Re: spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
san wrote: > Iam running SA 2.64 and i dont think i can run Fuzzyocrplugin...any other > ruleset which helps me?? > As many others have said, an upgrade is definitely in order. A 2 year old copy of spamassassin just can't keep up, no matter what rulesets you add to it. A significant portion of

Re: how is spamd launched on Mac OS X Server 10.3.9?

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Pooser
> I can't find a spamd.sh anywhere... SA is not included by default until 10.4. If you installed it yourself, you may need to create a StartupItem in /Library/StartupItems. Otherwise, check the documentation from the installed package. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com "The one

Re: Score ends up below fixed value?

2006-12-01 Thread James Butler
Unbelievably, I haven't gotten any stock spams since that last one! I'll reply with the SA headers when I get another one ... yeesh. Thanks for the reply, tho'. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/1/06 at 2:49 PM Evan Platt wrote: >At 02:44 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: >>I've got a simp

Re: bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1086

2006-12-01 Thread Robert S
Sure. Run it as often as needed. It may block bayes access while it is running, so if you have a really busy system (and it sounds like you do) you want to run it often enough to keep the processing time for each shot down to something reasonable. Strange thing is that its not a very busy syst

Re: Score ends up below fixed value?

2006-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 02:44 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: I've got a simple rule that checks for "favorite financial institution site" in the message body. I've assigned that rule a default score of 10.0, however when the message arrives in my spam trap, the SA score is 7.5, high enough to get it into the spam trap,

Score ends up below fixed value?

2006-12-01 Thread James Butler
I've got a simple rule that checks for "favorite financial institution site" in the message body. I've assigned that rule a default score of 10.0, however when the message arrives in my spam trap, the SA score is 7.5, high enough to get it into the spam trap, but clearly below 10.0. What's up w

Re: spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
Iam running SA 2.64 and i dont think i can run Fuzzyocrplugin...any other ruleset which helps me?? YOu can't, and if at all possible you should upgrade so you can. There is lots of new stuff that will help in quite a lot of cases. That said, the SARE stock rules will help some, although poss

Re: spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 02:00 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: Iam running SA 2.64 and i dont think i can run Fuzzyocrplugin...any other ruleset which helps me?? Spamassassin was released (If my google is correct) 08-05-2004. More than 2 years ago. Time to upgrade.

Re: bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1086

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
Is it reasonable to set up a cron job that will run "sa-learn" more frequently than every 24 hours (eg 6 hourly), or is there another solution to this (short of upgrading my ancient hardware)? Sure. Run it as often as needed. It may block bayes access while it is running, so if you have a rea

Re: spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread san
Iam running SA 2.64 and i dont think i can run Fuzzyocrplugin...any other ruleset which helps me?? Evan Platt wrote: > > At 01:45 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>How to stop this type of mail, am recieving too many mails which has got >>.gif file which is attached, > > > The FuzzyOCR Pl

Re: spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:45 PM 12/1/2006, you wrote: Hi, How to stop this type of mail, am recieving too many mails which has got .gif file which is attached, The FuzzyOCR Plugin. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin

spam mail

2006-12-01 Thread san
Hi, How to stop this type of mail, am recieving too many mails which has got .gif file which is attached, real lizzieboy, that wouldnt say boo to a goose lamps, and I guess it doesnt bother you much whether the sun rises or mistake, or to have any misunderstanding with Fred, built it rightdoe

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: > > HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 > > HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 > > HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 > > MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 > > MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 > > SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 > > SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a=0.408 > > > > I think the "Received: from mail pickup service" line is ca

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 11:33, Chris Lear wrote: > > I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] savvis.net > FYI, easyjet.com appears to have a valid SPF record, so whitelist_from_spf [EMAI

bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1086

2006-12-01 Thread Robert S
There has been some correspondence on this matter recently but I'm still having problems. I'm running SA 3.1.3 from debian backports on an AMD K6. I'm running the spamd daemon and launching spamc from procmail. I've been getting the following message: spamd[3775]: bayes: expire_old_tokens: chi

Re: Help for old-school SA?

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Jackson
First thing: find the patch for the URIBL rules and get that enabled. It will probably catch 90% of the spam making it through. Thanks for the suggestions. Actually, I was mistaken; the server that prompted this request had 2.61 installed. I upgraded him to 2.64, and tracked down the SpamCopU

Re: Re: how is spamd launched on Mac OS X Server 10.3.9?

2006-12-01 Thread Mac OS X Server Administrator
On 01/12/06, Terry Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can't find a spamd.sh anywhere... Hi again, It's most likely a StartupItem. Hi Terry, If it is, it's not in /Library/StartupItems/ or /System/Library/StartupItems/... Bye for now, Terry Allen ___

how is spamd launched on Mac OS X Server 10.3.9?

2006-12-01 Thread Mac OS X Server Administrator
I can't find a spamd.sh anywhere...

Re: How does some spam pass through?

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
SA tags both spam and non-spam messages with the rules that hit. A typical non-spam report look like X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.3 required=4.6 tests=BAYES_20,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,HELO_MISMATCH_COM,HOST_MISMATCH_NET,JD_LO_BAYES, JD_VLO_BAYES,LW_PRINTERS,MAILTO_TO_SPAM_ADDR autol

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Friday 01 December 2006 11:33, Chris Lear wrote: > > I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: > > whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] savvis.net ...which should probably go in the SARE Known Whitelists ruleset? -- John Hardin K

Re: forged spam emails from my own domain

2006-12-01 Thread Craig Morrison
vertito wrote: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not valid for "whitelist_from_rcvd", skipping: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] i tried your advise but i had a line of error from my maillog, which is shown above. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is just for a test.

Re: forged spam emails from my own domain

2006-12-01 Thread vertito
config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is not valid for "whitelist_from_rcvd", skipping: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] i tried your advise but i had a line of error from my maillog, which is shown above. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is just for a test. Matt Kettler wro

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Nick Leverton
On Friday 01 December 2006 11:33, Chris Lear wrote: > I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] savvis.net Nick

Re: sa-update / taint error

2006-12-01 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Henk van Lingen wrote: Hi Daryl, I restored my situation from two days ago, and the problem returned. Your patch seems to fix the problem. Thanks for confirming the fix Henk. Fixed in the 3.1 branch (3.1.8) and trunk. Daryl

Re: Help for old-school SA?

2006-12-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Mike Jackson wrote: I work for a large hosting provider. Some of our hosting accounts are (effectively) stuck using SA 2.63, since they are using older Redhat installs coupled with older versions of the Plesk control panel. (Why stuck? Because Plesk and ES2.1 won't recognize post-2 versions, pr

Re: How does some spam pass through?

2006-12-01 Thread Craig
Thanks for your quick reply Ok, I am new to this-and I am sure its a "no brainer" but "non-spam tagging" -I do not understand. If you could explain-or if its documented feel free to scold me-I would appreciate it. Craig >>> "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/1/2006 11:05 AM >>> Typical cas

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Chris Lear wrote: Thanks for all the advice. I've reluctantly whitelisted them and written a polite message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It doesn't seem to have bounced, so maybe someone will read it. I'll let you know if I get a response. Meanwhile, I suppose this is something for others to be aware of

Re: Help for old-school SA?

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
First thing: find the patch for the URIBL rules and get that enabled. It will probably catch 90% of the spam making it through. It would probably be possible to build an eval test for 2.63 that would do what FuzzyOCR does, but it woudl take some work by someone that knows perl (which isn't me

Re: How does some spam pass through?

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
Typical case is that you were one of the lucky early recipients before the spam made it into all the blocklists, so it got a low score. You should have got a pretty hefty score from the local tests, but there is another 10+ points in net tests there too. It looks like bayes should have caught i

Re: Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:38:38AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, December 1, 2006 8:06 am, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:56:06AM -0500, Will Nordmeyer wrote: > >> I know this isn't the procmail list, but had a quick question. > >> > >> > >> > >> My server is ru

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Lear
* Adam Stephens wrote (01/12/06 16:10): > Chris Lear wrote: >> * Loren Wilton wrote (01/12/06 14:54): >> The html contains this sort of thing: http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is represented as . for so

whitelist_from and whitelist_from_rcvd not working

2006-12-01 Thread Mark Adams
Hi All, Spamassassin 3.1.4-1 Currently have entries like the following in the local.cf file whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] But mail is still picked up as spam for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have also tried the following; whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help for old-school SA?

2006-12-01 Thread Mike Jackson
I work for a large hosting provider. Some of our hosting accounts are (effectively) stuck using SA 2.63, since they are using older Redhat installs coupled with older versions of the Plesk control panel. (Why stuck? Because Plesk and ES2.1 won't recognize post-2 versions, provide proper startup

How does some spam pass through?

2006-12-01 Thread Craig
Below are the results from a Spamassassin -D test of a message that was previously delivered this morning. How does something like this pass through- when I run the checks on the email after it is delivered the system clearly knows its spam. Thanks Craig X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=20.3 requ

Re: Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread karlp
On Fri, December 1, 2006 8:06 am, Bob McClure Jr wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:56:06AM -0500, Will Nordmeyer wrote: >> I know this isn't the procmail list, but had a quick question. >> >> >> >> My server is running SA 3.1.7 and has the following systemwide procmailrc: >> >> >> >> SHELL=/bin/

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Adam Stephens
Chris Lear wrote: * Loren Wilton wrote (01/12/06 14:54): The html contains this sort of thing: http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is represented as . for some reason. Still wondering though... how do you solve a problem like

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Nick Leverton
On Friday 01 December 2006 11:33, Chris Lear wrote: > I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] savvis.net Nick

Re: Problems with one ham message

2006-12-01 Thread Maurice Lucas
Never mind. I needed more coffee AWL score was the reason On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 16:03 +0100, Maurice Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > I have the default scores for all the tests below and doesn't know where > the score comes from. > Could somebody help? > > > 2006-12-01 15:33:51.100434500 [5834] inf

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Chris Lear wrote: I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: BAYES_00=-2.599 DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2 FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135 HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Craig Morrison
Chris Lear wrote: * Loren Wilton wrote (01/12/06 14:54): The html contains this sort of thing: http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is represented as . for some reason. Still wondering though... how do you solve a problem like Ea

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 12/1/06, Chris Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, every full stop in the html is represented as . for some reason. In SMTP, a dot all by itself on a line is interpreted as the end of the message. The SMTP client is supposed to double any such dot that is truly present in the message b

Re: new Botnet plugin version soon

2006-12-01 Thread Jonas Eckerman
John Rudd wrote: > Question 2: someone asked why my module is "Botnet" instead of > "Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Botnet". The answer is: when I first > started this (and this is/was my first SA Plugin authoring attempt), I > tried that and it didn't work. I just tested this, and it works perfe

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread hamann . w
>> > The html contains this sort of thing: >> > http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ >> > >> > Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is >> > represented as . for some reason. >> > >> > Still wondering though... how do you solve a problem like EasyJet? >> >> >> Sure look

RE: forged spam emails from my own domain

2006-12-01 Thread vertito
you wake me up from this one. open community really is helpful as it is obviously a compounded form of wisdom and knowledge base in general and details. thanks again matt! -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: getting "and" operator work

2006-12-01 Thread vertito
am very glad for all this big help. now AND is working the way i youve advised me. thanks a lot! -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:02 AM To: John Rudd Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: getting "and" operator w

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Lear
* Loren Wilton wrote (01/12/06 14:54): >> The html contains this sort of thing: >> http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ >> >> Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is >> represented as . for some reason. >> >> Still wondering though... how do you solve a problem like Easy

Re: Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 05:56:06AM -0500, Will Nordmeyer wrote: > I know this isn't the procmail list, but had a quick question. > > > > My server is running SA 3.1.7 and has the following systemwide procmailrc: > > > > SHELL=/bin/sh > > #LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail-log > > #VERBOSE=on > > D

Problems with one ham message

2006-12-01 Thread Maurice Lucas
Hello, I have the default scores for all the tests below and doesn't know where the score comes from. Could somebody help? 2006-12-01 15:33:51.100434500 [5834] info: spamd: connection from capella.taos-it.nl [127.0.0.1] at port 51166 2006-12-01 15:33:51.152649500 [5834] info: spamd: processing m

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
The html contains this sort of thing: http://www.easyjet.com/EN/Members/ Which looks like the culprit. In fact, every full stop in the html is represented as . for some reason. Still wondering though... how do you solve a problem like EasyJet? Sure looks like spam to me. ;-) Which also look

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:15:35 -0500, "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/1/2006 at 7:01 AM, Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Guys -- vague hints as to the contents of the mail really don't help. > >> >> It's spam -- we're all getting thousands of spams a day, most of

Re: forged spam emails from my own domain

2006-12-01 Thread Matt Kettler
vertito wrote: > i am receiving spam emails coming from my own domain.com > but that email address does not existing from my own domain.com. > > say my domain is mydomain.com and that spam email had FROM header that > shows > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > which is currently whitelisted from spamassassin

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Lear
* Loren Wilton wrote (01/12/06 13:57): >> HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 >> HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 >> HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 >> MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 >> MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 >> SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 >> SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a=0.408 >> >> I think the "Received: from mail pickup service" line is causing the >

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread Joe Zitnik
>>> On 12/1/2006 at 7:01 AM, Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys -- vague hints as to the contents of the mail really don't help. > > It's spam -- we're all getting thousands of spams a day, most of us (ok, I > for one at least) seem to be finding those going into the spam bins > wi

Re: OT: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Ramprasad wrote: > Is anyone already having experiences with sender address verification Are you talking of verification using SMTP callbacks? If so, yes. I'm currently using my own SA plugin for this, but it's not verifying everrything. Points: * You can't use VRFY (the SMTP command meant for

Re: Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a=0.408 I think the "Received: from mail pickup service" line is causing the SARE_OBFU_AMP2B rule to fire. Am I right? If so, isn't this likel

Re: OT: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread hamann . w
Hi, one of the problems about that: some legitimate mail from automated systems (e.g. a website registration) is sent as From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: registration Please visit http://domain.com/register/id=xyz In case of problems please write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SAV will just trash thes

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread Justin Mason
Guys -- vague hints as to the contents of the mail really don't help. It's spam -- we're all getting thousands of spams a day, most of us (ok, I for one at least) seem to be finding those going into the spam bins without our help, and I'd say it's unlikely that many of us (ok, me again ;) are g

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread Joe Zitnik
>>> On 12/1/2006 at 5:22 AM, John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 01 December 2006 00:29, Loren Wilton wrote: > guess you're just lucky. I just went through the last month's spam and I > can't find anything with a subject about credit ratings. Oh, no, I didn't mean to suggest i

Easyjet e-mail scoring very high

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Lear
I got an EasyJet confirmation E-mail that scored like this: BAYES_00=-2.599 DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2 FORGED_RCVD_HELO=0.135 HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD=0.156 HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 HTML_TINY_FONT=2.324 MARKETING_PARTNERS=1.765 MIME_HTML_MOSTLY=1.102 SARE_OBFU_AMP2B=2.555 SARE_SPEC_LEO_LINE03a=0.408 Which adds t

Systemwide Procmail usage

2006-12-01 Thread Will Nordmeyer
I know this isn't the procmail list, but had a quick question. My server is running SA 3.1.7 and has the following systemwide procmailrc: SHELL=/bin/sh #LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail-log #VERBOSE=on DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * < 256000 | /home/spam-filter/bin/spamc -U /home/spam-filter/tmp/spam

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 01 December 2006 00:29, Loren Wilton wrote: > guess you're just lucky.  I just went through the last month's spam and I > can't find anything with a subject about credit ratings.   Oh, no, I didn't mean to suggest it was in the subject. Its usually some random subject. Then a paragr

Re: sender address verification .. is it feasible

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
Waste resource and bandwidth accepting mail and scanning it or waste time probing for correct from ids ( and also risk being blacklisted for probes ) .. which is better. Since you will waste less overall net resources doing your own scanning, I'd say that is better. Quite aside from the fact t

Re: My Credit rateing does TOO matter

2006-12-01 Thread Loren Wilton
I guess you're just lucky. I just went through the last month's spam and I can't find anything with a subject about credit ratings. The lowest scoring spam I got at around 8.5 points was the following. I *think* it may be a stock spam, but it is so mangled I'm not absolutely sure: Re: tip 6

Re: sa-update / taint error

2006-12-01 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:44:32PM -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > > > Hm, I've runned sa-update without -T today, and now I can't reproduce > > the problem :-( Maybe because there are no updates anymore... > > You removed the "-T" from the first line of sa-update? Perl won't

Re: Odd behaviour (?) of my Qmail / Qmail Scanner / SpamAssassin 3.1.3 Setup?

2006-12-01 Thread Quinn Comendant
Try executing all spamassassin programs as the same user: - To test your spam message from the command line, do this: sudo -H -u qscand spamassassin < spam.txt - To train your baysean database using sa-learn: sudo -H -u qscand sa-learn --spam ...whatever. Sudo forces these prog