RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Justified text

2004-01-30 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Regis, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Regis Wilson Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 4:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] [RD] Justified text Got some new variants on the justified text ratware. By

RE: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Bob, Along the same lines, I had the following: describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 MY: Invisible text size rawbody MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 /font\s+.*\bsize=.-\d\D/i scoreMY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 0.5 describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2 MY: Invisible text size with style rawbody MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ2 /size=.-\d\D

FW: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 8:13 PM To: Larry Gilson Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'? Hello Larry, Wednesday, January 21, 2004, 11:37:09 PM, you wrote

RE: [SAtalk] SA missed an 'invisible font'?

2004-01-22 Thread Larry Gilson
, Larry Gilson wrote: Hi Bob, Along the same lines, I had the following: describe MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 MY: Invisible text size rawbody MY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 /font\s+.*\bsize=.-\d\D/i scoreMY_RBDY_INVTXTSZ1 0.5 I have something similar. The style rule just wasn't getting nearly all

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam.

2004-01-21 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Santerre Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 11:27 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [OT] - The current state spam. Yeah, we have had this

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil updated again :)

2004-01-20 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Chris! --Larry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Santerre Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 3:39 PM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: [SAtalk] Bigevil updated again :) Just posted 2.06M wich

RE: [SAtalk] New Ruleset: EvilNumbers

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Matt! --Larry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Yackley Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] New Ruleset: EvilNumbers Inspired by classic hits such as

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes mis-learning problem

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Look at: http://useast.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#learning%20op tions bayes_ignore_header header_name If you receive mail filtered by upstream mail systems, like a spam-filtering ISP or mailing list, and that service adds new headers (as most of them do), these headers may

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes mis-learning problem

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Ross Vandegrift [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 4:07 PM To: Larry Gilson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bayes mis-learning problem On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 03:21:06PM -0500, Larry Gilson wrote: http

RE: [SAtalk] Missing Spam Headers? Why?

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Scott, I tried the link and wound up with a 404 page not found error message. Thanks, Larry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:spamassassin-talk- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Lambert Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes mis-learning problem

2004-01-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks for clarifying Justin! --Larry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 11:35 PM To: Larry Gilson Cc: 'Ross Vandegrift'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Bayes mis-learning problem Larry Gilson writes: In a broader sense though

RE: [SAtalk] *.cf question

2003-12-19 Thread Larry Gilson
You will want to put your custom .cf files in /etc/mail/spamassassin. You can put them in /usr/share/spamassassin but they will be deleted during an upgrade so it really does not make sense. The rules will not be seen in ~/.spamassassin/. Review the Priveleged Settings section of

RE: [SAtalk] *.cf question

2003-12-19 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: S. M. C. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thx for the info larry. Can I place a blacklists.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin and will it be read in conjunction to any blacklist information I place in my ~/.spamassassin/local.cf file? Yes, SA will read

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil 2.05 posted just now

2003-12-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Sorry about that Chris, I forgot your disclaimer! Apologies! --Larry -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:18 PM To: 'Chris Santerre'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil 2.05 posted just now Hi Chris

[SAtalk] RE: SORBS in SA 2.55?

2003-12-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Round 2 . . . Does anyone have an idea about this? Thanks, Larry -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:17 AM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: SORBS in SA 2.55? Is it possible to implement the SORBS tests in 2.55? I am

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin wins twice in OSDir.com's 2003 Editor's Choice Awards in Open Source (fwd)

2003-12-19 Thread Larry Gilson
CONGRADULATIONS to all the devs!! You deserve it! Yes congratulations - and thanks for your hard work and dedication! I can't think of any other program that has made me happier the SA. OK, maybe MacPlaymate ;) You dog! --- This

[SAtalk] Source RPMs - Razor2 and DCC

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Gilson
Does anyone have up-to-date source RPMs for DCC (1.2.22) and Razor2 (2.36 including the patch)? Thanks, Larry --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for

RE: [SAtalk] Source RPMs - Razor2 and DCC

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Theo! --Larry -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have Razor at http://www.kluge.net/ftp/pub/felicity/SRPMS/razor-agents-2.36-1tvd.src.rpm --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM

RE: [SAtalk] importing spam from exchange users for sa-learn?

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Gilson
I was thinking of tackling this problem from the other end. Below are some options from the Exchange list I subscribe to. I asked the question as to how to extract the message to a text file. Presumably, the message would be raw. The thought is that the extraction method would be a solution

RE: [SAtalk] importing spam from exchange users for sa-learn?

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Gilson
1.888.ON.GO.YET -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Gilson Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 12:58 PM To: 'Spamassassin-List' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] importing spam from exchange users for sa-learn? I was thinking of tackling

RE: [SAtalk] Source RPMs - Razor2 and DCC

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Kris! --Larry -Original Message- From: Kris Deugau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Source RPMs - Razor2 and DCC Larry Gilson wrote: Does anyone have up-to-date source RPMs for DCC (1.2.22

[SAtalk] SORBS in SA 2.55?

2003-12-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Is it possible to implement the SORBS tests in 2.55? I am a little confused looking at the tests. I normally see 'eval:check_rbl' but I notice that 2.61 also uses 'eval:check_rbl_sub'. Should I remove the '_sub' or not implement the tests? Thanks and Regards, Larry

RE: [SAtalk] RBL timeouts

2003-12-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Just find the testname: http://useast.spamassassin.org/tests.html I'll just use SORBS as an _example_: Test name: RCVD_IN_SORBS local.cf or custom .cf entry: score RCVD_IN_SORBS 0 Setting the score to 0 will prohibit the test from running. --Larry -Original Message- From:

RE: [SAtalk] Need a rule for IE Exploit

2003-12-12 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Fred Hello, I am out the door on my way to work but we need a rule for a new IE exploit just released, Visit this page, the exploit is harmless but to the spoofer, it's man's best friend. http://www.zapthedingbat.com/security/ex01/vun1.htm I think

RE: [SAtalk] OT Help: Mail form CGI script?

2003-12-09 Thread Larry Gilson
I have a Perl subroutine called from a CGI I call deliver. It was designed to deliver quarantined messages to whatever location I desired. Although I call a file to create a message array in which I pass the reference $msgref, you could just create the array from the form. The RCPT TO array is

RE: [SAtalk] Trying to skip some messages..

2003-12-09 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Mitchell, -Original Message- From: Mitchell Baker I am wanting to setup that any message from systems within our domain don't get sent to spamd... I have the following in the /etc/procmailrc file: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${DEFAULT} # From system.rose-hulman.edu :0: *

RE: [SAtalk] BIG HUGE EVIL RULE NEWS!!!!

2003-12-02 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks Chris - great work! --Larry -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre BIG HUGE NEWS A major breakthrough has taken place ALL EVILRULES FILES HAVE BEEN COMBINED!! 2622 domains into 178 rules!!! Ramdon/tracking hosts tags removed! They only increase spamd

[SAtalk] RE: [RD] Ideas

2003-12-01 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Bob, Sorry for the long delay in my response. I have taken a little break. Thanks for running the rules through masscheck against your corpus. I have no where near the corpus that you do and find the testing methodology in your first and second run, and results very interesting. Thanks

RE: [SAtalk] New to Spamassassin

2003-11-26 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Jennifer Wheeler Yes so I found out, but too be fair he did say it might be too restrictive and in my case it is. I am now looking at enabling bayes unless anyone has any other suggestions. I have been using Bayes for about 3 weeks to a month now.

RE: [SAtalk] New to Spamassassin

2003-11-26 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Julia, -Original Message- From: McWhirter,Julia Larry/Jennifer, I have copied the chickenpox and popcorn rules which are working fine thanks very much Jennifer. Larry my install is also outside the firewall and therefore needs site-wide config and not user based and

RE: [SAtalk] Ideas

2003-11-25 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Larry Gilson Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 3:30 PM To: 'Tony Bunce'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Ideas Attached is a custom rule file. It has been working rather well and I will be increasing the score from 0.5 to 1.0. The cf file also has

RE: [SAtalk] An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Logan, First, thanks for addressing the list. I think it takes integrity and guts to respond rather than just run away. -Original Message- From: Logan Harbaugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] An Open Letter

RE: [SAtalk] finally

2003-11-20 Thread Larry Gilson
THANKS! I don't know what was worse - having my MTA 550 the attempted message or listening to talk of it every day. ;) Seriously though, thank you! --Larry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk]

RE: [SAtalk] How to mark spam for certain users and still deliver it?

2003-11-20 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: spamassassin Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] How to mark spam for certain users and still deliver it? Hello, I have one client who wants to receive any emails they get, irrespective of SPAM (they

RE: [SAtalk] font color=#FFFFFF

2003-11-20 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: ian douglas Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] font color=#FF Just my $0.02, but I'd make it this: color=(?\#?F[0-9A-F]F[0-9A-F]F[0-9A-F]?|?white FYI, you should also change color=

RE: {SPAM} [SAtalk] FYI

2003-11-20 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:53 PM To: Alex van den Bogaerdt; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: {SPAM} [SAtalk] FYI At 10:08 AM 11/18/2003, you wrote: Spammers now send templates to use... how nice of them!

RE: [SAtalk] font color=#FFFFFF

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Hey Mike, -Original Message- From: MIKE YRABEDRA Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:55 AM To: SPAMASSASSIN Subject: Re: [SAtalk] font color=#FF on 11/17/03 3:13 PM, Michael Weber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a rule filtering out that font color for several

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for naughty words containing dots?

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Ralf Guenthner Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 12:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Rule for naughty words containing dots? Hi list Recently I've seen an increase in spam mails like the one below. Using SA 2.60 with a spam threshold of

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
You just missed a discussion about a custom rule. If you are not familiar with custom rules, I suggest some reading and examples: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/SA-rules-howto.txt http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm http://www.exit0.us/

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] second weeds set

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Hey Jennifer, Just a quick note to let you know that I abondoned my effort to consolidate your rules. While they worked for the most part, the were not as effective as yours. I still don't like the lack of effeciency of multiple rules, the effectiveness can not be beat! Thanks, Larry

RE: [SA Hits: 14.10] [SAtalk] Spam Message not nearly picked up b y rules

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
I have been experimenting with rules that will catch periods and pipes obfuscating text. Attached is my punctuation.cf file. It caught your example. * 0.5 -- BODY: MY: Word obfu by periods (a.bcd) * 0.5 -- BODY: MY: Word obfu by periods (abcde.fghij) * 0.5 -- BODY: MY: Word obfu by

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] second weeds set

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: jennifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:45 PM To: 'Larry Gilson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] second weeds set Hi Larry, I agree, it would be nice if there was a way to consolidate, and maybe

RE: [SAtalk] Where to place new rules of my own?

2003-11-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Kevin, Any .cf file will be processed in /etc/mail/spamassassin and /usr/share/spamassassin. However, you are advised to avoid /usr/share/spamassassin as an update/upgrade will delete the directory and install a new - one so any custom rules will be wiped out. The links below will help you

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] Switching OS for Gateway

2003-11-18 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Jacob S. On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:01:24 -0500 Larry Gilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running Postfix with SA, Procmail, and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0. I want to move away from RH and am soliciting opinions. snip Well, you've heard the Slackware

RE: [SAtalk] SA and Microsoft Mail Internet Headers

2003-11-18 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Rikhardur, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since we upgraded to Microsoft Exchange 2000, we´re not getting the X-Spam-* headers any more. The Headers begin by the line : Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 and most useful information has either been

[SAtalk] Message Preprocessing - Body Rules

2003-11-17 Thread Larry Gilson
SA 2.55 I am aware that HTML tags and line breaks are remvoed for 'body' rule tests. I was wondering what the line breaks are replaced with. Are they replaced with spaces? If I start or end a search with a space, like: body MY_BDY_PDS_S3P1/ [a-z]{3}\.[a-z]{1}/i body MY_BDY_PDS_1P3S

RE: [SAtalk] Sanity checking new uri rules?

2003-11-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Hey Chris, I may be oversimplifying the problem, but I don't think the db code is elaborate. I wrote Perl DB_File routines for squidGuard. What is needed is a hook to develop custom eval functions. Otherwise you run the risk of the eval function not surviving updates. Even if one would

[SAtalk] [OT] Switching OS for Gateway

2003-11-17 Thread Larry Gilson
I am running Postfix with SA, Procmail, and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0. I want to move away from RH and am soliciting opinions. I figure that for me, I have 3 viable choices: FreeBSD, Debian, and Slackware. I want a free OS so I don't want to use SuSE, Mandrake, or the like. Nothing against the

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] Switching OS for Gateway

2003-11-17 Thread Larry Gilson
the job and do it well. I have one Slack Mailserver with 400+ days uptime and one or two FreeBSD systems with more than 200 days uptime. HTH's Regards, Rick Larry Gilson wrote: I am running Postfix with SA, Procmail, and Webmin on Red Hat 8.0. I want to move away from RH

RE: [SAtalk] SecuritySage spam filters and Postfix/SpamAssassin i ntegration

2003-11-13 Thread Larry Gilson
/SpamAssassin integration --On Friday, November 07, 2003 12:42 AM -0500 Larry Gilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to look at SecuritySage for some configuration details. http://www.securitysage.com/guides/postfix_uce.html I just got some mail bounced by an ISP using

RE: [SAtalk] scoring system and values...

2003-11-13 Thread Larry Gilson
than they already do by adding the complexity of Bayes for a population that size? --Larry -Original Message- From: Covington, Chris Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:10 PM To: Larry Gilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] scoring system and values... Definitely

RE: [SAtalk] Exchange 2000 + SpamAssassin + Postfix

2003-11-13 Thread Larry Gilson
I have a thought that might work but is high maintenance. First, dump the POP3 connector. Second, setup your Postfix server as a relay using relay_recipient_maps. Using Procmail, or similar, you could forward tagged messages to a Public Folder setup for each user. Public Folders -Possible

FW: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter

2003-11-12 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: David B Funk Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 2:45 AM To: Larry Gilson Cc: 'Robban'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Larry Gilson wrote: The preferred method is any way you prefer. ;) That is really

RE: [SAtalk] scoring system and values...

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Gilson
I don't know if this really fits in this subject or not. However, I keep thinking while reading this thread if anyone considers real opt-in advertisements/messages that get tagged by SA (like from OshKosh, Travelocity, Lands' End, etc.) to be a FP or not. Do site-wide Bayes installs have a hard

[SAtalk] RD: Random Text Rules

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Gilson
Just tossing this out as an idea . . . I have been working on the random text strings. I have talked about this a little before but only really had one rule. I have started looking at consonant-vowel-consonant combinations rather than just the long consonant strings. I checked these

RE: [SAtalk] Bounce all but whitelist

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Tim Merkel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Bounce all but whitelist I have a client who wishes to only allow mail into his inbox that is explicitly allowed via his white list.

RE: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Gilson
The preferred method is any way you prefer. ;) That is really an honest answer. Everyone has their own preferred method and a lot of times it depends on your specific situation. Some people will pipe to a filter shell script, Procmail, maildrop, or spamc directly. I prefer Procmail as it

RE: [SAtalk] Abused redirector URLs ?

2003-11-07 Thread Larry Gilson
Or, you could just say any redirection is not a good thing. describe MY_URI_REDIRECTMY: Trying to hide real URL by redirect uri MY_URI_REDIRECT/https?:\/\/.*\/\*http:\/\//i scoreMY_URI_REDIRECT4.0 --Larry -Original Message- From: Mike Kuentz (2) [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] Abused redirector URLs ?

2003-11-07 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Keith C. Ivey Larry Gilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, you could just say any redirection is not a good thing. describe MY_URI_REDIRECTMY: Trying to hide real URL by redirect uri MY_URI_REDIRECT/https?:\/\/.*\/\*http:\/\//i score

RE: [SAtalk] lock problems with SPAMC

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Gilson
I agree with the fact that the lock is not needed on spamc, but I don't understand why this would produce an error. There are a lot of individuals that use the lock with both spamassassin and spamc as a load control. Is it possible that by using DROPPRIVS=yes removes the permissions necessary

RE: [SAtalk] lock problems with SPAMC

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks for clarifying Pete! --Larry -Original Message- From: Pete Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:52 PM To: Larry Gilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] lock problems with SPAMC At 11:18 AM -0500 11/6/03, Larry Gilson wrote: I

RE: [SAtalk] 'random' character sets

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Mike, Thanks for the tip. I did not know about the dictionary. I have had a rule testing the following: 4c-1/2v-3c /[0-9bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{4,}[aeiouy]{1,2}[0-9bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{3,}/i This would yield 52 FPs. Varying the combination results in the following: 5c-1/2v-3c - 2 FP

RE: [SAtalk] Problems in my settings between Postfix and SpamAssa ssin

2003-11-06 Thread Larry Gilson
Sounds more like you need to fix a Postfix configuration problem rather than masking the problem by not sending notifications. Was your configuration working during tests, before you put it into production? You might want to look at SecuritySage for some configuration details.

RE: [SAtalk] Avoid Double check

2003-11-04 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Carlos Jorge Santos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Avoid Double check Hi all, I've searched for this subject in the list archives, but couldn't find any relevant

RE: [SAtalk] URI Rule

2003-11-03 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Andrew Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] URI Rule Fellow Assassins, Here is an example of some of the URLs coming through in spam mail. http://#119;#119;#119 Would a rule like /#119;/ match this?

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for reverse lookup similarities

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Bob Apthorpe Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 1:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Rule for reverse lookup similarities --snip-- The big problem is when ISPs don't differentiate their static allocations from their dynamic allocations,

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for reverse lookup similarities

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:21 AM To: 'Patrick Morris'; Steven Manross Cc: SA Mailing list Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Rule for reverse lookup similarities Steven Manross wrote: I'm seeing a few/lot

RE: [SAtalk] Log Question...

2003-10-31 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Dan Tappin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Log Question... Below is a snippet from a recent post to the list: Oct 30 14:12:40 ns1 MailScanner[3201]: Message h9UMAPR07828 from

RE: [SA Hits: 10.90] [SAtalk] How do I filter something like this ?

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Gilson
In addition to the Popcorn/Backhair rules chris mentioned, also look for a rawbody rule to catch the *invisible* text: font color=#FF My rule looks like: describe MY_RBDY_INVSTXTMY: Invisible text color rawbody MY_RBDY_INVSTXT/font\s?.* color=(?\#?F[0-9A-F]?|?white?).*/i

RE: [SAtalk] Exessive HTML Code

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Gilson
did not see them. --Larry -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:35 AM To: Mark Ritchie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Exessive HTML Code Yes, this would be possible. describe MY_RBDY_EXSV_TAGMY: Excessive HTML Tags rawbody

RE: [SAtalk] updating rules without upgrading SpamAssassin

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Vasantha Narayanan Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] updating rules without upgrading SpamAssassin Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to update the rules with out updating SpamAssassin. The

RE: [SAtalk] Significant increase in spam lately

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Gilson
Nice stats Mike! Custom script? -Original Message- From: mikea Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Significant increase in spam lately On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:01:49PM -0500, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: Chris Santerre Sent:

RE: [SAtalk] stats script

2003-10-30 Thread Larry Gilson
Everyone has an opinion so since you ask, I'll give you mine. Your script includes stats on SA so therefore it is SA related. Anything that can help me keep a grip on what is happening to my mailservers is worthwhile. Logs and stats really help in this area and your stats include SA. So as far

RE: [SAtalk] Exessive HTML Code

2003-10-29 Thread Larry Gilson
Yes, this would be possible. describe MY_RBDY_EXSV_TAGMY: Excessive HTML Tags rawbody MY_RBDY_EXSV_TAG/[bi]\/[bi]/i scoreMY_RBDY_EXSV_TAG4.0 Backhair did not hit because the number of characters within the tag is fewer than 6. Creating rules to match fewer than 6 characters

[SAtalk] 2004 Spam Conference

2003-10-29 Thread Larry Gilson
For those who don't already know: MIT Room 26-100 January 16, 2004, 9 am to 6 pm The 2003 spam conference worked well, so we plan to do much the same thing in 2004. There will be none of the cruft that usually accumulates on conferences; just a series of quick, concentrated talks, and then we

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] 4c-2v-3c

2003-10-29 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Jennifer, -Original Message- From: Jennifer Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 9:51 AM To: 'Larry Gilson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] 4c-2v-3c Hi Larry I have had some very good success with a rawbody and subject test

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for looking at envelope sender?

2003-10-29 Thread Larry Gilson
I can tell you how to pass the information to SA it if you use Postfix and Procmail. Otherwise, you will need to figure out how to make your MTA pass that information along to SA. You will also need a custom rule. MAIL FROM and RCPT TO data are not passed along as part of a message. --Larry

RE: [SAtalk] grouping rules

2003-10-29 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Joe, I think you might want to look at Meta rules. http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm http://www.exit0.us/ http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mkettler/sa/SA-rules-howto.txt --Larry -Original Message- From: Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-28 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Keith C. Ivey Thanks for the reply Keith and sorry for the long dely in my response. Larry Gilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: full MY_FULL_OBFU_HTML /[\s]\w+[\w\s\/\$;]{1,6}\w+/ It seems to me that you'd want to catch the obfuscating pesudo

[SAtalk] Bayes spam-ham or ham-spam ratios

2003-10-28 Thread Larry Gilson
I am using 2.55. If the answer is different for 2.60, please answer with respect to 2.60 as I will be upgrading *very* soon. I am experimenting with Bayes in a site-wide/gateway configuration. One thing that I believe is affecting my tests is the external Procmail whitelist. I find the number

[SAtalk] [RD] 4c-2v-3c

2003-10-28 Thread Larry Gilson
I have had some very good success with a rawbody and subject test which looks for 4 or more consonants followed by 1 or 2 vowels followed by 3 or more consonants or digits This is the match: /[0-9bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{4,}[aeiouy]{1,2}[0-9bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz]{3,}/i This catches the junk

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-25 Thread Larry Gilson
I have been testing the HTML obfuscation with the pattern match for the junk within the tags ranging from 1 to 5. full MY_FULL_OBFU_HTML /[\s]\w+[\w\s\/\$;]{1,6}\w+/ This is the results of my testing. {1} have not noticed false positives {2} false positives with br {3} false positives

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-25 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Satya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step? On Oct 24, 2003 at 22:06, Larry Gilson wrote: business because they tighten the grips. One thing they can

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Gilson
ATT aborts plan to block e-mail http://www.msnbc.com/news/983380.asp?vts=102220031806 I thought this was an interesting article in light of this thread. --Larry --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you

FW: [SAtalk] [RD] yahoo redirect

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 10:50 AM To: 'Larry Gilson'; 'Colin A. Bartlett'; Patrick Morris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] yahoo redirect /^https?\:\/\/w*\.yahoo\.com\/.*\/\*http/i

RE: [SAtalk] Whitelist / Rule Question...

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist / Rule Question... At 01:34 PM 10/24/2003, Dan Tappin wrote: rawbody USERNAME /username/i describe USERNAME score USERNAME

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-24 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Chris Santerre Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 12:26 PM To: 'Larry Gilson'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [OT] What is next step? ATT aborts plan to block e-mail http://www.msnbc.com/news/983380.asp?vts=102220031806 I thought

RE: [SAtalk] obfuscating comments

2003-10-23 Thread Larry Gilson
Search the archives a custom rule discussion with the subject Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds. Links: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm http://spamhammers.nxtek.net/ --Larry -Original Message- From: jenni baier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] yahoo redirect

2003-10-23 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 3:08 PM To: 'Colin A. Bartlett'; Patrick Morris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] yahoo redirect This is what it is now:

RE: [SAtalk] dcc returns letters not numbers. docs say to limit # 's

2003-10-22 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Arlo, -Original Message- From: Arlo Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] dcc returns letters not numbers. docs say to limit #'s I'm hopeful that somebody can explain the dcc results to me. i

RE: [SAtalk] dcc returns letters not numbers. docs say to limit # 's

2003-10-22 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Arlo, -Original Message- From: Arlo Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 8:48 AM To: Larry Gilson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] dcc returns letters not numbers. docs say to limit # 's Thanks Larry, I do understand that 9

RE: [SAtalk] How to update old version of SpamAssassin

2003-10-22 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Michael, There is definitely a dependency order. You need to upate installed RPM. If you want to update each RPM, one at a time, you will need to use the --nodeps option. Just understand that if you update each RPM one at a time, you *have* to update them all. Otherwise you will have one

RE: [SAtalk] CGI script for whitelisting?

2003-10-21 Thread Larry Gilson
About a year and a half ago I was on a quest to find a management panel for an Email gateway. I never found one but what I did find was Webmin (http://www.webmin.com/). Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. It is entirely written in Perl/CGI. The base uses a

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Jennifer, -Original Message- From: jennifer Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 7:03 PM To: 'Larry Gilson'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds Hi Larry, (I added RD since this has turned into rule discussion. Hope that is ok

RE: [SAtalk] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Mike, This is great! Thanks! --Larry -Original Message- From: Mike Kuentz (2) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:14 PM To: Larry Gilson; Chris Santerre Cc: SA Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds Little behind in my reading here, so

RE: [SAtalk] filter documentation

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Michael, -Original Message- From: Michael Balamuth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] filter documentation Just wondering if there is any specific documentation on how to write additional filters for SA?

RE: [SAtalk] My first question here[SA DCC]

2003-10-20 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Marco, -Original Message- From: Marco Calistri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 4:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] My first question here[SA DCC] Hello, first of all I want to make my compliments to the developers that are spending

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates

2003-10-19 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Matt, I really don't know. If you do, you would find them in: /usr/share/doc/spamassassin-tools-2.xx (whatever your vers ## is) --Larry -Original Message- From: Matt Van Gordon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:55 PM To: 'Larry Gilson'; '[EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's?

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
-Original Message- From: Michael W.Cocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's? --snip-- And, to bring this post back toward the stated subject, I was never able to successfully install SA from

RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
I'd be lucky to see the post in a half hour. --Larry -Original Message- From: Colin A. Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] slow list Moderately Off Topic: Does anyone else have trouble getting

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