RE: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread Yackley, Matt
I noticed this as well, after having long, long lookup times for the past couple of days, it started claiming just about every IP that connected to us was on the list. It really seems to have gone belly up or someone just set it to respond as Yes for every query Oh well, not in use here

Re: [SAtalk] wrap around spamassassin lines fail test?

2003-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote: :0: * !^X-Spam-Status:.*USER_IN_WHITELIST $MAILDIR/rejects X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-93.4 required=5.0 tests=BASE64_ENC_TEXT,BAYES_60,HTML_40_50,MIME_HTML_ONLY,

Re: [SAtalk] Proposal: Rule for faked HELOs

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Jens Teubner writes: Hi, although I'm definitely not a SpamAssassin expert, I observed a pattern that was present in roughly half the spam mails I got during the last weeks. --- snip --- Received: from 134.34.240.60 (unknown [202.99.169.213]) by guanin.uni-konstanz.de (Postfix)

Re: [SAtalk] wrap around spamassassin lines fail test?

2003-08-27 Thread Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist wrote: :0: * !^X-Spam-Status:.*USER_IN_WHITELIST $MAILDIR/rejects X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-93.4 required=5.0 tests=BASE64_ENC_TEXT,BAYES_60,HTML_40_50,MIME_HTML_ONLY,

Re: [SAtalk] How long should a GA run take?

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:31:02AM -0700, Bob Dickinson (BSL) wrote: We've been running the GA on the most recent mass check results and it's been going for about 24 hours. How long does thing thing typically take? Welcome to the GA. Sometimes it takes only a few hours, sometimes it takes

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread David Olbersen
Thus spake Larry Rosenman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): based on the below post from the Exim list, and other posts, and a bounce that I received listing my humble (anti-relayed) server, I'd suggest the following for folks: score RCVD_IN_OSIRU 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_RELAY 0 score

Re: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, James Miller wrote: With all the trouble OSIRUSOFT is having, is it time to stop using them? As of 12:40 this afternoon our mail server stopped accepting mail from our main web server because it was listed on osirusoft. How I don't know since it doesn't run an SMTP server -- it's protected

[SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Larry Rosenman writes: FYI, since SA uses the Osirusoft RBL. confirmed -- relays.osirusoft.com has been switched to return a match for every query. FPs galore.It's also suffering a DDOS, so this may take a while to get through though. Good reason to get 2.60rc3 out ASAP ;) --j.

FW: [SAtalk] wrap around spamassassin lines fail test?

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Did I write that junk below? Header/body, what is the difference? Well, I guess I need to fade into a dark hole before the red flush fades from my face. The real dilema now is to go to sleep or wake up. Hmmm, tough choice. Seriously though, I was wrong. Procmail does convert the folding

[SAtalk] Re: relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Rosenman
Just more confirmation. Please set your Osirusoft scores to zero until 2.60rc3 or later comes out. (the list I posted earlier are all the tests from 2.60rc2, fwiw). LER Forwarded Message Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 15:58:22 -0700 From: michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread James Miller
Update OSIRUSOFT issue: I decided to go ahead and call Joe Jared since now our primary mail server is now listed as well and I can't get mail to him. - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (reason: 553 5.3.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...

Re: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:33, James Miller wrote: With all the trouble OSIRUSOFT is having, is it time to stop using them? [...] And to add to it, they are (have been since Friday) under a DDoS attack, their web site is down, mail is not flowing to them (because of the attack I assume) It's

RE: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:32, Yackley, Matt wrote: I noticed this as well, after having long, long lookup times for the past couple of days, it started claiming just about every IP that connected to us was on the list. It really seems to have gone belly up or someone just set it to respond as

[SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
I was just thinking about the GA process and although I havn't looked at it to see exactly how it works, I was wondering the following Presumably it starts with a certain scoreset, runs the spam through, sees what percentage score above 5, then runs the ham through and sees what percentage

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Anyone who would like to is welcome to use rbl.axess.com as well, it's our manual list of IP's that have sent spam directly to my personal account. Please read rbllist.axess.com before using if you are in BT space, .br, .cl, .mx or .kr space though because your dynamic IP's are probably

[SAtalk] perl script for extracting scores

2003-08-27 Thread Anthony McCarthy
I include a perl script below that can be used on any non-SPAM email message to extract the scores. It *might* work for you :) YMMV Anthony ## #!/usr/bin/perl my @snet = ; my @slocal = ; $filename = /usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf ;

[SAtalk] [RD] Scanning Attachment Types

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
Okay, regardless of whether it's SA's job to scan for different types of attachments (like the Sobig virus), I wanted to try to see if I could work out rules that would at least allow it to do so. I've tried the following, just trying to test by scanning for JPEG and GIF: body IMAGE_ATTACHMENT

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
based on the below post from the Exim list, and other posts, and a bounce that I received listing my humble (anti-relayed) server, I'd suggest the following for folks: score RCVD_IN_OSIRU 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_RELAY 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_DIALUP 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 score

[SAtalk] Question about the GA...(part 2)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
The biggest problem with a score based system with an abrupt cutoff is the uncertainty around the threshold. If the GA currently thinks its ok for a ham to score 4.9 and still be called ham, and a spam to score 5.1 and still be called spam, its not going to make as much effort to get a cleaner

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
based on the below post from the Exim list, and other posts, and a bounce that I received listing my humble (anti-relayed) server, I'd suggest the following for folks: score RCVD_IN_OSIRU 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_RELAY 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_DIALUP 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 score

Re: [SAtalk] probs migrating bayes db from linux to freebsd 4.7

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:42:53PM +0200, Arpi wrote: I've transferred our rather big common bayes db collected (and trained) on a linux mail gateway server over months, to a freebsd 4.7 system, with spamassassin 2.55 (the linux server ran 2.53). The first problem may be endianness. 2.5x is

[SAtalk] Disable all checks...

2003-08-27 Thread Ron Gilbert
Is there a way to disbale all checks, so I can then turn on just the few that I want? I want to see how SA does with *just* Bayes filtering? Also, is there a way to turn off all network checks? # Enable or disable network checks skip_rbl_checks 1 use_razor2 1 use_dcc

Re: [SAtalk] Install issue

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:41:02AM -0700, Rob Livermore wrote: I'm attempting to install Spam-Assassin 2.60 and when I run $perl Makefile.PL it reports back HTML::Parser 3 not found. Install HTML::Parser. It's even in the docs. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Politics is supposed to be

Re: [SAtalk] Disable all checks...

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 04:46:41PM -0700, Ron Gilbert wrote: Is there a way to disbale all checks, so I can then turn on just the few that I want? I want to see how SA does with *just* Bayes filtering? Not as a config option. Move all the /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf (or wherever you

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
Larry Rosenman writes: FYI, since SA uses the Osirusoft RBL. confirmed -- relays.osirusoft.com has been switched to return a match for every query. FPs galore.It's also suffering a DDOS, so this may take a while to get through though. Good reason to get 2.60rc3 out ASAP ;) So are the

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread 'Carlo Wood'
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:03:59PM +0200, 'Carlo Wood' wrote: I'll carefully make a new list that I will post later. Ok, I now did it correctly - using an awk program. Number of hams: 4548 Number of hams without '^(X-[Mm]ailer|User-Agent):': 1833 Number of Messsage ids with a domain: 4262 List

RE: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:44, Larry Gilson wrote: Dave, Thanks for your input. I have a better understanding now and agree with you. I was headed down the wrong road. It would be nice to have an @foo.localdomain format. That could be faked too just like every other header field. It

Re: [SAdev] Re: [SAtalk] [RD] new rules for listwashingtokens,ROT-13 etc.

2003-08-27 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:02, Fred I-IS.COM wrote: Hello, I found a new set of listwashing tokens, all are located inside HTML comments. I created the following transform matrix: Left side is what the letter should be, the right side is the transformed text. An example looks like:

Re: [SAtalk] Blocking multipart/alternative with empty text/plainpart

2003-08-27 Thread Yorkshire Dave
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:57, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: Hello! I wrote (Sun 2003-Aug-17 22:12:45 +0200): About a quarter to a third of the spam mails which are getting past my privately used spam filter (SpamAssassin 2.55, Debian package version 2.55-3) are of type multipart/alternative

[SAtalk] Postfix 2, amavis-new,f-prot yes, sa 2.55 no??

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Vanecek
I have got amavis debug running. I have postfix setup to only filter incoming (using a FILTER command in access_recipients). I have F-Prot installed. Outgoing messages skip any scans. Incoming messages only do virus scans, but no SA scans. I am not sure that this is the problem, but when I

Re: [SAtalk] FreeBSD Upgrade to 4.8

2003-08-27 Thread Vivek Khera
MC == Mike Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MC Anyone have any issues after an upgrade to 4.8? I am thinking MC something went south when I ran mergemaster on the sendmail.cf MC file, but I am not certain since I didn't bother to save a backup MC copy. I know, stupid of me, but this is my home

Re: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, 'Carlo Wood' wrote: List of mailers of mails with msg-id without domain: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) I haven't looked at the source in a while, but I'm almost certain this is simply because IRIX's gethostname() doesn't return a FQDN, at least in that

Re: [SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-27 Thread Justin Mason
Simon Byrnand writes: I was just thinking about the GA process and although I havn't looked at it to see exactly how it works, I was wondering the following Presumably it starts with a certain scoreset, runs the spam through, sees what percentage score above 5, then runs the ham through

[SAtalk] Report in header?

2003-08-27 Thread Ed Weinberg
I think I have seen several people ask for this, but have not seen answers. Maybe I missed them? Either way, if you want to tell me to RTFM, please specify which FINE manual to read! Can I get scores like this in the header? Can it be in the header of email that is not spam too? Thanks for

[SAtalk] Re: Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... but now does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread william f guyton jr
what do you see in /var/spool/qmailscanner/qmail-queue.log Jennifer Fountain writes: in the articles I am reading, you should see this in your /var/log/maillog: Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: info: setuid to qmailq succeeded Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: checking message [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
Simon Byrnand writes: I was just thinking about the GA process and although I havn't looked at it to see exactly how it works, I was wondering the following Presumably it starts with a certain scoreset, runs the spam through, sees what percentage score above 5, then runs the ham

[SAtalk] RE: Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... but now does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread Jennifer Fountain
this file does not exist. it is listed in my .pl file: #Name of file in $scandir where debugging output goes my $debuglog=qmail-queue.log; -Original Message- From: william f guyton jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:55 PM To: Jennifer Fountain Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread Alan Leghart
from http://relays.osirusoft.com/ : Due to the severe drain of resources, relays.osirusoft.com will be down for an undetermined period of time. Please ask all sites using data from relays.osirusoft.com to stop until further notice. Took a dozen tries just to load this simple text web page. HTH

[SAtalk] RE: Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... but now does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread Jennifer Fountain
ok figured out why it was there... set to 1 :) here a snip Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:31:48 -0400:8877: w_c: primary Content-Type of text/plain found Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:31:48 -0400:8877: w_c: rename new msg from /var/spool/qmailscan/working/tmp/server10619479084558877 to

[SAtalk] user_prefs question

2003-08-27 Thread Gerry Maddock
I have been using spamassassin for a few days now and love it! I have been able to set up whitelists for users in in user_prefs with no problems so far. I do have two users that receive email from a yahoo group. Normally I'd add the email of the list's email server to the user_prefs file and it

Re: [SAtalk] different notification emails depending on domain

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:34:46AM +0200, Marcus Schopen wrote: I use amavisd-0.1. My sendmail is responsible for two domains (privat and work stuff). Depending on to which domain a user is sending an email, I'd like to generate different notification emails if an virus is found. What's

RE: [SAtalk] Message ID

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Dave, -Original Message- From: Yorkshire Dave I'm not sure that having an @foo or @foo.localdomain message-id actually breaks any standards, although it may bend them slightly. RFC822/2822 seem to refer mainly to the uniqueness of the message-id. RFC2822(3.6.4) recommends

[SAtalk] Bayesian - spamprobe in addition to spamassassin?

2003-08-27 Thread B Wooster
I was merrily using SpamAssassin (directly, ver 2.55, on Linux). But the recent virus emails flooded my mailbox, and SpamAssassin tagged most of them as good. I then installed SpamProbe, and within just 100 messages, it got nearly all of the 50-100 emails I get (mostly spam) tagged correctly..

[SAtalk] forwarded spam with embedded SA messages not caught

2003-08-27 Thread John Owens
Greetings, I've got a small problem with SpamAssassin that I hope you can help me with. I receive a significant amount of email forwarded through another account. I don't have any access to the way SpamAssassin is run on this account; it's run on every piece of mail. And it wraps the message in a

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Brian May
By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still servers that use the rbl directly from sendmail or postfix and the like.. :( - Original Message - From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[SAtalk] Text in Subject: Triggering BODY Rule?

2003-08-27 Thread Kai MacTane
(Re-sending this, because it seems to have gotten missed in the scramble a few days ago when I first sent it.) I've got a weird situation going on with some rules I'm testing. I'm trying to set up rules to catch various combinations of the real names (and nicknames) of my users. (Not all of

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin helps make spam

2003-08-27 Thread Vivek Khera
BS == Brian Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BS I notice that many recent viruses are using faked return email BS addresses. BS Consequently, when one of these infected emails is detected by spam BS assassin, many systems appear to reply to the fake email address with BS an exact copy of the

Re: [SAtalk] user_prefs question

2003-08-27 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Gerry, Tuesday, August 26, 2003, 8:25:24 AM, you wrote: GM ... I do have two users that receive email from a yahoo group. ... is GM there a way to single out a subject line for white lists in the GM user_prefs file of spamassassin? You probably don't want to do that. Headers common to

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-27 Thread Matt Thoene
On Monday, August 25, 2003 @ 3:24:20 AM [-0700], Simon Byrnand wrote: On Friday, August 22, 2003 @ 1:56:26 PM [-0700], Tim Buck wrote: So I've reverted back to SA 2.55. Anyone else see this behavior? Tim...yes. I had an almost identical problem. Two or three users suddenly started getting a

Re: [SAtalk] Postfix 2, amavis-new,f-prot yes, sa 2.55 no??

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Vanecek
Nevermind. I found the answers at http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#faq-spam Thanks anyway. On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:27:02 -0500, Mike Vanecek wrote I have got amavis debug running. I have postfix setup to only filter incoming (using a FILTER command in access_recipients). I have F-Prot

[SAtalk] using lint to check config

2003-08-27 Thread Fred
Hello, I'm using 2.60 rc2. Proposal: Should --lint check for orphan test scores? Reasons: When we upgrade and we have custom scores in local.cf or user prefs this will help us identify which tests are no longer in use. Other: If we somehow spell a test name wrong in the score statement, it

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still servers that use the rbl directly from sendmail or postfix and the like.. :( And they will soon discover that they've been rejecting nearlly all mail because of it, and remove relays.osirusoft.com Regards, Simon

[SAtalk] Re: [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:37:45PM +1000, Bill Maidment wrote: I'm getting the following messages from time to time, usually on a Sobig.F infected email. Anyone else seen this? Any fix available? Or is this a mimedefang issue? I'm running mimedefang 2.36 Aug 27 13:23:34 mail3

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-27 Thread Brian May
Yea.. I guess if I didn't get email for an hour I would wonder whats up.. but you gotta wonder about the people who start to wonder after a few days... heh.. On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 20:34, Simon Byrnand wrote: By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still servers that

[SAtalk] Re: [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-27 Thread Bill Maidment
Hi all I'm getting the following messages from time to time, usually on a Sobig.F infected email. Anyone else seen this? Any fix available? Or is this a mimedefang issue? I'm running mimedefang 2.36 Aug 27 13:23:34 mail3 mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 2 stderr: Failed to run BAYES_00

[SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread jpf
Is there someway that I can edit the subject line to get the SA score in there? I am using SA 2.55 and procmail. TIA jpf --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

Re: [SAtalk] FTC blocks spam sent to the reporting spam address...

2003-08-27 Thread Kristian Koehntopp
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:43:00AM -0700, Brian May wrote: I though this was freaking funny... I've been reporting spam to the UCE address for over 6 months, then today I get this (over 200 of them) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host arcticfox.ftc.gov[164.62.7.14] said: 550 5.7.1 [EMAIL

FW: [SAtalk] [RD] Scanning Attachment Types

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Kai, -Original Message- From: Kai MacTane body IMAGE_ATTACHMENT /filename=\[^\]+\.(gif|jpe?g)\/i describe IMAGE_ATTACHMENT Has a GIF or JPEG attachment. score IMAGE_ATTACHMENT 0.1 rawbody RAW_IMAGE_ATTACHMENT /filename=\[^\]+\.(gif|jpe?g)\/i describe RAW_IMAGE_ATTACHMENT Has

Re: [SAtalk] Parsing almost-certainly-spam and probably-spam files

2003-08-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On 26 Aug 2003 14:06:56 -0400 K Old [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm using the 2.55 version of SA and everything works great. I'm trying to find a good way to parse the almost-certainly-spam and probably-spam files that are produced by SA.Given that the majority of the mail

Re: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-27 Thread SqM
With all the trouble OSIRUSOFT is having, is it time to stop using them? Those guys are overworking things... My mailserver was blocked due to that i was located in a ip address range that also had a nameserver on it. This nameserver was secondary for a domain that also was primary on a

RE: [SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: jpf Is there someway that I can edit the subject line to get the SA score in there? I am using SA 2.55 and procmail. You will have to double check me, but here is my attempt: d = [0-9] :0 * $ X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=\/$d+\.$d { HITS = $MATCH :0

[SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Alexander Skwar
Good morning, now that osirusoft is officially dead, what should we SA admins do? Set all scores for OSIRUSOFT related test to 0? Which are all the tests? Is the following sufficient? score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH 0 score

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 scoring

2003-08-27 Thread Geoff Gibbs
Is it expected that 2.60 will produce the same level of score as 2.55? I.e. if I have set a threshold of a score of 5.0, will I get the same hit rate? Geoff Gibbs UK-Human Genome Mapping Project-Resource Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SB, UK Tel: +44 1223 494530 Fax: +44 1223 494512 E-mail:

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, August 26, 2003 11:42 PM -0400 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, this is a GDBM issue. There's a bug already open for it, and we're discussing what to do about it. Basically GDBM is stupid and doesn't allow control chars in the token keys. Which kind of sucks. ;) What

[SAtalk] Pyzor misconfig?

2003-08-27 Thread Tom Meunier
I must be doing something stupid, or have something misconfigured. My server times out on Pyzor tests about 90% of the time, and on DCC tests about 5-10% of the time. I've set the timeouts to 10 seconds. My average message analysis time due to these tests taking so long is 13-15 seconds. It

[SAtalk] Envelope sender as part of the SA protocol

2003-08-27 Thread Marian Eichholz
Hi there! As far as I can see in FAQ and manpages, there is no official way to provide the envelope-sender (the SMTP-MAIL FROM: argument) to SA for furtehr reference. There are good reasons to have the Envelope-Sender at hand: - the Sender: (as best bet) might be forged - the envelope-sender

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:27:46AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: What would be the downside of just encoding any non-printable character? Like URL-encoding, or backslash-escaping. The goal of the control chars is to use a sequence that won't ever appear in a real message. -- Randomly

RE: [SAtalk] Not sure how...

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
This has been discussed. The rules will not hit because of the embedded mime code. They simply ignore past the first level. I'm hoping someone willwrite an eval for this. As far as I know, no version of SA handles this. So we really need a simple eval for it. I'm still a believer that we

[SAtalk] Testing site-wide custom rules, how to?

2003-08-27 Thread margot
Good-day! We're using SA along with amavisd-new. After adding custom rules to our site-wide local.cf file, we are desperately looking at a way to test them. Currently amavisd-new's logs show always the same : Aug 27 13:57:52 isosun21 amavisd[29954]: (29954-03) header: X-Spam-Status: No,

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Bart Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:48 AM To: spamassassin_list Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:28:56AM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Good morning, now that osirusoft is officially dead, what should we SA admins do? Set all scores for OSIRUSOFT related test to 0? Which are all the tests? Is the following sufficient? score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 score

RE: [SAtalk] Not sure how...

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Chris, Have the rules that you list here been working at all? --Larry -Original Message- From: Chris Trudeau-Personal This is a bit weird. I have the following rules in my local.cf: --- This sf.net email is sponsored

[SAtalk] question/idea for whitelisted sender handling

2003-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. With all the noise about Osirusoft, my mail server is practically on its knees. I actually had to shut off network tests for a few minutes to recover. Anyway, thinking about this gave me an idea. I know that when SA finds a message in the whitelist, it pretty much guarantees the

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Chris, -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre Nope, sorry. Didn't catch that. THey are run from seperate cf files in the /etc/mail/spamassassin dir. They are run for the entire company! Every bit of email that enters company is subject to all of these rules. Matt's

[SAtalk] SA 2.60rc2 creating user_prefs as mode 666

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
After running it for a few days, I just noticed my 2.60 rc2 install of spamd is creating new user's user_prefs file as mode 666. It does create the .spamassasin directory mode 700 though. Has anyone else seen this ? If not I'll delve deeper into what might be wrong here. This is on Solaris 8,

[SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread jherschel
Wow I cant believe this only scored a 4.8 this is way more offensive than the get a bigger blank emails that get caught no problem. I assumed there would be a basic rule that would look for child pornography in the title. Any ideas on how to boost scores on this kind of filth? James

RE: [SAtalk] Testing site-wide custom rules, how to?

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Testing site-wide custom rules, how to? Good-day! We're using SA along with amavisd-new. After adding custom rules to our

RE: [SAtalk] question/idea for whitelisted sender handling

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Kuentz (2)
I think that would be a bad idea. I jacked up the MS executable test to +110 to make sure if some one was dumb enough to send an MS executable, but was white listed, that the mail would still get tagged. Maybe as an option it would be nice for some, such as HALT_ON_WHITELISTED 1 or something

Re: [SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Tim Litwiller
Here is how I do it - these lines are in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf on my system # Whether to change the subject of suspected spam rewrite_subject 1 # Text to prepend to subject if rewrite_subject is used subject_tag [SPAM-Score-_HITS_] jpf wrote: Is there someway

Re: [SAtalk] Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... butnow does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread AltGrendel
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 15:47, Jennifer Fountain wrote: in the articles I am reading, you should see this in your /var/log/maillog: Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: info: setuid to qmailq succeeded Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: checking message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for qmailq:545. Jun

[SAtalk] Spammer fights back!

2003-08-27 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
I've noticed recently that spam is starting to creep through the cracks of SA. I looked at one of them, and it seems this spammer is trying to foil the spam-filters, especially Bayes. The spam message contains a large number of dictionary words written in HTML in WHITE, so they don't appear on

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:24 AM To: 'Chris Santerre'; spamassassin_list Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules - spamd Hi Chris, -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre Nope, sorry. Didn't

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-27 Thread Rainer Sokoll
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 04:26:19PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: Rainer Sokoll wrote: I think it is better to disable rblcheck for osirusoft completly in 20_head_test.cf: Okay. What about those X_OSIRU_ tests? Are they related to As far as I understand this, by disabling check_rbl,

Re: [SAtalk] SA Score in Subject Line???

2003-08-27 Thread Scott Blomquist
jpf wrote: Is there someway that I can edit the subject line to get the SA score in there? I am using SA 2.55 and procmail. TIA jpf Here is the top two lines from my local.cf file. Works great rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag [SA Says: _HITS_] It gives the following results: [SA Says:

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Patrick Morris
That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:05 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Best Child Pornography Site Welcome to

[SAtalk] OT funny spam

2003-08-27 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Hi all, I just received this spam, It made me laugh so I thought to pass it on. Welcome to the siteremoved URL it's us again, now we extended our offerings, here is a list: 1. Heroin, in liquid and crystal form. 2. Rocket fuel and Tomohawk rockets (serious enquiries only). 3. Other

[SAtalk] Email Book Reviews

2003-08-27 Thread Wes Schardenzar
Greetings SA Community, I have a simple Sendmail-Procmail-SA setup working on RH 9.0. It is great!! Thank you SA developers and list posters. I have been reading this list for a few weeks in order to scale the learning curve and do more advanced things with all three of these tools. Although

[SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Céline REDON
Hi all, Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?? CR --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list

[SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread David
Hi gurus, Sorry if this is a little bit off topic but I´m in deep trouble. I´m running a Postfix server for a couple of domains with just a few users. The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any evidence in my logs that I have an open relay. The problem is that I got a LOT of

[SAtalk] Re: user_prefs question

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Barnes
Gerry Maddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using spamassassin for a few days now and love it! I have been able to set up whitelists for users in in user_prefs with no problems so far. I do have two users that receive email from a yahoo group. Normally I'd add the email of the list's

[SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Robin Witkop-Staub
I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word pizza in them. Why? body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF /\b(?:excIusive|GiangBiang|sIut|ganigbainged|duides|hairdciore|ExcIude|pIz)/ i describe RAVEN_MaskedWordsF

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:56:19 +0200 Céline REDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?? Yes, see http://openrbl.org and http://www.declude.com/junkmail/support/ip4r.htm -- Bob --- This sf.net

Re: [SAtalk] Spammer fights back!

2003-08-27 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: font color=#ffeutectic scarf tailing identifiable corresponded Whenever I've seen this, it's looke like: font color=#ffeutectic font color=#ffscarf font color=#fftailing font color=#ffidentifiable font color=#ffcorresponded

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-27 Thread Céline REDON
Thanx Bob, Would you know also how to integrate them in Spamassassin? In the local.cf file?? Thanx!! CR Selon Bob Apthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:56:19 +0200 Céline REDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Could anyone tell me if there is some free RBL ?? Yes, see

Re: [SAtalk] OT: Spam hell

2003-08-27 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/27/03 05:52 PM, David sat at the `puter and typed: Hi gurus, Sorry if this is a little bit off topic but I´m in deep trouble. I´m running a Postfix server for a couple of domains with just a few users. The setup is pretty secure (I think) and and don't find any evidence in my logs

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Patrick Morris wrote: That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:05 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Best Child

Re: [SAtalk] filter identifying vaild word as masked

2003-08-27 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:37:26 -0500 Robin Witkop-Staub [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying the following filter found on the suggested script sharing page. For some reason it was tagging emails that had the word pizza in them. Why? body RAVEN_MaskedWordsF

RE: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread jherschel
Lol - yeah, I think it's DEA or something trying to set up a sting ;-) ... But is there a rule I could tweak to get something as obvious as child pornography blasted as spam? James Herschel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Patrick Morris

[SAtalk] 2.60rc2: Getting bayes: Not available for scanning, only X spam(s) 200 when trained on thousands of spams

2003-08-27 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hi, SpamAssassin folks. I've been using SpamAssassin happily for the past 6 months or so, and it's dramatically reduced my amount of spam. Recently, I upgraded to 2.60rc2 for the upgraded rules sets (I was getting a ton of spams with false X-Mailer headers set to Emacs Gnus coming through).

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Rick Macdougall wrote: Patrick Morris wrote: That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003

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