spamassassin

2007-07-11 Thread Souza Simbota
Hello, I have noticed some spam emails coming through for the past 7 days. Am running spamassassin 3.2.0-2 with Exim 4.63-17 on a Debian machine. I run sa-updates every 3 hours. I also noticed there is a new version on spamassassin but it still an unstable version on the Debian mirrors I use and

Re: PDF Decoder - Show of concept

2007-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:00:33AM +0200, arni wrote: > I put this together within an around an hour to show how its possible to > cope with pdf spam - the script compeltely decodes the pdf attachment > into text and images and reattaches them. Like this the text is fully > available to all mean

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread jdow
From: "Phil Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Yet Another Ninja wrote: On 7/12/2007 12:50 AM, Phil Barnett wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote: >> There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening >> something new ( private access, invit

PDF Decoder - Show of concept

2007-07-11 Thread arni
Hi, what i'm going to show you is purely show or prove of concept - there is no way you should use the code in a productional environment, because it most likely has exploitable bugs as well as inacuracies that will not be able to parse all mail properly. I put this together within an around

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Meng Weng Wong
On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: What are the websites to get them RBL blacklisted? How does one nominate them to a place of infamy? I am tempted to bring up a very simple service backed by Amazon AWS, maybe using SQS or S3, to accept blacklist submissions from Spam

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Jerry Durand
At 04:00 PM 7/11/2007, Yet Another Ninja wrote: hey great ideas - who volunteers to setup the Torrent stuff and manage it all ? I wouldn't know how to do that, but would be willing to offer some of my tiny server and bandwidth to the cause. Current system is OS X Server, but will be ported

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > On 7/12/2007 12:50 AM, Phil Barnett wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote: > >> There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening > >> something new ( private access, invite only, acl by ip, etc), in hopes >

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Hampton
Phil Barnett wrote: > How about releasing the ruleset via torrent or something similar. Anything > that you could do to distribute the load and location would make a ddos > attack less effective. While there might not be a lot of people on this list > who can use their server to take on the ent

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
Phil Barnett wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Philip Prindeville wrote: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: No joy. How long ago did you report it? Which time? It happens regularly, and it's been going on over a month.

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 7/12/2007 12:50 AM, Phil Barnett wrote: On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote: There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening something new ( private access, invite only, acl by ip, etc), in hopes to avoid ddos and provide better services, more requent rule update

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Philip Prindeville wrote: > Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: > > Philip Prindeville wrote: > No joy. > >>> > >>> How long ago did you report it? > >> > >> Which time? It happens regularly, and it's been going on over a month. > > > > Ok. That changes things, but

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Phil Barnett
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, SARE Webmaster wrote: > There has been discussion of taking down the public site, opening > something new ( private access, invite only, acl by ip, etc), in hopes > to avoid ddos and provide better services, more requent rule updates, > and so on.     We are trying our be

3.2 timeouts

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, I'm curious to know if there's a bug of some sort with 3.2- These are the symptoms I experience I get spamd time-outs all over the place, and when I do a netstat I have dozens of connections to port 783 in the FIN_WAIT stage and it just hangs till they time out- I had this problem

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: No joy. How long ago did you report it? Which time? It happens regularly, and it's been going on over a month. Ok. That changes things, but you didn't say anything in your post about it going on for a month I note a

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Dallas Engelken
Robert - eLists wrote: Praise God Almighty! We were able to spend more than a few seconds and many click on the rulesemporium website. Awesome. As it says, was it moved over to vr.org ??? A couple years ago... yup. Which is now netactuate.com -- Dallas Engelken [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread SARE Webmaster
Ken A wrote: Mike Grau wrote: A little misinformation tossed to spammers isn't bad here. I hear there's a mirror in Afghanistan too. And by all means.. when you browse the site.. click the stop button in your browser between it's loading each image on each page, then click the start button

Re: FP | SARE_BEASTUD

2007-07-11 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Otto TheBusDriver wrote: I'm seeing False Positives on the rule SARE_BEASTUD for a message that we are receiving. This rule is matching on the following text "be a studio". "I look forward to reading many more books, and when my voice goes, I will continue to be a studio monitor and technician.

FP | SARE_BEASTUD

2007-07-11 Thread Otto TheBusDriver
I'm seeing False Positives on the rule SARE_BEASTUD for a message that we are receiving. This rule is matching on the following text "be a studio". "I look forward to reading many more books, and when my voice goes, I will continue to be a studio monitor and technician." How does one go about g

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Philip Prindeville wrote: No joy. How long ago did you report it? Which time? It happens regularly, and it's been going on over a month. Ok. That changes things, but you didn't say anything in your post about it going on for a month -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Ho

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: We're seeing a lot of unwanted attempts to relay traffic through our site by Orange.fr, and we've reported this to their Abuse contact as well as their upstream provider (rain.fr): Jul 11 11:30:37 mail mimedefang.pl[31610]: relay:

Re: OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
Philip Prindeville wrote: We're seeing a lot of unwanted attempts to relay traffic through our site by Orange.fr, and we've reported this to their Abuse contact as well as their upstream provider (rain.fr): Jul 11 11:30:37 mail mimedefang.pl[31610]: relay: bad tld orange.fr Jul 11 11:30:37 mai

Re: PDFInfo plugin with SA 3.1.7

2007-07-11 Thread Dallas Engelken
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 14:49 +0530, Suhas Ingale wrote: Has anyone tried running PDFInfo plugin with 3.1.7 version? No, finally got it working yesterday evening using 3.2.1, but the initial results are underwhelming. Almost 100% overlap with TVD_SPACE_RATIO.

OT: Motivating good behavior from negligent ISP's

2007-07-11 Thread Philip Prindeville
We're seeing a lot of unwanted attempts to relay traffic through our site by Orange.fr, and we've reported this to their Abuse contact as well as their upstream provider (rain.fr): Jul 11 11:30:37 mail mimedefang.pl[31610]: relay: bad tld orange.fr Jul 11 11:30:37 mail mimedefang.pl[31610]: fil

Re: Random spamc crashes (problem solved)

2007-07-11 Thread eventhorizon5
We found the problem. The machine we're using is an LDAP client for all ~8000 users, and it seems that spamc/spamd is failing if the username is not cached in nscd - simply typing "ls -l /home" solves it temporarily until the cache timeout, since all objects are then cached. We fixed this by run

Re: General question about SA default ruleset

2007-07-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:37:16PM +0200, Fabien GARZIANO wrote: > I can't get nowhere, Wiki, FAQ, mail archive, this thing. I'm looking > for a kind of "dictionnary" providing an explanation for each rule of > the default ruleset provided with spamassassin ... There is no such thing, but we welco

Changing scores/rules on the fly when calling SpamAssassin from MailScanner

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Hampton
Hi I am looking at writing an extension to MailScanner so that we can allow different settings to be applied. My primary objective is to allow different username to be used for bayes. If I am able to achieve scores and and rules as well this would be a bonus. I have mocked something up which us

General question about SA default ruleset

2007-07-11 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
Hi Folks, I can't get nowhere, Wiki, FAQ, mail archive, this thing. I'm looking for a kind of "dictionnary" providing an explanation for each rule of the default ruleset provided with spamassassin ... Sorry for my poor english. Let's have an exemple : RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP : In my .cf files, I only go

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Grau
If your IP is blocked, for whatever reason, perhaps a proxy would help you until your IP is unblocked. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rulesemporium.com%2F&langpair=fr%7Cen I bet the 'donate' link would help :-) Ken Okay, done. We'll see if it helps. Mike

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Ken A
Mike Grau wrote: A little misinformation tossed to spammers isn't bad here. I hear there's a mirror in Afghanistan too. And by all means.. when you browse the site.. click the stop button in your browser between it's loading each image on each page, then click the start button again. It's t

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Mike Grau
A little misinformation tossed to spammers isn't bad here. I hear there's a mirror in Afghanistan too. And by all means.. when you browse the site.. click the stop button in your browser between it's loading each image on each page, then click the start button again. It's tricky, but if you

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Ken A
jdow wrote: From: "Ken A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SARE Webmaster wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Loren Wilton wrote: Mike Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/09/07 5:15 PM >>> On 07/09/2007 04:01 PM the voices made Joe Zitnik write: I can't get here: http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules Is rulesemporium

Re: Debian and sa-update

2007-07-11 Thread Gary V
I'm currently using 3.1.7 version as I upgraded the server to Debian 4.0. How can I be sure Spamassassin and Amavis are using the updated rulesets ? Thanks for you help. Run amavisd-new in debug-sa mode for a minute (after stopping it): amavisd-new stop amavisd-new debug-sa Gary V __

Mails are not regarded as spam.

2007-07-11 Thread Diptanjan
Hello All, I have set the German rules and its updating from a chennel file... however, mails are not regarded as spam because the bayes check rates it as non-spam, giving a high (-)tive score X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_DNS_FOR_FROM, ZMIde_STOCKBLOCK1

Re: Debian and sa-update

2007-07-11 Thread Adam Wilbraham
"echo test | spamassassin -D" It'll give a load of debug output, scan through that and look at the paths of the files its using, there will be something like this to confirm it: [9392] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001003/updates_spamassassin_org/50_scores.cf" for included file [9

Re: Spam log file

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Sg wrote: > Hi > > Where is the spam log file located? On windows? Probably nowhere. I don't think Windows has a syslogd. On *nix, spamd will log to the mail facility, so it will end up where-ever syslogd is configured to write that facility, generally /var/log/maillog. If you're just invoking "s

Re: PDFInfo plugin with SA 3.1.7

2007-07-11 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 14:49 +0530, Suhas Ingale wrote: > Has anyone tried running PDFInfo plugin with 3.1.7 version? > No, finally got it working yesterday evening using 3.2.1, but the initial results are underwhelming. Almost 100% overlap with TVD_SPACE_RATIO. Only one miss: sudo grep GMD_PDF

Bayes - one database per user or one for everybody?

2007-07-11 Thread Michał Jęczalik
Hello, I'm migrating to SQL Bayes storage method. I have plenty of email accounts. By this time, all of them had their own database in their home directories. Such approach unfortunately consumes a lot of disk space, so now I'm thinking about bayes_sql_override_username option, which a

RE: bayes directory

2007-07-11 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
From: Jari Fredriksson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 7/10/2007 15:22 To: Jean-Paul Natola; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: bayes directory >>Bayes needs 200 ham & 200 spam to work. >>You can read it's statistics by command "sa-learn --dump mag

Re: Debian and sa-update

2007-07-11 Thread Emmanuel Lesouef
Sounds great. I'm currently using 3.1.7 version as I upgraded the server to Debian 4.0. How can I be sure Spamassassin and Amavis are using the updated rulesets ? Thanks for you help. Le mercredi 11 juillet 2007 à 10:12 +0100, Adam Wilbraham a écrit : > You shouldn't need to add anything, it wi

PDFInfo plugin with SA 3.1.7

2007-07-11 Thread Suhas Ingale
Hello, I am trying to run PDFInfo plugin with SA 3.1.7. SA registers the plugin successfully but does not scan the PDFs in the emails. According to Dallas Engelken (Creator of PDFInfo) , The MIME parser in SA is not seeing a PDF attachment on this message. Has anyone tried running PDFInfo p

RE: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! Wouldn't you say the DDOS protection theory and/or implementation is broken if topology and routing is not taken into account? You know, we are not posting to this list to rag on them, we just wanna be able to hit the website for info when necessary and without being tossed in the crapper

Re: Debian and sa-update

2007-07-11 Thread Adam Wilbraham
You shouldn't need to add anything, it will pay attention to them automatically once they've downloaded. However, make sure you're using a new enough version of SpamAssassin that supports sa-update - the version in the standard Sarge repository doesn't, you'll have to get 3.1.7 from Backports. On

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread ram
> As I said, we use a trick that makes the fetches work. It does not get > us tarred by the DoS filter. So access to the web site is really easy. > I also check "when I feel like it" rather than hourly as I've heard some > "people" work. Weekly is more than enough unless you see a notification > h

Re: Spam log file

2007-07-11 Thread jdow
From: "Sg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Where is the spam log file located? It varies. It seems to be in /var/log/ "somewhere". For RH/FC it seems to be in /var/log/maillog*. I hope that helps. {^_^}

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread jdow
From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: From: "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Loren Wilton wrote: Mike Grau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/09/07 5:15 PM >>> On 07/09/2007 04:01 PM the voices made Joe Zitnik write: I can't get here: http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules Is

Debian and sa-update

2007-07-11 Thread Emmanuel Lesouef
Hi, I'm planning to use sa-update for my SA installation to be updated. I ran sa-update and it downloaded the updated rulesets in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007 along with some other files. In the previous directory, I found some configuration files : updates_spamassassin_org.cf which point to