bayes nham problem

2006-02-02 Thread Jeremy Kister
A few weeks ago i deleted my bayes_seen and bayes_toks files because bayes was behaving poorly. I have been working hard to retrain bayes, and have realized a problem: using sa-learn --dump magic, nham is stuck at 182. I can learn a use sa-learn --ham, and it'll tell me Learned from 19 message(s)

Re: Post your top 10 from sa-stats

2006-02-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 February 2006 00:30, jdow wrote: >From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Wrong tool. Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and find the >sa-stats.pl on their site. It is the one most of us are using. It >gives individual score breakdowns. The name coincidence is >reg

Re: Post your top 10 from sa-stats

2006-02-02 Thread jdow
From: "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrong tool. Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and find the sa-stats.pl on their site. It is the one most of us are using. It gives individual score breakdowns. The name coincidence is regrettable. I have the "other sa-stats.pl" working well on my syst

Re: query regarding SPF and DK DNS timeouts

2006-02-02 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 02/02/2006 10:50 PM, Jason Haar wrote: I'm noticing a lot of SPF (and DK) lookups fail on our network (dbg: spf: lookup timed out after 5 seconds) due to New Zealand being in the wrong galaxy: Quite often, DNS TXT records appear to like taking >5 sec to respond. Now I see in SpamAssassin/Plug

query regarding SPF and DK DNS timeouts

2006-02-02 Thread Jason Haar
I'm noticing a lot of SPF (and DK) lookups fail on our network (dbg: spf: lookup timed out after 5 seconds) due to New Zealand being in the wrong galaxy: Quite often, DNS TXT records appear to like taking >5 sec to respond. Now I see in SpamAssassin/Plugin/SPF.pm the following line: my $timeout =

Re: How to check if SPF is working

2006-02-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Purves wrote: >> > > Okay, here's the output from debug: > > [31302] dbg: spf: message was delivered entirely via trusted relays, not > required > X-Spam-Report: > * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP That is very bad.. Mail from my system should not be trus

Re: NEEDED TODAY!!: Virus Expert Needed For Radio Talk Show

2006-02-02 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:07 PM -0500 Rob McEwen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (I'm sending this to surbl, uribl, and SA lists) With such short notice, I don't think they are going to be super picky. Alas, too late now. But why not the clam lists? They're the ones who'd be most qualified

Re: How to check if SPF is working

2006-02-02 Thread Chris Purves
Matt Kettler wrote: Chris Purves wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Chris Purves wrote: I am running spamassassin 3.1.0 on Debian Sarge and I just installed the correct packages to get rid of missing .pm file errors from spamd.log during SPF checking. Now I am seeing: Wed Feb 1 12:20:12 2006 [9

Re: Post your top 10 from sa-stats

2006-02-02 Thread Chris Purves
John Fleming wrote: Wrong tool. Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and find the sa-stats.pl on their site. It is the one most of us are using. It gives individual score breakdowns. The name coincidence is regrettable. I have the "other sa-stats.pl" working well on my system. But I'm apparen

Re: has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Didn't I just respond about this the other day? On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:56:06PM -0700, Steven Manross wrote: > href="http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=blahblah"; > >http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=1 > > Or is that even possible? Or is it just expensive?

has someone already written this rule yet?

2006-02-02 Thread Steven Manross
http://www.whatever.com/secretphishersite/blah?something=blahblah"; >http://www.paypal.com/somethingsecure/this?that=1 ...where you test what is in the href section against what they are trying to display in the visible part of the A tag -- and if a URL is found in the visible part of the A tag,

Re: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Yusuf Ahmed
makes sense. thanks for the help guys (including those whose replies dont appear here) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: Yusuf Ahmed wrote: SCENARIO: I am the owner of "sample.com.au". I have email accounts named "info" and "joeblow", therefore their email addresses w

RE: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew.van.Eerde wrote: > Yusuf Ahmed wrote: >> SCENARIO: I am the owner of "sample.com.au". I have email accounts >> named "info" and "joeblow", therefore their email addresses would be >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> PROBLEM: I am getting tonnes of spam coming through to random ema

Re: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Evan Platt
-Original Message- From: Yusuf Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:18:18 +1100 Subject: Re: Help with a rule > Yes thats what I meant - I'll add x amount of points to the rule, but > what would be a good way to write the rule? > > Postfix

RE: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Yusuf Ahmed wrote: > SCENARIO: I am the owner of "sample.com.au". I have email accounts > named "info" and "joeblow", therefore their email addresses would be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PROBLEM: I am getting tonnes of spam coming through to random email > prefixes @sample.com.au. I

Re: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Yusuf Ahmed
Yes thats what I meant - I'll add x amount of points to the rule, but what would be a good way to write the rule? Postfix and MailScanner. Evan Platt wrote: -Original Message- From: Yusuf Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:09:43 +1100

Re: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Yusuf Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Wondering if someone can give me a hand writing a rule. I'm kind of new to this and so running into a few problems. SCENARIO: I am the owner of "sample.com.au". I have email accounts named "info" and "joeblow", theref

Re: Spamd Child Forks, and scaling problems

2006-02-02 Thread Andrew Donkin
Ray wrote: >> spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 19888 due to SIGCHLD >> spamd[5262]: prefork: child states: II Ray, the one you want to look for is "prefork: server reached --max-clients setting, consider raising it". If you see that, you may want to look at your free RAM and, well, consider

Re: Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Evan Platt
-Original Message- From: Yusuf Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:09:43 +1100 Subject: Help with a rule > Wondering if someone can give me a hand writing a rule. I'm kind of new > to this and so running into a few problems. > > SCENARIO:

Help with a rule

2006-02-02 Thread Yusuf Ahmed
Hi, Wondering if someone can give me a hand writing a rule. I'm kind of new to this and so running into a few problems. SCENARIO: I am the owner of "sample.com.au". I have email accounts named "info" and "joeblow", therefore their email addresses would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECT

Size of bayes DB

2006-02-02 Thread Andy Jezierski
I have a sitewide bayes DB that I'm using and am wondering if having too large of a Bayes DB reduces it's efficiency?  I normally don't look at SA too much unless users start complaining about misclassified mail.  But as Joanne pointed out in a different thread, my Bayes DB seems to be trained rat

NEEDED TODAY!!: Virus Expert Needed For Radio Talk Show

2006-02-02 Thread Rob McEwen
RE: Virus Expert Needed For Radio Talk Show Specifically, there is a large AM radio station in one of the top 5 largest cities in the U.S. who is looking for an "expert" guest to discuss the Kama Sutra Worm> Here is the article which perked their attention and for which they are looking for advic

Re: Post your top 10 from sa-stats

2006-02-02 Thread Andy Jezierski
Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/01/2006 08:53:22 PM: [snip] > I'd recommend adding a rule for jp.surbl.org if you don't already > have one.  It's generally our best performing list currently.  A > sample rule is mentioned under "jp - jwSpamSpy + Prolocation data > source" on our Quick

Re: hey john spam

2006-02-02 Thread Kelson
I just got one with content! Well, sort of. The HTML part contained a forged set of headers -- just the user-visible ones you expect on an inline forward: - Original Message - From: To: btxiberk@ Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 11:33 AM Subject: hey perl That was it. (The target

Re: X-eBay-MailTracker

2006-02-02 Thread Kelson
Loren Wilton wrote: Yep, forged. I see at least three things wrong with those headers to be valid ebay headers. With the rest of the header bits I'm pretty sure I'd see at least one more. Hmm, I wonder if this might be worth using as a spam sign. If you find this header, but no sign of eBay

Re: Spamd Child Forks

2006-02-02 Thread Mike Jackson
spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 19888 due to SIGCHLD spamd[5262]: prefork: child states: II I see a lot of mention of these messages showing up in 3.1, but I have not seen a definitive answer as to if I need to pay more attention to them or they are just a minor/visual annoyance in the logs a

Spamd Child Forks

2006-02-02 Thread Ray Dzek
spamd: handled cleanup of child pid 19888 due to SIGCHLD spamd[5262]: prefork: child states: II   I see a lot of mention of these messages showing up in 3.1, but I have not seen a definitive answer as to if I need to pay more attention to them or they are just a minor/visual annoyance in the

Re: How to check if SPF is working

2006-02-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Purves wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: >> Chris Purves wrote: >> >>> I am running spamassassin 3.1.0 on Debian Sarge and I just installed the >>> correct packages to get rid of missing .pm file errors from spamd.log >>> during SPF checking. Now I am seeing: >>> >>> Wed Feb 1 12:20:12 2006 [964

Re: Sys Hostname Long.pm

2006-02-02 Thread Matthias Fuhrmann
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Duncan Hill wrote: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:58, Matthias Fuhrmann wrote: > > > just a question about the purpose of Long.pm. Am I right asuming, it > > just tries to get local machines hostname and domainname. nothing else > > additionaly. Correct? Just to ensure, i d

Re: Newbie with 2 SA installs - one works, one doesn't!!!

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Carlson
Still no joy. What basic tests can I perform to see if SA is working properly please? -- ec

Re: X-eBay-MailTracker

2006-02-02 Thread Chris
On Thursday 02 February 2006 12:16 am, Loren Wilton wrote: > Yep, forged. I see at least three things wrong with those headers to be > valid ebay headers. With the rest of the header bits I'm pretty sure I'd > see at least one more. > > Was this a phish or just a random spam? > > Loren R

Re: Post your top 10 from sa-stats

2006-02-02 Thread John Fleming
Wrong tool. Visit http://www.rulesemporium.com/ and find the sa-stats.pl on their site. It is the one most of us are using. It gives individual score breakdowns. The name coincidence is regrettable. I have the "other sa-stats.pl" working well on my system. But I'm apparently not pointing the "

Re: Bayes filtering only runs about 70% of the time

2006-02-02 Thread Ole Nomann Thomsen
jdow wrote: > From: "Ole Nomann Thomsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Hi All. >> >> I was scanning my SA log-files, when i noticed that about 30% of the >> "result:" -lines do not contain any "BAYES_*" score. > > I suspect that about 30% of your users have an untrained Bayes database. Thanks, but

Re: Sys Hostname Long.pm

2006-02-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 21:58, Matthias Fuhrmann wrote: > just a question about the purpose of Long.pm. Am I right asuming, it > just tries to get local machines hostname and domainname. nothing else > additionaly. Correct? Just to ensure, i dont blow anything :) > > well, asuming this, a fr