Re: SA + PostFix + Virtual final question for a while

2005-05-14 Thread hamann . w
>> I don't expect I'll get a reply quick enough to help. It's been strongly >> suggested that I switch our mail server over to ANYTHING other than what we >> have before the weekend is out. >> >> I've been bouncing around the web and digging through documentation trying to >> figure out how to d

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> anybody else seeing this? I got one of them, and fortunately only one. Bayes did a good job of catching it. Loren

Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-14 Thread David B Funk
Tonight our site is being bombarded by German political spam or Joe-jobbed bounce fall-out. So far it appears to all be coming from trojaned PCs. Other than the specific URLs in the messages havn't found any easily identified parts to create rules for. anybody else seeing this? -- Dave Funk

Re: Evading URI checks

2005-05-14 Thread Loren Wilton
> > Go Here to Order Online: RxRealness.com > > > How would one go about adding checks for the omission of http:// ? > > It's something the SA developers have already considered, but it > may be too resource intensive to check for every possible domain > that doesn't have a URI method. Does this g

Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, May 14, 2005, 10:43:08 AM, martin smith wrote: M>>From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>>Most of that is URI blacklists from surbl (supported by SA M>>3.x by default), as well as uribl.com (not supported in M>>default config but I added it by hand) M>> > Trouble is with th

Re: Evading URI checks

2005-05-14 Thread Jeff Chan
On Saturday, May 14, 2005, 6:21:24 PM, Niek wrote: > Today I got some spams which evaded URI checks like this: > Go Here to Order Online: RxRealness.com > How would one go about adding checks for the omission of http:// ? > Only things that hit were: bayes, base64 raw and drugs_erctile by the wa

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 18:41), Matt Kettler wrote: > wolfgang wrote: > > In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 17:53), Matt Kettler wrote: > > > >>3.0.3 fixes some scoring issues in 3.0.2 and a few important > >>bugs that 3.0.2 suffers from in terms of accuracy (mostly URI p

Evading URI checks

2005-05-14 Thread Niek
Today I got some spams which evaded URI checks like this: Go Here to Order Online: RxRealness.com How would one go about adding checks for the omission of http:// ? Only things that hit were: bayes, base64 raw and drugs_erctile by the way. Niek

Re: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Rob Skedgell
On Sunday 15 May 2005 00:02, List Mail User wrote: > >... > >On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:30, List Mail User wrote: > >[...] > > > >>Just to keep up; aeroseddicc. com is another multitrade group > >> domain. Note the contact email of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] com" - same as > >> for the domain multitrad

Amusement value

2005-05-14 Thread Loren Wilton
Gee, I wonder what the subject could be? Following is an actual spam header I just got: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Status: U Received: from smtp.earthlink.net [209.86.93.211] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5) Received: from m6.stockmacro.com ([66.250.17.88]) by tanager.mail.pas.ea

Re: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread List Mail User
>... > >--nextPart12555236.45TTRGDWuC >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="utf-8" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Content-Disposition: inline > >On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:30, List Mail User wrote: >[...] >> >> Just to keep up; aeroseddicc. com is another multitrade group >> do

Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Loren Wilton
Let me just suggest that there are all kinds of catchable keys in the spam you posted. I don't really want to post rules for these, since as soon as rules get posted here the keys disappear from the spams. Loren

Re: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Rob Skedgell
On Saturday 14 May 2005 18:30, List Mail User wrote: [...] > > Just to keep up; aeroseddicc. com is another multitrade group > domain. Note the contact email of "[EMAIL PROTECTED] com" - same as > for the domain multitrade-corp. com, and the telephone/fax numbers > match those of the domain s

Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
martin smith wrote: > Trouble is with the SURBL is that you can receive a lot of these spams > before they get listed, they also seem to change domain name twice a day or > more to keep ahead of the listing, that's why I wanted something to block > them if they don't hit any black lists. > > Mart

Re: SQL Question -- FIX

2005-05-14 Thread Michael Parker
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 06:53:28PM -0700, Steven Manross wrote: > ***This now works (with minor mods to the SA distro files [SQL.pm] and > the creation of an additional MS SQL User defined function) > > I've mocked up an MS SQL Version of RPAD that could be easily introduced > into the readme code

RE: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M>-Original Message- M>From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>Sent: 14 May 2005 18:37 M>To: Dan Simmons M>Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org M>Subject: Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes? M> M>Dan Simmons wrote: M>> Hi All, M>> M>> I am having an issue with the following DRUG

Re: {SPAM} Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Simmons wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam. Does > anyone have any rules to catch this? > > Environment: SA 3.0.2 with network tests and the following SARE rule sets: > X-SA-SysThreshold: 6.0 > 0.8 HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20 BODY: HTML: images with

RE: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M>-Original Message- M>From: Dan Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>Sent: 14 May 2005 18:13 M>To: users@spamassassin.apache.org M>Subject: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes? M> M>Hi All, M> M>I am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam. Does M>anyone have any rules to catch this

Re: Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread List Mail User
>... > >Hi All, > >I am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam. Does >anyone have any rules to catch this? > >Environment: SA 3.0.2 with network tests and the following SARE rule sets: >70_sare_adult.cf >70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf >70_sare_evilnum0.cf >70_sare_genlsubj0.cf >70_sare_

Drug SPAM problem..any fixes?

2005-05-14 Thread Dan Simmons
Hi All, I am having an issue with the following DRUG related spam. Does anyone have any rules to catch this? Environment: SA 3.0.2 with network tests and the following SARE rule sets: 70_sare_adult.cf 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf 70_sare_evilnum0.cf 70_sare_genlsubj0.cf 70_sare_genlsubj1.cf 70_sa

Re: Bayes Database RW Lock

2005-05-14 Thread Paul R. Ganci
Matt Kettler wrote: bayes_auto_expire 0 With this setting you've got a cronjob running sa-learn --force-expire. Right? Yes. If not, fix that. rw-rw-rw-1 prganci users 165988 May 14 10:05 bayes_journal -rw---1 pangione users 34 May 14 10:00 bayes.lock That's

Re: IP whitelist?

2005-05-14 Thread List Mail User
>... > >If an incomming email is from a IP listed in IP whitelist, we don't >need to check it at all. >The whitelist I mentioned here is a large-scale one. Say Microsoft and >Yahoo's IPs should be added to IP whitelist since we suppose they >won't send spams. >Currently I am maintaining a RBL list,

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
wolfgang wrote: > In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 17:53), Matt Kettler wrote: > >>3.0.3 fixes some scoring issues in 3.0.2 and a few important >>bugs that 3.0.2 suffers from in terms of accuracy (mostly URI parsing for >>URIBLs). > > > after installing debian's SA 3.0.3 yesterday, I

Re: Bayes Database RW Lock

2005-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul R. Ganci wrote: > I am at my wits end regarding this issue. I am getting very frequent: > > May 14 09:58:05 citlatepetl spamd[5125]: Cannot open bayes databases > /home/spam-filter/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File > exists > This is very common, and is not a problem UNLES

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 17:53), Matt Kettler wrote: > 3.0.3 fixes some scoring issues in 3.0.2 and a few important > bugs that 3.0.2 suffers from in terms of accuracy (mostly URI parsing for > URIBLs). after installing debian's SA 3.0.3 yesterday, I noticed that it lacks the p

Bayes Database RW Lock

2005-05-14 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I am at my wits end regarding this issue. I am getting very frequent: May 14 09:58:05 citlatepetl spamd[5125]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/spam-filter/etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists messages. From what I have googled I have done just about everything I could f

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Valery V. Bobrov wrote: > Hello! > > I upgraded to SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 from 2.64 and I noticed the amount > of spam messages has been increased! > > > What sort of problem? > > Yours faithfully, > Valery > Others have given a lot of good things to check for. However, one more thi

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread Valery V.Bobrov
Thank you for your help I mean: - more undetected spam messages? do you mean that 3.0.2 detects fewer spam messages than 2.6.4? Yes And what shoul I do with this version? if you want help with a spamassassin problem, i think you need to be more precise ... Yes, right you are. Besr regards, Valery

pyzor_options

2005-05-14 Thread Christoph Petersen
Hi, I'm trying to get the following command to work: pyzor_options --homedir=/var/qmail/vpopmail/.spamassassin in local.cf. But everytime when I start spamassassin --lint -D I get the following error: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, --homedir=/var/qmail/vpopmail/.spamassassin" is not

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Saturday 14 May 2005 14:35), Valery V. Bobrov wrote: > I upgraded to SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 from 2.64 and I noticed the amount > of spam messages has been increased! do you mean there are - more detected spam messages? - more undetected spam messages? - more of both? d

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread nigel
I don't think 3.0.2 is worse, just that there's more spam around lately. If I take my own stats, SA is catching a slightly higher percentage of spam in the last month to 6 weeks. The RBL's I use frontline are catching more too. From January 05 to March 05 Spam accounted for around 60% of all email

RE: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread martin smith
M>-Original Message- M>From: Valery V. Bobrov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] M>Sent: 14 May 2005 13:36 M>To: users@spamassassin.apache.org M>Subject: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 M> M>Hello! M> M>I upgraded to SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 from 2.64 and I M>noticed the amount of spa

more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-14 Thread Valery V. Bobrov
Hello! I upgraded to SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 from 2.64 and I noticed the amount of spam messages has been increased! What sort of problem? Yours faithfully, Valery