Re: [SAtalk] Exporting spam to txt file, then feedin g to sa-learn, Howto?

2003-08-22 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:28:00PM +0300, Angel Gabriel wrote: > (I know how to export stuff to a txt file, I was just > wondering if it's a good idea?) Does the exporting put all the headers in the text file when it exports the mail? Some only seem to put the "important" headers like who sent th

RE: [SAtalk] new to spamassassin and do not know what the heck I am doing!

2003-08-22 Thread Jennifer Fountain
I found these installaions and installed spamassassin via these: #ssh into raq su - mkdir /tmp/spamassassin cd /tmp/spamassin wget http://spamassassin.taint.org/released/Mail-SpamAssassin-2.31.tar.gz wget http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Pod/podlators-1.22.tar.gz wget http://www.cpan.org/au

[SAtalk] FreeBSD Upgrade to 4.8

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Carlson
I just upgraded to FreeBSD 4.8 and everything was working fine before I upgraded, now for some reason spamass-milter/spamassassin doesn't seem to be catching the test mail that you can send: /usr/sbin/sendmail root < /usr/local/share/doc/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin/sample-spam.txt But it seemed to tag a

Re: [SAtalk] reporting

2003-08-22 Thread Eric Veltman
Hello, On Thursday 21 August 2003 16:42, Landy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> spamassassin -r < Mail/virustrack > razor2 report failed: No such file or directory Razor2 report requires > authentication at > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Reporter.pm line 99. > Warning, unable to

RE: [SAtalk] help with spam report

2003-08-22 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I use expire_mail.pl I sort spam into users spam folders so they don't have to download via pop They can access with a web interface (or imap) to see the spam folder and then every week I run a cron job to expire mail from every users spam folders It gives a summary of what was erased, showing t

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
OK, this is 2.60 release candidate 2; it should work pretty excellently, but we want to give it a day or two before it gets an official thumbs-up. You can download it from http://SpamAssassin.org/released/ -- note: the release candidates are not listed on the SA Download page and will not be availa

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] regex clarification

2003-08-22 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/22/03 08:42 AM , Chris Santerre wrote: I'm having a brain freeze right now. Does /w+ match : ONLY , b, c, ect or will it also match abcds, dfgdfg, dsfgrgr, ect. The latter. (And I assume you mean \w+, not /w+ .) The \w character is a special character that matches any of [

Re: [SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/22/03 04:31 PM , Jonathan Nichols wrote: ARGH I want to SHOOT this spammer. Repeatedly. These ALWAYS pop in at 4.9, always using "jnichols@(faked.com)" too. Grrr Hmmm looks like you could add a rule or two to stop seeing it. Like: D0wn 0n the farm, a g1rl can rea11y get a nice full l

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie Question

2003-08-22 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Orbital, Friday, August 22, 2003, 1:32:12 PM, you wrote: OO> Hello, OO> I am new to SA and would like to know if catching 160 spam from 8000 OO> mails in a day is normal or not? I suspect this is not normal so any OO> ideas where i should look

[SAtalk] Re[2]: joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello landy, Friday, August 22, 2003, 5:12:15 AM, you wrote: l> me to i think someone has stolen the emails from SA list and used us as l> fish baits. i am pist... l> for last 3 days got tons of emails as if i send spam or virus to people I've got

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Freshmeat for rules

2003-08-22 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > opps sorry, this was typoed by my big fingers: > > header MY_HEADER_TAG6 List-Unsubscribe =~ /^\/i > > Ah that's better :-) Er, that's a standard RFC2369 mailing list header, which the RFC recommends should contain a mailto: URL. Why are you ta

Re: [SAtalk] trying something new to stop the 'enlarge your member' spam

2003-08-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/22/03 07:53 AM, Theodore Heise sat at the `puter and typed: > > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > > My new method of stopping the spam . . . > > > > > > Good day sir. > > > > I am writing to inform you that I would like to be removed from every > > bulk email list your pro

[SAtalk] [RD] regex clarification

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Santerre
I'm having a brain freeze right now. Does /w+ match : ONLY , b, c, ect or will it also match abcds, dfgdfg, dsfgrgr, ect. I may have been staring at the rules for too long :) I told my wife this morning that most of her sentances contain the terms "go" and "stairs"!! "Honey c

Re: [SAtalk] changing bounce message

2003-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:40 PM 8/22/03 -0500, Zionsville Autosport wrote: hello i've made a cursory look around and read the FAQ files and i don't see any mention of how to change the message sent in the bounce messages for spam that reaches the set limit of points. i'd like to put something a little more explanator

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

2003-08-22 Thread Geoff Gibbs
> OK, this is 2.60 release candidate 1; I notice that the spam test message is some new standard GTUBE and includes a 'Precedence: junk' header. I call Spamassassin from Amavisd-new, and this header affects the notification system, supressing it. I think that normal (?) spam tends not to have thi

[SAtalk] Does SA-learn learn where email is coming from and give higherscores?

2003-08-22 Thread Angel Gabriel
Does SA-lean learn where an email originates, and give that domain a higher score? -- * Not everyone is touched by an Angel Those that are, never forget the experience * --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMwa

Re: [SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread landy
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:31, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > ARGH > I want to SHOOT this spammer. Repeatedly. These ALWAYS pop in at 4.9, > always using "jnichols@(faked.com)" too. Grrr 4.7 seems to catch those and still no effect on good mails

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:11:45PM -0700, Justin Mason is rumored to have said: > > Tim Buck writes: > > I installed 2.60 rc1 (upgraded from 2.55) yesterday afternoon. Two > > of my users today reported several very obvious spam messages got > > through; none has on my account. I looked at the off

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers appear otherwise detained

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Prior
I've noticed that too, the problem is that over the last two days I got more virus emails in a couple of hours than I was getting spams in a whole day (and the virus messages were bigger), never got infected though. I can't believe that I'm actually looking forward to going back to plain old sp

Re: [SAtalk] big attachments taking too long to process

2003-08-22 Thread Abigail Marshall
Hello Paul, Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 8:37:30 PM, you wrote: PA> This has happened a few times: when a message is retrieved from the PA> upstream POP server with a large attachment (100K), my local copy of SA PA> takes 50 seconds or so to process it. I am using Procmail to filter PA> deliver

[SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Jonathan Nichols
ARGH I want to SHOOT this spammer. Repeatedly. These ALWAYS pop in at 4.9, always using "jnichols@(faked.com)" too. Grrr -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailgate.pbp.net (mailgate.pbp.net [192.168.10.87]) by mail.pbp.net (Postfix)

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers appear otherwise detained

2003-08-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
From: jennifer >>>Our spam has been relatively light over the past few days.  The spammers must >be busy dealing with the onslaught of meaningless unwanted emails from >sobig.f.  H.  I wonder what that feels like???  A bit of poetic justice >when I look at it in that light.   Just wait

[SAtalk] sa-learn stopped working...

2003-08-22 Thread up
I've been feeding sa-learn the following way for months now, but even though I've changed nothing, I can no longer do it. I now get: su-2.05a# sa-learn --spam --mbox ~up/mail/SPAM Cannot open bayes_path /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin/ R/O: Inappropriate file type or format Cannot open bayes_pa

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-22 Thread Justin Mason
Tim Buck writes: > I installed 2.60 rc1 (upgraded from 2.55) yesterday afternoon. Two > of my users today reported several very obvious spam messages got > through; none has on my account. I looked at the offending messages, > and they had no SpamAssassin headers whatsoever; they, for whatever > r

Re: [SAtalk] Scanning for a file name

2003-08-22 Thread landy
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 08:54, Amnon wrote: > Here it comes again. For those of you who may have a better idea, what rule > would you use to catch this "pic.gif". > that pic.gif is pissing me off --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware

[SAtalk] OT - This list and delays, etc.

2003-08-22 Thread Fred
Has anyone inquired about the troubles of this list? Is it normal to see your messages the day after you post them? Is it normal to see messages appear out of order? Why does it take so long to see your own post? I've only been on this list for 3 weeks, but the past 3 days have shown a real slow

[SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-22 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:26 CET Jim wrote: > In SA 2.55, it was working fine. DCC still works in this version. This might be a symptom of bug 2314 [1]. Please check out if you have an old version of Digest::SHA1 dangling in your Perl include path. Cheers, Malte [1]http://bugzilla.spamassa

[SAtalk] Re: big delays

2003-08-22 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Thursday 21 August 2003 20:02 CET Landy wrote: > i have noticed big delays between sending to the list and recieving it? Yeah. The SourceForge Mailinglists are slow. I received your mail a few minutes ago. Hopefully we'll have a chance to change the list server in a not too far future...

[SAtalk] Re: what a great tool

2003-08-22 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 22 August 2003 01:01 CET S.M.C Butler wrote: > i've been running SA for about 4 months now and have to say that it is > an awesome app. i get less than 5 spams a month now compared to the 8-10 > i used to get.. its made a massive impact on my producitivity. thx alot!! Thanks. It's alway

[SAtalk] Re: 2 issues with Win32 install of SA 2.60

2003-08-22 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Friday 22 August 2003 21:07 CET Justin Mason wrote: > Michael Bell writes: > > 1. Sys:Syslog warning when doing perl makefile.pl. Remember Win32 > > doesn't use SpamD [nor does Sys::Syslog exist for Win32], hence this > > warning shouldn't appear. > > Michael -- could you open a bug for #1? #2

[SAtalk] Problem in connecting to mysql database from Spamassassin

2003-08-22 Thread swapna ghosh
Hi     In our server Cobalt raq4r Spamassassin 2.55 is running  smoothly with spamc/spamd with sendmail/procmail. Yesterday we configured it with *mysql* database..Now  i am seeing that database is unable to connect. But database is running in a different server and it has no problem to conne

Re: [SAtalk] OT SA policy for ISP usage

2003-08-22 Thread Jason
Same here. This, I feel offers the best protection because it makes it the end user's responsibility for what they do with the messages. On 8/19/03 7:21 PM, "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We send all email through spamassassin but do no actual filtering. ALL > email i

[SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-22 Thread Tim Buck
I installed 2.60 rc1 (upgraded from 2.55) yesterday afternoon. Two of my users today reported several very obvious spam messages got through; none has on my account. I looked at the offending messages, and they had no SpamAssassin headers whatsoever; they, for whatever reason, were not even process

RE: [SAtalk] RE: Sample spam not caught with RC1

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter wrote: > it'll be fixed in rc2 due out in the near future. You (guys) rock. I've been using SA for a while now, and I'm always amazed at the speed at which fixes are implemented. The developers are always two steps ahead of us, wel

Re: [SAtalk] RE: RC1 Bayes Problems

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:31:45PM -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote: > My mistake. Its actually reported as 0, not 1. All tokens are > listed below, but all the counts are listed as 0. The previously available check_bayes_db won't work with the new DB format. It'll get VERY confused. The "new" one t

Re: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Michael W. Cocke
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:30:35 -0700, you wrote: >> I personally have been putting in private procmail rules to scrape >> them off into a virus bounce folder. But there are a lot of different >> patterns out there and I am only partially affective. > >yes, I did also find an SA rule that will at le

[SAtalk] OT: mercury.thesuttons.force9.co.uk tagging outbound mail

2003-08-22 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, FWIW, I've been seeing several (4) false positives flagged by mercury.thesuttons.force9.co.uk, apparently with SA 2.55 installed site-wide under Postfix with the (IMHO) ridiculouly low threshold of 2.2. Yes, to some extent it's my fault they're being flagged as false positives here since I tr

Re: [SAtalk] changing bounce message

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:40:43PM -0500, Zionsville Autosport wrote: > i've made a cursory look around and read the FAQ files and i don't see any > mention of how to change the message sent in the bounce messages for spam that > reaches the set limit of points. i'd like to put something a little

Re: [SAtalk] RE: RC1 Bayes Problems

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:23:36PM -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Ok. I understand now. Would it be possible to add this to the > release notes...or is it already in there? I couldn't find anything > about it. I'm sure a lot of other folks will be seeing the same > thing. There wasn't really me

Re: [SAtalk] Deleting Spam Messages

2003-08-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 01:07 PM 8.20.2003 -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote: >Hello Daniel, > >Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 9:09:09 AM, you wrote: > >DK> I am looking for documentation on how to configure >DK> Spamassassin to delete all messages marked as spam >DK> instead of the header change. I spoke to the partners in >

Re: [SAtalk] RE: Sample spam not caught with RC1

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:34:56PM -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote: > > I checked my mail this morning and there were about twenty spam > > messages that were not even looked at by SA. The SA headers were > > not included. This was a false negative, it simply wasn't even > > considered by SA. There

[SAtalk] Newbie Question

2003-08-22 Thread Orbital Office
Hello,   I am new to SA and would like to know if catching 160 spam from 8000 mails in a day is normal or not? I suspect this is not normal so any ideas where i should look to tighten things up? I am using SA in conjunction with Mailscanner   Thanks Darren-- This message has been scanned for

RE: [SAtalk] RE: RC1 Bayes Problems

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 03:31:45PM -0500, Mike Loiterman wrote: >> My mistake. Its actually reported as 0, not 1. All tokens are >> listed below, but all the counts are listed as 0. > > The previously available check_bayes

Re: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-22 Thread Jim Knuth
>The best solution is to reject the mail at the smtp level, and then save >it to a central queue. This is the method I use, perhaps 1 in a few >thousand messages I have to recover. I just delete messages from the queue >after 2 weeks. >Don't just delete. >At the very worse, reject the message at t

Re: [SAtalk] How can i connect to remote mysql db?

2003-08-22 Thread Ryan Moore
You would need to enter the following info in your local.cf: user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:$databasename:$databasehost user_scores_sql_username $sadb_user user_scores_sql_password $sabd_pwd user_scores_sql_table $tablename You would need to enter your info for the the variables startin

[SAtalk] permissions error

2003-08-22 Thread Jon Fraley
I am getting this when I run debug with debug enabled: debug: mkdir /root/.spamassassin failed: mkdir /root/.spamassassin: Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin.pm line 1181 Permission denied debug: bayes: 12514 untie-ing debug: auto-learning failed: lock: 12514

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

2003-08-22 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:12:00PM +0300, Jim Knuth wrote: > How can I updating my system? (Debian 3.*) > Just in time I use V 2.55 (SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp)) > > with << apt-get install spamassassin >> ? > I need no problems! ;-) Once the debian package's maintainer makes i

Re: [SAtalk] Appliances vs SA

2003-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:09 PM 8/20/2003 -0400, K Old wrote: Can anyone offer advice on this? Any good arguments I can bring to the table against getting the appliance? You'd really have to be specific as to which appliance.. I've seen a lot of products out there (ie: trend's "sensitive content" blocker) which bl

[SAtalk] RE: Sample spam not caught with RC1

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> One other thing that I noticed with RC1 is that the sample spam >> packaged with 2.55 and lower is not caught. It dosen't get tagged >> at all. I'm wondering if it is timing on one of the RBL test. If >> so, does it just pass through without an

[SAtalk] Configuration Problem.

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Willard
Hi spamassassin-talk, This is a bit tricky to explain so here I go.. I am using spamassassing through postfix by using the following entry in master.cf smtp inetn - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter: filterunix - n n - -

[SAtalk] changing bounce message

2003-08-22 Thread Zionsville Autosport
hello i've made a cursory look around and read the FAQ files and i don't see any mention of how to change the message sent in the bounce messages for spam that reaches the set limit of points. i'd like to put something a little more explanatory than "Congratulations!". thanks. jason -

[SAtalk] RE: RC1 Bayes Problems

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Loiterman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I upgraded to RC1 a few minutes ago. First, it wasn't seeing my > previous database. So I blew it away and started clean. > > Problem 1: I sent the sample spam through b

[SAtalk] Newbie Question

2003-08-22 Thread Orbital Office
Hello, I am new to SA and would like to know if catching 160 spam from 8000 mails in a day is normal or not? I suspect this is not normal so any ideas where i should look to tighten things up? I am using SA in conjunction with Mailscanner Thanks Darren -- This message has been scanned for viru

[SAtalk] big attachments taking too long to process

2003-08-22 Thread Paul Adams
This has happened a few times: when a message is retrieved from the upstream POP server with a large attachment (100K), my local copy of SA takes 50 seconds or so to process it. I am using Procmail to filter deliver the messages locally -- not passing them on to another MDA. During the 50-second p

RE: [SAtalk] Newbie Spamd/Spamc

2003-08-22 Thread Céline REDON
yes I have added it today , but it doesnot change anything here is exactly what I have # == # service type private unpriv chroot wakeup maxproc command + args # (yes) (yes) (yes) (never) (50) # ==

RE: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Erick Calder
> I personally have been putting in private procmail rules to scrape > them off into a virus bounce folder. But there are a lot of different > patterns out there and I am only partially affective. yes, I did also find an SA rule that will at least make sure the bounce was sent in response to a me

Re: [SAtalk] Deleting Spam Messages

2003-08-22 Thread Jack L. Stone
TopPost: Correction to my list below. "spamd" should be "spamass-milter" for the threshold blocking. Sorry. >Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:32:21 -0500 >To: Abigail Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel Kaliel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: "Jack L. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Deleti

RE: [SAtalk] Does SA uses Bayesian classifier

2003-08-22 Thread Jim Porter
Martin, Look for a file called check_bayes_db in the tools directory of Mail-SpamAssassin. Run it and pipe into head. ./check_bayes_db |head Look for the number of nspam and nham. Both numbers must be over 200 for bayes to work. See below. Jimmy 0.000000 non-token d

[SAtalk] SAProxy

2003-08-22 Thread Jack Gostl
Anyone have the URL to sign up with the SAProxy mailing list? This program is driving me nuts. Runs like a champ, then just stops. -- Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run m

[SAtalk] SA-LEARN time 25 seconds slow or fasta?

2003-08-22 Thread Nichols, William
I feed my SA box about twice a week with untagged spam that I collect.  I ha dit forget everything for the past few weeks today, and then ran sa-learn on all the messages.   Learned from 407 in 25 seconds.  Is that slower or faster than what people in here expect?   Just wanting to get an

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Freshmeat for rules

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Santerre
*BIG SNIP* > > header MY_HEADER_TAG6 List-Unsubscribe =~ /^\ describe MY_HEADER_TAG6 Possible spam tag in list unsub, Mailto: > score MY_HEADER_TAG6 0.01 > opps sorry, this was typoed by my big fingers: header MY_HEADER_TAG6 List-Unsubscribe =~ /^\/i Ah that's better :-) --Chris Sante

Re: [SAtalk] 2 issues with Win32 install of SA 2.60

2003-08-22 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
I seen this too, but make sure you run --lint on your config file to ensure it's good! See also: http://www.exit0.us/index.php/Win32Install26 It does not appear that all tests are working on my install of 2.6, --lint returns as normal but as in my other post, I am seeing misses where I know there

Re: [SAtalk] OT - Sorry for the line noise on the list.

2003-08-22 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:47, AltGrendel wrote: > Sorry folk, this is a continuing saga. I can't email Yorkshire Dave > directly. > > YD: > > This is the latest trace that I have when attpempting to get to your > site. > > You're getting all the way except the last hop, me. Heading back in the

Re: [SAtalk] reporting

2003-08-22 Thread landy
> You can create the configuration directory with automatically generated user > ID / password by using 'razor-admin -create' under the same user ID that you > also use for 'spamassassin -r'. thanks --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[SAtalk] [RD] Freshmeat for rules

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Santerre
Well I have a bunch I'm testing out. Some great ones here. Working very nice, so I figure I would share them out. Keep in mind that some of these WORKSTATION rules are for observation purposes. I'm well aware some of the headers could be legit. I will score these small as usual so they just say,

Re: [SAtalk] Make trouble on RH9

2003-08-22 Thread David Meier
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682 Dave > > I'm encountering make problems with both the perl Makefile.PL and > the CPAN shell installation approaches. > > CPAN shell tells me that it cannot find pod2man in my path even > though it's in /usr/bin and runs when I type po

Re: [SAtalk] 2 issues with Win32 install of SA 2.60

2003-08-22 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Bell writes: > Sorry about accidental send of last > > Anyway > > 1. Sys:Syslog warning when doing perl makefile.pl. Remember Win32 > doesn't use SpamD [nor does Sys::Syslog exist for Win32], hence this > warning shouldn't appear. > > 2 At very end of running spamassassin -D < sample-sp

Re: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-22 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/22/03 11:06 AM , Kris Deugau wrote: I've seen legit mail on the default SA rules score 12-15. Personally, I've never seen a legitimate mail score over about 4.5, and those were from a couple of folks I know who overuse HTML in their emails. The vast bulk of my ham scores below -5.0. I auto-

[SAtalk] [RD] random letters vs. MS.Word

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Santerre
While we have discussed catching random letters, I wanted to go over a finding. If you use my OBFU rules, or change Fred's to rawbody, there is one instance of FPs you can watch out for. (Both sets found on the wiki http://www.exit0.us) Emails written in Word will tend to hit these rawbody rules d

[SAtalk] OT - Sorry for the line noise on the list.

2003-08-22 Thread AltGrendel
Sorry folk, this is a continuing saga. I can't email Yorkshire Dave directly. YD: This is the latest trace that I have when attpempting to get to your site. < internal subnets deleted> 3 64.83.78.1 (64.83.78.1) 4.255 ms 3.697 ms 3.650 ms 4 64.83.72.1.PHI-7507.cavtel.net (64.83.72.1) 9

Re: [SAtalk] I've got a couple more I want to go after

2003-08-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/21/03 09:15 AM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > I've gotten a couple interesting spams lately. Well, interesting in > the sense that I am perplexed by them. > > Here's a couple attached. They are from two different domains, > watchmeandlearn.com and ofcourseitwill.com. They h

Re: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Theodore Heise
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Bob Proulx wrote: > Erick Calder wrote: > > I'm getting a bunch of mails from MAILER-DAEMONs around the world > > complaining mostly that [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist. > > these are generated by dictionary spammers who are using my e-mail address > > for the reply-to hea

[SAtalk] help with spam report

2003-08-22 Thread Test, James
I'm trying to create a script that periodically emails a report to a user with the sender and subjects of the emails that got flagged as spam. The snippet below is from my spamlog. Does anyone know how to extract just the "From: somesender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" and "Subject: details of transact

[SAtalk] Does SA uses Bayesian classifier

2003-08-22 Thread Martin Bretschneider
Hi, I've run sa-learn over 300 spam emails (quite few, I know) und much more ham emails. ls -al .spamassassin/ looks good: insgesamt 3772 drwx--4096 2003-08-22 19:39 . drwxr-xr-x8192 2003-08-22 19:31 .. -rw---2016 2003-08-22 19:39 bayes_msgcount -rw--- 667648 2003-08-22 1

Re: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-22 Thread Kris Deugau
"Carl R. Friend" wrote: >I'll concur that auto-deletion is not the wisest path to follow > but I, too, am being lead down that path at the ISP *wibble* Is this a Management path, or a "Users flooding the support lines with requests" path? > I volunteer time > to (non-profit, so don't get you

RE: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-22 Thread Larry Gilson
>-Original Message- >From: Martin Radford >I'd suggest that you get them to put this in writing, explicitly >acknowledging that there is a risk of non-spam being tagged as spam >and being deleted inadvertently. (Perhaps someone could suggest >suitable wording to go in a FAQ item :-) Wi

Re: [SAtalk] SoBig Virus

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Thomas
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:41:40AM -0500, Patrick Bores is rumored to have said: > > I'd like to add spamassassin rules to match certain attachment > filenames, but I can't seem to get it right. I'm trying things like: > > rawbody SOBIG_VIRUS > /filename="?application.pif|document_all.pif|t

[SAtalk] How can i connect to remote mysql db?

2003-08-22 Thread swapna ghosh
Hi     i have sent one email asking for - that i am unable to connect mysql databasefrom my server. The database is under a different host but is *spamassassin* istrying to connect only the database at the local server?   Here is again i am giving the snapshot of the log file for first few lines..

[SAtalk] 2 issues with Win32 install of SA 2.60

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Bell
Sorry about accidental send of last Anyway 1. Sys:Syslog warning when doing perl makefile.pl. Remember Win32 doesn't use SpamD [nor does Sys::Syslog exist for Win32], hence this warning shouldn't appear. 2 At very end of running spamassassin -D < sample-spam.txt output debug: RBL: success for 3

[SAtalk] 2 issues with

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Bell
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Send Spamassassin-talk mailing list submissions to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'he

Re: [SAtalk] Postfix 2 rejects spamassassin-talk-admin

2003-08-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:20 AM 8/22/2003 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote: have some rejects in my maillog. Was sourceforge having problems or ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ host 66.35.250.206 206.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 206.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa. 206.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer list

Re: [SAtalk] Configure to delete messages

2003-08-22 Thread AltGrendel
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:42, Carl R. Friend wrote: >Hello, > > > >I added a section to the main page of the wiki www.exito.us :) > > >One can't repeat this enough, it is NOT a good idea to automatically delete > > >emails marked spam. Then again, it isn't a good idea to date your cousin, > > >

RE: [SAtalk] How To generate a spammers domain list

2003-08-22 Thread Chris Santerre
Ok, I grabbed the script I wrote. Quick and dirty but seems to save a LOT of time. The idea is simple. Basically grep your spamtrap for all lines that have 'http://' in them. You lose a small percent because of line breaks but they repeat so much it doesn't matter. Next you just strip away all th

[SAtalk] SPAMPD

2003-08-22 Thread Céline REDON
Hi all, Would anyone use SPAMPD ? And if so, once SA is installed , I donot understand how to start SPAMPD. It is said on "http://www.worlddesign.com/Content/rd/mta/spampd/spampd.html"; that SPAMPD REPLACES SPAMD but what does it mean? Thanx for help... CR -

Re: [SAtalk] using spamassasin with qmail

2003-08-22 Thread Kai MacTane
At 8/21/03 05:14 PM , Jennifer Fountain wrote: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_qmail_spamassassin.php http://www.magma.com.ni/~jorge/spamassassin.html Does anyone have any pointers or recommend which doc I should follow? Those two both seem to involve setting up SA filtering site-wide, whi

[SAtalk] SoBig Virus

2003-08-22 Thread Patrick Bores
Hello, I'd like to add spamassassin rules to match certain attachment filenames, but I can't seem to get it right. I'm trying things like: rawbody SOBIG_VIRUS /filename="?application.pif|document_all.pif|thank_you.pif"?/ Any ideas on how to match attachment filenames? Patrick -

Re: [SAtalk] SA and razor not playing nice

2003-08-22 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Has anyone come up with a solution to this yet? > > Regards, > /Jeff If you search the archives I think you'll find the answer, as I'm sure it's been discussed and solved some months ago. I can't remember for sure, but off the top of my head, I think its caused by a version mismatch, either by

Re: [SAtalk] Re: virus bounce rules

2003-08-22 Thread Alicia Forsythe
I'm running 2.55 and rules from http://www.exit0.us/index.php/VirusBounceRules are not working either. In fact I can't catch any mail re: Wicked scrensaver, thank you... Body rules seem to be working, but not header rules??? >>> "Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/22/2003 10:19:01 AM >>> What versio

RE: [SAtalk] new to spamassassin and do not know what the heck I am doing!

2003-08-22 Thread Larry Gilson
I have not tried that install myself. I have heard of others on the list have good success. I use RH so I use Theo's RPMs. --Larry >-Original Message- >From: Jennifer Fountain >I found these installaions and installed spamassassin via these: > >#ssh into raq >su - >mkdir /tmp/spama

[SAtalk] Help with snprintf

2003-08-22 Thread tony peach
Greetings All, Having escaped a problem with spam until this week (thanks Sobig!!!), we haven't had a need to filter email. Nonetheless, that has now changed. Currently I have a quick and dirty perl filter running but it is just cutting on subject lines. Because the subject lines hit a li

Re: [SAtalk] Make trouble on RH9

2003-08-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:07:33PM -0700, Robert E. Shelton wrote: > CPAN shell tells me that it cannot find pod2man in my path even though > it's in /usr/bin and runs when I type pod2man to my shell. I've > installed all of the other modules listed in INSTALL hoping to fix the > problem, and reloa

Re: [SAtalk] Re: virus bounce rules

2003-08-22 Thread culley harrelson
SpamAssassin-2.53. Guess I should upgrade... On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 07:19 AM, Fred wrote: What version of SA are you using? I noticed this issue yesterday with RC1 of 2.6, I sent a message to the list, no response yet. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. culley harr

Re: [SAtalk] avg

2003-08-22 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:40:00PM +0300, landy wrote: > is there a way to have SA report avg scores of all incoming emails and > and avg socre of those detected as spam? If you run spamd on the system, you can see it adds log entries if configured properly. You can parse the logs for those entri

[SAtalk] Which config do I have to use

2003-08-22 Thread Jens Strohschnitter
Hi there, which config do I have to use: local.cf or user_prefs ? In /etc/mail/spamassassin there is a local.cf - and in /home/mail/.spamassassin/ there is an user_prefs. Are both needed for spamassassin running as daemon (spamd/spamc) ? -- Regards, Jens Strohschnitter --

Re: [SAtalk] removing SpamAssassin headers before processing message

2003-08-22 Thread Rich Puhek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a problem with SpamAssassin where it would get (from postfix) an email sent by someone on the internet, and that email already have a X-Spam-Flag: YES and all the other SpamAssassin headers before I do my own SpamAssassin tests. How can I remove all SpamAssa

Re: [SAtalk] Question

2003-08-22 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Thomas Skaret Larsen wrote: anyone know how to enable spamassassin PER domain. in an easy way. and how can i use spamassassin without using qmail-scanner and not need to recompile my qmail install with the qmailqueue patch., Add the followng to the .qmail-default file if you are using vpopm

Re: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Rich Puhek
landy wrote: On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 03:34, mikea wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 07:30:23PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: me to i think someone has stolen the emails from SA list and used us as fish baits. i am pist... for last 3 days got tons of emails as if i send spam or virus to people Sobig.F

[SAtalk] Postfix 2 rejects spamassassin-talk-admin

2003-08-22 Thread Mike Vanecek
I have some rejects in my maillog. Was sourceforge having problems or ??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin]$ host 66.35.250.206 206.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 206.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa. 206.0/24.250.35.66.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer lists.sourceforge.net. grep -i Aug 21 /var/log/ma

Re: [SAtalk] Re: virus bounce rules

2003-08-22 Thread Fred
What version of SA are you using? I noticed this issue yesterday with RC1 of 2.6, I sent a message to the list, no response yet. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. culley harrelson wrote: > I just put these in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and spamassassin > doesn't seem

[SAtalk] Make trouble on RH9

2003-08-22 Thread Robert E. Shelton
I’m encountering make problems with both the perl Makefile.PL and the CPAN shell installation approaches.   CPAN shell tells me that it cannot find pod2man in my path even though it’s in /usr/bin and runs when I type pod2man to my shell. I’ve installed all of the other modules listed in

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