Re: scoring by country

2006-12-23 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Matulis wrote: > > I am having trouble scoring by country. > > > > I have set up local.cf like so: > > > > > Personally, I'd suggest using the RelayCountry plugin for this. It's > DNS-free. > > 1) install IP::Country (via cpan or whatever) >

Re: How to give a different required score for a several domains apart from general required score in local.cf ?

2006-12-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:55:34PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote: > I have a MX mail server. Our mailboxes is not located in it. SA3.1.7 is > installed on the mx server. The mailboxes are another mail server which has > not spamassassin. Ok, so you're acting as a gateway for mails going through. >

RE: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Vernon Webb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:23 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: "insider information" slipping through > > > I've been following this thread as I am also receiving this > SPAM and it is n

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Vernon Webb
I've been following this thread as I am also receiving this SPAM and it is not labeled as such. Looking through old SPAM I have I noticed that I have most of the things mentioned in my headers for SPAM that I do have, however I know I have PYZOR installed but am seeing nothing labeled with th

RE: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: R Lists06 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 5:17 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Deleting SA headers on ham > > > > > > I changed my ham script to: > > nice -n15 sa-learn -L --ham --no-rebuild --single | spa

RE: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread R Lists06
> > I changed my ham script to: > nice -n15 sa-learn -L --ham --no-rebuild --single | spamassassin -d > > This did not work. Why on earth are there two different functions for the letter d in spamassassin? Meaning spamassassin -D spamassassin -d do or are associate with two different functio

Re: SA gateway

2006-12-23 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Maxim Cerný schrieb: Hello, > Firewall mail.example.com and don't let it accept any email from > anyone but spamfilter.example.com I can't do this, because there are more mail domains set on mail.example.com (e.q. example2.com) and I don't filter messages going to example2.com. Any other solu

MID_14DIGITS_HEX will FP on any server running postfix?

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
Merry Christmas jm, please look at this rule after Christmas holiday. Not sure WHY 'MID_14DIGITS_HEX' if false positive on every postfix 2.3.4 (maybe more) (its in 3.7 updates: ../updates_spamassassin_org/80_additional.cf) Not sure if you know that a POSTFIX server produces this message id an

Re: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 11:39:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: >David Baron wrote: >> Occasionally, I get false positives. I run the sa_learn to mark as ham. The >> spamassassin spam headings remain. Is there a script or optiont that I might >> use to remove them (restore message to o

Re: SA gateway

2006-12-23 Thread Maxim Cerný
MessageHello, > Firewall mail.example.com and don't let it accept any email from > anyone but spamfilter.example.com I can't do this, because there are more mail domains set on mail.example.com (e.q. example2.com) and I don't filter messages going to example2.com. Any other solution? Maybe t

BAYES_00 possible score modification info thread help etc

2006-12-23 Thread R Lists06
Recently there was a thread on BAYES_00 and how folks were considering or changing the score on this etc -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] Ive searched and cannot locate it (the thread) somehow. Can someone help me

RE: SA gateway

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
Firewall mail.example.com and don't let it accept any email from anyone but spamfilter.example.com spambot might take several years to discover this. In fact, set up mail.example.com as a secondary MX (and still keep it firewalled) why: Reason #1, Disaster recovery, fail over if spamfilter

SA gateway

2006-12-23 Thread Maxim Černý
Hello, I've set up working spam filtering gateway using amavisd-new and spamassassin. It's working great, most of spam messages are spam-tagged. The problem is that I have domain example.com which is suffering from spam messages. I changed the MX dns record from mail.example.com to spamfilte

Re: [sa-list] Re: [sa-list] Re: Way to skip scanning per-user?

2006-12-23 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
One of my users just started getting slammed. This one user, out of 400+ is getting a dictionary attack that's overwhelming all my spamd process slots. Doing this on the spamd side would make simply stopping this really simple -- even programmatically (i.e. automatically). Manually, even wit

Re: Despeckling images for OCR and anti-spam purposes

2006-12-23 Thread René Berber
Kelly Jones wrote: > Spammers are starting to put "speckles" in their images to defeat > OCR-scanning plugins such as FuzzyOCR. That's a very old technique. > I thought ImageMagick's -despeckle option would help, but it doesn't > seem to, not even when applied multiple times, not even in conjunc

Re: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread John Rudd
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:48 AM To: Michael Scheidell Cc: John van Oppen; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: test of HELO addresses Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Messag

Re: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 09:29:22PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > I changed my ham script to: > nice -n15 sa-learn -L --ham --no-rebuild --single | spamassassin -d > This did not work. Of course not, sa-learn doesn't output a message. If you're trying to pipe stuff here, you will want to use a temp

Re: Despeckling images for OCR and anti-spam purposes

2006-12-23 Thread René Berber
Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:43 PM +0100 decoder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Which images are you refering to? If you can put up a sample, then I >> can tell you which scanner setting will catch it :) > > Does the SA wiki support uploading of images? Perhaps

Re: Despeckling images for OCR and anti-spam purposes

2006-12-23 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:43 PM +0100 decoder > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Which images are you refering to? If you can put up a sample, >> then I can tell you which scanner setting will catch it :) > > Does the

Re: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread David Baron
On Saturday 23 December 2006 20:39, Bob Proulx wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > Occasionally, I get false positives. I run the sa_learn to mark as ham. > > The spamassassin spam headings remain. Is there a script or optiont that > > I might use to remove them (restore message to original form) ? > >

Re: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread Bob Proulx
David Baron wrote: > Occasionally, I get false positives. I run the sa_learn to mark as ham. The > spamassassin spam headings remain. Is there a script or optiont that I might > use to remove them (restore message to original form) ? Use 'spamassassin -d' (aka 'spamassassin --remove-markup') to

Re: Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:32:48PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Occasionally, I get false positives. I run the sa_learn to mark as ham. The > spamassassin spam headings remain. Is there a script or optiont that I might > use to remove them (restore message to original form) ? spamassassin -d --

Deleting SA headers on ham

2006-12-23 Thread David Baron
Occasionally, I get false positives. I run the sa_learn to mark as ham. The spamassassin spam headings remain. Is there a script or optiont that I might use to remove them (restore message to original form) ?

RE: Spam headers

2006-12-23 Thread Rodney Richison
Rodney Richison wrote: > Using amavis-new, I always get the anti-virus headers inserted. > However, I only get spam headers inserted when it is actually detected as spam. > > I'd like to ALWAYS have the spam scoring inserted. I thought -999 > would do that??? > > # default values, can be overr

Re: Spam headers

2006-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Rodney Richison wrote: > Using amavis-new, I always get the anti-virus headers inserted. However, > I only get spam headers inserted when it is actually detected as spam. > > I'd like to ALWAYS have the spam scoring inserted. I thought -999 would > do that??? > > # default values, can be overridden

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Debbie D
Thanks every one.. I see that I really need to tweak my SA, I am not using many of its features evidently.. I never saw any rule that would mark a mail because ClamAV found a virus attached.. I can;t find anywhere this RCVD_FORGED_WROTE rule either.. that alone would have made a huge difference an

Spam headers

2006-12-23 Thread Rodney Richison
Using amavis-new, I always get the anti-virus headers inserted. However, I only get spam headers inserted when it is actually detected as spam. I'd like to ALWAYS have the spam scoring inserted. I thought -999 would do that??? # default values, can be overridden by more specific lookups, e.g. SQ

Re: Questions about invalid Message-ID

2006-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Jack wrote: > Hello, > > In SpamAssassin's FAQ, there is a page > "AvoidingFpsForSenders" > (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AvoidingFpsForSenders) > under the heading "I'm not a spammer!". That page > mentioned that "Emails with ... invalid or missing > message-ids ... are frequently signs of

Re: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread Sander Holthaus
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Rudd wrote: > Michael Scheidell wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: John van Oppen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> Is there a test that already does this? >> >> SPF > > I sure hope the SPF module is NOT using the HELO string for > che

Re: Despeckling images for OCR and anti-spam purposes

2006-12-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:43 PM +0100 decoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which images are you refering to? If you can put up a sample, then I can tell you which scanner setting will catch it :) Does the SA wiki support uploading of images? Perhaps we could have a page of just probl

RE: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 10:48 AM > To: Michael Scheidell > Cc: John van Oppen; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: test of HELO addresses > > > Michael Scheidell wrote: > >> -Original Message-

Re: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread John Rudd
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: John van Oppen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a test that already does this? SPF I sure hope the SPF module is NOT using the HELO string for checking. That would be incredibly broken.

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Ray Anderson
Debbie D wrote: Can someone try and help me understand why this keeps slipping through.. in 2+ days I have 40 or more of these to various addresses of my own on the server http://sial.org/pbot/21945 (Thanks Theo for the link) Scores for me: Content analysis details: (19.5 points,

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Chris
On Saturday 23 December 2006 7:47 am, Debbie D wrote: > Can someone try and help me understand why this keeps slipping through.. in > 2+ days I have 40 or more of these to various addresses of my own on the > server > > http://sial.org/pbot/21945 > Hi Debbie, this scored fairly high here: > Conten

Questions about invalid Message-ID

2006-12-23 Thread Jack
Hello, In SpamAssassin's FAQ, there is a page "AvoidingFpsForSenders" (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/AvoidingFpsForSenders) under the heading "I'm not a spammer!". That page mentioned that "Emails with ... invalid or missing message-ids ... are frequently signs of spam". As the Message-ID he

Re: scoring by country

2006-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Peter Matulis wrote: > I am having trouble scoring by country. > > I have set up local.cf like so: > > Personally, I'd suggest using the RelayCountry plugin for this. It's DNS-free. 1) install IP::Country (via cpan or whatever) 2) edit init.pre to cause RelayCountry to be loaded. 3) add rules

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Ed Kasky
At 05:47 AM Saturday, 12/23/2006, you wrote -=> Can someone try and help me understand why this keeps slipping through.. in 2+ days I have 40 or more of these to various addresses of my own on the server http://sial.org/pbot/21945 (Thanks Theo for the link) Scored 7.4 on my setup. Notice wh

"insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Debbie D
Can someone try and help me understand why this keeps slipping through.. in 2+ days I have 40 or more of these to various addresses of my own on the server http://sial.org/pbot/21945 (Thanks Theo for the link)

How to give a different required score for a several domains apart from general required score in local.cf ?

2006-12-23 Thread Halid Faith
I have a MX mail server. Our mailboxes is not located in it. SA3.1.7 is installed on the mx server. The mailboxes are another mail server which has not spamassassin. I have some domains. I assigned a required score in local.cf on the mx server. That score covers all my domains. Yet I want to gi

RE: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: John van Oppen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 5:54 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: test of HELO addresses > > > Received: from cpe-76-190-23-240.woh.res.rr.com (HELO earthlink.net) > (76.190.23.240) > by 0

RE: scoring by country

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Peter Matulis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:58 AM > To: users@SpamAssassin.apache.org > Subject: scoring by country > > But I do not get anything in my logs. > > Also, http://countries.nerd.dk is down. > Might be why. Hav

Re: Despeckling images for OCR and anti-spam purposes

2006-12-23 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Jones wrote: > Spammers are starting to put "speckles" in their images to defeat > OCR-scanning plugins such as FuzzyOCR. Which images are you refering to? If you can put up a sample, then I can tell you which scanner setting will catch it :)

Re: Position of headers

2006-12-23 Thread Justin Mason
Chris writes: > On Friday 22 December 2006 9:45 pm, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 07:47:47PM -0600, Chris wrote: > > > Is that enough to change the order in which the X-Spam headers are > > > displayed? > > > > Yes. There is no guaranteed order to the headers being added. Fr

RE: test of HELO addresses

2006-12-23 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Yes, it's called HELO tests. This example you give should be tagged with FORGED_RCVD_HELO And SA does loads more HELO tests by default, if it's not working there's probably something wrong with your DNS setup (missing Net::DNS or something like that). Go the the /usr/share/spamassassin/ dir and