Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.16.0511 +0200]: > As opposed to preprocessing before using SA to reduce the load. (ie. using > blacklist and whitelist before SA) I have a bunch of postfix sanity checks, including RBLs running first. Then, everything is fed to spamc, which --p

Re: Should I disable URIDNSBL plugin if I'm already rejecting based on BL with MTA

2007-08-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.16.2031 +0200]: > It will not have rejected them as it doesn't analyze URI's in bodies. That > talk was about URIDNSBL, not about RBL checks in general. aye. Then please pretend I never opened my mouth. In that case I'd have to agree that if y

Re: Please help me to improve SA perforformance

2007-08-17 Thread Matthias Haegele
SA Lists schrieb: Matthias +all, Thank you very much. On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:02:53PM +0200, Matthias Haegele wrote: You only mentioned running sa-learn on spam you should also learn your hammessages, both is important. Bayes-Performance will only be good if learned on both, ham and spam.

Re: completewhois

2007-08-17 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Rick Macdougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greg Skouby wrote: > > With SA-3.2.0 I seem to be getting sub 5 second scan times pretty > > regularly but when I upgraded to SA-3.2.3 I was lucky to get sub 10 > > second. I flipped on debugging and see a bunch of these messages: > > > > Thu Aug 16 1

Re: Should I disable URIDNSBL plugin if I'm already rejecting based on BL with MTA

2007-08-17 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > also sprach Jeff Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.08.16.1125 +0200]: > > The two do very different things. MTA blacklists are direct > > rejection of incoming smtp connections by the MTA (in this case > > postfix). URIDNSBL is a SpamAssassin check of

spamd restart error

2007-08-17 Thread Pradeep Mishra
After running sa-update successfully i tried stopping and starting spamd and caom e across Error message: Starting spamd: [30803] error: spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use spamd: could not create INET socket on 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use [FAILED

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.08.07 15:44, Mike Jackson wrote: >RBL: dynablock.njabl.org this one is obsole and you should not use it. It was imported to the SpamHaus PBL and is not maintained by NJABL anymore -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-m

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 16.08.07 09:39, Marc Perkel wrote: > OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only > person who is doing it right. Are you sure it's right? I do use similar configuration (and I plan use some more filters, like greylisting on MX backups) but I wouldn't say so generall

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:11:37 +0300: > But if I were an ISP I could not use it. Impossible. Totally impossible. because ... ? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Pawel Sasin
Hi, We manage a not little mail system for our university (~100k messages per day). In includes: - a few front-ends (Courier SMTP/IMAP/POP3/webmail/maildrop) which connect to random Spamassassin host via spamc utility, - a cluster of a few servers with Spamassassin (3.2.1-1ubuntu1), - another

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Pawel Sasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Have you tried this on your SA servers? > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DBIPlugin Hello Pawel! :D Thank you very much for the message about DBIPlugin! I've never used it before. It looks interesting for me, so I've just downloaded that plugi

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:11:37 +0300: > >> But if I were an ISP I could not use it. Impossible. >> Totally impossible. > > because ... ? > > Kai Because there is always some friends of some customers using a local linux with a local mail server without smart host.

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >>Now I use MyISAM strorage backend, because I just created Bayesian >>database using Spamassassin sql/bayes_mysql.sql file :) > > The recommendations in the sql/bayes_mysql.sql file are for the > average setup. It doesn't cover MySQL optimization techniques as

Re: spamd restart error

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Pradeep Mishra wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:41:52 -0500: > 127.0.0.1:783: Address already in use Sounds like the "old" spamd didn't get killed correctly. Kill all spamd children and then try again. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.con

Re: Please help me to improve SA perforformance

2007-08-17 Thread SA Lists
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:09:49AM +0200, Matthias Haegele wrote: > SA Lists schrieb: > > Dont think so: > http://www.sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/ > "Phishing and Scam Signatures for ClamAV" > > >I have just now included many of the SARE rules in my sa-update. I am > >almost looking forward to get

RE: Why'd VBounce not hit?

2007-08-17 Thread Dan Barker
I didn't hear from any of you VBounce guru's on this, but it's still happening. Is this a VBounce bug? Here's another example: Report: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.7 required=5.0 tests= AWL=-1.710, BAYES_50=0.001, DRUGS_ERECTILE=0.493, DRUGS_ERECTILE_OBFU=2.408, FUZZY_CPILL=0.518 aut

Re: picture spams

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
FuzzyOcr should do a good job on something like that. Loren http://dreams.741.com/spam.gif

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 00:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > It seems you lowered the score of ACT_NOW_CAPS. If you have done this > with > a lot of rules, it's understandable that they don't help ;-) Good eyes, I didn't even see that. I have checked my local.cf, where is the only place I lower or a

Re: picture spams

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
"Loren Wilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FuzzyOcr should do a good job on something like that. > >Loren > >> http://dreams.741.com/spam.gif Hi Loren, I did the test and unfortunately my FuzzyOcr (3.5.1) was bitten by that spam image. Here are the message headers: X-Spam-Checker-Ver

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> My hardware seems to be good enough. It's Sun Fire x4100 M2 server >> with 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2220 SE CPUs and 8GB RAM on the board >> and it's bored with its job ;) I think I rather need faster disks. > > With that amount memory you won't

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 17:47 -0500, René Berber wrote: > Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > > Botnet is bad AFAIK bad for anyone running an ISP or so. > > > > I'm a lone one and I know that nobody sending me email is not using a Linux > > box with his own server, so I can drop all mail from dynamic dns o

spamd working with -q but not with -Q

2007-08-17 Thread Michael Worobcuk
Hi, although I upgraded spamassassin to version 3.2.3 I am still experiencing that spamd is invoked 3 times. Here is my mysql-log: 070817 14:48:57 90 Connect [EMAIL PROTECTED] on spamassassin 90 Query set autocommit=1 90 Query SEL

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:39:44 +0300: > Because there is always some friends of some customers using a local linux > with a local mail server without smart host. And that is a problem? 1. you can adjust scoring 2. many ISPs block connections from dynamic IPs, anyway, this is

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Pawel Sasin
My hardware seems to be good enough. It's Sun Fire x4100 M2 server with 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2220 SE CPUs and 8GB RAM on the board and it's bored with its job ;) I think I rather need faster disks. With that amount memory you won't see much disk activity. You can happily increase

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Henrik Krohns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > If you want a simple solution, you can try http://sa.hege.li/ for BadRelay > plugin. Interesting license... ;) Have a nice day, Pawel

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread Paweł Tęcza
Pawel Sasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > You said you have several servers running spamd - if updates are > causing you much trouble then you could disable bayes_autolearn on > most of the servers, so that only some of them (down to 1) would > update your bayes DB, while the others would jus

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:46:25 -0400: > I tried 'spamassassin -D > results.txt < > myspamfile', but only gives me the results of the tests. spamassassin -D results.txt should do it. 50_scores.cf:score ACT_NOW_CAPS 0.948 0.001 1.259 0.792 That might explain it. The second

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:56:33 -0400: > Well, like I said, we had big problems using anything in Botnet except > nordns. That's why everything except the main BOTNET is set to 0 I guess ;-) You have to check for yourself if it fits or not. I just enabled a few (using a sc

Re: picture spams

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Hi Loren, I did the test and unfortunately my FuzzyOcr (3.5.1) was bitten by that spam image. The normal scan setups for FuzzyOCR don't rotate the images, so will in all probability miss a rotated image like this. These were quite popular for a while and a couple of people developed scansets

Re: picture spams

2007-08-17 Thread kshatriyak
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Pawe? T?cza wrote: I did the test and unfortunately my FuzzyOcr (3.5.1) was bitten by that spam image. You can manually mark this picture as bad : # fuzzy-find --delete # fuzzy-find --learn-spam

FW: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Bret Miller
Apparently I must be a "spammer" since I can't send e-mail to perkel.com... At least this response has been delayed since 9:16 a.m. pacific time yesterday. Oh well... Here's the response. Bret -Original Message- From: Bret Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/16/2007 12:39 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: > OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only > person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised > that so few people are preprocessing their email to reduce the SA load. > As we all know SA is very pro

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread John Rudd
Jari Fredriksson wrote: Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:11:37 +0300: But if I were an ISP I could not use it. Impossible. Totally impossible. because ... ? Kai Because there is always some friends of some customers using a local linux with a local mail server without smart h

Re: Spam kills my MySQL with Bayes

2007-08-17 Thread SM
Hi Pawel, At 04:48 17-08-2007, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pawe=B3_T=EAcza?= wrote: My hardware seems to be good enough. It's Sun Fire x4100 M2 server with 2 x Dual-Core AMD Opteron 2220 SE CPUs and 8GB RAM on the board and it's bored with its job ;) I think I rather need faster disks. That should be fast

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 18:39 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > 2. many ISPs block connections from dynamic IPs, anyway, > > this is actually common practice. > > > > It's common practise here for households, but not for business users. > Actually roaming business users with their lap tops actua

Re: Please help me to improve SA perforformance

2007-08-17 Thread Jerry Durand
At 01:09 AM 8/17/2007, Matthias Haegele wrote: Dont think so: http://www.sanesecurity.co.uk/clamav/ "Phishing and Scam Signatures for ClamAV" As a reminder to people, check the ClamAV readme file (I think that's the one it's in) and copy the SA rules to your local.cf file. -- Jerry Durand,

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread John Rudd
Henrik Krohns wrote: If you want a simple solution, you can try http://sa.hege.li/ for BadRelay plugin. BadRelay makes a fairly fatal assumption: The MTA put the rdns into the Received header. I know of 2 MTAs that don't do that (they just put the IP address in, without the rdns name). I

Re: Postfix Question - OT

2007-08-17 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/16/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > > Just need a quick answer from a Postfix user. Suppose Postfix is > > forwarding a message. Is there any way it can add a header with the > > original IP of the host that they got the message from? > > > > X-Original-IP: 0.0.

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:39:44 +0300: > >> Because there is always some friends of some customers >> using a local linux with a local mail server without >> smart host. > > And that is a problem? > 1. you can adjust scoring That's true, I didn't think about it. So true.

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:56:33 -0400: > > > Well, like I said, we had big problems using anything in Botnet except > > nordns. > > That's why everything except the main BOTNET is set to 0 I guess ;-) You > have to ch

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:46:25 -0400: > > > I tried 'spamassassin -D > results.txt < > > myspamfile', but only gives me the results of the tests. > > spamassassin -D results.txt > > should do it. Still no good, I on

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Jerry Durand
At 08:39 AM 8/17/2007, Jari Fredriksson wrote: It's common practise here for households, but not for business users. Actually roaming business users with their lap tops actually need something like a "personal mail server", and there are such products for windows too. Why do they need a "per

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread John Rudd
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:56:33 -0400: Well, like I said, we had big problems using anything in Botnet except nordns. That's why everything except the main BOTNET is set to 0 I guess ;-) You have to check for yourself if it fits or not. I just enable

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Eric A. Hall wrote: On 8/16/2007 12:39 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that so few people are preprocessing their email to reduce the SA load. As we all k

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 16.08.07 15:44, Mike Jackson wrote: RBL: dynablock.njabl.org this one is obsole and you should not use it. It was imported to the SpamHaus PBL and is not maintained by NJABL anymore Thanks for that. Good to know.

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Marc Perkel
Rob Sterenborg wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: OK - it's interesting that of all of you who responded this is the only person who is doing it right. I have to say that I'm somewhat surprised that so few people are preprocessing their email to reduce the SA load. As we a

Re: spamd is dying

2007-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, On 16.08.07 14:28, brian ally wrote: > I'm seeing spamd processes dying consistently: > Aug 13 09:06:07 subtropolix spamd[23480]: bayes: cannot open bayes > databases /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied > Aug 13 09:06:07 subtropolix spamd[23480]: bayes: locke

Re: John Nicolau spam

2007-08-17 Thread Jerry Durand
At 09:34 AM 8/17/2007, Leonardo Magallon wrote: Has anyone else been experiencing the same problem? We get Robyn Miller mail, a year or so ago I added a filter to local.cf that adds some huge score to any male with that string in it. One just came in today as "Miller Robyn", I may have to

Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I left off below that I am using spam-milter 0.3.1-1 === I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors for 10+ years. Always trying to do better PLATFORM: Centos 5.0 1Ghz processor 512Mb memory

Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Zeman
From: "Jiyoon franc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The poor man' -- Koroviev let some tremor into his voice and pointed to Behemoth, who immediately concocted a woeful physiognomy - 'the poor man spends all day reparating primuses. Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:03:13 +0200 Messa

RE: John Nicolau spam

2007-08-17 Thread Leonardo Magallon
That's exactly what I did, but it is not working because they keep on coming in. -Original Message- From: Jerry Durand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:38 AM To: Leonardo Magallon Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: John Nicolau spam At 09:34 AM 8/17/

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Steven Kurylo
I had great results from grey-listing but my users didn't like having to wait 30-60-90 minutes for mail, and I understand that. When you're on the phone with someone and they say "Just sent it," they expect you to have it in a matter of seconds. As I'm often in that positition, I had to sup

John Nicolau spam

2007-08-17 Thread Leonardo Magallon
I've had it with this emails coming from John Nicolau and with that name in the email body. They started coming in since the beginning of this week. I added a rule that basically says that if the word "Nicolau" is in the body, to refuse the email but it is apparently not working. Has anyone els

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:01 -0700, John Rudd wrote: > Over the last 9 months, my observation has been that, on a million-ish > message per day system: > > 1) aprox. 1% of Botnet marked messages are false positives > > 2) you can reduce false positives from Botnet by 66% by just dropping > the s

New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors for 10+ years. Always trying to do better PLATFORM: Centos 5.0 1Ghz processor 512Mb memory Mail server:Scalix 11.1 MTA: Sendmail ver. 8.13.8 Spamassassin: 3.1.9 Webmin: 1.360 I

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread James Lay
On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I left off below that I am using > spam-milter 0.3.1-1 > > === > > I am new to this. I have been running my mail server in various flavors > for 10+ years. Alw

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
thanks for the quick reply. James Lay wrote: On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I left off below that I am using spam-milter 0.3.1-1 === I am new to this. I have been running my mail server i

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread James Lay
On 8/17/07 11:24 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the quick reply. > > James Lay wrote: >> >> On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I left off below that I am using >>> spam-milter 0.3.1-1 >>> >>> ==

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Bill Landry
Rick Zeman wrote: > From: "Jiyoon franc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: The poor man' -- Koroviev let some tremor into his voice and > pointed to Behemoth, who immediately concocted a woeful physiognomy - 'the > poor man spends all day reparating primuses. > Date: Fri, 17 A

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
More questions... James Lay wrote: On 8/17/07 11:24 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks for the quick reply. James Lay wrote: On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I left off below that I am using spam-milter 0.3.1-1 ===

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread James Lay
On 8/17/07 11:53 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More questions... > > James Lay wrote: >> >> On 8/17/07 11:24 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> thanks for the quick reply. >>> >>> James Lay wrote: >>> On 8/17/07 10:58 AM, "Robert M

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Andy Jezierski
"Rick Zeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/17/2007 12:09:34 PM: > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.512 tagged_above=-25 required=4.75 > tests=BAYES_50=0.001, FRT_OPPORTUN1=1, JM_TORA_XM=2.411, RDNS_NONE=0.1 > X-Spam-Level: *** > > H.E*R*E WE GO AGAI.N! > > > T H'E B_I+G O+N'E BEFO*RE T*H*E SE+PTEM

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John Rudd wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:01:27 -0700: > It's deliberately a 5.0 because the purpose is to flag all such messages > for human review/quarantine (and there's a small assumption there that > no rational human being is trashing or rejecting messages at a score in > the range of 5 to 6

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
again, chickenpox.cf almost surely would have caught this. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jari Fredriksson wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:39:13 +0300: > It's common practise here for households, but not for business users. > Actually roaming business users with their lap tops actually need something like a "personal mail server", no, they don't. Not at all. > and there are such pro

Query REg blacklist

2007-08-17 Thread sushma
Dear ALL, Iam running mailscanner with spamasssin. I want to blacklist based on from id i.e mail from other than xyz domain i want to treat as spam even through it may be relayed local network. Can it possilble. please suggest me.

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:23:56 -0400: > Still no good, I only get the message, no debug info...:( But you get it on the screen, right? You may have to redirect std:err or what it's called as well to get the dbg output in that file. > Anyone can tell us what these scores d

prerequisites for SA according to Makefile.PL

2007-08-17 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I'm installing the prerequisites for SA on a Centos 5 system for the first time and I notice that it tells me the following: optional module missing: Mail::SPF optional module missing: Mail::SPF::Query optional module missing: Mail::DKIM optional module missing: Mail::DomainKeys As I understand M

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Zeman
Yep. Thanks, all. As a johnny-come-lately to spamassassin, what's common knowledge to you all is a revelation to me. :-) X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on pg-gateway.melwood.com X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=13.7 require

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread John Rudd
Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? Rick Zeman wrote: Yep. Thanks, all. As a johnny-come-lately to spamassassin, what's common knowledge to you all is a revelation to me. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8/17/2007 2:31 PM >>>

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread John Rudd
Kai Schaetzl wrote: John Rudd wrote on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:01:27 -0700: 3) you can eliminate the false positives entirely by setting the score to 4.0, because all of the false positives we've come across were in the range 5.0 <= score < 6 (actually, smaller than 6, but definitely 6 works ther

Re: Addendum -- New spamassassin significant install problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Well maybe progress but things are still wrong. James Lay wrote: On 8/17/07 11:53 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: More questions... James Lay wrote: On 8/17/07 11:24 AM, "Robert Moskowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks for the quick reply. James La

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 at 13:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? They can be found here: http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm They haven't been updated in what looks to be

why not checking "name"

2007-08-17 Thread aag_uk
-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/why-not-checking-%22name%22-%3Cemail-address-pairs-tf4287913.html#a12206492 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread SM
At 13:02 17-08-2007, John Rudd wrote: Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? It was written by Jennifer several years ago. http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/chickenpox.cf Regards, -sm

why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread aag_uk
Hi, I´m pretty new to SpamAssassin and maybe what I am saying is nonsense or somebody else has suggested this, or the test already exists but I don´t know how to configure it, anyway here is my question. I´ve noticed that some spam messages not marked as spam by spamassassin (the score is lower

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Rick Zeman
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets >>> John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/17/2007 4:02 PM >>> Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? Rick Zeman wrote: > Yep. Thanks, all. As a johnny-come-lately to spamassassin, w

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Joe Zitnik
http://rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm >>> John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/17/07 4:02 PM >>> Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? Rick Zeman wrote: > Yep. Thanks, all. As a johnny-come-lately to spamassassin, what's commo

R: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At 13:02 17-08-2007, John Rudd wrote: > >Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where > >does it come from? Is it part of SARE? > > It was written by Jennifer several years ago. > > http://www.rulesempori

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, aag_uk wrote: I´ve noticed that some spam messages not marked as spam by spamassassin (the score is lower than the limit I´ve set: 5.0. Those emails usually have some hints that suggest they are probably spam: score about 4.6). These message are addressed to many people in m

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, aag_uk wrote: > These message are addressed to many people in my domain but the > names before the email address are random. To explain it more > clearly, for example, the recipient in the TO field is something > like this: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Very ofter the CC field

RE: prerequisites for SA according to Makefile.PL

2007-08-17 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 3:31 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: prerequisites for SA according to Makefile.PL > > > I'm installing the prerequisites for SA on a Centos 5 system > for the first >

Re: Query REg blacklist

2007-08-17 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.08.07 00:41, sushma wrote: > Iam running mailscanner with spamasssin. I want to blacklist based > on from id i.e mail from other than xyz domain i want to treat as spam > even through it may be relayed local network. Can it possilble. please > suggest me. You can blacklist the domai

Re: R: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > -Messaggio originale- > > Da: SM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > At 13:02 17-08-2007, John Rudd wrote: > > >Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where > > >does it come from? Is it part of SARE? > > > > It was wri

Re: R: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread John D. Hardin
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: > > http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/chickenpox.cf > > Why it isn't in a "regular" sare rule? Does it behave well with > non-english messages? It may. It can also behave badly in the face of HTML email with a style sheet. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread SM
At 13:58 17-08-2007, Chris St. Pierre wrote: That's an interesting idea, but it a) is probably going to be quite resource-intensive; Not really. c) requires competent fuzzy matching so that, when a user sends mail to "Chris St. Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", it doesn't flag it as spam because

Re: R: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread SM
At 13:58 17-08-2007, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Why it isn't in a "regular" sare rule? Does it behave well with non-english messages? Quoting http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets "Chickenpox rules are broken for non-English text, they treat all accented characters as non-let

Different permission problems

2007-08-17 Thread Robert Moskowitz
The saga continues. Still don't have things right, where might I look? Why does spam assassin continue to try and write to /root ?? Aug 17 17:13:09 z9m9z spamd[10449]: spamd: connection from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] at port 59858 Aug 17 17:13:09 z9m9z spamd[10449]: spamd: creating de

Re: Different permission problems

2007-08-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The saga continues. > > Still don't have things right, where might I look? > > Why does spam assassin continue to try and write to /root ?? You're running 3.1.9 I see, from past posts. That version is subject to this bug in the setuid code: http://issues.apache.org/SpamA

Re: Query REg blacklist

2007-08-17 Thread Matt Kettler
sushma wrote: > > Dear ALL, > > Iam running mailscanner with spamasssin. I want to blacklist based > on from id i.e mail from other than xyz domain i want to treat as spam > even through it may be relayed local network. Can it possilble. please > suggest me. > AFAIK, this should do it: blackli

Re: Suggested botnet rule scores

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I see. My pov on quarantine is that as most as possible it should not need human review. Clients should be bothered as few as possible. I don't reject any spam, it's all put in the quarantine. If it scores between 5 and 6 users get a notice, if it is higher they don't. FWI

Re: John Nicolau spam

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
That's exactly what I did, but it is not working because they keep on coming in. Perhaps you should show us the rule. I see no reason the following wouldn't work: body Nicolau /\bNicolau\b/i score Nicolau 5 Or: header F_Nicolau From =~ /Nicolau/i bodyB_Nicolau /\bNicolau\b/i meta Yup_

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Hm. This is the first I've heard of the chickenpox rule. Where does it come from? Is it part of SARE? They can be found here: http://www.rulesemporium.com/other-rules.htm They haven't been updated in what looks to be a couple years. They were VERY useful at one time a few years ago when

Re: Sneaky [EMAIL PROTECTED] slipped through

2007-08-17 Thread Loren Wilton
It was written by Jennifer several years ago. http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/chickenpox.cf Why it isn't in a "regular" sare rule? Does it behave well with non-english messages? I'm going on memory here, but I *think* that chickenpox had minor problems with some languages and some encod

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread hamann . w
>> >> Hi,=20 >> >> I=C2=B4m pretty new to SpamAssassin and maybe what I am saying is nonsense = >> or >> somebody else has suggested this, or the test already exists but I don=C2= >> =B4t >> know how to configure it, anyway here is my question. >> >> I=C2=B4ve noticed that some spam messages not

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread aag_uk
John D. Hardin wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, aag_uk wrote: > > (1) Check your MTA options. Some allow you to configure rejection of a > message after X number of invalid recipients are given. > > (2) Consider a rule that adds a point if more than X names appear in > the TO: and/or CC: hea

Query about DNS_FROM_DOB

2007-08-17 Thread Jason Haar
..that seems new. I see it's an RBL that "contains domains registered within the last five days". Can someone explain what that means? I guess it means "seen by DOB within the last five days" more than a domain that was registered within the last five days? I say that because email from my home d

Re: why not doing a test that checks "name"- pairs

2007-08-17 Thread aag_uk
>a) is probably going to be quite resource-intensive; I don´t really know, according to http://www.nabble.com/forum/ViewPost.jtp?post=12207486&framed=y sm-7 say that it shouldn´t be >b) requires LDAP, NIS, etc., so that SpamAssassin can have a clue >about your accounts; >c) requires competent

how to short circuit def_whitelist_from_spf rules

2007-08-17 Thread ram
Can rules like whitelist_from_spf and def_whitelist_from_spf be shortcircuited How do I set priorities for such rules Thanks Ram