Re: prevent to set a score for a non existend rule

2008-06-24 Thread Matt Hampton
John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Stefan Jakobs wrote: But now I get a lint warning: # spamassassin --lint [12533] warn: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule JM_SOUGHT_3 Would be worth considering extending the conditional section of the parser to cope with this? if de

Re: SARE fraud rulesets rotted?

2008-06-17 Thread Matt Hampton
Justin Mason wrote: Robert - elists writes: Yeah, it's easy enough doing that conversion -- let us know if he's happy for that to happen. It'd be a good way to "port" those sigs to SpamAssassin --j. JM, Would that be announced on the list somehow? Many of us use the CLAMAV SA

Re: SARE fraud rulesets rotted?

2008-06-15 Thread Matt Hampton
Benny Pedersen wrote: sanesucureity should make sa-channels :-) Had a quick look at this and the signatures should be fairly straighforward to convert to SA rules - has anyone got a script that takes a string and then turns it in to a regular expression - I'm guessing JM does for the sought ru

API question

2008-01-08 Thread Matt Hampton
Hi I am running SA from within MailScanner. I am currently running a patch that allow me to overide the Bayes username so that each domain that is processed has it's own bayes database. The patch works like this $Test= new Mail::SpamAssassin(%settings); $Test->{conf}->{bayes_sql_override_usern

Re: Rulesemporium

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Hampton
Phil Barnett wrote: > How about releasing the ruleset via torrent or something similar. Anything > that you could do to distribute the load and location would make a ddos > attack less effective. While there might not be a lot of people on this list > who can use their server to take on the ent

Changing scores/rules on the fly when calling SpamAssassin from MailScanner

2007-07-11 Thread Matt Hampton
Hi I am looking at writing an extension to MailScanner so that we can allow different settings to be applied. My primary objective is to allow different username to be used for bayes. If I am able to achieve scores and and rules as well this would be a bonus. I have mocked something up which us

Re: Does anyone catch this....

2007-05-16 Thread Matt Hampton
Matt Hampton wrote: http://www.coders.co.uk/slipped.through.txt It has sailed through both a SA3.1.8 and SA3.2.0 (3.2.0-pre2-r512851) running on recent versions of MailScanner cheers Matt Thanks to everyone who replied - I'll look and the Clam signatures matt

Does anyone catch this....

2007-05-14 Thread Matt Hampton
http://www.coders.co.uk/slipped.through.txt It has sailed through both a SA3.1.8 and SA3.2.0 (3.2.0-pre2-r512851) running on recent versions of MailScanner cheers Matt

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-11 Thread Matt Hampton
Wolfgang what happens if I put one such thing on my mailserver too and want to send you a mail? My outgoing MX starts a smtp connection, and then, at RCPT TO, your system starts a smtp dialogue with my incoming MX. Unless the machines are tightly coupled, my incoming MX does not expect to get

Re: TVD_SILLY_URI_OBFU

2007-02-06 Thread Matt Hampton
John D. Hardin wrote: What's the longest valid TLD these days? "info" at 4? Valid gTLDs are .aero .biz .cat .com .coop .edu .gov .info .int .jobs .mil .mobi .museum .name .net .org .pro .travel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains matt

Re: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-24 Thread Matt Hampton
Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: > I want to block all emails that come from an IP in China (where the IP is > the one connecting to me), *BUT* I want to exclude a particular server in > China that is used by a friend who I trust, for example. How could I do > that? Do you managed the MTA? If you do t

Re: Greylisting - branching further off topic

2006-11-21 Thread Matt Hampton
Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Tue, November 21, 2006 00:23, Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: >> Dylan Bouterse wrote: >>> Do you have a compiled list of those IPs? And what method are you using >>> to whitelist? Email offlist if more appropriate. Thanks! >> We whitelist the main Irish ISPs, so our

Re: amavisd-new or mailscanner?

2006-11-21 Thread Matt Hampton
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Matt Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> What do you mean by more than the 'basic' features? Bear in mind as >> well that MailScanner and amavisd-new check for spam at completely >> different stages of the mail processing

hermes.apache.org listed in Spamcop

2006-10-24 Thread Matt Hampton
Don't know if anyone else has noticed. http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=140.211.11.2 matt

Re: OT: HELO setting in Sendmail

2006-09-18 Thread Matt Hampton
Mike Pepe wrote: > Hi folks, this is a bit off topic, but I figured someone here may have > an inkling as to what I could do. > > Some mail servers are now rejecting my email: > > (reason: 550 Don't like your HELO/EHLO. Hostname must contain a dot.) > > I checked and sure enough, the HELO ju

SA seems to be ignoring "bayes_sql_override_username"

2006-08-30 Thread Matt Hampton
Hi I have written a application that is using the "read_scoreonly_config" command to load user configurations. ./scorefile score BAYES_00 -6.00 score BAYES_99 6.00 bayes_sql_override_username USER $spamtest->compile_no

Re: Querying Bayes

2006-06-21 Thread Matt Hampton
John D. Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Matt Hampton wrote: > >> I am adding the AS Number and CIDR by a milter. I want to track >> which AS Numbers are producing the most spam. > How does Bayes help you do that? You need something to pull the AS > number out of

Querying Bayes

2006-06-20 Thread Matt Hampton
Hi I have had a quick check of the archives but can't see any relavent threads. I would like to be able to find out what effect a token would have on Bayes scoring. For example - I want to be able to find out whether a header that I am inserting before SpamAssassin sees the message is having