Re: Bayes: What am I missing

2008-02-22 Thread spamis
comparity wrote: spamis wrote: Hi comparity, has you could fix the problem updating SA? No, not as far as I can tell. I still get the same spam, and no indication that bayes has been applied. -- I'm using an older version of qmail-scanner-st. I have saw in the

SV: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Norrbring
Anders Norrbring wrote: Sorry, I've been missing quite a lot of this thread... Can I please get an example of the complete ruleset, and a hint on where to place it? That was it. I copy-pasted those rules from /etc/mail/spamassassin/misc.cf on one of the servers I maintain; they're just

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread ploppy
hello jeff. thanks for reply. it is a dedicated server and we oversee the mailboxes. 99% of the time our mailboxes, pop3/imap do not show a problem. however, this has only started happening since enabling SA so therefore im at a bit out of my depth when it comes to troublshooting this service. is

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SpamAssassin and Exim cannot work together without some other program coordinating them. You're probably going to need to find out what that program is in order to solve things. Any FAQs about SpamAssassin itself may address the coordinating program, but

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread AlxFrag
Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SpamAssassin and Exim cannot work together without some other program coordinating them. You're probably going to need to find out what that program is in order to solve things. Any FAQs about SpamAssassin itself may address the

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi, AlxFrag wrote: Jeff Chan wrote: Quoting Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SpamAssassin and Exim cannot work together without some other program coordinating them. You're probably going to need to find out what that program is in order to solve things. Any FAQs about SpamAssassin itself may

Re: mails not being received

2008-02-22 Thread Jeff Chan
Quoting ploppy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hello jeff. thanks for reply. it is a dedicated server and we oversee the mailboxes. 99% of the time our mailboxes, pop3/imap do not show a problem. however, this has only started happening since enabling SA so therefore im at a bit out of my depth when it

Re: SV: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 10:19 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: That was it. I copy-pasted those rules from /etc/mail/spamassassin/misc.cf on one of the servers I maintain; they're just rules I've created to try to keep as much spam as possible out of customers'

Re: Bogus MX - blacklist service viable?

2008-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
Aaron Wolfe wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Radich wrote: Sorry; apparently I was unclear. MX records I'm saying as follows: 100 - Real 200 - Real perhaps, as many real as you want 300 - Bogus - one that

RE: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread James E. Pratt
In general, any rules you see posted to the list that you want to use should be pasted into any .cf file in your main SA site-rules directory (usually either /etc/mail/spamassassin/ or /etc/spamassassin/). Not all of them are formally distributed as rulesets - these are an independent

Re: SV: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Norrbring
McDonald, Dan skrev: On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 10:19 +0100, Anders Norrbring wrote: Anders Norrbring wrote: That was it. I copy-pasted those rules from /etc/mail/spamassassin/misc.cf on one of the servers I maintain; they're just rules I've created to try to keep as much spam as possible out of

how to read spamassassin headres/logs

2008-02-22 Thread Agnello George
i am kind of new to spamassissin, i have some doubts please correct me if i am wrong ### Fri Feb 22 21:08:33 2008 [29858] info: spamd: checking message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for (unknown):500 Fri Feb 22 21:08:33 2008 [29858] info: spamd:

Re: how to read spamassassin headres/logs

2008-02-22 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:32 +0530, Agnello George wrote: ### Fri Feb 22 21:08:33 2008 [29858] info: spamd: checking message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for (unknown):500 Fri Feb 22 21:08:33 2008 [29858] info: spamd: result: Y 5 -

AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hello list, this is my first post here, although I have been happily using spamassassin for years now. I noticed something unsettling some time ago, and yesterday I think I found the cause. What I noticed was that when sending mail from one of my addresses to a mailing list (or to myself)

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-22 Thread Richard Frovarp
Marc Perkel wrote: Mark Johnson wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Because there is occasionally some server doing something very weird you might have to open up port 25 one some specific IP who is running something really dumb. I think I've had to do this only once or twice. But once you open

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Anders Norrbring
Randal, Phil skrev: body NICE_GIRL_03 /Email me at .{,74} only, because I am writing not from my personal email\./ Would do nicely. No need to be too clever here. Cheers, Phil Apparently that won't work on all systems... (And that's why I ran into problems before..) On my SUSE

Re: SV: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Kris Deugau
Anders Norrbring wrote: McDonald, Dan skrev: why are you trying to match up to 74 beginning of bodies (^) or whitespaces (\s) between at and only? Perhaps you want \S{,74}, which would be up to 74 non-whitespace characters. I just copied Kris' ruleset without thinking much of it. And my

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-18 17:26:57, schrieb ram: you usually wait for the first mail and then block all mails containing the domain I do this too and it works nicely... But sometimes I get the messages too fast in to put the new DOMAIN into the list which has now over 780 lines/domains. SO I have

Re: [WRONG PLACE TO ASK THIS] WHM/Cpanel: Where are the Server-wide SpamAssassin settings?

2008-02-22 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-19 14:58:51, schrieb Justin Mason: Rubin Bennett writes: P.S.: List Admins: Is there a way to toss Nabble postings automatically? They annoy the hell out of me, and I suspect I'm not alone :) Actually, Nabble posting is fine. Please avoid setting list policy without

RE: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
From: Andreas Ntaflos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To spamassassin this spam appears to come from myself. It scored a low AWL but over 16 points all in all so the next message received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] would certainly get high AWL score. My questions are these: did I get this right? Is

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-22 Thread mouss
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 10:14 +0100, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Le Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:57:55 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : At 13:51 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: http://pastebin.com/m61564e4 That's not a

BAYES_00 and FN

2008-02-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I see a lot of messages hitting BAYES_00 and reducing enough to make it a FN. After some learning, problem solved, but still an issue for new message types. Is there a way to protect from this sort of thing? Like a recipe not to add the bayes score if the score is over 7 and BAYES_50 or lower?

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Joseph Brennan
This has worked very well here. This is more specific to the sentence the bored girl always uses. /Email me at [A-Za-z]{1,[EMAIL PROTECTED],25}\.info only/ Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology

--max-children setting, consider raising it

2008-02-22 Thread fchan
Hello, I thought I set this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd for RedHat Linux but maybe I'm wrong. I see this about --max-children for spamd: -m number , --max-children=number This option specifies the maximum number of children to spawn. Spamd will spawn that number of children, then sleep in

plugin: eval failed: can\'t resolve \localhost\ to address

2008-02-22 Thread Thiago Cesar
I have one qmail server with, simscan, qmail, vpopmail and spamassassin, I installed spamassassin by cpan and all things he need, but on my log of spamassasin show this problem with cannot resolv localhost address, I used on my file resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 because I use one dnscache for

Re: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
On Friday 22 February 2008 17:52:13 Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: From: Andreas Ntaflos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To spamassassin this spam appears to come from myself. It scored a low AWL but over 16 points all in all so the next message received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] would certainly get

Technical question on header rule matching

2008-02-22 Thread mgoldey
I've been through the SA man pages, etc., and can't find a description of rule matching that answers this question: when more than one header of a certain type exists, will a rule requiring a negative match count once per e-mail, or once per header. Clear as mud. Here's what I mean. I have

Re: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread René Berber
Andreas Ntaflos wrote: [snip] So I added my mailserver to the trusted_networks but after removing that particularly troublesome address from the whitelist (spamassassin --remove-addr-from-whitelist) and a few tests it seems that AWL again scores in the wrong direction. Should I also add the

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Michael Scheidell wrote: Been down long? 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org server ns8.spamhaus.org Default server: ns8.spamhaus.org Address: 216.168.28.44#53 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org Server: ns8.spamhaus.org Address:216.168.28.44#53 Non-authoritative answer:

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread SM
At 13:22 22-02-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: Been down long? 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org server ns8.spamhaus.org Pbl.spamhaus.org works for me. I get an answer for that query. Note that spamhaus.org lists several name servers and I'm not hitting ns8.spamhaus.org. A query to

Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Scheidell
Been down long? 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org server ns8.spamhaus.org Default server: ns8.spamhaus.org Address: 216.168.28.44#53 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org Server: ns8.spamhaus.org Address:216.168.28.44#53 Non-authoritative answer: *** Can't find

Re: --max-children setting, consider raising it

2008-02-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 12:09 -0800, fchan wrote: Hello, I thought I set this in /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd for RedHat Linux but maybe I'm wrong. I see this about --max-children for spamd: [...] Here is my option section of my spamd: # Set default spamd configuration. SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -m 20 -H

Re: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Thank you too for you reply! On Friday 22 February 2008 22:26:07 René Berber wrote: Andreas Ntaflos wrote: [snip] So I added my mailserver to the trusted_networks but after removing that particularly troublesome address from the whitelist (spamassassin --remove-addr-from-whitelist) and

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Scheidell
SM wrote: At 13:22 22-02-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: Been down long? 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org server ns8.spamhaus.org host 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org 194.109.9.7 ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached scanner# host 93.244.183.212.pbl.spamhaus.org

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread Kris Deugau
Joseph Brennan wrote: This has worked very well here. This is more specific to the sentence the bored girl always uses. /Email me at [A-Za-z]{1,[EMAIL PROTECTED],25}\.info only/ I left my rule more non-specific because I saw a number of non-.info domains early on. I also figured there was

Re: Technical question on header rule matching

2008-02-22 Thread Loren Wilton
I've been through the SA man pages, etc., and can't find a description of rule matching that answers this question: when more than one header of a certain type exists, will a rule requiring a negative match count once per e-mail, or once per header. All headers of the same name are

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Michael Scheidell
-- Michael Scheidell, CTO |SECNAP Network Security Winner 2008 Network Products Guide Hot Companies FreeBsd SpamAssassin Ports maintainer Charter member, ICSA labs anti-spam consortium Works fine for me. Are you sure you weren't blocked? In fact, I found several sites (different networks,

Re: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread René Berber
Andreas Ntaflos wrote: [snip] When you remove the email address you should not see an AWL score, if you still see it then you didn't remove it. Remember that the AWL could be global or per user (even if the user is the one running amavisd in your case), dependending on your spamassassin

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Michael Scheidell wrote: In fact, I found several sites (different networks, not mine) where it doesn't work. (I don't query more than 10,000 per day) Perhaps, they're having a flare up of DDoS volume? The one that works best is the one that is doing 150K queries per day. Figure that.

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread SM
At 14:35 22-02-2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: In fact, I found several sites (different networks, not mine) where it doesn't work. (I don't query more than 10,000 per day) The one that works best is the one that is doing 150K queries per day. Figure that. tried: each and every one of them. Am

Re: AWL scores high after receiving spam from myself?

2008-02-22 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 23:12 +0100, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: Right, that's what I thought, too. I removed the address, sent a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and AWL got no score. To be expected, first mail since removing from AWL, no previous records. Half an hour later I sent another

enjoy the high scores of --local, but still enjoy network tests

2008-02-22 Thread jidanni
How to enjoy the high scores of --local, but still enjoy network tests? Man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf says If four valid scores are listed, then the score that is used depends on how SpamAssassin is being used. The first score is used when both Bayes and network tests are

Re: enjoy the high scores of --local, but still enjoy network tests

2008-02-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:27:39AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to enjoy the high scores of --local, but still enjoy network tests? Too bad there's no way to tell it to always use set 0 without needing to do How inflexible. Since set 0 sets a score of 0 for network rules, this isn't the

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Bob Amen
Michael Scheidell wrote: Works fine for me. Are you sure you weren't blocked? In fact, I found several sites (different networks, not mine) where it doesn't work. (I don't query more than 10,000 per day) The one that works best is the one that is doing 150K queries per day. Figure that.

Re: Bogus MX - blacklist service viable?

2008-02-22 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Wolfe wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Radich wrote: Sorry; apparently I was unclear. MX records I'm saying as follows: 100 - Real 200 - Real

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:11 -0800 Bob Amen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: Works fine for me. Are you sure you weren't blocked? In fact, I found several sites (different networks, not mine) where it doesn't work. (I don't query more than 10,000 per day)

Re: Pbl.spamhaus.org down?

2008-02-22 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:02:11 -0800 Bob Amen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Scheidell wrote: Works fine for me. Are you sure you weren't blocked? In fact, I found several sites (different networks, not mine) where it doesn't work. (I don't query more than 10,000 per day)

Re: --max-children setting, consider raising it

2008-02-22 Thread Jari Fredriksson
--max-children setting, consider raising it I'm still getting these error messages in my log: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it You get that message if your spamd has less children than you mail server has smtp threads. I have only --max-children 2 and the limit

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-22 Thread jidanni
Say, if we're all getting the same spam, isn't that what we're paying sa-update to catch? :-)

Speed gained with (?:) vs. ()

2008-02-22 Thread jidanni
BP Using (?: avoids creating backreferences. It should be slightly BP faster if the backreference is not used. Wonder just how faster, in an actual spamassassin (not just perl) context. Anybody got some timing statistics?