Bayes SQL DB problem

2006-08-28 Thread Anders Norrbring
I run SA 3.1.4, amavis-new 2.4.2. I have a small problem with SQL based Bayes, in my "amavisd debug-sa" I see this all the time: [6204] dbg: bayes: database connection established [6204] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3 [6204] dbg: bayes: unable to initialize database for vscan user, abort

AW: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Whisky
Yes, Duane, we are using quite a number of network tests but somehow these mails don't get caught... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Duane Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 28. August 2006 14:18 An: Whisky Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Betreff: Re: Question: SA Rule Rec

Re: problem with RX subjects

2006-08-28 Thread JamesDR
Sally K Scheer wrote: As an end user who is receiving these spams despite a functioning SA installation, I sure hope you figure out how to get them stopped. Also the stock ones. I'll keep monitoring the list and pass on your solutions to our ISP. Thanks everyone. Sally Scheer - Or

Re: problem with RX subjects

2006-08-28 Thread Sally K Scheer
As an end user who is receiving these spams despite a functioning SA installation, I sure hope you figure out how to get them stopped. Also the stock ones. I'll keep monitoring the list and pass on your solutions to our ISP.   Thanks everyone.   Sally Scheer - Original Message -

Re: end user whitelist failure help needed

2006-08-28 Thread Sally K Scheer
Thanks, that's what I'll do. - Original Message - From: "SM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:39 PM Subject: Re: end user whitelist failure help needed At 12:51 28-08-2006, Sally K. Scheer wrote: I already did whitelist the messages according to the spam box

Honest spammer

2006-08-28 Thread Chris
Now this is an honest spammer: Spam from Vasya. Date: Mon Aug 28 10:45:22 2006 From: "Stacie Kendrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi my diar friend! This is the spam message for you. Vasya. -- Chris 20:24:36 up 11 days, 3:07, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.23, 0.16 pgpqBZ2

Re: What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread jdow
Somebody who write the rule had a sense of humor, I suspect. The actual rule searches for completely, totally, or all followed by natural anywhere in the body of the message. In the past this has been a pretty good indication that the message is indeed spam. {^_^} - Original Message -

Re: Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-28 Thread jdow
From: "Logan Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:14:18PM -0700, jdow wrote: Is there some magic to the .pre files that makes it important to have the load_plugins there? Yes, pre files are loaded before anything else, so the plugin

Re: Now ascii spam instead of real pictures

2006-08-28 Thread jdow
From: "decoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello there, A friend of mine recently received a mail containing an ASCII image advertising meds. The mail is attached. Anyone seen this before? Do rules exist already against this kind of spam? jdow curtsies in the general direction of the creativity t

Re: gs as a plugin requirement?

2006-08-28 Thread jdow
From: "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A poll for the list: do you consider it reasonable for a plugin to require ghostscript? (Assume for the sake of argument that rendering postscript is necessary to the analysis the plugin is performing.) Depends on how much time it adds to the scannin

Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.

2006-08-28 Thread jdow
It appears to be pretty obvious that whatever is running SpamAssassin is overwriting anything SpamAssassin is doing to the email. I suggest you look into the part of your mail path that calls SpamAssassin. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "DuBois, Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ok. Last

Re: text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE

2006-08-28 Thread Chris
On Monday 28 August 2006 2:39 am, Loren Wilton wrote: > It tells me the guy is still in busniess using yahoo to make his > messages. I've been seeing these footers for a t least a month now. > > Loren Thanks Loren, I just never noticed it before. -- Chris 17:49:01 up 11 days, 32 min, 1 us

Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.

2006-08-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:36 PM 8/28/2006, you wrote: Ok. Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two, which lowers the score down to a one(1) and sh

problem with RX subjects

2006-08-28 Thread D Ivago
Hello,I'm running RH EL4 with SA 3.1.4 and postfix/procmail.Last week I moved that mailserver to a datacenter and I'm  not sure if it's related, but since then I get more spam then ever. The server is now connected with 1 NIC on a 192.168.*.* subnet and routed via a h/w firewall to the internet, b

Re: Getting Spamassasin to work.

2006-08-28 Thread Rick Macdougall
DuBois, Joseph wrote: Ok. Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two, which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite

Getting Spamassasin to work.

2006-08-28 Thread DuBois, Joseph
Ok.   Last week was hoping to get Spamassassin to work, but still no luck. My hosting provider is pretty much useless saying everything is running fine. I have removed all custom rules except for the following two, which lowers the score down to a one(1) and should rewrite the Subject on any

Re: end user whitelist failure help needed

2006-08-28 Thread SM
At 12:51 28-08-2006, Sally K. Scheer wrote: I already did whitelist the messages according to the spam box directions. How do I find the actual whitelist so I can check to see if the proper header information was included in the whitelist? Perhaps the process I used to whitelist the messages was

Re: Poll: gs as a plugin requirement?

2006-08-28 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: > On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: > > A poll for the list: do you consider it reasonable for a plugin to > > require ghostscript? > > Are you proposing that data coming from the big, bad internet > should be fed into ghostscript? Oh, no! Not dire

Re: Poll: gs as a plugin requirement?

2006-08-28 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, John D. Hardin wrote: A poll for the list: do you consider it reasonable for a plugin to require ghostscript? (Assume for the sake of argument that rendering postscript is necessary to the analysis the plugin is performing.) Are you proposing that data coming from the big,

RE: gs as a plugin requirement?

2006-08-28 Thread Bret Miller
> A poll for the list: do you consider it reasonable for a plugin to > require ghostscript? > > (Assume for the sake of argument that rendering postscript is > necessary to the analysis the plugin is performing.) I don't see how it's any more of a problem than requiring gocr... Actually, probably

Poll: gs as a plugin requirement?

2006-08-28 Thread John D. Hardin
A poll for the list: do you consider it reasonable for a plugin to require ghostscript? (Assume for the sake of argument that rendering postscript is necessary to the analysis the plugin is performing.) -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: end user whitelist failure help needed

2006-08-28 Thread Sally K. Scheer
I already did whitelist the messages according to the spam box directions. How do I find the actual whitelist so I can check to see if the proper header information was included in the whitelist? Perhaps the process I used to whitelist the messages was wrong. Thanks for any help you can give. ---

RE: a problem upgrading to 3.1.4

2006-08-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
enediel gonzalez wrote: > Hello > I had the following configuration with the version 3.0.3-2 > > #*** > # dcc > use_dcc 1 > dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc > #dcc_add_header 1 > dcc_dccifd_path /usr/sbin/dccifd > > #pyzor > use_pyzor 1 > pyzor_path /usr/b

Re: Now ascii spam instead of real pictures

2006-08-28 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, decoder wrote: Loren Wilton wrote: Ah. Sig-file format. That is I guess a slight new twist. This sort of thing was popular for a month or two a couple of years ago. I suspect they gave up on it then because it was probably done by hand and not worth the effort. Yea thi

a problem upgrading to 3.1.4

2006-08-28 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello I had the following configuration with the version 3.0.3-2 #*** # dcc use_dcc 1 dcc_path /usr/bin/dccproc #dcc_add_header 1 dcc_dccifd_path /usr/sbin/dccifd #pyzor use_pyzor 1 pyzor_path /usr/bin/pyzor #pyzor_add_header 1 #razor use_razor2 1

Re: spamd, DnsResolver, and URIDNSBL errors?

2006-08-28 Thread Evan Platt
Still seeing Aug 28 11:12:51 www spamd[25146]: bayes: bayes db version 0 is not able to be used, aborting! at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 195, line 396.\n Aug 28 11:12:52 www spamd[25146]: bayes: bayes db version 0 is not able to be used, aborting! at /Libr

Re: What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread OpenMacNews
Is there a particular reason you want to know? the right question. "WhatCounts is a unique email marketing firm ..." hmm ... -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X against HTML email, vCards / \ & micro$oft attachments [GPG] OpenMacNews at gmail dot com fingerprint: 50C9 1C46 2F8F DE42 2E

Re: What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread Loren Wilton
Scalix message content> Sorry about that- first timer in this group... anyone know why a message is scored with the following?: "2.6 ALL_NATURAL BODY: Spam is 100% natural?!" Yes. Is there a particular reason you want to know? Loren

Re: end user whitelist failure help needed

2006-08-28 Thread SM
At 09:42 28-08-2006, Sally K. Scheer wrote: HOWEVER, I have a problem with SA intercepting a set of messages I wish to receive daily. They are from our bank and contain only two words (report ready) and an attached pdf file. They are always from the same address but the subject varies according t

Re: What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 09:42 AM 8/28/2006, you wrote: Hey Bill, Sorry about that- first timer in this group... anyone know why a message is scored with the following?: "2.6 ALL_NATURAL BODY: Spam is 100% natural?!" body ALL_NATURAL/\b(?:100%|completely|totally|all) natural/i describe ALL_NATURAL

RE: What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread Ruben Cardenal
Title: Scalix message content grep is your friend:   root @ mx [/usr/local/share/spamassassin]# grep ALL_NATURAL * 20_phrases.cf:body ALL_NATURAL    /\b(?:100%|completely|totally|all) natural/i 20_phrases.cf:describe ALL_NATURAL    Spam is 100% natural?! 30_text_de

end user whitelist failure help needed

2006-08-28 Thread Sally K. Scheer
I'm a lowly end user of SA and am grateful for the huge decrease in spam received by my domain's email addresses since starting SA. HOWEVER, I have a problem with SA intercepting a set of messages I wish to receive daily. They are from our bank and contain only two words (report ready) and an atta

RE: Spamassassin munging headers

2006-08-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Nathan Brink wrote: > Hello SA Users, > > Our software uses SpamAssassin to score various content, but the > score below doesn't make much sense: "2.6 ALL_NATURAL BODY: Spam is > 100% natural?!" > > Anyone familiar with this or have insight? Also, if there is any > documentation on scoring, ple

What does "ALL_NATURAL BODY" mean?

2006-08-28 Thread Nathan Brink
Title: Scalix message content Hey Bill,   Sorry about that- first timer in this group... anyone know why a message is scored with the following?: "2.6 ALL_NATURAL BODY: Spam is 100% natural?!"   Thanks again, Nate   From: Bill Landry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006

Re: Spamassassin munging headers

2006-08-28 Thread Bill Landry
Title: Scalix message content Why would you hijack someone else's thread?  If you are not going to at least response to the original question, then at least have the courtesy to start your own new message thread.   Bill - Original Message - From: Nathan Brink To: users

Re: Now ascii spam instead of real pictures

2006-08-28 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loren Wilton wrote: > Ah. Sig-file format. That is I guess a slight new twist. This > sort of thing was popular for a month or two a couple of years ago. > I suspect they gave up on it then because it was probably done by > hand and not worth the ef

Re: Spamassassin munging headers

2006-08-28 Thread Justin Mason
There was a bug in spamass-milter 0.3.0: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SaMilter030CorruptMsgs . Surely spamass-milter has fixed it by now? There's a patch there to fix the bug, which would be a better thing to do than remove the header markup as a workaround... --j. Hardy, Anthony writes

RE: Spamassassin munging headers

2006-08-28 Thread Nathan Brink
Title: Scalix message content Hello SA Users,   Our software uses SpamAssassin to score various content, but the score below doesn't make much sense: "2.6 ALL_NATURAL BODY: Spam is 100% natural?!"   Anyone familiar with this or have insight?  Also, if there is any documentation on scoring,

Spamassassin munging headers

2006-08-28 Thread Hardy, Anthony
Title: Scalix message content A few particular email servers have been complaining about munged email headers and it seems that SpamAssassin is the culprit. I saw something about this somewhere on another list, but couldn’t find a fix. It seems as if the problem still exists in the latest ve

Re: Now ascii spam instead of real pictures

2006-08-28 Thread Loren Wilton
Ah. Sig-file format. That is I guess a slight new twist. This sort of thing was popular for a month or two a couple of years ago. I suspect they gave up on it then because it was probably done by hand and not worth the effort. Probably not too hard to catch this sort of thing. Lore

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Chris Thielen
Expertsites, Inc. wrote: I received this message, too. It was sent to a specific incoming email address associated only with a former online order I placed for DRAM from Crucial Technology within the period mentioned in the settlement for the class action suit. Looking at the website and cou

Re: test my bleeding edge broken code. with your finger!

2006-08-28 Thread Faisal N Jawdat
On Aug 28, 2006, at 3:52 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: http://alaska.aif1.com/pr.asp?src=3D1155591075"; width=3D"1" height=3D"1" border=3D"0"/> http://images.ed4.net/images/htdocs/alaska/ head_left.gif" width=3D"436" height=3D"78"> http://alaska.aif1.com/pr.asp?src=3D1155591075";>src=3D"http://images

Re: Animated images in mails

2006-08-28 Thread Plenz
decoder wrote: > > That is what FuzzyOcr does automatically for you :) Surely... but I don't use Spamassassin, I am using my own program :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Broken-images-in-mails-tf2071676.html#a6022799 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users forum at Nabble

Re: Image-only stock spam -- nice try!

2006-08-28 Thread Plenz
Justin Mason wrote: > > All I can think of is that they're attempting to evade another anti-spam > product, one that uses OCR, but is secret/proprietary hence *we* don't > know about it. I don't dare to hope that this could be my program SPAVI where I added an OCR feature already in 2005. Unfo

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Logan Shaw
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Expertsites, Inc. wrote: I received this message, too. It was sent to a specific incoming email address associated only with a former online order I placed for DRAM from Crucial Technology within the period mentioned in the settlement for the class action suit. Looking at

Re: Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-28 Thread Logan Shaw
From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 07:14:18PM -0700, jdow wrote: Is there some magic to the .pre files that makes it important to have the load_plugins there? Yes, pre files are loaded before anything else, so the plugins loaded from there can be used in all cf

RE: FuzzyOcr seems to go nothing

2006-08-28 Thread Gary V
I am sure I am doing something simply wrong, but I installed FuzzyOcr 2.3b and also updated to Spamassassin 3.1.2 from CPAN. Lint is cool; BTW: cat /etc/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr.log Gary V _ Call friends with PC-to-PC calling -- F

RE: FuzzyOcr seems to go nothing

2006-08-28 Thread Gary V
I am sure I am doing something simply wrong, but I installed FuzzyOcr 2.3b and also updated to Spamassassin 3.1.2 from CPAN. Lint is cool; I have installed the packages mentioned in the INSTALL (this is on Debian 3.1) and there are no error messages being generated. However the samples in the di

Re: action to perform on spam

2006-08-28 Thread Matthias Haegele
Theo Van Dinter schrieb: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:13:41AM -0700, e2rd wrote: I have several questions about SpamAssassin configuration: 1. Is it possible to specify the action to perform on spam messages individually for every user in SpamAssassin? It depends what you mean by "the action to

Re: action to perform on spam

2006-08-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:13:41AM -0700, e2rd wrote: > I have several questions about SpamAssassin configuration: > 1. Is it possible to specify the action to perform on spam messages > individually for every user in SpamAssassin? It depends what you mean by "the action to perform". If you mean

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Expertsites, Inc.
- Original Message - From: "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SpamAssassin Users List" Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 5:30 AM Subject: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish? I can't figure out who is trying to do what here, but it looks real suspicious. Anyone seen one of these

Now ascii spam instead of real pictures

2006-08-28 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello there, A friend of mine recently received a mail containing an ASCII image advertising meds. The mail is attached. Anyone seen this before? Do rules exist already against this kind of spam? Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 28-Aug-06, at 8:30 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: I can't figure out who is trying to do what here, but it looks real suspicious. Anyone seen one of these before? Loren Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mta5a.dm-4.com ([64.40.98.32]) Just to follow-up, the doma

FuzzyOcr seems to go nothing

2006-08-28 Thread jpff
I am sure I am doing something simply wrong, but I installed FuzzyOcr 2.3b and also updated to Spamassassin 3.1.2 from CPAN. Lint is cool; I have installed the packages mentioned in the INSTALL (this is on Debian 3.1) and there are no error messages being generated. However the samples in the dis

Re: Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 28-Aug-06, at 8:30 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: I can't figure out who is trying to do what here, but it looks real suspicious. Anyone seen one of these before? Loren Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mta5a.dm-4.com ([64.40.98.32]) by mx-clapper.atl.sa.earthlin

Re: stock spams

2006-08-28 Thread Markus Edholm
Spamassassin List wrote: The stock spams are killing me. I had 70_sare_stocks.cf and its not blocking them. Below is part of the spam and the score. What can i do to beat them? W a t c h o u t! ALLINACE ENTERPRSIE (A ETR) Curernt Pirce: 0.80 Add this g e m to your wat ch list, and w atch it

Ok, what's the point of this spam/phish?

2006-08-28 Thread Loren Wilton
I can't figure out who is trying to do what here, but it looks real suspicious. Anyone seen one of these before? Loren Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mta5a.dm-4.com ([64.40.98.32]) by mx-clapper.atl.sa.earthlink.net (EarthLink SMTP Server) with SMTP id 1ghjm

Re: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Duane Hill
On Monday, August 28, 2006 at 7:53:40 AM, Whisky confabulated: > There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such > as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. > I have thus set up the following rule: > body BODY_ADDS_22 > /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i

stock spams

2006-08-28 Thread Spamassassin List
The stock spams are killing me. I had 70_sare_stocks.cf and its not blocking them. Below is part of the spam and the score. What can i do to beat them? W a t c h o u t! ALLINACE ENTERPRSIE (A ETR) Curernt Pirce: 0.80 Add this g e m to your wat ch list, and w atch it tard closely! Nwes Reelas

Re: Suggestion - or am I off in the ozone

2006-08-28 Thread Justin Mason
"John D. Hardin" writes: >On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Justin Mason wrote: > >> The .pre files are only really useful if you want to use the >> plugins loaded, in the /usr/share/spamassassin files -- otherwise, >> it's fine to add "loadplugin" lines wherever you like, just bear >> in mind that lines read

Re: Animated images in mails

2006-08-28 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Plenz wrote: > > decoder wrote: >> gifasm can split them into multiple files, etc. >> > > Thanks, gifasm works very well. Seems that I only have to choose > the biggest one of the output files, it contains the text. That is what FuzzyOcr does automatic

action to perform on spam

2006-08-28 Thread e2rd
Hi, I have several questions about SpamAssassin configuration: 1. Is it possible to specify the action to perform on spam messages individually for every user in SpamAssassin? 2. How to configure Messaging Server intergated to SpamAssassin to perform different actions (discard the message, file i

Re: test my bleeding edge broken code. with your finger!

2006-08-28 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 27 August 2006 23:52, Loren Wilton wrote: > >> The other one is totally unrelated, say a marketing company has set up > >> a redirector to count how often each link is visited. > >> > >> Well, for the other one . I would not want to read these mails even > >> if they are not phish >

Re: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/28/2006 3:53 AM, Whisky wrote: There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. I have thus set up the following rule: body BODY_ADDS_22 /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i However, when I send a testmail tha

Re: test my bleeding edge broken code. with your finger!

2006-08-28 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/28/2006 3:52 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: Well lets see. My latest Alaska Airlines milage statement says: These things normally score about 25 points. I have them whitelisted. What's the stock SA rule component of that? 25 points for ham isn't good! Daryl

Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Whisky
There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. I have thus set up the following rule: body BODY_ADDS_22 /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i However, when I send a testmail that conatins the string "/gal" the rule i

Re: test my bleeding edge broken code. with your finger!

2006-08-28 Thread Loren Wilton
The other one is totally unrelated, say a marketing company has set up a redirector to count how often each link is visited. Well, for the other one . I would not want to read these mails even if they are not phish Well lets see. My latest Alaska Airlines milage statement says: Receiv

Re: text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE

2006-08-28 Thread Loren Wilton
It tells me the guy is still in busniess using yahoo to make his messages. I've been seeing these footers for a t least a month now. Loren