Re: The stock spammer with the ||'s

2005-04-14 Thread wolfgang
i have been trying to catch those for a while, partly successfully. thanks for the chickenpox hint, that looks like a good add-on. while fiddling with my rules, i noticed something strange: rawbody SOMERULE /\bmai\|\b/ will not work rawbody SOMERULE /\bmai\|/ will. same with rules that start with

Re: SpamAssassin and Horde

2005-04-14 Thread List Mail User
... > Angelo Ayres Camargo wrote: >... I hate to say it, but... Anyone with the last name "Camargo" using a domain with a contact address in Florianopolis, Brazil is automatically suspect. Maybe Angelo, you can tell us: Is "Camargo" a common name in that region, or is it just ba

Re: SpamAssassin and Horde

2005-04-14 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 check the bugzilla -- I'm pretty sure this is fixed for 3.1.0. - --j. > Received: from 200-102-255-31.smace701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br > (200-102-255-31.smace701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.102.255.31]) by > domain.tld (Horde) with HTTP for <[E

Re: SpamAssassin and Horde

2005-04-14 Thread Ângelo A . Camargo
Checked trusted_networks and i guess is not it, received: headers from emails send from imp 4.x are: Received: from 200-102-255-31.smace701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br (200-102-255-31.smace701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.102.255.31]) by domain.tld (Horde) with HTTP for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu Thu

Re: Rules to identify simplified and traditional chinese character sets

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Johnson, Robert F wrote: >This header was missed by your rule example. Does anyone have any ideas >why it was missed? > >Thanks in advance: > > >Header >--=_alternative 00390FDE48256FE2_= >Content-Type: text/html; charset="gb2312" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > > >Rule: >rawbody CHINESE_

RE: Rules to identify simplified and traditional chinese character sets

2005-04-14 Thread Johnson, Robert F
This header was missed by your rule example. Does anyone have any ideas why it was missed? Thanks in advance: Header --=_alternative 00390FDE48256FE2_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="gb2312" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Rule: rawbody CHINESE_WL_1_B /\bgb2312\b/i describe CHINESE_W

Re: 0 Hits on blatant spam

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Tim Wesemann wrote: > I've been getting alot of leak-through with 3.02 lately and I thought > this one was interesting, particularly that there are plenty of rules > that > look for a certain word that rhymes with "truck" (YKWIM), but no header > rules that look for the word with an "ing" on the e

0 Hits on blatant spam

2005-04-14 Thread Tim Wesemann
I've been getting alot of leak-through with 3.02 lately and I thought this one was interesting, particularly that there are plenty of rules that look for a certain word that rhymes with "truck" (YKWIM), but no header rules that look for the word with an "ing" on the end of it. I only see one body r

Re: Need for a new rule?

2005-04-14 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 13:22, Andreas Davour wrote: > The following message have many characteristics in common with much spam > I've been getting lately. It's about investments, often shares, stock > options or oil. One odd thing about those messages is that they all, > like the one quoted below

Re: Bayes question

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Joe Zitnik wrote: >I apologize if this has been asked before, but I need some >clarification. If I have autolearn for ham set to 0, and the default >BAYES_00 score assigns mail a negative value, and a spam message comes >through with enough good text in it to give it a BAYES_00 and therefore >a n

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Kelson
Paolo Cravero as2594 wrote: Same goes for who asks to unblock certain messages. They are told they can decide to have spam pass through (periodical automatic quarantine unlock, actually). In less than a day they usually beg to restore their antispam protection (and who cares for that job-unrelat

Re: Still Stuck. bayes

2005-04-14 Thread Kelson
Peter Marshall wrote: "You don't want to sa-learn 200 messages just to learn 5" I guess it would be doing that in the Inbox and Spam Directory all the time. I am sure some users, myself included, don't always file messsages as quick as they should from their inbox .. so they would end up r

Bayes question

2005-04-14 Thread Joe Zitnik
I apologize if this has been asked before, but I need some clarification. If I have autolearn for ham set to 0, and the default BAYES_00 score assigns mail a negative value, and a spam message comes through with enough good text in it to give it a BAYES_00 and therefore a negative value BUT it is

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Kettler
Ronan McGlue wrote: > why is the weighting for RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB scores 0 0 0 then 0.007... > > I know there is probably a good reason for this low a score but could > someone explain it to me please as I have one very irate user who > likes nothing better than to pick holes in spamassassin, which

Re: Still Stuck. bayes

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Marshall
Thank you for the detailed reply. I made all of the changes you suggestd. They were very good, and I will have to see how well they work now. I just had one more question. Your last statement "You don't want to sa-learn 200 messages just to learn 5" I guess it would be doing that in the

Mailbox disabled rejection scripting

2005-04-14 Thread Evans, Darrell
Anyone doing any automated methods for catching large numbers of these rejects and then adding the host into a sendmail access db similar to vispan? ruleset=check_rcpt, arg1=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=[211.150.242.139], reject=550 5.2.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Mailbox disabled for this recipient

RE: yet another Sendmail filter for SpamAssassin daemon spamd

2005-04-14 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
John Andersen wrote: > On Wednesday 13 April 2005 09:57 am, Eugene Kurmanin wrote: >> 5. Copy SPAM to the defined mailbox; >> 6. Reject SPAM at the DATA stage, >>    if SPAM score is greater than defined value; >> 7. Log all activities to syslog. > > Well if you are going to reject, why also accep

RE: Bayes Problems

2005-04-14 Thread Kang, Joseph S.
[clipped for brevity]... The source of your problem is indicated by > spamd[22065]: debug: bayes: Not available for scanning, only 35 ham(s) in Bayes DB < 200 To use Bayes with SA, you need a minimum of 200 HAM and SPAM messages learned into the db. Hope this helps. -Joe K.

Bayes Problems

2005-04-14 Thread J Thomas Hancock
I am having one heck of a time getting Bayes working with SpamAssassin. I am using postfix 2.2.2 and SA 3.00.2. Postfix is being ran as the user postfix. SA is being ran as postdrop. The following is the output from the syslog. spamd[22065]: debug: plugin: Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Hashcas

Re: sa-learn - bayes training...

2005-04-14 Thread Jean Caron
Kevin, your assumption is correct, user accounts are on the server and spamc is used. I already have the central DB setup using bayes_path in local.cf. I think what you are saying confirms what I suspected, but it's still not 100% clear. Even though I have a central DB, all users must train it

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Harvey
> I think I may downgrade the milter as far back as I can and see if that > fixes it. If it does, then we know that this specific version ignores the > SA > local.cf commands to change subject and report safe. Looks like I may have a different answer. Am testing it now.

Re: Arithmetic score for replaced O's and I's?

2005-04-14 Thread Jim Maul
Robert Menschel wrote: Hello mewolf1, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 6:37:15 PM, you wrote: mgn> In an older episode (Wednesday 13 April 2005 02:57), Robert Menschel wrote: Send me your t1r3d, h0m3|ess, hun6ry, un\/\/anted [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I'|| f1nd a 600D horme 4 them... (Not the entire spam email

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Harvey
> Your maillog paste doesn't show the Subject: header being modified, it > only shows the X-Spam headers being added. This may be a symptom of the > '-m' option being present in the call to whatever the spamass-milter > executable is. Yes exactly. I see the milter doing *some* work, i.e. adding

Re: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Chris Harvey wrote: The problem with your setup is with spamass-milter, not SpamAssassin. And people exclusively ask questions about SA on here? Never ever one on the milter? Perhaps I should have been a little more verbose -- I wasn't saying not to ask your question here. It's not a SpamAssassi

RE: The stock spammer with the ||'s

2005-04-14 Thread Gray, Richard
> 2.7 SORTED_RECIPS Recipient list is sorted by address How is this done? We currently use 2.64 and I haven't seen this particular rule before. Does it require 3.0? R --- This email from dns has been validated by dnsMSS Managed Email Sec

The stock spammer with the ||'s

2005-04-14 Thread Loren Wilton
After reading the long thread, I just happened to look in the spam bucket, and lo! there was one from him. And looking at it, I see why I hadn't noticed them before - I don't normally look at spam scoring this high. Chickenpox is your friend. :-) Loren Content analysis details: (29.0

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Ben Hanson
Chris, I'm not running SA on FC3, although I'm using it for other things. I can verify I've had problems with FC releases and SA previously, most notably some weird core dumps on a fresh install of FC1 back with SA 2.6. I narrowed it down to an issue with Perl and installed modules, and if me

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Harvey
> For those of us who use mail clients that understand what headers like > Thread-Index: AcVAiG7iyfb2TrlzT+CYcsBsxEhNiAAYn8GA > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > mean, replying to a message in a thread to ask a different question means > that > we may or may not see your question (as it may be n

Re: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 14 April 2005 13:12, Chris Harvey typed: > > guess the people reading that thread don't know about your problem. I'd > > suggest next time you send a new message (thus starting a new thread) > > rather than hijacking an existing thread. > > Not sure where you are getting that from. I

Still Stuck. bayes

2005-04-14 Thread Peter Marshall
I posted this a couple of days ago and received no response. I don't know if I just stumped people, was not clear, or people don't like my name :-). Either way, just thought I would re-post. I am still stumped at this weird problem. - Hey, I got this book (slightl

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Paolo Cravero as2594
Craig McLean wrote: Or just switch off SA scanning of that customer's mail for a day or so, that should give them an idea of how effective it is... ;-) I am convinced more and more every day that we should turn off SA once every two weeks or so for "maintainance" reasons. Then users will stop com

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Harvey
> The problem with your setup is with spamass-milter, not SpamAssassin. And people exclusively ask questions about SA on here? Never ever one on the milter? > The problem with your lack of responses is that you started your thread > by replying to a message in the thread titled "--username flag"

RE: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Craig McLean
On Thu, April 14, 2005 12:04 pm, Gray, Richard said: [snip] > When we've had to deal with this, I tend to write to write a short email > demonstrating the effectiveness of the tool (produce some statistics on > spam stopped) and point out that there is no way to achieve a 100% > efficiency. Or ju

Re: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Raphael Clifford
Good advice. You might also like to gently remind the user that spam is essentially an attack by a malicious third party and that you are doing your best to defend him. It is NOT a bug in the computer system as I imagine the user likes to think it is. Raphael Gray, Richard wrote: If you felt s

RE: RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Gray, Richard
If you felt so inclined, you could get some appropriate ascii art, (perhaps of a middle finger?) and send that through to him. Wouldn't count on your having a job much longer tho. I feel your pain regarding users like that. Some people assume that spam there is an on/off switch for spam, and the

RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB

2005-04-14 Thread Ronan McGlue
why is the weighting for RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB scores 0 0 0 then 0.007... I know there is probably a good reason for this low a score but could someone explain it to me please as I have one very irate user who likes nothing better than to pick holes in spamassassin, which in turn is a headache for m

RE: sa-learn doesn't learn

2005-04-14 Thread Gray, Richard
>From past experience, I would suggest you checked the dependencies on the 3 files that are created by sa-learn. It sounds like it was able to update bayes_toks but not one of the other files. (Can't remember which) First off, run sa-learn --rebuild. I seem to recall this was needed after running

Re: sa-learn doesn't learn

2005-04-14 Thread Raphael Clifford
Raphael Clifford wrote: Just to reply to my own message. It is seems to make a crucial difference which order to run the spam and ham tests in! I reran the spam test and it now says I have Typo: "spam test" above should be "sa-learn command for the spam folder" (from sa-learn dump magic) [...] 0

Re: sa-learn doesn't learn

2005-04-14 Thread Raphael Clifford
Just to reply to my own message. It is seems to make a crucial difference which order to run the spam and ham tests in! I reran the spam test and it now says I have (from sa-learn dump magic) [...] 0.000 0881 0 non-token data: nspam 0.000 0 1524

sa-learn doesn't learn

2005-04-14 Thread Raphael Clifford
Hi, I am trying to set up Bayes classifying for the first time using sa-learn. It looks like it is working but doesn't actually seem to be... Here is the output [raph]$ sa-learn --showdots --mbox --spam .thunderbird/gmnjx6hf.default/Mail/mail.plus.net/Junk .

Re: yet another Sendmail filter for SpamAssassin daemon spamd

2005-04-14 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 13 April 2005 09:57 am, Eugene Kurmanin wrote: > 5. Copy SPAM to the defined mailbox; > 6. Reject SPAM at the DATA stage, >    if SPAM score is greater than defined value; > 7. Log all activities to syslog. Well if you are going to reject, why also accept and copy to mailbox. Is ther

RE: Need for a new rule?

2005-04-14 Thread Gray, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: Stuart Johnston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 April 2005 21:42 > To: Andreas Davour > Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Need for a new rule? > > Andreas Davour wrote: > > > > The following message have many characteristics in common with

Re: SA randomly sucking up huge amounts of memory

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Dennis, Wednesday, April 13, 2005, 1:24:27 PM, you wrote: DS> A week or two ago, SA started randomly sucking up huge amounts of memory DS> in one or more of the spamd children. ... DS> I have managed to catch 3 of the messages that it has hung on. DS> ... I've got some suspicions, but wo

Re: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
The problem with your setup is with spamass-milter, not SpamAssassin. The problem with your lack of responses is that you started your thread by replying to a message in the thread titled "--username flag". I don't know what your problem has to do with the --username option, but I guess the peo

Re[4]: Arithmetic score for replaced O's and I's?

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello mewolf1, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 6:37:15 PM, you wrote: mgn> In an older episode (Wednesday 13 April 2005 02:57), Robert Menschel wrote: >> Send me your t1r3d, h0m3|ess, hun6ry, un\/\/anted [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >> I'|| f1nd a 600D horme 4 them... >> >> (Not the entire spam emails, pleas

Re: Recommendation on SARE rules to add.

2005-04-14 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Robert, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 10:24:54 PM, you wrote: RM> SA 3.0 RM> I was wondering if anybody had a recommendation for a initial SARE set RM> of rules to add. I am not exactly satisfied with my amount of FN's RM> currently. Any ideas would be appreciated. First -- I'm in full agree

RE: report_safe doesn't seem to work since FC3 upgrade

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Harvey
OK.. last request. I think I've sent this in three times now and not even seen one response which is quite amazing for this list. I'm having a hard time believing I'm the only one running this combination of software. I've stopped 1,128 spam and fraud messages. You can too! One month FREE spam