Some benchmarks (Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin)

2009-08-01 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 01:34:34PM +0300, Henrik K wrote: > > That reminds me, gotta test how SA runs on a Sun T5240 with 16 core "128 > cores".. Well not that impressive for SA, price/speed wise.. T2+ 2x8x1.4Ghz, 144 msgs/sec @ 128 processes AMD X4 4x3Ghz, 43 msgs/sec @ 4 processes Note that th

Re: Reply to:

2009-08-01 Thread LuKreme
On 1-Aug-2009, at 06:14, twofers wrote: Any ideas on preventing or minimizing this type of spam? Yep, I reduced the number of emails being processed on my mail server by about 40% by enabling a backscatter RBL. postfix/main.cf: smtpd_data_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining, rej

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:34:04 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > Of course it's blacklisted, but would you care to explain how > > rejecting mail from 59.184.51.13 helps, when the backscatter > > doesn't come from there? > > According to the OP, that's the IP he received the message from. No, he

Re: Network Tests / Rule Files Directories

2009-08-01 Thread Stefan Malte Schumacher
> score RAZOR2_CECK 5.0 Yes, I have seen my mistake (after sending the email). But the problem with DCC persists and in that case I was even able to spell a simple three-word-rule correctly. I am going to post another example with DCC as soon as possible. Bye Stefan -- View this message in c

Re: Network Tests / Rule Files Directories

2009-08-01 Thread Stefan Malte Schumacher
>> I have tried adding the appropriate lines, which I believe should be >> "score DCC_CHECK 5.0" if I want all emails which "pass" the DCC-Check >> to get 5 points. Unfortunately this is not working, neither for DCC >> nor for Razor. >Yes, that should do it. >Evidence that it's not working? Show

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 20:44:27 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:33:40 -0400 > > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > >> The backscatter would not have been received, since the sender is > >> on a number of RBLs. > > > > It's the IP address of the botnet PC that's on the RBLs, the > >

Re: SA-learn (spamassassin)

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:42:21 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:13 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > > And the last problem: When I get mail with sign autolearn=ham so I > > tried type sa-learn --spam --file mail. When I got the same mail so > > spamassassin mark t

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:33:40 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> The backscatter would not have been received, since the sender is on >> a number of RBLs. > > It's the IP address of the botnet PC that's on the RBLs, the backscatter > doesn't come from there, it comes from the recipients of the sp

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:33:40 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > The backscatter would not have been received, since the sender is on > a number of RBLs. It's the IP address of the botnet PC that's on the RBLs, the backscatter doesn't come from there, it comes from the recipients of the spam. See: ht

Re: Razor, spamassassin - network test

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Back on-list. I'm not a personal help-line. On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:40 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote privately: > I tried it without --lint just "spamassassin --lint -D razor2" so the ^^^^ You did not. > command line freeze(dont work). O

Re: SA-learn (spamassassin)

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:13 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > And the last problem: When I get mail with sign autolearn=ham so I tried > type sa-learn --spam --file mail. When I got the same mail so spamassassin > mark the mail again autolearn=ham. How is it possible when I learn bayes by >

Re: Razor, spamassassin - network test

2009-08-01 Thread monolit
I tried it without --lint just "spamassassin --lint -D razor2" so the command line freeze(dont work). > When I use spamassassin -t -D razor2 < /tmp/spam > so I dont get the hash and so on but content analysis details...bayes > clasification and so on. I expected message like : debug: Razor is a

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:04:35 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 >> > "Terry Carmen" wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> > I have received many emails in the last hour which were >> >> > undeliverable, NOT sent by me. >> >> > It seems someone is forging usernames in m

Re: Razor, spamassassin - network test

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 16:10 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > Hi I need help with antispam. I use spamassassin with razor. And when I test > spamassassin --lint -D razor2 then I get result that razor2 : test local > only, skipping razor. I need test razor in connection to the internet. I > d

SA-learn (spamassassin)

2009-08-01 Thread monolit
Hello, I found out the following information: my SPAMD daemon is running under root. But I have in master.cf(postfix configuration file) the following lines: Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format # of the file, see the master(5) manual page (command: "man 5 master")

Razor, spamassassin - network test

2009-08-01 Thread monolit
Hi I need help with antispam. I use spamassassin with razor. And when I test spamassassin --lint -D razor2 then I get result that razor2 : test local only, skipping razor. I need test razor in connection to the internet. I dont know how it do. Can you advise me? I find out from spamassassin web th

Re: Reply to:

2009-08-01 Thread mouss
twofers a écrit : > So what makes a spammer want to use a valid email address as a return or > reply-to address to catch all the undeliverable, failure and bounced > email that occures when sending UBE spam. > this is to beat those who use "sender verification"/sender callout/(whatever you name

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Um, Linda.. I'm pretty positive Justin is Irish, not American. Linda Walsh wrote: > It's an American thing. Things that are normal speech for UK blokes, get > Americans all disturbed. > > Funny, used to be the other way around...but well...times change. > > > > Justin Mason wrote: >> On Fri, Jul

Re: OT: Nehelam's New HT ability....

2009-08-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Per Jessen wrote: Not sure about that - AFAICT, it's exactly the same technology. (I haven't done in exhaustive tests though). Supposedly 'Very' different (I hope)... 1) You can't turn it off in the BIOS 2) claim of benefit from increased cache (FALSE), (have older 2x2 Dual C

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:04:35 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 > > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > >> > >> > I have received many emails in the last hour which were > >> > undeliverable, NOT sent by me. > >> > It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain > >>

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, August 1, 2009 14:19, Dennis German wrote: > I have received many emails in the last hour which were undeliverable, > NOT sent by me. backscattering, block this ip, and send a mail to the postmaster, whois ip might say what email there system accept non existsing users, or some other b

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 > "Terry Carmen" wrote: > >> >> > I have received many emails in the last hour which were >> > undeliverable, NOT sent by me. >> > It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain >> > Real-World-Systems.com as the "from:" and the "return-path:" . >> > >> >

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread RW
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:02:54 -0400 "Terry Carmen" wrote: > > > I have received many emails in the last hour which were > > undeliverable, NOT sent by me. > > It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain > > Real-World-Systems.com as the "from:" and the "return-path:" . > > > > Received-Fro

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-08-01 Thread Theodore Heise
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Curtis LaMasters wrote: ...I can't tell you how frustrating it is to have to click on each email in a thread to read its content. This caught my eye, and I wonder if there may be a correlation to user preference. I avoid using the mouse wherever possible, p

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 23:56 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > May I point out, that while you may find the language crude -- it isn't > language that would violate FTC standards in that in used any of the > 7 or so 'unmentionable words'... It's not about words on their own -- it's about how they are be

Re: blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have received many emails in the last hour which were undeliverable, > NOT sent by me. > It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain Real-World-Systems.com > as the "from:" and the "return-path:" . > > Received-From-MTA: dns;triband-mum-59.184.51.13.mtnl.net.in > > > I have sent a mess

Spam Humor

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
Awesome, just received a German spam, obviously *trying* to advertise a porn site. The way they blew up really made me laugh -- loud. :) "Im World Wide Web unter www.example.com kannst du dir alles ansehen, dabei deinen Schw[...]" Yes, they really did use *that* URI. Identified spam, all I'm

Re: X-Spam-Report

2009-08-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> > > Is there a directive to change the way X-Spam-Report formats in the > > > header of mail? > > > Currently I get a single X-Spam-Report line wrapped; > > > > > > X-Spam-Report: * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via > > > SMTP * 2.2 HIDE_WIN_STATUS RAW: Javascript to hide

blacklisting a forger

2009-08-01 Thread Dennis German
I have received many emails in the last hour which were undeliverable, NOT sent by me. It seems someone is forging usernames in my domain Real-World-Systems.com as the "from:" and the "return-path:" . Received-From-MTA: dns;triband-mum-59.184.51.13.mtnl.net.in I have sent a message to ab...@mn

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2009-08-01 Thread twofers
So what makes a spammer want to use a valid email address as a return or reply-to address to catch all the undeliverable, failure and bounced email that occures when sending UBE spam.   Is there some legitimacy with spam detection on an email that contains a valid reply-to email address?   To me

Re: X-Spam-Report

2009-08-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 01.08.09 07:01, router backup wrote: > >> Is there a directive to change the way X-Spam-Report formats in the > >> header of mail? > >> Currently I get a single X-Spam-Report line wrapped; > >> > >> X-Spam-Report:  * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via > >>  SMTP *  2.2 HI

Re: X-Spam-Report

2009-08-01 Thread router backup
2009/8/1 Matus UHLAR - fantomas : > On 01.08.09 07:01, router backup wrote: >> Is there a directive to change the way X-Spam-Report formats in the >> header of mail? >> Currently I get a single X-Spam-Report line wrapped; >> >> X-Spam-Report:  * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only vi

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Per Jessen
Henrik K wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: >> Henrik K wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:04:08AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> >> Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores >> >> that >> >> were being used? were 3 out the 8 'pegge

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 11:46:57AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > Henrik K wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:04:08AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > >> Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores > >> that > >> were being used? were 3 out the 8 'pegged'? Are these 'real' cor

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Justin Mason
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:04, Henrik K wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:04:08AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores that >> were being used?  were 3 out the 8 'pegged'?  Are these 'real' cores, or >> HT cores?  In the Core2 and P4 arc

Re: X-Spam-Report

2009-08-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.08.09 07:01, router backup wrote: > Is there a directive to change the way X-Spam-Report formats in the > header of mail? > Currently I get a single X-Spam-Report line wrapped; > > X-Spam-Report: * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via > SMTP * 2.2 HIDE_WIN_STATUS RAW: Ja

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Per Jessen
Henrik K wrote: > On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:04:08AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: >> Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores >> that >> were being used? were 3 out the 8 'pegged'? Are these 'real' cores, >> or >> HT cores? In the Core2 and P4 archs, HT's actually slowed

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 12:04:08AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores that > were being used? were 3 out the 8 'pegged'? Are these 'real' cores, or > HT cores? In the Core2 and P4 archs, HT's actually slowed down a good > many worklo

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 23:40 -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > It's an American thing. Things that are normal speech for UK blokes, get > Americans all disturbed. I'm sure that is mostly it, Linda. They don't seem to 'get' it. Two things I observe in this whole 'barracuda-gate' posting; 1. Being 'offen

Re: Parallelizing Spam Assassin

2009-08-01 Thread Linda Walsh
Well -- it's not just the cores -- what was the usage of the cores that were being used? were 3 out the 8 'pegged'? Are these 'real' cores, or HT cores? In the Core2 and P4 archs, HT's actually slowed down a good many workloads unless they were tightly constructed to work on the same data in