Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-29 Thread Jari Fredriksson
>> What are the file names? > > CentOS is RHEL-based, right? Likely > /etc/rc.d/init,d/spamassassin /etc/init.d/spamassassin more propably.

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, John Calvert wrote: > I have decided to restart this whole process... setting the bayes > database back to its initial state & deleting auto-whitelist file. > > Is it good to use a bayes starter DB ?  If so, where can I get a > good one. It's not generally a good idea to use

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-26 Thread John Calvert
John D. Hardin wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, John Calvert wrote: I see no "-L" or "--local" anywhere.  See below... # Source spamd configuration. if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin ] ; then     . /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin fi You'll also want

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, John Calvert wrote: > I see no "-L" or "--local" anywhere.  See below... > # Source spamd configuration. > if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin ] ; then >     . /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin > fi You'll also want to look in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin -- John Hardin KA7O

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-26 Thread John Calvert
John D. Hardin wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: Where is this configuration file? Probably under /etc/mail/spamassassin John Hardin wrote: Look for the command line that starts SA. If "-L" or "--local" appears, network tests have

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > Hmmm... deepest thread here w/ John Hardin somehow got > broken... nabble hiccup? My pruning stuff. > Where is this configuration file? Probably under /etc/mail/spamassassin > John Hardin wrote: > > > Look for the command line that starts SA. If "-L" or "-

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John Calvert
I am stopping using Nabble and just emailing my posting and responses. Evan Platt wrote: I'm pretty close to killfiling Nabble posters. Nabble is to spamassassin as Google Groups is to usenet. Seriously. At 12:15 PM 9/25/2007, feral wrote: Hmmm... deepest thread here w/ John Hardin somehow

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread Evan Platt
I'm pretty close to killfiling Nabble posters. Nabble is to spamassassin as Google Groups is to usenet. Seriously. At 12:15 PM 9/25/2007, feral wrote: Hmmm... deepest thread here w/ John Hardin somehow got broken... nabble hiccup? So I am posting response here:

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:15 -0700, feral wrote: > > Hmmm... deepest thread here w/ John Hardin somehow got > broken... nabble hiccup? > > So I am posting response here: > > Daniel McDonald wrote: > > > > basically, ensure it can resolve DNS. You can force it with > > > > dns_available yes [

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread feral
Edit your spamd start-up script, or start-up options file (depending on > which OS you're running, these may be different). There should be a -L or > --local switch in that file. Remove it to enable network tests. " > What are the file names? thanks -- View this messa

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > How do I enable network tests? ...and make sure your DNS on that box is configured and working, and you will probably want to install a local caching DNS server as well. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HOT_NASTY,PORN_16 > autolearn=no version=3.1.9 > > So BAYES_00 brought the score down to negative .6 ? Probably. > Methinks the BAYES is not even functional (database absent). It wouldn't give

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:38 -0700, feral wrote: > > > John D. Hardin wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > > > >> Whatever the case, global bayes or not, or even bayes or not, how > >> could an email with the obvious porn words in the subject (as in > >> my examples) NOT get flagge

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:45 AM 9/25/2007, feral wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HOT_NASTY,PORN_16 autolearn=no version=3.1.9 So BAYES_00 brought the score down to negative .6 ? Methinks the BAYES is not even functional (database absent). How do I enable network tests?

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread feral
00 brought the score down to negative .6 ? Methinks the BAYES is not even functional (database absent). How do I enable network tests? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sender-name-same-as-recipient-name-tf4511807.html#a12885647 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread feral
00 brought the score down to negative .6 ? Methinks the BAYES is not even functional (database absent). How do I enable network tests? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sender-name-same-as-recipient-name-tf4511807.html#a12885642 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > Whatever the case, global bayes or not, or even bayes or not, how > could an email with the obvious porn words in the subject (as in > my examples) NOT get flagged? If bayes was mistrained to consider such words hammy, then BAYES_00 could drag the score back do

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread feral
for my client, then all of the sudden this spike in spam >> occurred... and as I said, 99% of the spams have the >> sender name same as recipient name (see original post). >> >> Below is the result of sa-learn -D --dump magic. I see >> that "bayes: no dbs present&

RE: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: > As Dave said it seems that your problem in whitelist > configuration. Please use whitelist_from_rcvd instead of whatever > you are using. How so? The samples he posted did not say that whitelist rules were hitting. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread John D. Hardin
> occurred... and as I said, 99% of the spams have the > sender name same as recipient name (see original post). > > Below is the result of sa-learn -D --dump magic. I see > that "bayes: no dbs present" ... that looks bad. Maybe > this SA was not installed properly. T

RE: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-25 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
99% of the spams have the > sender name same as recipient name (see original post). > As Dave said it seems that your problem in whitelist configuration. Please use whitelist_from_rcvd instead of whatever you are using. Leon Kolchinsky

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
ib/spamassassin/3.001009/updates_spamassassin_org/70_iadb.cf [24475] dbg: plugin: fixed relative path: /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001009/updates_spamassassin_org/80_additional.cf [24475] dbg: config: using "/var/lib/spamassassin/3.001009/updates_spamassassin_org/80_additional.cf" for included file [24475] dbg: config: read file /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001009/updates_spamassassin_org/80_additional.cf [24475] dbg: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags=HASH(0x8cf5c58) implements 'finish_parsing_end' [24475] dbg: replacetags: replacing tags [24475] dbg: replacetags: done replacing tags [24475] dbg: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks [24475] dbg: config: score set 1 chosen. [24475] dbg: bayes: no dbs present, cannot tie DB R/O: /root/.spamassassin/bayes_toks ERROR: Bayes dump returned an error, please re-run with -D for more information -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sender-name-same-as-recipient-name-tf4511807.html#a12872646 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > Here are the headers & bodies of 3 of the spams that got through > (and are continuing to come through at a high rate): > tests=BAYES_00,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 > autolearn=no version=3.1.9 > tests=BAYES_00,HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2, > HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_I

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
go into this level of detail. But I am shell savvy and can edit config files. BUT... how could that 2nd spam example possibly get through with that subject line!! How do I go about checking/setting: whitelist_from_rcvd, network tests ? thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabbl

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread Dave Pooser
> plus any address @blah.com This is an extremely ill-advised practice; spammers have tried using @example.com addresses to send to example.com users for years. Hopefully you're using whitelist_from_rcvd or checking authentication or similar techniques. Also, are you using network tests? Assuming

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
s a Day, 7 Days a Week, 365 Days a Year -We offer all our Porn content for you. Check it: http://jokhome.com/sb1 and get it today.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sender-name-same-as-recipient-name-tf4511807.html#a12869685 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
"something" represents various domains.) > > Question: is SA not filtering out these obvious spams because > the name "mark" is the same as the name on my client's > account? > > thanks, > Feral > -- > View this message in context: > http://www

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, feral wrote: > Question: is SA not filtering out these obvious spams because the > name "mark" is the same as the name on my client's account? That depends on the rules in use. If a rule like From ~= /mark\@/ with a high negative score was defined, sure! Would it be possibl

sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread feral
quot;mark" is the same as the name on my client's account? thanks, Feral -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/sender-name-same-as-recipient-name-tf4511807.html#a12868410 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.