[SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Pedro Sam
Hi all, I'm just wondering why RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK was a hit, when I sent a email from my localhost 192.168.2.125 with kmail using the SMTP server at mail.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca to address [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the proper way of sending email from a cable IP right? to use a smtp server fro

[SAtalk] Re: spamd processing time excessive

2003-11-03 Thread era
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:36:52 -0700, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general: > most of my emails process by spamd under a second but some are taking 150 > seconds what would cause this. the box is only used for email. Probably some DNS-based test. Try turning them

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pedro Sam writes: >Hi all, > >I'm just wondering why RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK was a hit, when I sent a email from >my localhost 192.168.2.125 with kmail using the SMTP server at >mail.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca to address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This is the prop

[SAtalk] Re: help

2003-11-03 Thread era
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 07:40:06 +0200, Thomas Kinghorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: (Weird quoting ... are you replying to yourself?) >> \b[Ss][ ./_*-]*[Ee][ ./_*-]*[Xx]\b >> Is this syntax correct. Yes, but it's probably not what you want. >> I have tested using various mai

[SAtalk] Re: X-pvkhgmeblyqcmv header

2003-11-03 Thread era
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 17:13:16 -0800, Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general: > Received the attached FN today. Most notable attribute I find is that it > includes an X-pvkhgmeblyqcmv header. You didn't think that ghastly URL in the text was a dead giveaw

[SAtalk] install issues: required modules

2003-11-03 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Hi List. On a redhat 9 installation, I am getting errors while trying to install the required modules from CPAN. below is an extract: t/recursok 13/25sh: -c: line 2: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' sh: -c: line 4: syntax error: unexpected end of file t/recurs..

[SAtalk] Re: Whitelist not working?

2003-11-03 Thread Patrick Beard
> SA 2.60 > Postfix 2.0.16 > > I've got various local daemons that occasionally send email from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Works like a charm. Unfortu- > nately, SA flags them as spam: > So, I added whitelist entries to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf for all > the machines in my home

RE: [SAtalk] Re: help

2003-11-03 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Thanks era. However, If I place a letter boundary, wouldn't words like Sussex, essex etc get blocked? Many thanks Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 November 2003 10:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: help On Fri, 31 Oct 2

Best way to call SA with postfix was: Re: [SAtalk] Need advice on new SA setup..

2003-11-03 Thread Marcio Merlone
Hello! On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:09:27 - Paul Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (...) > You could take a look at > http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly for a > real quick way to bolt on spamassassin once you have postfix up and running. BTW, What is the cheape

[SAtalk] Re: help

2003-11-03 Thread era
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:26:05 +0200, Thomas Kinghorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > However, If I place a letter boundary, wouldn't words like > Sussex, essex etc get blocked? No, that's what the word boundary operator does: \b requires the match to be at a "boundary" where a "

[SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Maxwell Ochieng
I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. Thanks, Maxwell --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more p

Re: [SAtalk] Permissions

2003-11-03 Thread Ihsan Dogan
On Sunday, 02 Nov 2003 09:10, Carl R. Friend wrote: > > I'm using Spamassassin 2.55 with spamd/spamc. I started spamd > > with this options: -u nobody --user-config -c > > The users on this system, starting spamc from their .procmailrc. > > > > My problem is, that something is changing the permis

[SAtalk] Test - Please ignore

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
--- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ ___

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Is this list longer supported?

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Nancy McGough wrote: On 2 Nov 2003 web4.hm - Peter Padberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is this list longer supported? I seems so that on this list more questions about SA than answers!? I think that the problem is that the majority of questions asked on this list are covered in the documentati

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Is this list longer supported?

2003-11-03 Thread Fred
Ed wrote: > A *wonderful* way to phrase that. ^_^ > > I agree totally. If you can't RTFM, you shouldn't be administering ANY > system, IMHO. > > Ed I say add this line to the signup page for this list, make sure they agree to this before joining ;) Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Ser

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Maxwell Ochieng wrote: I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. Thanks, Maxwell Even though I'm sure this isn't the answer you want: _RTFM_. The FM you should read is the INSTALL file in the distribution, it g

[SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Sprunger
This past weekend a flood of new spam arrived which circumvented the weeds rules by using leading zeros and hex values (both legal from an HTML perspective). I've updated my local rules as below. Hope this is useful. BTW, Jennifer thanks for an incredible set of rules! -- Scott describe J_WEEDS

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Maxwell Ochieng
thanks man will sure go through the RTFM Maxwell Ed wrote: Maxwell Ochieng wrote: I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. Thanks, Maxwell Even though I'm sure this isn't the answer you want: _RTFM_. The FM

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Maxwell Ochieng
The INSTALL manual is talking about user based spamassassin configuration while on my case its a sitewide configuration Ed wrote: Maxwell Ochieng wrote: I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. Thanks, Maxwell

[SAtalk] International spam - how to contribute?

2003-11-03 Thread Marcio Merlone
Hello, I am a humble email sysadmin from Brazil, and we get tons of spam from everywhere. Of course we have our own spam, and sometimes it get spread to the world. I'd like to know if there is a way I can contribute with brazilian spam samples or hits-frequencies samples created with GA, so we co

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Justin Mason wrote: Should be -- I would guess it may be that SpamAssassin can't parse the "good" received line, so misses it. I have moved DynaBlock to the SMTP level and I have yet to see any trouble. Although I cannot tell you why, it seems to be most effective on our off-site backup mail ser

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Maxwell Ochieng wrote: The INSTALL manual is talking about user based spamassassin configuration while on my case its a sitewide configuration It still applies, since that's how I'm using it. Time to STFW I guess then... -- Regards, Ed ---

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Ed wrote: Maxwell Ochieng wrote: The INSTALL manual is talking about user based spamassassin configuration while on my case its a sitewide configuration It still applies, since that's how I'm using it. Time to STFW I guess then... ...to clarify, by STFW, try google...you'll find it, I just

[SAtalk] Custom RBLs

2003-11-03 Thread Jennifer Fountain
I created my own rbl zone and configured SA to check it in my user_prefs. When I do a lookup for 7.69.106.200.rbl.rbinc.com, it is listed but SA isn't tagging it as spam. I am not sure where the problem lays - the zone or the user_prefs? Here are the files: #Custom RBL header RCVD_IN_RBLRBINC_C

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:57 AM 11/3/2003, Justin Mason wrote: Pedro Sam writes: >I'm just wondering why RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK was a hit, when I sent a email from >my localhost 192.168.2.125 with kmail using the SMTP server at >mail.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca to address [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >This is the proper way of sending

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread jennifer
Hi Scott, Thanks for the heads up. You wouldn't happen to have a sample of one of those spams would you? I'm curious about something. I'm wondering if they were using decimal code for punctuation rather than hex code for letters?? "=" (or =) is actually "=" not "a". So maybe you were seeing p

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Sprunger
There are two partial emails shown below. They are both the same email from various sources. You can see that one uses decimal and the other hex. There are some punctuation characters (% %) being the "%", but they are few. I like the idea of cleaning things up with the new format /\&\#0*(?:65|97

Re: [SAtalk] Sole scanner?

2003-11-03 Thread Patrick Morris
Angel Gabriel wrote: I want to setup a machine, with a sole purpose, of scanning email. All email to be delivered to my domain, will be accepted by this machine, and then, after scanning delivered to my mail server. How can I achieve such a setup? There are more ways to do this than I can count

[SAtalk] trying to tweak SA

2003-11-03 Thread Anne Ramey
I'm trying to add local rules, but only one of the .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin seems to be used. Can you only have one extra .cf file? (I'm using amavis with SA, so I was told the extra rules can't go in local.cf). Also, my SA checks seem to be taking a long time. SA check: 1870 (48%)

[SAtalk] Sole scanner?

2003-11-03 Thread Angel Gabriel
I want to setup a machine, with a sole purpose, of scanning email. All email to be delivered to my domain, will be accepted by this machine, and then, after scanning delivered to my mail server. How can I achieve such a setup? -- * Not everyone is touched by an Angel Those that are,

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Sneddon
I'm running SpamAssassin 2.60 on a public IP (not NATed) and none of the -notfirsthop rules (including RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK) have worked correctly for me, either. For reference I'm also running Sendmail and Spamass-milter 0.2.0. Here are the headers from an email that *should* have matched the rule:

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread Lucas Albers
Why doesn't someone setup a rsync for these rules, and then only put in the conservative rules, and we can potentially rsync the rules into a cf file. > Hi Scott, > Thanks for the heads up. > > You wouldn't happen to have a sample of one of those spams would you? > I'm curious about something. I'

Re: [SAtalk] Sole scanner?

2003-11-03 Thread Angel Gabriel
I use the MTA postfix, and I want to use spamassasin. On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 16:40, Patrick Morris wrote: > Angel Gabriel wrote: > > >I want to setup a machine, with a sole purpose, of scanning email. All > >email to be delivered to my domain, will be accepted by this machine, > >and then, after

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread AltGrendel
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:50, Maxwell Ochieng wrote: > I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam > by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. > http://www.exit0.us/index.php/So%20you%20want%20to%20%27delete%27%20all%20your%20spam%21 -- AltGrendel <[EMAIL P

RE: [SAtalk] Sole scanner?

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Hutchings
Take a look at http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly I'm using it here with spamd/spamc and it works a charm - I'm assuming you already have postfix setup as an inbound relay? regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Angel Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread web4.hm - Peter Padberg
Hi folks! > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2537 AND THIS TOO: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2543 I love OPENSOURCE, but who is able to FIX this MAJOR bugs now??? Any developer outthere? Both bugs are known over 4weeks! It was better if we talk about fixes af

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread jennifer
aha... i missed the "x" in your regex. great, thank you for the samples. brats... you're right, harder to scale them down. I'll go with this for now then. /\&\#0*(?:65|97);|\&\#x0*41;|\&\#x0*61;)/ Thanks again for the tip! I'll change them on the page too. Jennifer > -Original Message--

Re: [SAtalk] Sole scanner?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Patrick Morris wrote: [...] > There are more ways to do this than I can count. Do you have an MTA you > particularly like, or are familiar with? It'd be easier to try to > explain how to do it in a way that fits with your systems than to try to > cover all the countless possi

[SAtalk] HELP !!!! spamd using too much CPU !!

2003-11-03 Thread Gary Lopez
Hello, Not sure if I am even in the ballpark on this one but I am desperate. It seems that spam has gotten 10 times worse and the spamd daemon is spawning too many processes and eating up CPU as well as memory. I think I may have a leak somewhere, but not sure. This evolution started last thursd

Re: [SAtalk] trying to tweak SA

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:28 AM 11/3/2003, Anne Ramey wrote: I'm trying to add local rules, but only one of the .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin seems to be used. Can you only have one extra .cf file? (I'm using amavis with SA, so I was told the extra rules can't go in local.cf). SA should use _every_ file tha

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Sneddon
The only trusted network should be that of mail-gateway.metrologic.com which is my MTA. Katie.darklegacies.com is a host on a dynamic IP which is not a trusted host. Therefore I would expect mail submitted to my MTA from katie.darklegacies.com to match DYNABLOCK, yet it does not. Brian -Or

[SAtalk] SA with "per domain" config

2003-11-03 Thread Filbert
I've a postfix server serving as inbound SMTP-server for several domains. Now I would like to implement SpamAssasin for the domains, but with a "per domain" SA config. Im running SA for a while now, but on a server based config. Been searching the net for good documents how to implement this but n

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:35 AM 11/3/2003, Brian Sneddon wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin 2.60 on a public IP (not NATed) and none of the -notfirsthop rules (including RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK) have worked correctly for me, either. For reference I'm also running Sendmail and Spamass-milter 0.2.0. Here are the headers from a

RE: [SAtalk] HELP !!!! spamd using too much CPU !!

2003-11-03 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Gary Lopez Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:50 PM > It seems that spam has gotten 10 times worse and the spamd > daemon is spawning too many processes and eating up CPU as well as > memory. You don't want spamd to spill over into swap. It will crawl so slow it will crash your machine. RTFM at h

[SAtalk] [RD] Meta rules vs. SA version

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Santerre
I'm not sure if it is just me, but there are some new rules I have in the update that look like this: (__meta1 + __meta2) > 1 They don't work on older version of SA. they get an error when doing a spamassassin -D --lint. The '+' is throwing it off. I wonder if that feature is 2.60 dependant?

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Weeds changes

2003-11-03 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Possibly due to spammers watching these groups and crafting their messages to avoid detection by the rules posted to this and other groups. If we make it even easier for the spammers to obtain our rules, we would not be helping anyone but the spammers. It only takes me about 10 seconds to cut and

RE: [SAtalk] Problems with bayes "forgetting" in 2.60

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Meunier
John, if you run the email through Spamassassin -tD -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Stewart, John > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:13 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [SAtalk] Problems with bayes "forgetting" in 2.60 > >

[SAtalk] Problems with bayes "forgetting" in 2.60

2003-11-03 Thread Stewart, John
So, I'm running SA 2.60 with bayes enabled. I've got a folder to which people can drag emails that are misclassified. This has always worked very well in the past with 2.55. What I've noticed is that when SA learns from a spam, the bayes score usually shoots way up to 99% right away (an improveme

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Meta rules vs. SA version

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Sprunger
FWIW, This type of rule works fine for me with v2.55 and v2.60. The only difference I see is an enclosing parenthesis. ((__TEST1 + __TEST2 + __TEST3) > 1) -- Scott -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:51 PM To: Spamassassin

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Meta rules vs. SA version

2003-11-03 Thread Martin Radford
At Mon Nov 3 18:50:49 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > > I'm not sure if it is just me, but there are some new rules I have in the > update that look like this: > > (__meta1 + __meta2) > 1 > > They don't work on older version of SA. they get an error when doing a > spamassassin -D --lint. The '+'

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Meta rules vs. SA version

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:50 PM 11/3/2003, Chris Santerre wrote: I'm not sure if it is just me, but there are some new rules I have in the update that look like this: (__meta1 + __meta2) > 1 They don't work on older version of SA. they get an error when doing a spamassassin -D --lint. The '+' is throwing it off. I wo

[SAtalk] MH mail folder of spams

2003-11-03 Thread S.M.C Butler
hi, i have a dir of spam in MH format (MH is the unix command line based version of exmh) and want to feed that into my spam learning spam assassin setup. can anyone tell me the command? thx in advance, -simon- --- This SF.net email is

[SAtalk] [RD] evil rules holdup. Stupid grep!

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Santerre
I'm having some difficulties I need help with. I'd like to punch the grep command ;) Ok, the evilrules are done, except they are big! For just 15 days I got 1300 domains! This is even after removing the "www" duplicates So I ran a hitfreq script and have a file that lists _in_descending_orde

[SAtalk] What is tripping FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA?

2003-11-03 Thread Robert Kropiewnicki
Hello all, Other than injecting something into the headers to make it look like the MUA was Mozilla, what else might trip this rule? We've had more than a few occasions where we've crossed a threshold because of this rule. Hitting a 2.7 point rule when the default threshold is only 5 is extremel

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Sneddon
After doing some more testing I can only duplicate the problem with emails that are processed through spamass-milter by spamd. If I take the email and subsequently pass it through spamassassin manually then it does match DYNABLOCK. I did notice that when passing it through spamassassin manually I

Re: [SAtalk] SA loads & times

2003-11-03 Thread Rick Beebe
Rick Beebe wrote: I just updated my production SA environment from 2.41 to 2.60 and am running into load issues. I'm running SA on a 2-node Tru64 cluster. Each node has 4 gigs of memory and dual 667mHz Alpha CPUs. We process about 150,000 messages per day but, of course, it isn't an even distri

[SAtalk] FORGED_JUNO_RCVD wrong?

2003-11-03 Thread spamass
Greetings, Long time subscriber to the list, first time poster... I get emails from friends from juno, and they get marked as forged juno received, but this is false. What is the deal? Am I on crack? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: by MY.MAILSERVER.COM (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 3.5.9)

Re: [SAtalk] FORGED_JUNO_RCVD wrong?

2003-11-03 Thread spamass
Forget it, I just downloaded the new source and see it is fixed in the regular expressionfor the united online crap...sorry to bother anyone...carry on... cube On Monday 03 November 2003 01:58 pm, you wrote: > Greetings, > > Long time subscriber to the list, first time poster... > > I get e

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] evil rules holdup. Stupid grep!

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Thielen
Hi Chris: I don't think I quite understand the problem. I'll do my best though: if you use a pattern file input to grep, no sorting is done. Your output should be "sorted" exactly the same as the input is "sorted", only the output is filtered on the patterns in the file. eg: input.txt: a b c d

[SAtalk] FORGED_JUNO_RCVD wrong?

2003-11-03 Thread spamass
Greetings, Long time subscriber to the list, first time poster... I get emails from friends from juno, and they get marked as forged juno received, but this is false. What is the deal? Am I on crack? Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: by MY.MAILSERVER.COM (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 3.5.9)

[SAtalk] Am I nuts

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Barnes
Background: I had SpamAssassin 2.60 running just fine (using sendmail). I was calling spamd via the /etc/procmail. After installing Mailscanner and ClamAV, I noticed that the original SA conf file was being ignored in favor of the smaller version in the Mailscanner conf file. Since I have custom

[SAtalk] Razor2 patch applied, still getting Bad file descriptor errors

2003-11-03 Thread Daniel
So does nobody have an idea for the problem below? I can appreciate today's earlier thread regarding frequently asked questions on the list and people not RTFMing. But all I've found in the list and on the FM has talked about applying the patch to deal with the Razor issue, not how to deal with t

[SAtalk] Re: the autolearning function

2003-11-03 Thread Dave Malone
I am a lawyer, not a programmer, so many of the technical discussions I have found on the web have been less than useful.  All I want to know is this:  If I have collected 1,000 e-mails in my SPAM folder through Spam Assassin (SAproxy with Outlook and Windows XP), what, if anything, do I ha

[SAtalk] MH mail folder of spams

2003-11-03 Thread S.M.C Butler
hi, i have a dir of spam in MH format (MH is the unix command line based version of exmh) and want to feed that into my spam learning spam assassin setup. can anyone tell me the command? thx in advance, -simon- --- This SF.net email is

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist not working?

2003-11-03 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > SA 2.60 > Postfix 2.0.16 [snip..] > So, I added whitelist entries to /etc/spamassassin/local.cf for all > the machines in my home lan, and restarted spamassassin. > def_whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED]haggis > def_whitelist_from_rc

Re: [SAtalk] Razor2 patch applied, still getting Bad file descriptor errors

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Daniel wrote: > So does nobody have an idea for the problem below? Have you restarted spamd after patching Razor (assuming you're using spamc/spamd)? -- Bob --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. D

[SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Dennis Duval
I'm new to spamassassin and I'm having a serious problem. The problem is that the number of running spamd instances suddenly start increasing dramatically until the point all memory and swap space are used up, thus locking the system. This happens very quickly. It will go from 1 to 3 processes r

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] evil rules holdup. Stupid grep! (fwd)

2003-11-03 Thread Satya
-- Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/> "shutdown -halt now" - The final word in network security tools. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:02:53 -0500 (EST) From: Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Spamassassin-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] [RD] evil rules

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Is this list longer supported?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed writes: >Nancy McGough wrote: >> On 2 Nov 2003 web4.hm - Peter Padberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> >>>Is this list longer supported? >>>I seems so that on this list more questions about SA than answers!? >> >> I think that the problem is that t

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] evil rules holdup. Stupid grep!

2003-11-03 Thread Ryan Moore
as Chris T. said I don't believe grep does any sorting (unless perhaps you have a version that supports that as a parameter), at least in my experience. Now of course you can pipe stuff to `sort -n` to sort stuff numerically, and can even use a certain field to base the sort upon (-k). Ryan Moo

Re: [SAtalk] International spam - how to contribute?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marcio Merlone writes: >I am a humble email sysadmin from Brazil, and we get tons of spam from >everywhere. Of course we have our own spam, and sometimes it get spread >to the world. > >I'd like to know if there is a way I can contribute with brazilia

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] evil rules holdup. Stupid grep! (fwd)

2003-11-03 Thread Chris Thielen
If I understand correctly, he wants to sort file A using file B as the sorting criteria. I think file B contains the names of the rules in file A, sorted using some external process. Satya said: > > > -- > Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/> > "shutdown -halt now" - The final word in network securi

Re: [SAtalk] trying to tweak SA

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anne Ramey writes: >I'm trying to add local rules, but only one of the .cf files in >/etc/mail/spamassassin seems to be used. Can you only have one extra >.cf file? (I'm using amavis with SA, so I was told the extra rules >can't go in local.cf).

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 web4.hm - Peter Padberg writes: >I love OPENSOURCE, >but who is able to FIX this MAJOR bugs now??? >Any developer outthere? >Both bugs are known over 4weeks! >It was better if we talk about fixes after 4 weeks! We have limited bandwidth. There are o

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread John Kelly
hi all I'm still confused after following this thread and reading the manuals. I also get some of these FPs. Should my local.cf have these entries: trusted_networks192.168.200/24 <-- internal trusted_networks81.6.xxx.xxx/29 <-- my public IPs or have I thoroughly misunderstood this?

Re: [SAtalk] deteting e-mails tagged as spam

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Maxwell Ochieng wrote: I would like help on how i can delete or quarantine mails tagged as spam by SA am running qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin. Thanks, Maxwell Even though I'm sure this isn't the answer you want, RTFM. The FM you should read is the INSTALL file in the distribution, it give

RE: [SAtalk] trying to tweak SA

2003-11-03 Thread Stewart, John
> Anne Ramey writes: > >I'm trying to add local rules, but only one of the .cf files in > >/etc/mail/spamassassin seems to be used. Can you only have > one extra > >.cf file? (I'm using amavis with SA, so I was told the extra rules > >can't go in local.cf). > > Please ask the amavis people

Re: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Dennis Duval" writes: >I'm new to spamassassin and I'm having a serious problem. The problem is >that the number of running spamd instances suddenly start increasing >dramatically until the point all memory and swap space are used up, thus >locking

[SAtalk] tests not updated on web page

2003-11-03 Thread Mairhtin O'Feannag
Hi, The "tests" page of the spamassassin.org website seems not to be too up-to-date. A search of the page reveals only three or four tests based upon the word "outlook" and they all refer to Outlook Express. YET ... when I get a message in as spam, it has failed the following tests : X-Spam-

[SAtalk] Resolving and hat-checking spamvertised URLs...

2003-11-03 Thread Florian L. Klein
Since spammers often host their spamvertised sites at spamfriendly ISPs (e. g. Chinanet), I've been doing some tests with "hat-checking" spamvertised URLs. After resolving the URL hostname, the resulting IPs get RBL-checked against *.blackholes.us to find if they belong to a known spamfriendly IS

[SAtalk] URI Rule

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew
Fellow Assassins, Here is an example of some of the URLs coming through in spam mail. http://www Would a rule like /w/ match this? Regards, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does Sourc

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Sneddon writes: >The only trusted network should be that of mail-gateway.metrologic.com which >is my MTA. Katie.darklegacies.com is a host on a dynamic IP which is not a >trusted host. Therefore I would expect mail submitted to my MTA from >ka

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kelly writes: >I'm still confused after following this thread and reading the manuals. > >I also get some of these FPs. Should my local.cf have these entries: > >trusted_networks192.168.200/24 <-- internal >trusted_networks81.6.xxx.xx

RE: [SAtalk] spamd using up all system memory and swap space

2003-11-03 Thread Tom Meunier
-m 15 will limit it to 15 spamd instances. Give that a shot. I'm kinda surprised by how quickly this happens, though. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dennis Duval > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 5:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Sneddon
Well, yes, in that case it's a false-negative. :) The IP address IS in Dynablock's listing, but SpamAssassin doesn't even appear to be checking according to the debug output. In my original posting I included both a case where I'm seeing false-positives (with Earthlink) and false-negatives (comin

[SAtalk] whitelist question

2003-11-03 Thread Jack Coates
just got a spam that SA 2.55 not only didn't catch, but specifically let through because of whitelisting. I don't have a manual whitelist that matches this message, but I do have auto-whitelist turned on. Is there a way to parse the auto whitelist files and see what's in them? I'm concerned that s

[SAtalk] tests not updated on the SA website?

2003-11-03 Thread Mairhtin O'Feannag
Hi, The "tests" page of the spamassassin.org website seems not to be too up-to-date. A search of the page reveals only three or four tests based upon the word "outlook" and they all refer to Outlook Express. YET ... when I get a message in as spam, it has failed the following tests : X-Spam-

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist question

2003-11-03 Thread Ed
Jack Coates wrote: just got a spam that SA 2.55 not only didn't catch, but specifically let through because of whitelisting. I don't have a manual whitelist that matches this message, but I do have auto-whitelist turned on. Is there a way to parse the auto whitelist files and see what's in them? I'

[SAtalk] Outlook 2003 failing all tests?

2003-11-03 Thread Mairhtin O'Feannag
Hello, It seems legitimate Outlook 2003 emails are failing the SA tests, and there is no indication on the "tests" page as to how to correct this, other than lower the scoring for ORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK , MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME and risk getting a lot of spam through. Is there a patch or an antici

RE: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Brian Sneddon
Examining the code of spamass-milter it does appear that each header ends with \r\n as it should. From what I can see in Received.pm though the regexs aren't anchored to the end of line nor do they specify a specific end of line format. Brian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [m

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Sneddon writes: >After doing some more testing I can only duplicate the problem with emails >that are processed through spamass-milter by spamd. If I take the email and >subsequently pass it through spamassassin manually then it does match >DYN

RE: [SAtalk] tests not updated on the SA website?

2003-11-03 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Mairhtin O'Feannag Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:11 PM > The "tests" page of the spamassassin.org website seems not to be too up-to-date. If I'm not mistaken (an I may be) the problem is the opposite of what you are thinking. The rules are current as of the latest build from CVS. One could pr

RE: [SAtalk] URI Rule

2003-11-03 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] URI Rule > > > Fellow Assassins, > > Here is an example of some of the URLs coming through in spam mail. > > http://www > > Would a rule like /w/ match this? Lo

Re: [SAtalk] tests not updated on the SA website?

2003-11-03 Thread Fred
Just a minor correction, Justin once mentioned that the tests page shows the rules from the latest released version, he changed that some time ago. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Mairhtin O'Feannag Sent: Monday, November

Re: [SAtalk] tests not updated on the SA website?

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:10 PM 11/3/03 -0800, Mairhtin O'Feannag wrote: The "tests" page of the spamassassin.org website seems not to be too up-to-date. A search of the page reveals only three or four tests based upon the word "outlook" and they all refer to Outlook Express. YET ... when I get a message in as sp

Re: [SAtalk] Am I nuts

2003-11-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:14 PM 11/3/03 -0600, Chris Barnes wrote: Background: I had SpamAssassin 2.60 running just fine (using sendmail). I was calling spamd via the /etc/procmail. After installing Mailscanner and ClamAV, I noticed that the original SA conf file was being ignored in favor of the smaller version in th

Re: [SAtalk] MH mail folder of spams

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 15:01:10 -0800 "S.M.C Butler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > i have a dir of spam in MH format (MH is the unix command line based > version of exmh) and want to feed that into my spam learning spam > assassin setup. can anyone tell me the command? `perldoc sa-learn` o

Re: [SAtalk] Re: the autolearning function

2003-11-03 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 17:37:10 -0500 "Dave Malone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a lawyer, not a programmer, so many of the technical discussions I have > found on the web have been less than useful. All I want to know is this: > If I have collected 1,000 e-mails in my SPAM folder through S

Re: [SAtalk] What is tripping FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA?

2003-11-03 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Robert Kropiewnicki wrote: > Hello all, > > Other than injecting something into the headers to make it look like the MUA > was Mozilla, what else might trip this rule? We've had more than a few > occasions where we've crossed a threshold because of this rule. Hitting a > 2.7