Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread hamann . w
>> Sietse van Zanen wrote: >> > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> > > Kelly Jones wrote: >> > > > To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in >> > > > real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that >> > > > does this? >> > > >> > > Postfix has exactly this built in

Re: dkim: lookup failed: DNS query timeout for _policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com

2007-03-10 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 March 2007 8:56 pm, John Andersen wrote: > > For some reason when this happens fetchmail will not delete the message > > after downloading it therefore it just sits there and get downloaded over > > and over again and prevents othere mail after it from being downloaded. > > Could th

Re: dkim: lookup failed: DNS query timeout for _policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com

2007-03-10 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 10 March 2007, Chris wrote: > I noticed this evening at 8:00pm that two of my hourly syslog snippets that > are emailed to me were missing. Looking at my mail via EL's webmail page I > see that they were still there and looking at my log in /var/log/syslog I saw > the above. Also goi

dkim: lookup failed: DNS query timeout for _policy._domainkey.joysticktowers.com

2007-03-10 Thread Chris
I noticed this evening at 8:00pm that two of my hourly syslog snippets that are emailed to me were missing. Looking at my mail via EL's webmail page I see that they were still there and looking at my log in /var/log/syslog I saw the above. Also going with this was Mar 10 19:08:53 localhost nam

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Don Ireland
In an ideal world, what you say would be true. All senders would have a valid address at which they receive replies. But like insisting that all incoming messages have valid sender accounts, you're preventing your users from receiving some valid messages. To include this in your scoring scheme

RE: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Randal, Phil
smf-sav is one sendmail milter which does this: http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html SAV v1.3.0 - console utility for e-Mail Sender Address Verification (also at http://smfs.sf.net/ ) Cheers, Phil -Original Message- From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 March 20

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Sietse van Zanen wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > Kelly Jones wrote: > > > To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in > > > real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that > > > does this? > > > > Postfix has exactly this built in. It's the > > "reject_u

Re: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread René Berber
Mário Gamito wrote: [snip] > [30747] info: rules: meta test DIGEST_MULTIPLE has undefined dependency > 'DCC_CHECK' > [30747] info: rules: meta test SARE_SPEC_PROLEO_M2a has dependency > 'MIME_QP_LONG_LINE' with a zero score > [30747] info: rules: meta test SARE_HEAD_SUBJ_RAND has undefined > depend

Re: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, Thank you for your answer. What are the details of that score? If you want more detail, save your complete message for instance as test.eml, and run: spamassassin -x -t -D FuzzyOcr < test.eml - [30747] info: rules: meta

Re: [OT]Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread René Berber
Kelly Jones wrote: > To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in > real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does > this? [snip] There are many milters that do exactly that (example http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-sender/). Of course milters

Re: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread René Berber
Mário Gamito wrote: > I've just installed FuzzyOCR and it's really a great tool. > Awesome. > > I think it just has a glitch (maybe may bad, that's why i'm asking). > It gives very low scores to the messages. > > I sent this testing e-mail with this picture: > http://www.gamito.org/teste.jpg >

RE: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Yes, but you don't always want to reject such mails. NDR's, automated mails etc are often send from empty or non-existent e-mail addresses. You will want to score points, like other SA tests. Maybe a good idea to write such a test, as it doesn't exist yet. I know nagios has some tools that can

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Kelly Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in > real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does > this? Postfix has exactly this built in. It's the "reject_unverified_sender" restriction. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des

Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-10 Thread Kelly Jones
To fight spam, I want to validate the address (not necessarily in real-time) of the a given email sender. Is there a Unix tool that does this? The basics are simple: to validate "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", I connect to the MX record of wnonline.net and go as far as "RCPT TO" as follows: host -t mx wno

Re: Make Bayes more efficient?

2007-03-10 Thread Mike Jackson
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I've taken most of them and done some other tuning; I'll have to wait and see how much things have improved. If they haven't improved much, I'll be back on Monday. :) I'm a little late to the party, and this is sorta off-topic, but you may want to check this

Re: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, Thank you for your answer. What does a "spamassassin --lint -D fuzzyocr [EMAIL PROTECTED] cur]# spamassassin --lint -D fuzzyocr < 1173546266.26462.mail.telbit.pt\,S\=82421\:2\, [26671] info: rules: meta test DIGEST_MULTIPLE has undefined dependency 'DCC_CHECK' [26671] info: rules: meta

RE: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Well, start with carefully reading the documentation. It will give you better understanding. What does a "spamassassin --lint -D fuzzyocr FuzzyOC does not score messages, it scores images. If your message got a score of 6, that's probably due to the auto_disable setting of FuzzyOCR. FuzzyOCR

Re: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, Sietse van Zanen wrote: FuzzyOC does not score messages, it scores images. If your message got a score of 6, that's probably due to the auto_disable setting of FuzzyOCR. FuzzyOCR doesn't run when a message reaches that score. This saves resources. To debug, make the auto_diable scor 100

Re: spamd child processing timeout

2007-03-10 Thread Sandeep Agarwal
On 3/7/07, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/2/2007 2:50 AM, Sandeep Agarwal wrote: > any suggestions how to fix this or the reason for this. It's probably being caused by bayes expiries. Disable auto expiry and do the expiries via a cron job. Daryl thanks Daryl, the proble

RE: FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Sietse van Zanen
FuzzyOC does not score messages, it scores images. If your message got a score of 6, that's probably due to the auto_disable setting of FuzzyOCR. FuzzyOCR doesn't run when a message reaches that score. This saves resources. To debug, make the auto_diable scor 100 or so. -Sietse From: Mário

FuzzyOCR gives very low scores

2007-03-10 Thread Mário Gamito
Hi, I've just installed FuzzyOCR and it's really a great tool. Awesome. I think it just has a glitch (maybe may bad, that's why i'm asking). It gives very low scores to the messages. I sent this testing e-mail with this picture: http://www.gamito.org/teste.jpg All the words are in FuzzyOCR.wor