Re: spamc exit code 98

2005-01-13 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Larry wrote: Have you tried it with the -E switch? The only way I can reproduce the return code, 98, is if I pass spamc a valid, running, spamd host and give it /dev/null as input. Passing it a bad hostname results, expectedly, in 68. spamc -E -t 60 -d valid.spamd.server < /dev/null Why you wou

Re: upgrading methods

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Mittwoch, 12. Januar 2005 21:42 schrieb Hans du Plooy: > I was wondering what method you guys & gals prefer for upgrading > spamassassin on the more mainstream rpm based distros (MDK/Fedora/rh/SUSE). > > I have a SUSE 9.1 server, running spamassassi

Re: autoreporting spam/ham by forward mails

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 09:47 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Hello all, > > i configured procmail like this site describes: > http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting > > now my question: > how can i test if sa-lear

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 12:47 schrieb Joe Zitnik: > We've been having a group of the same type of e-mails making it through > spamassassin. These are the e-mails that have the "get a capable html > e-mailer" line in them. I have yet to see any

sa-learn freezing?

2005-01-13 Thread Sunny Forro
Interesting problem: I blew away the old Bayes DB because I couldn't get it to upgrade for 3.0.2. No problem, I'll just run some spam/ham through sa-learn to create a new one. So after running 15000 spams through or so, about 1200 or so at a time, I tried to learn some spam from today. Sa-l

Re: Question Regarding sa-learn

2005-01-13 Thread Jon Drukman
Jason Novak wrote: I'm currently running spamassassin 3.0.2 and everything seems to be running well. sa-learn works correctly when I want to learn spam and ham messages. My only question is when it comes to looking at the data when I run 'sa-learn --dump all' I get the following example. [snip

RE: phishing rule

2005-01-13 Thread hamann . w
I was suggesting - a while ago, to make a more general check (which would probably be a plugin) - to detect phish based on different urls (e.g check whether they end up at the same ip) but was told that quite a lot of legit email have differing urls While I understand that datbased systems may g

Re: empty body

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:27 AM 1/13/2005, Ingo Reinhart wrote: Hello! How can I test for an empty Mailbody? Any existing rule? Best Regards, Ingo Grab the latest SVN image from the downloads page and look at EMPTY_MESSAGE.

Re: spamc exit code 98

2005-01-13 Thread Larry
Have you tried it with the -E switch? L > -Original Message- > From: Dallas L. Engelken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Posted At: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 4:09 PM > Posted To: sa-users > Conversation: spamc exit code 98 > Subject: RE: spamc exit code 98 > > > > > I suspect some kind of t

Re: THANKS - Re: AWL problem??

2005-01-13 Thread Chris Thielen
John Fleming wrote: Bayes in the current version will not autolearn against itself (will not auto-learn as ham something it thought was spam, or v.v.) -- it might be a good enhancement to also have bayes look at AWL if active, and if AWL disagrees with the auto-learn judgment, then do not auto-lear

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:38 AM 1/13/2005, werner detter wrote: > Yeah, so? Why should this inhibit you from using spamd now? hm, but even if i implement spamd/spamc - i still got the problem that every mail (even if it's bigger then e.g. 4mb is passed through spamd/spamc then insteat of spamassassin. please correct

Re: Question Regarding sa-learn

2005-01-13 Thread Michael Parker
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:42:31AM -0600, Jason Novak wrote: > > In the previous version of spamassassin I've been able to see what the > data actually is (rather than the example of '3bd6a7ead4'). Any ideas > what I may be missing? > SA 3.0 switched from storing tokens in a raw format to sto

Deep recursion

2005-01-13 Thread C.Zimmermann
Hi, I am runnig FreeBSD 4.9 SpamAssassin Server version 3.0.1 Perl 5.6.1 and get at lot of "deep recursions" . spamd[29517]: Deep recursion on subroutine "Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::finish" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659. spamd[29517

RE: SA List Subject/From Indicators

2005-01-13 Thread Rob McEwen
Thanks Bob & Joseph. Good suggestions! Rob McEwen

RE: SA List Subject/From Indicators

2005-01-13 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
> > Another possible solution would be to have the list server > add "SA: " > > to the beginning of each subject line (when not already there). > > > > Any thoughts? Suggestions? > > > > Rob McEwen > > A useful line in the header of every SA list message is > > List-Id: > > Why not make Out

Re: SA List Subject/From Indicators

2005-01-13 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:17:08AM -0500, Rob McEwen wrote: > RE: SA List Messages Subject/From Indicators > > Often, when I receive messages from the SA list, the FROM displays the name > of the sender rather than the name of the list. Furthermore, the SUBJECT > line is often an obvious SA-relate

RE: phishing rule

2005-01-13 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:40 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: phishing rule > > >I am trying to write a rule to catch phishing schemes of this nature: >http://legit-stie.com/login > >Is there anything wrong with this r

Question Regarding sa-learn

2005-01-13 Thread Jason Novak
I have a question regarding sa-learn. I'm currently running spamassassin 3.0.2 and everything seems to be running well.  sa-learn works correctly when I want to learn spam and ham messages.  My only question is when it comes to looking at the data when I run 'sa-learn --dump all' I get the fol

Re: phishing rule

2005-01-13 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Dan wrote: I am trying to write a rule to catch phishing schemes of this nature: http://legit-stie.com/login Is there anything wrong with this regexp? /href=\"\d{1,3}(\.\d{1,3}){3}[^\"]*\"[^\>]*\>\s*http/ I realize that it is probably really error-prone, but that is why I am throwing it out to this

Re: SA 2.63 Not Processing All Email

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:38 AM 1/13/2005, bubba wrote: I'm running Spamassassin 2.63, which is successfully tagging *most* messages. However, some mail is getting through untagged. The main differences between the headers of those that are tagged and those that aren't are the "for" secion in each received section. Hm

Re: empty body

2005-01-13 Thread MATSUDA Yoh-ichi / $B>>EDM[0l(B
From: "Ingo Reinhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: empty body Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:27:05 +0100 > Hello! > > How can I test for an empty Mailbody? > > Any existing rule? I don't know caching rule for 'empty mailbody spam'. But, you can use RBL and Bayesian filter. -- Nothing but a peace si

Re: HOtmail

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ron problems with the FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK rule. see http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4065 for a possible fix.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Ron McKeating wrote: Hi we run all our incoming email through spamassassin (uptodate

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Joe Zitnik
They are enabled. My problem is more that some of these e-mails are getting caught by my rule and some aren't. When I run the ones that are getting past through spamassassin manually, they hit my rule as well and are above my spam threshold. So why do they make it past? >>> Martin Hepworth <[EM

HOtmail

2005-01-13 Thread Ron McKeating
Hi we run all our incoming email through spamassassin (uptodate as of last month) we notice however that a disproportionate number of emails from hotmail get false positived. Is anybody aware of a reason for this ? Ron

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Joe enable the URIRBL rules, these are very effective against html spam. (make sure you have the latest Net:DNS module installed and the init.pre file in /etc/mail/spamassassin and the plugin turned on). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Joe Z

Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Joe Zitnik
We've been having a group of the same type of e-mails making it through spamassassin. These are the e-mails that have the "get a capable html e-mailer" line in them. I have yet to see any legitimate e-mail with that line, so I made a custom rule to score 11 points for that slogan. I have also fe

empty body

2005-01-13 Thread Ingo Reinhart
Hello! How can I test for an empty Mailbody? Any existing rule? Best Regards, Ingo

Re: SA 2.63 Not Processing All Email

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Bubba timeouts? anything in any log files around the time these emails where processed? How are you running SA - spamd/spamc, procmail, amavis-new, MailScanner...??? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 bubba wrote: Hi, I'm running Spamassassin

SA 2.63 Not Processing All Email

2005-01-13 Thread bubba
Hi, I'm running Spamassassin 2.63, which is successfully tagging *most* messages. However, some mail is getting through untagged. The main differences between the headers of those that are tagged and those that aren't are the "for" secion in each received section. Example headers from a succesf

RE: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Darren Coleman
This server is only processing a small amount of email comparatively, perhaps a few thousand a day. I haven't got around to setting up MRTG on it. I have however passed the URL across to another sysadmin at the company who is running our main SA+Qmail server, which easily does 100k+ of email a da

Re: Perl-only install possible?

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Richard hmm "perl -MCPAN -eshell" and install J/JM/JMASON/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.64.tar.gz will prob choke as well then :-( -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Richard Connamacher wrote: Tried that. While 'perl Makefile.PL' seemed to work (after givin

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-13 Thread Marco van den Bovenkamp
werner detter wrote: hm, but even if i implement spamd/spamc - i still got the problem that every mail (even if it's bigger then e.g. 4mb is passed through spamd/spamc then insteat of spamassassin. please correct me if i'm wrong No. Spamc will not pass messages larger than 250K to spamd by d

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, January 13, 2005, 1:19:58 AM, Darren Coleman wrote: >> From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> % dig 2.0.0.127.sbl.spamhaus.org a >> >> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> 2.0.0.127.sbl.spamhaus.org a >> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch >> ;; got answer: >> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUER

Re: Perl-only install possible?

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Connamacher
Tried that. While 'perl Makefile.PL' seemed to work (after giving me a warning), 'make' choked because it couldn't find any installed C compilers. (I doubt I'll be able to install the updated MakeMaker that it requested. However, that wouldn't change the fact that it seems to want a C compiler to

Re: Perl-only install possible?

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Richard could always use SA 2.64... would work fine, might even be able to get the URIRBL pluging installed which is really useful. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Richard Connamacher wrote: I've got a web hosting account that has been receiv

RE: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Darren Coleman
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 January 2005 01:07 > To: Jeff Chan > Cc: Darren Coleman; Jack L. Stone; Loren Wilton; > users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp > rules > > On Wednesd

SA List Subject/From Indicators

2005-01-13 Thread Rob McEwen
RE: SA List Messages Subject/From Indicators Often, when I receive messages from the SA list, the FROM displays the name of the sender rather than the name of the list. Furthermore, the SUBJECT line is often an obvious SA-related phrase... BUT NOT ALWAYS. I find it annoying sometimes when this hap

Re: maintaining the 2.6 branch

2005-01-13 Thread Per Jessen
Martin Hepworth wrote: > Another reason [snip] > I shall be sticking to 2.64 for the forsee-able future as 3.02 gives me > no advantage and quite a high likelihood of more spam dropping through > the system! Not specific to Martins reply, but thanks to all the responses regarding continued u

autoreporting spam/ham by forward mails

2005-01-13 Thread KaiserM
Hello all, i configured procmail like this site describes: http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting now my question: how can i test if sa-learn learns the spam/ham mails right. below are the executed commands: /usr/bin/spamassassin -r -d -a /usr/b

Re: spamassassin + filter.sh

2005-01-13 Thread werner detter
hi again, Matt Kettler wrote: At 11:53 AM 1/11/2005, werner detter wrote: thanks for your help, migration to spamc/spamd wouldn't be the problem -> it's even planned within the next half year. there is only one reason this hasn't been done so far: there is no desicion from the company management

THANKS - Re: AWL problem??

2005-01-13 Thread John Fleming
Bayes in the current version will not autolearn against itself (will not auto-learn as ham something it thought was spam, or v.v.) -- it might be a good enhancement to also have bayes look at AWL if active, and if AWL disagrees with the auto-learn judgment, then do not auto-learn. Looking at http:/

Re: Training byessian filter in a gatway situation.

2005-01-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 12:43:34PM +, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > > As the server my mail client interacts with is not the one spam > filtering, I would like to set up two accounts on the gateway box, ham > and spam, so I can farward mail to those accounts, and have spamassassin > learn what is h

Perl-only install possible?

2005-01-13 Thread Richard Connamacher
I've got a web hosting account that has been receiving an enormous amount of spam recently. While I can ssh into it, I can edit my sendmail.cf file, and I can run Perl 5.6.0 applications, I cannot access C compiler tools. Also, the version of Perl included is only 5.6.0. SpamAssassin 3.0.0 and lat

Re: SARE Custom rules

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Joe, Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 5:31:32 AM, you wrote: JZ> I posted this some time ago, but I was wondering if anyone had any JZ> information on the timeframe for when some of the SARE custom rules JZ> would be updated? I know there had been some posts by the developers JZ> about updatin

Re: AWL problem??

2005-01-13 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello John, Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 4:54:24 AM, you wrote: JF> I've never seen this before - I don't know squat about AWL, but I JF> sure need help understanding the following headers! JF> X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=26.1 required=5.0 JF> tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_HEAD_XBEEN autolearn=ham

Dumping auto-whitelist?

2005-01-13 Thread simon matthews
Does anyone have a script/perl file that will dump auto-whitelists, including the scores? Simon

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-13 Thread kalin mintchev
> sa-learn --dbpath /var/spamdb/bayes --dump magic i get this: 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0 2852 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 2515 0 non-token data: nham 0.000 0 116330

Re: White list problem

2005-01-13 Thread Ollie Acheson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 11:04:12PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Ollie, Something isn't adding up in a big way. Have you run spamassassin > --lint lately? Perhaps SA is getting heavily confused. Indeed you are right about things not adding up. > > Is there any chance you could re-run the messag

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-13 Thread kalin mintchev
thanks Jon.. > > first, your Bayes rules don't appear to be hitting. that's what i'm thinking also... > this could be because you haven't trained enough mail. you need minimum 200 > ham and 200 spam before they kick in. i did feed about 2500 messages into both spam and ham the first time, last

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 4:57:57 PM, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 8:15:12 AM, Darren Coleman wrote: >> Figured out why URIBL_SBL wasn't firing for me for that email - I can't >> even resolve that domain! Have tried resolving it on several machines I >> have shell acces

Re: Lots of spam being missed with SA 3.0.2 + lots of RulesEmp rules

2005-01-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 8:15:12 AM, Darren Coleman wrote: > Figured out why URIBL_SBL wasn't firing for me for that email - I can't > even resolve that domain! Have tried resolving it on several machines I > have shell access to (including external machines who peer with > different provid

Re: bayes?!

2005-01-13 Thread Jon Drukman
kalin mintchev wrote: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=4.6 required=3.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24, DRUGS_ERECTILE,DRUGS_PAIN,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD,MIME_BASE64_TEXT autolearn=no version=3.0.2 note that the ones that were detected scored 4 - lower than the actual default of the recomended 5 i