Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir Caspi
On Tue, June 18, 2013 4:36 pm, RW wrote: > One thing to watch out for is that a mailbox may contain hidden deleted > mail that remains there until the mail client compacts/expunges the > mailbox. For that reason I prefer explicit training folders rather than > folders where misclassified mails have

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:13:56 -0600 (MDT) Amir Caspi wrote: > Well, I'm not really concerned about getting any header-related SA > rules to hit, for these tests. As I mentioned previously, my primary > concern right now is the disconnect between the Bayes score during > the automatic MTA delivery

RE: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread emailitis.com
"Now I just have to figure out my Bayes problem..." Amir, When you do work that out, please let us know. We get LOTS of Spam getting through and John said that it is the BAYES_00 which is causing the problem. Restarting training seems a bit extreme. We cannot monitor every hosted user, obvious

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 20:01 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > BTW, I just ran through 848 messages on this fairly average host (Lenovo > R61i [Intel Core Duo at 1.6GHz, 3GB RAM) running Fedora 18. The first > run averaged 1095 mS/message and the second averaged 96 mS/message, so I > don't think John'

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir Caspi
On Tue, June 18, 2013 1:01 pm, Martin Gregorie wrote: > The main thing I notice is that there are only two Received: headers, > and no envelope-From so IMO you're hoping for too much from the > header-related SA rules simply because there's very little for SA to get > its teeth into. Well, I'm not

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2013-06-18 at 11:18 -0600, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 8:58 AM -0400 06/18/2013, Ben Johnson wrote: > >a.) You are copying/pasting the body of the email, but not the headers. > > No, I am copying the headers... however, I am using Eudora (ancient, > I know) as a mail client, and it's poss

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
Replies to multiple folks below... At 1:42 PM -0400 06/18/2013, Kris Deugau wrote: Try opening the on-disk file with Notepad (or your favourite text editor on *nix). If you see the same thing you see when you hit the "blah blah blah" button in Eudora, you should be OK. If not... I've done th

Re: Massive spamruns

2013-06-18 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-06-13 18:49, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 13 Jun 2013, Alex wrote: There's anecdotal reports that spammers focus on backup MX hosts in the hopes they are less-well-protected. You might also try changing the MX weighting and see if that causes the spam to concentrate on a specific MX hos

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Ben Johnson
On 6/18/2013 1:18 PM, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 8:58 AM -0400 06/18/2013, Ben Johnson wrote: >> a.) You are copying/pasting the body of the email, but not the headers. > > No, I am copying the headers... however, I am using Eudora (ancient, I > know) as a mail client, and it's possible the hea

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Axb wrote: On 06/18/2013 07:24 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 10:13 AM -0700 06/18/2013, John Hardin wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > > > Any idea why it failed to hit, and does this need another rule > >

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Axb
On 06/18/2013 07:18 PM, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: Either way, I am _trying_ to copy the entire message. Not sure what is misformatted there. If you take a look at my two pasted examples (links below for convenience), those are direct copy/paste from Eudora's "raw source" view. Any idea what is ma

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Kris Deugau
Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 8:58 AM -0400 06/18/2013, Ben Johnson wrote: >> a.) You are copying/pasting the body of the email, but not the headers. > > No, I am copying the headers... however, I am using Eudora (ancient, I > know) as a mail client, and it's possible the headers are not properly >

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Axb
On 06/18/2013 07:24 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: At 10:13 AM -0700 06/18/2013, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > Any idea why it failed to hit, and does this need another rule revision? Yep, and yep. Revision committed. Init

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 10:24 AM -0700 06/18/2013, John Hardin wrote: The earlier version wasn't allowing for some punctuation in the gibberish. There may be a period of whack-a-mole here, I was conservative in the change I made. Makes sense. Both of those examples are good for creating an HTML_COMMENT_GIBBERISH

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: At 10:13 AM -0700 06/18/2013, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > Any idea why it failed to hit, and does this need another rule revision? Yep, and yep. Revision committed. Initial comment gibberish rule committed. Than

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 8:58 AM -0400 06/18/2013, Ben Johnson wrote: a.) You are copying/pasting the body of the email, but not the headers. No, I am copying the headers... however, I am using Eudora (ancient, I know) as a mail client, and it's possible the headers are not properly formatted. For example, for Sp

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 10:13 AM -0700 06/18/2013, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: Any idea why it failed to hit, and does this need another rule revision? Yep, and yep. Revision committed. Initial comment gibberish rule committed. Thanks for the revision. Do you want to explain w

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: At 10:48 AM -0700 06/17/2013, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > I am now seeing STYLE_GIBBERISH hitting on a lot of spam in the past day > or so, since the new rules hit the distribution. So far, all TPs, no > FPs.

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Ben Johnson
On 6/18/2013 5:31 AM, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > At 4:37 PM -0400 06/14/2013, Alex wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Amir 'CG' Caspi >> wrote: >> > I wonder if there's some >> > difference between running spamassassin manually on the message versus >> > running spamd. >> >> I think the

Re: New rule for HTML spam, using comments?

2013-06-18 Thread Amir 'CG' Caspi
At 4:37 PM -0400 06/14/2013, Alex wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Amir 'CG' Caspi wrote: > I wonder if there's some > difference between running spamassassin manually on the message versus > running spamd. I think the only difference would be if spamd somehow didn't recognize all the