Re: Spam getting through while SA restarts

2010-01-15 Thread RW
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:42:48 +0200 Jari Fredriksson wrote: > On 15.1.2010 10:21, geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: > > I occasionally get a spam leaking through without having been > > processed by SA despite passing the part of my procmail filtering > > where SA is called. These spams

Re: Spam getting through while SA restarts

2010-01-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 15.1.2010 10:21, geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: > I occasionally get a spam leaking through without having been processed > by SA despite passing the part of my procmail filtering where SA is > called. These spams are always at the time of scheduled SA restarts so I > assume they sl

Re: spam getting through

2008-12-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, December 27, 2008 21:45, JC Putter wrote: > This message has been scanned by Nexus Mail Gateway clamav signature is here: hotfell.com=7720772077202e2068206f207420662065206c206c202e2063206f206d0a save it in you clamav database dir and get rid of that domain name it hotfell_com.db else

Re: spam getting through

2008-12-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.12.08 22:45, JC Putter wrote: > Here is the raw message header Don't post spam into this mailing list. Store it somewhere and paste a link. We'd even need to convert into message, so it could be scanned. Btw, I don't see any X-Spam header. Did you scan the message by SA at all? -- Matus U

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-14 Thread Matthias Leisi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kathryn Kleinschafer schrieb: | Am I supposed to reload a service or is there something else I have missed? Yes, every change to a *.cf or *.pre file requires a restart of spamd (as opposed to the standalone "spamassassin" binary, which will read

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-14 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 10.07.08 13:49, Kathryn Kleinschafer wrote: > I have some spam coming into the system that seems to be only going to a > couple of domains. > The bayes confidence is 0-1% for the spam so it is getting a -2.6. It is > hitting on the following rules > -2.60 BAYES_00Bayesian spam

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-13 Thread Kathryn Kleinschafer
Sorry not sure what I was doing wrong before but it is hitting now. Thanks Kate Jared Hall wrote: header LOCAL_REMINDERSubject =~ /^REMINDER NOTIFICATION/ score LOCAL_REMINDER5.0 Regards, Jared Hall General Telecom, LLC. Kathryn Kleinschafer wrote: Hi all, I have

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-13 Thread Kathryn Kleinschafer
Hi Jared, Thanks for the help. I have made the file LOCALK.cf in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/ folder and run spamassassin --lint (no errors) However when I test the message it is not hitting the rule. Am I supposed to reload a service or is there something else I have missed? Thanks Kate Jared

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-13 Thread Kathryn Kleinschafer
Hi, Our system does train Ham and I do train spam that gets through (where possible). I thought though that training say 5 emails as spam (assuming they were all the same) won't necessarily change the Bayes confidence, is this not correct? Kate Bowie Bailey wrote: Alex Woick wrote: BAY

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-13 Thread mouss
Alex Woick wrote: BAYES_00 means that the bayes engine thinks the message is definitely not spam. If this rule is hitting on spam messages, you have a problem. Unless this is just a really hammy looking spam, you may want to consider retraining your bayes database. And regardless, you should al

RE: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Alex Woick wrote: > > BAYES_00 means that the bayes engine thinks the message is > > definitely not spam. If this rule is hitting on spam messages, you > > have a problem. Unless this is just a really hammy looking spam, > > you may want to consider retraining your bayes database. And > > regardl

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-10 Thread Alex Woick
BAYES_00 means that the bayes engine thinks the message is definitely not spam. If this rule is hitting on spam messages, you have a problem. Unless this is just a really hammy looking spam, you may want to consider retraining your bayes database. And regardless, you should always manually retra

RE: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-10 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kathryn Kleinschafer wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some spam coming into the system that seems to be only going > to a couple of domains. > The bayes confidence is 0-1% for the spam so it is getting a -2.6. It > is hitting on the following rules > -2.60 BAYES_00Bayesian spam probabil

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-09 Thread Sahil Tandon
Kathryn Kleinschafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some spam coming into the system that seems to be only going to a > couple of domains. [...] > The subject line is always REMINDER NOTIFICATION > > In order to get it recognised as spam am I best to have a custom rule for > t

Re: spam getting through because of bayes confidence

2008-07-09 Thread Jared Hall
header LOCAL_REMINDERSubject =~ /^REMINDER NOTIFICATION/ score LOCAL_REMINDER5.0 Regards, Jared Hall General Telecom, LLC. Kathryn Kleinschafer wrote: Hi all, I have some spam coming into the system that seems to be only going to a couple of domains. The bayes confi

Re: Spam getting through: server reached --max-children

2008-03-14 Thread Per Jessen
dalchri000 wrote: > What can I do to make the server wait on spamd? Is it a spamd, spamc, > spamass-milter, or sendmail setting? Most of the time the server is > hardly If you had a postfix setup, you would (typically) adjust the max smtpd daemons in master.cf - I'm sure you've got some similar

RE: Spam getting through. Getting flooded.

2006-03-27 Thread Martin Hepworth
00 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Spam getting through. Getting flooded. > > Could you also kindly share where BODY_GAPPY_TEXT comes from? I don't seem > to have that one. > > Cheers, > Jeremy > > > > > "Martin Hepworth" <

RE: Spam getting through. Getting flooded.

2006-03-27 Thread Martin Hepworth
> Sent: 27 March 2006 09:56 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Spam getting through. Getting flooded. > > > Here's the rules that I get hits for.. > > > > Content analysis details: (18.8 points, 5.0 required) &

RE: Spam getting through. Getting flooded.

2006-03-27 Thread Gray, Richard
> Here's the rules that I get hits for.. > > Content analysis details: (18.8 points, 5.0 required) > > pts rule name description > -- > -- > 2.5 MISSING_HB_SEP Missing blank line between > message h

Re: Spam getting through

2005-09-20 Thread Loren Wilton
> The problem is Im seeing an increase of spam getting through, mainly > pharmecutical. I am using rules dejour and here is a list of all the rules New spam form from our friend Leo. Its mutated twice in two weeks now. New rules coming soon from a SARE near you. (Hum, now that I've said that in

Re: Spam getting through

2005-09-20 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello robert, Tuesday, September 20, 2005, 12:08:57 PM, you wrote: rdc> Using Spamassassin 3.1 on Fedora Core 2 running qmail. Spamassassin rules rdc> are running through a MySQL database. rdc> The problem is Im seeing an increase of spam getting through, mainly rdc> pharmecutical. I am using ru

Re: Spam getting through

2005-09-20 Thread Stuart Johnston
Have you verified that they are working correctly? Do the messages contain a URL? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes Im using SURBL and dcc. Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Spamassassin 3.1 on Fedora Core 2 running qmail. Spamassassin rules are running through a MySQL database. The pro

Re: Spam getting through

2005-09-20 Thread robert
Yes Im using SURBL and dcc. Robert > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Using Spamassassin 3.1 on Fedora Core 2 running qmail. Spamassassin >> rules >> are running through a MySQL database. >> >> The problem is Im seeing an increase of spam getting through, mainly >> pharmecutical. I am using rules dejo

Re: Spam getting through

2005-09-20 Thread Stuart Johnston
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using Spamassassin 3.1 on Fedora Core 2 running qmail. Spamassassin rules are running through a MySQL database. The problem is Im seeing an increase of spam getting through, mainly pharmecutical. I am using rules dejour and here is a list of all the rules Im using. Is th

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-15 Thread Loren Wilton
> We use a program called Guinevere, that works with Novell GroupWise > systems to filer the e-mail after it has passed through SA. All of the > suggestions I have received seem to point to the fact that this may be > where the error lies. I appreciate all the suggestions by the group. That's ab

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Thank you JD, that is the direction most everyone has been pointing me in. >>> "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/14/05 3:50 PM >>> From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Keith, > Why would you need to be psychic? > > 1. My e-mail shows the NAME of my rule - MY_CAPABLE > 2. My e-mail shows the MY

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread jdow
From: "Joe Zitnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Keith, > Why would you need to be psychic? > > 1. My e-mail shows the NAME of my rule - MY_CAPABLE > 2. My e-mail shows the MY_CAPABLE rule worked, adding 11 points to the > score > 3. My e-mail shows my threshold is 4 points, and the e-mail scored > 14

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Thomas, We use a program called Guinevere, that works with Novell GroupWise systems to filer the e-mail after it has passed through SA. All of the suggestions I have received seem to point to the fact that this may be where the error lies. I appreciate all the suggestions by the group. >>> Thoma

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Keith, I think you may have seen too many Oliver Stone movies, or perhaps gotten too wrapped up in the X-Files. Are you somehow involved in the paranormal? All this talk of secretiveness and psychics might be better suited to the alt.psycho.babble newsgroup. The "entire process" that I was speak

RE: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
The usual suggestions that come up at this point, are: 1) If you're using spamc/spamd, don't forget to restart spamd so that it will reload your new rule. 2) If you're running SA directly from a milter, or some such, make sure that SA is started up in a way that it will find the new rule.

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Keith Whyte
Joe Zitnik wrote: Keith, Why would you need to be psychic? Sorry, my way of saying that I didn't think you gave us enough information with your request for help. Did you post the mail that you passed through spam assassin manually, or the one that made it through? Did you try passing the mai

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Jeff Chan
Please note that if you upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 or 3.0.2, the uridnsbl rules changed from type "header" to type "body". If the rules are not similarly updated, they will not trigger. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2005 13:04 schrieb Loren Wilton: > Well, it obviously was scored correctly, and showed at least some headers > indicating this. So SA must be doing its job. > > Since SA isn't in charge of deciding what to DO with the mail once

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Thank you. I thought I remembered earlier posts where people listed problems like "some e-mail were not being checked" or "every other e-mail was being skipped", and I was wondering if I might be experiencing some of that. >>> "Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/14 7:04 AM >>> Well, it obviousl

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Loren Wilton
Well, it obviously was scored correctly, and showed at least some headers indicating this. So SA must be doing its job. Since SA isn't in charge of deciding what to DO with the mail once it is scored, the problem must lie in some other part of your system. The only possibiliity I can think of of

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Keith, Why would you need to be psychic? 1. My e-mail shows the NAME of my rule - MY_CAPABLE 2. My e-mail shows the MY_CAPABLE rule worked, adding 11 points to the score 3. My e-mail shows my threshold is 4 points, and the e-mail scored 14. 4. I stated this was from an e-mail that made it thro

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
Thomas, That was a mail that made it through. I won't go through my entire process, but I archive every mail that comes in to our system, and when I'm done, I have every e-mail that made it through to the user's desk. I have specific rules set up and was wondering why mail that I knew should have

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread jdow
Of course, that's not universally true, Keith. Someone is flooding the Internet with email messages so bogus fetchmail spits up on it. I had to telnet into the Earthlink server and manually delete the message. 8< list +OK 1 475 . retr 1 +OK 475 octets Status: U Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Joe Zitnik: >> We've been having a group of the same type of e-mails making it through >> spamassassin. These are the e-mails that have the "get a capable html >> e-mailer" line in them. [...] Thomas Arend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used my magic eye to find your rule. No joy. [...] I wro

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Keith Whyte
Joe Zitnik wrote: some of these e-mails are getting caught by my rule and some aren't. When I run the ones that are getting past through spamassassin manually, they hit my rule as well and are above my spam threshold. So why do they make it past? Joe, how can you possibly ask that question wit

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Thomas Arend
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2005 12:47 schrieb Joe Zitnik: > We've been having a group of the same type of e-mails making it through > spamassassin. These are the e-mails that have the "get a capable html > e-mailer" line in them. I have yet to see any

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Joe Zitnik
They are enabled. My problem is more that some of these e-mails are getting caught by my rule and some aren't. When I run the ones that are getting past through spamassassin manually, they hit my rule as well and are above my spam threshold. So why do they make it past? >>> Martin Hepworth <[EM

Re: Spam getting through

2005-01-13 Thread Martin Hepworth
Joe enable the URIRBL rules, these are very effective against html spam. (make sure you have the latest Net:DNS module installed and the init.pre file in /etc/mail/spamassassin and the plugin turned on). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Joe Z

Re: Spam getting through

2004-12-10 Thread shane mullins
Found part of the problem. I did not import my db after upgrading, do my bayes db were not working. Fixed that with: sa-learn --import sa-learn --sync Hope this save someone else some time. Shane > shane mullins wrote: > > When we first built our spam filters, over a year ago, it worked gr

Re: Spam getting through

2004-12-10 Thread Martin Hepworth
Shane apply extra rules mentioned in www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm (Don't use the bigevil on though, turn on the URIRBL handling in SA3.01) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 shane mullins wrote: When we first built our spam filters, over a year