[SAtalk] Re: How to include rules such as bigevil

2003-12-23 Thread Ian Duncalf
I am testing spamassassin on a test server at the moment but I am looking at deploying it onto a machine with 128 meg of ram in the future. The new rules have cut down the amount of spam overnight considerably. At the moment it is only serving 3 e-mail accounts and traffic is not too bad. The end

Re: [SAtalk] Re: How to include rules such as bigevil

2003-12-23 Thread Rubin Bennett
This was covered only yesterday... please search before you post! Rubin On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 03:47, Ian Duncalf wrote: I am testing spamassassin on a test server at the moment but I am looking at deploying it onto a machine with 128 meg of ram in the future. The new rules have cut down the

[SAtalk] downside to sa-learn and extra headers...

2003-12-23 Thread Tim B
Howdy All, I want to feed ham into sa-learn every night. However when I get the ham i'm going to have a bunch more received headers and extra Microsoft SMTP headers because of the way it's going to be send to me. What's the downside to learning ham with these extra headers? I know I can use

RE: [SAtalk] tags in text

2003-12-23 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Hi again Sam [snip and paste...reordering your original post] So to restate the second part of my original request, Is there a method to modify the score as a function of the number of hits of the same rule? Easier to answer this way. Sorry, I wasn't feeling wordy yesterday and thought the

Re: [SAtalk] downside to sa-learn and extra headers...

2003-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:52 AM 12/23/2003, Tim B wrote: I want to feed ham into sa-learn every night. However when I get the ham i'm going to have a bunch more received headers and extra Microsoft SMTP headers because of the way it's going to be send to me. What's the downside to learning ham with these extra

[SAtalk] sa-learn throwing errormessage about DB_File.pm

2003-12-23 Thread tobi
Hi all! When running sa-learn --spam --mbox Spam sa-learn replies with that: Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt () at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/DB_File.pm line 270. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt () at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/DB_File.pm line 270. Use of uninitialized

[SAtalk] Delay in spamd

2003-12-23 Thread John Hetherington
Spamassassins, I installed spamassassin yesterday so be gentle! I'm just wondering why I get a 30 second delay in spamd ... Dec 23 14:57:53 iris spamd[3909]: debug: Razor2 results: spam? 0 highest cf score: 0 Dec 23 14:57:53 iris spamd[3909]: debug: DCC is not available: dccproc not found Dec

Re: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:52 AM 12/23/2003, Frank M. Cook wrote: I'm having a problem with blank messages. Sometimes the source only shows a return path. I think it may be a spamassassin issue. I'm using winspamc and the guys on their forum suggested the problem might be caused by checking messages that have

RE: [SAtalk] could not locate your pod2man program

2003-12-23 Thread Yackley, Matt
-Original Message- From: Muhannad Tamemi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:42 AM To: Yackley, Matt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] could not locate your pod2man program dear all hi again , kindly note i installed and configured

Re: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:52 AM -0500 Frank M. Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with blank messages. Sometimes the source only shows a return path. I think it may be a spamassassin issue. I'm using winspamc and the guys on their forum suggested the problem might

RE: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Robert Lacroix
Hi, I am havingthesame problem with winspamc. I changed my script tocheck every return of winspamc against something like "if size = 0 then send "input_message" instead of "temp_file"". That sends the message unchecked instead of completely empty. But I doubt it has something do to with

RE: [SAtalk] dont scan

2003-12-23 Thread Henderson, Dennis K.
if you are using the spamassassin milter, you can specify that ip or network to bypass spam assassin. Dennis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Theo Van Dinter Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:38 PM To: Ricki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[SAtalk] NJABL Dialup test

2003-12-23 Thread Mike G
Hello. Can someone tell me if, using SA 2.61, the NJABL test for dialup dnsbl.njabl.org is correct or should we be using dynablock.njabl.org? Instead of this: header RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP eval:check_rbl('njabl-notfirsthop', 'dnsbl.njabl.org.', '127.0.0.3') describe RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP

[SAtalk] NJABL Dialup test

2003-12-23 Thread Mike Grau
Hello. Can someone tell me if, using SA 2.61, the NJABL test for dialup dnsbl.njabl.org is correct or should we be using dynablock.njabl.org? Instead of this: header RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP eval:check_rbl('njabl-notfirsthop', 'dnsbl.njabl.org.', '127.0.0.3') describe RCVD_IN_NJABL_DIALUP

RE: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Robert Lacroix
if a second message came in before the first was totally processed, a second scanning request could be made. would that cause a problem? I defintitely have this and it doesn't cause any problem, since spamd spawns n (changeable via spamd -m n)) chield processes that allow parallel processing. The

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.61 with mysql problem

2003-12-23 Thread hoyin
Dear all, I have install SpamAssassin 2.61 and using spamd/spamc with mysql to store user_pref, I have store some custom rule for different user in mysql but at debug log it show Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: header TEST_SPAM Do anyone experience this problem ?

RE: [SAtalk] Rule Help...

2003-12-23 Thread Lucas Albers
At 02:50 PM 12/12/2003, Dan Tappin wrote: Here is a custom rule for a PayPal spoof virus that is going around. I can't get this to trigger a hit in SA. I have linted my rules and my config files are being loaded properly. Dan, Can you post your rule? I would like to see what you did. --

[SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Timothy Donahue
How can I process messages from our exchange server as spam? I have a whole bunch of messages that I have collected, that I would like to scan that have come through our SA filter recently. Most of them have a bunch of random words that were inserted at the end of the message. Does anyone have

Re: [SAtalk] NJABL Dialup test

2003-12-23 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: Mike Grau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can someone tell me if, using SA 2.61, the NJABL test for dialup dnsbl.njabl.org is correct or should we be using dynablock.njabl.org? You can use either or both. This from a recent update message from NJABL: For anyone

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Kang , Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: Timothy Donahue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000 How can I process messages from our exchange server as spam? I have a whole bunch of messages that I

Re: [SAtalk] NJABL Dialup test

2003-12-23 Thread Adam Denenberg
i found this http://www.dnsbl.njabl.org/use.html but also note this comment Our dnsbl can also be used to tag potential spam messages (letting individual users decide what action to take) using Spamassassin. After you have Spamassassin properly installed, add the following to your local.cf,

RE: [SAtalk] Single image spams with random info

2003-12-23 Thread Gary Funck
Try this recent thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=107208359200023r=1w=2 From: Greg Webster Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Single image spams with random info We're getting a TON of these, all of similar format. htmlbody

[SAtalk] no content in the subject

2003-12-23 Thread George
Hello list! Can someone show me a rule for detecting an empty subject line? I've searched and tried just about everythign under the sun. thanks George --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or

RE: [SAtalk] no content in the subject

2003-12-23 Thread Brian Sneddon
Have you tried: header BLANK_SUBJECT Subject =~ /^$/ That should do it. Brian -Original Message- From: George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] no content in the subject Hello list! Can someone show

Re: [SAtalk] no content in the subject

2003-12-23 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:13 PM 12/23/2003, George wrote: Can someone show me a rule for detecting an empty subject line? I've searched and tried just about everythign under the sun. header LOCAL_EMPTY_SUBJECT Subject !~ /\w/ Of course, that will merely detect a subject with no alphanumerics or underscores. A

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Timothy Donahue
The script worked great... Now if only I could figure out how to block these stupid emails... Is there a way to look for a phrase like Banned CD or Free Cable that has those stupid fake HTML tags in the middle of words? I have tried body checks (which get fooled by those stupid tags as far as I

[SAtalk] RE: sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Hamilton, Kent
I do this here using fetchmail. I created public folders on the Exchange system for people to drop Spam, Ham and False-Positives into. Create three aliases on your gateway that point to sa-learn, for sendmail these will work spamforget: |/usr/local/bin/sa-learn --no-rebuild --forget

Re: [SAtalk] no content in the subject

2003-12-23 Thread Anthony Martinez
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:13:46PM -0800, George carved this out of pure phosphors: Hello list! Can someone show me a rule for detecting an empty subject line? I've searched and tried just about everythign under the sun. header EMPTYSUBJECT Subject =~ ^$ describe EMPTYSUBJECT Empty

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Rubin Bennett
Jennifer's Backhair rules. Google for backhair.cf. Rubin On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 16:48, Timothy Donahue wrote: The script worked great... Now if only I could figure out how to block these stupid emails... Is there a way to look for a phrase like Banned CD or Free Cable that has those

Re: [SAtalk] Single image spams with random info

2003-12-23 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Greg Webster wrote: We're getting a TON of these, all of similar format. htmlbody center!--2rdxveiyf7a8--a href=http://www.mdv678.com?rid=1098;!--srz4f4qaLBUw--img src=http://www.whosout.com/c2.gif; border=0/a/center /html/body The '2rdxveiyf7a8' and 'srz4f4qaLBUw'

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:56 PM -0500 Rubin Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jennifer's Backhair rules. That sentence could be taken the wrong way... :) Evan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an

Re: [SAtalk] downside to sa-learn and extra headers...

2003-12-23 Thread Tim B
Matt Kettler wrote: At 07:52 AM 12/23/2003, Tim B wrote: I want to feed ham into sa-learn every night. However when I get the ham i'm going to have a bunch more received headers and extra Microsoft SMTP headers because of the way it's going to be send to me. What's the downside to learning

[SAtalk] Re: Moving Bayes and Auto Whitelist Databases

2003-12-23 Thread Philip Ross
Philip Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to move some SpamAssassin 2.60 databases from a Red Hat 7.1 machine to a Debian Woody machine running SpamAssassin 2.61. What is my best route for moving the databases from the Red Hat machine to the Debian one?

Re: [SAtalk] no content in the subject

2003-12-23 Thread Anthony Martinez
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 02:19:21PM -0700, Anthony Martinez carved this out of pure phosphors: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:13:46PM -0800, George carved this out of pure phosphors: Hello list! Can someone show me a rule for detecting an empty subject line? I've searched and tried just

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Rubin Bennett
The ruleset name _was_ her idea 8^) I can see that my post could seem a little odd taken out of context, so let me clarify: Jenn's Backhair *ruleset* will help with the bogus html tags. I know nothing about Jenn's backhair. I must confess that I do, however, occasionally find myself pondering

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Wendel, Jesse
Hi Everyone, I have SpamAssassin up and running both in test and in production. In production, everything is fine. In test, not so much. I originally thought Test was broken just since the changes I made yesterday, but the deeper I look, it appears test has been broken all along. Red

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:26, Wendel, Jesse wrote: And then today, when I went back through all of my maillog's on the test box, spamd has never worked except for mail coming from the test box itself. Anything coming from outside is NOT

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Wendel, Jesse
-Original Message- From: Douglas Kirkland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Rubin Bennett
I've noticed the same thing in my logs; no matter where spamc was run from, the entry in the spam servers' logs shows a connecting address of of 127.0.0.1 I have to believe this is a quirk in the internal processing of spamd? Rubin On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:00, Wendel, Jesse wrote:

Re: [SAtalk] checking outgoing mail

2003-12-23 Thread AltGrendel
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 11:11, Jeff Koch wrote: Hi, We've been burned a few times by spammers getting into our servers to send out spam. Does anyone know (or can provide a reference) for how SA could be integrated into qmail to examine outgoing emails? Thanks. Modify your tcp.smtp

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 19:00, Wendel, Jesse wrote: Yes - except that when I look at the logs from my production server, which you can see in my original email, they're also serving up emails from 127.0.0.1 - but the email is coming from

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: I currently have spamd set up to maintain separate configuration data for each [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the system via spamd running as its own user with the following options. -d -u spamd -x