[SAtalk] New Domain spam

2003-06-29 Thread Steve Phariss
Over the last few weeks I have been getting this piece of spam and it is bypassing the filters. My set up is a local user (running all email through procmail) with the following .procmailrc lines: :0fw: spamassassin.lock | /home/lww/sausr/bin/spamassassin :0: * ^X-Spam-Status:

Re: [SAtalk] Don't check it twice (how-to newbie question)

2003-06-29 Thread Paul-Henri Lampe
At 15:34 -0700 26/06/03, Will Yardley wrote: That's why my question might be an easy one: I would like spamassassin to ignore mail that was already checked (based on the X-Spam header for example). I went through the different cf files without finding anything. Is there a configuration

Re: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Benjamin A. Shelton wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:29:37 -0600: Personally, I have a real problem with someone complaining about *free* software, but from my experience, those who pay the least tend to complain the loudest. It's not complaints about free software, it's complaints about a

Re: [SAtalk] New Domain spam

2003-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Phariss wrote on Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:00:50 -0700: http://www.domainsforpeople.com Since they seem to be holding on for this name, I use this test for them: body SPAM_URL_11 /domainsforpeople/i score SPAM_URL_11 100.0 I also have a much less agressive scoring for this test:

Re: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:29:37PM -0600, Benjamin A. Shelton wrote: That's exactly what I was concerned about, Tony: Where does it stop? The real poblem will be: 'it never stops'. As long as people do react irrationally on rational Questions and as long as the 'what I avoid to see can't anger

Re: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread adam
Somehow that seems really complex. Perhaps there could be an option not to display the rule names at all, just the descriptions, which can easily be overridden in local.cf. That way users aren't bothered with the technical stuff at all, and you can get it to display whatever you want. (This is

[SAtalk] This one got through (and an idea).

2003-06-29 Thread Steve Prior
This one got through, but I wonder if Serious Candidates Only should be given some points. Thanks Steve From - Sun Jun 29 11:00:12 2003 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from si64719.com ([218.52.79.31]) by home.geekster.com

Re: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Mark Lowes
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 23:41, Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: At 03:14 PM 6/27/2003 -0600, you wrote: I'd like to appeal to the SA collective to change the name of the PENIS_ENLARGE tests to something a little more innocuous. Apparently Your company could always ask for a refund... I think

Re: [SAtalk] This one got through (and an idea).

2003-06-29 Thread Frank Pineau
This one got through, but I wonder if Serious Candidates Only should be given some points. I just give HTML-only mail like 200 points. --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce,

[SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread Michael Long
I know this isn't a new thing necessarily in the internet world, but its new for me. Lately in the past week I've gotten 3 or 4 bounces that came from spammers. Apparently they set it up so that a legit (or maybe not legit) mail server bounces back the full email to the recipients. This is

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread Frank Pineau
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:50:59 -0400, you wrote: I know this isn't a new thing necessarily in the internet world, but its new for me. Lately in the past week I've gotten 3 or 4 bounces that came from spammers. Apparently they set it up so that a legit (or maybe not legit) mail server bounces

[SAtalk] 2.60 RC1 make test errors (not Invalid Date)

2003-06-29 Thread Jay Levitt
Aside from the known "Invalid Date" errors, I'm getting the following on a Mandrake 9.0 system: t/spamd_utf8 Not found: flag = X-Spam-Flag: YES# Failed test 2 in t/SATest.pm at line 367 Not found: status = X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=# Failed test 3 in t/SATest.pm at line 367

Re: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Benjamin A. Shelton
And it seems that the provider (a University?) either didn't explain what's going on or didn't get thru to them, so he forwarded the request to this list instead of wondering if this is really something worthwhile and productive to ask for. I guess it would make a could starter for a

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread SqM
I have seen the same stuff.. Almost all of the bounces are coming fron ISP's that never would allow SPAM.. /Sqm I know this isn't a new thing necessarily in the internet world, but its new for me. Lately in the past week I've gotten 3 or 4 bounces that came from spammers. Apparently they

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread Jerry Bell
The email you included ins't spam, its SOBIG.e. Jerry http://www.syslog.org - Original Message - From: Michael Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding I know this isn't a new thing

[SAtalk] spamassassin and razor won't work together

2003-06-29 Thread Christof Wessely
I am new to spamassassin, and tried to figure this out by myself, but unfortunately failed. I am trying to use spamassassin with razor enabled, but running spamassassin -tD sample-spam.txt always shows: debug: Razor2 is available debug: Razor2 is available debug: entering

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread SqM
In my case i have seen aprox 5000 bounces from mailservers around the world during the last week bouncing back to my mailserver.. The sending address in the mail that bounced is still [EMAIL PROTECTED] where someuser changes all the time.. someuser does not exist at all.. Would that still have

[SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Spam Sucks
Anyone know what Spamassassin is testing to trip the BUGGY_CGI sensor? Is there a web site that lists the tests of each of the default settings? I could only find lists of the default scores and descriptions (even on the spamassasin.org site). The message I get is: BUGGY_CGI (2.8

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using bounces and encoding

2003-06-29 Thread Jerry Bell
SOBIG.e has been very very active, so the volume wouldn't suprise me. There hasn't been much released about how it chooses its recipients and senders, but the concensus is that at least the sender is randomly constructed from parts of email addresses it collects. The attachement name is what

Re: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Martin Radford
At Sun Jun 29 20:17:50 2003, Spam Sucks wrote: Anyone know what Spamassassin is testing to trip the BUGGY_CGI sensor? Is there a web site that lists the tests of each of the default I find it easiest to simply look in the source code. settings? I could only find lists of the default scores

Re: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:17 PM 6/29/03 -0700, Spam Sucks wrote: Anyone know what Spamassassin is testing to trip the BUGGY_CGI sensor? Is there a web site that lists the tests of each of the default settings? I could only find lists of the default scores and descriptions (even on the spamassasin.org site). The

Re: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Spam Sucks wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:17:50 -0700: I am using a very simple and standard FormMail form on my website and forms sent to me from my own web site are getting marked as spam! You shouldn't use that one! Really. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive

Re: [SAtalk] New Domain spam

2003-06-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Phariss wrote on Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:18:44 -0700: I would put the tests in local.cf right? I am running non-root user. Yes, if that is readable by that user. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center:

Re: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:17:50 -0700 Spam Sucks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what Spamassassin is testing to trip the BUGGY_CGI sensor? Is there a web site that lists the tests of each of the default settings? I could only find lists of the default scores and descriptions (even on

RE: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Mad Martian
Then what should I be using? The latest FormMail from Matt's script archive is not an open relay when properly configured (which it is). -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 12:10 27/06/03 -0500, Steve Halligan wrote: People, please configure your virus scanners not to reply to the sender. Most viri these days are spoofing the sender anyway. -steve I was just thinking about sending a complaint (not a nasty one) to the postmaster address of each of these rampant

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 13:59 27/06/03 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 05:31:23PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Then I went to http://spamassassin.org/devel/ to get the new PR-1 release, since I couldn't get any CVS stuff and saw that there's now a file which seems to be the final. Downloaded,

[SAtalk] Is this machine-homogenized intrisic pork-offal-vegetable-based-brains-likewisecanned substance [Fwd: Ode to the Love : invitation]

2003-06-29 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Or is it a pork- (pig) based wholesome non-kosher non-halal goody? I didn't visit the sit yet. But Sylvie seems sweet to me. I never solicited her attention - but the latter seems honorable. Like the let's all not eat dogs site from the Philippines a while ago, which one of us regarded as

Re: [SAtalk] Solaris , Sendmail SpamAssassin

2003-06-29 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:47:01 -0700 Patrick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new subscriber. I am attempting to setup SpamAssassin running on Solaris 8 with sendmail ( 8.1.2 I think ). Does anyone know of a good reference site or paper that describes or walks through the process

RE: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Mad Martian
Good news - my server admin added allow_user_rules to the local.cf file (I don't have access) and my rules now work (from user_prefs). Now I just have to solve that darn buggy_cgi thing. Thanks, -Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt

Fwd: Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:17:25 +1200 To: Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Simon Byrnand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 19:08 29/06/03 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:05:30AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: Ah

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 19:08 29/06/03 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 10:05:30AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: Ah good...so maybe there is still time to look at the false positives with Outlook netfolder updates ? :) sorry. we're past the rule change time. just bug fixes now. :-( Pity...

[SAtalk] merge sh script SA caller into .procmailrc

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Jacobson
While I'm waiting for procmail mailing list posting privileges or something, I might as well ask here. Might I combine this .procmailrc, :0: * ^X-Spamdealer-Status: Big Mail/big-possible-spam/ :0: * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* --PS: no shorter way? Mail/almost-certainly-spam/

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:17:25AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: to trigger on netfolder updates. Is this not considered a bug, considering how high the scores of those two tests are ? The combined score is 7.1 which is above our conservative default of 7.0 Well, any rule changes are

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 19:50 29/06/03 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:17:25AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: to trigger on netfolder updates. Is this not considered a bug, considering how high the scores of those two tests are ? The combined score is 7.1 which is above our conservative

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 RC1 make test errors (not Invalid Date)

2003-06-29 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:08:43PM -0400, Jay Levitt wrote: A search of the sa-talk archives shows that people have occasionally seen this in past versions, but nobody's ever responded to them. Any ideas, anyone? known issue, fixed in 2.60 pr2 (note: it's not an release candidate yet ...)

Re: [SAtalk] High Bayes scores with 2.60-pr1

2003-06-29 Thread Justin Mason
Martin Radford writes: I've been running 2.60-pr1 since this morning (thanks to Theo for his speedy assistance with a Perl 5.005-related bug). I've noticed that nearly all the spams I've had so far have come up with BAYES_99 and that the probability is given as 1.000. With 2.55 I didn't get

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 final and CVS

2003-06-29 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Byrnand writes: At 19:50 29/06/03 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:17:25AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: to trigger on netfolder updates. Is this not considered a bug, considering how high the scores of those two tests are ? The combined score is 7.1 which is

Re[2]: [SAtalk] BUGGY_CGI?

2003-06-29 Thread Abigail Marshall
Hello Martin, I am using a very simple and standard FormMail form on my website and forms sent to me from my own web site are getting marked as spam! Look at the headers of the feedback form; since it comes from your own site it will probably have the site user ID and/or IP in one of the

Re[2]: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Abigail Marshall
It seems to me that SA comes with language options that will print test descriptions in languages other than English, i.e., you can opt to have the test that is giving offense here described as Spiega come aumentare le dimensi oni del proprio pene - I would assume by choosing appropriate language

[SAtalk] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-06-29 Thread LTREEUS2
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1328 - 2 msgs WARNING: The file your_details.zip (details.pif) you received was infected with the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. The file attachment was not

[SAtalk] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-06-29 Thread LTREEUS2
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1329 - 1 msg WARNING: The file your_details.zip (details.pif) you received was infected with the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. The file attachment was not successfully

[SAtalk] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-06-29 Thread LTREEUS2
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1329 - 1 msg WARNING: The file your_details.zip (details.pif) you received was infected with the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. The file attachment was not successfully

[SAtalk] Report to Recipient(s)

2003-06-29 Thread LTREEUS2
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipients: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1328 - 2 msgs WARNING: The file your_details.zip (details.pif) you received was infected with the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] virus. The file attachment was not

[SAtalk] ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2003-06-29 Thread System Attendant
Title: ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1328 - 2 msgs Scanning Time = 06/29/2003

[SAtalk] ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken.

2003-06-29 Thread System Attendant
Title: ScanMail Message: To Recipient virus found and action taken. ScanMail for Microsoft Exchange has detected virus-infected attachment(s). Sender = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recipient(s) = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject = Spamassassin-talk digest, Vol 1 #1329 - 1 msg Scanning Time = 06/29/2003

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Naughty test names

2003-06-29 Thread Justin Mason
Abigail Marshall writes: It seems to me that SA comes with language options that will print test descriptions in languages other than English, i.e., you can opt to have the test that is giving offense here described as Spiega come aumentare le dimensi oni del proprio pene - I would assume by

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Application

2003-06-29 Thread Albert Croft
Be advised that the two emails that have come thru entitled Re: Application contain a zip file attachment which may be a variant of the Sobig worm. The zip file for both emails was named your_details.zi, and contained a file called details.pif, which seems to match the characteristics describe