Re: Fake MX

2010-12-17 Thread Jon Trulson
I highly recommend it. But again, not the low MX. You'd be playing with fire there. -- Jon Trulson | A828 C19D A087 F20B DFED mailto:j...@radscan.com | 67C9 6F32 31AB E647 B345 "What can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed w

Re: Hostkarma White list Updated and Improved

2009-10-05 Thread Jon Trulson
from a bot-net vs. a 'lone wolf'? -- "I drank what?" | Jon Trulson -Socrates | mailto:j...@radscan.com | A828 C19D A087 F20B DFED | 67C9 6F32 31AB E647 B345

Re: more habeas spam

2009-01-09 Thread Jon Trulson
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Jon Trulson wrote: On Wed, 7 Jan 2009, Anthony Peacock wrote: I zeroed the scores for all of these rules about a year ago. They were only hitting on SPAM emails and pushing them into the FN range. I second that - habeas

Re: more habeas spam

2009-01-09 Thread Jon Trulson
about a year ago. They were only hitting on SPAM emails and pushing them into the FN range. I second that - habeas stopped being useful a long time ago (IMO of course :). Just zero them out. -- Happy cheese in fear | Jon Trulson against oppressor, rebel!| mai

Re: Fake MX Record(s) Trick

2008-06-25 Thread Jon Trulson
cut your server load. I'm also providing a public server to harvest fake MX info to help build my blacklist. You can use this host for your fake high numbered MX. (Not a low numbered MX though) Que the spamvertising... mail.yourdomain.com 10 tarbaby.junkemailfilter.

Re: [OT] Volume of mail thru SpamAssassin.

2008-01-08 Thread Jon Trulson
o the count there. Has anyone done anything like this? Any suggestions on how to do it? Any other way to get the count? man mailstats -- Happy cheese in fear | Jon Trulson against oppressor, rebel!| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brocolli, hostage. -Unknown| #include

Re: Bit OT but it's about SPAM

2007-10-17 Thread Jon Trulson
ure!) spam. I definitely love my spamassassins :) -- Happy cheese in fear | Jon Trulson against oppressor, rebel!| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brocolli, hostage. -Unknown| #include

Re: FW: List of 700,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-14 Thread Jon Trulson
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Luis HernĂ¡n Otegui wrote: 2007/9/12, Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jason Bertoch wrote: On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:07 PM Marc Perkel wrote: The details are a little to complex for this forum ... OK - had quite a few trolls here wh

Re: FW: List of 700,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-12 Thread Jon Trulson
there any chance we can get a moderator on this, please? This is clearly not a SA topic and I'm weary of insults, flames, and advertisements from Marc. FWIW, +1 -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-22 Thread Jon Trulson
yway, it is unwise to pin pass/fail on RBL's. They can be wrong, or go away. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-22 Thread Jon Trulson
would speculate that was the reason your messages started tagging as spam. One such list I remember was ordb.org. Yes, ordb. Knew it was something like that. It may be true that they posted something to a list - unfortunately, I was not subscribed. Nonetheless, we won't do that ag

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-20 Thread Jon Trulson
A eventually before entering our internal mail system. Works great. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: OT Question

2006-12-02 Thread Jon Trulson
day's stock onslaught. Without hard data available at the moment, I'd guess we are seeing a less than a third of what we were getting 24hrs ago. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Bayes failure on "hi, it's Somebody" spam

2006-11-16 Thread Jon Trulson
99) is still catching every one for me. There may be something else going wrong with your setup - no idea what offhand though, sorry. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Well, that didn't take very bloody long

2006-11-10 Thread Jon Trulson
ee the previous threads about bumping up the scores for bayes 95 and 99. YMMV of course, but it has been *extremely* successful at work and at home in the few years we've been using spamassassin. Expect them to adapt. It's their job after all. Use a

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Trulson
0.0001 3.5 3.5 I would second that definitely. I only upped the bayes 95 and 99 rules to the pre3.0 scores - didn't mess with the others. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Bayesian scores

2006-11-09 Thread Jon Trulson
aught with bayes 99 as well :) I guess YMMV of course, but it's worked well here w/o the need to come up with custom rules every time some new spammer trick rolls around. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: BIG increase in spam today

2006-11-02 Thread Jon Trulson
27;s definitely on the rise from where I sit. At home, I've also seen an increase - approx 150 a day from around 80-90 previously. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-10-03 Thread Jon Trulson
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems) wrote: Jon Trulson said: Hehe, that is an old spammer trick... Our secondary MX is pretty much 100% spam. I implemented greylisting on the secondary which reduced spam through it by about 99% :) The secondary does not do spam scanning, it&#

Re: Q. about spam directed towards highest MX Record?

2006-09-29 Thread Jon Trulson
ndary which reduced spam through it by about 99% :) The secondary does not do spam scanning, it's simply store and forward. Greylisting really helps in these cases. -- Jon Trulson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://radscan.com/~jon #include "No Kill I" -Horta

Re: more spam with SpamAssassin version 3.0.2

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Trulson
t sort of problem? Yours faithfully, Valery -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC733962 PGP keys at http://radscan.com/~jon/PGPKeys.txt #include "I am Nomad." -Nomad

Re: Bombarded by German political spam

2005-05-16 Thread Jon Trulson
they are being trapped... -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC733962 PGP keys at http://radscan.com/~jon/PGPKeys.txt #include "I am Nomad." -Nomad

Re: Memory issues have forced me back to 2.64

2004-11-16 Thread Jon Trulson
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Jon Trulson wrote: On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The --max-children=1 flag to spamd has 'solved' the issue for me... Sorry, that should be '--max-conn-per-child=1'. -- Jon Trulsonmailto:

Re: Memory issues have forced me back to 2.64

2004-11-16 Thread Jon Trulson
no custom rulesets with v3 currently. At least on my system, the memory issues had nothing to do with a custom ruleset or 3. The --max-children=1 flag to spamd has 'solved' the issue for me... Average child size is around 19-20MB, until 'the event' happens, at which point it j

Re: ver 3.0 opinions

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Trulson
that do not get through 2.6x are generally (a) those that match BAYES_99, which by itself in the default configuration is no longer a large enough score to make me happy, or True. Some spam we get is soley BAYES_99. I've bumped it back up to 5.2 (like in 2.6x). -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMA

Re: ver 3.0 opinions

2004-10-29 Thread Jon Trulson
er at catching spam than 2.63 was (out of the box). With 2.64, we avaraged about 10 or so spams below threshold (5.0). Now it's about 1, and some days, none :) Worth the upgrade IMO. -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC733962 PGP ke

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-11 Thread Jon Trulson
on a whitelist or bayes database maintenance event of some sort. Better question. Of all the folks seeing memory issues, are you using ok_languages in your config somewhere? If not, please speak up as well. I am using 'ok_locales en'. -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-11 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Jon Trulson wrote: On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Michael Parker wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:53:30AM -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: FWIW, in our case a child would go to 320MB and just stay there until the child was terminated (even after finishing a message). We do use AWL and

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-07 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Michael Parker wrote: On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:53:30AM -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: FWIW, in our case a child would go to 320MB and just stay there until the child was terminated (even after finishing a message). We do use AWL and bayes. Is it possible to try and find the

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-07 Thread Jon Trulson
even after finishing a message). We do use AWL and bayes. Michael -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC733962 PGP keys at http://radscan.com/~jon/PGPKeys.txt #include "I am Nomad." -Nomad

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-07 Thread Jon Trulson
ipped through since I enabled it Sunday. OTOH, SA 3.0 seems to be doing a *much* better job at catching spam. Big improvement over 2.6x, so I'll keep it :) Thanks, Michael -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC733962 PGP keys at http://radsca

Re: SA 3.0 is eating up all my memory!!!

2004-10-07 Thread Jon Trulson
mewhat more beefy host. On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 15:09:50 -0500, Doug Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I had this problem till I set the max per child option to = 1 This caused spamd to kill the process used to scan every msg once it's done. Not the best answer I know but it keeps it in check

Re: SA 3.0 is eating up all my memory!!!

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Trulson
ing memory... Seems pretty much strange to me... Same thing I saw, except in my case, it was 320MB. Once a child had it, it never let it go until terminated (or hit the default 200 connection limit). [...] -- Jon Trulsonmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ID: 1A9A2B09, FP: C23F328A721264E7 B6188192EC

RE: SA 3.0 is eating up all my memory!!!

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Trulson
processes instead of as a daemon. The load time was never terribly bad, and they certainly can't leak. See my response in a previous thread on this problem. For kicks, try --max-conn-per-child=1 to spamd see and see if your machine will last longer :) Mine did... -- Jon Trulson

Re: 3.0 scanning delays

2004-10-05 Thread Jon Trulson
use of this? Thanks, Shane -- Shane Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Network/System Consultant GPG KeyID: 777CBF3F Key fingerprint: 254F B2AC 9939 C715 278C DA95 4109 9F69 777C BF3F Listening to: The Courtship of Birdy Numnum - The Parapalegic-Homoerotic Episode -- Shane Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTE