Re: Score maths

2017-04-25 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi Tom, Thanks for your explanation, I hadn't appreciated that there was higher precision being hidden. Thanks, Geoff > On 25 Apr 2017, at 09:39, Tom Hendrikx wrote: > > Hoi Geoff, > > The scores actually have a precision of 3 numerals after the dot. The > actual scor

Score maths

2017-04-25 Thread Geoff Soper
X-Spam-Status: No, Score=2.9 X-Spam-Report: * -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP * 3.0 GS_NO_RLYS_PHP No description available. X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on server.alphaworks.co.uk Can anyone explain why this isn't scoring 3.0? :)

Writing a rule to match a header name and value

2017-04-24 Thread Geoff Soper
is: X-PHP-Originating-Script: 20039:Api.php Thanks, Geoff

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-05 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
eir support keep the server updated etc. I think they installed SpamAssassin on my request so I'll have a word with them about the training. To be honest, apart from this UNPARSEABLE_RELAY issue, SpamAssassin is behaving near flawlessly... Many thanks, Geoff

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-05 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
first question is no... Thinking about it, I don't have access to my emails on the command line (I don't have root access as it's a maintained VPS) so I'm not sure I'd be able to if training requires me pointing SA at folders of mail? Many thanks, Geoff

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-05 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 24/11/2016 13:09, RW wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:33:19 +0100 Axb wrote: On 11/24/2016 11:23 AM, Geoff Soper wrote: For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting through with a suspicious score of 0.0. Upon inspection, they all had the following lines i

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-05 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 03/12/2016 19:23, RW wrote: On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 14:18:38 + geoff.sa_users_161...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: Ah, I think I've been making an invalid assumption here... Because every one of these messages had a UNPARSEABLE_RELAY and nothing else, I thought that this issue was stopping any oth

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-03 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 03/12/2016 13:57, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25/11/2016 11:22, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: This says that the mail was received from webpage on your server, and the local mailer "nullmailer" seems have delivered it directly to you. in fact, you don't know anything about this mail -

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-12-03 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 28/11/2016 22:10, geoff.sa_users_161...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: On 25/11/2016 11:22, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 24.11.16 10:23, Geoff Soper wrote: Subject: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting th

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-28 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 25/11/2016 11:22, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 24.11.16 10:23, Geoff Soper wrote: Subject: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting through with a suspicious score of 0.0. Upon inspection, they all ha

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-25 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 25/11/2016 11:22, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 24.11.16 10:23, Geoff Soper wrote: Subject: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting through with a suspicious score of 0.0. Upon inspection, they all ha

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-25 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 25/11/2016 10:26, Paul Stead wrote: On 25/11/16 10:18, geoff.sa_users_161...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 161124-7, 24/11/2016), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Infected X-Attachment: INVOICE_.zip#1783656308|>HQ2s9y6f.js Virus: JS:LockyDownloader [Trj] Deleted You

Re: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-25 Thread geoff . sa_users_161124
On 24/11/2016 13:15, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 24.11.16 10:23, Geoff Soper wrote: Subject: Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting through with a suspicious score of 0.0. Upon inspection, they all ha

Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-24 Thread Geoff Soper
8) on server.alphaworks.co.uk X-Spam-Score: 0.0 i.e. missing X-Spam-Level: and X-Spam-Status: Can anyone suggest what is going on here? Thanks, Geoff

Re: Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-10-23 Thread geoff . spamassassin140903
On 23/10/2014 23:00, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 10/23/2014 5:47 PM, geoff.spamassassin140...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: On 04/09/2014 11:29, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: Using procmail without MTA glue is OK for many uses. I am wondering how many spamd connections you allow and if you have checked you

Re: Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-10-23 Thread geoff . spamassassin140903
On 04/09/2014 15:56, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Geoff Soper wrote: I've got an issue whereby spam messages seem to be somehow bypassing SA and getting into my inbox. :0fw: spamassassin.lock * < 40 | spamc -x Are the messages that bypass SA always rather larg

Re: Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-10-23 Thread geoff . spamassassin140903
not a server I administer but support are very helpful... Many thanks, Geoff

Program failure (69) of "spamc"

2014-09-10 Thread Geoff Soper
state. Can anyone suggest what the issue may be? Thanks, Geoff

Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-09-03 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi, I've got an issue whereby spam messages seem to be somehow bypassing SA and getting into my inbox. I call SA via procmail as per https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail The exact procmail file that calls SA is as follows: # #Standard SA call to be included from .procmailrc fil

Regular spam with distinctive URLs

2013-12-03 Thread Geoff Soper
long with series of numbers and cut up with symbols) but I don't see how I can write a REGEXP to get them. Are other people also suffering from these? Thanks, Geoff

Back to spam

2013-09-13 Thread Geoff Soper
After a couple of years without being greatly troubled by spam (a few a week), about a fortnight ago I started seeing 10-20 a day. They have a similar look and tone but I can't see any obvious ways to get them with rules. My trouble is that while all has been well, I've forgotten how SA works!

Spam getting through while SA restarts

2010-01-15 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
anything I can do to stop this happening? Thanks, Geoff :0fw: spamassassin.lock * < 256000 | spamc # Work around procmail bug: any output on stderr will cause the "F" in "From" # to be dropped. This will re-add it. :0 * ^^rom[ ] { LOG="*** Dropped F

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Geoff Soper
On 13/01/2010 15:03, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed 13 Jan 2010 02:53:13 PM CET, Geoff Soper wrote saupdates.openprotect.com channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! outdated sare rules is not recommended, and openprotect do care ? :) if you update sare rules via sa

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
Thanks for that, can you point me in the direction of some info on the 90_2tld.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net channel? I found http://taint.org/2007/08/15/004348a.html in relation to sought.rules.yerp.org Thanks, Geoff On 13/01/2010 14:35, Jason Bertoch wrote: Jason Bertoch wrote

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
On 13/01/2010 14:02, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Geoff Soper wrote: I've now added the saupdates.openprotect.com channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! I thought I read that no one should be using openprotect as

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
tes_spamassassin_org directory without realising how it all worked. I've now added the saupdates.openprotect.com channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! Thanks, Geoff

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Geoff Soper
tes_spamassassin_org directory without realising how it all worked. I've now added the saupdates.openprotect.com channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! Thanks, Geoff

SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
10K Jun 2 2005 99_sare_fraud_post25x.cf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 187 Jan 2 04:40 MIRRORED.BY -bash-3.2$ Can anyone advise what the problem might be and what diagnosis I can perform? Thanks, Geoff

Keeping SA up to date

2010-01-01 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
dated, is there anyway to get new versions of these rulesets? I'm finding all this rather confusing as things seem to have moved on somewhat since I last changed anything! Many thanks, Geoff

Keeping SA up to date

2010-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
dated, is there anyway to get new versions of these rulesets? I'm finding all this rather confusing as things seem to have moved on somewhat since I last changed anything! Many thanks, Geoff

Re: spamc and extra rules

2008-11-23 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 09:23:51PM +, Geoff Soper wrote: Is this the right way of bringing in extra rules? I want these rules to be in addition to the ones in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and not instead of. No, spamc has no impact on rules. You could

spamc and extra rules

2008-11-23 Thread Geoff Soper
s this the right way of bringing in extra rules? I want these rules to be in addition to the ones in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and not instead of. Thanks, Geoff

Re: Problems with sa-update

2008-05-15 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
On 12/05/2008 22:04, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 20:37, Geoff Soper wrote: Can you suggest what I might do next? I'm not at all experienced in this so I'm very grateful for your advice and patience! need to knwo os distro, and why rpm updates not working :/

Re: Problems with sa-update

2008-05-10 Thread Geoff Soper
;m not at all experienced in this so I'm very grateful for your advice and patience! Thanks, Geoff

Problems with sa-update

2008-05-10 Thread Geoff Soper
: make_test NO cpan[2]> Can anyone suggest what I should do next? Thanks, Geoff

Problem with RDJ

2007-08-08 Thread geoff . squirrelmail_070809
can do by way of further diagnosis? Thanks, Geoff [7164] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [7164] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [7164] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 [7164] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen. [7164] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes [7164] dbg: util: taint mode: de

Unknown option: a when restarting spamd

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Soper
fied the "a" option (the former file overriding the latter file). What would the "a" option be and why did the two files specify it when spamd doesn't accept it? Thanks, Geoff

How best to restart SpamAssassin with RDJ

2006-12-11 Thread Geoff Soper
I'm moving from calling SA on a per message basis to using spamc. This means I need to specify a value for SA_RESTART. Should I being using /usr/bin/spamassassin or /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and reload or restart? What's the difference between the two different files? Thanks, Geoff

SOLVED: Completely disable spamassassin for a given mailbox

2006-11-10 Thread Geoff
Hi, Solution here. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=499812 Cheers, Geoff.

RE: Completely disable spamassassin for a given mailbox

2006-11-06 Thread Geoff
no .procmailrc file in the mailbox's home directory. Cheers, Geoff -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 11:46 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Completely disable sp

Completely disable spamassassin for a given mailbox

2006-11-06 Thread Geoff
easily upgraded sadly :( ). Thanks, Geoff

Not all messages passing through SA

2006-09-20 Thread geoff . spamassassin3
s a lock then does the next mail come along just skip the SA recipe or does it wait for the lock to become available? Can anyone suggest what I can do to resolve this problem ?It's frustrating to get spam which has apparently skipped the SA recipe. Many thanks, Geoff

Re:

2006-07-18 Thread Geoff Soper
Richard Collyer wrote: Andreas Walter wrote: unsubscribe end Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe. Good luck, I'm still here a week after first trying to unsubscribe! ;-)

RE: Unsubscribing from SA Users

2006-07-17 Thread Geoff Soper
Surely it shouldn't be this difficult to unsubscribe? Thanks, Geoff Geoff > Or just block the lists mail servers in your firewall. > > You'll be automatically removed after a week or so > > -Sietse > > > > From: Magnus Holmgren [ma

Unsubscribing from SA Users

2006-07-17 Thread Geoff Soper
replied to Justin to this effect but have receieved nothing since. Can anyone else offer any suggestions as to what is going on here and what I might try next? Apologies for a silly mail, Geoff -- Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-10 Thread Geoff Soper
jdow wrote: From: "Geoff Soper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .qmail contains the lines: | true ./Maildir/ Caveat: I don't use qmail, and don't even particularly like qmail, so what I'm abo

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-10 Thread Geoff Soper
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: I think I need to specify the .procmailrc as the .procmailrc file is per e-mail address, not per user or even system-wide I think we've just uncovered a crucial bit of missing informati

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-08 Thread Geoff Soper
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .qmail contains the lines: | true ./Maildir/ Caveat: I don't use qmail, and don't even particularly like qmail, so what I'm about to say are really educated guesses rather than definitive answers.

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-08 Thread Geoff Soper
jdow wrote: From: "Geoff Soper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I'm getting the following three warning in my procmail log (machine name removed, just in case!), I assume I'm missing some configuration somewhere but don't know where! Can someone advise? Thanks, Geo

Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-05 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi, I'm getting the following three warning in my procmail log (machine name removed, just in case!), I assume I'm missing some configuration somewhere but don't know where! Can someone advise? Thanks, Geoff [8162] warn: config: cannot write to //.spamassassin/user_prefs: N

Sudden appearance of frequent server hit by SIGCHLD

2006-01-25 Thread Geoff
t would cause communication problems. Thanks, Geoff

Re: How to verify SA options being used by spamc from remote host

2005-11-10 Thread Geoff Varney
hbinc.com> writes: > > Geoff Varney wrote: > > I start spamd with a -u spamd user. > ... > > bayes_path /root/.spamassassin > > The short answer is, you can tell if bayes is being used because (almost) every message will hit a BAYES_XX > rule for some val

How to verify SA options being used by spamc from remote host

2005-11-03 Thread Geoff Varney
kip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2 0 use_dcc 0 use_pyzor 0 ok_languagesall ok_locales all Thanks for any suggestions. Geoff

Re: Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-13 Thread Geoff Varney
jdow earthlink.net> writes: > > From: "Geoff Varney" ridge.k12.wa.us> > > > Hi, > > I am trying to set up SpamAssassin on my Redhat FC3 box in order to call > > spamd > > from an IMail email server using a spamc client. I have verfied that

Spamc not working when spamd running with -A option

2005-10-10 Thread Geoff Varney
t up SA to work with an external spamc client, and how would I set up a "global" configuration for learning, etc.? Would I pass a username with spamc and set up that user on the spamd box, etc.? I'm still fairly new at Linux so maybe I'm totally missing something simple. Thanks, Geoff

RE: I am NOT a spammer

2005-07-15 Thread Geoff Manning
ems like too much overhead just to *manage* the data set IP by IP. If the original OP's ISP had properly differentiated between the static and dynamic pools of IP's then all of this would be unnecessary (and overkill). Geoff

RE: Gif-Only spams

2005-06-09 Thread Geoff Manning
> Baby steps ;) Agreed!

RE: Gif-Only spams

2005-06-09 Thread Geoff Manning
> Check out the interesting idea at www.rulesemporium.com/forums/ > > entitled: Image attachment MD5 footprint RBL My only comment on a system like this is that it could be easily subverted. A spammer could use automated image editting tools to randomly change some aspect of the file that would

Mortgage spam

2005-06-08 Thread Geoff Soper
others around that'll help against this torrent of mortgage spam? Thanks, Geoff

Help with Bayes auto-learn

2005-05-12 Thread Geoff Sweet
tup correctly? Thanks very much, Geoff Sweet

RE: Subscribing to spam lists

2005-05-10 Thread Geoff Manning
> The only way to properly forward a spam is to forward it as an RFC822 > attachment and then unattach it at the receiving end. But I > expect this > is more hassle than you wanted... If you are using Exchange and you set your account to receive the email for that user. Then you should get the e

RE: Testing the new SA version

2005-05-03 Thread Geoff Manning
headers. I am in an Exchange environment and I've been cutting and pasting the headers and body into a text file. Is there a better way out there? Thanks -Original Message- From: Geoff Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 2:26 PM To: Users (E-mail) Subject: Testin

Testing the new SA version

2005-05-02 Thread Geoff Manning
Pardon the newbish question, I am new to my position and SA in general. We have 2 mail relay servers running SA 3.0.2 and a test server that I have upgraded to 3.0.3. I would like a solid testing process where I can run a test of a bunch of Spam emails against the test server (SA 3.0.3) then t

RE: add_header

2005-04-28 Thread Geoff Manning
ing it in the header from one of the servers. -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:00 AM To: Geoff Manning; Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: add_header At 08:48 AM 4/28/2005, Geoff Manning wrote: >The local.cf file is the s

add_header

2005-04-28 Thread Geoff Manning
I have gone ahead and made the change I asked about yesterday and it works perfectly (on one machine only!). We have two mail servers scanning the mail before passing it onto exchange and one of them is adding the headers but the other isn't. I've checked everything I can think of: SpamAssassin v

RE: --Lint parse error with always_add_headers

2005-04-27 Thread Geoff Manning
ttler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 12:06 PM To: Geoff Manning Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: --Lint parse error with always_add_headers Geoff Manning wrote: >When I run spamassassin --lint I receive a parse error as shown belowhow >do I fix i

--Lint parse error with always_add_headers

2005-04-27 Thread Geoff Manning
When I run spamassassin --lint I receive a parse error as shown belowhow do I fix it? It looks like it is the right syntax. # spamassassin --lint config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, skipping: always_add_headers 1 lint: 1 issues detected. please rerun with debug enabled for more inform

Re: Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper writes: >> > Geoff Soper writes: >> >> bash-2.05a$ perl -V >> >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) >> configuration: >> > .. >> >> @INC: >> >> /home/alphaworks/perl_mo

Re: Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper writes: >> bash-2.05a$ perl -V >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: > .. >> @INC: >> /home/alphaworks/perl_modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/ >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i3

Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
n/3.0.2/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 74. Compilation failed in require at /home/alphaworks/spamassassin/3.0.2/bin/spamassassin line 80. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/alphaworks/spamassassin/3.0.2/bin/spamassassin line 80. Jon Drukman has been helping me with this but I thought I'd open it up a little. Any help or suggestions will be gratefully received! Thanks, Geoff

Re: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-02 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper wrote: >> I run SpamAssassin on my web host's machine. I install it in my directory >> using: >> >> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME >> make >> make install >> >> My problem is that my host doesn't have the Digest::SHA1

RE: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
dule. Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks, Geoff > New host? > > Your ISP shouldn't have any problems installing modules like that. > > Gary > > ____ > > From: Geoff Soper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 1/1/2005 10:50 AM > To:

Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
tall the module locally and have done so. What's the best way to refer SpamAssassin to the locally installed module? I call SA from my .procmailrc file. Thanks, Geoff

And mortgages too

2004-12-14 Thread Geoff Soper
Further to my previous message, are there any rulesets which will handle all these mortgage spams which pretend to be following up previous correspondance? Thanks, Geoff

Watches and pain relief

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Soper
SARE html0 SARE OEM SARE Random SARE Ratware Detection SARE Specific SARE Spoof EvilNumber Can anyone suggest what might catch these watch and pain relief spams before I start writing some of my own? Thanks, Geoff

RE: List options?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Soper
It's come through now after receiving a few messages from the list. I should have been more patient, sorry! Some more info on the wiki would seem to be a good idea? Especially mentioning the digest lists which are effectively separate lists and not an option of the normal list. Thanks,

List options?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Soper
wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists and the messages I've received from the list haven't contained any such info at the bottom as I'd expect. Thanks, Geoff