[SAtalk] Deleting Messages tagged as spam

2003-12-24 Thread Don Caprio
I looked through the FAQ and couldn't find the answer. So sorry if I missed it. I would like to delete spam messages when they arrive rather that having users filter via procmail. I did see the notes on how to delete spam mail using procmail using the X-Spam-Level. I'm running postfix and the sp

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-24 Thread Wendel, Jesse
>-Original Message- >From: Douglas Kirkland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tue 12/23/2003 8:34 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: >Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail >--

Re: [SAtalk] Deleting Messages tagged as spam

2003-12-24 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi! On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 23:22:27 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Caprio) wrote: > I looked through the FAQ and couldn't find the answer. So sorry if I missed > it. Check the mailing list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-talk&r=1&w=2 or http://news.gmane.org/thread.ph

RE: [SAtalk] Deleting Messages tagged as spam

2003-12-24 Thread Alan Munday
I think it all depends on how you want to call SA. If you take a look at the Advosys (http://advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html) site they run SA from a script which allows you to configure your desired action. Here I changed this so that I filter some and delete others. regards Alan

[SAtalk] Re: bayes permission errors (still)

2003-12-24 Thread LuKreme
On 22 Dec 2003, at 12:33, Robert Nicholson wrote: Since you're using bayes do you get the same errors when you try to use sa-learn? I have a nightly cron job that runs on most accounts that runs sa-learn over the contents of $HOME/Mail/sa-learn-spam, but I've not noticed the files getting change

[SAtalk] The first spam to make it through since Friday...

2003-12-24 Thread Rubin Bennett
They're getting harder to catch: this one came in this morning and only scored 4.0 out of 5.0. The only identifying feature that I can come up with is that it was sent to an address that I no longer use. I'm going to write a rule to tag messages sent to that address with an extra point or so, bu

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Evan Platt > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:26 PM > To: Rubin Bennett > Cc: SpamAssassin > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000 > > > --On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:56 PM -050

Re: [SAtalk] Image-only spam

2003-12-24 Thread Barry Callahan
Heh. Went to http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm and installed the following rulesets: bigevil.cf nov2rules.cf popcornonly.cf weedsonly.cf backhair.cf I've got SpamAssassin monitoring a handful of addresses where >98% of all traffic is spam. So far, I've had one spam

[SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question with multiple domains

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
Can you have multiple whitelist_from_rcvd line for the same domain? I can't seem to get it to work or I am completely missing something. For example Sprint will send from different mail hosts at different domains (rDNS) whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sprint.com whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] Image-only spam

2003-12-24 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Hi Barry, This will also snag a few of those if you want to use them. You could write them to hit the body as well if you wanted, i just use a subject rule for now. describe J_PARISobfu paris header J_PARISSubject =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]|1\!][sz5\$](? -Original Message- >

[SAtalk] Question re: Rule

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've started to see some spam with subjects like the following: Satterwh, =?ISO-8859-1?B?bG93ZXN0IHByaWNlIGluc3VyYW5jZSB5ZXQu?= This is an obvious attempt to hide the subject so that it won't be caught by rules. I tried to write a rule to tr

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question with multiple domains

2003-12-24 Thread Terry Milnes
I am not exactly sure what you want, sprintspectrum.com is NOT the same domain as sprint.com, its irelevant that it may be hosted on the same servers and owned by the same people. whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sprint.com whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sprintspectrum.com Terry

RE: [SAtalk] Image-only spam

2003-12-24 Thread Chris Santerre
One of the things that will be coming after the holidays is a bestrules.cf file. nov2rules.cf was just the latest rules to be submitted. However some incredible rules are in the older rules files. We understand that people don't have time to be hunting thru this big file. So I'll be pulling out t

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [23/12/03 17:50]: > I am setting up a Spam filtering system using Exim/spamd > system-wide using multiple domains.. I would like to give > each user control over Spam filtering via a web interface, > giving them the ability to control any user_prefs sett

RE: [SAtalk] Question re: Rule

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
#This grabs the un-decoded subject, your # rule was looking at the decoded subject. # You probably don't want to change this and make it scorable # since a ton of legit mail uses this charset header __MK_CHARSET_01 Subject:raw =~ /ISO\-8859/i describe __MK_CHARSET_01 Uses a ISO-8859 #What the s

RE: [SAtalk] The first spam to make it through since Friday...

2003-12-24 Thread Chris Santerre
I believe the source held much more info. I added this domain to bigevil this morning, but it was already tagged over 7.0! I have deleted it from my spambox. I could dig it up out of corpus. Can you post the source? --Chris > -Original Message- > From: Rubin Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[SAtalk] Visa phishing scam

2003-12-24 Thread Yackley, Matt
Here is a scam message that came through with a bit of a low score, thought I would pass it along as a heads up. My bayes only scored it at _50, guessing that all of the SANS newsletters I feed to bayes may have helped lower the score since the message talks about "security". Already sent a copy

RE: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question with multiple domains

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
> Terry Milnes wrote: > I am not exactly sure what you want, sprintspectrum.com is > NOT the same > domain as sprint.com, its irelevant that it may be hosted on the same > servers and owned by the same people. I'm aware that sprintspectrum.com & sprint.com aren't the same domain, th

RE: [SAtalk] The first spam to make it through since Friday...

2003-12-24 Thread Rubin Bennett
That was the source. Here's the email saved to mbox, just in case I missed something in my cut n' paste. Thanks! Rubin On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 10:34, Chris Santerre wrote: > I believe the source held much more info. I added this domain to bigevil > this morning, but it was already tagged over 7.0!

RE: [SAtalk] Single image spams with random info

2003-12-24 Thread Chris Santerre
LOL, this is the crazy Vdrug dude! That's what I call them. I'm seeing him use lots of new domains with random numbers and characters. These are all in my bigevil.cf file. spammers pay about $10 to register a new domain, and they are doing it at a pretty high rate. --Chris > -Original Messag

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-24 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 23:31, Wendel, Jesse wrote: > >Also check out the -i option. > > > > -i ipaddress, --listen-ip=ipaddress, --ip-address=ipad- > > dress > > Tells spamd to listen

[SAtalk] Bigevil update 2.05k

2003-12-24 Thread Chris Santerre
Updated from last few days. Rules 20-23 have been played with a little. Attempting to make the ruleset faster. I have some issues with doing the rules this way, so I'm testing them out. They will run faster, but I have to double check each domain to make sure a typo domain squatter hasn't grabbed a

Re: [SAtalk] Question re: Rule

2003-12-24 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:49 AM 12/24/2003, Michael Satterwhite wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've started to see some spam with subjects like the following: Satterwh, =?ISO-8859-1?B?bG93ZXN0IHByaWNlIGluc3VyYW5jZSB5ZXQu?= This is an obvious attempt to hide the subject so that it won't

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Hello there Rubin > > The ruleset name _was_ her idea 8^) > > I can see that my post could seem a little odd taken out of > context, so let me clarify: Jenn's Backhair *ruleset* will > help with the bogus html tags. I know nothing about Jenn's > backhair. I must confess that I do, however, oc

Re: [SAtalk] Question re: Rule

2003-12-24 Thread Michael Satterwhite
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 09:27, Mike Kuentz (2) wrote: > Hope that helps, > Mike Thanks very much. I'm learning and really appreciate everyone's help ---Michael Merry Christmas! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
> btw 42??? what did you mean by that. that was very > creepy to see, > because i've tried to convince my brother from an early age, that the > number 42 *haunts* me and turns up *everywhere*! that'll either be a > very good year for me, or that's the year i'll buy the farm per se! http://

[SAtalk] message body consists of random words.

2003-12-24 Thread Clive Dove
I am receiving several spam messages daily in which the message body appears to consist entirely of random words. Spamassassin is not catching these messages. The Bayesian filter has not yet kicked in but I am running uncaught spam through sa-learn. I am concerned about whether the Bayesian f

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
> > btw 42??? what did you mean by that. that was very > > creepy to see, > > because i've tried to convince my brother from an early > age, that the > > number 42 *haunts* me and turns up *everywhere*! that'll > either be a > > very good year for me, or that's the year i'll buy the farm

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Blomquist
Jennifer Wheeler wrote: Snipped btw 42??? what did you mean by that. that was very creepy to see, because i've tried to convince my brother from an early age, that the number 42 *haunts* me and turns up *everywhere*! that'll either be a very good year for me, or that's the year i'll buy t

Re: [SAtalk] message body consists of random words.

2003-12-24 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:09 AM 12/24/2003, Clive Dove wrote: I am receiving several spam messages daily in which the message body appears to consist entirely of random words. Spamassassin is not catching these messages. The Bayesian filter has not yet kicked in but I am running uncaught spam through sa-learn. I am

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question with multiple domains

2003-12-24 Thread Terry Milnes
Mike Kuentz (2) wrote: Terry Milnes wrote: I am not exactly sure what you want, sprintspectrum.com is NOT the same domain as sprint.com, its irelevant that it may be hosted on the same servers and owned by the same people. I'm aware that sprintspectrum.com & sprint.com aren't the same domai

[SAtalk] Thank You!

2003-12-24 Thread Ed Kasky
I want to thank everyone who contributes to the development of SA, the participants of this list, and anyone who has had the patience to help me along the way in implementing my anti-spam solution. I have learned a tremendous amount from all your contributions... Have a very happy, safe and sa

[SAtalk] OT - Happy Holidays

2003-12-24 Thread Adam Lanier
Sorry for the off-topic post but just wanted to wish all the SA developers and crew a happy and safe holiday. Thanks for all the hard work you people put into this software! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

RE: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd question with multiple domains

2003-12-24 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
> >No not entirely, apologies aren't necessary perhaps its me being thick >as a plank today me, too. >If mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] can come from different mail servers >@sprint, then surely you would need: > >whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] which would cover the host name. > This wou

[SAtalk] spamd dying without complaint

2003-12-24 Thread Sean Kirkpatrick
Howdy. I'm very puzzled. I've been running spamd (2.60) on a RH 9 box for some time now and it's been working well. Recently something changed and I'm not sure what. spamd now seems to come up just fine but dies the first time spamc attempts to connect to it. There are no log entries anywhere

RE: [SAtalk] spamd dying without complaint

2003-12-24 Thread Brian Sneddon
Try starting spamd with the -D option which will generate debug information. That should help you find where it's crashing. Brian -Original Message- From: Sean Kirkpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] spamd d

[SAtalk] bayes.lock getting killed on a LONG sa-learn run

2003-12-24 Thread Larry Rosenman
I just had my nice Bayes DB killed on a sa-learn that had 1300+ messages in it. What seemed to happen is the bayes.lock file got deleted by some spamd process EVEN THOUGH sa-learn WAS STILL ALIVE. perl -v This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-unixware Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall Perl may be co

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [24/12/03 14:11]: > I found some mention of this in the archives whilst trying > to find an answer to this problem. However, I could only > find a patch which implements the auto-whitelist support in > SQL. Though I have to agree, having Bayes storage >

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:06, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:47:53PM -0800, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > I currently have spamd set up to maintain separate > > > confi

Re: [SAtalk] The first spam to make it through since Friday...

2003-12-24 Thread Scott Lambert
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 08:41:28AM -0500, Rubin Bennett wrote: > They're getting harder to catch: this one came in this morning and only > scored 4.0 out of 5.0. > > The only identifying feature that I can come up with is that it was sent > to an address that I no longer use. I'm going to write

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Damian Gerow schrieb: [...] I'm *really* looking forward to if/when this makes it into the main SA tree. Hm. Nice for SQL-users, but wouldn't help with ConfSourceLDAP. Personally I'd love to set bayes_path somehow, but currently that's impossible. However, I wouldn't want my users to be able to c

[SAtalk] unable to modify report template via user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Adam Schneider
Since our server's copy of SA was upgraded to v2.6.1, the X-Spam-Report header no longer contains a content preview. I tried adding this to my user_prefs file: clear_report_template report This mail is probably spam. report Content preview: _PREVIEW_ report Content analysis details: (_HITS_ p

[SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Danny Aldham
Looking thru my maillog this morning, I wondered how high of a spam score someone could generate if they put their mind to it. So assuming just a stock spamassassin install, (no bayes, bigevil, popcorn etc), the test is to create an email message that pushes the score well into triple digits. Jus

RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Bill
Subject: [SPAM 50.63] Would You Like to Save Tons on Health Care? lilly Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:07:06 + (GMT) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up

RE: [SAtalk] The first spam to make it through since Friday...

2003-12-24 Thread Gary Funck
Time to update your BigEvil.cf list: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf Latest entry: uri BigEvilList_191 /\b(?:starterz\.net|linksss\.com|53x\.net|savvypurchaser\.com|hurricane\ -map\.com|webcastingsales\.com|thisishow2market\.com|Opportunity\.com|66\.98 \.194\.243

[SAtalk] blacklist_from ?

2003-12-24 Thread Sean Kirkpatrick
I have an accumulated list of addresses that are blacklisted in user_prefs. One example (slightly modified) is blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] A message from "My Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ought to match if I understand how the blacklist works. However, the mail comes through as if the

Re: [SAtalk] blacklist_from ?

2003-12-24 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:01 PM 12/24/2003, Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: What am I missing? Looks like (possibly) a bug in SA's parsing.. what version are you running? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just shar

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-24 Thread Wendel, Jesse
> -Original Message- > From: Douglas Kirkland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:55 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on > external mail > > > >Also check out the -i option. > > > >

RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Kurt Buff
Heck, even with bayes autolearn, popcorn, bigevil, backhair and smallpox, the highest scoring email I've seen from a spammer was 89.7. |-Original Message- |From: Danny Aldham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:39 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [SAtalk] Holid

RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Wheat
Had one over 125 today -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 4:52 PM To: 'Danny Aldham'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message Heck, even with bayes auto

RE: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Charles Gregory
Hello all! And a happy holiday to you all! I don't suppose the irony is lost on anyone that a bunch of anti-spam fanatics are celebrating the holidays by trying to make the "world's worst spam"?? (LOL) - charles On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Kurt Buff wrote: > Heck, even with bayes autolearn, popcorn, b

Re: [SAtalk] blacklist_from ?

2003-12-24 Thread Sean Kirkpatrick
Ack, sorry. I upgraded to 2.61 yesterday. Matt Kettler wrote: At 04:01 PM 12/24/2003, Sean Kirkpatrick wrote: What am I missing? Looks like (possibly) a bug in SA's parsing.. what version are you running? --- This SF.net email is spon

Re: [SAtalk] Holiday Contest - Highest Spam score message

2003-12-24 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:39 PM 12/24/2003, Danny Aldham wrote: Looking thru my maillog this morning, I wondered how high of a spam score someone could generate if they put their mind to it. So assuming just a stock spamassassin install, (no bayes, bigevil, popcorn etc), the test is to create an email message that pu

Re: [SAtalk] message body consists of random words.

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Clive, Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 8:09:42 AM, you wrote: CD> I am receiving several spam messages daily in which the message body appears CD> to consist entirely of random words. Check again, and I think you'll find that the message has nothing to do with those random words. The messag

[SAtalk] Invalid RBL checks triggered

2003-12-24 Thread Simon Matthews
The email below triggered a number of RBL checks, some of which don't make sense. Can anyone explain? Here is the SA report: Content analysis details: (9.4 points, 7.0 required) pts rule name descrip

Re: [SAtalk] message body consists of random words.

2003-12-24 Thread Lucas Albers
>Clive, > > Wednesday, December 24, 2003, 8:09:42 AM, you wrote: > > CD> I am receiving several spam messages daily in which the message body > appears > CD> to consist entirely of random words. > Is their anything the developers can do to protect against bayes poisoning? If the mail message is wa

[SAtalk] spamd memory usage.

2003-12-24 Thread Gary Smith
I was wondering how much memory spamd should be using (running default rules and bigevil.cf only). It's currently using about 30mb and a decently light load day. I'm just trying to get a baseline so I can watch it grow/shrink as I add/remove rules. Gary Smith

[SAtalk] about sa-learn

2003-12-24 Thread ylei
Hi SAtalk: merry christmas! I have build site-wide SA(2.60) with qmail1.03 (spamc/spamd) on rh7.2. My question: Can i know how many spam or ham in the bayes DB files? OR can i get it using some functions provided by bayes.pm? THX! Hello