Meta Operators

2006-05-01 Thread Dan Patnode
Meta's allow > operators for + sets, such as: meta TEST_2 (__TEST_PP + __TEST_QQ + __TEST_RR > 1) But when stacked into a progressive array: meta TEST_2 (__TEST_PP + __TEST_QQ + __TEST_RR > 1) meta TEST_3 (__TEST_PP + __TEST_QQ + __TEST_RR > 2) meta TEST_4 (

Re: OT spammers

2006-05-01 Thread Loren Wilton
> What I don't get is who in his/her right mind would respond to a piece of spam > that uses so much obfuscation as to be almost unreadable. But, as they say, > if it didn't work nobody would be doing it. Perhaps spammer's targets are poor enough at grammar and spelling that they don't realize th

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Dan
No. You can set up your own rbldnsd, but that's about as close as you get. Most of us who have an explicit IP or IP range we want to block either use our firewalls, or our MTA access controls to deny the message before it ever gets delivered. This saves us considerable bandwidth and processi

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Thomas
> Yeah ... the university got a fairly good deal on our per-user costs > for Sophos. I doubt I'd buy it for personal use, either. They don't have a consumer product. They sell exclusively to the business/government/education sectors. We use sophos on the desktop and on the mail server, called fr

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. Wh

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread jdow
From: "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. What do you use? ClamAV via the SpamAssassin ClamAV plugin. That

Re: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread jdow
From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Matt Kettler wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: > > The Bayes rules are not individual unrelated rules. Bayes is a > series of rules indicating a range of probability that a message is > spam or ham. You can argue over the exact scoring, but I can't see > an

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: >> SA does support ordinary DNS based blacklists using A record or TXT >> record queries. > > Is there a text file way to do it, like?: > > header TEST1 CIDR /151.44.165.138\/24/ No. You can set up your own rbldnsd, but that's about as close as you get. Most of us who have an explicit

Re: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread jdow
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bowie Bailey wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: It is perfectly reasonable to assume that most of the mail matching BAYES_99 also matches a large number of the stock spam rules that SA comes with. These highly-obvious mails are the model after which most SA rul

Installing of Spanassassing 3.1.1

2006-05-01 Thread Ingo Busch
Hello, At the moment i have installed 3.0.4 over Yast. I try to install SA 3.1.1 (Suse 9.3 with Qmail and Plesk 7.5.3), but I get a lot of errors linke this: May 1 17:55:48 h825672 spamd[18926]: connection from hxxx.serverkompetenz.net [127.0.0.1] at port 42593 May 1 17:55:48 h825672 spamd[

Re: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread jdow
From: "Bowie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On 4/29/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In SA 3.1.0 they did force-fix the scores of the bayes rules, > > particularly the high-end. The perceptron assigned BAYES_99 a > > score

Re: intercource oriented newsgroups

2006-05-01 Thread jdow
From: "Igor Chudov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:55:17AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: "Dallas L. Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > skip SA on newsgroup mail (or whitelist_from_rcvd)... if the reason for > running newsgroup mail through SA is because your newsgroups get

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
I'm currently using qmail + qmail-scanner.The messages are sent to the sophie process as they arrive - I allow 150+ connections per second, so instead of forking 150 sweeps per message I just use one deamon (sophie). The messages are received by qmail-smtp, are sent to qmail-scanner which passes th

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Alejandro Lengua
Yeah,It would be great to have SpamAssassin combined with tools like APF and BFD(http://www.rfxnetworks.com/bfd.php)On 5/1/06, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SA does support ordinary DNS based blacklists using A record or TXT> record queries.Is there a text file way to do it, like?:header TEST1

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:38:27PM -0700, Dan wrote: > Is there a text file way to do it, like?: > header TEST1 CIDR /151.44.165.138\/24/ You could do that, or you could use the AccessDB plugin which would allow that to be done easier. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Please do not blame Sendmail

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread qqqq
I used to use them.  However, you know the password protected zip file viruses?  My customers were up in arms as these flowed right through.  However, ClamAV caught them with ease.  I dropped them because of this.  Also, the Milter would die from time to time and support didn't really help.

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Alejandro Lengua
Check out these guyshttp://www.centralcommand.com/their product, Vexira antivirus, has a similar price scheme to the extint RAV On 5/1/06, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV.  Until iswas bought out by Microsoft.

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Dan
SA does support ordinary DNS based blacklists using A record or TXT record queries. Is there a text file way to do it, like?: header TEST1 CIDR /151.44.165.138\/24/ Dan

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Jo
schreef: Is BitDefender stable? I have been using ClamAV and BitDefender together for over a year in several mail servers, invoked by Amavisd-new. The products are very stable. Jo

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread John Rudd
I haven't been happy with CGP's anti-virus/anti-spam options (specifically a lack of ability to do "during the SMTP transaction" processing), so I tend to use a gateway approach. 1) On my production CGP machines, there is a group of sendmail boxes that sit in front of them handling all non-S

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Jo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: wrote: I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. I use both ClamAV and BitDefender's free Linux produc

RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
wrote: > Is BitDefender stable? I haven't had any troubles with it. It's free, but not open source... and most importantly the virus definitions are updated regularly. -- Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com 805.964.4554 x902 Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Softwa

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread qqqq
I use MailScanner and Qmail-Scanner depending on the server. - Original Message - From: "John Rudd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ricardo Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 3:33 PM Subject: Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux) | | On May 1, 2006

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread qqqq
Is BitDefender stable? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 2:44 PM Subject: RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux) | wrote: | > I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I | > have ever used was RAV

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread John Rudd
On May 1, 2006, at 13:30, Ricardo Oliveira wrote: John, I use sophos too, but I though I'd drop the note on a memory-and-performance-saver: Sophie is a deamon which received the messages, processos them and returns the result "infected" or "not infected" instead of forking a new sweep proce

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread John Rudd
On May 1, 2006, at 13:21, wrote: | At work: | | mailscanner calls both sophos av (via sweep) and spamassassin | | | At home: | | mimedefang calls both clamav (via clamd) and spamassassin | | | I have less RAM on the home machine than the work machines, and ClamAV | seems to do just fine

RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
wrote: > I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I > have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I > have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. I use both ClamAV and BitDefender's free Linux product http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/s

RE: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Tracey Gates
Title: Message Has anyone used or tried Panda for Linux?  If so, what is your feedback on the product?  We use it only on the client machines but haven't ran it on my email/web server.  To tell the truth, I'm a little scared to install it with running CommuniGate Pro, CGPSA, Spamassassin without

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
John,I use sophos too, but I though I'd drop the note on a memory-and-performance-saver: Sophie is a deamon which received the messages, processos them and returns the result "infected" or "not infected" instead of forking a new sweep process for every incoming email. This resulted in WAY lower mem

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread qqqq
| At work: | | mailscanner calls both sophos av (via sweep) and spamassassin | | | At home: | | mimedefang calls both clamav (via clamd) and spamassassin | | | I have less RAM on the home machine than the work machines, and ClamAV | seems to do just fine. I recall trying Sophos but after the eva

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread John Rudd
On May 1, 2006, at 12:18 PM, wrote: I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. What do you use? At work: mailscanner calls both sopho

RE: new type of email spam

2006-05-01 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: new type of email spam > -Original Message- > From: Anton Krall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:36 AM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: new type of email spam > > > Guys, today I got a flow of new type of spam, this new email >

Re: Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread Mathias Homann
Am Montag, 1. Mai 2006 21:18 schrieb : > I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I > have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I > have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. > > What do you use? clamav. clamd uses some 2.8% of my

Way OT: What do you use for anti-virus (Linux)

2006-05-01 Thread qqqq
I can say that the best, and most affordable, anti-virus package I have ever used was RAV. Until is was bought out by Microsoft. I have since been using ClamAV but it sure uses allot of RAM. What do you use?

Re: unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/1/06, Jeff Portwine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried ripmime, and it does extract the attachments but it throws away all of the header information and gives me only the attachment by itself. I wrote an extractor in procmail for simple (as in, it doesn't handle nested structure well) MIME

Re: unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Portwine
I tried ripmime, and it does extract the attachments but it throws away all of the header information and gives me only the attachment by itself. -Jeff - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeff Portwine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006

Re: unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Jeff Portwine wrote: > I'm trying to write or find a script that will extract attachments from > an email message and write them to a directory, where I could run > sa-learn on them. Right now, mail comes in through exim and our > users get their mail via pop3.I have got them all forwarding

RE: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matt Kettler wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > The Bayes rules are not individual unrelated rules. Bayes is a > > series of rules indicating a range of probability that a message is > > spam or ham. You can argue over the exact scoring, but I can't see > > any reason to score BAYES_99 lower t

unpacking spam attachments for sa-learn

2006-05-01 Thread Jeff Portwine
I'm trying to write or find a script that will extract attachments from an email message and write them to a directory, where I could run sa-learn on them. Right now, mail comes in through exim and our users get their mail via pop3.    I have got them all forwarding the spam they get to

Re: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Bowie Bailey wrote: > Matt Kettler wrote: >> It is perfectly reasonable to assume that most of the mail matching >> BAYES_99 also matches a large number of the stock spam rules that SA >> comes with. These highly-obvious mails are the model after which >> most SA rules are made in the first place.

Re: OT spammers

2006-05-01 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Saturday April 29 2006 12:44 am, Richard Ozer wrote: > I've purchased HUNDREDS of fake degrees and I feel much smarter because of > it! > > Serious answer many spammers are probably paid per email. Others > figure that more retries to a given address will result in a higher > likelihood of

RE: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams (bayes scores)

2006-05-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
jdow wrote: > From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On 4/29/06, Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In SA 3.1.0 they did force-fix the scores of the bayes rules, > > > particularly the high-end. The perceptron assigned BAYES_99 a > > > score of 1.89 in the 3.1.0 mass-check ru

RE: Those "Re: good obfupills" spams

2006-05-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
Matt Kettler wrote: > > It is perfectly reasonable to assume that most of the mail matching > BAYES_99 also matches a large number of the stock spam rules that SA > comes with. These highly-obvious mails are the model after which > most SA rules are made in the first place. Thus, these mails need

Re: span float obfuscation

2006-05-01 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Saturday, April 29, 2006 8:28 PM +0900 MATSUDA Yoh-ichi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, I have more rules for catching various types of spams. Which is better for posting new rules? (1) first, posting new rules to this users ML, next, posting to Bugzilla (2) directly posting new rules to B

Re: New script

2006-05-01 Thread Richard Collyer
(not a plugin), and would like to submit it for public use, where would I do that? Thanks, Drew Burchett United Systems & Software http://www.united-systems.com Phone: (270)527-3293 Fax: (270)527-3132 __ NOD32 1.1515 (20060501) Information __ This mes

Re: Parsing DCC

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Graham Murray wrote: > Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> All that said, I can't see why you'd want to do anything else with DCC. >> The FP rate on DCC, even with the defaults of |99 for fuzz counts, >> is significant. In the SA 3.1.0 set3 mass-checks, DCC_CHECK had a S/O >> of|

New script

2006-05-01 Thread Drew Burchett
If I have created a new script that can be used with SpamAssassin (not a plugin), and would like to submit it for public use, where would I do that?   Thanks,   Drew Burchett United Systems & Software http://www.united-systems.com Phone:  (270)527-3293 Fax: (270)527-3132  

Re: Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan wrote: > I'm building a list of IP ranges (currently CIDRs) and want to use > them to: > > 1) Tag/block messages that arrive (directly and indirectly) from IPs > in these ranges > > 2) Tag/block messages with URIs that point to IPs in these ranges > > > What is the best way to define specific/f

Re: intercource oriented newsgroups

2006-05-01 Thread Igor Chudov
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:55:17AM +0100, Graham Murray wrote: > "Dallas L. Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > skip SA on newsgroup mail (or whitelist_from_rcvd)... if the reason for > > running newsgroup mail through SA is because your newsgroups get > > spammed, then you have a bigger

Re: intercource oriented newsgroups

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
"Dallas L. Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > skip SA on newsgroup mail (or whitelist_from_rcvd)... if the reason for > running newsgroup mail through SA is because your newsgroups get > spammed, then you have a bigger problem to fix first. I think that the OP means that his clients are the

Re: Parsing DCC

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All that said, I can't see why you'd want to do anything else with DCC. > The FP rate on DCC, even with the defaults of |99 for fuzz counts, > is significant. In the SA 3.1.0 set3 mass-checks, DCC_CHECK had a S/O > of| 0.979, meaning that 2.1% of emai

Blocking IPs

2006-05-01 Thread Dan
I'm building a list of IP ranges (currently CIDRs) and want to use them to: 1) Tag/block messages that arrive (directly and indirectly) from IPs in these ranges 2) Tag/block messages with URIs that point to IPs in these ranges What is the best way to define specific/fixed IP ranges for