GERMAN ruleset updated

2005-11-11 Thread Michael Monnerie
Hello list, http://zmi.at/x/70_zmi_german.cf contains the newest rules to catch german SPAM. Also available automagically via rules du jour name ZMI_GERMAN Also documented here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets Please report your german SPAM with full headers to [EMAIL PROTEC

Spamassassin Distro

2005-11-11 Thread Tony Melia
Hi, I am looking at setting up a new linux box dedicated to spamassassin via amavisd.  I am wondering what the best distro is to do this on, is there a particular distro you guys can recommend?  I am not looking for an out-of-the-box solution, but one that spam cleaning is almost native to!

Re: What countries to block ?

2005-11-11 Thread Dave Pooser
> We are getting a lot of spam mail from countries outside of the US. Anyone > have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to block? That depends entirely on your business model. For $DAYJOB I have a long list of countries from which we never expect to receive legitimate email; t

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:47 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > >>A slightly earlier one got a much lower score with: > >> > > > > Umm... I don't see any SARE rules in there. The fact is, SARE isn't > > terribly effective against these 1-column drug spams. The only SARE hit > > I got

Re: report_safe 0

2005-11-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Marc Perkel wrote: but still getting this: Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have

Re: report_safe 0

2005-11-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Perkel writes: but still getting this: Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can vie

Re: report_safe 0

2005-11-11 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Perkel writes: > but still getting this: > > Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has > identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message > has been attached to this so you can view it (if it is

report_safe 0

2005-11-11 Thread Marc Perkel
but still getting this: Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the

Re: spamd / isn't numeric in subroutine

2005-11-11 Thread Pongo
Herb Martin learnquick.com> writes: > > > Clarification: .49 is Ok in every report I have seen about > problems with .50-52 -- it is the recommended retreat position, > and that (0.49) is working for me after trouble with a later > version. > > > Loren > > -- > Herb > > I found

RE: 3.1.0 headers appearing before Received: lines? How to change?

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Dan Hollis wrote: > I upgraded to 3.1.0, and now spamassasin is putting its headers > before all > others, even Received: lines... > > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on > sasami.anime.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL > autolearn=disabled versi

3.1.0 headers appearing before Received: lines? How to change?

2005-11-11 Thread Dan Hollis
I upgraded to 3.1.0, and now spamassasin is putting its headers before all others, even Received: lines... X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on sasami.anime.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Level: Receiv

RE: What countries to block ?

2005-11-11 Thread Pierre Thomson
Backing up about a light year here, and ignoring all philosophical arguments, I'll offer my list of _scored_ (not blocked) countries. This is, of course, specific to our situation: CN TW RU UA BR I use the RelayCountry plugin for this, and assign it a rather low score. It DOES help. Pierre

Re: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > > But spamd changes users id each time it's used this would not work to well > would it? > spamd changes userid's with setuid, not logon. It shouldn't get a whole new environment, just new privileges and mapping for ~. Thus the TMPDIR from the original l

Re: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > >>I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one >>change the temp directory that spamd uses? I see it using /tmp on our >>debian sarge server using a debian spamassassin 3.0.3-2 version. >> >>I would like to chan

RE: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > But spamd changes users id each time it's used this would not work to > well would it? I don't know if $ENV{TMPDIR} is queried once on startup, or at every user change... maybe the source would reveal that information... Could you symlink /tmp to /var/tmp

RE: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
But spamd changes users id each time it's used this would not work to well would it? Ken On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > > I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one > > change the temp directory that spamd uses? I

RE: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one > change the temp directory that spamd uses? I see it using /tmp on our > debian sarge server using a debian spamassassin 3.0.3-2 version. > > I would like to change it to /var/tmp which on our

Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one change the temp directory that spamd uses? I see it using /tmp on our debian sarge server using a debian spamassassin 3.0.3-2 version. I would like to change it to /var/tmp which on our system is a much faster SCSI raid disk.

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread OpenMacNews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > Here's another way to look at the issue. Lets say that you knew > that a state/county/province in your own country had an inordinately low > signal/attack ratio. Would you ban that region? 1st, afaik, there are no IP block lists by "stat

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread William Stearns
Good afternoon, all, On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, OpenMacNews wrote: Anyone have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to block? There's a politically charged question. FWIW, most spam still comes from the US. imho, it's not an issue of where most spam comes from, nor is it a polit

Re: Rule for this ??

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Here’s an intelligent html coder > > > > I viewed the source of the code because I was curious as to how these > words flew right through my SA , > > > > You will note that if turned into plain text , he used a bunch of > tables and cells to produce the following;

RE: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But even if (say) Ptomania was barred by the UN from ever doing business with any other country; if logs going back ten years conclusively showed that every email ever received from Ptomania was demonstratibly spam or viral; if there was evidence t

RE: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: > Elmer Kogan /isn't/ s/Elmer Kogan/Alma Cogan/ (sorry) -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer

Rule for this ??

2005-11-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Here’s an intelligent html coder   I viewed the source of the code because I was curious as to how these words flew right through my SA ,   You will note that if turned into plain text  , he used a bunch of tables and cells to produce the following;     From: Firoz Granger [m

RE: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Living in a country outside the US (realistically, all countries > inthe world, with just one exception, are outside the US) I must say > that I get spam from many places ... including said united states. > > Why wouldn't just everybody - in every country - block mails

User_Scores SQL database not working??

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew Yette
I currently am using SA 3.1.0 with ClamAV 0.87.1 and Qmail-scanner 1.25st. I use SQL for my bayes as well as my user scores preferences databases. When testing the whitelist_from preference, mail comes through just fine and is recognized to be part of that preference and is scored accordingly. How

Re: Apparently Recieved by my server...

2005-11-11 Thread Sandy S
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The following email to me gets through by their spoofing my IP even though > > it clearly comes from somewhere else. I remember someone mentioning a > > trusted_networks-like setting that used something like a > > apparently_received_from name or something similar. Ho

Re: Is this a Spamassassin generated message?

2005-11-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Matt Kettler wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Getting messages like this. Just upgraded to 3.10. Is this coming from SA? Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to th

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Jerry wrote: > >>> Also, Is there a special rule to detect messages like the one below? >> >> >> Yeah, it's called a virus scanner. That's a mytob variant virus message. >> > > My virus scanner cleans the attachment, but still get people emailing > and calling about their accounts when they rece

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread hamann . w
>> We are getting a lot of spam mail from countries outside of the US. Anyone >> have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to block? We >> don't have a lot of users whoreceive mail from outside the US. We'd like to >> cut down onspam/spoof/virus messages. >> >> Currently I

Re: Is this a Spamassassin generated message?

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Marc Perkel wrote: > Getting messages like this. Just upgraded to 3.10. Is this coming from SA? > > Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has > identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message > has been attached to this so you can view it (if it

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Jerry
Also, Is there a special rule to detect messages like the one below? Yeah, it's called a virus scanner. That's a mytob variant virus message. My virus scanner cleans the attachment, but still get people emailing and calling about their accounts when they receive these messages.

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Jerry wrote: > We are getting a lot of spam mail from countries outside of the US. > Anyone have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to > block? We don't have a lot of users whoreceive mail from outside the > US. We'd like to cut down onspam/spoof/virus messages. > > Current

Re: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread OpenMacNews
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi, >> Anyone have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to >> block? > > There's a politically charged question. > FWIW, most spam still comes from the US. > imho, it's not an issue of where most spam comes from, nor is it a

RE: What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jerry wrote: > Anyone have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to > block? There's a politically charged question. FWIW, most spam still comes from the US. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Softwa

What countries to block ? and detectng Trojan attachments?

2005-11-11 Thread Jerry
We are getting a lot of spam mail from countries outside of the US. Anyone have a list of what country domain extensions are fairly Ok to block? We don't have a lot of users whoreceive mail from outside the US. We'd like to cut down onspam/spoof/virus messages. Currently I am blocking all

Re: new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
> Bill Randle wrote: >> Does anyone have any rules to squash the recent spate of stock alert >> spam that I've been seeing? The messages are coming from multiple >> sources, although some can be traced back to IPs belonging to >> kornet.net. There are no URLs in the message body. Bayes is probably

Is this a Spamassassin generated message?

2005-11-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Getting messages like this. Just upgraded to 3.10. Is this coming from SA? Spam detection software, running on the system "pascal.ctyme.com", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar

Re: new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Bill Randle wrote: Does anyone have any rules to squash the recent spate of stock alert spam that I've been seeing? The messages are coming from multiple sources, although some can be traced back to IPs belonging to kornet.net. There are no URLs in the message body. Bayes is probably the best bet

new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
Does anyone have any rules to squash the recent spate of stock alert spam that I've been seeing? The messages are coming from multiple sources, although some can be traced back to IPs belonging to kornet.net. There are no URLs in the message body. Bayes is probably the best bet, but on my global db

Remove Address from Whitelist - question

2005-11-11 Thread Larry Starr
I am running Spamassassin version 2.60 on a Redhat 8.0 mail server. I have a couple of addresses that I would like to remove from the AWL but when I have tried: spamassassin --remove-addr-from-whitelist=addr The process appears to run forever, with no effect. Well, almost no effect, I

Re: First time home made rule not doing what I was thinkin....

2005-11-11 Thread James Lay
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:02:46 -0700 James Lay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the rule: > > body GATEWAY_001 /tripod\.com/i > score 5 > describe match tripod.com > > Here's the result: > > Nov 9 13:42:03 gateway spamd[17880]: spamd: result: . -2 > -ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,

Re: rejectlog

2005-11-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 04:08:56PM +0100, nick wrote: > Rejecting the mail after DATA? > > Spamassassin runs behind my MTA, if the sender passes blacklist checks > and any other obvious no-nos, it's then passed to spamassassin which > NEVER discards email, but places them in a spam folder. > >

very few points to spam message

2005-11-11 Thread Toni Casueps
I have received some spam messages and Spamassassin has assigned the tests correctly, for example it found BODY_ENHANCEMENT, BODY_ENHANCEMENT2 and GUARANTEED_100_PERCENT, but still the score that the messages got was 2.2. I don't want to decrease the default level of 5 because sometimes I get

server/user bayes

2005-11-11 Thread Dmitriy MiksIr
Hello! In my server config i use per-user config including bayes. With Horde's IMP possible make per-user learn span. All fine, but also i want use system-wide bayes for detect spam based on user and system bayes both. Is this possible with SA 3.1.0?