Re: bayes_toks.expire.... can I delete these?

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kettler
Derek Catanzaro wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: >> Derek Catanzaro wrote: >> >>> I have a ton of bayes_toks.expire files listed in >>> /root/.spamassassin. Is it safe to delete these files? >> Yes, provided no expire process is currently running and using one. >> > I did wind up deleting a

Re: Forged X-Spam headers

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kettler
Christopher Martin wrote: > I have been noticing the occasional spam slipping past spam assassin > unscathed lately but have been a bit busy to pay attention (one spam a > day is much better than the 150 each user used to get). I paid a bit > more attention to one the other day and noticed it had a

Re: bayes_toks.expire.... can I delete these?

2006-10-04 Thread Derek Catanzaro
Matt Kettler wrote: Derek Catanzaro wrote: I have a ton of bayes_toks.expire files listed in /root/.spamassassin. Is it safe to delete these files? Yes, provided no expire process is currently running and using one. I did wind up deleting all of the bayes_toks.expire files, there

Re: double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread Ken
John D. Hardin wrote: On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 10/4/2006 5:57 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: I've been getting lots of porn site spam containing words with doubled letters, like this one: Can anybody suggest a rule or ruleset to catch these double-letter obfuscation

Forged X-Spam headers

2006-10-04 Thread Christopher Martin
I have been noticing the occasional spam slipping past spam assassin unscathed lately but have been a bit busy to pay attention (one spam a day is much better than the 150 each user used to get). I paid a bit more attention to one the other day and noticed it had an X-Spam header before it got

Re: double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Eric A. Hall wrote: > On 10/4/2006 5:57 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: > > I've been getting lots of porn site spam containing words with doubled > > letters, like this one: > > > Can anybody suggest a rule or ruleset to catch these double-letter > > obfuscations? I'm using Spamassa

Re: bayes_toks.expire.... can I delete these?

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kettler
Derek Catanzaro wrote: > I have a ton of bayes_toks.expire files listed in > /root/.spamassassin. Is it safe to delete these files? Yes, provided no expire process is currently running and using one. > I did check the FAQ regarding "manybayestoksexpirefiles" but from what > I can tell the direct

Re: double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/4/2006 5:57 PM, Richard Doyle wrote: > I've been getting lots of porn site spam containing words with doubled > letters, like this one: > Can anybody suggest a rule or ruleset to catch these double-letter > obfuscations? I'm using Spamassassin 3.1.4. You'd probably need to write a plug-in

RE: double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread Bret Miller
> I've been getting lots of porn site spam containing words with doubled > letters, like this one: > > > Orrgy pornn parrties! Lotts of > sttupid bitchees gangbangged by queue of guyss. > annal_nailing and cum__swallowing orgiees. > archiive of gro

double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread Richard Doyle
I've been getting lots of porn site spam containing words with doubled letters, like this one: Orrgy pornn parrties! Lotts of sttupid bitchees gangbangged by queue of guyss. annal_nailing and cum__swallowing orgiees. archiive of group_ssex materia

Re: FuzzyOCR request

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Munday
decoder wrote the following on 04/10/2006 21:38: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Munday wrote: Chris Could you consider adding a configuration parameter which would have the effect of scoring all results as zero? This would allow people to configure FuzzyOCR for their syste

RE: light-grey listing..? lkml filter probs & catching too much ham.

2006-10-04 Thread Coffey, Neal
Linda Walsh wrote: > Is there a way to "light-grey" a list -- not a blanket accept > all, white-list, but something that temporarily moves the > spam-"high-water" mark for that specific email: For mailing lists, I use "whitelist_to", which by default subtracts 6 points from the email's score. It w

light-grey listing..? lkml filter probs & catching too much ham.

2006-10-04 Thread Linda Walsh
I'm having problems filtering a list I'm on (lkml). First I had it on normal filter -- but I had too many false positives. Finally switched it to a white-list, but now, many true negatives (spam) get through. Is there a way to "light-grey" a list -- not a blanket accept all, white-list, but som

Re: ImageInfo Bug

2006-10-04 Thread Dallas Engelken
Stuart Johnston wrote: Dallas, I think there is a bug in the image_size_range function. my $name = $type.'_dems'; Should probably be more like: my $name = "dems_$type"; Thanks, Stuart Yup.. Craig Green made me aware of that last week, and I've been too busy to address it. I'll get it updat

RE: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread Shue, Daniel G.
We use SA, ClamAV, Razor, Pyzor, DCC, etc. with amavis-new and Maia Mailguard. Maia is a great way to imitate some of the big expensive spam filters out there. It gives users a web front end for managing their spam and even their spam score limits. It may be a little more than what you want t

Stupid spammer rules: typos in forged headers

2006-10-04 Thread John D. Hardin
describe QMAIL_TYPO Hand-forged Received header with typos header QMAIL_TYPO Received =~ /\.[a-z]{1,4}\s\((?!Qmail)Qm[ail]{3}\)\swith\s/ scoreQMAIL_TYPO 1.00 -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174pgpk -a [EMAIL PR

switching from global bayes to per-user bayes

2006-10-04 Thread Adam Lanier
I am looking into switching from a global bayes/awl/setting environment to a per-user environment with MySQL as a backend. Would anyone care to offer an opinion as to whether and/or to what degree this might make in overall effectiveness? Anyone back up that opinion with cold hard facts? Will I

Re: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread Andreas Pettersson
I use Exim with the integrated SA ACL. I'm really pleased with how it works. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html /Andreas

Re: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread qqqq
Title: RE: What's the best method to use SA? Sendmail/Procmail   /etc/procmailrc: :0fw* < 115000* ! ^(TO|Cc):.(user1noscan|user2noscan|user3noscan)* ! ^Return-Path: \<\>* ! ^List-Id:.\* ! ^Disposition-Notification-To:.*MUNGED* ! ^Received:.(domain1.com|domain2.com|domain3.com)* ! ^To:.*abuse

bayes_toks.expire.... can I delete these?

2006-10-04 Thread Derek Catanzaro
I have a ton of bayes_toks.expire files listed in /root/.spamassassin. Is it safe to delete these files? I did check the FAQ regarding "manybayestoksexpirefiles" but from what I can tell the directory is not set to use sticky bit. Here is my ls -la results on the directory: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-04 Thread Jorge Valdes
Jason Haar wrote: I'm having marvelous luck with FuzzyOCR - but the spammers are learning too. When I first started using it just a couple of months ago, it really whacked the image-based spam. You could see why when "gocr file.gif" returned nice text that was easy to match against. However, no

RE: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: What's the best method to use SA? > -Original Message- > From: Monty Ree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 12:44 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: What's the best method to use SA? > > > Hello. > > I have used SA using with p

Re: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread Clifton Royston
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 04:43:37AM +, Monty Ree wrote: > Hello. > > I have used SA using with procmail. > and clamav + sendmail(libmilter) against virus. > > But I have found that other related solutions like > http://www.mailscanner.info/ or > http://www.amavis.org/. > > I don't know wha

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Stock spam in images Greetings list,     The old timers on the list know I tend to try things outside the norm. Like my strong resistence to sitewide bayes. Well for months I've been using a simpler approach to these Stock Spams w/ images. I don't look at the image at all. He

ImageInfo Bug

2006-10-04 Thread Stuart Johnston
Dallas, I think there is a bug in the image_size_range function. my $name = $type.'_dems'; Should probably be more like: my $name = "dems_$type"; Thanks, Stuart

FuzzyOCR gocr spins wheels

2006-10-04 Thread Shue, Daniel G.
Hi people, Got a problem with FuzzyOCR. I'm using version 2.3j but had the same problem with 2.1. At points through out the day there will be 3 - 4 instances of gocr running all fighting over CPU. They run forever, which I though that SA would kill the processes if they took to long

RE: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
> I did a local DNS query: > > dig somedomain.com.multi.surbl.org a > > If you get NXDOMAIN then it's not listed. > > > Do you know a way to see result for each test (PH, OB, etc ... ) ? > > dig somedomain.com.multi.surbl.org txt > > will show the lists; so will the lookup page, and so wil

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, October 4, 2006, 3:11:16 AM, Fabien GARZIANO wrote: >> Another possibility is that there is a DNS proxy or DNS >> modification service like OpenDNS changing the DNS results in >> a way that's not compatible with SURBL applications: >> >> http://www.surbl.org/faq.html#opendns > I

R: perl hogging my memory?

2006-10-04 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
I dream of a amavis+spamassassin system developed in C++ language and with separate rule compiler and matching daemon... Also, this thing of running a perl regex matching for each (enabled) rule is a bit brain damaged... Why not invert the flow and build something like flex + bison, ie: a gramm

Re: perl hogging my memory?

2006-10-04 Thread Matt Kettler
I definitely have to say that between OutOfMemoryProblems and TrustPath we've probably covered about 20% of the problems on the list :) Justin Mason wrote: > hey, feel free to edit around that FAQ too, Matt ;) > > Right now I think that question really *is* the most FA'd Q. > > --j. > >

RE: Spamassassin Rules

2006-10-04 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Title: RE: Spamassassin Rules Yes, spamassassin definitely RULES!   ;-D

Failing install - CPAN NET::DNS

2006-10-04 Thread Thomas Ericsson
Hi all Tried to install NET::DNS via CPAN to get my network tests going but get the following error report at the end: sudo cpan -i Net::DNS Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00-load.

RE: Spamassassin Rules

2006-10-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Spamassassin Rules > -Original Message- > From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:13 AM > To: Loren Wilton > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spamassassin Rules > > > On Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 6:57:21 PM, Loren

Re: FuzzyOCR seems to not like gif and png

2006-10-04 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loren Wilton wrote: > @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in; margin: 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; > } P.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: > "Times New Roman" } LI.MsoNormal { FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 0in 0in > 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: "T

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Justin Mason
Loren Wilton writes: > > I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.5. (On Perl 5.8.6). > > I've checked the the bugzilla page about this bug. I dont understand a > > damn thing 8-|... I guess that i need to update my spamassassin setup > > and I'm scared. I'm gonna check the wiki for advice on spamassa

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Loren Wilton
I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.5. (On Perl 5.8.6). I've checked the the bugzilla page about this bug. I dont understand a damn thing 8-|... I guess that i need to update my spamassassin setup and I'm scared. I'm gonna check the wiki for advice on spamassassin updates, but first, get a horse

Re: Spamassassin Rules

2006-10-04 Thread Jeff Chan
On Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 6:57:21 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > If you don't have network rules enabled you should enable them. The > URIBL-type rules will probably catch the vast majority of this junk. Most > of the mis-spelled pharma stuff I get scores around 50. See: http://www.surbl.org/

RE: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-04 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
> What version of SpamAssassin are you running? Versions before > 3.1 have an infrequent DNS query bug: > > http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3997 > I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.0.5. (On Perl 5.8.6). I've checked the the bugzilla page about this bug. I dont understand a

Re: HELO test rule-writing questions

2006-10-04 Thread Justin Mason
Clifton Royston writes: > I'm trying to write some SA rules for additional tests on the > connecting mailserver's SMTP HELO string, and I have some questions > about how to do it. Should I send them to this list or to the > dev list? hey Clifton! -- yep, this list. > Assuming it's this list

Re: perl hogging my memory?

2006-10-04 Thread Justin Mason
hey, feel free to edit around that FAQ too, Matt ;) Right now I think that question really *is* the most FA'd Q. --j. Matt Kettler writes: > Woot!! Thank you Justin and the rest of the Wiki crew for putting that up! > > I was getting tired of writing the "Are you using sa-blacklist.cf?" > emai

Re: Score=x ?

2006-10-04 Thread M.Lewis
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, October 4, 2006 05:59, M.Lewis wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, score=x tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[] check amavisd.conf for $sa_mail_body_size_limit is highter then the mail size in this mail, if it is amavisd disabled scanning of this mail Thanks Benny. I s

Re: Score=x ?

2006-10-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, October 4, 2006 09:18, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Wed, October 4, 2006 05:59, M.Lewis wrote: >> X-Spam-Status: No, score=x tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[] > check amavisd.conf for $sa_mail_body_size_limit is highter then the mail size > in this > mail, if it is amavisd disabled scan

Re: Score=x ?

2006-10-04 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, October 4, 2006 05:59, M.Lewis wrote: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=x tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[] check amavisd.conf for $sa_mail_body_size_limit is highter then the mail size in this mail, if it is amavisd disabled scanning of this mail -- "This message was sent using 100% recy