SARE ADULT easily worked around?

2007-04-30 Thread Robert Nicholson
Looking at the regular expressions it looks like Spammers are easily working around these rules sets by adding "ed" or "ing" to the word in question as it doesn't look like the rulesets consider this.

Re: Error restoring Bayes Database (MySQL)

2007-04-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The same problem happen if you try to have amavis database replicated on multiple mysql server. It would be nice to have a way around this and also a way to configure a fail over mysql server. Regards Cedric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think i ran into the same problem. try a direct backu

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 April 2007, Eric Goforth wrote: >Hey all, > >I have a quick thought about something we may want to all consider. For >those of us that use SA (all of us right?) and we use Bayes (most of us >I assume) and that have whitelisted this list (a few anyhow) that get >people forwarding their

Re: Error restoring Bayes Database (MySQL)

2007-04-30 Thread askthelist
think i ran into the same problem. try a direct backup from old mysql host to new mysql server. or you can also stop mysql on the old host and tar up the raw files and move them over that way. On 4/30/07, Eric Goforth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having a crazy thing happen when trying to restor

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Matt Kettler
Eric Goforth wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a quick thought about something we may want to all consider. For > those of us that use SA (all of us right?) and we use Bayes (most of us > I assume) and that have whitelisted this list (a few anyhow) that get > people forwarding their spam messages to th

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:03:13PM -0700, Eric Goforth wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a quick thought about something we may want to all consider. For > those of us that use SA (all of us right?) and we use Bayes (most of us > I assume) and that have whitelisted this list (a few anyhow) that get >

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread mouss
Eric Goforth wrote: Hey all, I have a quick thought about something we may want to all consider. For those of us that use SA (all of us right?) and we use Bayes (most of us I assume) and that have whitelisted this list (a few anyhow) that get people forwarding their spam messages to the list (o

RE: [SA] Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Goforth
I guess that makes much better sense... Point well taken and thanks. Eric -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 4:28 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: [SA] Re: Fowarding spams to the list Not good??? On Mon, Ap

Error restoring Bayes Database (MySQL)

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Goforth
Having a crazy thing happen when trying to restore my Bayes database to a new MySql Server. During the restore process, it stops with the following error message. However, it is clearly only partial informaiton as some of the characters must be goofy ascii codes. The screen jumps around du

Re: Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:03:13PM -0700, Eric Goforth wrote: > I may be off since I am still a newbie to SA and in particular how Bayes > does its job... But... Food for thought. Can we avoid forwarding spam > messages to the list? The more appropriate, and previously stated, way to deal with

Fowarding spams to the list.... Not good???

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Goforth
Hey all, I have a quick thought about something we may want to all consider. For those of us that use SA (all of us right?) and we use Bayes (most of us I assume) and that have whitelisted this list (a few anyhow) that get people forwarding their spam messages to the list (only a couple I think..

New spams

2007-04-30 Thread Catch All
Hello all, I am getting lots of such spam. Any help in catching those would be really helpful. Thanks Warm Regards, Suhas Ingale -Original Message- From: Dierolf Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:21 PM To: Wells Jimmy Subject: Re: Best friends If you

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: > The problem with automated reporting is that we get loads of spurious > abuse reports from idiots who report mails with a link to > mailscanner.info in the footer (ie. the default install) > > So, unless you build some kind of sanity into it you just annoy peo

Re: Problems with the PIDFILE

2007-04-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
geist_ wrote: Daryl C. W. O wrote: Are you using the -r or --pidfile option to get spamd to create a pidfile? Daryl here is my /etc/default/spamassassin file : ENABLED=1 OPTIONS="--create-prefs --helper-home-dir -v -m 10 -u vpopmail --nouser-config" PIDFILE="/var/run/spamd.pid" and i us

R: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> -Messaggio originale- > Da: Andrzej Adam Filip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ...omissis... > > P.S. > Sending LARTs can be automated using spamcop-ack or spamcup > http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl No need to: you can ask for a SpamCop "quick" account to SpamCop's admins.

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
The problem with automated reporting is that we get loads of spurious abuse reports from idiots who report mails with a link to mailscanner.info in the footer (ie. the default install) So, unless you build some kind of sanity into it you just annoy people like us -- Mr Michele Neylon Black

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Marc Perkel wrote: > As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, > Spamcop, etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such > a module then these free email services could automatically shut down >

RE: Catching and stopping 419 spam

2007-04-30 Thread Bret Miller
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:52:39PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > OK - I did this with Exim rules but the same trick could be > used in SA. > > I figured out a trick that catches 419 spam with amazing accuracy. > > > > ... > > So - who uses one freemail address with a reply-to of another? 419 > >

Re: Problems with the PIDFILE

2007-04-30 Thread geist_
Daryl C. W. O wrote: > > Are you using the -r or --pidfile option to get spamd to create a pidfile? > > Daryl > > here is my /etc/default/spamassassin file : ENABLED=1 OPTIONS="--create-prefs --helper-home-dir -v -m 10 -u vpopmail --nouser-config" PIDFILE="/var/run/spamd.pid" and i use /e

Re: Problems with the PIDFILE

2007-04-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
geist_ wrote: Hi, spamassassin works fine on my system, except it seems that it doesn't create any pidfile in/var/run/ i read in the /etc/default/spamassassin script that if i use -u option the user need to have permissions to write the pid file... i m kind of newbie and i tried to touch a spa

Problems with the PIDFILE

2007-04-30 Thread geist_
Hi, spamassassin works fine on my system, except it seems that it doesn't create any pidfile in/var/run/ i read in the /etc/default/spamassassin script that if i use -u option the user need to have permissions to write the pid file... i m kind of newbie and i tried to touch a spamd.pid & then ch

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, Spamcop, etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such a module then these free email services could automat

Re: pre-release of SA 3.18_2 Freebsd port

2007-04-30 Thread Justin Mason
Michael Scheidell writes: > Fixes several issues: > #1, on FreeBSD 6.2: > > SpamAssassin Bug 5313: spamd error: 'prefork: select returned -1! > recovering: Bad file descriptor' > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5313 > > Patches backported from 3.20rc3 by [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread JamesDR
Marc Perkel wrote: > As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, > Spamcop, etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such > a module then these free email services could automatically shut down >

Re: sa-learn -D hangs

2007-04-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:10:09PM -0700, J. wrote: > My sa-learn runs have been taking a long time to get started. Someone > suggested here to add the -D flag to see what's going on. When I did > that, the terminal hung. I used ctrl-c to get my prompt back and then > that "locker" line showed up.

Auto Reporting of Spam to Freemail Vendors

2007-04-30 Thread Marc Perkel
As you know SA reports spam to various service like Pyzor, Razor, Spamcop, etc. Why not have a module that sends messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc. If we had such a module then these free email services could automatically shut down spammers after seeing a

pre-release of SA 3.18_2 Freebsd port

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
Fixes several issues: #1, on FreeBSD 6.2: SpamAssassin Bug 5313: spamd error: 'prefork: select returned -1! recovering: Bad file descriptor' http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5313 Patches backported from 3.20rc3 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] #2, fix sa-update directory to be consist

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: But even if I wanted a dynamic IP doesn't make much sense as MX. :-( > Part of the operating definition of "soho mail server" that I am using > for botnet is: if your operation is so small that you're forced to use a > dynamic IP address for your email server, then you're proba

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread John Rudd
Andy Spiegl wrote: John Rudd wrote: b) spiegl.de has 1-5 MX records, and one of them has 1-5 A records, one of which resolves to the submitting relay (87.152.143.202). Hm, but why would I want to put this dynamic IP into the list of MXs? The soho mailserver doesn't accept mails from outside.

Re: BOTNET is great but...

2007-04-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
John Rudd wrote: > b) spiegl.de has 1-5 MX records, and one of them has 1-5 A records, one > of which resolves to the submitting relay (87.152.143.202). Hm, but why would I want to put this dynamic IP into the list of MXs? The soho mailserver doesn't accept mails from outside. Shouldn't the BOT

Re: Catching and stopping 419 spam

2007-04-30 Thread Justin Mason
Henrik Krohns writes: >On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:52:39PM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: >> OK - I did this with Exim rules but the same trick could be used in SA. >> I figured out a trick that catches 419 spam with amazing accuracy. >> >> ... >> So - who uses one freemail address with a reply-to of

RE: cannot install it on BSD

2007-04-30 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Any more details - which version of FreeBSD, how are you trying to install it (ports/cpan/source???) -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 > -Original Message- > From: Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 April 2007 18:00 > To: