Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:42:39 -0400, "Daryl C. W. O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Nigel Frankcom wrote: >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:48:02 -0400, David Boltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> I?ve been getting the lint failures found below on my Rules Du Jour >>> updates for a few weeks now.

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Nigel Frankcom
>> >Daryl is right, there is no fix due in 3.2.2 - I got the RDJ and the >sa-update errors confused. I guess maybe I should dye my hair blonde. > >Apologies for any confusion I've caused. > Geez - blonde it is - it's sa-compile not sa-update! I wonder if McDonalds have any jobs going :-/ Kind r

Errors in local.cf

2007-06-28 Thread dougp23
I am getting some errors when i do spamassassin --lint Things like: 22120] warn: Unrecognized escape \V passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?i)\V <-- HERE iagra\b/ at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 969. [ Is it due to this rule in my local.

Re: Errors in local.cf

2007-06-28 Thread Matt Kettler
dougp23 wrote: > I am getting some errors when i do > > spamassassin --lint > > Things like: > > 22120] warn: Unrecognized escape \V passed through in regex; marked by <-- > HERE in m/(?i)\V <-- HERE iagra\b/ at > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Conf/Parser.pm line 969. > [ > > I

Re: AWL Skyrockets Address Into Spamosphere

2007-06-28 Thread Adam Stephens
Jason Heiser wrote: We get order acknowledgment e-mails from a specific e-mail address for orders placed on our website. A couple of days ago, these messages stopped arriving. Somebody noticed this, I went looking for them, I found them in our spam folder. For some reason, this address in the

Re: Errors in local.cf

2007-06-28 Thread dougp23
> Also, I get this one: > > [22120] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: blacklist from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You're missing an underscore.. It's "blacklist_from" not "blacklist from" D'OH -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Errors-in-local.cf-tf3994100.html

Re: AWL Skyrockets Address Into Spamosphere

2007-06-28 Thread Jonathan Allen
Adam, > This seems to be something to do with the huge AWL files we had - I've > scheduled a weekly run of the trim_whitelist script (I had problems > getting check_whitelist to process the broken file) and I've not seen > the problem since. As a bonus, the AWL files are now tens of megabytes,

Re: AWL Skyrockets Address Into Spamosphere

2007-06-28 Thread Adam Stephens
Jonathan Allen wrote: Adam, This seems to be something to do with the huge AWL files we had - I've scheduled a weekly run of the trim_whitelist script (I had problems getting check_whitelist to process the broken file) and I've not seen the problem since. As a bonus, the AWL files are now t

RE: BOTNET

2007-06-28 Thread Leonardo Magallon
For future references by others, documentation purposes at the list and to avoid this question from being posted again, all you do to enable Botnet on your server is download the Botnet.tar, decompress it, copy Botnet.pm and Botnet.cf to /etc/mail/spamassassin and bounce qmail. Thanks Matt. --

spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection t imed out

2007-06-28 Thread Souza Simbota
Hello. I have been getting the below error messages in my paniclog. What could be the cause. Am using Exim 4.63 on debian server with Spamassissin 3.2.0 and Clamav 0.90.3: 2007-06-27 08:08:30 1I3QfW-0002IM-O6 spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection timed out 2007-0

Re: BOTNET

2007-06-28 Thread John Rudd
To be more accurate, that is the LEAST you have to do. You should also read through the documentation and the Botnet.cf file to be sure that it is properly set up for your environment. The default will _probably_ work just fine for you, but it may not. It's best to read through and be sure.

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
This problem is probably due to the way Rules Emporium is handling traffic. If requests come too fast from the same address, or if their server is busy, they send an HTML redirect page instructing the client to try again in 0.1 second. Curl and wget don't understand "" and simply store the refres

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread John Thompson
Raymond Myren wrote: > Just today I started receiving spam mails with attached .pdf files with > a spam image. > Any ideas how to stop this spam type? Nothing, yet. But since these appear to be an image file encapsulated in a .pdf, it may be possible to get FuzzyOCR to parse them for spam text.

Re: spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection t imed out

2007-06-28 Thread Ryan Steele
Souza, Looks Spamassassin can't talk to the spamd daemon. You sure it's running? ps auxw | grep spamd Best, Ryan Souza Simbota wrote: Hello. I have been getting the below error messages in my paniclog. What could be the cause. Am using Exim 4.63 on debian server with Spamassissin 3.2.

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread Dallas Engelken
John Thompson wrote: Raymond Myren wrote: Just today I started receiving spam mails with attached .pdf files with a spam image. Any ideas how to stop this spam type? Nothing, yet. But since these appear to be an image file encapsulated in a .pdf, it may be possible to get FuzzyOCR to

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread bgodette
> Actually, it didn't. The assertion is that if someone else hadn't seen > this exact message first, then SA wouldn't have caught it. No, the assertion is that if someone else hadn't seen prior abuse from the sending host first (not this exact message), then SA wouldn't have caught that particul

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread bgodette
arni wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> Actually it did, take away the spamtrap fed blackholes (PBL and SPAMCOP) >> and the spamtrap fed BAYES as well and it scores a whopping 3.1 thanks >> to the BOTNET plugin (which is amazing btw). That hit was all from >> late-receiver effect. >> > That sou

Problem with procmail and bouncing email

2007-06-28 Thread Tejas Jin
I currently have a test environment setup, pulling the emails from our server using fetchmail. About every 500 emails an email will error and bounce to sender with can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/testuser" /var/mail Everything els

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread John Thompson
Eray Aslan wrote: > On 28.06.2007 08:14, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 22:24 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >>> I just upgraded from SA 3.1.8-gr1 to SA 3.2.1-gr1 (Gentoo) and notice >>> that I'm no longer getting any BAYES_NN test notices in my X-Spam-Status >>> summary in my mail

Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Attached is a proposed patch for /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour which addresses the problem of the refresh URL which Rules Emporium sometimes sends out instead of a valid cf file. Basically, this patch greps the downloaded file for the string "META HTTP-EQUIV", which should never occur in a v

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is upstream aware of the problem and working on a fix for it? On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:51 -0500, John Thompson wrote: > Eray Aslan wrote: > > On 28.06.2007 08:14,

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Mark Martinec
> So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an > earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? > Is upstream aware of the problem and working on a fix for it? Find out where the problem lies. When the component that needs fixing is known, then something

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:22:32PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Attached is a proposed patch for /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour > which addresses the problem of the refresh URL which Rules Emporium > sometimes sends out instead of a valid cf file. Why not just use sa-update and not deal wi

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an > earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is > upstream aware of the problem and working on a fix for it? You need to debug your instal

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread John Rudd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, it didn't. The assertion is that if someone else hadn't seen this exact message first, then SA wouldn't have caught it. No, the assertion is that if someone else hadn't seen prior abuse from the sending host first (not this exact message), then SA wouldn't ha

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread arni
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Sounds more like "if we didn't rely on other people to have seen this particular abusive host before us and our learning system to have seen past examples of spam that looks a whole lot like this one from headers alone to detect this particular spam, we'd fail to catch

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:39 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Why not just use sa-update and not deal with this? sa-update and rules_du_jour deal with different rules repositories. I use both. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world,| PGP public key FMP Computer Services |who nee

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:39 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> Why not just use sa-update and not deal with this? > > sa-update and rules_du_jour deal with different rules repositories. I > use both. sa-update can use both, if I'm not mistaken. I distantly remember config

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 28 June 2007 15:22, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Attached is a proposed patch for /var/lib/spamassassin/rules_du_jour > which addresses the problem of the refresh URL which Rules Emporium > sometimes sends out instead of a valid cf file. Basically, this patch > greps the downloaded file fo

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 21:33 +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: > > So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an > > earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? > > Is upstream aware of the problem and working on a fix for it? > > Find out where the problem li

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread Robert Schetterer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dallas Engelken schrieb: > John Thompson wrote: >> Raymond Myren wrote: >> >> >>> Just today I started receiving spam mails with attached .pdf files with >>> a spam image. >>> Any ideas how to stop this spam type? >>> >> >> Nothing, yet. But sin

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 23:18 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > sa-update and rules_du_jour deal with different rules repositories. > I > > use both. > > sa-update can use both, if I'm not mistaken. I distantly remember > configuring it to do so. http://saupdates.openprotect.com/ has instructions

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:43 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an > > earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is > > upstream aware of the p

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:46 -0400, Phil Barnett wrote: > I'm going to try this, but with a 5 minute wait. I run it in the middle of > the > night anyway, who cares how long it takes. > > Actually, the proper response might be a random wait. The HTML that gets sent by SARE is: If this were

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread John Rudd
John Rudd wrote: The "policy" here is NOT the recipient's policy, the sendering network owner's policy. That was a rather mangled sentence... The "policy" that is the P in PBL is not the recipient's spam/abuse/etc. policy, it's the sending network owner's policy about who should or should

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Parker
Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 15:43 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: >>> So what's the best fix for this? Should one just freeze SA at an >>> earlier version on a production server until this is fixed upstream? Is >

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Larry Starr
I have a question regarding this. I have set up the sa_update channel for the SARE rules and run it. Everything worked OK BUT, I notice that sa_update is installing the rules in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007, while rulesdujour was instaling them in "/etc/mail/spamassassin". Do I need to remove

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:33:43PM -0500, Larry Starr wrote: > Do I need to remove the rules, in /etc/mail/spamassassin, to prevent the > older > rules from overriding any updates that may come in? Yes. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: "I lost my foo." - Theo pgpgySBNRd9Tg.pgp Des

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Larry Starr
On Thursday 28 June 2007 16:39, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 04:33:43PM -0500, Larry Starr wrote: > > Do I need to remove the rules, in /etc/mail/spamassassin, to prevent the > > older rules from overriding any updates that may come in? > > Yes. I suspected as much. Thank you,

Re: No Bayes!!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:32 -0500, Michael Parker wrote: > I can't recall a bug open for anything like this. Please visit > http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/ and file a complete bug report. > Please describe the exact problem you are seeing as well as full debug > output. A random thread on

Re: Patch for rules_du_jour

2007-06-28 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 28 June 2007 17:02, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > I don't know what would be gained by a random wait.   The idea of a random wait for contention resolution is long standing. It's built into the TCP/IP protocol for example. For example, say my cron job runs at 3 am. Lot's of them probably

Re: Spam PDF

2007-06-28 Thread Dallas Engelken
Robert Schetterer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dallas Engelken schrieb: John Thompson wrote: Raymond Myren wrote: Just today I started receiving spam mails with attached .pdf files with a spam image. Any ideas how to stop this spam type?

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Dallas Engelken
This must be an issue that needs to be raised with Prolexic, as they are doing the DDoS protection for rulesemporium.com. Can anyone reproduce this redirect outside of RDJ, and give me a dump of the full transaction including http headers? I'd rather fix the actual problem and not patch aroun

Re: No Bayes!! - found it!

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
Apparently SA 3.2.1 is more finicky than 3.1.8 about the user the daemon runs as. If no -u option is given to spamd when it starts, then its child processes run as root, which works, but the bayes module won't cooperate. If a spamd child is running as root, the bayes filter uses the user spec'd t

Re: exposing rules

2007-06-28 Thread Tom Allison
OliverScott wrote: Assuming that you have managed to get SA to add headers to messages which is thinks are spam, and are looking to add a header to ALL messages so you can see what rules are firing on your HAM, then you can do the following. This may not be what you are after, but may be of some

user_prefs

2007-06-28 Thread Tom Allison
cannot write to /var/www/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory failed to create default user preference file /var/www/.spamassassin/user_prefs I never ever ever ever want to try to create a user_prefs file. How do I make sure I never do this?

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 17:31 -0500, Dallas Engelken wrote: > This must be an issue that needs to be raised with Prolexic, as they are > doing the DDoS protection for rulesemporium.com. > > Can anyone reproduce this redirect outside of RDJ, and give me a dump of > the full transaction including ht

Re: RulesDuJour lint failed. Updates rolled back.

2007-06-28 Thread Lindsay Haisley
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 18:56 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > By running a curl hit repeatedly on the RE server I reproduced the > problem. By running this test a couple of times I'm apparently now blocked by RE :-P Oh well . Hope the info I sent was useful. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an

sa-update errors out with no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org

2007-06-28 Thread ahattarki
We are currently running - SpamAssassin for Win32 v3.1.7.0 downloaded sa-update sa-update v3.1.7.0 After running D:\SpamAssassin>sa-update.exe --nogpg I get the following error - http: request failed: 500 Can't connect to spamassassin.apache.org:80 (connect: Unknown err

Re: sa-update errors out with no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org

2007-06-28 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
ahattarki wrote: [4724] dbg: http: GET request, http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY [4724] dbg: http: request failed, retrying: 500 Can't connect to spamassassin.apache.org:80 (connect: Unknown error): 500 Can't connect to spamassassin.apache.org:80 (connect: Unknown error) Any

Re: sa-update errors out with no mirror data available for channel updates.spamassassin.org

2007-06-28 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 05:18:50PM -0700, ahattarki wrote: > [4724] dbg: http: GET request, > http://spamassassin.apache.org/updates/MIRRORED.BY > [4724] dbg: http: request failed, retrying: 500 Can't connect to > spamassassin.apache.org:80 (connect: Unknown error): 500 Can't connect to > spamassas

Re: user_prefs

2007-06-28 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Tom Allison wrote: cannot write to /var/www/.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or directory failed to create default user preference file /var/www/.spamassassin/user_prefs I never ever ever ever want to try to create a user_prefs file. How do I make sure I never do t

confusion with postfix+spamassassin+amavisd-new

2007-06-28 Thread JOYDEEP
Dear list, I am using suse 9.3 and confused with postfix+spamassassin+amavisd-new I have first installed amavisd-new and perl-spamassassin. Then I find the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file I manually added an email address as black listed and start amavisd-new. then I check the email and fin

Re: confusion with postfix+spamassassin+amavisd-new

2007-06-28 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 28 June 2007, JOYDEEP wrote: > Dear list, > > I am using suse 9.3 and confused with postfix+spamassassin+amavisd-new > > I have first installed amavisd-new and perl-spamassassin. Then I find > the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file > I manually added an email address as black listed a