Re: A good stats script?

2005-01-19 Thread MIKE YRABEDRA
on 1/18/05 6:12 PM, MIKE YRABEDRA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good script that folks are using to generate SA stats off a mail log? I am mainly looking for one that reports on the rulesets that are catching the spam too. I don't think sa-stats.pl does that?

Re: BAYES_99 = 1.9?

2005-01-19 Thread up
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Thomas Arend wrote: With network test enabled bayes scores lower. This is a problem when the network test don't fire when the spammer uses a new server. Therefore I have raised the bayes scores for bayes_99. I seldom get bayes_90 so I didn't raise the scores for bayes_90.

Re: A good stats script?

2005-01-19 Thread Mike Burger
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: on 1/18/05 6:12 PM, MIKE YRABEDRA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good script that folks are using to generate SA stats off a mail log? I am mainly looking for one that reports on the rulesets that are catching the spam too. I don't

Re: BAYES_99 = 1.9?

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:37 PM 1/18/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, it looks like bayes_90 has been deprecated. When I run a lint on my local.cf, I get: warning: score set for non-existent rule BAYES_90 Yes, several of the old ranges in 2.64 no longer exist.. For 3.x they changed the ranging a bit, creating

Re: spamassassin process a single message for 10 minutes !

2005-01-19 Thread Loren Wilton
I seem to remember there was a problem or design feature where something like Net::DNS was using about 4 file handles per URL that it looked up. Must have been about 250 URLs in that spam, at a guess. Personally, I'd be inclined to submit a bug. :-) Loren - Original Message -

Re: Memory problems with SA 3.0.1?

2005-01-19 Thread Loren Wilton
3.0.2 is better than 3.0.1 in this regard, so the first thing I'd do is upgrade. That may not be a complete solution, so if you are using spamd, I'd set ---max_con_per_child to something reasonably low, like 20..50 or so. There are still a couple of things that can eat memory and already have

Re: Memory problems with SA 3.0.1?

2005-01-19 Thread rbartlett
Are you referring to whats in the spamd line? Currently it is m10 Hmm I thought that was max con per child, so where do I edit that value? Thanks Robert 3.0.2 is better than 3.0.1 in this regard, so the first thing I'd do is upgrade. That may not be a complete solution, so if you are using

Re: Memory problems with SA 3.0.1?

2005-01-19 Thread rbartlett
Thanks for the response. Yes it is: --max-conn-per-child=number I set it to 20. Will see how it works. Default is 200. Thanks again for the help. I will look into the upgrade to 3.0.2. Thanks again! Robert -m10 is 10 max children. In 3.x each child gets reused more than once before it is

Spamd/spamc user issue

2005-01-19 Thread Joe Polk
I'm having a problem getting spamd to work properly as any other user but root. I have it running as user spamd which I have created. I was originally getting create errors for user_prefs for /root. I set my procmailrc file to DROPPRIVS=yes and that cleared that as I had created a /home/spamd

(was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com

2005-01-19 Thread List Mail User
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 18 15:55:21 2005 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk ... From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... No listing in any blacklists: http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=164.109.26.27 I don't know about digex, but

What to do with X-Antiabuse?

2005-01-19 Thread Vermyndax
I've had spam making it through SA 3.02 with the X-Antiabuse headers in the mail. Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent minus scores on those rule hits? --JM -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.galaxycow.com/vermyndax Because this E mail address is transmission exclusive use, message it does

RBL definitions

2005-01-19 Thread Frank M. Cook
I recently upgraded from version 2 to 3 and my performance has gone to pot. It may just be that I need a much stronger computer for this version but I suspect it may be doing a lot of RBL checking. In version 2, I had all net checking turned off in local.cf. I think something is being

Re: A good stats script?

2005-01-19 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 08:22 PM 1.18.2005 -0500, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: on 1/18/05 6:12 PM, MIKE YRABEDRA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good script that folks are using to generate SA stats off a mail log? I am mainly looking for one that reports on the rulesets that are catching the spam too. I don't

very handy new whois tool

2005-01-19 Thread jm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Determines which domains are vhosted at a given IP address. e.g. xanexMUNGED.com, at 200.139.97.122, gives: http://whois.webhosting.info/200.139.97.122 200.139.97.122 - IP hosts 27 Total Domains ... Showing 1 - 27 out of 27 Domain Name

Re: very handy new whois tool

2005-01-19 Thread List Mail User
This tool has been abused is known (and blocked) by many spammers (unfortunately). Paul Shupak P.S. It is still always worth a try though.

Re: very handy new whois tool

2005-01-19 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:27:50PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: Determines which domains are vhosted at a given IP address. Not very reliable though. They get most of the 400+ that work is hosting on 1 IP, 0 of the 80+ on 3 other IPs, and only 2 of the 10+ I have on my personal server. --

Re: DIGEX

2005-01-19 Thread jdow
I got a spam for an Acura dealer in Houston Tx from them. They are not going to get ANY mail into my mailbox as a result. The tone of their mail also indicated that they are arrogant pieces of dog droppings. If Digex appears in the email they are boosted to a rather high number. They are NOT well

Re: What to do with X-Antiabuse?

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:48 PM 1/18/2005, Vermyndax wrote: I've had spam making it through SA 3.02 with the X-Antiabuse headers in the mail. Anyone have any ideas on how to prevent minus scores on those rule hits? Care to be specific about which rule hit's you're talking about? AFAIK SA does not have any rules

Re: DIGEX

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:10 AM 1/19/2005, jdow wrote: I got a spam for an Acura dealer in Houston Tx from them. They are not going to get ANY mail into my mailbox as a result. The tone of their mail also indicated that they are arrogant pieces of dog droppings. If Digex appears in the email they are boosted to a

Re: very handy new whois tool

2005-01-19 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:38 PM -0500 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not very reliable though. They get most of the 400+ that work is hosting on 1 IP, 0 of the 80+ on 3 other IPs, and only 2 of the 10+ I have on my personal server. Check out the latest ntop (http://ntop.org).

Re: spamassassin process a single message for 10 minutes !

2005-01-19 Thread Stefano Catani
Using debug (spamd -D) i've found it takes a long time on URIDNSBL: this is during startup: debug: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL from @INC debug: plugin: registered Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::URIDNSBL=HASH(0x8a10224) debug: plugin: loading

Mail::SpamAssassin usage

2005-01-19 Thread Caruso, Anthony J.
List: I am not sure if this is the proper place for this question, so let me apologize in advance and the put on my asbestos underwear Is there any way to load more than just scores from SQL? Or flush blacklists/whitelists from the prefs? I am running SA inside of MimeDefang (MD). I have

Re: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-19 Thread jdow
And now Verison is sending out spam to get people to join verison.com. They are going into my black list at the procmail level ASAP except for a VERY few verison addresses. {`,'}A pissed off Joanne. - Original Message - From: Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory problems with SA 3.0.1?

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
Robert theres a patch (well two actually) that help for 3.01 and 3.02 here http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983 does alot of what the 3.10 will do - limits spawning of new processes. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 [EMAIL

Re: RBL definitions

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
Frank you got a local cachine name server on the machine? That helps. I also turn off alot of the pure RBL's and only use the URIRBL's by adding this to my local.cf # don't do all the RBL's just spamhause XBL score __RCVD_IN_NJABL 0.0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 0.0 score RCVD_IN_NJABL_MULTI 0.0

Re: A good stats script?

2005-01-19 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:55 AM 1.19.2005 -0500, Mike Yrabedra wrote: Jack, Thanks for the info. Where would I get this version of the script? Will it work on a regular spamd log? Mike: Yes, it works on a spamd log. In fact, I re-direct all spamd info to /var/log/spamd.log and run the script against that pure

Re: (was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:44 PM 1/18/2005, List Mail User wrote: I don't know about digex, but dnsstuff.com is listed in SPEWS level 1 and level 2, completewhois.org and whois.rfc-ignnorant.org. BTW. I personally don't trust anyone with a disconnected telephone number, and they seem to probe my own address

German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
Not sure how this will work itself out (or how old this story is) but it's probably worth noting and keeping an eye on... The Higher Regional Court now has ruled that blocking email by content is unlawful as it is considered confidential in German law. Blocking is only allowed when, say, a viral

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread C-Store Christoph Peter
Hi, there is a pretty good summary linked within the article : http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55210 This decision deals with filtering the email of a person who had left the university and tried to stay in contact with his former co-workers. The universitiy did not want thjis, and

RE: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:06 AM To: Kang, Joseph S. Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'. As far as i understood this is that mails must get

RE: Verizon hosting spammers :)

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Santerre
LOL FWIW, the site mentioned in my original post is still UP!! After reading what verizon wireless did with the bluetooth cell phones(1), I've pretty much given up hope that ANYONE in upper managment of any verizon company has a clue! --Chris (1)

Re: (was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com

2005-01-19 Thread List Mail User
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 19 06:57:31 2005 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm .. Subject: Re: (was Re: DIGEX) dnsreports.com/dnsstuff.com A message (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) was received at 19 Jan 2005 14:21:48 +. The following addresses had delivery problems:

RE: A good stats script?

2005-01-19 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: MIKE YRABEDRA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 8:22 PM To: SATalk Subject: Re: A good stats script? on 1/18/05 6:12 PM, MIKE YRABEDRA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good script that folks are using to generate SA stats

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Roger WJ Alterskjær
I had the same thought when initially setting up our system. Our university has pretty strict rules regarding content-filtering. I got around it by having SA tag spam (using X-Spam-Status, no subject re-write), then a procmail in each users folder autmagically puts these into a Spam-folder.

New to SA, problems with production speed

2005-01-19 Thread leonard . gray
This is my first post here, and liable to be a doozie! Running SA 3.0.2 with Sendmail 8.12.11, hooked in with spamass-milter 0.2.0, all under Solaris 9. I also have SPF-Milter installed from spf.pobox.com. SPF is the first milter, SA is the second in the sendmail.cf file. Sendmail running only

Re: New to SA, problems with production speed

2005-01-19 Thread Martin Hepworth
Leonard know issue with sa 3.0x and spamc/spamd. Will ne Fixed with 3.10 work around is lower number of children allowed or apply following patches.. http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3983 -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 [EMAIL

Re: German court rules e-mail blocking 'illegal'.

2005-01-19 Thread Ralph Seichter
Joe K. wrote: Anyone know enough German (or is German) who can translate the ruling that's linked in the above article? As I am lacking the time for a full translation: the core of the ruling is that the university had, under German law, no right to block all mail originating from or sent to a

Ebay acting as a list server?

2005-01-19 Thread hamann . w
Hi, in an ISP setting there seem to be two cases where machines other than the official mail server send mails FROM a local address - valid clients who send mails from their local system to the mailserver (and authenticate in one way or another to do so) - spammers who believe that a forged

spamassassin works, spamc / d doesn't? I have it working on other servers...

2005-01-19 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Cant see what Im doing wrong. I ran spamd like: spamd -x -d -r /var/run/spamassassin.pid --socketpath=/var/run/spamassassin.sock --sql-config OR spamd -d -r /var/run/spamassassin.pid --socketpath=/var/run/spamassassin.sock --sql-config spamc -x -c -U /var/run/spamassassin.sock -u

Re: newbie question about adding rules

2005-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Put your rules in /etc/mail/spamassassin they wont get written over From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:57:30 -0600 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: newbie question about adding rules I am looking at adding some rulesets from SARE and we are

Re: newbie question about adding rules

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:57 PM 1/19/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking at adding some rulesets from SARE and we are planning on putting them in the /usr/share/spamassassin directory (I know they get overwritten when upgrading...). I don't see anywhere that spamassassin is calling the sets in that