[SAtalk] walkthrough with postfix?

2003-09-04 Thread Alan Fullmer
does anyone have a website, or information about installing spamassasin (daemon version) with postfix? thanks in advance. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _

[SAtalk] Re: Need to change 'required hits' but no local.cf file

2003-09-04 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 04 September 2003 03:41 CET Jason Lieurance wrote: > The trouble is I don't have a local.cf file and I have 100+ virtual users > so $home/.spamassassin/user_prefs is out of the question. I have some > spamassassin directories here: > > /usr/local/share/spamassassin > /usr/local/etc/mail

[SAtalk] why so low

2003-09-04 Thread landy
i have been getting many of these and even after doing sa-learn the score is super low, these emails are really pissing me of To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Subject: Change password. Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:35:21

RE: [SAtalk] walkthrough with postfix?

2003-09-04 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Alan, > -Original Message- > From: Alan Fullmer > does anyone have a website, or information about installing > spamassasin (daemon version) with postfix? Here are a few of links: http://www.securitysage.com/guides/postfix_uce.html http://www.advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.h

RE: [SAtalk] why so low

2003-09-04 Thread Tom Meunier
http://useast.spamassassin.org/tests.html You've got negative scores all over that thing. Add them up. > -Original Message- > From: landy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 5:31 AM > To: SA > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] why so low > > i have

Re: [SAtalk] why so low

2003-09-04 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:31:09AM -0400, landy wrote: > i have been getting many of these > and even after doing sa-learn the score is super low, > these emails are really pissing me of > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; cha

[SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Muenz, Michael
Hi, I often receive Spam with a link includes "cid:pic.gif";. I tested a simple rule: body CIDPIC /cid:pic1.gif|cid:pic.gif|cid:picture.gif/ describe CIDPIC Catch them all score CIDPIC 2.5 When I copy the sourcecode from the html mail and test it, it works. But when the m

Re: [SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Fred
Try upgrading to 2.60, it's much better at parsing these messages. That spam is using a trick which makes the message body invisible to SA, it's fixed in 2.60. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. Muenz, Michael wrote: > Hi, > > I often receive Spam with a link includes

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down

2003-09-04 Thread Nick Leverton
Kandji Développeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The story : > linux RedHat 7.3 - kernel 2.4.18#3 on smp system (2xPII) > perl 5.6.1 > spamassassin version 2.55 > postfix 1.1.12-0.7 > > 1) The system had been running for 90 days. > 2) I installed spamassassin AND pop-before-smtp the same day > 3) Th

Re: [SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Muenz, Michael
Hi, > Try upgrading to 2.60, it's much better at parsing these messages. That > spam is using a trick which makes the message body invisible to SA, it's > fixed in 2.60. hmpf ... isn't 2.60 only a RC ? I'm a little bit afraid of upgrading on my production server. - Michael --

Re: [SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Fred
RC3 is working great! I have noticed a huge improvement on my production server. I'm the same as you are, normally I would not do this in production, but the benefit from using 2.6 over 2.55 was enough for me to take the plunge. I used to receive 1 to 2 FPs a day with SA 2.55 and a 6.6 threshold

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin not working with qmail-scanner..

2003-09-04 Thread AltGrendel
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 03:57, Cornelius Bolten wrote: > this is my current tcp.smtp-content: > > # > 127.:allow,RBLSMTPD="",RELAYCLIENT="",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue > " > #:allow,QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/qmail-scanner-queue.pl" > > there is no content-scanning at all :-( > > af

Re: [SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Muenz, Michael
Hi > RC3 is working great! I have noticed a huge improvement on my production > server. I'm the same as you are, normally I would not do this in > production, but the benefit from using 2.6 over 2.55 was enough for me to > take the plunge. hmmm .. the SA page only links to RC2 .. is RC3 the curr

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin not working with qmail-scanner..

2003-09-04 Thread Cornelius Bolten
i found the problems' answer.. after restarting qmail (the XXnd time) i persecuted what happend in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current # Unable to bind to adress... already in use. an old qmail-smtpd was still running and blocked the new smtp-job to bind to port 25 -> old smtp-deamon worked with old

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down - Reply to Nick Leverton

2003-09-04 Thread kandjidev
Thanks for the info, I've just upgraded my development server to 2.4.22.. It seems to work like a charm... Any further advice about this kernel too ?? Thanks On 4 Sep 2003 at 14:18, Nick Leverton wrote: > Kandji Développeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The story : > > linux RedHat 7.3 - kerne

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes filter and autolearning

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Kliczbor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bart Schaefer wrote: >> The mechanism I use to determine in which folder the mail will be stored >> is simple: maildrop (a tool similar to procmail) looks for the >> X-Spam-Level header and sorts the mail according to that header into the >> IMAP folde

[SAtalk] adjusting a few things in local.cf

2003-09-04 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Does this look correct to y'all? #Adjusted a few scores because of issues with osirusoft/etc score SUBJECT_MONTH 0.00 score RCVD_IN_ORBS 0.00 score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH 0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0

[SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
All - I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes developer to give their users an extra button in Notes to forward false negatives to a spam account the Linux server so I can run sa-learn --spam on the messages

Re: [SAtalk] Multi-match?

2003-09-04 Thread Spamassassin-Talk
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:58:40 -0700 (PDT), Regis Wilson wrote: >I have a rule for HTML comments much like: > >rawbody HTML_COMMENTS // >score HTML_COMMENTS 0.05 > >But I want them to add up. Five matches is .25, ten matches is .5, etc. Is >there a special way to make each match count separately?

[SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Jim Porter
OFT_COM, RISK_FREE, X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY, quarantine spam- 8e8e1554711b2241ecab992a4f6a1552-20030904-121726-09485-04 (spam-quarantine) I have restarted both postfix and amavisd. What am I missing? Thanks, Jimmy --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Th

Re: [SAtalk] Multi-match?

2003-09-04 Thread Jay Swackhamer
Spamassassin-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyhow, one could do: > > rawbody HTML_COMMENTS_1 /{1,4}/ > rawbody HTML_COMMENTS_5 /{5,9}/ > rawbody HTML_COMMENTS_10 /{10,}/ I imagine this could take a very long time on complex HTML messages -- like spams that have hundreds of differing comments.

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:35 PM 9/4/2003 -0400, Jim Porter wrote: I have added the following lines to my etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file. >From what I understood, this would disable rbl checking of osirusoft.com, but I am still seeing lines like this in my log file. Do you use spamd? if so, did you restart it?

[SAtalk] Mailscanner- spaassasin messages in the email main body

2003-09-04 Thread TUNC ERESEN
Hello, All How do I get following message added to the end of the email main body on the MailScanner server running on 550 Cobalt with spamassasin? "This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner and spamassasin, and is believed to be clean." Best Regards, O

Re: [SAtalk] why so low

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:31 AM 9/4/2003 -0400, landy wrote: i have been getting many of these and even after doing sa-learn the score is super low, these emails are really pissing me of Are you *SURE* those aren't a GENUINE email related to your real ebay account? The fact that the message matches GENUINE_EBAY_RCVD

[SAtalk] virtual user config for large site

2003-09-04 Thread Andreas Stollar
Hello, I have spamassassin set up and working with maildrop and qmail. The global maildroprc file calls spamd like this: xfilter "/usr/bin/spamc -u $LOGNAME" and spamd prefs are set up like this: OPTIONS="-d -m 100 -c -u speakeasy -x --virtual-config-dir=/home/speakeasy/spamrules/%u/" This a

Re: [SAtalk] Need to change 'required hits' but no local.cf file

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:41 PM 9/3/2003 -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote: I have a freebsd 4.7 mail server with qmail, courier-imap, and spamassassin 2.56 installed from the ports collection. The default of 'required_hits 5' I need to change to 7 or so. The trouble is I don't have a local.cf file and I have 100+ virtua

Re: [SAtalk] Stop mails with "cid:pic.gif"

2003-09-04 Thread Michael W. Cocke
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 09:05:49 -0400, you wrote: >Try upgrading to 2.60, it's much better at parsing these messages. That >spam is using a trick which makes the message body invisible to SA, it's >fixed in 2.60. > > I was offline for a couple of days - has 2.60 gone gold? Mike- Mornings: Evolution

[SAtalk] bayes filter: learn and forget

2003-09-04 Thread Dave Kliczbor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello out there, If I do a 'sa-learn --forget' on a message never learned into the db, would it have an effect on the data? Does it hurt to do a "dumb forget"? The essence of my question is: If I have a mail where I can't be sure whether it already

[SAtalk] Auto-whitelist explanation?

2003-09-04 Thread Pat Traynor
I think I have a general understanding of how the auto-whitelist process works, and please correct me if I'm wrong. As you get "acceptable" emails from addresses (and/or ip addresses?), that address improves its "score". Then, if that address sends a message that gets some bad SA scoring, the aut

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:59 AM 9/4/2003 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: All - I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes developer to give their users an extra button in Notes to forward false negatives to a spam account the Linux s

[SAtalk] Change RBL lookup

2003-09-04 Thread gregj
Hello all... I dont know if this has been asked before, but I was unable to find anything in the archives. Is there a way I can set SA to use a RBL other than Osirusoft? I would like to use SpamCop or NJABL. Any help is greatly apreciated. Thanks! -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.or

Re: [SAtalk] bayes filter: learn and forget

2003-09-04 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:44:08PM +0200, Dave Kliczbor wrote: > If I do a 'sa-learn --forget' on a message never learned into the db, > would it have an effect on the data? Does it hurt to do a "dumb forget"? No, sa-learn looks at the Message-ID. It only learns a message once and only forgets it

RE: [SAtalk] Change RBL lookup

2003-09-04 Thread Tom Meunier
There are already tests for SpamCop and NJABL: RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET RCVD_IN_NJABL X_NJABL_OPEN_PROXY X_NJABL_DIALUP You can see what blacklists are tested by default, and their assigned scores, at http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html For examples of rules for alternative blacklists, see

Re: [SAtalk] Mailscanner- spaassasin messages in the email main body

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
When using mailscanner, all of the message modifications are done by mailscanner itself and SA is only used to generate a score. Ask on the mailscanner list and someone there should be able to help you if nobody here knows the answer. I use mailscanner, but I'm running an older version so I'm n

Re: [SAtalk] Change RBL lookup

2003-09-04 Thread wrolf . courtney
To enable bl.spamcop.net, put into your /etc/mail/local.cf (or wherever): score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0.0 5.0 0 5.0 To enable an arbitrary RBL, e.g. korea.services.net, put in: header RCVD_IN_KOREA_SERVICES_NET rbleval:check_rbl('korea', 'korea.services.net.') describe RCVD_IN_KOREA_SERVI

Re: [SAtalk] Auto-whitelist explanation?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:21 PM 9/4/2003 -0400, Pat Traynor wrote: I think I have a general understanding of how the auto-whitelist process works, and please correct me if I'm wrong. As you get "acceptable" emails from addresses (and/or ip addresses?), that address improves its "score". Then, if that address sends a

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:47, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:59 AM 9/4/2003 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >All - > > > >I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in > >front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes developer > >to give their users an extra button

Re: [SAtalk] Change RBL lookup

2003-09-04 Thread Spamassassin-Talk
On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 01:08:12 +0700, gregj wrote: >Hello all... > >I dont know if this has been asked before, but I was unable to find anything >in the archives. > >Is there a way I can set SA to use a RBL other than Osirusoft? I would like >to use SpamCop or NJABL. Any help is greatly apreciated.

RE: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Jim Porter
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:38 PM To: Jim Porter; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working? At 12:35 PM 9/4/2003 -0400, Jim Porter wrote: >I have added the following lines to my etc/mail/spam

[SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Alan Fullmer
I have an odd question. Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can think of :-) regards. --- This sf.net email is

[SAtalk] White list limits?

2003-09-04 Thread gregj
Hello again. Thanks for the help on my last question...but it seems I have another problem. I created a file called avieg_white_list.cf, and placed it in /etc/mail/spamassassin. This file contains 952 lines like the following: whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Tencati
I've been looking into the same situation actually. I haven't gotten far enough to try yet because of different things I've seen. Domino changes the headers around somewhat, especially the X-headers - converting them to X_ headers. I'm not sure if it even keeps them on a forwarded message (sin

Re: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Thursday, September 04, 2003 15:22:59 -0600 Alan Fullmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an odd question. Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can think of :-

Re: [SAtalk] virtual user config for large site

2003-09-04 Thread Andreas Stollar
I figured this out, for the sake of the archives I will post the solution. The answer was to hack spamd itself, since its perl, this was not too difficult. Maybe this change will be of interest to developers. In these lines, starting at line 798 in spamd if ($safename =~ /^(.*)\@(.*)$/) { $local

Re: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I can CC you on my spam, about 600 a day, if you want :) Regards, Rick Alan Fullmer wrote: I have an odd question. Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can thin

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

Re: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:22 PM -0600 Alan Fullmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an odd question. > > Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR > SPAM? Or get on some lists? > > I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Thomas Cameron
- Original Message - From: "Matt Tencati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn? > > I've been looking into the same situatio

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 20:43 4/09/2003 +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: Jim Porter wrote: score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 From what I understood, th

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Jim Porter wrote: score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 From what I understood, this would disable rbl checking of osirusoft.com, bu

RE: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Alan, You can download an archive at Spam Archive. http://www.spamarchive.org/ --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Alan Fullmer > I have an odd question. > > Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN > MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? > > I am go

[SAtalk] Re: Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Thomas Cameron said: > I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in > front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes > developer to give their users an extra button in Notes to forward > false negatives to a spam account the Linux

[SAtalk] RH 9.0 issues

2003-09-04 Thread Lance Ware
Hi folks,   Sorry for bothering the list. We’re building up some load balanced SA boxes and in the process used RH 9.0 vs. our older box which is using 8.1.   In trying to install SA we’re running in to some issues installing Net::DNS   Here’s the error:   Bad arg length for Socket:

[SAtalk] Re: odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Rick Erlandson
I do. Send yourself one of those 'free' electronic postcards. it should start up in no time. Rick Erlandson - Original Message - From: "Alan Fullmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Postfix users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: odd

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin not working with qmail-scanner..

2003-09-04 Thread Cornelius Bolten
i found the problems' answer.. after restarting qmail (the XXnd time) i persecuted what happend in /var/log/qmail/smtpd/current # Unable to bind to adress... already in use. an old qmail-smtpd was still running and blocked the new smtp-job to bind to port 25 -> old smtp-deamon worked with old

[SAtalk] Re: odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Chris Horry
Alan Fullmer wrote: I have an odd question. Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can think of :-) Post to alt.test, rec.test, comp.test (and any other *.test you can f

[SAtalk] multiple spamassassins

2003-09-04 Thread spamassassin
What happens if mail is scanned by different SA's in a row? I use SA 2.55 at home for all my mail, but already two of my emailproviders use SA too. So they scan it, add the X-Spam-Status header and when it arrives on my machine it gets scanned again. But because they use different configs (not to m

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

2003-09-04 Thread Matt Tencati
I've been looking for a milter to do the caching of messages - do you know of one? Thanks, Matt Dan Nelson