Re: Spam that is nothing but one large image

2006-04-21 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Matt, try enabling razor, pyzor and dcc. You might also want to try the iXhash plugin I did some time ago (if you run a 3.1.x installation. See http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/iXhash for ore info on that and drop me a mail if you use it so I can get in touch) Those image only spams in fact

Re: A need for IRBL?

2006-04-21 Thread John Rudd
Someone over on the mimedefang list is working on an OCR mechanism for scanning the image to text. Another person also brought up the idea of hashing the images and doing something like an IRBL or razor approach, but everyone came to the same conclusion you're coming to now. But there w

Re: Rewriting header fields help please. anyone??

2006-04-21 Thread Stuart Johnston
I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. It looks like SA is putting the spam tag in the comment part of the From header which seems like a reasonable place to put it. Are you saying that you want to put it in the full name section instead? Perhaps your MUA won't display both a comment

RE: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: standard vs SARE rules > > From that I would infer that the SARE stock ruleset is the > most effective - > it was responsible for 5 out of 163 spams being identified. > That leaves the > other files I use - 70_sare_bayes_poison_nxm.cf, 70_sare_html0.cf, > 70_sare_obfu0.cf, 70

RE: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: standard vs SARE rules > > WooHoo! 70_sare_stocks.cf hits my favorite number! Sorry just > had to say > that! 8*)) > > And of course that means it is working good too! > > For those who don't know I'm the maintainer of that SARE ruleset. Yeahbut which rules in the stock

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Jackson
pushed it over the required hits threshold. Sound good? So, out of 163 spam messages, here's the files that pushed spams over the edge (files with no rules that pushed over the threshold are omitted): Correction: that should've been 3481 spam messages.

Re: A need for IRBL?

2006-04-21 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Hi, as Rob McEwen already pointed out Bill Stearns offered image hash data for such a project. I did write such a plugin (Bill did publish his data via DNS, thanks again!) but am somewhat disappointed by the results (so I didn't bother publishing the plugin). The point is that the most annoyin

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Jackson
Mike, I suspect you are using the wrong criterion in removing some of the rules. Unfortunately none of the log readers seem to store the most interesting bit of information. How many times did the SARE rules make a critical difference between marking a spam message as spam? I find they are a criti

Re: --Lint Warnings

2006-04-21 Thread Clay Davis
No, but you should see some of the other crap we do! >>> Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 4/21/2006 1:07:28 pm >>> Is there any chance anyone did something foolish like copy 50_scores.cf to /etc/mail/spamassassin?

Re: --Lint Warnings

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Tracey Gates wrote: > I had those as well and I went into the 50_scores.cf and commented out > those rules that are listed as non-existent. Where'd you get your SA? Those shouldn't be there for SA 3.1.x. > > > > Tracey Gates > Lead Developer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -Original Mess

Re: --Lint Warnings

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Clay Davis wrote: > When I --lint my rule set I get the warnings below; however, I do see a > corresponding rule score in 50_scores.cf for each: > > warning: score set for non-existent rule DRUG_ED_ONLINE > warning: score set for non-existent rule SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_VIC > warning: score set for non-

Re: Rewriting header fields help please. anyone??

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Brian S. Meehan wrote: > So, no one is going to tackle this one? > Must be too easy for y'all to answer. ;-) > (a little friday humor) No, it's just nothing any of us have ever wanted to do. Question: If you don't want the subject tagged, why not disable header re-writing entirely and filter int

RE: --Lint Warnings

2006-04-21 Thread Tracey Gates
I had those as well and I went into the 50_scores.cf and commented out those rules that are listed as non-existent. Tracey Gates Lead Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Clay Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 11:28 AM To: users@spamassassin.

Rewriting header fields help please. anyone??

2006-04-21 Thread Brian S. Meehan
So, no one is going to tackle this one? Must be too easy for y'all to answer. ;-) (a little friday humor) Brian Original Message Subject: Rewriting header fields help please From:"Brian S. Meehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Wed, Apri

--Lint Warnings

2006-04-21 Thread Clay Davis
When I --lint my rule set I get the warnings below; however, I do see a corresponding rule score in 50_scores.cf for each: warning: score set for non-existent rule DRUG_ED_ONLINE warning: score set for non-existent rule SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP_VIC warning: score set for non-existent rule SUBJECT_DRUG_GAP

RE: Advanced regex question - backtracking vs. negative lookahead s

2006-04-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
David Landgren wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > [...] > > > > An alternative solution would be this: > > > > > > /style="[^>]+color:blue/ > > > > This looks better. It is probably less resource-intensive than > > your previous attempt and is definitely easier to read. But why > > are you look

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Mike Jackson
Mike, I suspect you are using the wrong criterion in removing some of the rules. Unfortunately none of the log readers seem to store the most interesting bit of information. How many times did the SARE rules make a critical difference between marking a spam message as spam? I find they are a criti

RE: A need for IRBL?

2006-04-21 Thread Rob McEwen
RE: A need for IRBL? I seem to recall that Bill Stearns (the admin for the "ws" portion of www.surbl.org) sent out an offer for anyone interested in helping him with just such a project... but I think he was only going to do it if he could get a few people to help with it. http://www.stearns.org/

RE: Spam that is nothing but one large image

2006-04-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Matt Make sure you've got the URI-RBLs working (check the plugins in init.pre and v310.pre) and also maybe add the URI-Black in to the mix as well.. http://www.uribl.com/ -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From

Re: A need for IRBL?

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
John D. Hardin wrote: > All: > > A few posts back was a suggestion for checking the MD5 checksum of > attached images against a blacklist to catch the current wave of > attached-image-only stock pump-and-dump scam spams. > > Taking that to its logical conclusion suggests the creation of a > publi

Spam that is nothing but one large image

2006-04-21 Thread Matt
Hi, We have received a large quantity of spam that is nothing but a large image. Spamassassin is tagging it a little because it is an image, and only an image, however I'm wondering how other people are handeling this type of spam?I don't want to score mail that is just an image with a very hi

A need for IRBL?

2006-04-21 Thread John D. Hardin
All: A few posts back was a suggestion for checking the MD5 checksum of attached images against a blacklist to catch the current wave of attached-image-only stock pump-and-dump scam spams. Taking that to its logical conclusion suggests the creation of a public Image Realtime Block List along the

Re: Advanced regex question - backtracking vs. negative lookahead s

2006-04-21 Thread David Landgren
Bowie Bailey wrote: [...] An alternative solution would be this: /style="[^>]+color:blue/ This looks better. It is probably less resource-intensive than your previous attempt and is definitely easier to read. But why are you looking for > when you anchor the beginning with a quote? How ab

RE: Advanced regex question - backtracking vs. negative lookahead s

2006-04-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: > > Let's say I want to use regex to search for the phrase "color:blue" > within a tag as in the example below (just a made-up example > for the sake of this question): > > > > In this case, the "color:blue" part is preceeded by some other text > ("border:0px") after th

Re: Help with Stupid Viagra/Calis spams

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Ramdas Phutane wrote: > 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

Re: Advanced regex question - backtracking vs. negative lookaheads

2006-04-21 Thread David Landgren
Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: [...] So one possible solution would be the following: /style="(.(?!color))+.color:blue/ Eeep! In other words, after the first " (quote mark) it looks for any character NOT followed by the word "color", and repeats that with the + character, until it gets to the ac

Advanced regex question - backtracking vs. negative lookaheads

2006-04-21 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Hi all, I wonder if one of you regex gurus might be able to give me some advice regarding the most efficiant way of writing a particular rule Let's say I want to use regex to search for the phrase "color:blue" within a tag as in the example below (just a made-up example for the sake of thi

RE: Good ruleset

2006-04-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Jeremy Fowler wrote: > Here is my /etc/rulesdujour/config, its a modified version of the > file from Gentoo Portage. > > As you can see, I use them all. I've had very little, if any, false > positives at my location. It doesn't really matter how high the spam > scores, just keep an eye out for fa

RE: Good ruleset

2006-04-21 Thread Jeremy Fowler
Here is my /etc/rulesdujour/config, its a modified version of the file from Gentoo Portage. As you can see, I use them all. I've had very little, if any, false positives at my location. It doesn't really matter how high the spam scores, just keep an eye out for false positives. I too am usin

Re: standard vs SARE rules

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 21. April 2006 06:17 Dave Augustus wrote: > That sounds like a script I am interested in- Can you send me a copy? /me 2 mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "lynx

Re: How to tackle FPs with RCVD_IN_*

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Ramprasad wrote: > Hi, > I am using SA 3.1.0 ( + many SARE rulesetes ) for my Antispam cluster > of machines. We get a huge traffic and by and large the solution works > fine. Only problem is when legitimate senders use dialups etc. Their > source IPs get listed in a lot of BL's and in effect the

How to tackle FPs with RCVD_IN_*

2006-04-21 Thread Ramprasad
Hi, I am using SA 3.1.0 ( + many SARE rulesetes ) for my Antispam cluster of machines. We get a huge traffic and by and large the solution works fine. Only problem is when legitimate senders use dialups etc. Their source IPs get listed in a lot of BL's and in effect their mails get marked spam.

RE: Good ruleset

2006-04-21 Thread Ronnie Tartar
Nevermind, figured it out, it was already doing it. Thanks -Original Message- From: Ronnie Tartar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 5:50 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Good ruleset Is ther anyway to put the spam score in the header of everymail?

RE: Good ruleset

2006-04-21 Thread Ronnie Tartar
Is ther anyway to put the spam score in the header of everymail? Seem to be getting a lot of spam through the filter, just want to see what kind of scoring it is getting on everything. Thanks -Original Message- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 12:21 AM

Re: Question regarding meta's

2006-04-21 Thread Justin Mason
Matt Kettler writes: > 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