Re: MySQL error?

2007-01-15 Thread Ray Anderson
Look in the local.cf for these lines, or (if mysql is being used) look in the userpref table and delete the rows that have those entries. Had the same issue and that cleared it up. -=R Doc Schneider wrote: I'm seeing this in a server I just upgraded from 3.0.6 to 3.1.7 My thoughts are this is

Re: sa-stats.pl blows up on maillog covering turn of year

2007-01-02 Thread Ray Anderson
Bob McClure Jr wrote: sa-stats.pl as distributed with SA v3.1.7 blows out a ton of WARNING: ignoring future date in syslog line: Dec 31 20:26:56 bubba spamd[7149]: prefork: child states: II and the like, and ends up reporting zeros for results. Another machine with the same sa-stats.pl (and

Re: "insider information" slipping through

2006-12-23 Thread Ray Anderson
Debbie D wrote: Can someone try and help me understand why this keeps slipping through.. in 2+ days I have 40 or more of these to various addresses of my own on the server http://sial.org/pbot/21945 (Thanks Theo for the link) Scores for me: Content analysis details: (19.5 points,

Re: yet another stupid spammer trick

2006-12-19 Thread Ray Anderson
link with more info. -=Ray Ray Anderson wrote: This looks like a failed header injection attack. Some background: Lots of web form handlers, including the most basic Perl and PHP tools, will build the headers and body of a message as one long string, then pass it to Sendmail. If a form

Re: yet another stupid spammer trick

2006-12-19 Thread Ray Anderson
This looks like a failed header injection attack. Some background: Lots of web form handlers, including the most basic Perl and PHP tools, will build the headers and body of a message as one long string, then pass it to Sendmail. If a form allows user-supplied data for any header content -- m

Re: Good source for IP addresses by country

2006-12-12 Thread Ray Anderson
My $.02, (and that's about all it's worth). I was running a server with 1and1 who uses ip address blocks assigned to Amsterdam. The server was physically located in New York City. I had several customers who could not send mail outbound because people hate to receive mail from Amsterdam. P

Re: Tarpits are fun!

2006-12-12 Thread Ray Anderson
Nicely done! John D. Hardin wrote: {snicker!} Dec 12 09:48:03 ga : Initial Connect - tarpitting: 124.240.124.222 60241 -> x.x.x.x 25 Dec 12 09:44:20 ga : Initial Connect - tarpitting: 124.240.124.222 53486 -> x.x.x.x 25 * Dec 12 12:16:30 ga : Initial Connect - tarpitting: 124.240.124.222 1452

Re: required_score aggressive ??

2006-12-06 Thread Ray Anderson
I use a required_score of 3 and so far have had zero positives (more than 3 years running). I have customers that also run 3 and have opted to have the server /discard/ the message (not quarantine, but /DISCARD/) if it is identified as spam. So far none of those users have complained about

New spam

2006-12-04 Thread Ray Anderson
Hello, I've been lurking for a while and had just recently decided to try to put the FuzzyOCR on my spam filtering machine, when I found the following incredibly obfuscated stock spam (link at bottom of message) The question is this: Will FuzzyOCR find/detect the garbage in this image or is

Re: Prevent scanning internal mail

2006-11-30 Thread Ray Anderson
Craig Morrison wrote: Gary V wrote: Exactly. How you prevent sending the message through SA is not a function of SA itself, but of the implementation, and because of the large number of implementations and configurations I question whether it would be practical (or even related) to provide exa

Re: I've got TORA.08 spelled with numbers?

2006-11-17 Thread Ray Anderson
Wouldn't a better solution to be check the e-mail for NOT having any alpha chars? All numbers seems like a no-brainer to me, but I'm fairly new at this. :) Something like Body ~= /[^a-zA-A]/ ? Cheers, -=Ray Justin Mason wrote: this seems to catch them: header __MAILER_OL_6626 X-Mai

Alt text getting through

2005-01-28 Thread Ray Anderson
I made a custom rule in local.cf to score the following with 5: describe custom_body_checksCustom Body Checks score custom_body_checks5 rawbody __bc_0 /%RND_ALT/I meta custom_body_checks ( __bc_0 ) But it is not catching that phrase in the inbound e-mail. (below)

RE: Investor and Stock spam

2005-01-27 Thread Ray Anderson
> Err.. > > body STOCK_SPAM > /inf0rmati(O|0)n|st0ck|profi\|e|invest0rs|pr0file|y0urse(l|\|)f|wil\||symb(o |0)\|/ > > is more efficient.. and still will catch that crap in the subject line also. > > D > > Please excuse my ignorance Would you want to make this a rawbody check so mime-embe

Body checks not identifying spam

2005-01-12 Thread Ray Anderson
I'm thinking it's because the message is in multi-part embedded multi-part mime mail, but I'm not sure. I'm stuck running 2.55 for another 3 months or so before I move to FC3, so until then, does anyone have any advice? This is the second message that's like this, and I'm sure the numbers are goi

RE: maintaining the 2.6 branch (was: [2.64] FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK buggy)

2005-01-06 Thread Ray Anderson
anyway, but to work > to produce actual > releases for others, I think a bit more of an interest is needed. I am also required to stay with the 2.6 branch for the forseable future, if there's anything I can do to help I'd be happy to. -=Ray -------

RE: [2.64] FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK buggy

2005-01-04 Thread Ray Anderson
pgrade, which I cannot do at this time. I finally had to put a score in my local.cf that reduces the score to zero. -=Ray -- Ray Anderson R&B Communications 530.478.1137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rb-com.com ---

Spamassassin help

2004-12-22 Thread Ray Anderson
.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) -=Ray -------- Ray Anderson System Development Manager 916.788.2444 (Office) 916.798.9439 (Mobile) PRIDE Industries [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www