Re: Help with Stupid Viagra/Calis spams

2006-04-20 Thread Ramdas Phutane
On 4/19/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Monnerie wrote: > > On Dienstag, 18. April 2006 17:20 Carl Chipman wrote: > > > >> I'm getting a bunch of these > >> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.6 required=6.0 > >> tests=BAYES_50: 1.567,HTML_70_80: 0.039,HTML_MESSAGE: 0.001 > >> > >

Re: can spamassassin only scan local delivery mail?

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
martin wrote: > using FC3 + spamassassin 3.0.4+ spamass-milter 0.3.0 + sendmail, work fine. > But wonder can spamassassin only scan income local delivery mail but not outgo > mail? Coz outer recv. may not will to see the mail subject added some tag like > "[SPAM]". > thx > > What mail SA sc

Re: Good ruleset

2006-04-20 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ronnie Tartar wrote: I have all the default rules that come with the package, and the following in the rulesdujour config TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 SARE_HTML_ENG SARE_FRAUD SARE_SPOOF SARE_RANDOM SARE_STOCKS" Do you

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-20 Thread Dave Augustus
Mike, That sounds like a script I am interested in- Can you send me a copy? TIA, Dave Augustus On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 17:24 -0700, Mike Jackson wrote: > > That seems fine - I'd expect that for a package like SpamAssassin, the > > default rules (plus Razor and Pyzor) would be very good at identi

Re: can spamassassin only scan local delivery mail?

2006-04-20 Thread martin
martin excite.com> writes: > > using FC3 + spamassassin 3.0.4+ spamass-milter 0.3.0 + sendmail, work fine. > But wonder can spamassassin only scan income local delivery mail but not outgo > mail? Coz outer recv. may not will to see the mail subject added some tag like > "[SPAM]". > thx jus

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-20 Thread Doc Schneider
Mike Jackson wrote: SARE RULESETS: 70_sare_adult.cf: 10 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf: 0 70_sare_html0.cf: 1 70_sare_obfu0.cf: 1 70_sare_oem.cf: 30 70_sare_specific.cf: 5 70_sare_spoof.cf: 14 70_sare_stocks.cf: 69 70_sc_top200.cf: 1 WooHoo! 70_sare_stocks.cf hits my favorite number! Sorry just

can spamassassin only scan local delivery mail?

2006-04-20 Thread martin
using FC3 + spamassassin 3.0.4+ spamass-milter 0.3.0 + sendmail, work fine. But wonder can spamassassin only scan income local delivery mail but not outgo mail? Coz outer recv. may not will to see the mail subject added some tag like "[SPAM]". thx

Re: AOL Backscatter Spam?

2006-04-20 Thread mostlyharmless
mouss wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed a major spike in backscatter from AOL servers? No. can you share that (publishing the actual backscatter)? I'll post log entries from postfix as soon as I can sanitize them to protect our addresses.

Re: Good ruleset

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Ronnie Tartar wrote: > I have all the default rules that come with the package, and the following > in the rulesdujour config > > TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 SARE_HTML_ENG > SARE_FRAUD SARE_SPOOF SARE_RANDOM SARE_STOCKS" > > Do you think that is too much? > No.

RE: Good ruleset

2006-04-20 Thread Ronnie Tartar
I have all the default rules that come with the package, and the following in the rulesdujour config TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 SARE_HTML_ENG SARE_FRAUD SARE_SPOOF SARE_RANDOM SARE_STOCKS" Do you think that is too much? Thanks -Original Message- From:

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-20 Thread Dan
Yeah, I just checked the latest SVN snapshot, it doesn't have this either. Looking closer at that page, it also mentions required_hits, but does not mention it as deprecated. required_hits became deprecated in SA 3.0.0. It also doesn't mention report_safe, which was present in the release

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: > Thanks Matt, > > That certainly would explain my problem. The entry is listed near the > bottom of this page: > > http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/resources/how_to/email/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html > > > Checking Google, its the only page in the world saying "meta > SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME regular

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-20 Thread jdow
From: "Mike Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Kettler's advice in the "Good ruleset" thread made me wonder just how many spams the various rule files I'm using actually catch. So, I wrote a quick Perl script to look at the rule files and check a stat script's output (against today's logs) for

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-20 Thread Dan
Thanks Matt, That certainly would explain my problem. The entry is listed near the bottom of this page: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/resources/how_to/email/ Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html Checking Google, its the only page in the world saying "meta SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME regular expression." Its

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Jackson
That seems fine - I'd expect that for a package like SpamAssassin, the default rules (plus Razor and Pyzor) would be very good at identifying spam. However, this was the part that surprised me: Sorry to reply to my own post, and before anyone had a chance to. I tried this on my personal server

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: > > > This is the section of the manual I'm following: > > meta SYMBOLIC_TEST_NAME regular expression > Finally, parts of a meta rule may be defined by a regexp followed by > an operator. All rules matching the regular expression will be strung > together, with the given operator between

standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-20 Thread Mike Jackson
Matt Kettler's advice in the "Good ruleset" thread made me wonder just how many spams the various rule files I'm using actually catch. So, I wrote a quick Perl script to look at the rule files and check a stat script's output (against today's logs) for the rules that spam messages matched, then

Re: Good ruleset

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Ronnie Tartar wrote: > I am struggling with a good set of rules to enable with the rulesdujour. > Some of my spam scores are in the 30's etc... Now, maybe I've enabled too > many rules, I am on v3.1.1 on FC4. Any advice would be helpful. Do not enable antidrug. These rules are included in SA 3.0

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Loren Wilton
Try changing your subject tag slightly and see if the tag in the mail changes.  If not (and you remembered to restart spamd) then someone else is tagging it.           Loren  

Good ruleset

2006-04-20 Thread Ronnie Tartar
I am struggling with a good set of rules to enable with the rulesdujour. Some of my spam scores are in the 30's etc... Now, maybe I've enabled too many rules, I am on v3.1.1 on FC4. Any advice would be helpful. I am running it with Amavis-new, mysql. Thanks

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-20 Thread Dan
I have an similar meta question, I'm trying to include all tests conforming to a wildcard (*) meta entry so I don't have to type out each member. This is the configuration I have so far but as you can see, RemoveBBB is not scoring. Is what I'm attempting possible and am I doing it corre

Re: Reference manual

2006-04-20 Thread Dan
Steve Sargent wrote: Is there a reference manual with SpamAssassin, and if so were do I get a copy of it? Its not all inclusive, but I've found this book to be a handy beginning: http://www.packtpub.com/book/spamassassin Dan

Re: X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain header

2006-04-20 Thread Kelson
Tracee wrote: Good questions. Not being the one who configures SpamAssassin, I thought it might be configured to know it's own domain name. You could write a rule on a site-by-site basis, or perhaps introduce a configuration option. Even then, it wouldn't work quite right for sites that rec

Re: AOL Backscatter Spam?

2006-04-20 Thread mouss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone else noticed a major spike in backscatter from AOL servers? No. can you share that (publishing the actual backscatter)?

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Dulaba wrote: > As far as I know, SpamAssassin does. Ahh.. Yes it does.. Nevermind.. That said, the presence of that header doesn't really mean much. SA only adds that when it tags. If another SA instance did the tagging, your site would not have modified X-Spam-Prev-Subject. However, the d

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Dulaba
As far as I know, SpamAssassin does.On 4/20/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Dulaba wrote:> I am contacting the originator, as they are basically another> department, to see if they are running anything. I doubt they are> though, they currently use tags of [SPAM-high]. >> The other

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Dulaba wrote: > I am contacting the originator, as they are basically another > department, to see if they are running anything. I doubt they are > though, they currently use tags of [SPAM-high]. > > The other thing that makes it look like my system is the > X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Court of App

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Dulaba
I am contacting the originator, as they are basically another department, to see if they are running anything. I doubt they are though, they currently use tags of [SPAM-high].The other thing that makes it look like my system is the  X-Spam-Prev-Subject: Court of Appeal Judgments to be filedThe mes

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Noel Jones
On 4/20/06, Michael Monnerie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:45 Benjamin Adams wrote: > > yes I"m using amavisd > > That's why you don't get stats. Maybe somebody knows a way to make > amavisd call spamd? > amavisd-new uses Mail::SpamAssassin directly, and can't be co

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:45 Benjamin Adams wrote: > yes I"m using amavisd That's why you don't get stats. Maybe somebody knows a way to make amavisd call spamd? mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531 .n

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Benjamin Adams wrote: yes I"m using amavisd on mac OS X 10.4 but mainly updated to spamassassin 3.1.1 ***Manually On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:26 Benjamin Adams wrote: Nothing: Same for me, maybe you a

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
yes I"m using amavisd on mac OS X 10.4 but mainly updated to spamassassin 3.1.1 On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:26 Benjamin Adams wrote: Nothing: Same for me, maybe you are using amavisd-new too? Amavis doesn't call spamd (*very stupidly*

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:41 Benjamin Adams wrote: > spamc is not running on the server spamc is the program that calls spamd. Try "spamc --help" to see what it does. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 22:26 Benjamin Adams wrote: > Nothing: Same for me, maybe you are using amavisd-new too? Amavis doesn't call spamd (*very stupidly*), and therefore spamd doesn't log anything. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 066

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
spamc is not running on the server root 9888 0.0 -1.253848 24272 ?? Ss4:30PM 0:02.35 /usr/bin/spamd -d -v --syslog=/var/log/spamd.log root 9889 0.0 -0.153816 1912 ?? S 4:30PM 0:00.02 spamd child root 9890 0.0 -0.153816 1872 ?? S 4:30P

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread jdow
1) "ls -l /var/log/spamd.log". Is it present and not empty? 2) /etc/mail/spamassassin/sa-stats.pl --help 3) What IS the actual command you used when running spamd as a service? It looks like you are trying to run it as a user and immediately after running it get some log printouts. That is n

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 15:20 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Looking for a STATS program > > Benjamin Adams wrote: > > Yea I have that but when I try running saying where my > spamd.log files

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Adams wrote: > Nothing: > ./sa-stats.pl -l /var/log -f spamd.log > > > Email:0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgScanTime: > 0.00 sec > Spam: 0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgScanTime: > 0.00 sec > Ham: 0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgSca

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 15:20 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: Looking for a STATS program > > Benjamin Adams wrote: > > Yea I have that but when I try running saying where my > spamd.log files

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
Nothing: ./sa-stats.pl -l /var/log -f spamd.log Email:0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgScanTime: 0.00 sec Spam: 0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgScanTime: 0.00 sec Ham: 0 Autolearn: 0 AvgScore: 0.00 AvgScanTime: 0.00 sec Time Spent R

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Benjamin Adams wrote: > Yea I have that but when I try running saying where my spamd.log > files is I get nothing > spamd -d --syslog=/var/log/spamd.log > I run: > ./sa-stats.pl -f /var/log/spamd.log > The log has no stats what option am I looking for with spamd? That command line is not quite rig

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 16:12 Gary V wrote: > [qr'^(bulkmail|offers|cheapbenefits|earnmoney|foryou)@'i         => > 5.0], > sender 'bulkmail' will add 5 points Yak, that's ugly. I never saw that amavis makes this. And it must be my bank changed the server, as they occasionally send me that

Re: Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Dulaba wrote: > Just upgraded to SA 3.1 from 3.04. Running on SLES 9. I have a couple > examples of a message that SA scores as Ham, but that still got the > Subject line re-written: Any chance it got scanned by two different copies of SA? Including the sending side? If a second SA scans a

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 15:05 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Looking for a STATS program > > Benjamin Adams wrote: > > what was used for this: > > OVERALL% SPAM% HAM% S/ORANK

RE: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Rick Macdougall wrote: > Benjamin Adams wrote: > > what was used for this: > > OVERALL% SPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME > > 6696841748252200.623 0.00 0.00 (all messages) > > 882 88201.000 1.00 0.75 SARE_OEM_PRODS_1 > > 700 700

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
Yea I have that but when I try running saying where my spamd.log files is I get nothing spamd -d --syslog=/var/log/spamd.log I run: ./sa-stats.pl -f /var/log/spamd.log The log has no stats what option am I looking for with spamd? On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, That

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Rick Macdougall
Benjamin Adams wrote: what was used for this: OVERALL% SPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME 6696841748252200.623 0.00 0.00 (all messages) 882 88201.000 1.00 0.75 SARE_OEM_PRODS_1 700 70001.000 0.94 1.00 SARE_OEM_OBFU

Re: Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
what was used for this: OVERALL% SPAM% HAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME 6696841748252200.623 0.00 0.00 (all messages) 882 88201.000 1.00 0.75 SARE_OEM_PRODS_1 700 70001.000 0.94 1.00 SARE_OEM_OBFU 606 606

Ham messages having subject re-written

2006-04-20 Thread Paul Dulaba
Just upgraded to SA 3.1 from 3.04. Running on SLES 9. I have a couple examples of a message that SA scores as Ham, but that still got the Subject line re-written:== From: "Court of Appeal Distribution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: <[EMAIL PR

Looking for a STATS program

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Adams
I'm going to start changing rules but would like to get away to view stats first. Something like: Past 7 day stats for USERNAME: RULES Mark SPAM Mark HAM HTML_MESSAGE28 20 UNPARSEABL

Failed t/prefs_include.t ?

2006-04-20 Thread John Oliver
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t/prefs_include.t21 50.00% 1 14 tests skipped. Failed 1/94 test scripts, 98.94% okay. 1/2086 subtests failed, 99.95% okay. make: ***

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Gary V
I know this is not SpamAssassin related but it used to be that mail quarantined by amavis would not reflect any of the @score_sender_maps score changes. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=amavis-user&m=112145822701374&w=2 A change was made in version 2.3.3: - in quarantined mail the reported spa

RE: Reference manual

2006-04-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Steve Sargent wrote: > Is there a reference manual with SpamAssassin, and if so were do I > get a copy of it? There's not a manual per-se, but there is quite a bit of information here: http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html and here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ In particular, take a lo

Re: Reference manual

2006-04-20 Thread Richard Collyer
Steve Sargent wrote: Is there a reference manual with SpamAssassin, and if so were do I get a copy of it? http://spamassassin.apache.org/doc.html Cheers Richard

Reference manual

2006-04-20 Thread Steve Sargent
Is there a reference manual with SpamAssassin, and if so were do I get a copy of it? -- Steve Sargent, Vox +44 020 7882 3220, Fax +44 020 8980 2001 QMUL Computing Services, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW page: http://www.qmul.ac.uk/~cgaa160/index.html

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Gary V
Interesting trick. It's a shame amavis doesn't identify when it doctors the score in the X-Spam-Status header. It would be nice if it reported something like: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.55 amavisd=5.00 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=NO_REAL_NAME=0.55 so you could tell how much of the sc

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Gary V wrote: > > In amavisd.conf: > > [qr'^(bulkmail|offers|cheapbenefits|earnmoney|foryou)@'i => 5.0], > > sender 'bulkmail' will add 5 points > > You can set: > > $remove_existing_spam_headers = 0; Interesting trick. It's a shame amavis doesn't identify when it doctors the score i

Re: one SPAM

2006-04-20 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Razvan Cosma wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:01:41 ??? The cruft in the Date: header may be a good spam sign. > X-MS-Has-Attach: > X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Those two headers being present and empty may be a very good spam sign. -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746h

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Gary V
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 15:50 Matt Kettler wrote: > I don't know.. but another question would be does amavisd-new > correctly handle AWL hits? I didn't see a mistake those last years, and yes, I have correct AWL mails. This is in the header from your mail: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.102 ta

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 15:50 Matt Kettler wrote: > I don't know.. but another question would be does amavisd-new > correctly handle AWL hits? I didn't see a mistake those last years, and yes, I have correct AWL mails. This is in the header from your mail: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.102 tag

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael Monnerie wrote: > Hello, I just received some ham from my bank, with information about new > stocks - trustful, I would say (as far as you can trust your bank, > though). > > Now here are the headers: > > X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zmi.at > X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.55 tagged_above=

Re: HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 14:09 Michael Monnerie wrote: > Now here are the headers: I've checked the logs on the "outer" mailgate, there it was ham: CLEAN, [193.164.224.209] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hits: 3.372, 10101 ms Mails are rechec

Porn Rules Score LIst?

2006-04-20 Thread Dan Poltawski
Hi, We're filtering email for schools with SA and so wish to put some very strict Porn filtering in place. It seems the best way to achieve this would be to heavily increase the score on adult content rules in our local.cf. However, the idea of selecting every single adult rule doesn't appea

Re: one SPAM

2006-04-20 Thread Razvan Cosma
Hi, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Donnerstag, 20. April 2006 14:28 Razvan Cosma wrote: > >> Body formatting varies slightly, text remains the same. >> > > Then write some body rules that catch the text. > > I have no idea how to do that.. what the user reads on the screen is "Your credit

HAM with 0.55 gets marked as SPAM?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Monnerie
Hello, I just received some ham from my bank, with information about new stocks - trustful, I would say (as far as you can trust your bank, though). Now here are the headers: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zmi.at X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.55 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=NO_REAL_NAME=0.

AOL Backscatter Spam?

2006-04-20 Thread mostlyharmless
Has anyone else noticed a major spike in backscatter from AOL servers?