Pyzor problem

2006-10-20 Thread François Rousseau
Hi,I need help to figure out what is going wrong with pyzor.The problem:-I saw many line like this in the log:"Oct 20 18:45:11 localhost spamd[30610]: pyzor: check failed: internal error" What I know:-Pyzor work because I have 397 email tagged by pyzor today.My setup:-Linux debian unstable-SA from

Installing URIDNSBL

2006-10-20 Thread Terry Allen
Hi all, I'm a long time SA user - my system runs Mac OSX 10.4.x, running Postfix, Maia Mailguard, ClamAV, Amavisd-new & now SpamAssassin 3.1.7 since upgrading 4 days ag, the SA installation intercepts all inbound mail for scanning prior to delivery. Recently, I've discovered the URIDNSBL plug

CGPSA

2006-10-20 Thread Wael Shahin
Hello,am using CGPro as mail server, and i need some help and adviceI am planning to implement CGPSA on our ingate servers and am not quitesure if it is a good ideawe recieve almost 7000 email per hour and i don't know if spamassassin is going to miss anythinganother questionfor the amount of emai

Re: SA method for identifying animated GIFs?

2006-10-20 Thread Russ Ringer
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:17:04 -0400, you wrote: >> I was hoping for a simple way to >> detect if the image property frames > 1 >> >> Will the updated SARE ruleset be able to do this? > >It won't need to. It just useses other flags to determine whats going on. I >went about it as the gif didn't mat

Re: sa-update with cron

2006-10-20 Thread Logan Shaw
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Chris Purves wrote: I'm running sa-update from a bash script in /etc/cron.hourly but I keep getting the following every time the script runs: run-parts: /etc/cron.hourly/sa-update exited with return code 1 I believe this is because sa-update only returns error code 0 when s

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread R Lists06
> > If you are having problems with memory after downloading the rules, > you just need to be careful that you use the right ones. Read the > descriptions of the rules carefully and only use the ones that you > think would be useful. Any time you add more rules, the spamd > children will take up

Re: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
Steve Ingraham wrote: Could you explain how I can train Bayes? What specifically do I need to do to accomplish this? http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.0.x/dist/doc/sa-learn.html

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
R Lists06 wrote: > > I am sorry if I am asking this question and it is answered in the > > archives. I will try to go back and read those past posts but is > > there a site where I can download the SARE stock rules and the > > plugins? I am aware of Rules Du Jour but whenever I have attempted > >

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Ingraham
>www.rulesemporium.com Thanks Robert, I have been so distracted with solving several problems at the same time it totally slipped my mind that I have been to this site for rules in the past. It makes a guy feel really stupid when he cannot see the forest for the trees. Steve

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread R Lists06
> > I am sorry if I am asking this question and it is answered in the > archives. I will try to go back and read those past posts but is there > a site where I can download the SARE stock rules and the plugins? I am > aware of Rules Du Jour but whenever I have attempted to download rules > from

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Ingraham
Peter Lemioux wrote: >You can modify the scoring of any rule by adding a file to >/etc/mail/spamassassin that changes the score for specific rules. I >named mine ZZscores.cf so it will be read after the other files in this >directory. For instance, >score HTML_MESSAGE_BODY1.0

Re: Spamassassin effectiveness, BAYES_99

2006-10-20 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 20 October 2006 10:37, Jim Maul wrote: > Others may suggest you lower your threshold but I feel this is the wrong > way to deal with this type of situation.  Generally, you want to > increase the gap between spam scores and ham scores, not lower the > threshold.  The way to do this is add

Re: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
Steve Ingraham wrote: I was trying to see if there was anything I could change in the rules in spamassassin to raise the spam score up enough to reach the spam_hits=10 limit set up in my qmail controls so that qmail will not deliver the message. Once the spam score reaches 10 delivery is stopped

RE: sa-update versus rulesdujour questions

2006-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Bret Miller wrote: > > Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > > FWIW, it happens to be the "official" tool since no one ever > > > submitted RDJ to be the official tool, so we had to write our own. > > > > > I would have offered, had I known there was any interest. > > > > Chris T. > > > I'm glad it isn't

RE: Fix for RDJ update issue

2006-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Exactly. I guessed there would be a few other people out there still trying to figure this one out. Bowie Chris Thielen wrote: > Thank you for posting this. > > Unfortunately after RDJ downloaded all those parking pages, their > timestamps were then LATER THAN the timestamps on the real rules >

RE: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Ingraham
Peter Lemieux wrote: >You don't need to "bump up" the score; this one received an 8.3 which >exceeds your 5.0 ceiling. This result is that it's tagged as spam. SA >itself doesn't do anything other than tag likely spams. It's up to you >to decide what to do with these messages. > > [...] I wa

Re: errors after upgrade to 3.1.7, now it doesn't work

2006-10-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:42:09PM -0400, Brian S. Meehan wrote: > When you say blow them away, are there folders besides the below ones that > should be removed? > > /etc/mail/spamassassin I'd save these files, since they're your local configs. Copy them back appropriately after the install. >

Re: R: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread List Mail User
>... >> RFC 2821 Section 4.1.4 Order of Commands >> ... >>An SMTP server MAY verify that the domain name parameter in the EHLO >>command actually corresponds to the IP address of the client. >>However, the server MUST NOT refuse to accept a message for this >>reason if the veri

Re: errors after upgrade to 3.1.7, now it doesn't work

2006-10-20 Thread Brian S. Meehan
When you say blow them away, are there folders besides the below ones that should be removed? /etc/mail/spamassassin /usr/share/spamassassin Thank you, Brian On Fri, October 20, 2006 14:35, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:30:14PM -0400, Brian S. Meehan wrote: >> Oct 20 14:10

Re: Spamassassin effectiveness, BAYES_99

2006-10-20 Thread Jim Maul
Michael Beckmann wrote: Greetings! In the past few weeks, I have noticed significant amounts of spam passing through my filter. It is reaching a level that annoys me. I use Spamassassin 3.1.7. I used to get maybe one or two spam messages a day earlier this year with 200+ spams filtered. Now

Re: errors after upgrade to 3.1.7, now it doesn't work

2006-10-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 02:30:14PM -0400, Brian S. Meehan wrote: > Oct 20 14:10:20 mail spamd[5776]: configuration file > "/usr/share/spamassassin/20_net_tests.cf" requires version 3.001007 of > SpamAssassin, but this is code ve > rsion 3.04. Maybe you need to use the -C switch, or remove the o

errors after upgrade to 3.1.7, now it doesn't work

2006-10-20 Thread Brian S. Meehan
I had a working setup of Courier-MTA, spamassassin 3.0.4, and maildrop, but I upgraded spamassassin to 3.1.7 and now I have errors and mail doesn't get delivered unless I remove the tie-in to spamassassin in the courierd file. Here are some of the errors: Oct 20 14:10:20 mail spamd[5776]: configur

Spamassassin effectiveness, BAYES_99

2006-10-20 Thread Michael Beckmann
Greetings! In the past few weeks, I have noticed significant amounts of spam passing through my filter. It is reaching a level that annoys me. I use Spamassassin 3.1.7. I used to get maybe one or two spam messages a day earlier this year with 200+ spams filtered. Now I get 10 to 20 spams per

RE: sa-update versus rulesdujour questions

2006-10-20 Thread Bret Miller
> Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > FWIW, it happens to be the "official" tool since no one > ever submitted > > RDJ to be the official tool, so we had to write our own. > > > I would have offered, had I known there was any interest. > > Chris T. I'm glad it isn't the official tool since it doesn't run

Re: sa-update versus rulesdujour questions

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Thielen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: FWIW, it happens to be the "official" tool since no one ever submitted RDJ to be the official tool, so we had to write our own. I would have offered, had I known there was any interest. Chris T.

Re: sa-update versus rulesdujour questions

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Thielen
Jo Rhett wrote: Is there any difference here that I'm overlooking? Any advantage to RDJ? And leading to my next point, given that sa-update is working fine -- isn't rdj going to be slimmed down to just the part that restarts the process after running sa-update? Hi Jo, I'm the author of RDJ

Re: No DNS resolution for URIDNSBL

2006-10-20 Thread David Berten
Bowie Bailey:Yes, it is doing DNS tests correctly now.  I was not sure that URIDNSBL or RBL was working after I installed Net::DNS.  I can see now with "spamassassin -D dns < test.msg" that it is working correctly.  Thank you so much!  DavidOn 10/20/06, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Fix for RDJ update issue

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Thielen
Thank you for posting this. Unfortunately after RDJ downloaded all those parking pages, their timestamps were then LATER THAN the timestamps on the real rules files. Because of this, the if-modified-since checks all returned false and the real rulesets didn't clobber the broken ones. Chris

Re: scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
Steve Ingraham wrote: I am trying to figure out how I can get scores to this type of spam bumped up so they do not get delivered to my user mailboxes. Can anyone give me some suggestions on what I should do to stop this type of spam from being delivered? [...] X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Status:

Re: DCC worth it?

2006-10-20 Thread Shane Williams
Based on how far their mailing lists go back, Razor and DCC have been around since the 2000/2001 time period, and as far as I can tell were independent projects. In fact, they're based on different goals/models, which is why it's useful to use both of them. Razor is interested in specifically id

Bayes DB size/optimization question

2006-10-20 Thread Ryan Moore
Our mail server processes about 75k-100k messages a day, and runs a force-expire once a day at 2am or so. Currently the bayes db (in sql) had a expiry_max_db_size set to 500k, and when the expiration runs normally the db is cut in half pretty much: [7435] dbg: bayes: expiry check keep size, 0

scoring spam

2006-10-20 Thread Steve Ingraham
I am trying to understand scoring for spam messages in the rules.  I hope you guys can help me understand this better.  I have an email header below that is from a spam email.  I think I follow that the score for the various rules is in the X-Spam-Report section of the header.  I am running

need help in configuring imap-spamassassin.pl file

2006-10-20 Thread ankush grover
hey friends, I know this is not the right list to post the queries regarding imap-spamassassin file , I thought may be somebody had tried this script before. I am trying to configure imap-spamassassin.pl on my system and I have edited the file but I am getting the below error when I tried to run

Re: R: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/20/2006 10:43 AM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: >> RFC 2821 Section 4.1.4 Order of Commands ... >> An SMTP server MAY verify that the domain name parameter in the EHLO >> command actually corresponds to the IP address of the client. >> However, the server MUST NOT refuse to accept a message fo

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:13:31 -0400, Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:41 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Psst! >> >> >> Chris Santerre wrote: >>

RE: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Psst! > -Original Message- > From: Mark Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 10:41 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > Chris Santerre wrote: > > > > > > Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Patrick Sneyers
Op 20-okt-06, om 16:30 heeft Chris Santerre het volgende geschreven:ust curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED].  Too bad for them...they do n

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Same here. I've also had lots of spam to addresses with various amounts of trailing "d" or "n" in local part. Like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to be fewer of these today though. I meant tailing. -- Andreas

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Chris Santerre wrote: Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for them...they do not. :) Same here. I've also had lots o

RE: Custom scores -- how to..

2006-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Debbie D wrote: > Can someone please remind me how to create custom scores for existing > rules?? I do not want to manually go in and change any particular > score, any update will over ride that.. I want to manually change > them to hit on a higher [or lower as the case might be] score. > > If me

Re: Are other people seeing higher Load Averages after moving to 3.1.7?

2006-10-20 Thread Debbie D
"ccrowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > All - > > Just a quick inquiry. I updated from 3.1.3 to 3.1.7 yesterday. I'm seeing > substantially higher LA on the system. The system used to run at a range > of > 2.x - 8.x LA. With 3.1.7 I'm seeing 10.x - 50.x. >

R: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> RFC 2821 Section 4.1.4 Order of Commands > ... >An SMTP server MAY verify that the domain name parameter in the EHLO >command actually corresponds to the IP address of the client. >However, the server MUST NOT refuse to accept a message for this >reason if the verification f

Re: tmp files being left over from FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-20 Thread Nick Leverton
On Friday 20 October 2006 15:44, Nick Leverton wrote: > HTH etc, > Nick > fuzzyocr-23b-hashdb-poison.patch.gz Ignore that second patch which wasn't from decoder. I must have accidentally dropped it into the mail somehow (have I mentioned recently I hate GUI mailers ?) Nick

Custom scores -- how to..

2006-10-20 Thread Debbie D
Can someone please remind me how to create custom scores for existing rules?? I do not want to manually go in and change any particular score, any update will over ride that.. I want to manually change them to hit on a higher [or lower as the case might be] score. If memory serves, I THINK I si

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Lear
* Chris Santerre wrote (20/10/06 15:30): > > >> -Original Message- >> From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Psst! >> >> >> On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: >> >> > Another thing I

Re: tmp files being left over from FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-20 Thread Nick Leverton
On Thursday 19 October 2006 16:00, George R. Kasica wrote: > Its not a formal released version from Chris/decoder. I'm running b > here as it seems the most stable. > > If you want J is at: Decoder said some time ago that J was an early development version and recommended people go with b. He's

R: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Title: RE: Psst!   Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Too bad for them...they do not. :)   Mmmh. I think that they j

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Mark Johnson
Chris Santerre wrote: Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for them...they do not. :) I am noticing alot of this. A

FuzzyOCR and FUZZY_OCR_KNOWN_HASH

2006-10-20 Thread Bill
I recently installed FuzzyOCR 2.3b and am still studying it before I install it on my larger mail servers. It seems to work pretty good but I'm starting to notice some HAM emails being rejected simply because of the hashing feature being enabled. A customer this morning called me about an

RE: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread List Mail User
RFC 2821 Section 4.1.4 Order of Commands ... An SMTP server MAY verify that the domain name parameter in the EHLO command actually corresponds to the IP address of the client. However, the server MUST NOT refuse to accept a message for this reason if the verification fails: the

RE: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Psst! > -Original Message- > From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:20 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Psst! > > > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Matt Kettler wrote: > > > Another thing I've been noticing recently..

RE: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread Robert Swan
This is exactly what I was looking for.although I did enjoy the flame war Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother. -Original Message- From: Eric A. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 1:07 AM To: Robert Swan Cc: SpamAssass

RE: No DNS resolution for URIDNSBL

2006-10-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
David Berten wrote: > I am trying to use URIDNSBL but can not get DNS resolution > > SpamAssassin 3.1.7 > > Output::: > Net-DNS-0.59]# spamassassin -D dns --lint > [22770] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes > [22770] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.59 > [22770] dbg: dns: is DNS availabl

New installation in 3.1.7

2006-10-20 Thread mccp\.tortue
Hi, actually, i use SpamAssassin 3.0.4 with this config: == Local.cf == required_hits 4.9 auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist auto_whitelist_file_mode 0777 #rewrite_header Subje

RE: Fun : ultimate spam

2006-10-20 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
Thanks for the advice. I've finally added SARE and chickenpox ... Wow ! great ! I would advice anyone that haven't yet setup these rules to do it now ! It rocks. Now I'll watch the load. Thanks again ! > De : Andy Jezierski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [snip] > > I pieced your message together

Re: Spamassassin Rules with Mimedefang

2006-10-20 Thread Bill
Any rules I install to use with SA/MD I install in the /etc/mail/spamassassin/ folder where my sa-mimedefang.cf file is at. I rarely create custom rules but the few I do have I place in the sa-mimedefang.cf file itself - just my personal preference, again, since I don't have many. Bill

Re: Spam Reporting - reducing the load

2006-10-20 Thread Justin Mason
Chris Hastie writes: > I have a number of spamtrap addresses that between them receive between about > 3000 and 6000 messages a day. Until recently I have used this mail to simply > populate a database of machines that have sent me spam in the last 48 hours, > which is used as part of a series of

Re: ebay THIEF! or spamming IDIOT?

2006-10-20 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, October 20, 2006 02:14, Kelson wrote: > I.e. they aren't trying to get your money (at least, not directly) -- > they're phishers trying to get your eBay login and password. it makes it more fun to recieve them if thay know my first name :-) or if i realy don't use ebay when ebay change

Re: How to block these

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: I am getting lots of mails like this. How to block it? Subject: Good day The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment. body CATCHY_RULE /The message contains Unicode characters / score CATCHY_RULE 50 Use with

Re: One of my users are tagged as spammer

2006-10-20 Thread Matthias Haegele
As far as I can guess, the problem could be the AWL (I think that this user is the same that had a problem some months ago with a worm virus sending a lot of emails), but I run: spamassassin --remove-addr-from-whitelist= Without knowing the exact syntax, and this option: Wouldnt it be som

Re: One of my users are tagged as spammer

2006-10-20 Thread Matthias Haegele
Matthias Haegele schrieb: Angel L. Mateo schrieb: Hello, (Sorry for my previous email without any subject). [...] As far as I can guess, the problem could be the AWL (I think that this user is the same that had a problem some months ago with a worm virus sending a lot of emails), b

RE: How to block these

2006-10-20 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Even it is getting slipped thru the AV Warm Regards, Suhas System Admin QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India: +91 (22) 6792 - 1480 Tel US: +1 (614) 827 - 1224 Fax India: +91 (22) 2530 - 3166 URL: http://www.qualispace.com === For Any

Re: One of my users are tagged as spammer

2006-10-20 Thread Matthias Haegele
Angel L. Mateo schrieb: Hello, (Sorry for my previous email without any subject). [...] As far as I can guess, the problem could be the AWL (I think that this user is the same that had a problem some months ago with a worm virus sending a lot of emails), but I run: spamassas

One of my users are tagged as spammer

2006-10-20 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, (Sorry for my previous email without any subject). I am using spamassassin with postfix and amavis on a debian sarge server. The versions I use are: * postfix: 2.1.5 * amavisd-new * spamassassin: 3.1.0a The problem I have is that emails sent by one of my users is

a

2006-10-20 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, I am using spamassassin with postfix and amavis on a debian sarge server. The versions I use are: * postfix: 2.1.5 * amavisd-new * spamassassin: 3.1.0a The problem I have is that emails sent by one of my users is always tagged as spam, although messages aren't spam. The sp

Re: How to block these

2006-10-20 Thread hamann . w
>> >> I am getting lots of mails like this. How to block it? >> >> >> >> Subject: Good day >> >> >> >> The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent >> >> as a binary attachment. >> >> >> >> Warm Regards, >> >> Suhas >> >> System Administrator >> >> QualiSpace - A Quant

How to block these

2006-10-20 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
I am getting lots of mails like this. How to block it?   Subject: Good day   The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.   Warm Regards, Suhas System Administrator QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India:

No DNS resolution for URIDNSBL

2006-10-20 Thread David Berten
I am trying to use URIDNSBL but can not get DNS resolutionSpamAssassin 3.1.7Net-DNS-0.59]# ps auxw | grep spamroot 22477  0.1 19.8 53720 50860 ?   S    02:12   0:02 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m5 -H -r /var/run/spamd.pid Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (RC1) for i586 Config file setup:::dns_available