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 th
Rumor has it that Eric W. Bates may have mentioned these words:
We experienced a similar problem on FreeBSD. The problem was addressed
when we upgraded perl from 5.5 to 5.8. As a workaround until we managed to
upgrade we launched spamd under the control of Dan Bernstein's Daemontools
which can
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> On 12/31/03, Casper Gasper wrote:
> >
> >Things like, '4 consonants in a row are not an English word'.
>
> Shortstop? Matchstick? :)
>
> Seriously, though, looking for patterns is an interesting idea. For
> instance, English si
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[snippety]
Rule:
BODY RULENAME /a string/i
Coded Rule:
BODY RULENAME /a{1,3} s{1,3}t{1,3}r{1,3}i{1,3}n{1,3}g{1,3}/i
You get the idea. This could be quite burdensome to implement manually,
but an easy enough thing to automate 'behind
At 19:13 12/3/2003 -0600, mikea wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:17:28PM -0500, Rick Macdougall wrote:
> Peter P. Benac wrote:
>
> > I have been using Emacs for almost 20 years. Is there any other
editor :)
> >
> > :s/old stuff/newstuff/g only works if you only have one instance of
"old
> >
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:11:10 -0500, Roger Merchberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
The response was that at a half-second a message is enough.
You prolly didn't get many qmailers to respond, then... If it wasn't fo
At 03:27 11/25/2003 -0600, Scott A Crosby wrote:
I mentioned this about a year ago, but now that people are starting to
write rulesets with hundreds to thousands of new rules, I thought I'd
bring it up again.
How happy are people with the performance of SA, especially with all
of thee new rules? Th
At 08:24 10/28/2003 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[[ Dude! Long time, no read... but who could forget an email address like
yours... ;-) ]]
For the past couple of weeks or so, like most of you, I've seen total spam
volume almost double again. At this point, the server in question (dual
PIII-5
At 15:24 10/23/2003 -0400, Fred I-IS.COM wrote:
I'll have to admin, I was bored this morning...
I had to admin this morning as well... ;-)
I created a set of rules to
look for domains that include numbers.
IE: www.domain3.com
IE: www.domain3domain.com
Etc..
Take a look at the attachment, I'm
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[snippety]
One thing that might be very useful is for every email coming through that
is scanned, to log not only the spam level (which is already done with
amavisd-new, and I would assume for those using spamd) but the previous hop
of
At 15:37 10/20/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
[snip]
What is the next step?
We have all posted stats that prove that over 50% of email is spam. Now that
we can tag or block (to user), it doesn't stop the traffic. I still have 50%
traffic on the server as useless. What do we do?
Get rid of SMTP.
At 12:45 10/16/2003 -0400, Terry Milnes wrote:
Hold it a sec, not all rpms contain the source, in fact unless things have
changed I thought that most contained precompiled binaries, and that was
the problem with them.
Correct. Source RPMS (.src.rpm) have the source; otherwise (unless it's a
perl
At 18:35 10/15/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But the way qmail-rbl works it will deny the mail based on the lookup, not
weight it appropiatly.
Then put the more 'sane' rbls[1] in your run script which will reduce a bit
of your incoming spam (that SA won't have to scan), and the ones you wi
At 13:18 10/15/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
Ok, I just did another update. I took the spamtrap for the last 15 days and
got this down to 944 rules. This should be much better and fresher. I also
edited the reg2rule.pl script to include the trailing 'i' so case doesn't
matter anymore. I also sa
At 21:43 10/14/2003 -0400, Paul Farber wrote:
I tried the evilrules.cf on my dual AMD 1Gb 2 Ultra-SCSI qmail server and it
died in minutes.
I run 100K+ emails in a 24 hour period. (98+% are tagged as spam)
After reboot I see that spamd takes a while to catch up... avg is 30+ seconds
per msg (all r
At 15:39 10/14/2003 -0500, Stewart, John wrote:
Okay, I wanted to drop in your evilrules.cf file into my SA setup, and I did
so using (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/):
lynx -dump http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.cf >
evilrules.cf
However, this seems to cause problems. After t
At 14:06 10/14/2003 -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote:
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:45 PM
> I'd like to set up a couple such honeypots and see what the level of
> attraction is they get. Perhaps this would make a good research project.
I was curious as to how many spams actually
At 17:35 10/9/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote:
Well I got around to updating my evilrules.cf file. Ummm.are you sitting
down? The first version had 274 rules for spam hosts. This version has 1758
rules!! Yup! I went thru it by hand 3 times before running the reg2ule.pl
script. I also posted a
[[ Dangit -- I hate Eudora's "CTRL-E" for Send Immediately! It clashes
*really hard* with *nix's Go To End Of Line! Sorry Everybody!!! ]]
Just to let everyone know - I did fix my problem - by killing the patient!
I basically rewrote ifspamh in Python, and included a basic Maildir
delivery mecha
. Icberg computers sounds kinda cool.
Thanks
You seem to know some German? If you want to learn some more, feel free to
mail me off-list
Tschuess
Ralf G.
Original Message -
From: "Roger Merchberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, Octob
Rumor has it that Ralf Guenthner may have mentioned these words:
I'm also running spamd under supervise and just recently I asked this list
why I couldn't get the -D option to work. Where were you guys then?
;-)
I wasn't here yet... so I have an excuse! ;-)
I solved it in the meantime by sending
Rumor has it that Klaus Alexander Seistrup may have mentioned these words:
On Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 1) Is anyone else running spamd from tcpserver?
I've been running spamd under dæmontools/supervise with a run file
similar to yours for months -- works like a charm.
(You did mean s
How-doo!
... Awrighty ... let's keep it a bit simpler... ;-)
I've changed how spamassassin is started - instead of using:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin start
I have now created a run file using qmail's tcpserver & friends, here:
/service/smtpd/run
and this file contains:
#!/bin/sh
exec /usr/
How-doo!
New to the list, but not new to computers. Been running qmail for almost a
decade, spamassassin for about 1 year, but I seem to have hit a stumper...
My setup:
Was running spamassassin 2.55, upgraded to 2.6 (just in case); in daemon
mode, "several different versions" of ifspamh [1], q
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