Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Roman Serbski wrote: I played yesterday with trusted_networks settings. It looks like it only accepts networks and not IPs? If I add the whole "trusted" network as trusted_networks I can see that messages being marked with "-1.8 ALL_TRUSTED". But if I add IP only - it doesn't work. Single IPs

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Roman Serbski
On 1/11/07, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roman Serbski wrote: > Hi all, > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRE, SA 3.1.7, qmail - all installed from ports. > > Sorry for dumb question but how can I disable SA checks for a > particular IP address? I have couple of remote offices with their own > email ser

Re: Huge File Size

2007-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Christopher Jett wrote: > >> >> >> For the autowhitelist database, grab the check_whitelist script out of >> the tools subdirectory in the tarball. Run check_whitelist --clean on >> the AWL file. This will eliminate any "one-off" entries from it. Not >> much of an expiry, but its a start. (note: t

Re: Huge File Size

2007-01-11 Thread Peter G.
Christopher Jett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK - thanks. So, for example, it's safe to delete the bayes_seen file after > it > gets over a certain size? Is there a particular size after which performance > degrades significantly? >From what I've googled it should be OK to delete bayes_see

Re: Huge File Size

2007-01-11 Thread Christopher Jett
On Jan 11, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: Chris Jett wrote: I am seeing a problem where my bayes_seen and autowhitelist files are HUGE. My bayes_seen is 2.05 GB and my autowhitelist file is 4.02 GB. Forcing an expiry on the database doesn't seem to do anything. What do I need to do? -

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:37, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. Small deployments could get away with it, but if you're a large ISP you'd never here the end of the complaints about it. My WebRedirect plugin tak

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:37, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: > > One more reason to permanently blacklist geocities in SURBL IMHO. > > Small deployments could get away with it, but if you're a large ISP > you'd never here the end of the complaints about it.  My WebRedirect > plugin takes care of ge

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Justin Mason wrote: > Matt Kettler writes: > >> Roman Serbski wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> FreeBSD 6.2-PRE, SA 3.1.7, qmail - all installed from ports. >>> >>> Sorry for dumb question but how can I disable SA checks for a >>> particular IP address? I have couple of remote offices with thei

Re: Huge File Size

2007-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Jett wrote: > I am seeing a problem where my bayes_seen and autowhitelist files are > HUGE. My bayes_seen is 2.05 GB and my autowhitelist file is 4.02 GB. > Forcing an expiry on the database doesn't seem to do anything. What > do I need to do? > -- SA doesn't, at present, support expiry

Re: Techworld says "spam shows sudden slide'?

2007-01-11 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Michael Scheidell wrote: > I don't think I see any sudden drop, was the worlds #1 spammer in that > hut in fluga that got bombed last night? I haven't seen any drop recently either. For my systems (daily legit volume 300,000 and spam 10x that) the spam peak was in the first h

RE: Techworld says "spam shows sudden slide'?

2007-01-11 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, who installed the swartasam blocker for techworld? > > All of a sudden, they say that worldwide spam levels have dropped. > > I don't think I see any sudden drop, was the worlds #1 spammer in that > hut in fluga that got bombed last night? >

Re: Techworld says "spam shows sudden slide'?

2007-01-11 Thread jdow
I've seen a drop from a peak of around 180 absolute minimum spams per day recently. Since Christmas it's been down some. One day in the last week or two it dropped to two digits - about eighty-something spams. I can't remember the last time I saw it that low. It has climbed back up to the 130 to 1

Techworld says "spam shows sudden slide'?

2007-01-11 Thread Michael Scheidell
Ok, who installed the swartasam blocker for techworld? All of a sudden, they say that worldwide spam levels have dropped. I don't think I see any sudden drop, was the worlds #1 spammer in that hut in fluga that got bombed last night? http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?newsID=7735 -- Mich

Huge File Size

2007-01-11 Thread Chris Jett
I am seeing a problem where my bayes_seen and autowhitelist files are HUGE. My bayes_seen is 2.05 GB and my autowhitelist file is 4.02 GB. Forcing an expiry on the database doesn't seem to do anything. What do I need to do? -- Chris Jett [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FuzzyOcr Log Entries

2007-01-11 Thread David Baron
>2007-01-09 08:47:15 [6426] Cannot find executable for pamthreshold >2007-01-09 08:47:15 [6426] Cannot find executable for pamtopnm >2007-01-09 08:47:15 [6426] Cannot find executable for tesseract >These are listed as helpers to the program. What needs to be installed to make >use of them and wh

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:06:12PM +, Justin Mason wrote: > > for what it's worth, in SpamAssassin 3.2.0 it'll be easy enough > > to short-circuit on the ALL_TRUSTED rule to do this. > > Assuming that the IP(s) in question are trusted, and people have actually > conf

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:06:12PM +, Justin Mason wrote: > for what it's worth, in SpamAssassin 3.2.0 it'll be easy enough > to short-circuit on the ALL_TRUSTED rule to do this. Assuming that the IP(s) in question are trusted, and people have actually configured trusted & internal networks, a

Deleting SA headers on ham (SOLVED)

2007-01-11 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) ? I am using kmail and have a "filter" rule for marking as ham. So .. 1. sa_learn 2 p

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Can someone forward me a copy of the spam in question as an attachment? Nevermind, I just found one. 16.4 on this particular one. My bayes rules are scored a little higher than default and I've got a few additional rules though: * 0.0 DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME Domain

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Andersen wrote: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: Now that you mention it, yes, it had a Geocities URL. - Original Message - From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:09 PM Subject: Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam One more reas

RE: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Clay Here's what rules hit on my system Content analysis details: (29.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- 1.9 HOST_EQ_PL HOST_EQ_PL 1.1 HELO_EQ_PL HELO_EQ_PL 1.

Re: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Matthias Haeker
sorry for some bounces this mail hit clamav with > Email.Spam.Gen023.Sanesecurity.06121101 and got blocked by my dnsbl script 140.211.11.2 is now on my whitelist :) Matthias Clay Davis schrieb: No its all kinda like the attached. C >>> On 1/11/2007 at 10:03 AM, in message <[EMAIL P

sa-learn not learning

2007-01-11 Thread Drew Burchett
I have just rebuilt my SpamAssassin server and installed the latest version of SpamAssassin. I am using MySQL for the Bayes database and attempting to build it back up by feeding it with sa-learn. Every time I run sa-learn, it tells me that I only have a few spam emails in the database (latest is

Re: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Michel R Vaillancourt
Clay Davis wrote: Thanks, Michel. How do you correct? Run it back through as ham? C All my user accounts have system-created "ConfirmedSpam" and "ConfirmedNotSpam" folders. If the SA system makes a mistake, they just drag-and-drop the email into the right folder. Every night, the

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Thomas S. Crum
Where 127.0.0.1 is the IP address you want skipped. This also assumes you are using spamass-milter from the ports collection. I am pretty sure you can add multiple comma separated ips, even subnets. Add the following to /etc/rc.conf spamass_milter_flags="-f -p ${spamass_milter_socket} -i 127.0.0

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: "Justin Mason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:34 AM Subject: Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam John Andersen writes: On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: > Now that you mention it

RE: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Clay Can you pastebin the entire email (header info as well) and post me the link. I'll run it over my system (which has lots and lots of extra rules from the SARE team etc) and see if we get the thing scoring properly.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)

Re: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Clay Davis
Thanks, Michel. How do you correct? Run it back through as ham? C >>> On 1/11/2007 at 10:32 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michel R Vaillancourt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clay Davis wrote: > Over the past several months I have been saving the spam that slips > through to my users accounts

RE: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Clay Davis
No its all kinda like the attached. C >>> On 1/11/2007 at 10:03 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Martin.Hepworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clay This spam hasn't got a nice image in it with the actual spam message in it has it?? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic

Re: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Michel R Vaillancourt
Clay Davis wrote: Over the past several months I have been saving the spam that slips through to my users accounts to train my bayes with. I notice that lately almost all of it has (what I am assuming to be) an attempt to poison my bayes (a bunch of valid words put together in a nonsensical p

Re: procmailrc question

2007-01-11 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Wednesday, Jan 10th 2007 at 17:43 -0800, quoth jdow: =>From: "D Ivago" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> => => =>> Hi all, =>> =>> i''ve been using spamassassin for over a year now and I'm really happy with =>> this solution. =>> =>> At he moment my maximum SA score is 3.0 and this seems to stop 99% of spa

Re: Can't get user_prefs to do anything.

2007-01-11 Thread Dave Williss
[SNIP] Is there some special way the permissions have to be set? I made sure anybody could read it and the .spamassassin directory it's in just in case. It sounds like you want to remove calling SA from the MTA, and instead call it from the MDA (such as procmail) which allows per-user co

RE: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Clay This spam hasn't got a nice image in it with the actual spam message in it has it?? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From: Clay Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 January 2007 14:58 > To: users@spam

Re: Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Nicholson
Well if you are learning it as spam and not ham then it will push up the probablity of the words contained in the spam. So mail with those words is most likely to be affected with Bayes. so you may want to reduce the score of the bayes rules if you think they are not going to be accurate. Or start

Avoiding Bayes Poison

2007-01-11 Thread Clay Davis
Over the past several months I have been saving the spam that slips through to my users accounts to train my bayes with. I notice that lately almost all of it has (what I am assuming to be) an attempt to poison my bayes (a bunch of valid words put together in a nonsensical paragraph) at the bottom

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
John Andersen writes: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: > > Now that you mention it, yes, it had a Geocities URL. > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: > > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:09 PM > > Subject: Re: "Dear Hom

Re: xbl.spamhaus.org

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Brooks
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:26:59PM +, Robert Brooks wrote: incidentally, I see no hits for RCVD_IN_SBL, could it be that [... the rule ...] is missing the host to query? looks like it should be the 2nd argument to check_rbl No, it's a rbl sub test, based off of

Re: xbl.spamhaus.org

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Brooks
Robert Brooks wrote: So there's only a single DNS request which sbl, xbl, and pbl all reference. I see that in the updated rules, the 3.1.7 rules that doesn't seem to be the case... must be going blind or crazy :( -- Robert Brooks, Network Manager, Cable & Wireless UK <

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Kettler writes: > Roman Serbski wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRE, SA 3.1.7, qmail - all installed from ports. > > > > Sorry for dumb question but how can I disable SA checks for a > > particular IP address? I have couple of remote offices with their own > > email servers and I would

Re: Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Roman Serbski wrote: > Hi all, > > FreeBSD 6.2-PRE, SA 3.1.7, qmail - all installed from ports. > > Sorry for dumb question but how can I disable SA checks for a > particular IP address? I have couple of remote offices with their own > email servers and I would like to disable any SA checks against

Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam

2007-01-11 Thread John Andersen
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:47, Jack Gostl wrote: > Now that you mention it, yes, it had a Geocities URL. > > - Original Message - > From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:09 PM > Subject: Re: "Dear Homeowner" spam One more reason to perman

Disable SA checks for a particular IP address

2007-01-11 Thread Roman Serbski
Hi all, FreeBSD 6.2-PRE, SA 3.1.7, qmail - all installed from ports. Sorry for dumb question but how can I disable SA checks for a particular IP address? I have couple of remote offices with their own email servers and I would like to disable any SA checks against messages recieved from their SM