Re: spamassassin less effective after upgrade to 3.1.0: some checks no longer executed ?

2005-10-13 Thread Alan Premselaar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I mentioned earlier that i thought i had found the problem (as user defang /usr/local/bin was not found in the path). Now, i'm not so sure anymore that this is the real problem. i noticed in the --lint output this line: [419] dbg: util: running in taint mode? ye

Re: SpamAssassin Hosting?

2005-10-13 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Brian,    Thursday, October 13, 2005, 1:30:21 PM, you wrote:    BE> I am looking into some options for a friend who wants  BE> to reduce the amount of spam they receive. ...   Check into email hosting at http://www.ctyme.com/hosting/index.htm   Might require changing her email addresses,

Re: botched spam messages

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
sare_random.cf is one good source. There are doubtless others. Loren > Could anyone point me toward the rules that look for these botched mails?

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
jdow wrote: From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've always used "-i 0.0.0.0 -A 127.0.0.1 -A 10.1.2.3 -A 1.2.3.4" instead of a comma separated list. I don't trust parsers to do the right thing in that case, especially if the comma separated list seems to be what appears in docum

Re: SpamAssassin Hosting?

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "mouss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian Erdelyi a écrit : I am looking into some options for a friend who wants to reduce the amount of spam they receive. I believe she has multiple email addresses and does not own a personal domain name. One of the emaill addresses goes directly to a Blackb

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've always used "-i 0.0.0.0 -A 127.0.0.1 -A 10.1.2.3 -A 1.2.3.4" instead of a comma separated list. I don't trust parsers to do the right thing in that case, especially if the comma separated list seems to be what appears in documentation. Color

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread mouss
Andy Hester a écrit : for the info. Since I really just want to block email with certain words is there a reason I shouldn't just put some rules in header_checks and body_checks in postfix? Would this be better or worse? - postfix checks apply to the raw body (no decoding) - they are "boole

Re: SpamAssassin Hosting?

2005-10-13 Thread mouss
Brian Erdelyi a écrit : I am looking into some options for a friend who wants to reduce the amount of spam they receive. I believe she has multiple email addresses and does not own a personal domain name. One of the emaill addresses goes directly to a Blackberry. I'm considering consolidating

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
jdow wrote: From: "Geoff Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I use something like "-A 192.168.XX.,127." to allow both localhost and the other machines in the network. Well, I have neither iptables nor SELinux active at all. I can't see what I'm missing. If I start spamd thus: /usr/bin/spamd -d -

Re: Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Andy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was hoping to be able to get a list of DNS/URIBLs and other external checks (razor2, pyzor, dcc) along with their timings to see where the problems lie. Possibly there is something for me to fix, or DNLSlists I could locally host, etc. Manually run "sp

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:11 AM 10/13/2005, Andy Hester wrote: Thanks for the info. Since I really just want to block email with certain words is there a reason I shouldn't just put some rules in header_checks and body_checks in postfix? Would this be better or worse?

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Geoff Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I use something like "-A 192.168.XX.,127." to allow both localhost and the other machines in the network. {^_^} Well, I have neither iptables nor SELinux active at all. I can't see what I'm missing. If I start spamd thus: /usr/bin/spamd -d -i -c

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... There is no way you can "survive" all SpamAssassin installs. ... I disagree -- I wouldn't say that by any means. First you say no. Perhaps there may be issues with sites where people have manually

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How I unsubscribe this list ?! Same way anyone else would. Loren NOW I have to clean the tea off my monitor. {^_-} (The poor sap^H^H^Hfellow should look in his message headers for the list unsubscribe information. The way he ask

botched spam messages

2005-10-13 Thread Todd Adamson
Awhile ago, someone posted some rules that looked for botched spam attempts that didn't properly place names/address in the to and subject lines. I thought that I had the rules included, but I can't determine which rule it should be. Could anyone point me toward the rules that look for these botc

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Varney
jdow earthlink.net> writes: > > From: "Geoff Varney" ridge.k12.wa.us> > > > Hi, > > I am trying to set up SpamAssassin on my Redhat FC3 box in order to call > > spamd > > from an IMail email server using a spamc client. I have verfied that > > spamassassin works alone on the test messages an

spamd keeps crashing

2005-10-13 Thread Matt
I just upgraded to the new spamassassin: SpamAssassin version 3.1.0 running on Perl version 5.6.1 Every hour or so spamd is dieing I ran it in debug mode and got this when it died... can anyone explain what is going on, or point me where to look for more info? [19863] warn: prefork: select

SpamAssassin Hosting?

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Erdelyi
I am looking into some options for a friend who wants to reduce the amount of spam they receive. I believe she has multiple email addresses and does not own a personal domain name. One of the emaill addresses goes directly to a Blackberry. I'm considering consolidating all the emails into one an

Re: spamassassin less effective after upgrade to 3.1.0: some checks no longer executed ?

2005-10-13 Thread tomvo
Hi, I mentioned earlier that i thought i had found the problem (as user defang /usr/local/bin was not found in the path). Now, i'm not so sure anymore that this is the real problem. i noticed in the --lint output this line: [419] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes [419] dbg: util: taint mode:

Re: DCCifd

2005-10-13 Thread Brian Wong
On 10/13/05, List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get DCCifd running. Below is the debug from spamassassin > > [28450] dbg: plugin: registering glue method for check_dcc > (Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC=HASH(0x982dd9c)) > [28450] dbg: dcc: dccifd is not available: no r/w dccif

Ways to learn spam

2005-10-13 Thread Michael
Hello all SA users. I have SA 3.0.1 onRHEL 4.0 working fine. I just installed this mailing system and it has been working for few weeks so far. I always get one type of spam that is scoring very low. I would like to use sa-learn to learn it as spam but i dont know how to prepare email itsel

Re: DCCifd

2005-10-13 Thread Matt Kettler
List wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get DCCifd running. Below is the debug from spamassassin > > [28450] dbg: plugin: registering glue method for check_dcc > (Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC=HASH(0x982dd9c)) > [28450] dbg: dcc: dccifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found > [28450] dbg: u

Re: Spamassassin vs spamd

2005-10-13 Thread Mark Martinec
Shane, From Martin Hepworth: > In that case, from my understanding of amavis-new, your stuck with the way > it works. As far as I know amavis-new calls SA from the perl API, like > MailScanner does. Exactly, and just like spamd does. amavisd-new is just like spamd, with different protocols spoke

DCCifd

2005-10-13 Thread List
Hi, I am trying to get DCCifd running. Below is the debug from spamassassin [28450] dbg: plugin: registering glue method for check_dcc (Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::DCC=HASH(0x982dd9c)) [28450] dbg: dcc: dccifd is not available: no r/w dccifd socket found [28450] dbg: util: executable for dccpr

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > ... > There is no way you can "survive" all SpamAssassin installs. > ... I disagree -- I wouldn't say that by any means. Perhaps there may be issues with sites where people have manually customised their local rulesets and settings to be over-aggr

Re: spamassassin less effective after upgrade to 3.1.0: some checks no longer executed ?

2005-10-13 Thread tomvo
Hi, I think i've found it. i followed your suggestion to run spamassassin as the user it normally runs as (user defang), and when i run with --lint, defang can't find the executables anymore. they reside in /usr/local/bin, and that's not in defang's path. Something has definitely changed here.

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:11 AM 10/13/2005, Andy Hester wrote: Thanks for the info. Since I really just want to block email with certain words is there a reason I shouldn't just put some rules in header_checks and body_checks in postfix? Would this be better or worse? If you want to do an unconditional block of

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:42 AM 10/13/2005, Andy Hester wrote: I'm running sa 3.0.1 from amavisd-new. I'm trying now to fine tune things. One of my users has been getting alot of adult email for about a week or two. The emails do not contain obfuscated words just plain naughty words. I have rdj running sare r

RE: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Andy Hester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I am trying to avoid having to adjust the scores in the > > > individual rules and want to completely block emails with > > > certain words. > > > > > > Does the score option in local.cf have no affect when sa is > > > c

Re: Debug help!

2005-10-13 Thread Fred
[17344] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: razor_timeout 10 joe wrote: > I am running SpamAssassin version 3.1.0 running on Perl version 5.8.5 > > When I run the spamassassin -D --lint, I am receiving an error but I > can not find the reason in the debug. Can someone point out my

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Hester
Bowie Bailey wrote: I am trying to avoid having to adjust the scores in the individual rules and want to completely block emails with certain words. Does the score option in local.cf have no affect when sa is called from amavisd? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. The score opt

Re: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:42:47AM -0500, Andy Hester wrote: > 70_sare_adult.cf. I have added in local.cf "score 70_sare_adult.cf > 10.00" I checked some email that came through this am and found that > they scored 1.792, 4.004, and 2.548. I am trying to avoid having to > adjust the scores in

Re: sa-learn expiry problem

2005-10-13 Thread Charles Farinella
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:46, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > You can read about the expiry algorithm in the sa-learn docs. ...snip... > Hope this helps. :) Yes, your explanation is very helpful, thank you. As to the docs, it would be better to type 'man sa-learn' on the mail server, than to do it on m

RE: Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Andy Hester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm running sa 3.0.1 from amavisd-new. I'm trying now to fine tune > things. One of my users has been getting alot of adult email for > about a week or two. The emails do not contain obfuscated words > just plain naughty words. I have rdj runnin

Re: sa-learn expiry problem

2005-10-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:11:53AM -0400, Charles Farinella wrote: > "Can't use estimation method for expiry, something fishy, calculating > optimal atime delta (first pass)" > > It seems to have just started this week. It displays this message for > quite some time, then goes on normally. > >

Question on adjusting scores

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Hester
I'm running sa 3.0.1 from amavisd-new. I'm trying now to fine tune things. One of my users has been getting alot of adult email for about a week or two. The emails do not contain obfuscated words just plain naughty words. I have rdj running sare rules including 70_sare_adult.cf. I have

sa-learn expiry problem

2005-10-13 Thread Charles Farinella
I'm getting this message when I run sa-learn -D: "Can't use estimation method for expiry, something fishy, calculating optimal atime delta (first pass)" It seems to have just started this week. It displays this message for quite some time, then goes on normally. Does anyone know what would ca

Re: how do I make a rule for an obfuscated word in subject

2005-10-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:29:22AM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > Can somebody suggest me how to turn it in a SA 3.x rule? > > > Subject > > =~ > > /p.{0,2}u.{0,2}b.{0,2}l.{0,2}i.{0,2}c.{0,2}i.{0,2}d.{0,2}a.{0,2}d/i > > What you have above is very nearly correct for a Subject rule, if it were on

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> How I unsubscribe this list ?! Same way anyone else would. Loren

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> Hope that helps. Sounds fair enough to me, ask away. In some cases I suspect you might get a reply by private mail rather than in the newgroup; it would probably depend on the rule. A number of us have observed that rules can live a long time and do good service, unless they are posted here in

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Leandro \(uyuyuy\)
How I unsubscribe this list ?! - Original Message - From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 6:34 AM Subject: Re: Spam Assasin rule details Blake, there is a perhaps annoying but effective option you can take. Try running up three or four SpamAssassin c

Re: spamassassin less effective after upgrade to 3.1.0: some checks no longer executed ?

2005-10-13 Thread Menno van Bennekom
Only difference with my 'spamassassin --lint -D' output I saw was that after the line 'uridnsbl: domains to query' I have a block of 14 lines with 'dns: checking RBL sbl-xbl.etcetera' that you don't have. Probably not important. And I can't see your SARE-rules getting loaded, in my output I see SAR

Re: how do I make a rule for an obfuscated word in subject

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> pu bli // cida.d. > pu.b.l.i.c.id.a.d. > pub.l.ic.id.ad > A partner in another list managed to create rule based in > the following regular expression, is it OK? There are probably better checks, but this is valid and will probably catch these without too much chance of a false positive. > Ca

RE: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Blake Gilchrist
Hi Loren, A fair point. Our company is called IPT Ltd (http://www.ipt-ltd.co.uk/) and we're based in London. If you look at the Products menu on our website you'll see all the consumer-facing websites and products we own. As one of the UK's largest online marketing companies we deal with pretty

Re: Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:17:49AM -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a > > fairly default config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable > > spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is not swapping, but I'm seeing > > that each message seems to take quite

how do I make a rule for an obfuscated word in subject

2005-10-13 Thread Alejandro Lengua
Hi! Here we have started to receive lots of spam where the senders are obfuscating the word "publicidad" ("advertising" in spanish). The result is expressions like pu bli // cida.d. pu.b.l.i.c.id.a.d. pub.l.ic.id.ad A partner in another list managed to create rule based in the following regular

Re: Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a fairly default > config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is > not swapping, but I'm seeing that each message seems to take quite a while to > check, between 3.5 and 15 seconds each (I'd say averaging a

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Loren Wilton
> So it sounds like my best bet is to ask on this list for info on those > specific few rules which keep nagging at us and we can't make sense of. Yep. Also might not hurt to mention who you really are in the corporate sense, or who one or two of you send for. A lot of us probably see tons of ac

Re: Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
From: "Andy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a fairly default config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is not swapping, but I'm seeing that each message seems to take quite a while to check, between 3.5

Individual timings of spamassassin rules?

2005-10-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On one of my machines I'm running v3.0.3 under spamd with a fairly default config for debian sarge. This is a reasonable spec machine, a 3GHz P4 that is not swapping, but I'm seeing that each message seems to take quite a while to check, between 3.5 and 15 seconds each (I'd say averaging at a

Re: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread jdow
Blake, there is a perhaps annoying but effective option you can take. Try running up three or four SpamAssassin configurations and send a prospective message from a special account you have on another machine address to your test machine. Then run that email through all of your spamassassin config

RE: Spam Assasin rule details

2005-10-13 Thread Blake Gilchrist
Robert and Matt, Thanks for taking the time to write such thoughtful replies, it's appreciated. Please forgive the long reply! I should have probably gone into more detail about what our company does, but I didn't dig too deep initially for fear of scaring you off in my first post! ;) We curre

Re: untdmarketing.com

2005-10-13 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 6:28:22 AM, Kristopher Austin wrote: > I need some help. What do you guys know about untdmarketing.com. About > a month ago I started receiving several dozen messages from them a week. > SA 3.0 with SURBL, URIBL, and SARE rules does not catch them. The > emails seem

Re[2]: problem with simscan / sa3.1 revrite tag

2005-10-13 Thread Miki
Hello, Thursday, October 13, 2005, 4:54:49 AM, you wrote: RM> Hello ADMIN_miki, RM> Wednesday, October 12, 2005, 5:20:48 AM, you wrote: A>> rewrite_header Subject #_SPAM_# RM> have you tried --lint on this? I'm thinking that the first "#" in RM> that header might be seen as beginning