SA "--lint" test warning about "textcat: languages filename not defined"?

2005-09-06 Thread OpenMacNews
hi all, i've: % spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.2.0-r232569 running on Perl version 5.8.7 on: % uname -a Darwin devbox 8.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.2.0: Fri Jun 24 17:46:54 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.2.4.obj~3/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread hamann . w
>> >> --On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:38 AM -0700 List Mail User >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >You have the unfortunate luck of being on the cutting edge >> > of the spam runs, most of these domains are now in 4 or 5 SURBL >> > lists, which will give you scores of close to 12 alon

Re: ANNOUNCE: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-rc2 release candidate available!

2005-09-06 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loren Wilton writes: > It isn't fixed in rc2. > > You only posted that analysis 2 days before the rc2 release, and the tarball > had already been cut at the time you posted the message. (It takes a day or > two between release cutoff and the release

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:38 AM -0700 List Mail User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have the unfortunate luck of being on the cutting edge of the spam runs, most of these domains are now in 4 or 5 SURBL lists, which will give you scores of close to 12 alone. Greylisting woul

Re: RDJ/Curl issue...

2005-09-06 Thread Chris Thielen
Hi Jamie, Jamie Pratt wrote: Hi. RDJ has broken on me apparently - no updates in a month(?).. Seems to be a curl issue ?... -- RANDOMVAL -- RULESET_NAME=RANDOMVAL INDEX=11 CF_URL=http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/random.current.cf CF_FILE=random.cf CF_NAME=William Stearn's RANDOM WO

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread qqqq
Loren, Will you post your LW Stox based rules? I think we would all like to see them. - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stoc

Re: SpamAssassin perceptron curiousity

2005-09-06 Thread Chris Thielen
Hi Felix, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a bit of curiousity in my brain about neural networks, and someone suggested I take a look at how SpamAssassin trains itself. I have been looking into .../masses and come across some things which set off warning bells. I don't think I have actually fou

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread jdow
He's more aggressive than I am. For him spam is 4.6. For me it's 5.0 and I only score BAYES_99 at 5.0 points. {^_-} - Original Message - From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, M.Lewis wrote: Also what did you use to get the report? The report sho

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread jdow
From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: I'm not going to try running that, but I've got a pile of rules that catch stock scams like that. SARE has a good bunch of them, the better ones of course. Here, the most recent spam I got was a s

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, M.Lewis wrote: Also what did you use to get the report? The report shows up in most setups in any spam email. Considering this one scored the way it did, I'm pretty sure it scored as spam. -Dan Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Loren Wilton wrot

Re: protecting SQL login info

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Michael Parker wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: With spamc/spamd this is not a problem, as spamd runs on a machine that the shell users don't have access to (and reads the SQL login as root before dropping its privileges). However, for sa_learn, and things like spa

Re: protecting SQL login info

2005-09-06 Thread Michael Parker
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > With spamc/spamd this is not a problem, as spamd runs on a machine > that the shell users don't have access to (and reads the SQL login as > root before dropping its privileges). > > However, for sa_learn, and things like spamassassin -r (which > essentially is

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread M.Lewis
Also what did you use to get the report? Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Thu, 26 May 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: I'm not going to try running that, but I've got a pile of rules that catch stock scams like that. SARE has a good bunch of them, the better ones of course. Here, the most recen

Re: [sa-list] Re: OTC stock spam

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Loren Wilton wrote: I'm not going to try running that, but I've got a pile of rules that catch stock scams like that. SARE has a good bunch of them, the better ones of course. Here, the most recent spam I got was a stock spam. It hit: 1.8 LOCAL_OBFU_GENERIC BODY: Obf

Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Miguel Angel Rasero Peral (TCOR)
Yeah this was my problems, Thanks. El mar, 06-09-2005 a las 12:00 -0400, Matt Kettler escribió: > Andy Jezierski wrote: > > > > > > Are you running the spamassassin command under the same userid as spamd > > is running under? Looks like spamd is using bayes that spamassassin did > > not have, an

Trouble viewing list of SA tests for 3.0 on web site

2005-09-06 Thread tom
For days I have been trying to see all of the tests used by SA at the following URL: http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html I'm using Win XP and had the same results with Firefox & IE6. The page would partially load & then just stall. Finally, today I was able to get the entire page to d

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> >> Definitely not. >> >> Look at the prompts. Miguel is running spamassassin as root. >> >> Miguel is running spamc as root, but spamd will *NEVER* scan mail as >> root. It >> will setuid itself to nobody if it finds this situation. > > > At least, not on a rec

Re: protecting SQL login info

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Eric W. Bates wrote: This is perhaps a little elaborate; and I have not tried to hook this into SA; but we are quite happy with a little bit of misdirection we use for the tools we have reading/writing to the SQL. There is a specified directory (call it dbpasswords). In the

Re: [sa-list] Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: Andy Jezierski wrote: Are you running the spamassassin command under the same userid as spamd is running under? Looks like spamd is using bayes that spamassassin did not have, and spamassassin had a negative AWL score that spamd didn't have. Definite

Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Andy Jezierski wrote: > > > Are you running the spamassassin command under the same userid as spamd > is running under? Looks like spamd is using bayes that spamassassin did > not have, and spamassassin had a negative AWL score that spamd didn't > have. Definitely not. Look at the prompts. M

Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Tim Litwiller
Miguel Angel Rasero Peral (TCOR) wrote: Hello, my system is a redhat 7.3 with this spamassassin versions and i am using qmail in it. """ The problem that i have is that i only want to launch spamassassin in my account so i am using my .qmail-file to do it. | spamassassin | preline procmail -t -m

Re: Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Andy Jezierski
"Miguel Angel Rasero Peral (TCOR)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/06/2005 10:19:29 AM: > > Hello, my system is a redhat 7.3 with this spamassassin versions and i > am using qmail in it. > """ > machine:/etc/mail/spamassassin# spamassassin -V > SpamAssassin version 3.0.1 >   running on Perl vers

Spamc, spamassassin, different scores

2005-09-06 Thread Miguel Angel Rasero Peral (TCOR)
Hello, my system is a redhat 7.3 with this spamassassin versions and i am using qmail in it. """ machine:/etc/mail/spamassassin# spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.0.1 running on Perl version 5.6.1 machine:/etc/mail/spamassassin# spamc -V SpamAssassin Client version 3.0.1 """ The problem th

Re: Too many recipients

2005-09-06 Thread Irina
Hello Mark, Thank you so much for your post to the list. I don't feel we are along now and someone will start looking into the problem. I also found the following reference to the same problem http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/103500 Though, after increasing the stuck size I

Logging Spamc Connect Failures

2005-09-06 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Guys, Does anything show up in mail logs when spamc fails to connect? Is there any way to cause this to happen? I just grepped my mailbox for !X-Spam-Check, and found (after eliminating those over 250K) about 23 messages over the course of a couple weeks, in my mailbox alone. Is there a way

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread Ilan Aisic
Loren, Just wanted to thank you for the eloquent resonse and for your significant contributions  to SARE and this list. On 9/6/05, Loren Wilton < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:...I'll cut a set of rules for them.Loren -- Ilan AisicRegistered Linux User 8124 http://counter.li.org

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread M.Lewis
Very interesting Loren. I think a good assesment of whoever is sending the spam. I spend a fair portion of my day trying to catch up (filter) these dudes out of my Inbox. Thanks for the insights! Mike Loren Wilton wrote: Obviously, the OBFU rule set is not that sophisticated. On the co

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread List Mail User
You have the unfortunate luck of being on the cutting edge of the spam runs, most of these domains are now in 4 or 5 SURBL lists, which will give you scores of close to 12 alone. They are also listed at Spamhaus as of yesterday and the name servers from one day before. A partial l

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread Loren Wilton
> Obviously, the OBFU rule set is not that sophisticated. On the contrary, they are quite sophisticated in many cases. > On top of that, the spammer (someone said it's Leo Kuvayev) However, Leo is also quite sophisticated. And he has changed his spam generators in the last week to make things t

RE: How to control the scoring for spam

2005-09-06 Thread Herb Martin
> Hi all, > Spamassassin passes every incoming mail through > various tests (using spamd & spamc) to determine the mail as > spam according to the score(As per my knowledge) . Technically spamc is just a small executable to send the file to spamd which is a daemon that keeps SpamAssassi

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread M.Lewis
Ilan, I believe this is the *exact* same dude/dudette that I was referring to with the topic 'Rule Question'. Mike Ilan Aisic wrote: Hi again, I keep getting these kind of pharm. spam where a list of drugs and their prices is arranged in an html table. I'm using all the SARE rules includin

Re: How to control the scoring for spam

2005-09-06 Thread Loren Wilton
> per my knowledge) . But I want to know how this > scoring will happen for each test . Can we control or Step 1: Look at test score. Is it non-zero? If yes, go to step 2. Step 2: Run test. Does it hit? If yes, go to step 3. Step 3: Take score value and add it to the score for the current mail

Re: Pharamcudical list of words in a table

2005-09-06 Thread Ilan Aisic
Hi again, I keep getting these kind of pharm. spam where a list of drugs and their prices is arranged in an html table.   I'm using all the SARE rules including the OBFU (which I've added thanks to recommendations in this thread. However, only the SARE_HTML_MANY_BR05  is fired  ( Tooo many 's!). I