Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: What could be new in "spam filtering" as such in 2003? The Patent Office is manned by monkeys. Worse, they are ignorant monkeys. Have you seen the patent on swinging? Yes, as in the playground/backyard swing. -- Sent from my iPhone

RE: How to attach spam messages as HTML instead of TXT

2009-07-15 Thread Fenton, Jason (interVations)
Thank you everyone for your feedback/suggestions. We will try what Karsten is suggesting and post our results here so future viewers of this post can see if it works out. Many thanks, Jason Fenton -Original Message- From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:guent...@rudersport.de] Sent: Thurs

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, MrGibbage wrote: I just got one a few minutes ago that had a link like this: www[dot]da39[dot]com and yes, that is a "quote". They actually obfuscated the . with [dot] Anyone ready to tackle that one? The link below has been

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-15 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, MrGibbage wrote: I wonder if the spammers are reading this forum. That seemed awful fast. Of course they are. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholic #11174 pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org key: 0xB8732E79

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 17:28 -0700, Derek Harding wrote: > Benny Pedersen wrote: > > submit it at there page, then its will be listed in sa, hopefully me :-) You haven't followed the uribl list recently. For a couple of days now, manually submitting URIs is disabled. Also, this is a literal [dot],

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, July 16, 2009 02:28, Derek Harding wrote: > But it's not a URI it's just some text. I don't see how SA is ever > going to submit that to any URIBL. no you need to submit, not have sa submit it, maybe future request to autosubmit, but this will properly turn down uribl.com even more, as

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Derek Harding
Benny Pedersen wrote: On Thu, July 16, 2009 02:14, MrGibbage wrote: uribl did not hit on any of the "real" uri's in the message. Not sure why you think they would have been triggered by the www[dot]da39[dot]com though. SA wouldn't have sent them that URI to even check, would it? Or am I mi

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, July 16, 2009 02:14, MrGibbage wrote: > > uribl did not hit on any of the "real" uri's in the message. > > Not sure why you think they would have been triggered by the > www[dot]da39[dot]com though. SA wouldn't have sent them that URI to even > check, would it? Or am I mistaken? > > Here

Re: matching the notorius www+aa11-com like spam?

2009-07-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, July 16, 2009 01:51, MrGibbage wrote: > > I just got one a few minutes ago that had a link like this: > www[dot]da39[dot]com > > and yes, that is a "quote". They actually obfuscated the . with [dot] > Anyone ready to tackle that one? if http://www.uribl.com/ is not down try -- xpoint

Re: Spamassassin rules in a mysql database

2009-07-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
> put any custom rules in the database, and modify the spamd? start > scripts to write the custom rules to flat files. modify your update > program to signal a spamd reload every time you modify the rules, or, > use unison. we use unison (not for our VPS spam clusters) but for > syncing flat file

Re: Spamassassin rules in a mysql database

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
Patrick Saweikis wrote: Has anyone had any experience trying to make spamassassin use a mysql database for it's ruleset instead of text files? We are planning on making our anti-spam solution redundant, and it would be nice to have this in a database instead of copying files around when we

Spamassassin rules in a mysql database

2009-07-15 Thread Patrick Saweikis
Has anyone had any experience trying to make spamassassin use a mysql database for it's ruleset instead of text files? We are planning on making our anti-spam solution redundant, and it would be nice to have this in a database instead of copying files around when we make changes.

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 15/07/09 4:11 PM, "Justin Mason" wrote: > Hi Damian -- > > Our first impression: somebody other than us is suing somebody other > than us about a matter that may be entirely unrelated to anything we > produce. Unless we have a specific reason to believe that a specific > patent is likely to

Re: FW by nimbostra...@courseclair.com : curtailer

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 21:50 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > for some minutes I have gotten a bunch of spams using: > > How to Satisfy a Woamn sexually - eLading Her Mind.www[dot]ku17[dot]net There's yet a human comprehensible obfuscation to come up with, which we've not seen years ago already. ;

Re: FW by nimbostra...@courseclair.com : curtailer

2009-07-15 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Michelle Konzack wrote: How to Satisfy a Woamn sexually - eLading Her Mind.www[dot]ku17[dot]net The "[dot]" is literal? I've updated my obfuscated-URI sandbox rules. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.orgFALaholi

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-07-15 16:00:13, schrieb Karsten Bräckelmann: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 06:34 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: > > >but quite a lot of spam gets through by using arbitrary addresses in the To > > >field and a 'good' address in the Envelope-to field. > > > > > >How can I rectify this? > > > > Why is y

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Mason
Hi Damian -- Our first impression: somebody other than us is suing somebody other than us about a matter that may be entirely unrelated to anything we produce. Unless we have a specific reason to believe that a specific patent is likely to be enforced against either us or a downstream user (and,

FW by nimbostra...@courseclair.com : curtailer

2009-07-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, for some minutes I have gotten a bunch of spams using: How to Satisfy a Woamn sexually - eLading Her Mind.www[dot]ku17[dot]net Argh! OK such crap was catched by some other procmail recipes, but it would be nice, ic SA could handel it Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Miche

Re: PerlRE Lookahead... problem

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:24 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > Please ignore. I use a generator. To avoid needless discussion of its > syntax, here are the actual rules from my generated .cf file... Actually, in this very rule, the negative look-ahead is useless and won't match the remaining part of

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: >> Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam >> filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup >> Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 pe

Re: PerlRE Lookahead... problem

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: body =~ /(?!www\.[a-z]{2,3}[0-9]{2,3}\.(com|net|org)) This is invalid. Please ignore. I use a generator. To avoid needless discussion of its syntax, here are the actual rules from my generated .cf file... body LOC_09061901 /(?!w

Re: PerlRE Lookahead... problem

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:53 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: > I recently posted a revised rule for detecting the [SNIPPED] spams > with a PerlRC "negative look-ahead assertion" (?!). > > body =~ /(?!www\.[a-z]{2,3}[0-9]{2,3}\.(com|net|org)) This is invalid. > www[^a-z0-9]{1,9}([a-z]{2,3}

Re: use save_pattern_hits to debug Mail::SpamAssassin?

2009-07-15 Thread RW
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:39:56 +0100 (GMT+01:00) peter pilsl wrote: > > I have some serious problems with my Spam-Detection. I use a milter > wrapped around Mail::SpamAssassin and occassionaly a Mail slips > through with a quite low spamscore despite the fact that a later > check gives it a high s

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person reseller) compared to the others named. Any opinions

Re: sharing the bayes DB?

2009-07-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 15:12 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > google found me nothing authoritative on this, so I > > figured asking is the way to go... > > > > Is it good/bad/etc to share out a MySQL Bayes DB from a > > central host to multiple machines running spamd? > > It is good. ACK. And t

Re: sharing the bayes DB?

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please do SUBSCRIBE to a mailing-list before posting. You'll miss replies otherwise. See some archives for answers. http://markmail.org/thread/qqz66sriqktg5tkx On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 16:08 -0300, Michael 'Moose' Dinn wrote: > google found me nothing authoritative on this, so I figured asking is

Re: Header Layout

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please do SUBSCRIBE to a mailing-list before posting. You'll miss replies otherwise. See some archives for answers. http://markmail.org/thread/iv2qbtqie7szvy5a On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 16:13 +0100, Steve wrote: > This is very pretty; [...] > Can we change the header layout with SA to format it sim

Re: How to attach spam messages as HTML instead of TXT

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Please do SUBSCRIBE to a mailing-list before posting. You'll miss replies otherwise. http://markmail.org/thread/ijbolyz67uj4ijw5 On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 18:42 -0700, Fenton, Jason (interVations) wrote: > Is there a way to set SpamAssassin to save and attached the original > message as HTML instea

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 06:21 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:58 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > (c) If all else fails, do provide all custom settings relevant to the > > subject at hand. And of course, a raw sample [2] or two, showing all > > headers unmunged. > > > >

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 06:34 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: > >but quite a lot of spam gets through by using arbitrary addresses in the To > >field and a 'good' address in the Envelope-to field. > > > >How can I rectify this? > > Why is your MTA not verifying addresses, and rejecting mail to non > valid

Re: sa-compile: resize not found

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 14:38, Michael Scheidell wrote: > 'them'? > > men in black? > > freebsd? or CPAN maintainer of Term:ReadKey? Up to you. ;) I'd recommend the latter. --j. > ps, out of office messages, read receipt and FPS on vabounce.  OOO messages, > and RR messages cannot be whiteliste

Re: sa-compile: resize not found

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
'them'? men in black? freebsd? or CPAN maintainer of Term:ReadKey? ps, out of office messages, read receipt and FPS on vabounce. OOO messages, and RR messages cannot be whitelisted by the sending mta since they never include the original message. I think I started some patches on it, but O

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:14 PM 7/14/2009, you wrote: No doubt this has been discussed before and apologies for any repetition, but I can't find the answer in the archive. I have set SA to reject all mail that isn't addressed to specific addresses, No, SpamAssassin isn't rejecting the mail, something els

Re: sa-compile: resize not found

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Mason
the progress indicators use Term::ReadKey, which (looking at its source) appears to call "resize" under certain circumstances. you should probably file a bug with them On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 14:28, Michael Scheidell wrote: > wondering.. > > am I missing something?  'resize: not found' > > go

sa-compile: resize not found

2009-07-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
wondering.. am I missing something? 'resize: not found' google didn't find anything. this is on all freebsd systems. happens on 32bit (i386) version 6.4, 64bit (amd64), 6.4 and 7.1 re2c version 0.13.5 sa-compile > /dev/null [5449] info: generic: base extraction starting. this can take a

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 13:58 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > (c) If all else fails, do provide all custom settings relevant to the > subject at hand. And of course, a raw sample [2] or two, showing all > headers unmunged. > > guenther > > [1] Do not post them directly to the list, upload it

Report header (was: Re: [OT] lottery spams)

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:30 -0400, Daniel Schaefer wrote: > > > * 4.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% > > > * 1.2 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) > > > * 2.9 KAM_LOTTO1 Likely to be a e-Lotto Scam Email > > > > Is your header format

Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5

2009-07-15 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Message original Sujet : Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5 De : Dan Schaefer Dan Schaefer wrote: Please, can someone feed http://pastebin.ca/1495707 into spamassassin 3.3.0 and see how it works ? Hi! pts rule name description

Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5

2009-07-15 Thread Dan Schaefer
Dan Schaefer wrote: Hi! Please, can someone feed http://pastebin.ca/1495707 into spamassassin 3.3.0 and see how it works ? Many thanks for your help Eddy pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 HTML_MESSAG

Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5

2009-07-15 Thread Dan Schaefer
Hi! Please, can someone feed http://pastebin.ca/1495707 into spamassassin 3.3.0 and see how it works ? Many thanks for your help Eddy pts rule name description -- -- 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTM

Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5

2009-07-15 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Message original Sujet : Re: URI-DNSBL problem with spamassassin 3.2.5 Date : 2009-07-14 11:07 but Ido not find any timing.log file on my current directory or anywhere on my system!! Did I missed something ? I doubt all the necessary hooks are in place for that plugin to work

Re: [OT] lottery spams

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel Schaefer
* 4.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% * 1.2 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) * 2.9 KAM_LOTTO1 Likely to be a e-Lotto Scam Email Is your header formatted like this in Thunderbird or are you using a different MUA? If Thunderbir

Re: [OT] lottery spams

2009-07-15 Thread Daniel Schaefer
* 4.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% * 1.2 ADVANCE_FEE_2 Appears to be advance fee fraud (Nigerian 419) * 2.9 KAM_LOTTO1 Likely to be a e-Lotto Scam Email Is your header formatted like this in Thunderbird or are you using a different MUA? I

Re: lottery spams

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 08:36 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: [ munged, pasted lottery spam body removed ] What the...?! You mean the general rules, chanted over and over again, to NOT dump spam here, don't apply to you? You've been around long enough, to know how to behave. Or, well, maybe /you/ don'

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 23:14 -0700, Herb Eppel wrote: > No doubt this has been discussed before and apologies for any repetition, but > I can't find the answer in the archive. > > I have set SA to reject all mail that isn't addressed to specific addresses, SA does not reject, bounce, deliver nor d

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 02:32 -0700, HerbEppel wrote: [] > Danke für Deine Antwort and thanks for the Envelope-to explanation, but I > thought I had already set SA to accept only mails to actual mailboxes and > I'm not quite sure where else to look (and I'm not sure what MTA is, sorry). "Mail Tr

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread SM
Hi Damian, The content of this message should not be taken as advice. Please seek proper legal advice. At 11:59 14-07-2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It's odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solu

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread HerbEppel
Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 23:14 -0700, HerbEppel wrote: >> No doubt this has been discussed before and apologies for any repetition, >> but >> I can't find the answer in the archive. >> >> I have set SA to reject all mail that isn't addressed to specific >> addresses,

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 11:59 -0700, Damian Mendoza wrote: > Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding > spam filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company > (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person > reseller) compared to the others

Re: Spam gets through via Envelope

2009-07-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 23:14 -0700, HerbEppel wrote: > No doubt this has been discussed before and apologies for any repetition, but > I can't find the answer in the archive. > > I have set SA to reject all mail that isn't addressed to specific addresses, > but quite a lot of spam gets through by u

Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Damian Mendoza
Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It's odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person reseller) compared to the others named. Any opinions or feedback? http://www.faqs.org/patents/

Re: How to attach spam messages as HTML instead of TXT

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Mason
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 22:04, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Did you know...? > > Emails like yours are what we're trying to block on a daily basis. This is distinctly unhelpful. Please be courteous when dealing with public mailing list inquiries, especially when you have no relation to the Apache SpamAs