Re: What is MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID ?

2005-06-02 Thread Niek
On 6/2/2005 10:01 PM +0200, Tim Macrina wrote: Could someone please explain what this is MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID /usr/share/spamassassin# grep MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID * 20_head_tests.cf:header MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID eval:message_id_from_mta() 20_head_tests.cf:describe MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID Message-Id for

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-06-02 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, May 26, 2005, 12:49:05 PM, Evan Langlois wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:42 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: >> For site wide, I'm pretty much against it. I know people will argue that >> point. I'm obviously biased towards SARE rules updated with RDJ. And the use >> of URIBL.com lists.

Whitelisting a host?

2005-06-02 Thread mailsec2
Hi, can i whitelisting a host? If yes, how can i do this ? Thanx Peter

Re: Question on ISP's, verizon TBS.

2005-06-02 Thread Codger
Hmmm. You mistake Verizon for someone who gives a care I think. (Indeed this list will get this reply but most assuredly since Verizon chooses to blacklist everyone outside Verizon as a solution to spam.) On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: IMO, somebody at VZ needs to have a

Re: Score an entire cf file

2005-06-02 Thread Rich Puhek
Reginaldo O. Andrade wrote: Hi, list! I'm developing a custom cf file to block messages with specific strings and I would like to know if is it possible to score an entire file with the same value without using the command "score RULE_NAME X.XX" for each rule in the archive. Thanks

Who did it?

2005-06-02 Thread Nabil Sabry
Dear all, I have been recently added to this tool. BOTH the IT team and the ISP claim they know nothing about it! Is there any means to know who added me? regards nabil

Re: Are the RBL scores high enough?

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:41 PM 6/2/2005, Jason Haar wrote: If one's wrong, they are ALL wrong. By that do you mean that a false positive in one RBL tends to show up in them all? Probably too much sharing of data/same sources? No, I mean if one score in the ruleset is wrong, every score in the ruleset is wrong

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread jdow
Does 3.04 or 3.1 contain any way to COUNT "Subject:" header lines? If not they are wildly incomplete, IMAO. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi Theo/Daryl! On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:14:41AM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Would it be possible to also include the JP SURBL list in 3.0.4 ? The JP SURBL list was added to the 3.0 branch two weeks ago. Already done. ;) Great! Hopefully the score will be a little better then its

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:14:41AM +0200, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Would it be possible to also include the JP SURBL list in 3.0.4 ? Already done. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Home Safety Tip #2: Don't fry bacon, when your naked. pgpk1tTKaoguu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: Would it be possible to also include the JP SURBL list in 3.0.4 ? We get a lot of questions about that right now... Since we withdraw the data from WS some months ago now, in preparation of SA 3.1. Hopefully it can also be added in 3.0.4. The JP SURBL list was added

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Theo, Is there any straightforward way to backport some of this goodness to 3.0.x? I don't mind running the development snapshots at home but at work I have to answer to a couple thousand users... We're working on getting 3.0.4 done, which has some backports for things like obfuscation and s

Re: URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 05:23:56PM -0700, Ben Poliakoff wrote: > Is there any straightforward way to backport some of this goodness to > 3.0.x? I don't mind running the development snapshots at home but at > work I have to answer to a couple thousand users... We're working on getting 3.0.4 done,

Re: Anyone know what Microsoft's "Intelligent Message Filter" does WRT tagging?

2005-06-02 Thread David Brodbeck
Matt Kettler wrote: > I highly doubt a MS product would take advantage of results from another > product. On the other hand, IF they're using statistical scoring, and IF they include the headers in the score, then you might be able to just tag suspected spam with a header. Eventually the system w

Re: Are the RBL scores high enough?

2005-06-02 Thread Jason Haar
Matt Kettler wrote: e.g. RCVD_IN_NJABL_PROXY has a value of 1.0 - and yet the FAQ on the NJABL web site (of course) tells you to set "score NJABL_PROXY 3.0" :-) But the wonderful authors of SA know far more than I do - so are the current levels still deemed to be correct? If one's wrong,

Re: Are the RBL scores high enough?

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:56 PM 6/2/2005, Jason Haar wrote: DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL scantime=4.4,size=1435,mid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,autolearn=disabled This had a Subject line of "russian X unusably in action fervid" - so I'm guessing it was s

URIDNSBL.pm improvements in 3.1?

2005-06-02 Thread Ben Poliakoff
So I've noticed that the URIDNSBL.pm in the 3.1 snapshots seems to recognize obfuscated URIs much better than in 3.0.x. In other words I was looking at a message that my relatively well maintained 3.0.3 installation didn't catch. Then I tried running the same message through my personal 3.1 sna

Are the RBL scores high enough?

2005-06-02 Thread Jason Haar
Hi there I'm finding a fair chunk of spam gets past SA-3.0.3 with scores of 3-4 out of 5 even though it got 2+ network test hits. e.g. spamd[18676]: result: . 3 - DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL scantime=4.4,size=1435,mid=<[EMAIL

Re: [REALLY SOLVED THIS TIME] Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagginglist traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: All - I have added these to my local.cf: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can someone ple

Re: [SOLVED] Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Loren Wilton
> Now my local.cf setting is: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] You still have it wrong. That is the syntax for whitelist_from. Whitelist_from_rcvd takes TWO arguments, not one. That line as you have it will be ignored. Loren

Re: [SOLVED] Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: All - I have added these to my local.cf: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can someone ple

[REALLY SOLVED THIS TIME] Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > All - > > I have added these to my local.cf: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can > someone please tell me what on Earth I need to do to tell SA to ignore >

[SOLVED] Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:32 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > All - > > I have added these to my local.cf: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can > someone please tell me what on Earth I need to do to tell SA to ignore >

Re: max-conn-per-child spamd flag?

2005-06-02 Thread Loren Wilton
>LW> Dont forget the -m option. If you have more than about 5 children >LW> running and don't have a huge email flow you might do well to cut the >LW> number of children down to the 3 to 10 range. > > What is considered "huge email flow" and what are appropriate values for > connection

Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Thomas Cameron wrote: Not that I am arguing, but that's not what the man page says. The example for whitelist_from_rcvd there shows this: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why is your syntax better? Again, not arguing, just want to understand. Thomas Actually, the man page says: white

Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread jdow
Better yet teach your system to bypass SpamAssassin for all the SpamAssassin lists. Sometimes a simple whitelist entry might not be enough. {^_-} - Original Message - From: "Kristopher Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thomas, You can do one of two things: whitelist_to users@spamassassin.apac

RE: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 16:42 -0500, Kristopher Austin wrote: > Thomas, > > You can do one of two things: > whitelist_to users@spamassassin.apache.org > > or > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache.org > > I prefer the latter. Notice the correct format as opposed to what you > used. Ma

Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All - I have added these to my local.cf: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can someone please tell me what on Earth I need to do to tell SA to ignor

RE: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Kristopher Austin
Thomas, You can do one of two things: whitelist_to users@spamassassin.apache.org or whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache.org I prefer the latter. Notice the correct format as opposed to what you used. Make sure to restart SA after performing a --lint. Kris -Original Message-

Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 04:32:05PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > I have added these to my local.cf: > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) That's not a valid line, rtm. :) 2) The mails come from spamassassin.apache.org, not apache.org. You can try something like: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL

Re: At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
> All - > > I have added these to my local.cf: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being > tagged. Can someone please tell me what on Earth I need > to do to tell SA to ignore anything on this list? > Procmail rules are not an opti

At wit's end - SA is *still* tagging list traffic!

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Cameron
All - I have added these to my local.cf: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I am still seeing list traffic with spam samples being tagged. Can someone please tell me what on Earth I need to do to tell SA to ignore anything on this list? Procmail rules are not an option - I use SA on a r

Re: 3.0.3 uses all CPUs after tie

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Jacob
> It randomly happens after an hour or so of use. Next time it happens I > will try both and send it to the list. To follow up on the Debian thread with the same problem: Since seems to happen for several people, during the last days, could it be that this is not in fact exim/exiscan related, but

Re: Use of localhost.rfc-ignorant.org?

2005-06-02 Thread Nick Leverton
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:22:06PM -0500, Stewart, John wrote: > > > Hmm, in my copy of SA 3.0.3 an ipwhois rule is present, but commented > > out with a note saying "disabled since ipwhois is going away." By any > > chance are you using an older version of SA? > > Aye, thanks. I'm using 2.6.4,

What is MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID ?

2005-06-02 Thread Tim Macrina
Could someone please explain what this is MSGID_FROM_MTA_ID My messages that I send from outlook all seem to have that.

Re: procmailrc being bypassed - again

2005-06-02 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Jake Colman wrote: > > I posted this problem last week and was told that it might be due to an SA > problem when overwhelmed by too many connections. This problem only occurs > when my server has been off-line and then gets swamped from the backup MX > once it comes back on-li

Re: 3.0.3 uses all CPUs after tie

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:40:39AM -0700, Justin Mason wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > can you repro this reliably? if so, output from -D and/or an "strace > - -f -p $spamdpid" would be helpful. It randomly happens after an hour or so of use. Next time it happens

Re: 3.0.3 uses all CPUs after tie

2005-06-02 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 can you repro this reliably? if so, output from -D and/or an "strace - -f -p $spamdpid" would be helpful. where does "tie" come in? (from the subj line). - --j. Matthew Daubenspeck writes: > I am using Spamassassin 3.0.3 on a Gentoo AMD64 system w

3.0.3 uses all CPUs after tie

2005-06-02 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
I am using Spamassassin 3.0.3 on a Gentoo AMD64 system with exim and exiscan. This has worked VERY well for months without a single issue. All of the sudden spamd eventually uses all of both CPU's and nearly locks the machine. I have tried downgrading to 3.0.2 with the same result. I have been usin

Re: procmailrc being bypassed - again

2005-06-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 02 June 2005 16:12, Jake Colman typed: > I use the default number of spamd children and have configured sendmail for > 25 daemon children. SA works perfectly and is filtering wonderfully except > for this one situation when I come back on-line and get swampled. The > initial batch of

Re: New drug variants

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Reginaldo O. Andrade wrote: > Hi, list! > > I received today new variants of those annoying spams with "drugs" > (described below) that SpamAssassin 3.0.3 with default cf files didn't > block them. Someone knows what to do? > > VlÁGRÀ > CÎÀLlS > > Thanks in advance! > > Reginaldo O. Andrade

procmailrc being bypassed - again

2005-06-02 Thread Jake Colman
I posted this problem last week and was told that it might be due to an SA problem when overwhelmed by too many connections. This problem only occurs when my server has been off-line and then gets swamped from the backup MX once it comes back on-line. I use the default number of spamd children a

Re: max-conn-per-child spamd flag?

2005-06-02 Thread Jake Colman
> "LW" == Loren Wilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I just noticed the --max-conn-per-child option in the spamd man page. >> While the description is fairly straightforward, I'm curious if anyone >> else is using this LW> Yes, many people >> , why, and if it's helped with sp

Re: Question on ISP's, verizon TBS.

2005-06-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 02 June 2005 14:33, Gene Heskett typed: > Greetings; > > I rx'd several copies of what I think was a viri yesterday, > purportedly coming from verizon.net, my isp. > > A very short text message mentioning my account, with a 60 > kilobyte .zip file attached. The thing that bothers me is

Question on ISP's, verizon TBS.

2005-06-02 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I rx'd several copies of what I think was a viri yesterday, purportedly coming from verizon.net, my isp. A very short text message mentioning my account, with a 60 kilobyte .zip file attached. The thing that bothers me is that it was addressed to that gibberish string they use as t

Re: New drug variants

2005-06-02 Thread Martin Hepworth
hi make sure the URI-RBL plugin is enabled in init.pre, that you have a recent version of Net::DNS Perl Module and maybe add the JP URI-RBL as per instructions at www.surbl.org Also alot of the rules @ www.rulesemporium.org can help too.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid St

Re: Score an entire cf file

2005-06-02 Thread Loren Wilton
>I'm developing a custom cf file to block messages with specific strings and I would like to know if is it possible to score an entire file with the same value without using the command "score RULE_NAME X.XX" for each rule in the archive. No. You need a score per rule. If you think about it,

New drug variants

2005-06-02 Thread Reginaldo O. Andrade
Hi, list!   I received today new variants of those annoying spams with "drugs" (described below) that SpamAssassin 3.0.3 with default cf files didn't block them. Someone knows what to do?   VlÁGRÀ CÎÀLlS   Thanks in advance!   Reginaldo O. Andrade Network Administrator

Score an entire cf file

2005-06-02 Thread Reginaldo O. Andrade
Hi, list!       I'm developing a custom cf file to block messages with specific strings and I would like to know if is it possible to score an entire file with the same value without using the command "score RULE_NAME X.XX" for each rule in the archive.       Thanks in advance.   Reginaldo O

Re: drop in graph??

2005-06-02 Thread Ronan McGlue
Paul Boven wrote: Mike Jackson wrote: I'm sure there are some PHP hackers who have much nicer graphs than I do, but I found the easiest thing to do was to extract numbers from my logs with some perl scripts and paste them into Excel. Management likes Excel and it makes pretty charts. :) It'

Re: possible memory memory with SA 3.0.3 under Debian Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Jacob
> Now we changed from Gentoo based systems (which did not use > sa > 3.02) to Debian based systems (with 3.03 initially), still using > the same version/config of exim/exiscan. When used in combination with > Spamassassin 3.03, we got the said memory problems. Since we downgraded > to 3.02 yesterda

Re: possible memory memory with SA 3.0.3 under Debian Linux

2005-06-02 Thread Thomas Jacob
> Are you limiting the size of msgs that exim is sending to spamd to scan? > > For folks using Exim, please see Justin's msg to the users list the > other day: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-users/200505.mbox/[EMAIL > PROTECTED] > > You really need to be limiting the ms

Re: problem with FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD

2005-06-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Russ Ringer wrote: This triggered FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD. Another bug? Received: from bay0-smtp02.bay0.hotmail.com (65.54.241.109) by mail.avtcorp.com with SMTP; 31 May 2005 23:43:25 - Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Originating-IP: [63.226.220.248] X-Originating-Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re