Need help with a rule

2007-03-22 Thread Bill Minton
I'm looking to have Spamassassin mark messages where the from address is forged with a valid local address. For instance, if a local address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a spammer spoofs that, then it initially appears as though [EMAIL PROTECTED] is sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is

Re: Need help with a rule

2007-03-22 Thread Matt Kettler
Bill Minton wrote: I'm looking to have Spamassassin mark messages where the from address is forged with a valid local address. For instance, if a local address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and a spammer spoofs that, then it initially appears as though [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need help with a rule

2007-03-22 Thread Chris St. Pierre
Sure. header __LOCAL_SENDER From =~ /@example\.com/i meta FORGED_LOCAL_SENDER __LOCAL_SENDER !TRUSTED_NETWORKS score FORGED_LOCAL_SENDER 1 This depends on a proper setting of TRUSTED_NETWORKS. (Note: untested code, YMMV, etc.) Chris St. Pierre Unix Systems Administrator Nebraska

Re: patches for FREEBSD sa-update

2007-03-22 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Michael Scheidell wrote: Then /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin isn't a good place for .local.cf and SARES rules either .), I'd say SA's local.cf and other manually edited configuration files are typical for files in /usr/local/etc. The SARE rules doesn't fit that bad in /usr/local/etc as

what is RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY?

2007-03-22 Thread David fire
hi i try to configure my spam assassin but i have one question what is RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY ? thanks David

reset spam bayes

2007-03-22 Thread Dean Clapper
I was wondering how to reset bayes for spamassassin. We have had a lot of spam start coming through the past few weeks and I want to flush out the bayes in my directory then try it for the shared bayes. I'm on spamassassin-3.1.3-1. thanks Dean

Pamditherbw gone, but no pamthreshhold

2007-03-22 Thread David Baron
Now getting loads of FuzzyOcr failed to execute pamditherbw. I have ppmtopgm but no pamtopnm and no pamthreshold. I have netpbm 2.10.0-11 from Debian Sid. So I commented out the missing stuff in FuzzyOcr.scansets, but in FuzzyOcr.preps, this was an either or situfation. I do have a ppmdither.

RE: reset spam bayes

2007-03-22 Thread Dean Manners
sa-learn --clear Make sure you have a ham/spam pile ready to re-train your db's after clearing. -Original Message- From: Dean Clapper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 1:12 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: reset spam bayes I was wondering how to reset

Re: Reporting spam by forwarded/attached message

2007-03-22 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, I got it working (started a thread like this one month ago or so) thanks to some other users contributions. What I did (following someone elses instructions) was insert these lines in local.cf: code bayes_ignore_header ReSent-Date bayes_ignore_header ReSent-From bayes_ignore_header

Re: what is RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY?

2007-03-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:50:58AM -0300, David fire wrote: i try to configure my spam assassin but i have one question what is RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100 BODY ? It means that Razor2 gave the message a spam confidence (cf) rating between 51 and 100. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: There are two

Stock rules match legitimate e-mail

2007-03-22 Thread Jason Bertoch [Electronet]
A legitimate e-mail passed through my system yesterday that matched three stock rules with default scores: 1.9 RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME 1.4 RATWARE_MS_HASH 2.2 MSGID_DOLLARS Because this is a legitimate e-mail from a legitimate server, does that mean these particular stock rules need a score

Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Marc Perkel
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with the various methods of bayes poisoning going on I've found that bayes is just lowering the score of spam and causing more spam to get through. Where bayes used to be the centerpiece of spam filtering now I have turned it off to increase accuracy.

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi, My Bayes is just as accurate as it has always been. Any false negatives usually all have BAYES_99 in them, they just don't have enough other rule hits to raise the overall score above the threshold. Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with the various methods of bayes

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Marc Perkel
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:55:07AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with the various methods of bayes poisoning going on I've found that bayes is just lowering the score of spam and causing more spam to get through. So is there

Re: /etc/spamassassin or /var/lib/spamassassin?

2007-03-22 Thread Mark Adams
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:06:51AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Is it scoring the whitelist lower or is it just not hitting? Can you post your whitelist rule and the headers from an example message? Hi, Apologies for delay I did not see this message. I am still having issues with this so your

ONE_TIME (rule)

2007-03-22 Thread Deivid Vilela
Somebody knows what this rule does? ONE_TIME ___ Yahoo! Mail - Sempre a melhor opção para você! Experimente já e veja as novidades. http://br.yahoo.com/mailbeta/tudonovo/

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Kris Deugau wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: I've never trusted automatic learning. Why let your Bayes database be (even partially) under the control of a third party, particularly when that third party is the attacker? Because there's no other (practical and/or

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Michel R Vaillancourt
Henrik Krohns wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:55:07AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with the various methods of bayes poisoning going on I've found that bayes is just lowering the score of spam and causing more spam to get through. So is there actually any

Re: ONE_TIME (rule)

2007-03-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 10:22 AM 3/22/2007, Deivid Vilela wrote: Somebody knows what this rule does? ONE_TIME # grep ONE_T * 20_phrases.cf:body ONE_TIME /\bone\W+time (?:charge|investment|offer|promotion)/i 20_phrases.cf:describe ONE_TIME One Time Rip Off Evan

Per User Settings?

2007-03-22 Thread Paul Hutchings
I'm looking at rebuilding our mail gateway due to new hardware (and to learn). The plan at the moment is probably Redhat/CentOS/Fedora (mostly for rpm availability) plus Postfix plus Spamassassin. The box will be an in/out relay server and will accept mail for a few domains and pass most of it

Re: ONE_TIME (rule)

2007-03-22 Thread Deivid Vilela
Dear Friend I can read the CF Files but i don't understand it. I hope that some one can help me trying to explain abou what realy this rule does. :-) Evan Platt escreveu: At 10:22 AM 3/22/2007, Deivid Vilela wrote: Somebody knows what this rule does? ONE_TIME # grep ONE_T *

Re: ONE_TIME (rule)

2007-03-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 10:39 AM 3/22/2007, Deivid Vilela wrote: Dear Friend I can read the CF Files but i don't understand it. I hope that some one can help me trying to explain abou what realy this rule does. :-) Evan Platt escreveu: At 10:22 AM 3/22/2007, Deivid Vilela wrote: Somebody knows what this rule

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:55:07AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Where bayes used to be the centerpiece of spam filtering ... FWIW, I don't think Bayes has really ever been the centerpiece of spam filtering. Definitely not within SA anyway. It's a good tool, but it's just another tool in the belt.

Re: /etc/spamassassin or /var/lib/spamassassin?

2007-03-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:56:31PM +, Mark Adams wrote: Whitelist file is in /etc/spamassassin/ and is called whitelist.cf entry; whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is /etc/spamassassin where the rest of your site config is located? Typically it's /etc/mail/spamassassin, but spamassassin

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Leander Koornneef
On 22-mrt-2007, at 20:02, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:55:07AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Where bayes used to be the centerpiece of spam filtering ... FWIW, I don't think Bayes has really ever been the centerpiece of spam filtering. Definitely not within SA anyway.

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:41:03PM -0500, maillist wrote: I don't know about that. I'd say that 95% of all spam filtered in my system has BAYES_99 as a trigger, and of that, probably 75% - 85% would not have been caught if not for that trigger. Don't confuse filtering methods with rules.

R: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Messaggio originale- Da: --[ UxBoD ]-- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using a combination of numerous SA rules, bayes, FuzzyOCR and BotNet on a new server Ive just built we are trashing the SPAM. Attached graph is for today :- What does received mean in the graph? Giampaolo

RE: /etc/spamassassin or /var/lib/spamassassin?

2007-03-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Mark Adams wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:06:51AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Is it scoring the whitelist lower or is it just not hitting? Can you post your whitelist rule and the headers from an example message? Hi, Apologies for delay I did not see this message. I am still having

NOTICE: SpamAssassin 3.2.0-rc1 PRERELEASE available

2007-03-22 Thread Justin Mason
SpamAssassin 3.2.0-rc1 is released! This is a *prerelease* for SpamAssassin 3.2.0; not the full release. SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited bulk email). Highlights of the release -

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Jason Marshall
I was wondering the same thing, idly. Then one day my Bayes stopped working and I went from 30-40 spams getting through in a day to 500-600 getting through. Believe me, I think Bayes is doing a decent job of adding to the scores of spammy messages... Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Rajkumar S
On 3/22/07, Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone using SA in an ISP environment will run into this problem; I agree here, I am using SA in an ISP and I have disabled Bayes. There is no way I can get regular good supply of ham from our customers. No one want's to forward their good mails

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-22 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:55:07AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe I'm doing something wrong but with the various methods of bayes poisoning going on I've found that bayes is just lowering the score of spam and causing more spam to get through. Where bayes used to be the centerpiece of spam