Vbounce rule question

2008-05-19 Thread James H. McCullars
Hi, following several users' Inboxes filling up with bogus (spam-generated) bounce messages, I enabled the Vbounce plugin on our SMTP gateway, which is running SA 3.2.3 under MIMEDefang. The complaints have dropped off entirely, and I have had only one false positive complaint. The rule that

RE: Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Shue, Daniel G. wrote: > # Catch anything from 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM and score it > header RCVD_AT_NIGHT Date =~ /..., .. ... [0,2][0-5]:..:..*/ > score RCVD_AT_NIGHT 0.001 > describeRCVD_AT_NIGHT Email was received between 8:00PM and > 6:00AM If you want t

RE: Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread Shue, Daniel G.
9 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Newbie Rule Question Importance: Low Nice, I like that! Most of our spam also comes in during the wee hours of the morning.. I think adding a half point or even a point would help even more. Though, I have trained and continue to train both of my s

RE: Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread Brent Kennedy
ewbie Rule Question I need to check, "Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:17:17 -0400" and I've looked Quite ignoring the arguments people will make against this (including me) you could do something like the following. Of course remember the date header is when the mail was made in whatever

Re: Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread Loren Wilton
I need to check, "Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:17:17 -0400" and I've looked Quite ignoring the arguments people will make against this (including me) you could do something like the following. Of course remember the date header is when the mail was made in whatever timezone it was made, not in Y

Re: Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread Peter Smith
> Hi folks, > I'm a newbie to SA and have looked at a few tutorials on writing > custom rules, but they all seem to be too simple for what I want to do. > That, or I'm not smart enough to figure it out on my own. What I'm > needing is some guidance on how to write a custom rule that looks at

Newbie Rule Question

2006-09-27 Thread Shue, Daniel G.
Hi folks, I'm a newbie to SA and have looked at a few tutorials on writing custom rules, but they all seem to be too simple for what I want to do. That, or I'm not smart enough to figure it out on my own. What I'm needing is some guidance on how to write a custom rule that looks at the cre

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:28:11PM -0500, Barry Callahan wrote: > >58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 > >I did up a quick check to gather some stats from my corpus (last 14 days). > Interesting. I don't seem to have that rule. Which ruleset is it in? > I used gre

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Barry Callahan
Theo Van Dinter wrote: BTW, it seems weird to me that you see these results. 58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 Interesting. I don't seem to have that rule. Which ruleset is it in? I used grep to search for "RECEIVED_COUNT" in all of my installed rules

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Barry Callahan: > On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only > Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. BTW, it seems weird to me that you see these results. 58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 I did up a quick check to ga

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 3/16/2006 5:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry Callahan wrote: On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. The legitimate email, on the other hand ALL has at least one additional Received: header, OR the machi

RE: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Barry Callahan wrote: > On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only > Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. > > The legitimate email, on the other hand ALL has at least one > additional Received: header, OR the machine it was received from is > allowed to

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Barry Callahan wrote: > I spent some time looking at the SPAM and compared it it to the > legitimate email I receive. :) > So, I was wondering if the following set of logic would be possible to > implement in SpamAssassin, either as a collection of rule

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Barry Callahan wrote: > I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.0 with sendmail, and I think it's great. > I'm using milter-spamc to interface with SpamAssassin running as a daemon. > > It doesn't /quite/ catch everything, and some (very little, actually) > SPAM gets through untagged. > > I spent some time

SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Barry Callahan
I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.0 with sendmail, and I think it's great. I'm using milter-spamc to interface with SpamAssassin running as a daemon. It doesn't /quite/ catch everything, and some (very little, actually) SPAM gets through untagged. I spent some time looking at the SPAM and compared

SARE Rule question

2006-01-18 Thread Joe Zitnik
Any update on when the stock spam rule might be posted?  I've fed dozens in to bayes, and they're still making it through.

Rule question

2005-09-05 Thread M.Lewis
I have a few custom rules that I have done. I usually look for certain words in a message, certain URLs, etc. Today I have run across a new twist (at least for me). The message is in HTML and the way it is 'printed' is vertically. LeXaPrMeVaCiAmUlViCe vinaoprilialbitragle traxeciadiaum= isena

RE: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:39 PM >To: Chris Santerre >Cc: 'Stuart Gall'; users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Re: Custom Rule question > > >Chris Santerre wrote: > >&g

Re: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Chris Santerre wrote: >Eval solution: Count hits, yes. Change score based on hits, no. > > Chris, using an eval solution you could do ranges, much like bayes does. It would be computationally efficient if done the way bayes does it too (storing the result on the first call, and only checking va

Re: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Fred
Chris Santerre wrote: > Long answer: Multiple meta rules. Take to much computational effort. > The regex isn't slick for these type of rules either. The multiple meta rules are the easiest approach to doing this. I have a number of rulesets which use this trick to count different things. Not exa

RE: Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Stuart Gall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:58 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Custom Rule question > > >Hello, >Sometimes when I create a custom rule I want the score to be added for >e

Custom Rule question

2005-05-11 Thread Stuart Gall
Hello, Sometimes when I create a custom rule I want the score to be added for each match in the body. and not just an on or off rule. Is there anyway to do this? TIA Stuart Gall

Re: Stupid rule question

2005-05-09 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:52 AM 5/9/2005, Michael W Cocke wrote: Isn't getting caught by this rule? bodyMWC19 /americaspharma.com/i describeMWC19 local rule19 score MWC19 20.0 change it from a body rule to a uri rule, also for correctness add a \ in front of . (otherwise . is a wil

RE: Stupid rule question

2005-05-09 Thread Chris Santerre
>-Original Message- >From: Kevin Peuhkurinen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:02 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Stupid rule question > > >Michael W Cocke wrote: >> This is really getting on my nerves... Using Spamassassin

Re: Stupid rule question

2005-05-09 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Michael W Cocke wrote: This is really getting on my nerves... Using Spamassassin 3.03, could someone please tell me why this message - Dear Customer, We have all the rx you may need. http://americaspharma.com/ From hard to find pain killers to diet solutions. Thank you, S

Stupid rule question

2005-05-09 Thread Michael W Cocke
This is really getting on my nerves... Using Spamassassin 3.03, could someone please tell me why this message - Dear Customer, We have all the rx you may need. http://americaspharma.com/ >From hard to find pain killers to diet solutions. Thank you, Supply. -