Re: Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Stern
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you should _definitely_ whitelist AOL's scomp source address -- preferably using "whitelist_from_spf", as they publish a reliable SPF record for aol.net. - --j. Thanks. That did the trick: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-94.8 req

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 01/12/2005 5:30 PM, User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs I found this: Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC -> check failed: cannot fork: Too many open files in system at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm

Re: compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Larson
It's still load on the server or router I am giving plenty of time and announcing it where spam consious system admin should see it and have plenty of time to take action. Bill Larson Network Administrator Compu-Net Enterprises - Original Message - From: "Richard Ozer" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you should _definitely_ whitelist AOL's scomp source address -- preferably using "whitelist_from_spf", as they publish a reliable SPF record for aol.net. - --j. Steven Stern writes: > In order to keep our mail flowing to AOL members, I've signed up

Problems with AOL's TOS reports

2005-12-01 Thread Steven Stern
In order to keep our mail flowing to AOL members, I've signed up through the AOL postmaster service to receive TOS reports. Basically, whenever someone reports mail from our domains as spam, AOL forwards it to me. (They delete the addressee from the headers, although not completely so sometimes

Re: Broken Outlook tests ?

2005-12-01 Thread Rick Macdougall
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: On 01/12/2005 10:26 AM, Rick Macdougall wrote: I've got a real user using Outlook which hits the following two rules 2.7 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTMLOutlook can't send HTML message only 2.5 FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGSOutlook can't send HTML in this format I've got the entire m

Re: Broken Outlook tests ?

2005-12-01 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 01/12/2005 10:26 AM, Rick Macdougall wrote: I've got a real user using Outlook which hits the following two rules 2.7 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTMLOutlook can't send HTML message only 2.5 FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGSOutlook can't send HTML in this format I've got the entire message with headers if some

RE: Re[2]: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-12-01 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > SARE_FRAUD was suggested but would this be a duplication when we are > running clamd virus scanner on all the mail? Not really, no. Phishing is a hit-and-run enterprise... the more fences the better. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805

Re[2]: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Thanks Bob, SARE_FRAUD was suggested but would this be a duplication when we are running clamd virus scanner on all the mail? Thanks, Ken Rea On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Robert Menschel wrote: > Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 11:59:23 AM, Matt wrote: > > MK> I'm not well versed in picking the "min

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
As a follow up I did find this on a Debian web site: echo "65536" > /proc/sys/fs/file-max # for 2.2 and 2.4 kernel echo "131072" > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max # for 2.2 kernel only So it looks like you don't have to worry about inodes on a 2.4 kernel. Ken Rea On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, User for Sp

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Matt, It's a Debian Stable system, and I did bump up that file and also put in a script on boot up to raise that number. Some of the ideas I found (after doing a google search) suggested changing the inode-max as well but I could not find that in the proc file system. We will see if that solves

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > > I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs > I found this: > > Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC -> check failed: cannot fork: Too many > open files in system > at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1019,

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs I found this: Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC -> check failed: cannot fork: Too many open files in system at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Util.pm line 1019, line 101. Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: clea

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Yes the users do exist and usually it works fine. Ken On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:54:17PM -0800, User for SpamAssassin Mail List > wrote: > > I'm getting these errors on some user when the spamd program tries to > > setuid to the users ID. Here i

Re: Subject only rewritten sometimes?

2005-12-01 Thread James Feger
Hi Chris, Nothing looks horribly wrong to me with your setup. See if you can reproduce the no-rewrite state with an email you have received which did not get the subject rewritten. Remove the spamassassin markup and re-send the message through spamassassin (pipe a marked-up email through

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:54:17PM -0800, User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: > I'm getting these errors on some user when the spamd program tries to > setuid to the users ID. Here is some of the log file showing the error: Do those users actually exist? Does your perl support setuid? > Dec

spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, I'm getting these errors on some user when the spamd program tries to setuid to the users ID. Here is some of the log file showing the error: Dec 1 09:24:38 mail spamd[1897]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 57112 Dec 1 09:24:38 mail spamd[1897]: fatal: setuid to chuck fa

Re: compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Richard Ozer wrote: That's a pretty nasty way to deal with that problem. You'll mostly affect bystanders. Why don't you just filter the requests and forget about them? Because he'll still get bombarded with the wasted traffic of useless dns requests. -Dan

HELP: 2.63 -> 3.x General Upgrade Questions

2005-12-01 Thread R Tuthill
SpamAssassin 2.63-0.2 RedHat 9 Operating system Linux 2.4.20-021stab022.11.777-enterprise psa-spamassassin 7.5.4-rh9.build75050927.15 Hello All, Above is my hosting platform. I am running version 2.63 by default now and want to upgrade to version 3.x . I am a BASIC administrator and have acces

Re: Recurring abuser

2005-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:37 AM 12/1/2005, you wrote: My MailScanner boxes are still getting drilled with the Sober.Virus and spam (none which have made it through) from a single IP address. I did a lookup on dnsstuff.com for the address {66.243.13.178} but made no headway on what to do about this. What steps

Re: Recurring abuser

2005-12-01 Thread Steve Thomas
> My MailScanner boxes are still getting drilled with the Sober.Virus and spam (none which have made it through) from a single IP address. I did a lookup on dnsstuff.com for the address {66.243.13.178} but made no headway on what to do about this. What steps do I need to do in order to get this

Re: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Leverton
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:10:18AM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Chris Thielen writes: > > Did SA 2.6x support any if* statements in rulesfiles like 3.0 does (eg: > > ifplugin)? > > Chris, pretty sure it didn't. ISTR that it tried to, but it

Re: Recurring abuser

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Casey King wrote: > My MailScanner boxes are still getting drilled with the Sober.Virus and > spam (none which have made it through) from a single IP address. I did > a lookup on dnsstuff.com for the address {66.243.13.178} but made no > headway on what to do about this. What steps do I need to d

Recurring abuser

2005-12-01 Thread Casey King
Title: Recurring abuser My MailScanner boxes are still getting drilled with the Sober.Virus and spam (none which have made it through) from a single IP address.  I did a lookup on dnsstuff.com for the address {66.243.13.178} but made no headway on what to do about this.  What steps do I need

Re: compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread mouss
Bill Larson a écrit : Over 2 years ago I shut down blackhole.compu.net and pm0-no-more.compu.net then announced the shutdown on the news.admin.net-abuse.email and several other mail and abuse related lists. As of today I am still logging several hundred requests per minute to it two years late

Re: who is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Justin Mason wrote: > What I do is confirm those spams. If they're going to shift the > work of spam-filtering onto innocent third parties, a "protest vote" > is appropriate in my opinion. > > --j. Very well said Justin. My own views are a little more harsh, but the principles are quite similar

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-12-01 Thread mouss
Menno van Bennekom a écrit : Mouss wrote: twtelecom.net is in the US. Yes, I'm doing too many things at a time today so I was only triggered by the 'tw' ;-) would be "fun" to block Time Warner because of that:) I'm not certain many spammers do really care to clean up the address lists...

Re: compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread Richard Ozer
That's a pretty nasty way to deal with that problem. You'll mostly affect bystanders. Why don't you just filter the requests and forget about them? - Original Message - From: "Bill Larson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 10:15 AM Subjec

compu.net dnsbl's

2005-12-01 Thread Bill Larson
Over 2 years ago I shut down blackhole.compu.net and pm0-no-more.compu.net then announced the shutdown on the news.admin.net-abuse.email and several other mail and abuse related lists. As of today I am still logging several hundred requests per minute to it two years later. In one week I am

Re: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Thielen writes: > Did SA 2.6x support any if* statements in rulesfiles like 3.0 does (eg: > ifplugin)? Chris, pretty sure it didn't. - --j. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFDjzyKMJF5cimL

Re: who is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I'm suddently being flooded with messages from the sender in the > > subject line, containing absolutely no indication of what message > > generated that response. > > > > I don't

Re: Subject only rewritten sometimes?

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Thielen
Hi James, James Feger wrote: I have set my local.cf to look for a hit score of 7.0 or higher. I am receiving email and spamd is processing it as spam, attaching a score, and adding the default message at the top of the email (Email has been tagged as possible spam by the system...or whatever

RE: Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread John Narron
Seems the maintainer has already fixed this issue in version 200512011033, so uhm.. Nevermind :) John Narron| "Sacrifice, they always say Network Administration | Is a sign of nobility CDS/CDSinet, LLC | But where does one draw the line http://www.cdsinet.net | In the face of

RE: Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread Casey King
...and I thank you for helping me, b/c I couldn't figure it out...I can admit that I am not too bright. I hope you didn't feel I was being spiteful...no reason for that...maybe all of the other events of the day here at work are starting to get to me a little. Sorry if I came off a bit jaded. --

Re: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Thielen
Matt Kettler wrote: > At 08:57 AM 12/1/2005, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> Doesn't RDJ have a rule renaming feature? I seem to remember getting >> a message from RDJ at one point saying that one of the SARE rules had >> changed names. > > > Renaming is quite different. If you re-name, at least your use

RE: Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread John Narron
Dunno, I don't maintain it, just providing a workaround until it can be properly fixed by the maintainer :) John Narron| "Sacrifice, they always say Network Administration | Is a sign of nobility CDS/CDSinet, LLC | But where does one draw the line http://www.cdsinet.net | In

RE: Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread Casey King
Rolling configuration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist-uri.cf /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf.2; mv -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/blacklist-uri.cf.20051201-1019 /etc/mail/spamassas

RE: Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread John Narron
iguration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist-uri.cf /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf.2; mv -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/blacklist-uri.cf.20051201-1019 /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist-uri.cf;

Subject only rewritten sometimes?

2005-12-01 Thread James Feger
Hello, I recently installed Spamassassin 3.1.0 on a Debian Linux. I used the apt-get method of installing the binary and the needed support files. I am running spamassassin as spamd. I am invoking spamd with the Debian spamc client invoked via .procmailrc. I am using Sendmail as my local maile

Blacklist-uri.cf problem

2005-12-01 Thread Casey King
2; mv -f /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/blacklist-uri.cf.20051201-1019 /etc/mail/spamassassin/blacklist-uri.cf; Lint output: [2514] warn: Backslash found where operator expected at (eval 3485) line 1, near "com\" [2514] warn: config: invalid regexp for rule WLS_URI_OPT_0: m//docume

Re: who is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I'm suddently being flooded with messages from the sender in the > subject line, containing absolutely no indication of what message > generated that response. > > I don't do SPI, and never will as it just sems to confirm I'm a valid > email address. > >

who is [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-12-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I'm suddently being flooded with messages from the sender in the subject line, containing absolutely no indication of what message generated that response. I don't do SPI, and never will as it just sems to confirm I'm a valid email address. What should I do, just sort it to the ju

RE: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 08:57 AM 12/1/2005, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >Doesn't RDJ have a rule renaming feature? I seem to remember getting > >a message from RDJ at one point saying that one of the SARE rules had > >changed names. > > Renaming is quite different. If you r

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-12-01 Thread Menno van Bennekom
Mouss wrote: > > twtelecom.net is in the US. Yes, I'm doing too many things at a time today so I was only triggered by the 'tw' ;-) > >> By the way, I wouldn't report spam to the abuse-addresses, the reports >> are >> often forwarded to the spammer. It is often only used as a confirmation >> that

Broken Outlook tests ?

2005-12-01 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I've got a real user using Outlook which hits the following two rules 2.7 FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTMLOutlook can't send HTML message only 2.5 FORGED_OUTLOOK_TAGSOutlook can't send HTML in this format I've got the entire message with headers if someone can tell me what they want to see. Reg

RE: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:57 AM 12/1/2005, Bowie Bailey wrote: Doesn't RDJ have a rule renaming feature? I seem to remember getting a message from RDJ at one point saying that one of the SARE rules had changed names. Renaming is quite different. If you re-name, at least your users will know about it because thei

RE: Antidrug.cf deprecated and no longer maintained.

2005-12-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mouss wrote: > > > > I didn't say so but had in mind: > > - antidrug.cf: just a notice (which also provides a link to the > > pre30 version) > > - a pre30 version. > > No way. > > That creates a problem for users of SA 2.64 who are RDJ'ing > ant

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-12-01 Thread mouss
Menno van Bennekom a écrit : I know some ip-addresses here that try to send me viruses for over a year! Posting this to the abuse I did once or twice and indeed doesn't help always but I also block the ip at the MTA level (postfix) and that does help ;-) Some I have even blocked at the firewall

RE: bonded sender

2005-12-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
So I guess I will put a complaint in -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 12:46 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: bonded sender At 10:07 PM 11/30/2005, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >I was just cur

Re: OT? Threats from twtelecom over spam reports

2005-12-01 Thread Menno van Bennekom
Chris wrote: > Since about the 22nd or 23nd I've been getting virus laden (Sober.U) spam > from an address at twtelecom.net (66.162.83.190). All my spam reporting > is done via two scripts, one is reporter.pl which runs sa-learn and > reports to Razor, Pyzor and DCC. The other script, which was w