on a small-volume server: Spam/Mail Statistics; Total spamassassin rejected scanne

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread mwestern
scoring spam. i deliver low scoring spam and delete spam over 20. REgards Matthew -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:04 AM To: SATalk list Subject: [SAtalk] Spam forward Hey guys! Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto a

RE: [SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Dan Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 4:34 PM > Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto another mailbox? I too am interested in this. I could never get my corpus exported from outlook so I would like to copy spammy messages to another mailbox. Or even to a folder within my mailbox. That w

[SAtalk] Spam forward

2003-11-12 Thread Dan
Hey guys! Does anyone know if spam can be forwarded onto another mailbox? Right now I have being trapped in /var/virusmails. I would like to have it all sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thoughts? Dan --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2

Re: [SAtalk] spam threshold value?

2003-11-10 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:14 PM 11/10/2003, you wrote: What's the lowest spam threshold value you are managing to get away with (without false positives) ? There's always FP's at pretty much any threshold that's no absurdly high (ie, 1.0). However, I have yet to notice any significant amount of FP's at 5.0.. Oc

[SAtalk] spam threshold value?

2003-11-10 Thread Rick [Kitty5]
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[SAtalk] spam header not getting written sometimes

2003-11-04 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
(with 2.60) Occasionally (about 1 in 5000) SA recognizes a spam (according to all the other headers), but fails to add the *SPAM* header. As this is so rare, I'm willing to write it off as "just weird", but I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I can reproduce this by sendin

[SAtalk] Spam-Fighter Humor: The Don't-Pay-For-Placement Search Engine

2003-10-10 Thread Kenneth Porter
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Re: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution

2003-10-07 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/07/03 11:25 AM, SpamTalk sat at the `puter and typed: > > > -Original Message- > From: Fred I-IS.COM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >What we need is a Distributed fake replier > > Actually you just need to have the program spoof the origination > address and craft the IP packets/t

RE: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution

2003-10-07 Thread SpamTalk
-Original Message- From: Fred I-IS.COM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >What we need is a Distributed fake replier Actually you just need to have the program spoof the origination address and craft the IP packets/timing so that it does not need the response that do not show up. But again, we

[SAtalk] Spam Alert: Targeted Contact Email Solo Ads / Guaranteed Visitors!

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Richards
Hi, Got this today: - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:01 AM Subject: Spam Alert: Targeted Contact Email Solo Ads / Guaranteed Visitors!

Re: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution

2003-10-06 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
I used to do this until my provider explained to me that it was not approaite for me to attack the spammers even if they started it. I created a program to automate filling in their forms, submitting random names, fake details etc, but I'm sure the spammers could easily filter my submissions based

RE: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution

2003-10-06 Thread Bill Polhemus
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Van Pelt Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:39:29AM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote: You know how the screwworm fly was eradi

Re: [SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread landy
thanks all for the reply. iguess i learned something today --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2003-10-06 15:15:42 -0400, Landy wrote: > this email has a no but it scored 5.0 which is the default > any idea why the status is no? RTFA 4.97 is reported as 5.0, but lower than 5.0 Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-S

Re: [SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:15 PM 10/6/2003, Landy wrote: pam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=NIGERIAN_BODY1,NIGERIAN_BODY2, NIGERIAN_BODY3,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=no version=2.60 this email has a no but it scored 5.0 which is the default any idea why the status is no? Round n

Re: [SAtalk] Spam: The Screwfly Solution

2003-10-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Monday, October 06, 2003 11:54 AM -0700 Mike Van Pelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of nasty little parasites, imagine a 419 spammer. > He gets 100,000 "bites" to his spam. Wow, he must have hit > the jackpot! Except... no. 99,999 of them are fake, > computer-generated "leads", whi

RE: [SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread Steven Manross
onday, October 06, 2003 12:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] spam status no pam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=NIGERIAN_BODY1,NIGERIAN_BODY2, NIGERIAN_BODY3,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=no version=2.60 this email has a no but it scored 5.0 which i

Re: [SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, October 06, 2003 3:15 PM -0400 Landy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 > tests=NIGERIAN_BODY1,NIGERIAN_BODY2, > NIGERIAN_BODY3,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=no version=2.60 > > > this email has a no but it scored 5.0 which

[SAtalk] spam status no

2003-10-06 Thread Landy
pam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 tests=NIGERIAN_BODY1,NIGERIAN_BODY2, NIGERIAN_BODY3,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET autolearn=no version=2.60 this email has a no but it scored 5.0 which is the default any idea why the status is no? ---

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