Re: Proper way to override scores

2005-07-13 Thread jdow
From: "Debbie D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I often want to alter the scores of already set filters in the SARE and > other custom filter sets.. what/where is the proper places to do this > without altering each individual set which will get over-written down the > road By the way, Debbie, it is poor

Re: Proper way to override scores

2005-07-13 Thread jdow
From: "Herb Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -Original Message- > > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie D > > > > I often want to alter the scores of already set filters in > > the SARE and other custom filter sets.. what/where is the > > proper places to do this wit

RE: Proper way to override scores

2005-07-13 Thread Herb Martin
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Debbie D > > I often want to alter the scores of already set filters in > the SARE and other custom filter sets.. what/where is the > proper places to do this without altering each individual set > which will get o

Re: sa-learn user

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:29 PM 7/13/2005, Mun Fai wrote: I'd appreciate it if anyone could spot the user. spamd is the user your mail gets scanned as. All the spamd children and the main spamd process are running as that user. The main spamd process has it's command like cut off, but I bet if you checked it's

Proper way to override scores

2005-07-13 Thread Debbie D
I often want to alter the scores of already set filters in the SARE and other custom filter sets.. what/where is the proper places to do this without altering each individual set which will get over-written down the road thanks

cleaning whitelist?

2005-07-13 Thread Dr Robert Young
How often should one "clean" the whitelist ?

sa-learn user

2005-07-13 Thread Mun Fai
Hi I'm having some difficulty finding out exactly which user I should be running sa-learn is. The following is an output of 'ps -ef' from my mail server: # ps -ef UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1308 1 0 04:21 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/cou

Re: HELP bv lottery spam

2005-07-13 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: Re: HELP bv lottery spam Norton AV makes wait headers similar (but not identical) to what you see when it is scanning outbound mail for a virus, as I recall. I suspect

RE: Rule Advice

2005-07-13 Thread Greg Allen
If I am reading this correctly it looks like SA is working perfectly. SA admins generally don't care much for kids sending email to our servers from their mom's computers while she is at work... well u get the idea. But I am guessing your friend already knows that. -Original Message- From

Re: 2 Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Hamilton
> Mark Hamilton wrote: > > I have 2 questions. > > > > 1. Does anyone know if spamassassin is going to support DKIM when Yahoo and > > Cisco get it released? > > > > 2. Is there a quick way to blacklist a country? > > > > pre-built as a RBL for your convenience: > http://www.blackholes.us/ > > Wh

Re: very "low" scoring (ie large negative numbers) spam

2005-07-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:56:50PM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > Another possibility is they are hitting TWO whitelist rules and > getting -200, and then getting 50..60 points added back to the score from > other rule hits. That's not really possible. In 3.0, there's only a single -100 whitelist r

Re: How to shut down

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
I know my SA works buy bayes doesnt. I get msgs marked as spam with score over 5.0 but i have never seen autolearn=spam or ham. I get only autolearn=no or autolearn=failed. Here is the question: after i run sa-learn --clear and lets say that in my conf file i hava bayes min ham and spam learn set t

Re: very "low" scoring (ie large negative numbers) spam

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> I have several spam that scored very low on SA 3.0.4 w/ milter-spamc 0.25 > > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-145.70 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-153.70 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-146.00 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-153.80 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-15

Re: attachments?

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> I think I know the answer here, but does spamd scan attachments if you > are using milter-spamc v 0.25 as the sendmail-> spamd "link"?? SA doesn't scan binary attachments. It will scan text and similar attachments. As far as I know, spamd doesn't really scan attachments (or mail) itself, excep

Re: tiff file spam

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> Is there a way to mark as spam an email which contains basically > nothing but an image.tiff file which is, itself, the "spam" message > being displayed as a graphic? Jpegs and gifs are much more common than tiff files here for that sort of thing. But between SA rules, SARE rules, and Bayes, th

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> Whitelist the logwatch source email address?? Would not help if the problem is an oversized message. A whitelist is just another rule applied to the message, and doen't bypass SA processing. He would need a way to bypass the message around SA, so that SA never sees it in the first place.

Trying to understand whitelist_from_rcvd

2005-07-13 Thread Dr Robert Young
If this is set in local.cf whitelist_from_rcvd@gold.com gold.com trusted_networks gold.com ( via the IP address } and the incoming email header looks like (xxx added by me) Received: from email1.gold.com (relay1.gold.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by kashmir.gold.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchan

Re: Blacklisting

2005-07-13 Thread Steven Dickenson
On Jul 13, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'm attempting to blacklist @freelotto.com Is this the correct way edit the local.cf file? RTFM. http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/ Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html Steven --- Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ww

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread jdow
From: "Edward Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM If you did the sensible thing the logwatch messages would never go through the spamassassin at all. I use procmail here and it's really easy to teach that tool to skip feeding spamc for

Re: 2 Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: > Mark Hamilton wrote: > > I have 2 questions. > > > > 1. Does anyone know if spamassassin is going to support DKIM when Yahoo and > > Cisco get it released? > > Whoops, forgot to answer this part.. > > It looks like a plugin

Re: 2 Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Mark Hamilton wrote: > I have 2 questions. > > 1. Does anyone know if spamassassin is going to support DKIM when Yahoo and > Cisco get it released? Whoops, forgot to answer this part.. It looks like a plugin is being developed: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-commits/20050

Re: 2 Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Mark Hamilton wrote: > I have 2 questions. > > 1. Does anyone know if spamassassin is going to support DKIM when Yahoo and > Cisco get it released? > > 2. Is there a quick way to blacklist a country? > pre-built as a RBL for your convenience: http://www.blackholes.us/ Which can be made into

RE: New 419 Variation?

2005-07-13 Thread Matthew Yette
Title: Message It still looks like it triggers your OFFSHORE_SCAM rule. Am I wrong in assuming that it should tag higher than 0.1 points for that rule? Does it FP often as to warrant such a low score?     --Matthew YetteSenior Engineer - NOC/OperationsMA Polce Consulting, Inc.[EMAIL PROTECTE

2 Questions

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Hamilton
I have 2 questions. 1. Does anyone know if spamassassin is going to support DKIM when Yahoo and Cisco get it released? 2. Is there a quick way to blacklist a country? Some background for #2: I have a customer who wants to filter anything coming from China or Korea but for obvious reasons I don

Re: White list by IP address

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Jose Guevarra wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to whitelist an IP scope? Say I want to trust every one in > 192.168.* . Is there a way of adding this scope of IP's to the spamassassin > whitelist? It's not a whitelist per-se, but if you add those IP's to trusted_networks, said emails will wind u

Re: How to shut down

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
> I know my SA works buy bayes doesnt. I get msgs marked as > spam with score over 5.0 but i have never seen > autolearn=spam or ham. I get only autolearn=no or > autolearn=failed. Here is the question: after i run > sa-learn --clear and lets say that in my conf file i hava > bayes min ham and spam

New 419 Variation?

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Jezierski
Here's what looks to be a new variation of the 419 scams.  Haven't seen one like this before.  This one doesn't seem to mention any $ amount. The headers are a little scrambled because of Notes. (Yes, it's worse than Outlook when it comes to dealing with headers). Received:  from python.stepan

White list by IP address

2005-07-13 Thread Jose Guevarra
Hi, Is it possible to whitelist an IP scope? Say I want to trust every one in 192.168.* . Is there a way of adding this scope of IP's to the spamassassin whitelist? Thanks,

Rule Advice

2005-07-13 Thread dennis
We're working with someone who has a domain that starts with a number: 360skincare.com. So it gets bit by FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS. I also see some for suspicious hostname. A little more background: the sender appears to come from pacbell.net isp and using a webmail client. Are these "suspic

Re: How to shut down

2005-07-13 Thread Michael
I know my SA works buy bayes doesnt. I get msgs marked as spam with score over 5.0 but i have never seen autolearn=spam or ham. I get only autolearn=no or autolearn=failed. Here is the question: after i run sa-learn --clear and lets say that in my conf file i hava bayes min ham and spam lear

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Edward Muller
Okay so it looks like if any of the $spam_ variables are not evaluated then the the messages are not run through spam assassin.. So my acl_check_content (acl_smtp_data) looks like this now: acl_check_content: # Spam markups ... only run if the messages are < 80k in size # Add the spam s

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Edward Muller
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 05:06 am, Loren Wilton wrote: > How big was the mail? By default spamd will skip mails over 250K, unless > you have changed this value (or your install has). Where is this configured? > > Loren -- Edward Muller - Interlix [EMAIL PROTECTED] 417-862-0573 PGP Key

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/12/2005 8:59 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > Note that in business circles "content" includes the subject. As far > as I know, rawbody won't see a subject. It is fairly common to send > one line questions in the subject with an empty body, and one line > replies likewise. I have trained my user

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Edward Muller
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 07:16 am, Michael Parker wrote: > Edward Muller wrote: > >P.S. This happens with spamassassin 3.0.4 fed via spamd fed via exim. > > Tested with standard gentoo install and used a clean bayes/whitelist > > database. > > You need to setup exim to limit the size of msgs it se

Re: SpamAssassin integrated with MailScanner, using per-user configuration in SQL or otherwise?

2005-07-13 Thread rns . spamassassin . n . semba
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:19 +0100, Martin Hepworth - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know this is not the ideal location to ask this, as it IS more a > > MailScanner question, but shall ask in case anyone here has experience > > with it. > > > > I'm researc

Re: very "low" scoring (ie large negative numbers) spam

2005-07-13 Thread Andy Jezierski
Dr Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/13/2005 11:11:17 AM: > I have several spam that scored very low on SA 3.0.4 w/ milter-spamc > 0.25 > > X-Spam-Status:    NO, hits=-145.70 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status:    NO, hits=-153.70 required=5.00 > X-Spam-Status:    NO, hits=-146.00 require

Re: very "low" scoring (ie large negative numbers) spam

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Dr Robert Young wrote: > I have several spam that scored very low on SA 3.0.4 w/ milter-spamc 0.25 > > *X-Spam-Status: * NO, hits=-145.70 required=5.00 > *X-Spam-Status: * NO, hits=-153.70 required=5.00 > *X-Spam-Status: * NO, hits=-146.00 required=5.00 > *X-Spam-Status: * NO, hits=-153.80 require

very "low" scoring (ie large negative numbers) spam

2005-07-13 Thread Dr Robert Young
I have several spam that scored very low on SA 3.0.4 w/ milter-spamc 0.25 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-145.70 required=5.00 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-153.70 required=5.00 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-146.00 required=5.00 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-153.80 required=5.00 X-Spam-Status: NO, hits=-153.90 req

Blacklisting

2005-07-13 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I'm attempting to blacklist @freelotto.com Is this the correct way edit the local.cf file? # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. # #

RE: SpamAssassin w/POP3 & SMTP outsourced e-mail server...

2005-07-13 Thread Tim A
Jesse, You might want to look into SimpleFilter (www.simplefilter.com). There is a free trial and the service is cheap. Tim > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Jesse Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jul 5, 2005 2:59 AM > Subject: SpamAssassin w/POP3 & SMTP outsourced e-mail s

attachments?

2005-07-13 Thread Dr Robert Young
I think I know the answer here, but does spamd scan attachments if you are using milter-spamc v 0.25 as the sendmail-> spamd "link"?? Dr. Robert Young ALI Database Consultants 1151 Williams Dr Aiken SC 29803 USA WWW: http://www.aliconsu

tiff file spam

2005-07-13 Thread Dr Robert Young
Is there a way to mark as spam an email which contains basically nothing but an image.tiff file which is, itself, the "spam" message being displayed as a graphic? Dr. Robert Young ALI Database Consultants 1151 Williams Dr Aiken SC 29803

RE: Failed to run DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL RBL SpamAssassin test

2005-07-13 Thread Jody Cleveland
Thank you! Turns out Net::DNS wasn't installed. That took care of it. - jody > -Original Message- > From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:00 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Failed to run DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL RBL SpamAssassin

Re: What is WOMR?

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Martin, Tuesday, July 12, 2005, 1:50:18 PM, you wrote: MCac> I have a FP that hit on SARE_SPEC_FROM_WOMR and the MCac> description is "Email from address points to WOMR".  I tried to MCac> find more information but the only thing I can find is a radio MCac> station in Cape Cod.  With a scor

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Matías López Bergero
Edward Muller wrote: Once of my servers can generate fairly large logwatch emails. These emails cause spamassassin to consume memory until it's killed. I removed any custom rules that I had (I had some sare rules) and the problem still occurred. [...] Any ideas? Whitelist the logwatch source

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Parker
Edward Muller wrote: >P.S. This happens with spamassassin 3.0.4 fed via spamd fed via exim. Tested >with standard gentoo install and used a clean bayes/whitelist database. > > You need to setup exim to limit the size of msgs it sends to spamd to 250k. I do not believe this is in place by defa

Re: HELP bv lottery spam

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
Norton AV makes wait headers similar (but not identical) to what you see when it is scanning outbound mail for a virus, as I recall. I suspect this is something similar, but I don't recognize the header. Do you have user rules enabled? If so, check your syslog for an insecure dependency warning

Re: SpamAssassin integrated with MailScanner, using per-user configuration in SQL or otherwise?

2005-07-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know this is not the ideal location to ask this, as it IS more a MailScanner question, but shall ask in case anyone here has experience with it. I'm researching integrating SpamAssassin into a MailScanner setup, and from reading the documentation for MailScanne

SpamAssassin integrated with MailScanner, using per-user configuration in SQL or otherwise?

2005-07-13 Thread rns . spamassassin . n . semba
Hi, I know this is not the ideal location to ask this, as it IS more a MailScanner question, but shall ask in case anyone here has experience with it. I'm researching integrating SpamAssassin into a MailScanner setup, and from reading the documentation for MailScanner, I get the impression that

HELP bv lottery spam

2005-07-13 Thread John Fleming
Would someone shed some light on why this message wasn't scanned/tagged and some info about the headers? 1. I don't remember ever seeing the "wait" headers that appear at the top of this message - what are they? I did notice a delay in receiving this message as if receiving a large file. Ho

Re: Adding "information" messages to SPAM

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
report_safe values are related to this. I believe you need the value that encapsulates the spam as an attachment. I forget what glue you said you were using, exim? I believe that it may override some SA options with its own way of doing things, and this may be one of those areas. Possibly there

Re: Adding "information" messages to SPAM

2005-07-13 Thread Dean Baldwin
Loren, Loren Wilton wrote: Is there anyway of placing a message - say at the top of the mail - stating that if this message has been incorrectly flagged as SPAM then please let us know. Is there any way of doing this with Spamassassin? I only want to flag those reported as SPAM though. In a t

Re: Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
How big was the mail? By default spamd will skip mails over 250K, unless you have changed this value (or your install has). Loren

Re: Adding "information" messages to SPAM

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> Is there anyway of placing a message - say at the top of the mail - > stating that if this message has been incorrectly flagged as SPAM then > please let us know. Is there any way of doing this with Spamassassin? I > only want to flag those reported as SPAM though. In a typical spam, SA adds tex

Re: Adding "information" messages to SPAM

2005-07-13 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:06, Dean Baldwin typed: > Is there anyway of placing a message - say at the top of the mail - > stating that if this message has been incorrectly flagged as SPAM then > please let us know. Is there any way of doing this with Spamassassin? I > only want to flag those re

Logwatch message triggers spamd to consume 900+MB of RAM

2005-07-13 Thread Edward Muller
Once of my servers can generate fairly large logwatch emails. These emails cause spamassassin to consume memory until it's killed. I removed any custom rules that I had (I had some sare rules) and the problem still occurred. I caught a bunch of data in a log file while spamd was running. Things

Adding "information" messages to SPAM

2005-07-13 Thread Dean Baldwin
Hi, I am currently running Spamassassin with Postfix and Clamav. Everything is working well but I would like to see whether the following is possible and how to go about it. At the moment we send all SPAM messages onto the recipient with the subject line flagged as SPAM and this works well.

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> header __L_MSG_HAS_C_TYPE_M Content-Type =~ /^(message|multipart)/i > rawbody __L_MSG_HAS_BODY /\S/ > > describe L_MSG_NO_BODY Raw message does not have any body data > meta L_MSG_NO_BODY (!__L_MSG_C_TYPE_M && !__L_MSG_BODY) > score L_MSG_NO_BODY 0.1 > > BTW, I am doing this so that postfix can t

Re: Failed to run DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL RBL SpamAssassin test

2005-07-13 Thread Loren Wilton
What version of Net::DNS? I vaguely recall that may be related. Loren