RE: FW: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-25 Thread John Schneider
To: John Schneider; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FW: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? Hello John, JS> Abigail, JS> If a user puts this recipe into their .procmail file, JS> where would the log entries be collected. (Sorry, but JS> I'm a procma

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-25 Thread Matt Cramer
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, BG Mahesh wrote: > Not sure if the rules we have added in local.cf are wrong. We are using SA+procmail > > header LATEST_NET_SPAM Subject =~/^Latest Net Critical Upgrade/i > describe LATEST_NET_SPAM Bounce - "Spam from Microsoft" > scoreLATEST_NET_SPAM 10.0 > > Even if t

Re: FW: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-25 Thread Abigail Marshall
Original Message- JS> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] JS> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abigail JS> Marshall JS> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 5:10 PM JS> To: Stephen Reese; [EMAIL PROTECTED] JS> Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? JS&g

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread Dale Harris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 05:27:57PM -0400, Stephen Reese elucidated: > how do I turn up the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE? > check out your .spamassassin/user_prefs file, it has directions in there. But it is basically like: score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 6.0 or some such. Dale -

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Reese
how do I turn up the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Comboni Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:07 AM To: Dale Harris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: BG Mahesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? > > > > Well they were being passed straight to the

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread BG Mahesh
> Well they were being passed straight to the user since the courier > mailfilter file was picking them out due to the size being > than 24kb > so there was no chance for SA to parse them. > hi Not sure if the rules we have added in local.cf are wrong. We are using SA+procmail header LATEST_N

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread Scott Comboni
This has seemed to work for me as well. Like you pointed out the ones that have no .exe still manage to get in. Scott On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 20:46, Dale Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:37:27AM +1200, Simon Byrnand elucidated: > > > > Although I havn't tried it, I would say that teac

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-24 Thread Stephen Reese
ent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? Simon Byrnand wrote: >>I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I >>am also getting messages that seem to orginate from o

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen Reese
Reese Subject: Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? This could also be 2.55 issue where messages with multiple MIME parts was not completly scanned? For example, the thread about pic.gif where that spammer used some trick with multiple mime parts and that caused the messa

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Fred
This could also be 2.55 issue where messages with multiple MIME parts was not completly scanned? For example, the thread about pic.gif where that spammer used some trick with multiple mime parts and that caused the message to be invisible. The good news is this is fixed in 2.60 and that's a final

Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Abigail Marshall
Hello Stephen, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 3:09:51 PM, you wrote: SR> h, i still don't understand why SA is not even looking at them SR> though see's everything else? Because the 150K attachment that comes with Swen is either too big to be sent to SA (depending on how you have configured

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Daniel Bird
Simon Byrnand wrote: I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I am also getting messages that seem to orginate from our own server but they don't. The reason SpamAssassin doesn't catch them is twofold: Maybe I'm misinterpreting the original question, but was it no

Re[2]: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Simon, Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 4:37:27 PM, you wrote: SB> Although I havn't tried it, I would say that teaching the message to BAYES SB> using sa-learn in 2.60 should be very effective, as BAYES_99 in 2.60 has a SB> high enough score to ta

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:40:49AM +0100, Daniel Bird wrote: > Maybe I'm misinterpreting the original question, but was it not the fact > that it appeared SA was not even scanning the mail? could be, I was just reading the subject which implies "why does SA not mark these mails as spam?" -- Ran

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Dale Harris
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 11:37:27AM +1200, Simon Byrnand elucidated: > > Although I havn't tried it, I would say that teaching the message to BAYES > using sa-learn in 2.60 should be very effective, as BAYES_99 in 2.60 has a > high enough score to tag as spam without any other tests... > That an

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen Reese
half Of Ryan Moore Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? Is there a size limit that SA implements to avoid scanning huge messages whose content is primarily binary? I know amavisd has a limit such as th

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Kris Deugau
Stephen Reese wrote: > h, i still don't understand why SA is not even looking at them > though see's everything else? In a nutshell, because virus messages don't look much like spam. Virus messages are usually sent via a legitimate ISP's mail server. They have (usually) valid return addresse

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
> I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I am > also getting messages that seem to orginate from our own server but they > don't. The reason SpamAssassin doesn't catch them is twofold: 1) It's a virus, not spam. 2) It's only just come out, after the ruleset for 2.60 wa

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Ryan Moore
ED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? I am getting nailed with these as well, 72 for the day so far. Other admins I talked here have had over 100 so far on the day. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Reese

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:09:51PM -0400, Stephen Reese wrote: > h, i still don't understand why SA is not even looking at them > though see's everything else? Worms are not spam by definition. (the "people" sending the worms when you get it don't intend to send it to you, therefore it's not

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen Reese
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I am also getting messages that seem to orginate from our own server but they don't. I am running sa 2.6, redhat 7.3, courier 0

RE: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Daniel Kaliel
: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ? I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I am also getting messages that seem to orginate from our own server but they don't. I am running sa 2.6, redhat 7.3, courier 0.43.0 The following is a header

[SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Stephen Reese
I've been getting tons of this mail usually with virus's attached. I am also getting messages that seem to orginate from our own server but they don't. I am running sa 2.6, redhat 7.3, courier 0.43.0 The following is a header from one of the messages: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Return-Path