Delete spam or move to a folder?

2006-05-16 Thread Yusuf Ahmed
Hi Guys,   Couldn't find a thread like this hence this new one. Just wondering what strategy people are using when it comes to dealing with email that gets enough points to be considered as spam. Eg. being deleted and quarantined, or delivered and quarantined etc.   I'm using store and del

problem with using SARE rules, names longer than 22 chars

2006-05-16 Thread Jo
Hi, We're using spamassassin-3.0.5-3.el4 with amavisd-new-2.4.1-1.el4.rf. Since yesterday I'm receiving this message when downloading the SARE rules: ***WARNING***: spamassassin --lint failed. Rolling configuration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /etc/mail

Re: New Obfuscation Technique?

2006-05-16 Thread jdow
The SARE rules seem to catch that kind of thing rather neatly. In particular these are caught by some of the anti-Leo rules that Loren wrote. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Bret Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hadn't seen this type of obfuscation before, though I admit I don't watch t

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread jdow
From: "Benjamin Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In Four days, Spamassasin marked 1477 messages and missed 755 that where spam. I have my Required set to 5 what is the variable to drop the required in 3.1? I is it still required_score? Is there something else I can do to help the overall performan

Re: Blank emails

2006-05-16 Thread jdow
From: "Richard Collyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ryan Holowaychuk wrote: I am have SA running on a windows machine. Sa 3.1.1 Hmailer Clam ANtivirus I have it set up, but when an email goes through the server I am getting blank emails? what am I missing here? What level is the spam getting?

Re: Who is wholesalebandwidth.com and optinrealbig?

2006-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Marc Perkel wrote: > I get a huge amount of spam associated with these two domains. What's > the story with these people? Who are they? > http://spews.org/html/S2067.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Richter

Who is wholesalebandwidth.com and optinrealbig?

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Perkel
I get a huge amount of spam associated with these two domains. What's the story with these people? Who are they?

Re: Blank emails

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Richard Collyer wrote: Ryan Holowaychuk wrote: I just sent an email and had some lengthy text and it gave it a score of 3.8 What score did the blank e-mail get the one that is getting past the spam filters. Cheers Richard

Re: Blank emails

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Ryan Holowaychuk wrote: I just sent an email and had some lengthy text and it gave it a score of 3.8

Re: Sa-update working, but spams getting through

2006-05-16 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Frankly, what do you expect as an answer for such an information-less request? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Blank emails

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Ryan Holowaychuk wrote: I am have SA running on a windows machine. Sa 3.1.1 Hmailer Clam ANtivirus I have it set up, but when an email goes through the server I am getting blank emails? what am I missing here? What level is the spam getting? Its probably only tripping one rule for short

Re: New Obfuscation Technique?

2006-05-16 Thread Stuart Johnston
Bret Miller wrote: I hadn't seen this type of obfuscation before, though I admit I don't watch the dropped spam very closely. This one got returned to me via my AOL feedback loop, so was looking to see how to catch it. Any ideas? Get a sample message here: http://webmail.wcg.org/~support/16-02-0

spamassasin and mysql

2006-05-16 Thread Javier Marcon
Hello, in a Debian Sarge i have installed Spamassassin and i Wish to change the configuration to use a mysql database for the user prefs and the bayes database, so each domain would have its own bayes db to filter spam. I followed the instructions at http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/s

Blank emails

2006-05-16 Thread Ryan Holowaychuk
I am have SA running on a windows machine.   Sa 3.1.1 Hmailer Clam ANtivirus   I have it set up, but when an email goes through the server I am getting blank emails?  what am I missing here?   thanks   Ryan Holowaychuk General Manager - Kamloops Menzies Printers Ltd. Member of the Canadi

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Benjamin Adams wrote: > Think I found the problem just don't know how to fix: > running: spamassassin -D --lint 4261. > [9990] warn: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_90 Looks like you've got an old local config trying over-ride the score for BAYES_90. However BAYES_90 no long

RE: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Adams wrote: > Think I found the problem just don't know how to fix: > running: spamassassin -D --lint 4261. > [9990] warn: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_90 > [9990] dbg: check: is spam? score=2.907 required=5 > [9990] dbg: check: tests=BAYES_50,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_

(no report template found)

2006-05-16 Thread Igor Chudov
I started getting the following errors: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > =_446A379E.0A06CBBE > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > (no report template found) that is on spams where spamassassin tries to encl

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Adams
Think I found the problem just don't know how to fix: running: spamassassin -D --lint 4261. [9990] warn: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_90 [9990] dbg: check: is spam? score=2.907 required=5 [9990] dbg: check: tests=BAYES_50,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_REAL_NAME,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELA

Re: New Obfuscation Technique?

2006-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Bret Miller wrote: > I hadn't seen this type of obfuscation before, though I admit I don't > watch the dropped spam very closely. This one got returned to me via my > AOL feedback loop, so was looking to see how to catch it. Any ideas? Get > a sample message here: > > http://webmail.wcg.org/~suppo

New Obfuscation Technique?

2006-05-16 Thread Bret Miller
I hadn't seen this type of obfuscation before, though I admit I don't watch the dropped spam very closely. This one got returned to me via my AOL feedback loop, so was looking to see how to catch it. Any ideas? Get a sample message here: http://webmail.wcg.org/~support/16-02-01-P.txt Thanks, Bret

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Martinec
> thanks for that fix; it's now in trunk, and as bug 4901 for b3_1_0. Thanks, that was quick! > but I don't get that last point -- warn() should always be noiser than > dbg(), hence less likely to go by unnoticed You may disregard it. It would be true if dbg would log to syslog or some other

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Justin Mason
Mark Martinec writes: > > > [1353] warn: dns: sendto() failed: at > > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 340. > > The error report in sub bgsend does not show the failure reason > because it mistakenly reports $@ instead of $!, as far as I can tell. > Also, se

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Martinec
Nicolas, > > > [1353] warn: dns: sendto() failed: at > > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line > > > 340. Please apply my patch from my previous message, and repeat your command line test, concentrating on a any "dns:" logged entries, e.g.: # su vscan -c 'spamas

RE: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Adams wrote: > I'm not getting a BAYES_XX in any email headers, The email you sent > me had: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.104 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=AWL > X-Spam-Level: > > Does this mean my variable is wrong in local.cf? Not that the variable is wrong, but the directory may h

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Mark Martinec
> > [1353] warn: dns: sendto() failed: at > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 340. The error report in sub bgsend does not show the failure reason because it mistakenly reports $@ instead of $!, as far as I can tell. Also, send() returns undef on error accordi

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Adams
I'm not getting a BAYES_XX in any email headers, The email you sent me had: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.104 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=AWL X-Spam-Level: Does this mean my variable is wrong in local.cf? -Ben On May 16, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: Benjamin Adams wrote: I am u

RE: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Adams wrote: > I am using sa-learn on the missed messages(using for a few months now > seems to be no help) Define "no help". Are you seeing BAYES_XX hits on your email? Are you sure you are learning to the same database SA is using? You might want to try learning from ALL of your mail

RE: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Bowie Bailey
David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 16 May 2006 18:50, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > > > a) use sa-udpate > This is not yet contributing to successful spam flagging. Still > problematic and may be the cause rather than the cure right now The only problems I have encountered are simply making it work. O

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Adams
I am using sa-learn on the missed messages(using for a few months now seems to be no help) SpamAssassin Server version 3.1.1 running on Perl 5.8.6 my local.cf # Bayesian Auto Learn bayes_auto_learn1 bayes_file_mode 0777 bayes_path /var/mail/spamassassin/bayes baye

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Mike Jackson
I agree with the Theo. 3.1 is too low. You don't want to reject real mail. 1) Use the network/dns tests. 2) increase the score on individual rules especially those for URIBL score URIBL_WS_SURBL 5.5 score URIBL_SBL 5.5 score URIBL_OB_SURBL 5.5 score DRUGS_ERECTILE 5.0 Study the mails to see wha

Snertsoft milters

2006-05-16 Thread Al Danks
We use milter-spamc with SA and sendmail. Snertsoft lists a number of other milters that could be used. I'm wondering which of those milters would actually add something to what SA already does and be useful to add to our system.

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Dermot Paikkos
I agree with the Theo. 3.1 is too low. You don't want to reject real mail. 1) Use the network/dns tests. 2) increase the score on individual rules especially those for URIBL score URIBL_WS_SURBL 5.5 score URIBL_SBL 5.5 score URIBL_OB_SURBL 5.5 score DRUGS_ERECTILE 5.0 Study the mails to see wha

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 16 May 2006 18:50, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Benjamin Adams wrote: > > Spamassasin marked 1477 messages and missed 755 that where spam. > > Seems unusual. > > > what is the variable to drop the required in 3.1? > > I is it still required_score? >

Re: Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Dermot Paikkos
On 16 May 2006 at 16:25, Justin Mason wrote: > > check to ensure your SA-Exim checks are conditional on a message size > check; at least in 2005, it didn't use the recommended size limits by > default for some reason, which meant it allowed spamd to balloon out > of control. Maybe that is still t

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag, 16. Mai 2006 17:42 Benjamin Adams wrote: > Is there something else I can do to help the overall performance? If you mean "performance" like "correctness": 1) Harden your MTA, e.g. use some RBL there, greylisting helps a lot, SPF checking also 2) SA could maybe need additional rules,

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Collyer
nicolas aulas wrote: Any idea what's wrong ? Thanks in advance for your help. Going on that try removing dns availible. Also try and re-install / upgrade Net::DNS perl module. Have you updated perl recentely? Cheers Richard After upgrade Net::DNS to 0.57, I got exactly the same error log

Re: Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:42:56AM -0400, Benjamin Adams wrote: > Spamassasin marked 1477 messages and missed 755 that where spam. Seems unusual. > what is the variable to drop the required in 3.1? > I is it still required_score? Yes, but I wouldn't do that due to the large FP increase. > Is th

Sa-update working, but spams getting through

2006-05-16 Thread David Baron
It seems that my regexp rules are not being hit, once more. I am running with --siteconfigpath /etc/mail/spamassassin which has locat.cf which has these rules. This worked yesterday and earlier today.

Increase overall preformance

2006-05-16 Thread Benjamin Adams
In Four days, Spamassasin marked 1477 messages and missed 755 that where spam. I have my Required set to 5 what is the variable to drop the required in 3.1? I is it still required_score? Is there something else I can do to help the overall performance? --Ben

Re: Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Justin Mason
check to ensure your SA-Exim checks are conditional on a message size check; at least in 2005, it didn't use the recommended size limits by default for some reason, which meant it allowed spamd to balloon out of control. Maybe that is still the case. see this thread: http://www.exim.org/mail-arch

Re: Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Dermot Paikkos
On 16 May 2006 at 10:07, Matt Kettler wrote: > Dermot Paikkos wrote: > > Hi > > > > Spamassassin 3.02 running from SA-Exim (exim 4.5). > > > > OPTIONS="--nouser-config --max-children 6 --helper-home- > > dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/ -s /var/log/spamd.log > > --username=nobody" > > > > I recently

RE: DATE_IN_FUTURE

2006-05-16 Thread Martin Hepworth
Al Probably due to their timezone not being correct. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Danks > Sent: 16 May 2006 15:54 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > S

DATE_IN_FUTURE

2006-05-16 Thread Al Danks
We get email from international students from Indonesia, China, Korea, etc. Sometimes the email trips one of the DATE_IN_FUTURE rules. Does this happen because the sender's computer has bad date/time? Because of the time zone they are sending from? Or some other reason? Some of this email also

Re: Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Hi > > Spamassassin 3.02 running from SA-Exim (exim 4.5). > > OPTIONS="--nouser-config --max-children 6 --helper-home- > dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/ -s /var/log/spamd.log --username=nobody" > > I recently went live with the above system and am noticing some very > heavy m

Re: Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Dermot Paikkos wrote: Hi Spamassassin 3.02 running from SA-Exim (exim 4.5). OPTIONS="--nouser-config --max-children 6 --helper-home- dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/ -s /var/log/spamd.log --username=nobody" I recently went live with the above system and am noticing some very heavy memory usage

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Richard Collyer
Nicolas Aulas wrote: >> With some mail (don't know why), SA up to 99,9% cpu and freeze mail queu (mail are labelled in postfix as " maybe be sent more than once) With problematic mail, sudo -u amavis -s | spamassassin -t < /root/amavis-20060515T124439-32765/email.txt give : [1353] warn: dns:

Re: SA 99,9% CPU and freeze

2006-05-16 Thread Nicolas Aulas
Oops ! Sorry I haven't join the local.cf Le 16/05/06 9:36, « Nicolas Aulas » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Hi list, > > I'm running amavisd-new.2.3.3, clamv 0.88.1, SA 3.1.1 with Perl 5.8.3 on FC1 > 2.4.22 > > Here the prinicipal options of local.cf required_hits 4.0 report_safe 1 trusted_

Performance

2006-05-16 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi Spamassassin 3.02 running from SA-Exim (exim 4.5). OPTIONS="--nouser-config --max-children 6 --helper-home- dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/ -s /var/log/spamd.log --username=nobody" I recently went live with the above system and am noticing some very heavy memory usage. Each spamd is using near

Naive question on DCC

2006-05-16 Thread jpff
I thought I would add dcc to my spamassassin mix. Loading the Debian package failed as it kept giving the error "socket(UDP): Address family not supported by protocol" So I d/loaded the latest sources and built. I now get variously "open(/var/dcc/map): Permission denied" or "open(/var/dcc/map-

spamassassin

2006-05-16 Thread James
Hi, I am new to Spamassassin and need some help. I have has it working for a few days and have been twigging the spam detection levels no probs. Today I had need to restart some processes and in doing so must have broken spamassassin. Can anyone help me with what "bad protocol: header error: (cl