Re: uridnsbl "error", "info" what?

2006-09-02 Thread Chris
On Saturday 02 September 2006 8:46 am, SM wrote: > At 20:22 01-09-2006, Chris wrote: > >I've been testing OpenDNS tonight vice using Earthlinks DNS nameservers. > >Looking at my hourly syslog snip, about half way through my NANAS run I > >noticed the below entries. First of all, what are these ent

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> opined: > The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of > all email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. > > If anything, my traffic has been less of late, and almost > non-existant since in in

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 02 September 2006 15:18, mikemacfr wrote: > I'm a bit confused? > > I thought amavis was the virus scanner bit? And spamassassin took care of > the spam bit? Amavis is a router sort of. It takes mail from your mta, sends it thru one or more engines (spamassassin, antivirus, and som

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
I'm a bit confused? I thought amavis was the virus scanner bit? And spamassassin took care of the spam bit? Mike Loren Wilton wrote: > >> Edit your spamd start-up script, or start-up options file (depending on >> which OS you're running, these may be different). There should be a -L or >> --l

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Loren Wilton
Edit your spamd start-up script, or start-up options file (depending on which OS you're running, these may be different). There should be a -L or --local switch in that file. Remove it to enable network tests. I have commented out this line in the spamd file and done a restart. So this may have

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 12:49 -0700, mikemacfr wrote: > Ok, one of the first replies to this thread pointed to: > > Have you checked out http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsingSpamAssassin > ("Spam getting through?")? > > > Which I have looked at and saw the following there: > > Edit your spa

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
Ok, one of the first replies to this thread pointed to: Have you checked out http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsingSpamAssassin ("Spam getting through?")? Which I have looked at and saw the following there: Edit your spamd start-up script, or start-up options file (depending on which OS y

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread jdow
From: "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, jdow wrote: Hm, I have a suspicion that the spam is being targeted quite differently then. Until the end of June I used to get about 250 to 300 spams a day. I am down to 90 to 150 per day now. It's unreal. Note that I am quite sinc

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Loren Wilton
Assuming you also restarted amvis so it will see the change, you should now be getting some more headers in your mail messages. You should see headers similar to the following in a typical non-spam mail: X-Spam-Virus: No X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) on morticia.wiza

RE: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: mikemacfr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 1:55 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-( > (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26144-09; Sat, 2 Another option, is t

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
OK, I've done that now and restarted the mail server and postfix. What next? Mike Bill Randle wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:59 -0700, mikemacfr wrote: >> This reads $sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0; # add spam info headers if at, or >> above that level; >> >> at the moment, so you want me to

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:59 -0700, mikemacfr wrote: > This reads $sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0; # add spam info headers if at, or > above that level; > > at the moment, so you want me to change 2.0 to -99? Yes. At 2.0, it means that a spam will have to score 2.0 or greater before amavis logs the spa

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
This reads $sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0; # add spam info headers if at, or above that level; at the moment, so you want me to change 2.0 to -99? Mike Bill Randle wrote: > > > Change $sa_tag_level_deflt to -99 in /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf, or > where ever the amavisd config file is located. T

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
This is a typical spam mail: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from murder ([unix socket]) by powerconsult.no (Cyrus v2.2.12-OS X 10.4.0) with LMTPA; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:15:19 +0200 X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by power

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 09:59 -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > In the meantime ere is the mail I got based on your reply! > > > MTA-Interface: amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at mail.powerconsult.no > > X-Spam-Scanned: using SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) at > > mail.powerconsult.no > > It looks like

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, jdow wrote: > Hm, I have a suspicion that the spam is being targeted quite > differently then. Until the end of June I used to get about 250 to > 300 spams a day. I am down to 90 to 150 per day now. It's unreal. > Note that I am quite sincerely pleased by this development. ...

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Loren Wilton
In the meantime ere is the mail I got based on your reply! MTA-Interface: amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at mail.powerconsult.no X-Spam-Scanned: using SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) at mail.powerconsult.no It looks like you are using amvis-new to integrate SA in to the mail chain. One of its

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Nigel Frankcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. If anything, my tr

RE: Invalid date header

2006-09-02 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Andreas Pettersson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 11:52 AM > To: SpamAssassin > Subject: Invalid date header > > > Hi. I got a mail with this Date header: > Date: > > which triggered this rule: > 2.2 INVALID_DATEInvalid

Invalid date header

2006-09-02 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi. I got a mail with this Date header: Date: which triggered this rule: 2.2 INVALID_DATEInvalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) What's wrong with it? The <> ? Regards, Andreas

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread hamann . w
>From: "Nigel Frankcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all >>email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. >> >>If anything, my traffic has been le

Re: new problem after upgrade perl modeul to 3.1.4(from 3.1.2)

2006-09-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 04:10:45AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Am I missing some needed configuration somewhere, or is the > above a problem? > > It seems to be happening with every message. It's a bug in Text::Wrap. See http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5056 -- Randomly G

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 06:15:28 -0700, "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Nigel Frankcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all >>email traffic due to newer v

Re: uridnsbl "error", "info" what?

2006-09-02 Thread SM
At 20:22 01-09-2006, Chris wrote: I've been testing OpenDNS tonight vice using Earthlinks DNS nameservers. Looking at my hourly syslog snip, about half way through my NANAS run I noticed the below entries. First of all, what are these entries telling [snip] Sep 1 21:51:25 localhost spamd[109

Re: Please sanity check these ideas for rules.

2006-09-02 Thread mouss
Michael W Cocke wrote: I've got every ruleset & blacklist available and I'm still getting buried - the bayes poison in all of the recent spam has wrecked that. Does anyone see a reason why I can't assume messages with blank subjects are junk? (counter) examples are available on this list (see

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread jdow
From: "Nigel Frankcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. If anything, my traffic has been less of late,

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
OK, I'll take a look! In the meantime ere is the mail I got based on your reply! (By the way er du Norsk?) Mike Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from murder ([unix socket]) by powerconsult.no (Cyrus v2.2.12-OS X 10.4.0) with LMTPA; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:54:16 +0200

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Saturday 02 September 2006 12:31, mikemacfr took the opportunity to say: > I'm completely new to this list and am not a UNIX person. > > I have SpamAssassin 3.1.4 installed on our mail server together with > Squirrel and Amavis-new. > > Spam is still getting through at an unacceptable rate and I

Re: Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:28:14 -0800, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all >email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. > >If anything, my traffic has been less of late, and almost non-existant >since in install

new problem after upgrade perl modeul to 3.1.4(from 3.1.2)

2006-09-02 Thread Linda Walsh
I just updated to a newer version of spamassin a few days ago. Since then I'm getting regular error messages in my spamlog: Sep 2 03:46:03 Ishtar spamd[13106]: (?:(?<=[\s,]))* matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\G(?:(?<=[\s,]))* <-- HERE \Z/ at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.

OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread mikemacfr
I'm completely new to this list and am not a UNIX person. I have SpamAssassin 3.1.4 installed on our mail server together with Squirrel and Amavis-new. Spam is still getting through at an unacceptable rate and I haven't got a clue how fault find what's going wrong? Is there anyone who could hel

Spam levels up or down?

2006-09-02 Thread John Andersen
The Register is running an article saying spam is back up to 81% of all email traffic due to newer versions of the Mocbot worm. If anything, my traffic has been less of late, and almost non-existant since in installed 3.1.5. http://www.theregister.com/2006/08/23/mocbot_worm_zombie_surge/ --

Re: uridnsbl "error", "info" what?

2006-09-02 Thread Jeff Chan
On Friday, September 1, 2006, 8:22:42 PM, Chris Chris wrote: > I've been testing OpenDNS tonight vice using Earthlinks DNS nameservers. > Looking at my hourly syslog snip, about half way through my NANAS run I > noticed the below entries. First of all, what are these entries telling > me? Seco

moving the bayesian database and auto whitelist to a new cerver?

2006-09-02 Thread Nick Rout
I am moving my email to a new server. How do I ensure that the procmail bayseian database and auto whitelist for each user is moved too? Should I just copy ~/.spamassassin/* for each user? Here is the contents for my ~/.spamassassin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/.spamassassin $ ls -l total 37636 -rw