Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread Per Jessen
John D. Hardin wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Per Jessen wrote: > >> whitelist_from ? > > No. whitelist_from_rcvd, whitelist_from_spf, etc. > > whitelist_from is a last resort as it is subject to spoofing by forged > addresses. Quick comment - the OP specifically asked for something "to force l

Re: Module Problem

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Hardy, Matthew wrote: > Dear Spamassassin User Group: > > I am trying to install SpamAssassin 3.1.8 on a Mac PowerBook G4 OS X v10.4.8 > (upgrading from a successful installation of v 3.1.7). > > Now, when I try to run /user/local/bin/spamassassin, the following error > message is returned: > > s

Re: Config question

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Aviles wrote: > Matt, following your advise that I had something configured wrong and not > standard, I removed and reinstalled SA and got a bit further. However no > matter what, I get the following errors for root when I send an email to > myself which has nothing to do for root. I even crea

Re: OPR??

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Paul Aviles wrote: > I don't know if OPR is really a term or not, but I got OCR working > with Fuzzy and I know other spam providers offer a service that scans > pictures and can make up if most of the picture if a nude person. Is > there any module like that available? > > Regards, > > Paul Th

Re: spam with image/gif doesn't show a rule for "image"

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:42:36PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=EXTRA_MPART_TYPE,HTML_MESSAGE > autolearn=no version=3.1.7 > > Shouldn't SA notice this image and show an image item in its status > line? Do you have a rule that looks for an image attachme

spam with image/gif doesn't show a rule for "image"

2007-02-26 Thread craig
Hi SA users, We're receiving leaked spam that has one gif image in each. In such emails, the SA status line doesn't show a rule match for an image. Here's a sample: No, score=3.0 required=5.0 tests=EXTRA_MPART_TYPE,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.1.7 Looking at the source for the

OPR??

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Aviles
I don't know if OPR is really a term or not, but I got OCR working with Fuzzy and I know other spam providers offer a service that scans pictures and can make up if most of the picture if a nude person. Is there any module like that available? Regards, Paul

Spamassassin 3.1.7 + FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK with Out.Express

2007-02-26 Thread Sim
Hi! Is it correct, with Spamassassin 3.1.7 and every Outlook Express client, FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK with simple "test" message? Score for FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK is set to 4.1!! Thanks! Sim Example: Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail

Re: Rule Regex Question.

2007-02-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > Can anyone tell me if I need to escape the characters within the > square braces in the following? > > body NF_REM_CHAR1 /remove [*%!+`"£$%^&()_-=#~]/i A dash indicates a range (e.g. a-z) - if you need that, it's safest to put it as the first charact

RE: Mail Appliances?

2007-02-26 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Paul Have a look at the DefenderMX range (and something new due any day now), from www.fsl.com. Basically is a commercial version of MailScanner (with added stuff on it). -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From:

Changes with TQMCUBE DNSBL?

2007-02-26 Thread David Goldsmith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is anyone who is using the TQMCUBE RBL with their email server seeing any significant decreases to the effectiveness of the list? The TQMCUBE DNSBL is the first RBL we check -- it had been dropping about 60% of our incoming email connections. Four da

Re: FW: Module Problem -- Please disregard if already seen

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:42:28PM -0500, Hardy, Matthew wrote: > I am sorry to resend this but my mail delivery appears was malfunctioning as > a result of the problem and I lost several email that might > have contained replies. I have established that I can read my incoming email > again, and

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Per Jessen wrote: > whitelist_from ? No. whitelist_from_rcvd, whitelist_from_spf, etc. whitelist_from is a last resort as it is subject to spoofing by forged addresses. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholi

FW: Module Problem -- Please disregard if already seen

2007-02-26 Thread Hardy, Matthew
Dear User Group: I am sorry to resend this but my mail delivery appears was malfunctioning as a result of the problem and I lost several email that might have contained replies. I have established that I can read my incoming email again, and if anyone has thoughts on this topic I would be grat

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread Per Jessen
Miki wrote: > I need to find out if (or how) is possible to force lower score on > exact From: address. I have some customers which are sending mail from > mobile devices and thus coming from IPs of provider which are on RBL;s > Problem is that messsage get high score because RBL present of sendin

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread Mark Martinec
> "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf", look for "whitelist". This topic reminds me of my occasional desire to be able to supply individual score points (optional, overriding a default) with each whitelist_from* and whitelist_from_dkim entry, taking into account reputation of each sender, e.g.: w

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Miki wrote: > > Basically I need set that mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get -20 score. > > even if address is stolen by spammer. these addresses are very rare, > > but for few I need it urgently. > > "perldoc Ma

Module Problem

2007-02-26 Thread Hardy, Matthew
Dear Spamassassin User Group: I am trying to install SpamAssassin 3.1.8 on a Mac PowerBook G4 OS X v10.4.8 (upgrading from a successful installation of v 3.1.7). Now, when I try to run /user/local/bin/spamassassin, the following error message is returned: spamassassin: spamassassin script is v

Re: Config question

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 12:13:39PM -0500, Paul Aviles wrote: > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --username spamd --helper-home-dir > ${SAHOME} -s /var/log/spamd.log" You're running spamd as a non-root user, > Mon Feb 26 10:44:40 2007 [16531] info: spamd: creating default_prefs: > /root/.s

Re: forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:31:42PM +0100, Miki wrote: > Basically I need set that mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get -20 score. > even if address is stolen by spammer. these addresses are very rare, > but for few I need it urgently. "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf", look for "whitelist". -- Rando

forcing lower score

2007-02-26 Thread Miki
Hello, I need to find out if (or how) is possible to force lower score on exact From: address. I have some customers which are sending mail from mobile devices and thus coming from IPs of provider which are on RBL;s Problem is that messsage get high score because RBL present of sending server. Bas

Re: SA as postfix policy service?

2007-02-26 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/25/07, Len Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Anybody got any links / how-to for setting up SA as postfix policy service? >> >>I want SA policy service to perform only envelope checks, not content scans. >> >>thanks >>Len > >Since the actual headers are not available headers are DATA/cont

RE: Spam Score questions

2007-02-26 Thread Jon Armitage
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Ingraham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I will add the "score SARE_ADULT2 BODY 10.0" line to local.cf Steve, I've just checked for you. It's score SARE_ADULT2 10.0 Ignore my earlier suggestion about adding an underscore. Jon

RE: Config question

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Aviles
Matt, following your advise that I had something configured wrong and not standard, I removed and reinstalled SA and got a bit further. However no matter what, I get the following errors for root when I send an email to myself which has nothing to do for root. I even created a user for SA as such:

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Adam Wilbraham
I've been using 3.1.7 from the sarge backports and its absolutely fine, much better spam catching rates due to the ability to run sa-update. Backports repo is: deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main contrib non-free On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:55:40 + Richard Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: Spam Score questions

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Ingraham
> Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:53:43AM -0600, Steve Ingraham wrote: > > on this rule it would score higher. Can I change the score > for that > > rule? If so, do I just add a line in the local.cf file like so? > > > > SARE_ADULT2 BODY 8.0 > > No. "perldoc Mail::SpamAs

Re: image multipart/alternative rule

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 03:01:46PM +, Ben Wylie wrote: > Could a rule be written to catch emails where multipart/alternative is > used, and an image is apparently the best alternative? > This way, it is not penalising image attachments, but only images which > claim to be the best alternative

Re: Spam Score questions

2007-02-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:53:43AM -0600, Steve Ingraham wrote: > on this rule it would score higher. Can I change the score for that > rule? If so, do I just add a line in the local.cf file like so? > > SARE_ADULT2 BODY 8.0 No. "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf", look for "score". > Secon

RE: Spam Score questions

2007-02-26 Thread Jon Armitage
If so, do I just add a line in the local.cf > file like so? > > SARE_ADULT2 BODY 8.0 > > Second question, in local.cf I have a line that reads: > > BAYES_99 10.0 > > I had assumed that line to mean that any email hitting on the > BAYES_99 rule would receive a score of 10.0, but as you c

Trusted networks and SPF

2007-02-26 Thread Ben Wylie
All of my emails pass through an antivirus gateway which is the same server as the mailserver and appears like this in the headers: Received: from [127.0.0.1] by arkbb.co.uk with SMTP (HELO server.) (ArGoSoft Mail Server Pro for WinNT/2000/XP, Version 1.8 (1.8.8.9)); Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:41:0

Rule Regex Question.

2007-02-26 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Can anyone tell me if I need to escape the characters within the square braces in the following? body NF_REM_CHAR1 /remove [*%!+`"£$%^&()_-=#~]/i score NF_REM_CHAR1 4.0 describe NF_REM_CHAR1 remove chars for URL spams TIA Nigel

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Matt Kettler
Richard Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > > I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin > available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin > 3.0.3-2sarge1". > > As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very > long time, it's pretty useless these

image multipart/alternative rule

2007-02-26 Thread Ben Wylie
I have a few questions about MIME multipart/alternative, and to suggest a rule. As i understand it, multipart/alternative in emails allows an email to be composed in different formats and all formats to be sent together in the one email. The user agent used to read the email can then choose w

random/occassional "permission denied" failures in "sa-update"

2007-02-26 Thread snowcrash+spamassassin
at seemingly random intervals, sometimes after days of working just fine with no errors, and with no extraordinary actions on my part, "sa-update" will fail with: channel: attempt to rm channel cf file failed, attempting to continue anyway at /usr/local/spamassassin/bin/sa-update line 742. error:

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, Is it just as stable? i.e. ours hasn't hung or crashed so far for over 200 days... can you say whether this is true of 3.1 via backports? Also, is there an apt repo for 3.1 for sarge? Thanks again, Richard. John Fleming wrote: > > - Original Message - From: "Richard Hobbs" > <[

Re: sa-update notification

2007-02-26 Thread Adam Wilbraham
I just call the following script from my cronjob which sends me the debug output, a little crude but it works... #!/bin/sh sa-update --channelfile /etc/spamassassin/sa-update-sare.txt --gpgkey 856AA88A -D 1> /tmp/sa.tmp 2>> /tmp/sa.tmp sleep 60 /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart 2>&1>> /tmp/sa.tmp

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "Richard Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 4:54 AM Subject: sa-update doesn't exist on my system Hello, I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin available through the standard debian repositories - "sp

Re: how to start using sa-update

2007-02-26 Thread John Fleming
I'd suggest addign soemthing like: After running sa-update for the first time old rules which are provided through one of sa-update's channels should be removed from /etc/mail/spamassassin (or whichever is our local rules directory) because the rules in this directory will take precedence over

Re[2]: FeatRequest: sa logging to DB

2007-02-26 Thread Miki
Hello Justin, Monday, February 26, 2007, 11:44:21 AM, you wrote: JM> Miki writes: >> Hello ;) >> >> I want ask you if you are willing to make plugin to SA which allow >> logging into database instead of file. >> There is already sa-stats plugin, but its only logging numbers of >> spam/ham. Im no

3.0.2 rules

2007-02-26 Thread Nathan Vingoe
Hi I am running an old version on debian. server:/usr/doc/spamassassin# spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.0.2 running on Perl version 5.6.1 server:/usr/doc/spamassassin# I havn't done an apt-get upgrade for ages, and as such, when i did, the spamasasin failed to upgrade for some conflic

rcNG script does not stop process

2007-02-26 Thread Alexander Shikoff
Hello, I'm using SA on FreeBSD 6.2 box. SA is installed from ports tree. There is a problem with stopping SA process with rcNG script: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd stop spamd not running? (check /var/run/spamd/spamd.pid). But: # cat /var/run/spamd/spamd.pid 80028 # ps ax|grep 80028 80028 ??

Mail Appliances?

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Hutchings
Appreciate this may not be 100% the best place to ask, but I'm struggling to think of anywhere better other than Usenet. I'm currently running a box that I've configured to run Postfix plus Spamassassin, it works, but it's the usual "Only I know about it and if it fails or I get hit by a bus" etc.

Re: FeatRequest: sa logging to DB

2007-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
Miki writes: > Hello ;) > > I want ask you if you are willing to make plugin to SA which allow > logging into database instead of file. > There is already sa-stats plugin, but its only logging numbers of > spam/ham. Im not perl programmer ;( but I believe that can be > relatively easyli done just

FeatRequest: sa logging to DB

2007-02-26 Thread Miki
Hello ;) I want ask you if you are willing to make plugin to SA which allow logging into database instead of file. There is already sa-stats plugin, but its only logging numbers of spam/ham. Im not perl programmer ;( but I believe that can be relatively easyli done just put all line into database

Re: SA successfully installed, but it doesn't work. Can't locate Digest/SHA1.pm?

2007-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
no -- the issue is not the NoMailAudit problem -- it's that you're missing a required module, Digest::SHA1. read the INSTALL and UPGRADE docs. --j. Bob McClure Jr writes: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:22:05PM -0800, Wen Wang wrote: > > > Thanks, Bob. But I don't think this is the problem. I th

Re: v320/trunk r511659 "sa-compile" hangs ...

2007-02-26 Thread Justin Mason
snowcrash+spamassassin writes: > follow-on to the fix in, > > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5340 > > building r511659, on, > > spamassassin/bin/sa-compile --sudo -D > > > i see lots of output, including many instances of, > >[13689] dbg: generic: giving up

Re: sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Maciej Friedel
> BUT... the "sa-update" command doesn't seem to exist on my system... any > ideas? You need upgrade to 3.1.x if You neet tu use sa-update maciek -- |_|0|_| Maciej Friedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_|_|0| http://wwv.pl - usługi hostingowe |0|0|0| http://eprogram.pl - projektowanie stron www

sa-update doesn't exist on my system

2007-02-26 Thread Richard Hobbs
Hello, I run a mail server which is using the latest stable spamassassin available through the standard debian repositories - "spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1". As you can imagine, having not done an update of the rules for a very long time, it's pretty useless these days, so i was wondering how "sa-u

RE: Using levenshtein distance to report spam

2007-02-26 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Raul Dias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You need a lot more of bandwidth/memory/cpu power and disk IO to do it. Maybe I need more bw. Why memory and cpu? I may spool spam detected this way and my spamtrap script may despool and report it. There will be only one running spamtrap script. g

Re: how to start using sa-update

2007-02-26 Thread Bram Mertens
David Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/02/2007 20:10:46: > Bram Mertens wrote: [...] > > Lately however the number of SPAM messages getting through is increasing > > rapidly so I could use some help. [...] > SA 3.1.x will look for rules in /usr/share/spamassassin, > /var/lib/spamassassin