Hi Wes!
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, twofers wrote:
> Have you run spamassassin -D --lint? to check for syntax, etc. errors?
I did not run it with the debug option. When I did this a found a few
problems including one with my firewall!
Thank's for your help. I should be able to work out the rest.
Rega
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:51:23 -0600, Bookworm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Marc Perkel wrote:
>>
>>
>> Kelly Jones wrote:
>>> I know that most (90%+) email sent now is spam, but what are the
>>> numbers for people who use spam filtering?
>>>
>>> I realize it varies by user, sensitivity to false posi
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
i am using the above plugins, and noticed that a normal email from yahoo shows
X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,
DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no
version=3.1.7
which catc
Marc Perkel wrote:
As you all know I'm in the spam blocking business and looking to share
my information with others to help them block spam for everyone. I'm
currently feeding my spam to several people now.
You asked
Feedback welcome.
Given the rants on your website and just your
I am always amazed to hear how much gets through on corporate
systems. My wife works in a corporate office with a dedicated IT
department and she says 60-70% of their total received is spam. I
would think that number to be intolerable. For instance, I have a VPS
and host about a dozen sit
see FAQ about changing scores, and if yahoo is sponsoring spammers web
sites, maybe they should be marked as spam?
if spamcop also lists yahoo.com server as spam origin, it means MANY
people have manually visited spamcop web site and confirmed spam
messages form them.
(what is one man's spam is a
Oh, this is a difficult one to measure.
As an admin, I cannot judge whether some emails are what I call
"subscriber spam" (special offers mailing lists) or unsolicited.
Neither has a legitimate place in this organization, so I'm not too
bothered, but it does mean that my figures cannot be precise.
I'd like something quasi-official if possible, so I can tell my
bosses: according to this report, even with diligent spam filtering,
xx% of the email people receive is still spam. If fewer than xx% of
your email is spam, we're ahead of the curve.
I only filter mail for myself, and I'm aggressive
According to SA documentation, not registering with spamcop will lessen
the 'weight' of your report to spamcop when you use the manual report
spam features of spamcop.
spamcop_to_address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (default: generic reporting address)
Your customized SpamCop report submission address. Y
Chuck Payne wrote:
> I am curretly using 3.1.3 and I am having a problem with the
> allow_user_rules. I have it as the line in my local.cf. and my users
> have .spamassassin in their home dir. Each has it own user_prefs with
> their required_score, but my system required_score is over riding them.
vertito wrote:
> loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL
>
> i am using the above plugins, and noticed that a normal email from
> yahoo shows
>
> *X-Spam-Status:* No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE,
> DNS_FROM_RFC_POST,DNS_FROM_RFC_WHOIS,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no
>
"Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> According to SA documentation, not registering with spamcop will lessen
> the 'weight' of your report to spamcop when you use the manual report
> spam features of spamcop.
>
> spamcop_to_address [EMAIL PROTECTED] (default: generic reporting address
On Thursday 23 November 2006 4:26 am, Justin Mason wrote:
> There's also a SpamAssassin ruleset --
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VBounceRuleset .
>
> --j.
I've installed the VBounce Ruleset and it tags bounce messages correctly,
however, I'm pretty much lost when it comes to writing other
Tom Allison wrote:
To set up SQL for Bayes look at:
/usr/share/doc/spamassassin/sql or
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes
To set site-wide bayes with sql, either:
1. Always call spamc or spamassassin with the same user
2. set 'bayes_sql_override_username'
> -Original Message-
> From: Andrzej Adam Filip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 10:13 AM
> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Spamcop reporting? Anon or register?
> You may use spamcup or
> http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl to auto
On Saturday 25 November 2006 15:26, Chris wrote:
> I've installed the VBounce Ruleset and it tags bounce messages correctly,
> however, I'm pretty much lost when it comes to writing other than a simple
> procmail recipe. So if someone could lend a hand I'd be very much
>
> appreciative. What I h
On Saturday 25 November 2006 9:46 am, Bob Mortimer wrote:
> On Saturday 25 November 2006 15:26, Chris wrote:
> > I've installed the VBounce Ruleset and it tags bounce messages
> > correctly, however, I'm pretty much lost when it comes to writing other
> > than a simple procmail recipe. So if someo
"Michael Scheidell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andrzej Adam Filip writes:
>> [...]
>> You may use spamcup or
>> http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl to automatically
>> acknowledge spamcop.net reports submitted by
>> "spamassassin -r" via SMTP.
>
> This is a bad idea.
> 75% of the lin
I have some type of email mining where they send to a dictionary of names and
combos to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the best way to combat this?
Thanks
Sent via the WebMail system at symbiostech.com
rtartar wrote:
I have some type of email mining where they send to a dictionary of names and
combos to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the best way to combat this?
Thanks
Don't accept mail for invalid users.
--
Thanks,
JamesDR
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:00:55 -0500, "rtartar"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have some type of email mining where they send to a dictionary of names and
>combos to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the best way to combat this?
>
>
>
>Thanks
>
Don't allow catchall accounts on your servers. They are far
Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
always appreciated.
What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
mathematically valid "paradox" that Bookworm and others have noticed:
If 95% of all email is spam, and I correctly tell users that I block
95% of
From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
> always appreciated.
>
> What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
> mathematically valid "paradox" that Bookworm and others have noticed:
>
> If 95% of all emai
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:59:52 -0700, "Kelly Jones"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who is replying here. Additional replies/comments
>always appreciated.
>
>What started me thinking about this is this non-intuitive but
>mathematically valid "paradox" that Bookworm and others have not
On 11/24/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's not "fixed", it's only hack-fixed. There is no real expiry of
bayes_seen, nor the AWL, in SA 3.1.x.
It's now safe to delete bayes_seen, you won't corrupt your whole bayes
DB if you do that. That's the only fix I know of that's been applie
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:41:50PM -0500, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> With respect to bayes_tok though, can that be trimmed at all with
> minimal impact? 3GB is a tad large for the database, though I guess
> that depends on the number of users. I can't think of any way to
> limit that, though, and I
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:55:37 -0500, Theo Van Dinter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 01:41:50PM -0500, Jason Frisvold wrote:
>> With respect to bayes_tok though, can that be trimmed at all with
>> minimal impact? 3GB is a tad large for the database, though I guess
>> that depen
My spamd process is crashing a lot. Sometimes several times an hour.
I've got a monitor that restarts it but I'd really like to figure out
the cause and fix it. Any clues as to where I would look to begin??
J.
John Tice wrote:
I am always amazed to hear how much gets through on corporate systems.
My wife works in a corporate office with a dedicated IT department and
she says 60-70% of their total received is spam. I would think that
number to be intolerable. For instance, I have a VPS and host abou
On Fri, November 24, 2006 22:19, Marc Perkel wrote:
> As you all know I'm in the spam blocking business and looking to share
> my information with others to help them block spam for everyone. I'm
> currently feeding my spam to several people now.
[snip]
can you run pyzord ?
extend fuzzyocr to ma
Hi,
I am using the latest SARE stocks rules, and my spamassassin catches
most of the stock spam, but today I received a couple of spam peddling
stocks of CNHC. This spam is so perfect that it's getting negative
scores and not matchign any of the SARE rules. Any one with same
experience?
raj
hiya,
vertito schrieb:
> which catches my attention. Yes, it is not spam, but a score of 3.0 from
> DNSBL is a little
> bit high for me. anybody can advise how can i lower them down?
just change scoring ... best is in your local.cf or a new .cf that you
name scoring.cf (for example).
there you
I have it setup to be a gateway for a imail mail server.
- Original Message -
From: "JamesDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: Email Probs
rtartar wrote:
I have some type of email mining where they send to a dictionary of names
and com
On 17 Nov 2006, Michael Alan Dorman outgrape:
> I lowered the score from 6 to 4.5, though, and it's continued to be
> effective, while letting those emails through.
6 is an insane score for *any* rule, IMNSHO.
--
`The main high-level difference between Emacs and (say) UNIX, Windows,
or BeOS...
it seems over the past couple of weeks, I'm getting 50-80 of these per
day into my inbox. From what I can tell, it isn't hitting the bayes
filters when other messages do. Anyone have any idea? I have sorted
these and trained the bayes filters, but if it isn't hitting them I
don't know what mo
On 20 Nov 2006, Giampaolo Tomassoni spake thusly:
>> That's not even mentioning the metaprogramming and higher-order
>> programming techniques that we use extensively in SpamAssassin -- those
>> are basically *just not possible* in C/C++. ;)
>
> Ops. What's this stuff? Let me know.
eval and all t
From: "Nix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 20 Nov 2006, Giampaolo Tomassoni spake thusly:
That's not even mentioning the metaprogramming and higher-order
programming techniques that we use extensively in SpamAssassin -- those
are basically *just not possible* in C/C++. ;)
Ops. What's this stuff? Let
Jason Frisvold wrote:
>
> With respect to bayes_tok though, can that be trimmed at all with
> minimal impact? 3GB is a tad large for the database, though I guess
> that depends on the number of users. I can't think of any way to
> limit that, though, and I wonder how even larger entities can deal
On Saturday 25 November 2006 14:09, Craig Zeigler wrote:
> I have sorted
> these and trained the bayes filters, but if it isn't hitting them I
> don't know what more to do.
> RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100,
> RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK autolearn=no version=3.1.3-g
Nix wrote:
On 20 Nov 2006, Giampaolo Tomassoni spake thusly:
That's not even mentioning the metaprogramming and higher-order
programming techniques that we use extensively in SpamAssassin -- those
are basically *just not possible* in C/C++. ;)
Ops. What's this stuff? Let me know.
eval and al
I seem to have exactly one for that stock today. It had so much obfuscation
that I missed it was a stock spam. However, one SARE rule hit, and one of
Theo's hit, along with the usual collection of network tests.
Loren
Very interesting - and scary to be honest :(
I'm guessing most greylisting software out there also operates with a set
expire for each record? This being pretty high - obviously... 1-30 days or
what is reasonable.
- Nicolai
-Original Message-
From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "John Andersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Raise the score of RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100 and RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100
significantly. Like maybe 3.0 for each.
IMHO, anything that hits both of those is spam.
meta RAZOR2_E8_AND_E4 RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E4_51_100 && RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100
score RAZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Very interesting - and scary to be honest :(
Scary? Why?
> I'm guessing most greylisting software out there also operates with a set
> expire for each record? This being pretty high - obviously... 1-30 days or
> what is reasonable.
I use the 'postgrey' package which i
Use LDAP or the like for a centralized user database if your MTA supports
mail routing via this.
- Nicolai
-Original Message-
From: Ronnie Tartar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 25. november 2006 22:19
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Email Probs
I have it setup to be a
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