Spamvertized throwaway blogspot sites

2008-02-02 Thread John Hardin
Starting this afternoon I'm getting a raft of spams from Hotmail advertising meds at throwaway Blogspot subdomains. Both have been advised. Here's a point added for such: describe BLOGSPOT_01 Throwaway blogspot domain uri BLOGSPOT_01 m;https?://[a-z]{8,}\d{5,}\.blogspot\.com/$; It does ri

Re: Spamassassin Bayes not working with Procmail

2008-02-02 Thread jeff986
I'm not using the environment variables. Should I be? % perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.7, archname=sun4-solaris uname='sunos ultra 5.7 generic_106541-25 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-2 ' config_args='-de'

Re: Spamassassin Bayes not working with Procmail

2008-02-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:55:22PM -0800, jeff986 wrote: > It must be something about procmail, but.. I officially have no clue. > Comments?Ideas? Thanks. You don't happen to have PERL5LIB or PERLLIB in your environment, do you? Where is DB_File installed, and what's the output of "perl

Spamassassin Bayes not working with Procmail

2008-02-02 Thread jeff986
I've installed SpamAssassin (3.2.4), including DB_File to use the Bayesian filters..If I execute spamassassin directly from the command line, it executes as expected and uses the bayes filters: % spamassasin -D bayes < spammsg2.txt [6868] dbg: bayes: tie-ing to DB file R/O /home/jeff/.spamas

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-02 Thread mouss
Michael Scheidell wrote: Thank you, as always, you have been !extremely helpful. why attack me? So, your proposal is to block all email from all modern outlook clients. Brilliant plan. No, I don't worship MS, but I live in reality. sorry, I'm not as brilliant as you are. We should j

Re: Bulk spam scam

2008-02-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
Here's my report about treating the output from: spamassassin --mbox alltests.txt >scanned.mbox as an mbox file. In summary -- If you use SA to process a multi-message file with the --mbox option the output is an acceptable mbox file. Detail -- After passing my standard regression t

ultra-long Bayes expiration (mysql)

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Woick
Perhaps this information is useful for someone who "suddenly" experiences long running bayes expiration in combination with MySQL bayes storage. Management summmary: :-) Run an "optimize table " on your Innodb Mysql SpamAssassin tables, if you suddenly experience long bayes expiry times. L

Re: x-cr-hashedpuzzle

2008-02-02 Thread Michael Scheidell
Thank you, as always, you have been !extremely helpful. So, your proposal is to block all email from all modern outlook clients. Brilliant plan. No, I don't worship MS, but I live in reality. We should just block anything with the Thread header, X-Mailers with Outlook in it, any outlook/ exchange

Re: Safe "Phishing"

2008-02-02 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting giga328 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thank you Jeff and Anthony. If I'm right, there is big possibility for SpamAssassin to mark as spam some email from for example doubleclick or other companies if there is personalized URL in it because it can look like spam or even like phishing. If I'm prot

Re: Safe "Phishing"

2008-02-02 Thread giga328
Thank you Jeff and Anthony. If I'm right, there is big possibility for SpamAssassin to mark as spam some email from for example doubleclick or other companies if there is personalized URL in it because it can look like spam or even like phishing. If I'm protecting only my mailbox it will be ok to

Re: Safe "Phishing"

2008-02-02 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi Mous, mouss wrote: giga328 wrote: Hi Anthony, I will ask people from MailScanner also but for my email system is not possible to use MailScanner directly so I'm using spamd. My question is about lowering chances for false positives by having safe list from MailScanner. But since I just star