MIME attachment not decoded from some servers

2005-02-09 Thread Stuart Johnston
I am receiving multiple copies of this odd spam message at my domain. The spam is contained within a base64 mime attached html. When the message is originally received, the attachment is not decoded and I get a report like this: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.976 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=BAYES_

Re: Incredibly slow SA checks

2005-02-09 Thread JamesDR
Depends on which DNS server you use, for the most part, you'll need a file called 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.dns (for a 192.168.0.x subnet, I use the windows dns server.) Inside I have (watch for word wrapping): ; ; Database file 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.dns for 0.168.192.in-addr.arpa zone. ; Zon

Re: [OT] GPG Keysigning at Linux World

2005-02-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:40:19PM -0500, Rod Begbie wrote: > If anyone's going to be at Boston Linux World next week, there's going > to be a GPG keysigning party on Tuesday evening. Details are at > http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?ev=68156. Add your key to the keyring > in advance, show up, and

RE: [OT] GPG Keysigning at Linux World

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Rod Begbie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:40 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: [OT] GPG Keysigning at Linux World > > >Hey folks. > >If anyone's going to be at Boston Linux World next week, there's going >to be a GP

Re: sa-learn update global db

2005-02-09 Thread Kyle Silfer
Lightology Postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I ran sa-learn as root and it created /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen, bayes_toks and user_prefs file in this folder. How do I make the global spammassassin use this new learned spam because I don't believe is reading this files now. > Or better put

[OT] GPG Keysigning at Linux World

2005-02-09 Thread Rod Begbie
Hey folks. If anyone's going to be at Boston Linux World next week, there's going to be a GPG keysigning party on Tuesday evening. Details are at http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?ev=68156. Add your key to the keyring in advance, show up, and enjoy being a part of the Web of Trust. (And if any SA

Re: DCC implementation questions

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:12 PM 2/9/2005, Matias Lopez Bergero wrote: It's dccm a better implementation rater than dccproc for those who are using Sendmail? And if this is yes, how do I need to configure SA to work with dccm? I couldn't find anything about dccm and SA. You can't configure SA to use dccm, because dcc

DCC implementation questions

2005-02-09 Thread Matias Lopez Bergero
Hi, Maybe this is wrong list to post, but I read here very interesting posts about the subjet. Using SA 3.0.2 on Linux, with milter-spamc. I have read trough the list that DCC it's working fine with SA. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but look a nice think to enable togueter with the SA network

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-02-09 Thread jdow
From: "Martin Schröder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2005-01-31 18:21:31 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: > MS> warning: description exists for non-existent rule SPF_HELO_PASS > Isn't this part of 3.0 standard? Is there a problem with your > installation? I don't think so; I just don't use the spf plugin.

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-02-09 Thread jdow
From: "Martin Schröder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 2005-01-31 18:21:31 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: > That's an awfully new rule. I don't think it ever existed with more > than 50 chars in its description. Is it possible that one or more of > your files is in the wrong format (has the wrong line endi

Re: new strategy?

2005-02-09 Thread List Mail User
Richard Gray wrote: >Please just throw fish at me if this has already been proposed, but I >was thinking today about what aspects of spamming a spammer finds hard >to change. >=20 >Changing names and IP addresses are easy, but I imagine that finding a >DNS server that will be authoratitive for the

Re: Apache mail list archives

2005-02-09 Thread Thomas Schulz
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Schulz) writes: > > > I tried sending a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] some 3 days ago, but nothing > > has happened. > > Of course nothing has happened. Apache is an organization of hundreds > of people, that address has nothing to do with the mailing list > maintenance

Re: sa-learn says 'cannot use DNS'

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 07:33:01PM +0100, Christian Kowarzik wrote: > > Why does sa-learn say 'cannot use DNS' even when spamassassin says DNS > is surely available? > Because sa-learn specifically turns off network tests: local_tests_only=> 1, It doesn't need them, so it doesn't bothe

sa-learn says 'cannot use DNS'

2005-02-09 Thread Christian Kowarzik
Hi! Why does sa-learn say 'cannot use DNS' even when spamassassin says DNS is surely available? if i invoke 'spamassassin -p ./spam.assassin.prefs.conf -D --lint' it says DNS is available: debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes debug: Net::DNS version: 0.48 debug: trying (3) ebay

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Kelson
Jeff Chan wrote: Matthew Was the OS Fedora Core 1 for this bug? Mouss, If there's a bug would you please submit it to them? FYI, Fedora Core 1 has already been EOL'ed. They're currently providing fixes for FC2 and FC3, and FC2 will be dropped when the first FC4 beta is released. Unless the bug

sa-learn update global db

2005-02-09 Thread Lightology Postmaster
I ran sa-learn as root and it created /root/.spamassassin/bayes_seen, bayes_toks and user_prefs file in this folder. How do I make the global spammassassin use this new learned spam because I don't believe is reading this files now. Or better put how do I train directly the global spammassas

Re: spamassassin finding LDAP servers??

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:35:32AM -0600, Jeff Gibson wrote: > Hi. I'm running spamassassin 3.0.0 on a Redhat ES 3 box. Postfix 2.1.5 > is calling spamassassin. The server itself does user account lookups > though an LDAP server. My question is this: When I do a netstat and > tcpdump I can see

spamassassin finding LDAP servers??

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Gibson
Hi. I'm running spamassassin 3.0.0 on a Redhat ES 3 box. Postfix 2.1.5 is calling spamassassin. The server itself does user account lookups though an LDAP server. My question is this: When I do a netstat and tcpdump I can see the spamassassin processes trying to connect to Active Directory LDA

RE: new strategy?

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Santerre
They are getting good at changing NS servers as well. They will have a group of domains using a NS server hosted under a pink contract. If it gets burned, they change the host of the ns server and *poof* all the other domains are set.   Some are changing hosts daily, even hourly. Its amusi

Re: new strategy?

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:42 AM 2/9/2005, Gray, Richard wrote: Please just throw fish at me if this has already been proposed, but I was thinking today about what aspects of spamming a spammer finds hard to change. Changing names and IP addresses are easy, but I imagine that finding a DNS server that will be author

new strategy?

2005-02-09 Thread Gray, Richard
Please just throw fish at me if this has already been proposed, but I was thinking today about what aspects of spamming a spammer finds hard to change.   Changing names and IP addresses are easy, but I imagine that finding a DNS server that will be authoratitive for them is a tougher challen

Re: bayes database, Berkeley vs. SQL

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Parker
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:12:23AM +0100, Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote: > Has anyone measured the difference in performance? > There are benchmark results available for the single server with mysql on a localhost. NOTE: that the DBM tests were done with a local database with lock_method flock, and no

Re: no body in email, rule ?

2005-02-09 Thread Stuart Johnston
ip.guy wrote: hi all we seem to be getting a lot of spam with no body text... i've written a few rules to trap other spam'ish email but wonder how i might go about writing a rule for email with no body text... This is becomming an FAQ! Search the mailing list. In summary: SARE has one (SARE_HTML

Re: SHA1

2005-02-09 Thread Stuart Johnston
Alan Munday wrote: Lightology Postmaster wrote the following on 08/02/2005 22:07: RH 9.0 SA 3.02 what is the correct way to install SHA1 on perl 5.8.0, where do I get it from and how to install it. My sa-learn is stopping at sha1 and I believe this module may not be installed correctly. You c

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-02-09 Thread Chris Thielen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin, Martin Schröder wrote: | On 2005-01-31 18:21:31 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: | |> That's an awfully new rule. I don't think it ever existed with |> more than 50 chars in its description. Is it possible that one or |> more of your files is in th

RE: over ride BAYES

2005-02-09 Thread Gray, Richard
An interesting solution to your problem might be to write some meta rules like this (in pseudo code) Meta ANTI_BAYES00 && BAYES_00 Describe ANTI_BAYES00 Negating the bayes_effect for RBLs Score ANTI_BAYES00 2.6 And repeat for the other BAYES_XX rules Not disimilar from a previous t

Re: disabling first-hop dialup checks? (RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL)

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:19 AM 2/9/2005, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: I know I've solved this before, but on a new install of 3.0.2 I'm finding messages getting tagged as RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, even though I'm pretty sure SA is supposed to ignore the first hop for that by default. It's not ignoring it, though. If SA isn't

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-02-09 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-01-31 18:21:31 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: > MS> warning: description exists for non-existent rule SPF_HELO_PASS > Isn't this part of 3.0 standard? Is there a problem with your > installation? I don't think so; I just don't use the spf plugin. > > MS> warning: description for DATE_IN_FU

RE: custom URIDNSBL rules

2005-02-09 Thread metlers
Thanks Matt, Jeff, and Paul for your input and suggestions. DNS is set up correctly (not RBLDNSD, but our normal DNS setup is pointing to auth2.homes.com), so "dig broadcastemail.us.auth2.homes.com" returns the correct reply. I added some more debug code to URIDNSBL.pm and could see that the URI

Re: [3.0.2] RulesDuJour --lint problem

2005-02-09 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-01-31 18:21:31 -0800, Robert Menschel wrote: > That's an awfully new rule. I don't think it ever existed with more > than 50 chars in its description. Is it possible that one or more of > your files is in the wrong format (has the wrong line ending control), > so that lines are wrapping and

Re: disabling first-hop dialup checks? (RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL)

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Daniel M. Drucker wrote: I was hoping for a real solution, but it seems that's what I'm going to have to do -- the rules are in fact correctly set to -notfirsthop, but it seems my qmail install is putting the Received lines in the wrong order! If anyone can shed any light on why this might be hap

Re: disabling first-hop dialup checks? (RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL)

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Martin Hepworth wrote: change the score of that rule to zero in local.cf and it won't run. I was hoping for a real solution, but it seems that's what I'm going to have to do -- the rules are in fact correctly set to -notfirsthop, but it seems my qmail install is putting the Received lines in the

Re: disabling first-hop dialup checks? (RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL)

2005-02-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Daniel change the score of that rule to zero in local.cf and it won't run. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Daniel M. Drucker wrote: I know I've solved this before, but on a new install of 3.0.2 I'm finding messages getting tagged as RCVD_IN_SO

disabling first-hop dialup checks? (RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL)

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
I know I've solved this before, but on a new install of 3.0.2 I'm finding messages getting tagged as RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, even though I'm pretty sure SA is supposed to ignore the first hop for that by default. It's not ignoring it, though. I'd search the gmane archives for this, but gmane's searc

users@spamassassin.apache.org

2005-02-09 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
SpamAssassin's URI code is getting confused on URLs that contain parameters that include "&image=". For instance, this URL: http://www.example.com/whatever?x=a&image=x.gif shows up in the spamassassin -D output as debug: uri found: http://www.example.com/whatever?x=a\342\204\221=x.gif debug: ur

over ride BAYES

2005-02-09 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi Exim 4.43, SA v3.0.0 I noticed this on a piece of ebay-style phishing mail this morning: 0.0 URI_REDIRECTOR Message has HTTP redirector URI 0.9 RCVD_ILLEGAL_IPReceived: contains illegal IP address 0.2 HTTP_EXCESSIVE_ESCAPES URI: Completely unnecessary

Installation with cpan

2005-02-09 Thread sasa
Hi, I have installed the latest version of spamassassin and I have used the cpan method but the result is: ... make: *** No rule to make target `Mail::SpamAssassin'. Stop. /usr/bin/make install Mail::SpamAssassin -- NOT OK .. but I don't understand where is the error !! .. now if execute: [EMA

Upgrade plan -- input requested

2005-02-09 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Hi all. I'm planning an upgrade from 2.64 to 3.02. At the same time, I plan to move SA to newer hardware and also to upgrade from Slackware 9.1 to Slackware 10. My main concern is keeping my currently excellent false positive and false negative ratios at roughly the same level. Fortunate

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread mouss
Jeff Chan wrote: Thanks for the feedback Matthew. Mouss would you care to report the bug to Fedora, if you haven't already? (It sounds like it was somewhat known already?) I don't know much about it except, that the "old" bind docs say so. See section 6.2 of the "BOG" (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/gr

Re: surbl errors

2005-02-09 Thread Ron McKeating
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:32 +, Dennis Davis wrote: > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ron McKeating wrote: > > > From: Ron McKeating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:17:19 + > > Subject: surbl errors > > > > Hi, we are running SA 3 and using surbl. We

Re: How to get mailbox to use Bayesian filter?

2005-02-09 Thread Peter Marshall
what are the better ways ? (I use pop to get my mail .. so I haev no handy dandy imap folders that I can copy spam and ham to easaly that scripts can be run on) Peter Thomas Arend wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 12:52 schrieb Steve Dondley: Thank

Re: surbl errors

2005-02-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ron you don't need the -C option in order to pick up the local.cf, it will try nad inclide that file by default. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Dennis Davis wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ron McKeating wrote: From: Ron McKeating <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: surbl errors

2005-02-09 Thread Dennis Davis
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Ron McKeating wrote: > From: Ron McKeating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: spam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:17:19 + > Subject: surbl errors > > Hi, we are running SA 3 and using surbl. We wanted to change the score > on the default rules so we put > > # Alt

surbl errors

2005-02-09 Thread Ron McKeating
Hi, we are running SA 3 and using surbl. We wanted to change the score on the default rules so we put # Alter scores for things found in blacklists score URIBL_AB_SURBL 5.0 score URIBL_OB_SURBL 5.0 score URIBL_PH_SURBL 5.0 score URIBL_SBL 5.0 score URIBL_SC_SURBL 5.0 score URIBL_WS_SURBL 5.0 in

Re: How SpamAssassin Works ? How to improve Spam Detection

2005-02-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Farid Yes you need to add in quite a few extra rules I find. www.rulesemporium.com/rules.html is a good place to start. Yes you are correct to put the local rules in that file (or directory). Don't forget to restart spamd/Amavis/MailScanner/whatever-calls-SA in order for the new rules to kick in.

bayes database, Berkeley vs. SQL

2005-02-09 Thread Arvinn Løkkebakken
Has anyone measured the difference in performance? For example when running: - 1 spamd server connecting to mysql on localhost (does it use tcp or unix socket?). - 1 spamd server connecting to mysql on a remote host. - 2 spamd servers connecting to the same remote mysql host. - n spamd servers con

Re: SHA1

2005-02-09 Thread Alan Munday
Lightology Postmaster wrote the following on 08/02/2005 22:07: RH 9.0 SA 3.02 what is the correct way to install SHA1 on perl 5.8.0, where do I get it from and how to install it. My sa-learn is stopping at sha1 and I believe this module may not be installed correctly. You can test your curren

Re: Apache mail list archives

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Quinlan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Schulz) writes: > I tried sending a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED] some 3 days ago, but nothing > has happened. Of course nothing has happened. Apache is an organization of hundreds of people, that address has nothing to do with the mailing list maintenance. I opened an i

Re: A possible mini spamd replacement and Integrating SpamAssassin with Novell NetMail

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Joe Flowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A possible mini spamd replacement ("saserver") and Integrating > SpamAssassin with Novell NetMail - the AddHeadr/saserver pair. > > http://www.nofreewill.com/donationware/ FYI, folks: the one-off nagware license is a modified Apache License 2.0 license

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 10:27:21 PM, Matthew Romanek wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:34:44 -0800, Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:52:53 PM, mouss mouss wrote: >> > Jeff Chan wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:22:24 AM, Matthew Romanek wrote:

no body in email, rule ?

2005-02-09 Thread ip.guy
hi all we seem to be getting a lot of spam with no body text... i've written a few rules to trap other spam'ish email but wonder how i might go about writing a rule for email with no body text... -ipguy

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Matthew Romanek
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:34:44 -0800, Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:52:53 PM, mouss mouss wrote: > > Jeff Chan wrote: > >> On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:22:24 AM, Matthew Romanek wrote: > >> > >>>FYI (and for future list-searchers), the problem with URIDNSB

Re: rule for mixed case URI scheme

2005-02-09 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Daniel, Thursday, February 3, 2005, 6:58:47 PM, you wrote: DQ> Something close to this will be in 3.1, so you'll want to remove DQ> the rule then, maybe name it something else too. DQ> uri URI_SCHEME_MIXED_CASE /^(?![a-z]{3,6}:|[A-Z]{3,6})[A-Za-z]{3,6}:\// DQ> describe URI_SCHEME_MIXE

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.2

2005-02-09 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 07:58 pm, John Andersen wrote: > On Monday 07 February 2005 08:08 am, Timothy Richter wrote: > > Good Morning, > > > > Recently, we upgraded from Spamassassin 2.61 to 3.0.2. Guinevere is on > > version 2.17. Our threshold had been 4.9, and we typically blocked 60% of > >

Re: Spamassassin 3.0.2

2005-02-09 Thread John Andersen
On Monday 07 February 2005 08:08 am, Timothy Richter wrote: > Good Morning, > > Recently, we upgraded from Spamassassin 2.61 to 3.0.2. Guinevere is on > version 2.17. Our threshold had been 4.9, and we typically blocked 60% of > our mail as being spam. > > Since the upgrade, we are blocking less th

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 4:52:53 PM, mouss mouss wrote: > Jeff Chan wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:22:24 AM, Matthew Romanek wrote: >> >>>FYI (and for future list-searchers), the problem with URIDNSBL >>>appearing to work but not actually scoring was because the host's >>>resolv.

A possible mini spamd replacement and Integrating SpamAssassin with Novell NetMail

2005-02-09 Thread Joe Flowers
A possible mini spamd replacement ("saserver") and Integrating SpamAssassin with Novell NetMail - the AddHeadr/saserver pair. http://www.nofreewill.com/donationware/ Joe

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:22 AM 12/8/2004, Matthew Romanek wrote: FYI (and for future list-searchers), the problem with URIDNSBL appearing to work but not actually scoring was because the host's resolv.conf included 127.0.0.1, which apparently something doesn't like. Really? I do this all the time.. However, you bette

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Further URIDNSBL problems..

2005-02-09 Thread mouss
Jeff Chan wrote: On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 8:22:24 AM, Matthew Romanek wrote: FYI (and for future list-searchers), the problem with URIDNSBL appearing to work but not actually scoring was because the host's resolv.conf included 127.0.0.1, which apparently something doesn't like. One possibil

Re: Spam with "BAYES_00"

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:05 PM 2/8/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the same corpus with daily manual additions of my own, and also using 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf to prevent this kind of thing, but it looks like the auto-learn has been learning some of the wrong stuff. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of SA's

Spam with "BAYES_00"

2005-02-09 Thread up
(running 3.0.2) Nearly all spam that gets through is being tagged as "BAYES_00" since I started using sbl_xbl at the smtp level (before that, alot more was hitting). I've been using the same corpus with daily manual additions of my own, and also using 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf to prevent this k