Re: Test for no Subject line field

2005-03-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Russell P. Sutherland wrote: Is there a test that one can construct that would assign a weight to a message that is missing a certain header, completely? In my case, no Subject line at all. From the default ruleset for 3.x: header __HAS_SUBJECT exists:Subject meta MISSING_SUBJECT

Test for no Subject line field

2005-03-16 Thread Russell P. Sutherland
Is there a test that one can construct that would assign a weight to a message that is missing a certain header, completely? In my case, no Subject line at all. -- Quist ConsultingEmail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 219 Donlea DriveVoice: +1.416.696.7600 Toronto ON M4G 2N1

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread mouss
List Mail User wrote: In other words, lowercase is conformant. and your first point is not correct (though all the examples do show uppercase). However, you are completely correct that the "helo=" is flat out wrong, why? it's inside a comment, no? but with a slight variation, and it becom

Re: sa-learn hangs -- SOLVED

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:33:16PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:25:53PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:11:27PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > > >spamassassin -D -p --lint doesn't show any pro

Re: sa-learn hangs -- SOLVED

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:25:53PM -0500, Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:11:27PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > > >spamassassin -D -p --lint doesn't show any problems that I > > >can see. > > >if I run: > > >sa-learn --showdots --mbox --ha

Re: Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Vicki Brown wrote on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:00:59 -0800: > Okaaay. Help me out here, please? "If network tests are enabled"? > I change essentially nothing from the defaults. > Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL is loaded in init.pre. > Net::DNS is up to date. > But as I'm apparently not using

SPAM/HAM folder

2005-03-16 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, On my SA Gateway, I have no local box except root. Should I forward HAM/SPAM to local box? Mail are not meant for local delivery here. Regards, Norman Zhang

Re: spamassassin build failure on x86_64

2005-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 01:33:21PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > I'm getting errors building the rpm on x86_64: Yeah, we haven't quite worked that out yet. Things are being linked against things they shouldn't be. :( For the time being, you can apply the patch attached to bug 4090: http://bugzilla.

spamassassin build failure on x86_64

2005-03-16 Thread Dan Hollis
I'm getting errors building the rpm on x86_64: Manifying blib/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes.3pm Manifying blib/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry.3pm + /usr/bin/make spamc/libspamc.so /usr/bin/make -f spamc/Makefile spamc/libspamc.so make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/M

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: ...and if you can, avoid using running messages to the list through SA (easy to do if you're using procmail, not so easy in other cases). or run them through with "whitelist_from_rcvd *.* apache.org" to pad the value so that it doesn't matter I do wish that postfix woul

Re: Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-16 Thread Vicki Brown
At 20:48 -0800 03/15/2005, Jeff Chan wrote: >Yes, please see URIDNSBL and SURBL: > > >http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/URIDNSBL.pm > http://www.surbl.org/ > >which are built into SpamAssassin 3 and enabled by default if >network tests are enabled. Okaaa

Re: Re: SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang . Fuertbauer
Justin! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) wrote on 16.03.05 21:46:>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE->Hash: SHA1>>>I would suggest running with -D and monitoring spamd memory size>as it starts up.   Something is causing it to balloon to massive>sizes after startup. nothing special during startup; it

RE: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
> >This is an excerpt that I used in trying to track it down. No real mailto URI >unless there is some translation going on with email addresses embedded in the >body by the email client on send. At first, I just thought it might be a bug >since the messages were using ISO-2022-JP character se

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
List Mail User wrote: P.S. Could whomever maintains this list please try to settle on one format for the list's name - today's messages are using SpamAssassin Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a couple of days ago the format changed to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] apache. org" and I already have to special

Re: Upgrade... + other (perl?) problems

2005-03-16 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Am 16.03.2005 um 08:55 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > > Am 16.03.2005 um 00:31 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:27:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > > > Are there problems with mail heade

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bobby, could you open a bug in the bugzilla about this? URI rules should not be checking mailto links. - --j. Jeff Chan writes: > On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 5:47:40 AM, Bobby Rose wrote: > > This is an excerpt that I used in trying to track it d

Re: SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would suggest running with -D and monitoring spamd memory size as it starts up. Something is causing it to balloon to massive sizes after startup. Presumably you are limiting the size of the messages sent in for scanning, as recommended in the do

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
>To: Loren Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: SpamAssassin Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted? > > >Loren Wilton wrote: >> Received: from ar39.lsanca2-4.16.241.28.lsanca2.elnk.dsl.genuity.net >> ([4.16.241.28] helo=watson1) >> by pop-a065d23.pas

Re: sa-learn hangs

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:11:27PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: > >spamassassin -D -p --lint doesn't show any problems that I > >can see. > >if I run: > >sa-learn --showdots --mbox --ham -p > >/opt/MailScanner/etc/spam.assassin.prefs.conf > >sa-learn just hangs. Sam

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
>... >Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:38:13 - (GMT) >Subject: Re: Is there such a test? >From: "Mike Spamassassin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I'd take that bet. >While you are almost certainly correct with the likes of those who >subscribe to this group, who often have multiple email addresses, >out ther

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Mike Spamassassin wrote: I'd take that bet. While you are almost certainly correct with the likes of those who subscribe to this group, who often have multiple email addresses, out there in [EMAIL PROTECTED] land, and hotmail world, most people have a single email address strongly related to their

Re: Sudden spam to this email address

2005-03-16 Thread Stuart Johnston
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 9:02:44 AM, Stuart Johnston wrote: SURBLs have them... most of the time... eventually... Er, yeah. Just to check, are you using ob.surbl.org and jp.surbl.org in multi.surbl.org, i.e.: In the last ~24 hours: All SA > 5: 32540 *_SURBL:22361 (69%

Re: sa-learn hangs

2005-03-16 Thread Joe Zitnik
I had that happen once before, but it was an earlier version of the Bayes DB, and it was because my database was hosed. >>> Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 3/15/2005 6:01 PM >>> Hello, I'm using spamassassin 3.0.2 from within MailScanner 4.39.6 on Debian woody. After upgrading to spamas

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread Yang Xiao
Alright, I'm developing such a test. For American/Anglo-Sexon names, it will do random comparason with the Webster Dictionary for FLast, FirshL, First.Last Last.F, Last.First and spell check them all. For Indian names, it will search the Yahoo movie Database. For French Names, we will append "Freed

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread Keith Ivey
Mike Spamassassin wrote: I'd take that bet. While you are almost certainly correct with the likes of those who subscribe to this group, who often have multiple email addresses, out there in [EMAIL PROTECTED] land, and hotmail world, most people have a single email address strongly related to their

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 5:47:40 AM, Bobby Rose wrote: > This is an excerpt that I used in trying to track it down. No > real mailto URI unless there is some translation going on with > email addresses embedded in the body by the email client on send. At > first, I just thought it might be

RE: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Rose, Bobby
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Upgrade... + other (perl?) problems

2005-03-16 Thread sa-users
Am 16.03.2005 um 08:55 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > Am 16.03.2005 um 00:31 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:27:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Are there problems with mail header identification? > > > Am I in the wrong list with this question? > > > > Mar 13 01

Re: RE: SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang . Fuertbauer
Greg, i have use_auto_whitelist 0 in the local.cf But thanks anyway Wolfgang "Greg Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 16.03.2005 13:54:24: > Some users have had problems with corrupt AWL database after upgrade of > Spamassassin. Try disabling AWL to see if that is your issue. > > -Orig

RE: SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Tarjan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Greg, > Some users have had problems with corrupt AWL database after upgrade of > Spamassassin. Try disabling AWL to see if that is your issue. I'm totally new to the list and I don't know 3.0.2 so I'm not sure how helpful this is goin

RE: SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Greg Allen
Some users have had problems with corrupt AWL database after upgrade of Spamassassin. Try disabling AWL to see if that is your issue. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, March 16, 2005, 3:55:52 AM, Bobby Rose wrote: > I figured out the problem, it' was the an individuals email address in > the message body (even though not a mailto). Their email domain isn't > listed at spamhaus.org but it turns out one of their ISPs DNS servers > are which they ar

Re: Header Tagging with # instead of *

2005-03-16 Thread Peter Guhl
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 05:09, John Andersen wrote: > On Saturday 12 March 2005 02:47 pm, jdow wrote: > > The canonical way to do it is something like: > > > > rewrite_header Subject *SPAM* _SCORE(00)_ ** > > > > That gives headers that look like: > > Subject: *SPAM* 027.3 ** spoo

RE: URI Tests and Japanese Chars (solved)

2005-03-16 Thread Rose, Bobby
I figured out the problem, it' was the an individuals email address in the message body (even though not a mailto). Their email domain isn't listed at spamhaus.org but it turns out one of their ISPs DNS servers are which they are using as secondary. This makes the second time I've come across t

permission problems? SpamAssassin 3.02 with running with sql

2005-03-16 Thread Philipp Snizek
Hi when running spamd with 'spamd -D -q' the SQL statement 'SELECT preference,value FROM sa_prefs WHERE username=_USERNAME_ OR username='$GLOBAL' OR username=CONCAT('%',_USERNAME_) ORDER BY username ASC' and testing from shell with 'echo -e "From: user\nTo:user\Subject: Test\n\n" | spamc -u '$GLOB

SA 3.0.2 MASSIVE memory cpu problems

2005-03-16 Thread Wolfgang . Fuertbauer
Dear collegues, I'm having still extrem problems with memory and cpu consumation of SA 3.0.2 spamd; PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ Command 19098 exim 30 5 399m 398m 34m R 99.7 65.8 1:37.47 spamd 19121 exim 20 5 111m 111m 34m S 0.7 4.4 0:20.78 sp

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
List Mail User wrote: the "with" is sometimes also either a "by" or "via" (and probably other string values which I haven't noticed). BTW. "by" "via" and "with" are separate sub-fields with their own meaning -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
Loren Wilton wrote: Received: from ar39.lsanca2-4.16.241.28.lsanca2.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.16.241.28] helo=watson1) by pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1DBKRe-Kp-00; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:23:22 -0800 1) Is "stmp" in lower case valid, or should it have been STMP? 2)

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread Mike Spamassassin
I'd take that bet. While you are almost certainly correct with the likes of those who subscribe to this group, who often have multiple email addresses, out there in [EMAIL PROTECTED] land, and hotmail world, most people have a single email address strongly related to their name. Back to the origi

Re: Re: Re: Upgrade... + other (perl?) problems

2005-03-16 Thread sa-users
Am 16.03.2005 um 00:31 Uhr haben Sie geschrieben: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:27:28AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Are there problems with mail header identification? > > Am I in the wrong list with this question? > > > Mar 13 01:16:18 ns spamd[28893]: processing message > > > <[EMAIL PROTE

need testers for ldapBlacklist.pm plug-in

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
I got the ldapBlick plug-in pretty much finished, and it just needs some polishing I think. I'd like to get some help testing this for load and latency, so if anybody has a local LDAP server running already and is pretty comfortable with SA and LDAP, and is willing to poke at this, let me know

Re: [SPAM-TAG] SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com" ...

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 9:27:50 PM, Vicki Brown wrote: > Does anyone else find this just too absurdly silly for words? > Although I guess it surely does prove the point Jeff Chan made for URIDNSBL > and SURBL - most eloquently in fact :-) >>SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com", has

SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com" ...

2005-03-16 Thread Vicki Brown
Does anyone else find this just too absurdly silly for words? Although I guess it surely does prove the point Jeff Chan made for URIDNSBL and SURBL - most eloquently in fact :-) >SpamAssassin, running on "mail.dailyhills.com", has identified this incoming >email as possible spam. The original me

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 7:13:04 PM, Vicki Brown wrote: > I've been going through a bunch of spam and blacklisting domains. However, > some of the more frequent offenders are in the body of the message. For > example, today I found about half a dozen porno spams that contained a > reference to >

Blacklisting embedded URLs

2005-03-16 Thread Vicki Brown
I've been going through a bunch of spam and blacklisting domains. However, some of the more frequent offenders are in the body of the message. For example, today I found about half a dozen porno spams that contained a reference to http://www.a123s.biz/... I can do a body match rule. Is there a

Re: Sudden spam to this email address

2005-03-16 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, 9:02:44 AM, Stuart Johnston wrote: > SURBLs have them... most of the time... eventually... Er, yeah. Just to check, are you using ob.surbl.org and jp.surbl.org in multi.surbl.org, i.e.: urirhssub URIBL_JP_SURBL multi.surbl.org.A 64 body URIBL_JP_SURBL

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
List Mail User wrote: Unfortunately even the "quotes", while typical, are optional; I have lots of examples of both ham and spam without the quotes. The rule is that everything from the ':' up to the '<' is the description (and nearly anything is "legal"). To show examples, here is an example fr

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
>... >From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Is there such a test? >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:39:32 -0800 >... >> I have just received spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Is there a test which identifies that the description (Esmeralada >> Bouchard

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
>From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Is this Received header correctly formatted? >Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:36:36 -0800 >... > >Received: from ar39.lsanca2-4.16.241.28.lsanca2.elnk.dsl.genuity.net >([4.16.241.28] helo=watson1) > by pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
>... >Point taken, but I still think it would be a valid test. >Like all SpamAssassin tests it should only be one of many indicators. >In particular all the ones that I receive I would expect to have "Mike" or >"Michael" in the description of my email address. >I would also like to be able to pick

Re: Is there such a test?

2005-03-16 Thread List Mail User
> >At 10:00 AM 3/15/2005, Mike Spamassassin wrote: >>I have just received spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Is there a test which identifies that the description (Esmeralada >>Bouchard) bears no resemblance to the given sender's address? > >No.. It's quite common for normal people to have that. > >For

Re: URI Tests and Japanese Chars

2005-03-16 Thread alan premselaar
Rose, Bobby wrote: I have a user that is of Japanese origin and who converses with other individuals in Japan in his same field of study. The messages they send are in Japanese and trip the URI_SBL rule. These people are in different .jp domains and I really don't want to get into the administrat