RE: [SAtalk] Ruleset for RND UC CHAR spam

2003-12-20 Thread Aaron Everett
SUBJ_RAND_UC_CHAR is working well... but I just saw a variant come through. Subject: Re: XBHGX,7844, tales of these Looks like we'll need another rule for this guy - I guess it would be something like: Subject =~ /^Re:\s[A-Z]{2,8},\s[0-9]{2,8},\s[a-z]+\s[a-z]+\s[a-z]+\s*$/ Can someone confirm

Re: [SAtalk] dont scan

2003-12-20 Thread Barry Porter
On 17/12/2003 18:44, Ricki wrote: > I was wondering, Is there a was to prevent spamassassin from scanning > mail from a particular IP address ? I use a perl script to check for a specific received line in each mail, if it is there, it is a local mail and should not be scanned. This is the scrip

RE: [SAtalk] Spammer causing Denial Of Service

2003-12-20 Thread Matthew Western,R&D Aust
it's still a pain to block them at the gateway. i spent about 4 hours chucking in numbers into iptables and still they came in. i found out it was this stupid new remote access trojan that acts as spam relays. i turned on dnsbl.sorbs.net and havn't looked back since. had about a week where i wa

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil 2.04 posted

2003-12-20 Thread Matthew Western,R&D Aust
hmm. i love www.sorbs.net dns BL. he says we can help by running a server to help catch more rubbish and report it. out of interest, does anybody do that here? -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:50 AM To: 'Gary Funck'

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil 2.04 posted

2003-12-20 Thread Peter SJF Bance
> hmm. i love www.sorbs.net dns BL. he says we can help by > running a server > to help catch more rubbish and report it. > > out of interest, does anybody do that here? You don't need to run your own server to do that - try www.spamcop.net -- Peter SJF Bance CEng MBCS CESG and BCS Listed

[SAtalk] Provider issue

2003-12-20 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear group - I used to run SA local on my Linux mailserver with great results. I was quite pleased. Some time ago, I discovered that my ISP also started filterig through SA and delivering the mail to my spool already tagged. This seemd to cause some conflict with my local setup, because that woul

RE: [SAtalk] Ruleset for RND UC CHAR spam

2003-12-20 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Aaron Everett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: XBHGX,7844, tales of these Yes; in looking closer at the ones I've seen, I find one of this variant also. It just had enough backhair that it was caught anyway. :-) Also, my sample of that variant has more than 8 upp

Re: [SAtalk] Excessive amavisd memory use with spamassasin 2.6 on ppc platform

2003-12-20 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 21:21:02 +, Iain Stevenson wrote > System: > > Linux ppc (basicallu Yellowdog), 2.4.21 kernel > Postfix > amavisd-new-20030314 > spamassassin 2.6 or 2.61 > clamav-0.65 > > System is configured to use the spamd interface to spamassassin. If > I install the 2.6 or 2.61 ver

Re: [SAtalk] Excessive amavisd memory use with spamassasin 2.6 on ppc platform

2003-12-20 Thread cami
| System: | | Linux ppc (basicallu Yellowdog), 2.4.21 kernel not that it should make any difference, but, you could go through a trial and elimination process by upgrading each software component to the latest version (start with your kernel). | Postfix | amavisd-new-20030314 | spamassassin 2.6 or

[SAtalk] auto whitelist questions

2003-12-20 Thread Gary Funck
[I'm reposting this question. I think it might've gotten lost in the many messages over the past few days.] Hello, I've been using auto whitelist for a while now, but today while doing some experimentation I'm wondering if the explicit (auto) white listing feature is working at all (version 2.

[SAtalk] checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Koch
Hi, We've been burned a few times by spammers getting into our servers to send out spam. Does anyone know (or can provide a reference) for how SA could be integrated into qmail to examine outgoing emails? Thanks. Jeff Koch --- This SF.net

Re: [SAtalk] Provider issue

2003-12-20 Thread Martin Radford
At Sat Dec 20 11:29:26 2003, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > > Dear group - > > I used to run SA local on my Linux mailserver with great results. I was > quite pleased. Some time ago, I discovered that my ISP also started > filterig through SA and delivering the mail to my spool already tagged. > T

[SAtalk] Browser Bug: Very bad in IE and varies on Netscape and Mozilla]

2003-12-20 Thread Lucas Albers
Another mailing list pointed out the new ie exploit. What would be the SA code to detect/block such and exploit in email. Here's an untested potentially cpu intensive rule to detect this, I am not reccomending this rule, but looking for an improved version of it. uri KAM_URIPARSE /^[^\/]*\%0[01][^

[SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread David Gibbs
Jeff Koch wrote: We've been burned a few times by spammers getting into our servers to send out spam. Does anyone know (or can provide a reference) for how SA could be integrated into qmail to examine outgoing emails? IMHO, your energy would be far better served working on securing your servers

Re: [SAtalk] Running sa-learn while SpamAssassin is checking mail: Bayes lock problem?

2003-12-20 Thread Nix
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen muttered drunkenly: > If I run sa-learn while SpamAssassin is checking mail, I get messages > like the following from the spam-checking process: > > Cannot open bayes databases /var/list/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File > exists > > (This

[SAtalk] We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-20 Thread Gary Smith
So we implemented SA some time ago because our clients were getting too much spam. Lately we have found that several html marked up emails have been getting marked as spam. These ones are clearly fp's. Some of the domains include Morningstar.com, charlesswab.com and several other financial in

Re: [SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Koch
Good grief. What a 'holier than thou' attitude. To be more specific we have had cases where user cgi scripts have been subverted into being spam senders. And yes we don't allow FormMail scripts that don't control the recipient list - but occasionally a user will upload a weak formmail script a

Re: [SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread David Gibbs
Jeff Koch wrote: Good grief. What a 'holier than thou' attitude. Not in the slightest ... you didn't mention you had customers that might be spammers (I won't touch that). Based on your original post, it seemed to me that your primary problem wasn't the spam going out, but that people were getting

Re: [SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread JRiley
Based on your query, I don't think David's suggest was at all 'holier than thou'. And I agree with him , that unless you plan on pushing ALL outbound traffic from all your Webservers utilizing SMTP scripts,pushes,forms,etc to relay off your SA Gateway before being pushed to the Internet, I would su

[SAtalk] Re: bayes permission errors (still)

2003-12-20 Thread Lukreme
On 19 Dec 2003, at 22:15, Lukreme wrote: I set the permissions on all the bayes files to 700 for all users and I still ended up having them get switched to - after some period of time. Although, it appears that this time it was a couple of hours: One more datum, this does not happen onl

[SAtalk] SPF Support in SA?

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Landry
I was wondering if the SA developers are considering adding support for "Sender Permitted From" (SPF) in SA, as defined at spf.pobox.com? I have been using a product call Declude JunkMail, that just added SPF support in a beta version of their product, and it seems to be working quite well. Altho

[SAtalk] why are these messages getting low scores?

2003-12-20 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi, I've attached 3 messages that are getting quite low scores by SA. I'm running SA 2.60, with bayes. I frequently get messages quite similar to these, a number of them every single day. And every day I run them through sa-learn. However they continue to get low scores. Are spammers learning n

Re: [SAtalk] SPF Support in SA?

2003-12-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:49:37AM -0800, Bill Landry wrote: > I was wondering if the SA developers are considering adding support for > "Sender Permitted From" (SPF) in SA, as defined at spf.pobox.com? I have We have test rules in 2.70 already. If you weren't at LISA 2003, we pushed SPF at the

Re: [SAtalk] SPF Support in SA?

2003-12-20 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:49:37AM -0800, Bill Landry wrote: > > I was wondering if the SA developers are considering adding support > for > > "Sender Permitted From" (SPF) in SA, as defined at spf.pobox.com? I > have >

[SAtalk] Moving Bayes and Auto Whitelist Databases

2003-12-20 Thread Philip Ross
I am trying to move some SpamAssassin 2.60 databases from a Red Hat 7.1 machine to a Debian Woody machine running SpamAssassin 2.61. On the Red Hat 7.1 box I have the following auto whitelist and bayes files (identity provided by file utility): auto-whitelist.db: Berkeley DB (Hash, version 5, nat

[SAtalk] Re: checking outgoing mail

2003-12-20 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:51:20 -0600, David Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff Koch wrote: > > Good grief. What a 'holier than thou' attitude. > > Not in the slightest ... you didn't mention you had customers that might > be spammers (I won't touch that). > > Based on your original post, it

[SAtalk] Re: We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-20 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:52:00 -0800, "Gary Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So we implemented SA some time ago because our clients were getting > too much spam. Lately we have found that several html marked up > emails have been getting marked as spam. These ones are clearly > fp's. > > Some

[SAtalk] RE: We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-20 Thread Gary Smith
Makes sense. Gary Smith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 12:45 PM To: Gary Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: We have big evil now we need big good... On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:52:00 -0800, "Gar

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 and DYNABLOCK/SORBS

2003-12-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Peter SJF Bance wrote: All, [Hoping this gets through, and isn't blocked by SpamAssassin on another server!!] I've been trying to work this one out for a few days now - I run various mailman lists, and recently all my mail has been rejected when I've attempted to post to them. I use Sendmail, Am

RE: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 and DYNABLOCK/SORBS

2003-12-20 Thread Peter SJF Bance
Hi Chris, > I might be wrong here, but there is only 1 received line. Since you > stated you are using your ISP's SMTP gateway, can I assume that > smtp.ntlworld.com is your ISPs SMTP relay? If so, it seems that your > ISP is the one marking this email as spam? I'm confused here because > t

[SAtalk] RE: We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-20 Thread SpamTalk
These companies need to get a Habeas mark. Minimally, they should prescreen their formats through SA. Any database created as suggested should include contact information that could be used to provide those suggestions. If/when such companies get whitelisted they should get a temporary reject wit

Re: [SAtalk] Question for developpers: Who maintain now php-sa-mysql!

2003-12-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Justin England wrote the original PHP-SA. In short, after working on some patches and fixing some things ages ago, Justin wasn't interested in continuing the work. I forked the code and added my initials. I would suggest if you want to create another fork that you consider my vanilla code. There