Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread xTrade Assessory
Julian Yap wrote: > I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD > ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. > > I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to > downgrade because SpamAssassin was crashing on a daily basis. See > bug: > https://issues.apache.org/

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Lee Dilkie
On 4/10/2012 10:50 PM, Julian Yap wrote: > Hmm, thanks for the info. It certainly explains things. Yeah, > SpamAssassin previously used to blaze through mail scans (everything > scanned in less than 3 seconds) on the same hardware. It's annoying > that Perl is getting slower over time and there's

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Julian Yap
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Michael Parker wrote: > On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Julian Yap wrote: > >> I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD >> ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. >> >> I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to >> downgrade

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Parker
On Apr 10, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Julian Yap wrote: > I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD > ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. > > I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to > downgrade because SpamAssassin was crashing on a daily basis. See > bu

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Scheidell
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.2_6. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO >|SECNAP Network Security -Original message- From: Julian Yap To: Michael Scheidell Cc: "users@spamassassin.apache.org" Sent: Wed, Apr 11, 2012 00:35:04 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: New versions of Perl are slower On Tue, Apr 10, 201

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Julian Yap
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: > On 4/10/12 5:12 PM, Julian Yap wrote: >> I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD >> ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. >> >> I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to >> downgrade becaus

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 6:29 PM, RW wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:58:51 -0400 > Rob McEwen wrote: >> Meanwhile, the snowshoe spammer's DNS server happens to be messed up, >> overloaded, and returns answers within about 4 seconds. > But unless I'm misunderstanding, the NS lookups would be done on the > TLDs

Re: New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Michael Scheidell
On 4/10/12 5:12 PM, Julian Yap wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to downgrade because SpamAssassin was crashing on a daily basis. See bug: https://issues.apa

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:58:51 -0400 Rob McEwen wrote: > Meanwhile, the snowshoe spammer's DNS server happens to be messed up, > overloaded, and returns answers within about 4 seconds. But unless I'm misunderstanding, the NS lookups would be done on the TLDs nameservers, rather than the spammer's

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 3:16 PM, Axb wrote: > On 04/10/2012 08:07 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: > >> (b) If anyone programs this idea into SA, or anywhere else, then >> this should be a separate step AFTER regular URI checkinggiving >> the message a chance to "short circuit" out of processing if it

spamc/spamd SSL issues

2012-04-10 Thread Trey Nolen
I'm using a combination of Ubuntu and Debian servers for scanning email with spamc/spamd. I'm running the following version: spamd -V SpamAssassin Server version 3.3.1 running on Perl 5.10.1 with SSL support (IO::Socket::SSL 1.33) with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.02) I've been noticing

New versions of Perl are slower

2012-04-10 Thread Julian Yap
I'm running SpamAssassin 3.3.2 port revision 6 (latest from FreeBSD ports) on FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE 64-bit. I recently upgraded my Perl from 5.10 to 5.14 but I needed to downgrade because SpamAssassin was crashing on a daily basis. See bug: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=674

Re: new / tests to verify

2012-04-10 Thread Axb
On 04/10/2012 10:59 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 4/10/2012 4:31 PM, McGranahan, Jamen wrote: Sorry for the newbie question here, but are there any test messages we can use to verify our spamassassin installation is working correctly? I installed the most current stable version just today on a

Re: new / tests to verify

2012-04-10 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 4/10/2012 4:31 PM, McGranahan, Jamen wrote: Sorry for the newbie question here, but are there any test messages we can use to verify our spamassassin installation is working correctly? I installed the most current stable version just today on a RedHat 5 box and updated it, but would like

new / tests to verify

2012-04-10 Thread McGranahan, Jamen
Sorry for the newbie question here, but are there any test messages we can use to verify our spamassassin installation is working correctly? I installed the most current stable version just today on a RedHat 5 box and updated it, but would like to test it to verify it is working correctly. Is t

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Axb
On 04/10/2012 08:07 PM, Rob McEwen wrote: (b) If anyone programs this idea into SA, or anywhere else, then this should be a separate step AFTER regular URI checkinggiving the message a chance to "short circuit" out of processing if it already scored high enough after URI

--rebuild and --no-rebuild

2012-04-10 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Are these options to sa-learn deprecated?

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Thomas Johnson wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: That sounds like it might be good rule-fodder.  "subject", "Subject", and "SUBJECT" are possibly valid, but the other funky capitalizations might be worth a few points. And how would one write a r

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Rob McEwen
On 4/10/2012 11:42 AM, Thomas Johnson wrote: > Any other ideas on these pill spams? What are they scoring for anyone else? Hi. I've been following this thread. Here are some (random) thoughts & suggestions: (1) In some of those examples Thomas provided, at least one of the assigned name servers

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Johnson
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Alex wrote: > +1 for these. I've seen a ton of these, and the only protection I have > is a local URIBL I've built for the many new domains that haven't yet > been added to the public URIBLs. > > Yours don't have any spamassassin/amavisd headers. How are you process

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Johnson
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > That sounds like it might be good rule-fodder.  "subject", "Subject", > and "SUBJECT" are possibly valid, but the other funky capitalizations > might be worth a few points. And how would one write a rule for that? It's not a header rule tha

Re: Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822)

2012-04-10 Thread corpus.defero
On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 15:11 +0100, corpus.defero wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I have this hit: > 0.4 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) > > Catching on: > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 12 11:36:40 +0200 > > Which in turn is produced by this line off PHP code: > $headers .= "Date: ".d

Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822)

2012-04-10 Thread corpus.defero
Good afternoon, I have this hit: 0.4 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) Catching on: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 12 11:36:40 +0200 Which in turn is produced by this line off PHP code: $headers .= "Date: ".date(DATE_RFC822)."\n"; Unless I've gone made, the issue is the year being 2

Re: "Pill" spams

2012-04-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 4/9/2012 5:39 PM, Thomas Johnson wrote: > Getting a bunch of these, and I'm getting very low scores, using the > latest spamassassin rules, and the most common third-party rulesets. > > Also using spamhaus, investment and other DNSBLs, but my users seem to > be getting these before the urls are

Re: meta rules assistance

2012-04-10 Thread Benny Pedersen
Den 2012-04-10 11:14, Tom Kinghorn skrev: if the 1st 2 conditions are met, then score 0.01 (RULE 1) BUT if the 3 conditions are met, then score 0.25 (RULE 2) AND NOT 0.01 (RULE 1) Is this possible? add "&& !__HEADER_PVT_1" to meta BODY_RULE

Re: meta rules assistance

2012-04-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:14:19 +0200 Tom Kinghorn wrote: > Morning list > > I was wondering if it is possible to achieve the following: > > create a meta rule to match 2 items. > assign a score to the test > BUT if a 3rd item is matched, ignore the first score and assign the > higher score Just m

Re: Malware flagging

2012-04-10 Thread Axb
On 04/10/2012 12:00 PM, joea wrote: Aside - I originally sent this last evening, it was rejected to the subject line. Let's hope this one is acceptable. I get a few of those emails with zip attachments, slipping thru. Scanner, Airline tickets, etc. I guess these are "malware" rather tha

Malware flagging

2012-04-10 Thread joea
Aside - I originally sent this last evening, it was rejected to the subject line. Let's hope this one is acceptable. >> I get a few of those emails with zip attachments, slipping thru. Scanner, Airline tickets, etc. I guess these are "malware" rather than SPAM, so I began looking at amavis.

Re: meta rules assistance

2012-04-10 Thread Swati R
I don't think you can ignore any rule. So I want to suggest workaround : If both rules will be applied, final score will be 0.26 (RULE 1 + RULE 2). If you don't want the score 0.26, you should change the score of RULE 2 to 0.24 so that your final score will remain 0.25. -Swati R On Tue, Apr 10, 2

meta rules assistance

2012-04-10 Thread Tom Kinghorn
Morning list I was wondering if it is possible to achieve the following: create a meta rule to match 2 items. assign a score to the test BUT if a 3rd item is matched, ignore the first score and assign the higher score