Re: Per Domain Whitelisting

2006-10-26 Thread Ramprasad
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 14:36 -0700, jasonegli wrote: I'm running multiple domains on one SPAM cleaning server. I'm wondering if there's a way in spamassassin to build a separate whitelist for each domain. If not, can you build a whitelist based on BOTH To and From addresses. For example

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/25/2006 7:15 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: For envelope sender there is a standard header: Return-Path Return-Path is supposed to be added when the message is placed in the mailstore (ie, last hop, after the transfer network). Since I do scanning at the MTA level before delivery, I don't have

R: R: pyzor timeout

2006-10-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
You might also get better response from the server at 82.94.255.100:24441 How does it cames that reported spam wouldn't cause a further test to include pyzor's score with this server? Even worse: I don't get a PYZOR score at all from this server. giampaolo Odd, I do:

Re: Explain the spammer mind to me...

2006-10-26 Thread Loren Wilton
Where do these guys all get on the same kick at the same time? Or is it really ONE spammer who just got fired? Do they hold meetings about what topics to use next month or what? I'd lay odds that it is either one spammer, or more likely one spam program. Back in the days of 900 porn phone

Re: Explain the spammer mind to me...

2006-10-26 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:25:37 -0700, Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do these guys all get on the same kick at the same time? Or is it really ONE spammer who just got fired? Do they hold meetings about what topics to use next month or what? I'd lay odds that it is either one

Re: Explain the spammer mind to me...

2006-10-26 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:25:37 -0700, Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do these guys all get on the same kick at the same time? Or is it really ONE spammer who just got fired? Do they hold meetings about what topics to use next month or what? I'd lay odds that it is either one

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Mark Martinec
For envelope sender there is a standard header: Return-Path Return-Path is supposed to be added when the message is placed in the mailstore (ie, last hop, after the transfer network). Since I do scanning at the MTA level before delivery, I don't have Return-Path yet. If scanning at the MTA

bayes_toks, expiry and spamd...

2006-10-26 Thread Steve [Spamassasin]
This feels like a series of FAQs, but previous frequent answers don't seem to answer my questions directly... With Spamassassin 3.1.4 I'm running spamd. and my global procmail uses spamc to process mail. Individual users train/report with spamc too. In an end-user account there's a

Spamassassin hinter einem Mail Relay Server

2006-10-26 Thread Martin Kolb
Hi all, I'm running a Spamassassin on a Debian Etch System in a Server, located in a computer center behind a mail relay server. Every incoming mail has to pass this mailrelay. So, I believe (maybe it's not the problem?) that my spamassasin now thinks that all that mail is not spam, because

Re: RFC: spam trapping with policyd-weight and DNSBLs?

2006-10-26 Thread Justin Mason
Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: Justin Mason wrote: (In the meantime, I'm just going back to removing the BL, using SpamAssassin instead, and using the Shortcircuit plugin to reduce CPU load if RCVD_IN_SBL or RCVD_IN_XBL fires.) Can you selectively short-circuit based on the user's prefs (ie.

spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

2006-10-26 Thread Dylan Bouterse
I have added some rules in my local.cf file (for adding scores for some SARE rules) but when I run spamassassin -lint (or when I run rules_du_jour which does the same) it says the rules in my local.cf file are non-existent, but spamassassin ultimately runs fine. What am I doing wrong? Dylan

Re: upgraded, now no spam is caught

2006-10-26 Thread Brian S. Meehan
spamassassin --lint is quiet. no output. Thank you for replying and assisting; I look forward to other suggestions also. Regards, Brian On Wed, October 25, 2006 22:07, Matt Kettler wrote: Brian S. Meehan wrote: I upgraded spamassassin from 3.0.4 to 3.1.7 and now no spam is getting caught. My

How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello All, I've a mail system running Cyrus+Postfix+Amavisd-new+ClamAV+Spamassassin on SuSE Linux Ent. Server 9. The problem is that non-encoded 8bit data is not allowed in message headers and Cyrus-IMAPd prevents from any problem by replacing those chars with X (mail program should do

RE: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header? -Original Message- From: Leon Kolchinsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:09 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

RE: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf -Original Message- From: Dylan Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 8:35 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf I have added

RE: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

2006-10-26 Thread Dylan Bouterse
Title: RE: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:31 AM To: Dylan Bouterse; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
I received a spam today where the text was only a base64-encoded blob. Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Subject: feel young and strong again PGh0bWw+DQpTdG9wIG92ZXJwYXlpbmcgZm9yIHlvdXIgcHJlc2NyaXB0aW9uIG1lZGljYXRpb25z

Re: Spamassassin hinter einem Mail Relay Server

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Purves
Martin Kolb wrote: Hi all, I'm running a Spamassassin on a Debian Etch System in a Server, located in a computer center behind a mail relay server. Every incoming mail has to pass this mailrelay. So, I believe (maybe it's not the problem?) that my spamassasin now thinks that all that mail is

Re: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

2006-10-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Dylan Bouterse wrote: *From:* Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:31 AM *To:* Dylan Bouterse; users@spamassassin.apache.org *Subject:* RE: spamassassin --lint fails

Re: Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Peter H. Lemieux wrote: I received a spam today where the text was only a base64-encoded blob. Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Subject: feel young and strong again PGh0bWw+DQpTdG9wIG92ZXJwYXlpbmcgZm9yIHlvdXIgcHJlc2NyaXB0aW9uIG1lZGljYXRpb25z

Re: score=0.0 tests=none -- how can that be???

2006-10-26 Thread Andy Jezierski
news [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/25/2006 08:36:11 AM: Thanks Chris I'll do that.. can someone please remind me where I set the max_child limit?? Like I said I could not find it last night I want to see what it is set to now and adjust accordingly. It's the -m parameter you specify

Re: finish() method on the status objects

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:57:52PM -0400, Joe Flowers wrote: I'd prefer to use M::SA-check_message_text(), but if I do a M::SA-check_message_text('This is a programmer's nightmare.'), then M::SA-check_message_text() will choke because of the (') in the middle of the string. How do I

RE: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Title: RE: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header? Thanks Chris, I should read more about score rules J Another thing: There is a legitimate e-mail with empty body message but with .doc attachment (filename is in hebrew) that marked as a spam - X-Spam-Status: Yes,

spamc timing out

2006-10-26 Thread Nick Gilbert
Hi, I have a problem whereby spamc sometimes times out while scanning mail and consequently spam e-mail passes through unchecked straight to my inbox. It is being called from Simscan but I don't think this is the problem as the same thing happens on the command line. If I run spamc

Re: Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:46:28AM -0400, Peter H. Lemieux wrote: Does SA convert the blob into text before scanning? It contains a number of drug-related words and a URI that points to pharmconnect.org. Yes. Also is there an SA rule that scores messages that contain only a single base64

Re: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:56:21PM +0200, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: There is a legitimate e-mail with empty body message but with .doc attachment (filename is in hebrew) that marked as a spam - X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.4 tag1=-999.0 tag2=5.0 kill=5.0 tests=BAYES_44, FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,

Re: bayes_toks, expiry and spamd...

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:40:55PM +0100, Steve [Spamassasin] wrote: All of which makes sense... Over time, however, there is a build-up of bayes_toks.expire files (where $ is a decimal digit) and I'm unclear about these.Anecdotally, when there are lots of these They're the temporary

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:35:07PM -0400, Joe Flowers wrote: If I pre-pend a message's Envelope to it's Body, can Spamassassin do anything useful with it? It depends what you mean by a message's envelope. If you mean add in standard headers for MAIL FROM and RCPT TO, then sure, go ahead and

Re: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread hamann . w
Hello All, I've a mail system running Cyrus+Postfix+Amavisd-new+ClamAV+Spamassassin = on SuSE Linux Ent. Server 9. The problem is that non-encoded 8bit data is not allowed in message = headers and Cyrus-IMAPd prevents from any problem by replacing those = chars with X (mail program

Re: SA-Update error messages

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:26:09PM -0800, John Andersen wrote: Use of uninitialized value in eval string at /usr/bin/sa-update line 91. eval { use Net::DNS; }; Just curious, what version of perl are you using? 5.8.0 Interesting. I have no idea what would cause perl to generate that

Re: Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread hamann . w
I received a spam today where the text was only a base64-encoded blob. Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Subject: feel young and strong again PGh0bWw+DQpTdG9wIG92ZXJwYXlpbmcgZm9yIHlvdXIgcHJlc2NyaXB0aW9uIG1lZGljYXRpb25z

Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:18:44AM -0500, Bill wrote: Ok, if the image spams all have a different hash wouldn't that make the Hash function built into Fuzzy OCR useless as well? I'm not sure I buy into that thinking. The hash option in my Fuzzy OCR setup runs pretty well. I know nothing

Re: spamd shutting itself down?

2006-10-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Juan Mas wrote: Im getting this odd behavior where spamd shuts itself down out of nowhere. I cant really pinpoint what makes it shutdown just what Ive found in the logs. spamd[27466]: [spamd] fork: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/bin/spamd I'd say that's a pretty good reason for it to stop

Re: spamc timing out

2006-10-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Nick Gilbert wrote: [20193] dbg: bayes: first pass decided on 1382400 for atime delta [20193] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh /home/nick/.spamassassin/bayes.lock [20193] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh /home/nick/.spamassassin/bayes.lock [20193] dbg: locker: refresh_lock: refresh

Re: spamd shutting itself down?

2006-10-26 Thread Juan Mas
Well, I figured that, but why. It never did this before. Is it possible that a rule causes a loop and forces SA to shutdown?On 10/26/06, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juan Mas wrote: Im getting this odd behavior where spamd shuts itself down out of nowhere.I cant really pinpoint

Spamassassin double scan through backup MX

2006-10-26 Thread Renaud Drousies
Hello, Is there a way to prevent Spamassasssin to double-scan the mails that have already been scanned by the backup MX but still having him to autolearn what it receives through it (based on the score given by the backup mx, but according to its own auto learn threshold rules)? The goal being to

Re: Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:46:28AM -0400, Peter H. Lemieux wrote: Does SA convert the blob into text before scanning? It contains a number of drug-related words and a URI that points to pharmconnect.org. Yes. I was pretty sure this was the case but wanted to confirm

Re: Spamassassin double scan through backup MX

2006-10-26 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Renaud Drousies wrote: Hello, Is there a way to prevent Spamassasssin to double-scan the mails that have already been scanned by the backup MX but still having him to autolearn what it receives through it (based on the score given by the backup mx, but according to its own

SA, clamav qmail-scanner w/ Qmail

2006-10-26 Thread R Lists06
Greetings, If anyone on the list is using latest SA, clamav qmail-scanner with the Qmail MTA can you please hit me with an email offlist? I will be glad to share a synopsis of what I am trying to find out and implement once I get there with this list. I haven't been able to find it anywhere

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Kelson
Mark Martinec wrote: If scanning at the MTA level with amavisd-new, a synthetic Return-Path is prepended to a copy of a message that is given to SA for examination. Much like David B Funk says a sendmail-SA-milter does. MIMEDefang does this as well. It synthesizes Received and Return-Path

Re: Spamassassin double scan through backup MX

2006-10-26 Thread Renaud Drousies
Actually this server is hosting lots of different domains that I do not control, I do not choose whether there is a backup MX or not. However I noted that some (most) of those backups MX already had a working spamassassin configuration and that it would be a waste of time to re-scan those mails. I

Re: Scoring base64 blob messages

2006-10-26 Thread Peter H. Lemieux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Probably a message in base64 that does not contain any single 8bit code should be considered as an attempt to hide the message from scanners That's a good idea, Wolfgang. The

Re: SA-Update error messages

2006-10-26 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Andersen wrote: Everytime my SA-Update runs the output from the cron job shows these lines: Only from cron? Use of uninitialized value in eval string at /usr/bin/sa-update line 91. Use of uninitialized value in eval string at /usr/bin/sa-update line 91. Use of uninitialized value in

Re: RFC: spam trapping with policyd-weight and DNSBLs?

2006-10-26 Thread Justin Mason
Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: Justin Mason wrote: Jason Haar writes: Obviously you have to have over-speced your mail servers to be able to do this - something poor old Justin can't manage I think :-) Yeah. If I could persuade someone to donate a server just for *my* personal mail, that'd

Newbie - Need Help in writing rules

2006-10-26 Thread san
Hi, How to write a rules to avoid below type of mails or is there a rule already which marks this as spam. Everday i get 3 to 4 mails of this type with one picture image which says GDKI No.1 Entertainment industry. Your help is much appreciated and i started using spam assassin recently and still

Re: Newbie - Need Help in writing rules

2006-10-26 Thread Chris St. Pierre
Check out the SARE rulesets, ImageInfo, FuzzyOcr, ... Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska Wesleyan University On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, san wrote: Hi, How to write a rules to avoid below type of mails or is there a rule already which marks this as spam. Everday i get 3 to 4 mails

Spam isn't getting caught, can anyone help please?

2006-10-26 Thread Brian S. Meehan
I know y'all are smart, just looking for a little help on this one. In addition to the below info, spamassassin -lint works fine and quietly. Thanks, Brian Original Message Subject: upgraded, now no spam is caught From:Brian S.

Re: Spam isn't getting caught, can anyone help please?

2006-10-26 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:48 AM 10/26/2006, you wrote: I know y'all are smart, just looking for a little help on this one. In addition to the below info, spamassassin -lint works fine and quietly. I'm sorta a newbie too, but.. Have you tried sending yourself a gtube message?

Re: Spam isn't getting caught, can anyone help please?

2006-10-26 Thread Stuart Johnston
Have you restarted spamd? Is it running? Brian S. Meehan wrote: I know y'all are smart, just looking for a little help on this one. In addition to the below info, spamassassin -lint works fine and quietly. Thanks, Brian Original Message

Any ISP's using SpamAssassin with user customization?

2006-10-26 Thread robert
So my shell account may be disappearing soon and I'm looking for a recommendation for an ISP that provides SA but also allows me to apply my own perl filter for any mail that arrives. The latter isn't crucial but it's very prefered. Looking basically for webmail (https) imap4 and the ability to

Re: Any ISP's using SpamAssassin with user customization?

2006-10-26 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 16:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my shell account may be disappearing soon and I'm looking for a recommendation for an ISP that provides SA but also allows me to apply my own perl filter for any mail that arrives. The latter isn't crucial but it's very prefered.

Re: Newbie - Need Help in writing rules

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 26-okt-2006, at 20:07, Chris St. Pierre wrote: On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, san wrote: Hi, How to write a rules to avoid below type of mails or is there a rule already which marks this as spam. Everday i get 3 to 4 mails of this type with one picture image which says GDKI No.1 Entertainment

Re: Any ISP's using SpamAssassin with user customization?

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 26-okt-2006, at 23:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my shell account may be disappearing soon and I'm looking for a recommendation for an ISP that provides SA but also allows me to apply my own perl filter for any mail that arrives. The latter isn't crucial but it's very prefered.

RE: How to avoid spamassassin checks in Subject header?

2006-10-26 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Thanks for the suggestion, But should I run spamassassin --revoke or /usr/lib/razor-revoke on folder containing such a ham? spamassassin --revoke /ham_folder/* or /usr/lib/razor-revoke /ham_folder/* Are these tools interchangeable? And again, it seems very strange that a regular message with

RE: Howto automatically remove spam instead of maked it as [SPAM]

2006-10-26 Thread Christopher Martin
Or, easier and faster, use the milter-regex (if you are using sendmail as you MTA). You can then build a regex to drop beyond a certain level. Or, if you're feeling braver, you can use the patches at the following page to set discard ranges directly on the spamass-milter:

High CPU running SA in a VMware VM

2006-10-26 Thread Sammy Anderson
We recently migrated our SpamAssassin installation from a physical 3.6 GHz system running RHEL 4 and SA 3.0.4 to a VMware VM (ESX 2.5.4) with RHEL 4 as the guest OS and SA 3.1.7. Each user has their own Bayes files (Berkeley DB) and these were copied from the old to the new server. Now

Re: R: R: pyzor timeout

2006-10-26 Thread Chris
On Thursday 26 October 2006 3:06 am, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: I'm using the server at 82.94.255.100:24441 and have not had any problems since I switched back in March of this year. Ok. You're right. I'm wrong. :) I checked it the right way and it seems that Pyzor do infact is

Re: High CPU running SA in a VMware VM

2006-10-26 Thread Tim B.
Sammy Anderson wrote: We recently migrated our SpamAssassin installation from a physical 3.6 GHz system running RHEL 4 and SA 3.0.4 to a VMware VM (ESX 2.5.4) with RHEL 4 as the guest OS and SA 3.1.7. Each user has their own Bayes files (Berkeley DB) and these were copied from the old to the

RE: Howto automatically remove spam instead of maked it as [SPAM]

2006-10-26 Thread Brown, Josh
I would like to know howto automatically remove detected Spam? I don't want spamassassin to deliver the spam with a [SPAM] tag at the begining of the message but preffer to send it (the spam) directly to something like /dev/null Why don't you use amavisd-new (

Re: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf

2006-10-26 Thread Alain Wolf
On 26.10.2006 16:15, * Dylan Bouterse wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:58 AM To: Dylan Bouterse Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin --lint fails with rules in local.cf Dylan Bouterse

Re: High CPU running SA in a VMware VM

2006-10-26 Thread d.hill
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Sammy Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently migrated our SpamAssassin installation from a physical 3.6 GHz system running RHEL 4 and SA 3.0.4 to a VMware VM (ESX 2.5.4) with RHEL 4 as the guest OS and SA 3.1.7. Each user has their own Bayes

Re: Any ISP's using SpamAssassin with user customization?

2006-10-26 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, October 26, 2006, 2:01:55 PM, robert robert wrote: So my shell account may be disappearing soon and I'm looking for a recommendation for an ISP that provides SA but also allows me to apply my own perl filter for any mail that arrives. The latter isn't crucial but it's very