Counting the times a given rule matches?

2005-05-30 Thread Sven Riedel
Hi, is there a way to see how often a certain rule would match in a mail (besides the obvious body /rule.*rule.*rule ad nauseum/ ) ? I sometimes stumble across patterns that might be legit once or twice in a mail, but they appear a lot more often than that... Regs, Sven

Re: Counting the times a given rule matches?

2005-05-30 Thread Loren Wilton
is there a way to see how often a certain rule would match in a mail (besides the obvious Unfortunately, no. Lots of us would like to see that, but there isn't any way of doing that with standard rules. Loren

[Newby] attachment rules ?

2005-05-30 Thread Herold Heiko
Spamassassin newby warning. Did read ::Conf manual and http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/WritingRules How do you check for an attachment name or file type (excel in this case) ? I resorted by using a rawbody meta rule, but that doesn't seem too right. I didn't find the documentation for

Re: [Newby] attachment rules ?

2005-05-30 Thread Loren Wilton
You don't say what version you are using. In 2.6x, you can't do this without changing core code - non-text attachments are stripped before the rules can see them. One exception is the MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE rule that can detect some attachment types. This rule was deleted in 3.0. In 3.0 there

RE: [Newby] attachment rules ?

2005-05-30 Thread Herold Heiko
From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't say what version you are using. Sorry - 3.0 In 3.0 there are plugins that can do this sort of thing, if you really want to. If you dig in the wiki, you will find a page with plugin contributions, I'll look into them, thank you.

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Chris
On Monday 30 May 2005 05:02 am, martin smith wrote: M-Original Message- MFrom: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 30 May 2005 04:00 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: cannot open bayes databases M MWhile running my sa-learn script I'm suddenly getting the below: M

drop in graph??

2005-05-30 Thread Ronan McGlue
is there an 'easy' way to get a grpahical representation of how well SA is doing?? preferably something flashy with lots of primary colours for the managment elite?? if not i suppose i gotta start hackin rrdtool scripts or similar!!? mnay thanks Ronan -- Regards Ronan McGlue

Re: drop in graph??

2005-05-30 Thread E. Falk
I'm sure there are some PHP hackers who have much nicer graphs than I do, but I found the easiest thing to do was to extract numbers from my logs with some perl scripts and paste them into Excel. Management likes Excel and it makes pretty charts. :) It's not automated, but it does have lots

Re: drop in graph??

2005-05-30 Thread Mike Jackson
I'm sure there are some PHP hackers who have much nicer graphs than I do, but I found the easiest thing to do was to extract numbers from my logs with some perl scripts and paste them into Excel. Management likes Excel and it makes pretty charts. :) It's not automated, but it does have lots

false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread Chavdar Videff
Dear List, I know these are subject of the FAQ and the documentation, yet after I read all of it I didn't get an answer to the following questions: 1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through (even if we set required hits to 3 and 2 for

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread JamesDR
Chavdar Videff wrote: Dear List, I know these are subject of the FAQ and the documentation, yet after I read all of it I didn't get an answer to the following questions: 1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through (even if we set

Re: sendmail installation saught

2005-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
MC writes: Kirk D Bailey General Mismanager wrote: I want to use spamassassin with sendmail. Maybe it's buried on the website, but I am not finding instructions on how to use it with sendmail MTA. Can anyone point me at the procedure to do this? You could also go along the

Re: Do we need a Joe job bounce message blacklist?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Matthew S. Cramer wrote: If an email is from or MAILER-DAEMON then I check the mail for a line that looks like /^Received.*one.of.our.ip.addresses/. If it doesn't have the line, then I reject the mail with a 554 and Bounced message did not originate here. I was intrigued by this idea and

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread Craig Jackson
Chavdar Videff wrote: Dear List, I know these are subject of the FAQ and the documentation, yet after I read all of it I didn't get an answer to the following questions: 1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through (even if we set

New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts to send email to numbered email addresses, such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone have any ideas why spammers would be trying this particular

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Bruno Delbono
Chris wrote: No joy Martin. Tried both --sync and --force-expire. Anyone else with ideas? strace sa-learn --sync and see what exactly is it doing -Bruno

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts to send email to numbered email addresses, such as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone have any ideas why spammers would be

Learning from spam - system-wide

2005-05-30 Thread Steve
I've been using SpamAssassin successfully for some time, but having recently reconfigured my home network and could do with some help getting to grips with how best to use SA. I have a Linux box (scoop) running Fetchmail, Postfix Qpopper acting as our mail server. Mail is delivered into

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me, they started May 28th at almost exactly noon EDT.I'm almost tempted to let a

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Steven Stern
Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me, they started May 28th at almost exactly noon EDT.I'm

Re: Learning from spam - system-wide

2005-05-30 Thread mouss
Steve wrote: I've been using SpamAssassin successfully for some time, but having recently reconfigured my home network and could do with some help getting to grips with how best to use SA. I have a Linux box (scoop) running Fetchmail, Postfix Qpopper acting as our mail server. Mail is

Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread Ryan L. Sun
HI, Where can I find SpamAssassin rules' meaning and examples? Some rules are easy to understand from its name, while others are not easy to figure out what's the rule stands for. If there are some examples for a specific rule, that would be great. Thank you.

Re: Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread Craig Jackson
Ryan L. Sun wrote: HI, Where can I find SpamAssassin rules' meaning and examples? Some rules are easy to understand from its name, while others are not easy to figure out what's the rule stands for. If there are some examples for a specific rule, that would be great. Thank you. man

Re: New dictionary spamming method?

2005-05-30 Thread Rick van Vliet
Steven Stern said the following on 5/30/2005 12:11 PM: Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: Steven Stern wrote: I got a similar bunch of messages (approx 250) between 6:05 and 6:15 CDT, from about 10 unique IP addresses, yesterday and today, but on only one of my 3 MX servers. Interesting. For me,

Re: New dictionary spamming method -- SOLVED!

2005-05-30 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Looks like some particularly inept spammer is grabbing partial Message-IDs from the headers of messages on this list and trying to send email to them as though they were email addresses. Sad, really. Kevin Peuhkurinen wrote: I've noticed recently in my MTA logs a growing trend of attempts

Re: Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread Ryan L. Sun
That's the config manual, which didn't explain much about rules' meaning. Any ideas? On 5/30/05, Craig Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan L. Sun wrote: HI, Where can I find SpamAssassin rules' meaning and examples? Some rules are easy to understand from its name, while others are not

Re: Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread Kern, Tom
O' Reilly Regular Expressions book? :) -- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net)

Re: Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 11:56:56AM -0700, Ryan L. Sun wrote: That's the config manual, which didn't explain much about rules' meaning. Any ideas? You can look at the default rule files, they have descriptions for each rule. Other than that, it's not really clear what you're looking for. --

Re: Rules meaning and example?

2005-05-30 Thread wolfgang
In an older episode (Monday 30 May 2005 20:01), Ryan L. Sun wrote: HI, Where can I find SpamAssassin rules' meaning and examples? Some rules are easy to understand from its name, while others are not easy to figure out what's the rule stands for. If there are some examples for a specific

Re: Anyone know what Microsoft's Intelligent Message Filter does WRT tagging?

2005-05-30 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:22 PM 5/29/2005, Jason Haar wrote: I'm wondering if Microsoft's own anti-spam solution for Exchange tags mail via headers (they call it spam confidence level)? I can't see any references to actual headers being added - they may not of course - it could all be internal to Exchange. I

Re: Learning from spam - system-wide

2005-05-30 Thread Bruno Delbono
On Mon, 30 May 2005 13:40:44 -0700, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 May 2005 19:25, mouss wrote: run SA from amavisd, and run sa-learn with the same uid as amavisd. Okay, ignore my previous message. I'm working on getting amavisd to run SA. Currently, amavisd seems to be

Is Spamassassin compatible with MDIR method?

2005-05-30 Thread Mark Champion
I'm having trouble configuring spamassassin version 3.0.2 running on Perl version 5.8.4. I'm runing Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (Hoary). I'm using Dovecot version 0.99.13 and Postfix version 2.1.5-9. I also have Squirrelmail version 1.4.4. All of this is installed and appears to be working properly -

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Bruno Delbono
CC'g the list as you sent the message only to me. On Mon, 30 May 2005 15:10:16 -0700, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 May 2005 11:05 am, Bruno Delbono wrote: Chris wrote: No joy Martin. Tried both --sync and --force-expire. Anyone else with ideas? strace sa-learn --sync

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Chris
On Monday 30 May 2005 05:24 pm, Bruno Delbono wrote: Ah. It could be number of things - corrupt database, bad berkley db install, missing libdb_deadlock (usually libdb3/4_deadlock), permissions. I would suggest 1) Make sure that ~/.spamassassin is owned by you chris (both uid:gid) 2) If

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Bruno Delbono
On Mon, 30 May 2005 15:47:01 -0700, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem appears to be that database is corrupted. I renamed the old ~/.spamassassin, ran my reporter script an all was well. Luckily I have a good 1000 or so spams saved up, hams are another matter. Is there any way

RE: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread martin smith
M-Original Message- MFrom: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MSent: 30 May 2005 04:00 MTo: users@spamassassin.apache.org MSubject: cannot open bayes databases M MWhile running my sa-learn script I'm suddenly getting the below: M Mdebug: lock: 26313 Mcreated

bayes DB in CDB format

2005-05-30 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi All I see notes on using MySQL/PgSQL and other SQL database and migration from Berkeley DB to MySQL. I was wondering if anyone knows how to migrate to DAN's CDB from Berkeley DB for bayes DB. I like to use that (CDB) as the bayes DB. Thanks for any help/suggestion/tip -- Asif Iqbal PGP

Re: Do we need a Joe job bounce message blacklist?

2005-05-30 Thread mazieres
On 5/27/05, Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Prior writes: My domain geekster.com has been Joe jobbed for the last couple of weeks. In spite of the fact that I responsibly created SPF records for my domain, I am getting flooded

Re: bayes DB in CDB format

2005-05-30 Thread Rick Macdougall
Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi All I see notes on using MySQL/PgSQL and other SQL database and migration from Berkeley DB to MySQL. I was wondering if anyone knows how to migrate to DAN's CDB from Berkeley DB for bayes DB. I like to use that (CDB) as the bayes DB. Thanks for any help/suggestion/tip

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Chris
On Monday 30 May 2005 05:58 pm, Bruno Delbono wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2005 15:47:01 -0700, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem appears to be that database is corrupted. I renamed the old ~/.spamassassin, ran my reporter script an all was well. Luckily I have a good 1000 or so spams

Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-05-30 Thread Jeff Chan
Pardon the dramatic title, but hopefully it got your attention. This guy's domain got listed by Outblaze, we removed it, and as thanks this guy paints us as irresponsible. Please help us straighten him out, gently: http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/comments/blacklisting_blogs/ I gave it

Top level domain test -- somewhat OT

2005-05-30 Thread Craig Jackson
Hi, Our small business never receives mail from top level domains other than com,net,org,mil,edu,gov,and us -- except spam. Additionally, we never receive email with links containing other level domains -- except spam. The logic is that we are small and do no business outside our geographic

Re: Top level domain test -- somewhat OT

2005-05-30 Thread Craig Jackson
Craig Jackson wrote: Hi, Our small business never receives mail from top level domains other than com,net,org,mil,edu,gov,and us -- except spam. Additionally, we never receive email with links containing other level domains -- except spam. The logic is that we are small and do no business

Re: Top level domain test -- somewhat OT

2005-05-30 Thread Matt Kettler
At 09:38 PM 5/30/2005, Craig Jackson wrote: Craig Jackson wrote: m{https?://[^/\s]+?(?!\.com)(?!\.net)(?!\.org)(?!\.gov)(?!\.us)(?!\.edu)(?!\.mil)(\/\[^\s])?} This I copied from the Spamassassin test for odd ports. The logic is similar. However I have never seen some of this notation. And

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread Loren Wilton
1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through (even if we set required hits to 3 and 2 for certain mailboxes). I assume you mean here that you have 1000 spam a week leaking through? Or do you mean that you have 1000 spam a week TOTAL and

Re: Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-05-30 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Jeff Chan wrote: Pardon the dramatic title, but hopefully it got your attention. This guy's domain got listed by Outblaze, we removed it, and as thanks this guy paints us as irresponsible. Please help us straighten him out, gently:

Re: Top level domain test -- somewhat OT

2005-05-30 Thread Loren Wilton
m{https?://[^/\s]+?(?!\.com)(?!\.net)(?!\.org)(?!\.gov)(?!\.us)(?!\.ed u)(?!\.mil)(\/\[^\s])?} One of the amazing things about posting to lists is that shortly after posting I usually find the answer to the question. Well, I've now learned something about negative look-ahead assertions

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread JamesDR
Chavdar Videff wrote: Dear List, I know these are subject of the FAQ and the documentation, yet after I read all of it I didn't get an answer to the following questions: 1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through (even if we set

Re: Blogger attacks SURBL

2005-05-30 Thread jdow
Sounds like with his attitude he'd be blacklisted here anyway. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pardon the dramatic title, but hopefully it got your attention. This guy's domain got listed by Outblaze, we removed it, and as thanks this guy paints us as

Re: false positives and negatives

2005-05-30 Thread jdow
From: Chavdar Videff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear List, I know these are subject of the FAQ and the documentation, yet after I read all of it I didn't get an answer to the following questions: 1. At our site we get approx. 1000 spam a week. Most of it is rated below 2.0 points and gets through

Re: Learning from spam - system-wide

2005-05-30 Thread jdow
From: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] What I'm having trouble understanding is this: when SA learns from new messages, are the benefits of this learning applied system-wide? Eg, if 'steve' on scoop runs sa-learn, are the bayesian filters thus produced applied also when user 'trish' runs messages

Re: bayes DB in CDB format

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi All I see notes on using MySQL/PgSQL and other SQL database and migration from Berkeley DB to MySQL. I was wondering if anyone knows how to migrate to DAN's CDB from Berkeley DB for bayes DB. I like to use that (CDB) as the

Re: cannot open bayes databases

2005-05-30 Thread Michael Parker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruno Delbono wrote: I've found that recovering bayes berkeley db databases can be a very big chore and would suggest that you move to a proper SQL datbase (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite) as soon as possible. BerkeleyDB is horrible! Both in