Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-14 Thread John Wilcock
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:27:18 -0600 (CST), David B Funk wrote: Also note that Habeas has an RBL listing all reported sources of forged Habeas-mark messages (the Habeas Infringers List). SA automatically queries this RBL and will ignore SWE signatures from those sources. Yep. Of the five spams

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Thielen
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 15:08, Chris Santerre wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, Not since eating popcorn covered in backhair in the weeds have I been so excited about a ruleset. Fred, along with the rule writers consortium, has developed a new ruleset called Tripwire. Much testing has gone

[SAtalk] Unwanted Language in body (Norwegian char)

2004-01-14 Thread Jan Erik Skogsholm
Hello! Some Norwegian character will come out with errors and we got 2.8 points from the language test. Is it possible to add this chars to a list for the Norwegian language? How do go around it? I have also a question about the time. Is there a large gap between our e-mail server and the

RE: [SAtalk] not catching spam email yet

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Thielen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/13/04 10:19:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] not catching spam email yet Hi to the group, I am working on getting spamassassin to work with qmail and vpopmail on

Re: [RulesEmporium] RE: [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation.

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Thielen
Top top post :) Download the sa tarball. In the masses directory is a script called mass-check. Read the top of the script for the little bit of documentation that exists. -- Chris Thielen Easily generate SpamAssassin rules to catch obfuscated spam phrases: http://sandgnat.com/cmos/

[SAtalk] Bayes.

2004-01-14 Thread Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald
Hi, May someone explain me in few words what is the Bayes probability algorithm and how is it used in SpamAssassin ? Greetings. --- Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.unlimitedmail.net/ --- --- This SF.net email is

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes.

2004-01-14 Thread PieterB
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 11:14:51AM +0100, Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald? wrote: Hi, May someone explain me in few words what is the Bayes probability algorithm and how is it used in SpamAssassin ? See 'man sa-learn' or use http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/sa-learn.html

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Chris Santerre Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:09 PM Not since eating popcorn covered in backhair in the weeds have I been so excited about a ruleset. Fred, along with the rule writers consortium, has developed a new ruleset called Tripwire. Much testing has gone into this set. I've

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes.

2004-01-14 Thread Robert Lacroix
check the links at http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Bayes.html /robert -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carles Xavier Munyoz Baldó Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 11:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Bayes. Hi,

[SAtalk] log analyser for amavis

2004-01-14 Thread Sascha Huedepohl
Hi, is there a log analyser for amavis or spamassassin? TIA sascha --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic

Re: [SAtalk] Forged Outlook from Outlook!

2004-01-14 Thread Dave Sheeran
Sorry, been out of the office for a couple of days. Here are hte headers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: by pickering.co.uk (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.5) with PIPE id 4554464; Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:59:20 + Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] by Pickering

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Tim B wrote: Excellent News! Chris Santerre wrote: ... Tripwire has taken OBFU to the next level! It searches for 3 characters that shouldn't be together. This is based on the English language. Well, it might be very useful, but has somebody

[SAtalk] improving spamassassin (mass-check question)

2004-01-14 Thread PieterB
I would like to start contributing to spamassassin and help to fight spam. http://au.spamassassin.org/hacking.html lists how to submit mass-check results. I have a couple of questions: * The CORPUS_POLICY lists that you should use hand-verified spam/ham tiles, but the CORPUS_SUBMIT lists that

[SAtalk] Re: Exchange and autolearn

2004-01-14 Thread John Hall
Kang , Joseph S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a email gateway running spamassassin, amavisd-new and postfix. I am blocking a good chunk of spam. However, I am trying to figure out a good way to get the users involved in creating our own blacklist (I

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Teun Vink
On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:27 PM [GMT+1=CET], Chr. von Stuckrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 08:36:56PM -0500, Tim B wrote: Excellent News! Chris Santerre wrote: ... Tripwire has taken OBFU to the next level! It searches for 3 characters that shouldn't be

[SAtalk] Spamwriter

2004-01-14 Thread Kristian Köhntopp
Please have a look at the article at http://www.jerf.org/writings/ bayesReport.html from Jeremy Bowers. Jeremy has written a tool shown at http://www.jerf.org/images/spam.writer.full.png that assists in writing spam that does not trigger pure bayesian filters. This emphasizes several points

Re: [SAtalk] log analyser for amavis

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Hastie
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Sascha Huedepohl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there a log analyser for amavis or spamassassin? http://rekudos.net/amavis-stats/ -- Chris Hastie --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is

[SAtalk] unfakeable Habeas watermark?

2004-01-14 Thread Cahya Wirawan
Is it possible for habeas to make their watermark not fakeable? because it is naiv to believe that no one will misuse their watermark because of law, and it is naiv to think that they can find and sue everyone who misused their watermark. And for us they have rbl system we can use to check

Re: [SAtalk] not catching spam email yet

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:19 PM 1/14/04 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. edited /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf as follows required_hits 6.0 rewrite_subject 1 report_header 1 use_terse_report 1 defang_mime 1 dns_available yes dcc_add_header 1 use_dcc 1 What version of SA are you using? defang_mime is illegal in any

[SAtalk] body match

2004-01-14 Thread Jeff Fulmer
I'd like to assign spam points to any message whose body does not contain any one of several keywords. But unfortunately, I can't find a body directive reads all body attachments. I tried body and rawbody but there are still many body attachments that pass through unscanned. Since my match

Re: [SAtalk] unfakeable Habeas watermark?

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Yes, it is theoretically possible to do what you suggest.. The first drawback is resources...Habeas would have a fairly heavy-duty server to generate and validate the signatures.. CPU time might be cheap on a single-user machine, but when you're talking about global scales, a little bit of

[SAtalk] greylisting (was SA Performance)

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Edwards
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Smart,Dan wrote: | I'm waiting for Greylisting too. Vernon's DCC stuff is being debugged for | Greylisting which should soon be a reliable engine for this. Note that the DCC greylisting feature is unlikely to become usable via the SpamAssassin DCC interface. It'll need

Re: [SAtalk] Unwanted Language in body (Norwegian char)

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:15 AM 1/14/04 +0100, Jan Erik Skogsholm wrote: Some Norwegian character will come out with errors and we got 2.8 points from the language test. Is it possible to add this chars to a list for the Norwegian language? Not sure how, but there appears to be a database called 'languages' in the

[SAtalk] Spam Assassin and Outlook Exchange Server

2004-01-14 Thread Sally Denhart
Hi, I just installed Spam Assassin 2.61 on my Solaris 7 box. It interfaces with sendmail and procmail for the delivery. Spam Assassin correctly flags the e-mail as Spam and I can see this in my Solaris mail box and for all my Unix users. Unfortunately, most of my users are using Outlook from

[SAtalk] Ratware update (was Re: New Ruleset Available! TRIPWIRE!)

2004-01-14 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tripwire has taken OBFU to the next level! It searches for 3 characters that shouldn't be together. Perfect timing. I've been tracking a particular piece of ratware, and just this morning I had two FPs because it had morphed and

Re: [SAtalk] body match

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:48 AM 1/14/04 -0500, Jeff Fulmer wrote: I'd like to assign spam points to any message whose body does not contain any one of several keywords. But unfortunately, I can't find a body directive reads all body attachments. I tried body and rawbody but there are still many body attachments

Re: [SAtalk] body match

2004-01-14 Thread Jeff Fulmer
No. I wouldn't expect it to read PDFs. For example, just now it didn't read these types: [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 8bit, Size: 1.7K --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 2.3K --] [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 4.3K --] Cheers, Jeff O Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:14:44AM

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Fred
Teun Vink wrote: Since the scores for these individual rules are low, I've added them to my personal mailserver as well. I'm Dutch, so we'll see what it does to a mix of English and Dutch :) Teun That was our plan, keep the scores low, there are so many rules, you are likely to see an

RE: [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation.

2004-01-14 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Brian Godette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 6:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation. On Tuesday 13 January 2004 03:23 pm, Rose, Bobby wrote: Why even allow javascript embedded

Re: [SAtalk] Spamwriter

2004-01-14 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:48:00 +0100 Kristian Köhntopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please have a look at the article at http://www.jerf.org/writings/ bayesReport.html from Jeremy Bowers. Jeremy has written a tool shown at http://www.jerf.org/images/spam.writer.full.png that assists in writing spam

[SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC

2004-01-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
I am running MailScanner with SA 2.50 under RedHat 7.3. So far I had not been running any network checks, but I wanted to try DCC. At first it worked only when SA was invoked directly, but the check never ran from MailScanner. I found that there was a path problem with /usr/local/bin, where

Re: [SAtalk] Munged (encoded) Subject

2004-01-14 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Greg Cirino - Cirelle Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: header SUBJECT_ENCODED_MY_TEST Subject:raw =~ /=\?.*\?=/i catches anything starting with =? and ending with ?= no matter what character set is embedded. But don't rate it too high, since you'll get false positives when people send

Re: [SAtalk] body match

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:20 AM 1/14/04 -0500, Jeff Fulmer wrote: No. I wouldn't expect it to read PDFs. For example, just now it didn't read these types: [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 8bit, Size: 1.7K --] [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 2.3K --] [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 4.3K --]

Re: [SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
Pierre Thomson wrote: I am running MailScanner with SA 2.50 under RedHat 7.3. So far I had not been running any network checks, but I wanted to try DCC. At first it worked only when SA was invoked directly, but the check never ran from MailScanner. I found that there was a path problem with

RE: [SAtalk] queue weirdness with MailScanner, SA and DCC - fixed

2004-01-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
I answered my own question. It WAS a MailScanner problem, and I found the fix on their discussion list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0301L=mailscannerP=R59912I=-1 Apparently something in the DCC check code changed the umask value, and MailScanner assumed it wouldn't...

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want t o miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Thanks all, I hope they work great for everyone and at the time I am writing this, I don't see anymore spam with this stuff in it, now it's all high-level bayes busting words.. Isn't that project #105738 for us? Bayes poison here we come ;) Yeah this is strictly based on english. SO

RE: [SAtalk] unfakeable Habeas watermark?

2004-01-14 Thread Gary Smith
You could also do something a little different... They can create client caches. Think about local DNS caching servers. Apply the same concept here and you would find that the load, though great at first, wouldn't be so bad. But $750,000 on the low end still isn't bad. As a small ISP it's

[SAtalk] New Habeas rules

2004-01-14 Thread Maxime Ritter
I wrote some new habeas rules, which take care of the recents Habeas forgery : # Jan 2004 : Fake Habeas header __HABEAS_SWEeval:message_is_habeas_swe( ) header __HAB_FORGE_BOUNDContent-Type =~ /boundary=--[0-9]{15,20}/ header __HAB_FORGE_MID Message-ID =~

Re: [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation.

2004-01-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:16 -0700 on 01/13/2004, Brian Godette wrote about [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation.: This is a new one to me, seems the spammers are starting to learn javascript now. I suppose a rule for detecting document.write() usage could be used as a spam-sign. [JavaScript Snipped] In case

[SAtalk] Re: difference spamd - spamassassin, debian Setup. Very weird...

2004-01-14 Thread Konstantin Kletschke
Hi there! especially bob, who answered to my mail recently :) Now I am subscribed to this list *phew* Konstantin Kletschke wrote: mails which mostly contained only a html message, which mutt does display as an attachement, if ever. This is off topic, but in mutt if you press 'v' it will view

Re: [SAtalk] Low score for so many hits?

2004-01-14 Thread David Carter
Quoting Raquel Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why not use procmail to remove anything with that header? That's so crazy, it just might work... DaC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software

[SAtalk] spamd not adding asterisks

2004-01-14 Thread Konstantin Kletschke
Hi! I have: # cat /etc/spamassassin/local.cf rewrite_subject 0 # report_safe 1 # trusted_networks 212.17.35. report_safe 0 use_terse_report 1 auto_learn 0 always_add_report 0 always_add_headers 0 required_hits 10 report_contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] add_header all Level _STARS(*)_ score HABEAS_SWE

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas mark and auto-learning as ham

2004-01-14 Thread David Carter
Quoting Bart Schaefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's usually easier to promptly re-learn a false negative as spam than it is to re-learn a false positive as ham, because FNs probably go right into your mailbox while FPs are dropped in a quarantine (or worse). Unless you're not paying attention, a

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to

2004-01-14 Thread Gerry Doris
snip... That was our plan, keep the scores low, there are so many rules, you are likely to see an average of 5-15 hit on a spam message. This is still low but it's safe for testing. We've done lots of mass-checks against english ham and spam but we do not have access to any other language

[SAtalk] Body match

2004-01-14 Thread Jeff Fulmer
I have a rule which looks for keywords in the body of a message. If those words are NOT present it scores spam points. However, my directives are not forcing spam assassin to read all body types. I'm using body and rawbody At first I thought it wasn't reading all 8-bit MIME attachments, but

[SAtalk] Start Trek Darmok at Tanagra subjects

2004-01-14 Thread Hein Zelle
Hello, (new to this list, so please notify me if this has already been discussed or should be posted elsewhere. I've checked the mailing list archives but didn't find anything.) I've been quite satisfied with SpamAssassin so far (first 2.53, now 2.61). It's blocking a modest 100 spam mails a

RE: [SAtalk] Forged Outlook from Outlook!

2004-01-14 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
No worries mate - a bunch of people were posting the same question - with none of the information needed to see the provlem... If that's all your headers, then the new outlook is a lot CLEANER than 2000 / XP. Here is what mine look like (less the received and other common stuff: Date:

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to

2004-01-14 Thread Andrew_Hoying
This ruleset went off hard on an email advertising airfare from a major provider. While the spamminess of said email is open to discussion, it is something to watch our for. Every airport has a three letter short name that hits on these rules.AndrewGerry Doris [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent by: [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Which conf file?

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Squire
Hi Group, Suppose I have SA set to be called from Amavisd, which is called from Postfix. If I wanted to tell it to tag spam, would I do that in the amavisd.conf file, the spamassassin.cf file, the main.cf file (for postfix) or somewhere else that I am missing? Currently it is defined in both the

Re: [SAtalk] Start Trek Darmok at Tanagra subjects

2004-01-14 Thread Brad Hazledine
Hi, You want http://kepler.acns.bethel.edu/~bjn/spamassassin/rnd_uc_char.cf Works great! Brad On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Hein Zelle wrote: Hello, (new to this list, so please notify me if this has already been discussed or should be posted elsewhere. I've checked the mailing list archives

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas Responds to Spammer Violation of Habeas Warrant Mark

2004-01-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Matthew Cline wrote: It is interesting that this spam attack appears to be originating from a distributed set of zombie cable/DSL modems that someone likely took over in a past virus attack. If the spammers are using zombies, then couldn't both the spammers and the

Re: [SAtalk] Start Trek Darmok at Tanagra subjects

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Some examples: Re: FQCDW, thousand years waiting Yes, I've seen them.. my bayes training is chewing them up... DNSBLs and the popcorn rules seem helpful too. Note that I personally run the popcorn ruleset collapsed into one rule. It contributes less score overall because it doesn't cascade,

Re: [SAtalk] mPOP Web-Mail 2.19: ratware?

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:57 PM 12/19/2003, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm seeing a lot of spam with this as the X-Mailer. Is this a real program or ratware? (better late reply than never). This seems to be a somewhat uncommon, but is occasionally used for legitimate mail (I've only seen it used by Russian posters).

Re: [SAtalk] Which conf file?

2004-01-14 Thread Richard Ozer
Title: [SAtalk] Which conf file? Spamassassin isloaded by amavisd upon startup as long as you have turned on spam filtering in your amavisd.conf file.It also sounds like you may have a postfix problem that's causing all mail to be rejected as undeliverable. I would take a look at:

Re: [SAtalk] Which conf file?

2004-01-14 Thread jean-christophe valiere
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:27:48AM -0800, Mark Squire wrote: Hi Group, Suppose I have SA set to be called from Amavisd, which is called from Postfix. If I wanted to tell it to tag spam, would I do that in the amavisd.conf file, the spamassassin.cf file, the main.cf file (for postfix) or

[SAtalk] Bayes Learning

2004-01-14 Thread Paul Barbeau
Has anyone create a button (or some other way) that i can install on a client outlook that will submit the email to the my bayes learning account? The current process to resend the message is above most of my users and button would be much easier. Thanks for any help Paul

Re: [SAtalk] mPOP Web-Mail 2.19: ratware?

2004-01-14 Thread snowchyld
i've noticed very very very low hits on that as a ham, i'm currently building my own rules (the first one being this mixed with that cable tv thing (split by bad html /randomword or being a generic 'V-word' spam) my rules (as i build will be available here) http://snowchyld.org/snowchyld.cf

[SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
I sent this to Habeas Technical Support. But I think I'll get a better response on this mailing list. This seems like an obvious idea. There must be something wrong with it. But what? Here is a technical suggestion. I think your business plan works by using legal action against

[SAtalk] relaying smarthost

2004-01-14 Thread Mat Harris
Hi, I am looking to create a relaying smarthost for my network that uses spamassassin as it's content filter. I have found various howto's on this subject except that they either talk about Exim, Postfix or Qmail. I am using Sendmail very happliy and was wondering if there is such a solution for

[SAtalk] Domain Name Starts With Numbers - exception

2004-01-14 Thread Roger Merchberger
I've noticed a few false positives in one of the extended rulesets, the file is /etc/mail/spamassassin/90_FVGT.cf, and the rule is FVGT_u_DOM_START_NUM. Unforch, our domain (valid for 7 years now) is 30below.com, and a few people who like to send jokes to one another are getting flagged (the

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Exchange and autolearn

2004-01-14 Thread Kang , Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: John Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: Exchange and autolearn I found that Exchange 2000 changed the headers too much and mime-encoded the body and so this approach wasn't

RE: [SAtalk] Which conf file?

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Squire
Title: Message Good tips, Rich, and Jean-Christophe. I also found this: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22sa_spam_modifies_subj%22hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8safe=offselm=be04ft%242h5q%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.twrnum=2 I will start with those settings, and move on from there. Thanks

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Obfusticated URI?

2004-01-14 Thread Larry Starr
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:33 am, Brent J. Nordquist wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Larry Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uri FCS_URI_NODOTS /^[^\.]*$/ describeFCS_URI_NODOTS URI found with no Dots (.) score FCS_URI_NODOTS 3.0 Thanks for this; I have

[SAtalk] The CAN-SPAM act....

2004-01-14 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ok, I just had my first spam with a remove link *AND* what appears to be a valid address company name. As usual, they claim You have received this notice by request or may have recently become a member of one of our network websites or simply signed up for this service. If you no longer wish

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Mat Harris
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:26:40 +, John Ruttenberg wrote: I sent this to Habeas Technical Support. But I think I'll get a better response on this mailing list. This seems like an obvious idea. There must be something wrong with it. But what? Here is a technical suggestion. I

Re: [SAtalk] New Habeas rules

2004-01-14 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 02:09 AM 1/14/2004, Maxime Ritter wrote: I wrote some new habeas rules, which take care of the recents Habeas forgery : I did something similar, except that instead of redefining the HABEAS_SWE rule, I created an offset, and I focused on the URLs rather than the boundaries. uri

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to

2004-01-14 Thread Fred
I tried to accomidate for those names while I was generating the regex's. I remembered the large ones like NWA, AA, and a few others I can't think of now. But please send me examples so I can fix these rules up! When I created these, I had 3 letter combos in my brain for weeks, I kept thinking

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Obfusticated URI?

2004-01-14 Thread Brent J. Nordquist
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Larry Starr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2004 08:33 am, Brent J. Nordquist wrote: uri BCS_URI_2E_OBFU /=2[Ee]/ A posting from David Funk, correctly points out that =2E is valid Quoted-Printable, and is decoded correctly by

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want t o

2004-01-14 Thread SRH-Lists
http://www.orbitz.com/App/flight/airport_codes_popup.jsp And that is just US airports... now. But please send me examples so I can fix these rules up! --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast

RE: [SAtalk] relaying smarthost

2004-01-14 Thread Todd Adamson
I work with a company that is currently using a combination of mimedefang/sendmail/spamassassin to relay their incoming email. It serves their purpose, and the use of mimedefang allows for personal configuration options at a later date if so desired. (www.mimedefang.org) Todd Adamson [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] relaying smarthost

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Hepworth
Mat Harris wrote: Hi, I am looking to create a relaying smarthost for my network that uses spamassassin as it's content filter. I have found various howto's on this subject except that they either talk about Exim, Postfix or Qmail. I am using Sendmail very happliy and was wondering if there is

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Exchange and autolearn

2004-01-14 Thread Steven Manross
Apparently the fix is to use the 2000 box at the outside MTA that forwards to 5.5.. The munging doesn't seem to happen that way. Bad fix, but it is reported to work.. :) Steven -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kang , Joseph S. Sent:

Re: [SAtalk] The CAN-SPAM act....

2004-01-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Did the CAN-SPAM act really take away a citizen's right to sue spammers? No. It just took away the right to sue under certain state laws that make explicit reference to commercial email. Actions are still possible under other sorts of laws. I'd

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to

2004-01-14 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: SRH-Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:44 AM To: 'Fred'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to http://www.orbitz.com/App/flight/airport_codes_popup.jsp And

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
Mat Harris: this sounds like a heavily commercialized version of pgp/gpg. It would be just as easy to adapt MTAs to filter spam based on pgp keys (i'm not suggesting we do). I was imagining it would just use pgp/gpg and not reinvent that wheel. The idea was just to have habeas actually

[SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Rolf Kraeuchi
Got my first false positive :-/ Backhair scored on a .pdf... Any hints how to avoid these? X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=12.0 tagged_above=3.0 required=5.3 tests=J_BACKHAIR_11, J_BACKHAIR_12, J_BACKHAIR_13, J_BACKHAIR_14, J_BACKHAIR_21, J_BACKHAIR_22, J_BACKHAIR_31, J_BACKHAIR_32, J_BACKHAIR_36,

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
The problem is that gpg/pgp aren't very well supported. Getting people to add a few header lines is pretty easy (I've considered it a few times, but never got around to it), but getting people to sign their mail is much harder. After all, that's the reason we aren't all using pgp and gpg

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want t o

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Stollar
Worldwide codes are here: http://flyaow.com/citycodea.htm Andreas On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, SRH-Lists wrote: Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:43:45 -0600 From: SRH-Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Fred' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread John Ruttenberg
Adam D. Lopresto: The problem is that gpg/pgp aren't very well supported. Getting people to add a few header lines is pretty easy (I've considered it a few times, but never got around to it), but getting people to sign their mail is much harder. After all, that's the reason we aren't all

RE: [SAtalk] Domain Name Starts With Numbers - exception

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Santerre
*snip* Could anyone tell me if the followup rule to offset the 30below.com domain is coded right, and if not, could you hit me with a clue-by-4? Thanks! Roger Merch Merchberger =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Follows: Rule that spanks us: uri FVGT_u_DOM_START_NUM

Re: [SAtalk] Habeas and digital signatures

2004-01-14 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:57:13PM -0500, John Ruttenberg wrote: 1. Licensed mail sender has private pgp/gpg key provided by Habeas and uses it to sign outgoing mail. (Also adds haiku for legal purposes.) I think you've just outlined the Verisign method of stamping out spam. At

RE: [SAtalk] Start Trek Darmok at Tanagra subjects

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Santerre
*snip* It may be a coincidence, but all these emails have a subject like that. The body of the mail is just a random collection of words, about 4 lines long. Some examples: Re: FQCDW, thousand years waiting Re: YAS, here the investigator Re: SAHQSC, of the gift Re: IN, that you learne

Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-14 Thread Mike Batchelor
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:39 AM -0800 Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IF spammers use the Habeas headers, and the message is in fact spam, they will be sued. And as soon as SA is upgraded to recognize when a lawsuit is pending, I might turn the HABEAS_SWE rule back on. Until then, a

Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-14 Thread Mike Batchelor
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 3:07 PM -0600 Rich Puhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be patient. Use additional rules/tools to catch the latest spammers (clue: most come from spam zombie processes). Report the Habeas violators (more $$$ out of the spammers pockets!). Let's keep the Habeas marks as a

Re: [RulesEmporium] RE: [SAtalk] New HTML spam body obfuscation.

2004-01-14 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Thielen writes: Top top post :) Download the sa tarball. In the masses directory is a script called mass-check. Read the top of the script for the little bit of documentation that exists. There's a little more on the Wiki nowadays, too. -

RE: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
-Original Message- From: Rolf Kraeuchi Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:05 AM Got my first false positive :-/ Backhair scored on a .pdf... Any hints how to avoid these? X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=12.0 tagged_above=3.0 required=5.3 tests=J_BACKHAIR_11, J_BACKHAIR_12,

Re: [SAtalk] [Fwd: gedanken forsythe deadhead hom] - Does anyone have a filterfor this?

2004-01-14 Thread Kurt Yoder
Install bayes. Also set up two rules in your local.cf (mine triggered on the message body you forwarded): #the regex is one line and goes on the same line as the body #look for bayes poison and score it higher bodyCP_WORDWORD_10 /(?:\b(?!(?:from|even|more|were|with)\b)[a-z]{4,12}\s+){ 10}/

Re: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Andreas Stollar
Seems like any attachment, especially a binary such as a pdf would go over the maximum size to be scanned by SA. This must have been one tiny pdf, or you have set your SA instance to scan messages over the max size (default 250k) Most pdf's are much larger than this. Andreas On Wed, 14 Jan 2004,

[SAtalk] unsubscribe f1g4zz0 giochi@telvia.it

2004-01-14 Thread giochi
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:44:00 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an automated response. There were problems with the email commands you sent to Mailman via the administrative address [EMAIL PROTECTED]. To obtain instructions on valid Mailman email commands, send email to [EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Andreas Stollar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:39 PM To: Rolf Kraeuchi Cc: SA Subject: Re: [SAtalk] FP with backhair Seems like any attachment, especially a binary such as a pdf would go over the maximum size to be

Re: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Fred
This will be correct in 2.7 when SA starts using their own custom MIME parser. There are some issues with the current MIME parser, so answer to Q is a fix is coming soon in the flavor of SA 2.7. Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. http://www.i-is.com/ 810-794-4400

RE: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:44 PM 1/14/2004, Gary Funck wrote: I'd asked this before (with no answer on the 'dev' list), Not surprising.. unless it's part of active development work ie: discussion of methods to fix a bug, coding, test results, etc, a post of a general question to sadev will generally be ignored as

Re: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 10:39:15AM -0800, Andreas Stollar wrote: Seems like any attachment, especially a binary such as a pdf would go over the maximum size to be scanned by SA. This must have been one tiny pdf, or you have set your SA instance to scan messages over the max size (default 250k)

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes.

2004-01-14 Thread Chris Petersen
See 'man sa-learn' or use http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/sa-learn.html http://wiki.spamassassin.org/w/BayesInSpamAssassin This doesn't say much about HOW it's used in SA, though. For instance, does SA bayes score URI tokens higher than it does general body tokens? (if not, it should) What

[SAtalk] SA runs as root instead of user in sitewide config

2004-01-14 Thread Paul Fielding
I've done a fair amount of digging and haen't found an answer for this. The short story is that when I run procmail and SA on a per-user basis via a .procmailrc script in the user directory, everything works fine. As soon as I remove the .procmailrc script and add /etc/procmailrc, the

Re: [SAtalk] improving spamassassin (mass-check question)

2004-01-14 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 PieterB writes: http://au.spamassassin.org/hacking.html lists how to submit mass-check results. I have a couple of questions: * The CORPUS_POLICY lists that you should use hand-verified spam/ham tiles, but the CORPUS_SUBMIT lists that you should

[SAtalk] Does somebody have a rule against 'unnecessary encoding' of subjects?

2004-01-14 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
Hi! Does somebody have/know a rule to catch 'unnecessary encodings'? I saw a mail with the following subject: ENCODED: Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?RG8geW91cnNlbGYgYSBmYXZvciEgTG9vayBhdCB0aGlz?= REAL:Subject: Do yourself a favor! Look at this As there isn't any 'non standard ascii' in the

RE: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
Matt replied (in part): I thought it was only supposed to scan text/html attachments? I've never heard anyone claim such. Here's what the current docs. say: body SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME /pattern/modifiers Define a body pattern test. pattern is a Perl regular expression. The 'body' in this case

Re: [SAtalk] Spamwriter

2004-01-14 Thread Mike Batchelor
--On Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:28 AM -0600 Bob Apthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IDP broadband providers that give their customers direct access to port 25 on remote systems by default. Why should I have to pay extra for a business-class DSL line just so I can avoid using the ISP's heavily

Re: [SAtalk] FP with backhair

2004-01-14 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler writes: At 01:44 PM 1/14/2004, Gary Funck wrote: I'd asked this before (with no answer on the 'dev' list), Not surprising.. unless it's part of active development work ie: discussion of methods to fix a bug, coding, test results,

  1   2   >