What ever happened to "Louisville CO 80027" spam?

2005-06-24 Thread Rob McEwen
What ever happened to "Louisville CO 80027" spam? Did they change their scheme? Get Prosecuted? Rob McEwen PowerView Systems

error: Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 2119._ , continuing

2005-06-24 Thread jdow
error: Insecure dependency in eval while running setuid at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 2119._ , continuing Ayup - another one of those horrid problems. I am running 3.04 with spamd and spamc. I get this on "full" rules. However, I do not get it all the t

Re: is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable to the lastest Denial of Service Vulnerability ?

2005-06-24 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:45:52PM +0200, Tuyen DINH wrote: > > > >>According to the lastest announce, SpamAssassin from version 3.0.1 to > >>3.0.3 is subject to a Denial of Service Vulnerability. > >> > >>So is Spamassassin 3.0.

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in > > tracking? Or does it correspond with a web bug? > > List washing. When they actually get a complaint about spam, they can > remove the address from the list, even if the report

Re: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread Chris Thielen
John Horne wrote: Many thanks for all the replies, which all seem positive. However, we have been seeing problems with restarting the daemon recently, which is why I am wary about starting to run RDJ from cron. In trying to restart spamassassin, on a fedora core 4 and core 3 system, we see: /

Re: is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable to the lastest Denial of Service Vulnerability ?

2005-06-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:45:52PM +0200, Tuyen DINH wrote: > >>According to the lastest announce, SpamAssassin from version 3.0.1 to >>3.0.3 is subject to a Denial of Service Vulnerability. >> >>So is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable ? > > > Is 3.0.0 between 3.0.1 and 3.0.

RE: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread Ed Kasky
At 09:30 AM Friday, 6/24/2005, you wrote -=> > >have > >there been problems doing this? > > RDJ will not restart the daemon or even keep changed rulesets > if the lint returns an error. So, running it via a cron job is safe. It depends on how you're running SA. If you're using amavisd and you

Re: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread mouss
Aaron Grewell wrote: It depends on how you're running SA. If you're using amavisd and you specify a restart script, make sure it restarts both amavisd and postfix. there is no need to restart postfix. Otherwise the two can stop talking to each other, and your mail will get held up until you

Re: Penny stocks, microcaps, etc.

2005-06-24 Thread Sean Sowell
David Brodbeck wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Matt Wills wrote: > > > >>Does anyone have a ruleset for catching any or all of these stock tips? > > > > > > This is a little off-topic, but how do spammers expect to make money > > from that spam? > > A lot of them are "pump and dump" schemes, I susp

Re: is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable to the lastest Denial of Service Vulnerability ?

2005-06-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 07:45:52PM +0200, Tuyen DINH wrote: > According to the lastest announce, SpamAssassin from version 3.0.1 to > 3.0.3 is subject to a Denial of Service Vulnerability. > > So is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable ? Is 3.0.0 between 3.0.1 and 3.0.3 ? ;) -- Randomly Generated Tag

RE: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: John Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:44 PM >To: SpamAssassin >Subject: Re: RDJ from cron - is it safe? > > >On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:13 -0700, Ed Kasky wrote: >> At 09:54 AM Thursday, 6/23/2005, John Horne wrote -=> >> >Hello, >>

is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable to the lastest Denial of Service Vulnerability ?

2005-06-24 Thread Tuyen DINH
Hello, According to the lastest announce, SpamAssassin from version 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 is subject to a Denial of Service Vulnerability. This french advisory says it concerns prior versions of 3.0.3. http://www.certa.ssi.gouv.fr/site/CERTA-2005-AVI-225/index.html So is Spamassassin 3.0.0 vulnerable

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loren Wilton writes: > > I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in > > tracking? Or does it correspond with a web bug? > > List washing. When they actually get a complaint about spam, they can > remove the address from t

Re: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread John Horne
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 14:13 -0700, Ed Kasky wrote: > At 09:54 AM Thursday, 6/23/2005, John Horne wrote -=> > >Hello, > > > >We have been running RDJ manually, but are now considering running it > >via cron. The problem is what if something 'goes wrong'? This is on a > >central mailhub, and we do no

RE: RDJ from cron - is it safe?

2005-06-24 Thread Aaron Grewell
> >have > >there been problems doing this? > > RDJ will not restart the daemon or even keep changed rulesets > if the lint returns an error. So, running it via a cron job is safe. > It depends on how you're running SA. If you're using amavisd and you specify a restart script, make sure it re

Re: how can I change the header from X_Spam_Flag to X-Spam-Flag

2005-06-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Erwin Zavala wrote: X-Spam-Flag should be the default. In fact, AFAIK it's impossible to have SA generate a X_Spam_* header, it's got a hard-coded X-Spam- prefix that can't be changed.

Re: Whitelist works only for "Return-Path" field

2005-06-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Joao Gazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > One message have these headers: > From: Sucesu - RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > And the SA whitelist have this record: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes That's not a spamassassin whitelist ent

Whitelist works only for "Return-Path" field

2005-06-24 Thread Joao Gazzoni
Hello, One message have these headers: From: Sucesu - RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the SA whitelist have this record: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yes But SA action is: Jun 24 00:03:05 MailScanner[14910]: Message j5O31n4N016

Re: blocking Asian IPs?

2005-06-24 Thread Jim Knuth
Hallo und guten Tag Andy, Heute (am 24.06.2005 - 15:38 Uhr) schriebst Du: > When I read this I thought it's overkill but in the meantime and after > looking at my logs (not only from SA but also ssh-attacks) I DO think that > it's a good idea to block these IPs. take a look at http://www.pe

Re: Penny stocks, microcaps, etc.

2005-06-24 Thread David Brodbeck
Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Wills wrote: Does anyone have a ruleset for catching any or all of these stock tips? This is a little off-topic, but how do spammers expect to make money from that spam? A lot of them are "pump and dump" schemes, I suspect. The spammer buys a bunch of shares of som

Re: not whitelist, but why are spams getting through?

2005-06-24 Thread Mike Pepe
There are two fairly obvious possibilities here: 1.Your server isn't normally running with net tests enabled, but they were for the manual test. Why would that be? 2.You ran the manual test > 1/2hr after the automatic scan, and by then the domain had made it into all of the blackli

Re: blocking Asian IPs?

2005-06-24 Thread Martyn Drake
You might want to take a look at this: http://www.blackholes.us/ Very useful for inclusion into RBLs if you so desire. I myself am not very keen at all on blocking entire countries, but the option is there if you need/want it. Regards, Martyn Andy Spiegl wrote: Hi Carlo, back in

blocking Asian IPs?

2005-06-24 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Carlo, back in May you wrote: >Moreover, you might want to firewall (or reject their mail >otherwise before it reaches spamassassin) all of South Korea and >all of China -- that will reduce the ammount of spam you >receive with about 99% ... So, it is more than worth it. When I

RE: SQL preferences - multiword preferences

2005-06-24 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> > > Hi, I am using spamassassin and store the user preferences in > an SQL database. > That works for simple options, like required_hits, since this > has a key (required_hits) and a value (5.0 for example). > But how about preferences where the key is composed of > multiple parts, like rewr

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Aaaah, clever, thank you, both! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org

Sa-stats.pl

2005-06-24 Thread Matthew Yette
I have the stock sa-stats.pl script, but I'm more familiar w/ PHP when it comes to scripting, so when it comes to expressions in Perl I'm pretty lost. It seems to be an easy enough modification for someone who knows perl to modify the script to accept another argument, that is, the domain you wish

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread Loren Wilton
> I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in > tracking? Or does it correspond with a web bug? List washing. When they actually get a complaint about spam, they can remove the address from the list, even if the report is something like Spamcop that attempts to remove a

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread jdow
> Jdow wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:58:22 -0700: > > > X-Message-ID: > > 106.100.111.119.64.101.97.114.116.104.108.105.110.107.46.110.101.116 > > > > Which is merely my email address encoded stupidly. > > I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in > tracking? Or d

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread jdow
From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Jdow wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:58:22 -0700: > > > X-Message-ID: > > 106.100.111.119.64.101.97.114.116.104.108.105.110.107.46.110.101.116 > > > > Which is merely my email address encoded stupidly. > > I don't see the advantage of this. How does a

Re: Sys::Syslog with SA 3.0 and Perl 5.8.7?

2005-06-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dr Robert Young wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:04:57 -0400: > So when using CPAN to get Sys::Syslog with Perl 5.8.3, it states that > it requires Perl 5.8.7 as a depedancy. > > Just checking to be sure that the later version of Perl is needed if > one is intending to use SA 2.6 and/or 3.0 with

Re: Another tracking cookie trick

2005-06-24 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jdow wrote on Thu, 23 Jun 2005 20:58:22 -0700: > X-Message-ID: > 106.100.111.119.64.101.97.114.116.104.108.105.110.107.46.110.101.116 > > Which is merely my email address encoded stupidly. I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in tracking? Or does it correspond

Re: merges bayes DB???

2005-06-24 Thread Nix
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Loren Wilton spake: > Also from almost complete ignorance: it seems unlikely since 3.0. > Previously the bayes database had the actual tokens and counts in it. Since > 3.0 the database has a hash of the token. I don't konw that the hashes from > two different systems would en

SQL preferences - multiword preferences

2005-06-24 Thread Marco Herrn
Hi, I am using spamassassin and store the user preferences in an SQL database. That works for simple options, like required_hits, since this has a key (required_hits) and a value (5.0 for example). But how about preferences where the key is composed of multiple parts, like rewrite_header subject

Re: How to delete AWL list...

2005-06-24 Thread Niek
On 6/24/2005 5:15 AM +0200, Charles Read wrote: Howdy! I have unfortunately had many addresses learned in the AWL rule. How can I start from scratch... that is delete my auto white list database? man rm Niek Baakman