Hello,
I'm using spamassassin together with MIMEDefang, and it seems to be working
properly in that it is able to properly identify spam and mark up the
headers accordingly, but the problem is I can not get it to tag the header.
I have rewrite_subject set to 1 in
Christopher Eykamp said the following on 18/11/02 23:15:
Hello,
I've implemented a Bayesian filtering scheme on my system that runs
concurrent with SpamAssassin. It works really well, but I am starting to
think there is an easy attack that would render the filtering useless.
What if, at the
David Masterson said the following on 18/11/02 20:31:
Matt Sergeant writes:
Matthew Cline said the following on 16/11/02 03:14:
Anyone know some forums or mailing lists where spammers discuss
their trade? I'd like to take a look at some of them, just out of
curiosity.
There's
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From: Klaus Heinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 2:53 AM
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Philip Mak wrote:
perl -MCPAN -eshell
install Time::HiRes
I would not recommend to use the CPAN shell
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Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 00:49 schrieb Matthew Cline:
On Monday 18 November 2002 12:53 pm, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
I use Kmail here on a SuSE 8.1 system.
These days I'm trying to set up a spamassassin.
Is it necessary to run
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:02 am, Gregor Hlawacek wrote:
But here comes an other ineteresting question regarding kmail. How
can I use kmail with SA on an IMAP account. There seem to be some
restriction on automated filtering of IMAP Mailboxes and the
possbility to move mails between
On 19 Nov 2002 Mark Olton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I'm using spamassassin together with MIMEDefang, and it seems to be working
properly in that it is able to properly identify spam and mark up the
headers accordingly, but the problem is I can not get it to tag the header.
I have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
How effective is the new bayesian filter on a site-wide installation?
Depends on your users ;) If they all talk about the same stuff, quite
good; if they're totally diverse, it won't be as good.
But I would say the worst accuracy rating would probably be about 80%
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:39:13AM +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
The spammers have. An even better way they've found is to include a
snippet from a legit mailing list, but put it in a white text on white
background box. This was discussed on the spambayes mailing list.
Now, I am not a
Ross Vandegrift said the following on 19/11/02 14:17:
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:39:13AM +, Matt Sergeant wrote:
The spammers have. An even better way they've found is to include a
snippet from a legit mailing list, but put it in a white text on white
background box. This was discussed on
Hi,
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:26:51 GMT, Matt Sergeant wrote:
Ross Vandegrift said the following on 19/11/02 14:17:
If the Bayseian analysis actaully takes into account the joint and
conditional densities of word frequency, and it has a reasonable way to
assign an expectation to them (ie, if
Hello,
A quick question. After doing some reading, I noticed alot ppl have SA
running on Intel boxes. Is anyone running SA on Solaris boxes? Will be
processing about 600k emails/day on one mail server and was wondering how
it would fair. It is a Sun V880 with dual 700 sparc cpu and 4 gig of
Keith Olmstead wrote:
Hello,
A quick question. After doing some reading, I noticed alot ppl have SA
running on Intel boxes. Is anyone running SA on Solaris boxes? Will be
processing about 600k emails/day on one mail server and was wondering how
it would fair. It is a Sun V880 with dual 700
Bob Apthorpe wrote:
corpi (sp?)
The plural is corpora :-)
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Bob Apthorpe said the following on 19/11/02 15:54:
First, start with Larry Gonick's fantastic The Cartoon Guide To Statistics:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0062731025-0
I shall try and get hold of that :-)
[OT: I have the Cartoon History of Time, which looks similar in it's
Matt Sergeant said:
OK, I think I now understand, but I still think there's an attack here.
Imagine you tally where you got the email from with the text you take to
defeat the filter? So you farm addresses from the mod_perl list at
mail-archive.org, and the bayesian filter text is also
Keith Olmstead said the following on 19/11/02 16:11:
Hello,
A quick question. After doing some reading, I noticed alot ppl have SA
running on Intel boxes. Is anyone running SA on Solaris boxes? Will be
processing about 600k emails/day on one mail server and was wondering how
it would fair.
Im using vpopmail with maildrop and spamassassin how do i setup a catch-all ?
you normally just edit .qmail-default and add | maildrop for every user to
check emails for spam but what if it is a catch-all domain? or user for that
matter?
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I want to install SA. I have installed only once before following a guide I
found on the internet. I am looking for instructions on setting up SA so
that it will mark something as being spam and then send to the intended
recipient with out changing the body of the email. I was hoping someone
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:09:30AM -0800, Mark Olton wrote:
I'm using spamassassin together with MIMEDefang, and it seems
to be working properly in that it is able to properly identify
spam and mark up the headers accordingly, but the problem is I
can not get it to tag the header. I have
Would I use the same setup if I wanted to use this as a front-end server
that relays mail to the exchange mail server. If it were set up in this
fashion would SpamAssassin still work?
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From: Steve Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL
| I want to install SA. I have installed only once before
| following a guide I
| found on the internet. I am looking for instructions on setting up SA so
| that it will mark something as being spam and then send to the intended
| recipient with out changing the body of the email. I was hoping
Matt Sergeant writes:
David Masterson said the following on 18/11/02 20:31:
Matt Sergeant writes:
Matthew Cline said the following on 16/11/02 03:14:
Anyone know some forums or mailing lists where spammers discuss
their trade? I'd like to take a look at some of them, just out
of
Yeah testing will be done pretty heavily before put into production. Also
this product might not work under our load. That is where the testing
comes in. I was courious to see what type of load I could expect, it does
not look good from what I am hearing. I am still in the planning stage of
For that you'd need one of the milter solutions out there. I've never used a
milter that incorporates SA, so you'll have to look around. I hear that
MIME-Defang works well with SA. Others on the list will probably be able to
put in their two cents on which milter works best for a relay-only
Yes, I know about that issue with a global AWL. I've even authored some of
the posts discussing how horribly the AWL performs when there's a global
database.
So yes, I understand how the AWL smears your all_spam_to scores all over
the place and causes problems. I understand this and the
I installed Razor2 and it appears to be functioning properly. I am and
have been running Spamassassin 2.43 for sometime now. My debug logs
show:
Nov 19 14:55:06 trillian spamd[1037]: debug: Razor2 is available
Nov 19 14:55:06 trillian spamd[1037]: debug: entering helper-app run
mode
Nov 19
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:14:46PM +, Justin Mason wrote:
I notice the bayes-busting spam posted on spambayes used linuxy text.
That probably works quite well given the current bayes userset ;)
Ah, that's friggin genius! And it's almost a perfectly crafted
attack on Bayes-like
i have found that large emails kill SA's performance.
adding * 256000 to the .procmailrc bypasses anything
larger that 256k, thus speeding up the delivery process.
i have not ever received a spam that was larger than 256k.
:0fw
* 256000
| spamassassin -P
snip
3. In each user's .procmailrc
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 09:54:13AM -0600, Bob Apthorpe wrote:
What does joint and conditional frequency analysis mean?
First, start with Larry Gonick's fantastic The Cartoon Guide To Statistics:
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0062731025-0
Being neither a mathematician nor a
I currently have rewrite_subject set to 1 and subject tag is [SPAM],
but it still won't tag the message. I get the report in the body
indicating it is spam, but no tagged subject.
Mark
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 02:30, Nancy McGough wrote:
On 19 Nov 2002 Mark Olton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
RV == Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
RV On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:14:46PM +, Justin Mason wrote:
I notice the bayes-busting spam posted on spambayes used linuxy text.
That probably works quite well given the current bayes userset ;)
RV Ah, that's friggin genius! And it's
| i have found that large emails kill SA's performance.
| adding * 256000 to the .procmailrc bypasses anything
| larger that 256k, thus speeding up the delivery process.
| i have not ever received a spam that was larger than 256k.
Right - forgot about that condition. I use spamc/d, which ignores
Is there a way to add to the beginning of the Subject: *SPAM* original subject
SPAM to the beginning of the subject and keep original subject intact?
Dev.
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Ross Vandegrift wrote:
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:14:46PM +, Justin Mason wrote:
I notice the bayes-busting spam posted on spambayes used linuxy text.
That probably works quite well given the current bayes userset ;)
Ah, that's friggin genius! And it's almost a perfectly crafted
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Am Dienstag, 19. November 2002 11:03 schrieb Matthew Cline:
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 02:02 am, Gregor Hlawacek wrote:
But here comes an other ineteresting question regarding kmail. How
can I use kmail with SA on an IMAP account. There seem to
On the front page of, http://www.spamassassin.org/ spam-idendification
tactics are said to include:
* Razor: Vipul's Razor
I have Razor running as well as SpamAssassin. Procmail filters
SpamAssassin caught mail into 1 folder and Razor mail into another
(see snippet of my
Try running the sample spam in the distribution.
cat sample-spam.txt | spamc
A working spamassassin / razor finds sample spam in the razor database, the
RAZOR2_CHECK rule shows up on the sample message over here when I run it.
My question is -- at what point does SpamAssassin use Razor?
When I try this as myself (a normal user called mark):
cat /root/.cpan/build/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.01/sample-spam.txt | spamc | more
Here are the interesting lines:
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=32.1 required=7.0
tests=UNDISC_RECIPS,FROM_HAS_MIXED_NUMS,MSGID_HAS_NO_AT,
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Mark R. Cervarich wrote:
So, thinking out loud, is Razor not getting used because of the
systemwide use of SpamAssasin? Or is there some other reason.
I temporarily changed my spamd options to include -D and saw these
messages:
Nov 19 15:48:36 ns spamd[16104]:
Erm, I'm not sure what you're asking here. I can't make much sense of the
original message.
The closest wild guess is Is there a way to add to the beginning of the
subject line *SPAM* and keep the rest of the original subject intact?.
The answer to that question is that's more-or-less what
Actually the only one you will likely see is RAZOR2_CHECK. RAZOR_CHECK is
only called if you have razor v1.x installed, RAZOR2_CHECK is only run if
you have razor 2.x installed. You'll only see both if you've downloaded and
installed both razor 1.x and razor 2.x.
Razor should be called by
Hi,
I currently use SuSE 8.1 with spamassassin version 2.31 and KMail.
Where can I get an new blacklist and where do I have to save this list?
Should I install the new version of spamassassin?
Regards,
Dirk
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Thanks Jim, will be waiting for the 2.5 release. I'm happy with the current
version now :)
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