Re: Bayes conversion from DB to SQL question

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Parker
Tim Rosmus wrote: > I've been running multiple in/out servers using Bayes and the local > Bayes DB storage on the local machine[s]. Now I am moving Bayes > to a site wide SQL setup. My question is on the sa-learn backup/ > restore from DB to SQL... > > Should I backup/restore all local machine

Bayes conversion from DB to SQL question

2006-09-13 Thread Tim Rosmus
I've been running multiple in/out servers using Bayes and the local Bayes DB storage on the local machine[s]. Now I am moving Bayes to a site wide SQL setup. My question is on the sa-learn backup/ restore from DB to SQL... Should I backup/restore all local machine Bayes DB's to the central SQL

Re: Message containing bitmaps with random lines not being blocked

2006-09-13 Thread jdow
FuzzyOCR - visit the wiki plugins page. It helps. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been getting a large number of messages which are not being blocked by SA. Typically they contain a bitmapped text message with things like "THIS ONE JUST STARTED

Bayes lost info when 'upgrading' ?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Grey
We went through the process of changing from a V2 BDB to a V3 DBD then -> MySQL.   When running the tests side by side, old system with new we see some substantial inconsistencies between the bayes scoring…   Any ideas why ?  There are obviously fewer tokens now than before the sync, bu

Message containing bitmaps with random lines not being blocked

2006-09-13 Thread Robert S
I have been getting a large number of messages which are not being blocked by SA. Typically they contain a bitmapped text message with things like "THIS ONE JUST STARTED TRADING" or "CRITICAL INVESTOR ALERT FOR ...". Below this there are several paragraphs of meaningless sentences and there is a

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Steve Thomas
> Steve Thomas wrote: > >>/htt(?:p|ps):\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i >> > > Why not /https?:\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i Because I always forget that the question mark can be used that way, and if I can't seem to remember it, nobody else gets to use it! That's why. :) Nice catch. Steve "atrophying perl skills" Tho

Re: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, jdow wrote: > >> > [http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html] > >> > >> Those are the only descriptions we have for the rules. > > > > A suggestion: one wiki page for each rule where the description is too > > short to be clear, on which the rule's meaning and rationa

Re: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, jdow wrote: > > A suggestion: one wiki page for each rule where the description is too > > short to be clear, on which the rule's meaning and rationale is > > explained in whatever level of detail is considered adequate and > > clear. > > Thank you for volunteering to do it,

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the other way round - it is very easy to create a php that offers > an exe for download So jut scoring direct .exe links might > cause the bad guys to produce "better" download links True. As I said in an earlier post, scoring on bare executable URIs

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread jdow
Visit Wiki. Look for ClamAVPlugin. To save you some effort: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin This uses ClamAV as a scanner for virus laden email. SpamAssassin NEVER blocks email. You probably can, however, setup a simple filter for .exe etc in your MDA. You certainly can do it wi

Re: Broken Dependency

2006-09-13 Thread jdow
From: "Jonathan Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Theo, There's nothing broken. The message is informational, not an error. (it means you don't have the DCC plugin loaded which would define that rule, which is fine if you're not using DCC...) Thank you for explaining that. I have been trying to w

Re: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread jdow
From: "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: L's wrote: > I want to know is there any document, that for the rules description > in a simple words? > > Since the description generated by "X-Spam-Report:" is too technical. > > Does there any document desc

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Steve Thomas wrote: /htt(?:p|ps):\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i Why not /https?:\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i ?

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread hamann . w
>> >> Bill Randle wrote: >> > Amavisd-new will also drop attachments with a configurable list >> > of file extentions, but the question refered to links to exe's, >> > not actual exe attachments. >> >> Good point -- everyone's primed to think of attachments, it seems. >> >> Here's a stab at it:

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Steve Thomas
>> .com will, of course, be a challenge. > > /htt[p|ps]:\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i Correction! That should be: /htt(p|ps):\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i and slightly more efficient (doesn't capture backreference): /htt(?:p|ps):\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Steve Thomas
> .com will, of course, be a challenge. /htt[p|ps]:\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, [iso-8859-1] F?bio Gomes wrote: > Is there any way to block messages with links to executables like > *.exe, > *.com and *.scr? I will be adding that to my email security tool this week. http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: Setting up DKIM and DomainKeys mail signing and verification

2006-09-13 Thread Mark Martinec
SM, and others: > Both milters are being maintained and are similar in reliability. > dk-milter is not fading in oblivion as there are more domains signing > with DomainKeys than DKIM. Usage of dk-milter may not be fading, but the interest in fixing standing bugs seems to be lost (contrary to dki

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Kelson
Bill Randle wrote: Amavisd-new will also drop attachments with a configurable list of file extentions, but the question refered to links to exe's, not actual exe attachments. Good point -- everyone's primed to think of attachments, it seems. Here's a stab at it: set up a URI rule. uri E

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Bill Randle
> At 11:10 AM Wednesday, 9/13/2006, Michel Vaillancourt wrote -=> >>Fábio Gomes wrote: >> > Hi list, >> > >> > Is there any way to block messages with >> links to executables like *.exe, >> > *.com and *.scr? >> > >> >> If you are using Postfix as your MTA, this isn't hard to do at >

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Fábio Gomes
I didn't mean removing EXE attachments, but blocking/high scoring messages with links to executables in its body. Is it possible? BTW, I'm using qmail. Regards, Fábio Gomes Em Quarta 13 Setembro 2006 15:34, Ed Kasky escreveu: > At 11:10 AM Wednesday, 9/13/2006, Michel Vaillancourt wrote -=> >

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Ed Kasky
At 11:10 AM Wednesday, 9/13/2006, Michel Vaillancourt wrote -=> Fábio Gomes wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there any way to block messages with links to executables like *.exe, > *.com and *.scr? > > Best Regards, > Fábio Gomes If you are using Postfix as your MTA, this isn

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:09 AM 9/13/2006, you wrote: Hi list, Is there any way to block messages with links to executables like *.exe, *.com and *.scr? Not with SpamAssassin, but possibly with whatever MUA you have.

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Michel Vaillancourt
Fábio Gomes wrote: > Hi list, > > Is there any way to block messages with links to executables like > *.exe, > *.com and *.scr? > > Best Regards, > Fábio Gomes If you are using Postfix as your MTA, this isn't hard to do at all. -- -- Michel Vaillancourt

Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Fábio Gomes
Hi list, Is there any way to block messages with links to executables like *.exe, *.com and *.scr? Best Regards, Fábio Gomes

Re: perfecting Bayes

2006-09-13 Thread Clay Davis
"You can't always get what you want" - Rolling Stones :-) Clay >>> On 9/13/2006 at 12:08 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, benthere-nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "I can't complain but sometimes I still do." - Joe Walsh No one ever said the Bayes scan would be perfect, but that's what we w

Re: perfecting Bayes

2006-09-13 Thread Justin Mason
Theo Van Dinter writes: > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:08:02AM -0700, benthere-nine wrote: > > No one ever said the Bayes scan would be perfect, but > > that's what we want. > > Patches welcome. ;) One thing I was thinking of was plugins to supplement Bayes with other forms of machine learning alg

Re: perfecting Bayes

2006-09-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:08:02AM -0700, benthere-nine wrote: > No one ever said the Bayes scan would be perfect, but > that's what we want. Patches welcome. ;) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "Brevity is the soul of wit..." - Hamlet pgpMGfSIGkYkA.pgp Description: PGP signature

perfecting Bayes

2006-09-13 Thread benthere-nine
"I can't complain but sometimes I still do." - Joe Walsh Our SA 3.1.4 server's running great. The Bayes scan is set to auto-learn and is running fine. According to sa-learn --dump magic, we have 73352 non-token data: nspam 8453 non-token data: nham 220226 non-token data: ntokens To my knowl

RE: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
John D. Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > L's wrote: > > > I want to know is there any document, that for the rules > > > description in a simple words? > > > > > > Since the description generated by "X-Spam-Report:" is too > > > technical. > > > > > > Does there a

Re: Rule help needed

2006-09-13 Thread kavaXtreme
Man, I wish I'd tried asking my question here a LONG time ago. You guys have been so helpful! Thanks a ton! You rock! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rule-help-needed-tf2260084.html#a6287909 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 04:14:41PM +0100, Beginner wrote: > That sounds reasonable. I'll create a file (whitelist.cf) for > manually whitelisting senders. Am I right in thinking that I will > need to HUP SA after each edit? Yes. > provides. The would also have the same security problem with thi

Re: Rule help needed

2006-09-13 Thread kavaXtreme
Thanks for your VERY helpful input. That's exactly the kind of stuff they don't tend to cover in a general overview of how to write rules, and exactly the kind of stuff I need to know. Unfortunately SpamAssassin is pretty hobbled on a Cpanel account on a shared server. I contacted the help desk t

RE: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > L's wrote: > > I want to know is there any document, that for the rules description > > in a simple words? > > > > Since the description generated by "X-Spam-Report:" is too technical. > > > > Does there any document description easier to read than: > >

Re: Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Beginner
On 13 Sep 2006 at 10:50, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > If you want something specifically always whitelisted, yes, it needs > a whitelist_* config somewhere. If user prefs are disabled, it would > need to be in a site-wide config file, though not necessarily local.cf > (*.cf is fine). That sounds rea

RE: Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread Bowie Bailey
L's wrote: > I want to know is there any document, that for the rules description > in a simple words? > > Since the description generated by "X-Spam-Report:" is too technical. > > Does there any document description easier to read than: > [http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html] Those

Re: Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:42:12PM +0100, Dermot Paikkos wrote: > Does that mean the only way to whitelist senders is manually via the > local.cf as I have disabled user_prefers? If so, what would be the If you want something specifically always whitelisted, yes, it needs a whitelist_* config so

Re: Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Dermot Paikkos
On 13 Sep 2006 at 10:21, Matt Kettler wrote: > Beginner wrote: > > > I hope that 3.0.3 version is the one that Debian patched to fix the > two security holes that exist in the original 3.0.3. (AFAIK Debian did > backport the fixes, and made a 3.0.3-x release) > > See: http://wiki.apache.org/spa

Re: Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Matt Kettler
Beginner wrote: > Hi, > > === SyS Stuff > SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 > running on Perl version 5.8.4 > > Exim 4.2, on Debian 3.1, sitewide config. > I hope that 3.0.3 version is the one that Debian patched to fix the two security holes that exist in the original 3.0.3. (AFAIK Debian d

Testing whitelist

2006-09-13 Thread Beginner
Hi, === SyS Stuff SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.4 Exim 4.2, on Debian 3.1, sitewide config. /usr/sbin/spamd --nouser-config --max-children 6 --helper-home- dir=/var/spool/spamassassin/ --username=nobody -d -- pidfile=/usr/local/run/spamd.pid =

Re: Broken Dependency

2006-09-13 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:44:47PM +0100, Jonathan Allen wrote: > I'm running 3.1.5 in FC2 and have a broken dependency. Any ideas how to > fix it ? >meta test DIGEST_MULTIPLE has undefined dependency 'DCC_CHECK' There's nothing broken. The message is informational, not an error. (it means y

Re: Broken Dependency

2006-09-13 Thread Jonathan Allen
Theo, > There's nothing broken. The message is informational, not an error. (it means > you don't have the DCC plugin loaded which would define that rule, which is > fine if you're not using DCC...) Thank you for explaining that. I have been trying to work out why some spams made it through SA

Broken Dependency

2006-09-13 Thread Jonathan Allen
Hi All, I'm running 3.1.5 in FC2 and have a broken dependency. Any ideas how to fix it ? meta test DIGEST_MULTIPLE has undefined dependency 'DCC_CHECK' Jonathan

RE: spamassassin --lint just hangs

2006-09-13 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Might be a corrupted database. Try moving it and start with a clean one. If the lint succeeds it is your bayes db.   -Sietse From: RamprasadSent: Wed 13-Sep-06 13:25To: spamassassin-usersSubject: spamassassin --lint just hangs I find that spamassassin -D --lint sometimes just hangs. the outp

spamassassin --lint just hangs

2006-09-13 Thread Ramprasad
I find that spamassassin -D --lint sometimes just hangs. the output goes . .. [28316] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/bayes_toks [28316] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/W /var/spool/MailScanner/spamassassin/bayes_seen [28316] dbg: bayes: found

RE: Anyone get the Sa coach outlook plugin to work?

2006-09-13 Thread Michael Scheidell
> -Original Message- > From: Tim Litwiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Tim Litwiller > Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 11:38 PM > To: SpamAssassin Users List > Subject: Re: Anyone get the Sa coach outlook plugin to work? > > > on a related note: How do you make spamd list

Re: ZMI

2006-09-13 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
AFAIK it's currently residing at http://zmi.at/x/70_zmi_german.cf - Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > what is the current home of the ZMI (german) ruleset? > > Wolfgang Hamann

Ask about more detail rule description

2006-09-13 Thread L's
I want to know is there any document, that for the rules description in a simple words? Since the description generated by "X-Spam-Report:" is too technical. Does there any document description easier to read than: [http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_1_x.html] -- View this message in conte