Re: [SAtalk] Spam Phrases Scores Broken?

2002-07-09 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Erik B. Berry wrote: > I have noticed that the rules SPAM_PHRASES_020 and SPAM_PHRASES_040 > don't seem to work anymore in 2.31. FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE works fine. For > example, this message will score over 20 but not get the corresponding > SPAM_PHRASES_020 rule marked in the

Re: [37.60] [SAtalk] Fw: *****SPAM***** EARN UNLIMITED INCOME WORKING AT HOME !

2002-07-09 Thread Ives Aerts
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 01:35:50PM -0400, David B. Bitton wrote: > This got a 35.7. What's your record? My four highest scores so far are 51.5, 52.3, 53.6 and 54.7. Strange thing is that the three highest ones are all versions of 'Adv: Parents of 15 year old find $71,000 cash hidden in his close

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Phrases Scores Broken?

2002-07-09 Thread Erik B. Berry
Bart Schaefer wrote: > Works for me (output from spamc): > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=10.0 required=5.0 > tests=SUBJ_ENDS_IN_Q_MARK,SUBJ_REMOVE,KIFF,CLICK_BELOW, > FREQ_SPAM_PHRASE,SPAM_PHRASES_020,SPAM_PHRASES_100 > version=2.31 ^^^

Re: [SAtalk] Fw: *****SPAM***** EARN UNLIMITED INCOME WORKING ATHOME !

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
David B. Bitton wrote: > This got a 35.7. What's your record? Not mine, but it's higher: http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/5859 Matt. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com

Re: [SAtalk] List servers rule

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
Rose, Bobby wrote: > Is there a rule that anyone uses for reducing the score for listservs? > I know you can whitelist but I was wondering if there was an easier way > to avoid all the maintenance. CVS has a KNOWN_MAILING_LIST rule. Please also see the following bugzilla bug: http://bugzilla.spa

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:03:57PM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > >>Aaahhh...well, then. Is there any idication of when the current CVS will >>be release ready? > > > Good question. I haven't seen anything on the list about a planned 2.40 > release date yet. Hopefully

Re: [SAtalk] SA with no limits

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi all, > Which resources does SA need in order to scan (15.000 accounts) - 50.000 >emails/day (Hardware/Software)? > And 1.000.000 emails/day (50.000 accounts)? > I have these two email conf to put to work. Are they possible? I

Re: [SAtalk] Bolting SA into EZMLM lists

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
Jason Baker wrote: > Before I start wandering down this path, I thought I'd check to see if it's > already been done (and a quick google came up emptyhanded). > > Has anyone added spamassassin into EZMLM mailing lists? I'm essentially > thinking to bounce to moderator if the score is above the

[SAtalk] Own Rules? Latest CVS?

2002-07-09 Thread Paul Reilly
These are probably FAQs, but I couldn't find the answers easily: Q: How do I create my own Spam Rule in Spam Assasin? Q: Whats the best way to update the rules? (I'm using SA 2.11) Should I take the latest rules from CVS or the 2.31 package? Thanks Paul -

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Mike Burger
I'm sure we could live with that, too. On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:03:57PM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: > > > >>Aaahhh...well, then. Is there any idication of when the current CVS will > >>be release ready? > > > > > > Good

Re: [SAtalk] Own Rules? Latest CVS?

2002-07-09 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Paul Reilly wrote: > > These are probably FAQs, but I couldn't find the answers easily: > > Q: How do I create my own Spam Rule in Spam Assasin? Just add a file inside the "rules" directory with a number (28_body.cf) and put the rules inside. If you ar

RE: [SAtalk] Use of mail bounce to deliver spam?

2002-07-09 Thread Tony Hoyle
> -Original Message- > From: Harold Hallikainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 09 July 2002 03:17 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Use of mail bounce to deliver spam? > > > Over the past few days I've been receiving bounces of > mail I did not send. > The content of

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Craig Hughes
Is the concensus that Razor2 is stable enough for us to release it? I'm somewhat wary of releasing a SA version with Razor2 support and having to answer daily emails where the answer is "upgrade to version 2.x -- prior versions are buggy". In the 2 weeks I was gone, have things settled down

Re: [SAtalk] SA with no limits

2002-07-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi, lets fix a mean email size of 50k. So we can do calculations. We want to know if SA is a feasible solution to implement in these two situations or not? Any hints? TIA,Paulo Henrique. On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:33:45 +0100 Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] SA with no limits

2002-07-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > Hi, > lets fix a mean email size of 50k. So we can do calculations. > We want to know if SA is a feasible solution to implement in these two >situations or not? > Any hints? If that's your mean email size, you'll probably need

[SAtalk] Other discussions of SA

2002-07-09 Thread Kenneth Porter
After having SA mark an issue of a Lyris-hosted newsletter I subscribe to as spam, I started a discussion of SA here: http://www.escribe.com/computing/neatnettricks/bb/index.html?bID=29470 Feel free to jump in and correct my errors. ;-) ---

[SAtalk] SPAM categories (was "s/SPAM/spam/ it seems")

2002-07-09 Thread CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson
> > > > This is something that Postini offers. It allows the customer to select > > different categories and could be a great way for business users to make > > sure less legit business email doesn't get tagged as Spam while allowing > > residential/personal email to block $$ type emails since th

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bolting SA into EZMLM lists

2002-07-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 10:26:35PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | Has anyone added spamassassin into EZMLM mailing lists? I'm essentially > | thinking to bounce to moderator if the score is above the limit, rather than > | message-mangle. I added SA scanning to my majordomo lists usin

Re: [SAtalk] rule testing against corpus

2002-07-09 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 the voices made Craig Hughes write: > And there's also the computation time involved in checking a rule -- > particularly when said rule might be poorly written and have unpleasant regex > characteristics. Could easily lead to deliberate of accidental DoS attacks > against the

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:58:27AM -0700, Craig Hughes wrote: > Is the concensus that Razor2 is stable enough for us to release > it? I'm somewhat wary of releasing a SA version with Razor2 > support and having to answer daily emails where the answer is > "upgrade to version 2.x -- prior versi

[SAtalk] Spamassassin whitelist configuration...

2002-07-09 Thread Trey Keifer
Hello, I have setup and configured a spamassassin server on our network and so far everything looks great. There is one thing I cannot figure out though. It appears that when I put in the configuration rule all_spam_to *@example.com users at example.com are still getting their mail

Re: [SAtalk] Can't override rule scores

2002-07-09 Thread Danita Zanre
Howard, I am having a similar problem - my local.cf is being read, but sometimes various items in the local.cf seem to be ignored. For example, I changed my required_hits to 5.9, and that seems to be read consistently. However, I have some all_spam_to entries that get ignored "occasionally". T

Re: [SAtalk] RBL for URLs, E-Mail Addresses, Phone Numbers, etc.?

2002-07-09 Thread Justin Mason
Robert L Mathews said: > Perhaps someone has already tried this, but it occurs to me that a sort > of RBL for spammer phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and URLs would be > useful. Yes, myself and Mark Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> swapped a few mails on this in January -- I think it was Mark's

RE: [SAtalk] Re: spam high scores

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Moncur
> >> This got a 35.7. What's your record? I got a "Temple Kiff" spam that scored 60.9 the other day. My Razor and DCC scores are higher than normal since I use a threshold of 7, so it really should have only been 58.something. I think everything else is standard. X-Spam-Report: 60.9 hits, 7 r

[SAtalk] Pass through to smart host?

2002-07-09 Thread Hess, Mtodd, /mth
I'm sure this has been done and is probably documented somewhere... I would like my Linux machine running Spam Assassin to simply filter the messages and pass them on to my Exchange server. I don't want to create individual user accounts on the Linux machine. How can I have it filter all messag

Re: [SAtalk] rule testing against corpus

2002-07-09 Thread Justin Mason
Craig Hughes said: > And there's also the computation time involved in checking a > rule -- particularly when said rule might be poorly written and > have unpleasant regex characteristics. Could easily lead to > deliberate of accidental DoS attacks against the machine hosting > the CGI. I

RE: [SAtalk] Pass through to smart host?

2002-07-09 Thread CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson
What mail server software are you planning to use on the Linux server? sendmail, qmail, etc..? Once you decide then that will determine how to implement SA in the manner that you want. Ed. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hess, >

RE: [SAtalk] Pass through to smart host?

2002-07-09 Thread Hess, Mtodd, /mth
I have it working in a test mode using sendmail/procmail. Todd -Original Message- From: CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:25 PM To: Hess, Mtodd, /mth; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Pass through to smart host? What mail

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Justin Mason
Theo Van Dinter said: > Originally the statement was "Razor2 support is a big change, we > should wait for 2.4", and now it's "2.4 will take a while, we should > release 2.32." The semi-software engineer in me says we should leave > 2.3[1-9] as maintenance releases and wait for 2.40 for R2 supp

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 06:42:15PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > although I seem to recall some questions on the razor list about Razor > matching anything, and I haven't seen many hits in the past few days, > but I haven't had any time to investigate, myself :( Well: mysql> select COUNT(*) from

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Moncur
> mysql> select COUNT(*) from reported where date > '2002-06-26 > 00:00:00' and rules like > '%RAZOR_CHECK%'; Hey, cool. How did your reported spam end up in MySQL? Any chance you can share the script that's doing that? -- michael moncur mgm at starlingtech.com http://www.starlingtech.com/ "

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin whitelist configuration...

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Moncur
Trey Keifer wrote: > I have setup and configured a spamassassin server on our network and so > far everything looks great. There is one thing I cannot figure out though. > It appears that when I put in the configuration rule > > all_spam_to *@example.com > > users at example.com are s

Re: [SAtalk] spam high scores

2002-07-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:34:40PM -0400, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote: > What are you using to record this? I was going to do something very similar > but if you've already got public code I'd like to use it. It's a few bits of perl I threw together. I didn't make it public mostly because I just di

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin is not checking against razor

2002-07-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:16:47PM -0600, Michael Moncur wrote: > Hey, cool. How did your reported spam end up in MySQL? Any chance you can > share the script that's doing that? ;) I just posted a message about it (under the "high spam score" thread...) It's just some perl I threw together. --

[SAtalk] Stop spamd from scanning

2002-07-09 Thread John Stefani
Hello, I am setting up spamd to connect to a remote mysql database to read/set user preferences. If the remote database is down, spamd resolves to read the 10_misc.cf and apply the rules therein to every inbound e-mail . Since I have about 45000 users, this might become a burden for the machine

[SAtalk] False Tagging?

2002-07-09 Thread Dale
Hello list, I have spamc/spamd setup (for a few test users via procmail) and (very) occasionally get messages with their subjects tagged, but the messages do not have enough points to get tagged. This isn't an issue for me as X-Spam-Status is still No, but for those users filtering by subject it

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Spamd stops logging connections after a while

2002-07-09 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 05:15:12PM +0200, Nicolas STRANSKY wrote: > Michael Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > Aha... you need to modify your logrotate scripts to restart spamd. On > > linux, there is a /etc/logrotate.d directory which contains rulesets > > for each service & how to rest

[SAtalk] Re: Spamd stops logging connections after a while

2002-07-09 Thread Nicolas STRANSKY
Crist J. Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > It sounds like you have spamd writing _directly_ to the log file > rather than actually using the syslog service? I don't think so. Spamd is using the syslog-ng service with the mail facility (the default). Spamd stops logging when syslog-ng is stop

[SAtalk] Fw: *****SPAM***** Finally. Eliminate Annoying Spam!

2002-07-09 Thread David B. Bitton
nothing like anti-spam spam! --   David B. Bitton[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.codenoevil.com   Code Made Fresh Daily™ - Original Message - From: MyHitMovie To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 6:46 PM Subject: *SPAM* Finally. Eliminate Annoying Spam!

[SAtalk] Re: Pass through to smart host?

2002-07-09 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 12:16:00PM -0500, Hess, Mtodd, /mth wrote: | I'm sure this has been done and is probably documented somewhere... | | I would like my Linux machine running Spam Assassin to simply filter the | messages and pass them on to my Exchange server. I don't want to create | individ

Re: [SAtalk] RBL for URLs, E-Mail Addresses, Phone Numbers, etc.?

2002-07-09 Thread Mark Reynolds
Hi Robert and Justin, I've documented the original idea (well, saved some emails :-) at http://bl.reynolds.net.au/ksi/ I've been focusing on learning who to run a dnsbl service, scanning, and integrating it all together. Current system was spread over 4 servers, so I'm also merging it all onto

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bolting SA into EZMLM lists

2002-07-09 Thread Aly Dharshi
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:43:15PM -0700, Jason Baker wrote: > | Before I start wandering down this path, I thought I'd check to see if it's > | already been done (and a quick google came up emptyhanded). > | > | Has anyone added spamassassin into EZMLM mailing lis