sa-update correctly done?

2007-01-28 Thread Sharman Tiladu
My first day with Spamassassin. As root, I ran sa-update. Then I created the file sare-sa-update-channels.txt that contain these lines: 70_sare_adult.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net 70_sare_specific.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net 72_sare_bml_post

Re: Drug spam, some caught some not - none caught by drug rules

2007-01-28 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:51:21 -0500, "Tim Boyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One thing I've noticed is that Polyakov is starting to obfuscate the URL. >What would normally be caught because it's in the Spamhaus SBL is getting >missed because of this: > >Good day, > >Viazzgra $1, 80 >Ciazzlis $3,

Re: sa-learn --import not importing DB_File v2 DB

2007-01-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:19:37AM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > I'm now trying to get the global Bayes DBs from the 2.64 installs > upgraded as necessary. I knew there was a format change, and I thought > there was a simple upgrade procedure: sa-learn --import is *supposed* > to make whatever c

RE: Poor man's high MX spam Trap

2007-01-28 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Raul Dias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 10:04 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Poor man's high MX spam Trap > > Hi, > > This is what I did to flag spam that goes to the Highest MX > server without having a sec

Re: Can I do this with FuzzyOCR?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Nicholson
Ok managed to do this by hacking the FuzzyOcr.pm code.. just changed the if condition and hopefully this drug image spam is history. On Jan 28, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote: So currently FuzzyOCR is not getting hit on this drug spam however I'd like to force the recognition of th

Re: development list

2007-01-28 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:10:24AM -0500, tom wrote: > I have a general question about development versus using spamassassin. > Does the developer mailing list do anything other than bugs or is that the > wrong list for detailed discussions on how SA works > under the hood? The dev list is fine

Can I do this with FuzzyOCR?

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Nicholson
So currently FuzzyOCR is not getting hit on this drug spam however I'd like to force the recognition of this image as spam for future by generating a hash and adding an entry into the hash database that this email is spam How can I do that? I want to manually add an entry to the hashin

Re: Global tokens database.

2007-01-28 Thread Matt Kettler
Jorge Cardona wrote: > Hi. > > I'm implementing a proxy mail server, and i want to know if there is > some global database server for global tokens. > > In my implementation i have a database server with global tokens ( > user @GLOBAL) and per-user tokens. The final user can fill his tokens > with

Global tokens database.

2007-01-28 Thread Jorge Cardona
Hi. I'm implementing a proxy mail server, and i want to know if there is some global database server for global tokens. In my implementation i have a database server with global tokens ( user @GLOBAL) and per-user tokens. The final user can fill his tokens with the help of a script and a path .

RE: stupid users tricks in the wrong place with sa-learn

2007-01-28 Thread R Lists06
> > I don't know about "fry" the DB, but sa-learn will happily attempt to > learn > from whatever files/directories matched '*'. Likely, it'll see them all > as > messages w/ no headers, so a lot of body tokens. > > The question of course is, does this matter, which is hard to say. If the > tok

Re: stupid users tricks in the wrong place with sa-learn

2007-01-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:33:05PM -0800, R Lists06 wrote: > sa-learn --spam --showdots * > would sa-learn actually do anything and fry the spamassassin database? I don't know about "fry" the DB, but sa-learn will happily attempt to learn from whatever files/directories matched '*'. Likely, it'll

stupid users tricks in the wrong place with sa-learn

2007-01-28 Thread R Lists06
If a person was logged in as user spamd And was in the /home/spamd directory and "accidentally" did this command sa-learn --spam --showdots * would sa-learn actually do anything and fry the spamassassin database? I know it will try, yet will it succede at anything in this accident? Or? - r

Re: spamd hanging machine

2007-01-28 Thread sk8conz
I had the exact same problem. There is something very similar in Bugzilla at Spamassassin.org. The fix that worked for them and me is to use spamd with the --round-robin option. Hope this helps Troy Davis-2 wrote: > > Hello, > > I've noticed a server of mine becoming unresponsive over the

RE: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Yes, they are. But I see often legitimate messages like this. They are probably used when sending something to somebody while having a voice conversation with him/her. I did it, too. Giampaolo, In which case, nothing is lost if the message doe

RE: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, John D. Hardin wrote: > > > Please don't ask SA to become an antivirus or attachment file type > > security policy enforcement tool. There are already very effective tools > > to do perform those tasks. > >We run only linu

Re: Questionable email

2007-01-28 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all! This is not spamassassin related (altho i do use it on my > mail server). I just got this email and i am wondering if this is just a > case of someone using my email address or did someone send this email > via my mail server? > The message presumably origi

Questionable email

2007-01-28 Thread carnold5
Hello all! This is not spamassassin related (altho i do use it on my mail server). I just got this email and i am wondering if this is just a case of someone using my email address or did someone send this email via my mail server? Here is the email Your message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] was blocked by

Re: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, John D. Hardin wrote: Please don't ask SA to become an antivirus or attachment file type security policy enforcement tool. There are already very effective tools to do perform those tasks. We run only linux here, so I ignore Microsoft virii and the like. But, when I get

user_pref

2007-01-28 Thread tom
Is there something of tutorial on how to use the scores and the user_pref database? I'll assume that the search pattern is approximately /usr/share/ spamassassin/*.cf followed by the database '@GLOBAL' and so one to get the specific values. I'm not sure it's even working right now... X-Spa

RE: Re: Drug spam, some caught some not - none caught by drug rules

2007-01-28 Thread Tim Boyer
One thing I've noticed is that Polyakov is starting to obfuscate the URL. What would normally be caught because it's in the Spamhaus SBL is getting missed because of this: Good day, Viazzgra $1, 80 Ciazzlis $3, 00 Levizztra $3, 35 http://www.printeryml.*com ( Important ! Remove "*" ) -- T

Re: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread John D. Hardin
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: >The past couple of days has seen the arrival of a new mutant > species of spam: the empty message with a Windows .exe attachment > that is base64 encoded. SpamAssassin is giving them scores of 0.0. Please don't ask SA to become an antivirus or attachm

Re: FuzzyOCR not hitting on this at all Fwd: LOG! nuclear defendant

2007-01-28 Thread Robert Nicholson
Well I cannot see why for myself can I? I mean in this case it's simply not matching any of the words when they are clearly visible. On Jan 27, 2007, at 8:16 PM, René Berber wrote: Robert Nicholson wrote: Fuzzy OCR isn't getting any hits on this mail. Anybody know why? [snip] You can see

Re: pyzor

2007-01-28 Thread Ed Kasky
At 01:50 AM Sunday, 1/28/2007, Rodney Richison wrote -=> Is pyzor down? I keep getting timeout, can not do a pyzor ping etc.. Is this safe to use? I can at least "pyzor ping" it. Course, pyzor discover will break it again... :) 82.94.255.100:24441 $ pyzor ping 82.94.255.100:24441 (200,

RE: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With your help the amount of spam getting past the various > filters in my > inbox (and that of my fiancee) has dropped dramatically. I appreciate > learning from all of you. > >The past couple of days has seen the arrival of a new mutant s

RE: Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Rich Shepard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >With your help the amount of spam getting past the various > filters in my > inbox (and that of my fiancee) has dropped dramatically. I appreciate > learning from all of you. > >The past couple of days has seen the arrival of a new mutant s

Ideas to Identify Base64-encoded Spam?

2007-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
With your help the amount of spam getting past the various filters in my inbox (and that of my fiancee) has dropped dramatically. I appreciate learning from all of you. The past couple of days has seen the arrival of a new mutant species of spam: the empty message with a Windows .exe attachme

Re: Should I use greylisting

2007-01-28 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
Adding my 0.2€ to the discussion... I use qgreylist, which enables us to (if properly configured) block whole /24 networks instead of single hosts. Of course, I'm using qmail, so this is a qmail solution. I've successfully integrated greylisting with A/V scanning and SA processing in the incomi

Re: Should I use greylisting

2007-01-28 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
Mike Jackson escreveu: Until the spammers build in retry into their bots, I'm a firm believer of greylisting. They have. I'm a sys admin at a major hosting provider, and I've seen it in action on at least one customer's box who was using greylisting. Considering spammers have near-infinite

Re: Botnet 0.7 syslog entry: Use of uninitialized value

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Yves Goergen wrote: Hi, I have installed Botnet 0.7 from the previous announcements on this list. This is a syslog entry I got today (and maybe already before): Jan 28 09:01:04 mond spamd[12174]: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm line 564, line 93. Is

Re: cbl RBL (RESOLVED)

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Thomas Bolioli wrote: Anyone with ideas, they would be greatly appreciated but right now I need to determine if it is SA that is having issues with the lookups or are the accounts screwed up in some way. bind does not seem to be throttled either so the volume of queries should not be the issue

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:52:29PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: /etc/procmail and it is fired off with a user .forward file "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #tpblists". Still looking into Net::DNS. A few ideas. First, do DROPPRIVS=yes if you haven'

Re: Hmm - a server I manage is triggering Botnet

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
John Rudd wrote: If you think there is a case where Botnet breaks down for multiple/virtual mail domains, where DNS and rDNS are properly set up, put your money where your mouth is and give a real world example. Give the IP address(es), and the mail domains that go with them that you think wi

Botnet 0.7 syslog entry: Use of uninitialized value

2007-01-28 Thread Yves Goergen
Hi, I have installed Botnet 0.7 from the previous announcements on this list. This is a syslog entry I got today (and maybe already before): Jan 28 09:01:04 mond spamd[12174]: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm line 564, line 93. Is that a problem? --

pyzor

2007-01-28 Thread Rodney Richison
Is pyzor down? I keep getting timeout, can not do a pyzor ping etc.. Is this safe to use? I can at least "pyzor ping" it. Course, pyzor discover will break it again... :) 82.94.255.100:24441 Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N. Broadway Cleveland, OK 7402