Re: SA - rules question

2008-03-07 Thread Johnson Jeba Asir
Hi, I have done it through sa-update chanels[1], and done spamd reload regards, a.Johnson On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/03/2008 2:39 AM, Johnson Jeba Asir wrote: > > I am running Suse 10 with Postfix and spamassassin, I have updated > >

error: syswrite() to parent failed ..../SpamAssassin/SpamdForkScaling.pm

2008-03-07 Thread Agnello George
Hi I have a spamassissin server with 512 MB ram cpu speed 1796.635 MHz . i am currently connecting a mailserver called "Smater mail " to connect to my remote spamassissin server and it works fine. but suddenly ( after a few days ) its connection breaks. When I check the log i find the following

Domain Name SPAM

2008-03-07 Thread uk1host
I am getting alot of spam from domains which are: Name.de Name.ch And alot for diffrent tablets. Is there any way this can be filter. I am new to this as my server was setup for me and it is running Smartermail. We want ot get some of the spam down before we place a large amount of customers on

Lots of "scam" messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread Robert S
I have started, over the last few months, getting a lot of plain text "scam" messages ("Nigerian" type scams, lottery wins etc etc). Previously I had almost none of these. Unfortunately I'd need to send rather a lot of information about my configs, and log files to help, but can anybody point

Re: script to send mail when error detected in log file

2008-03-07 Thread Agnello George
> > > > > > > Your inputs will be of great help > > > > > Might I suggest swatch? Why create your own script, when someone's > > already created a powerful tool to do this. > > > > http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ > > > > There's lots of good articles on using it out there: > > > > http://www.linuxse

Re: script to send mail when error detected in log file

2008-03-07 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Hi! You said "then i add a crontab to run for ever 10 min crontab -e 10 * * * * /your/location/of/script " Please note that your syntax said to execute once per hour at the 10th minute of the hour To execute at interval of 10 minutes, you may use the following line: */10 * * * * /your/locat

Bayes not run ?

2008-03-07 Thread Dave Koontz
I just noticed that for some reason only some of my messages are actually being run through Bayesian classifying. I am not sure how long this has been occuring. I did a google search which did not turn up much as to what could cause this. One suggestion was there was not enough processing thr

Re: script to send mail when error detected in log file

2008-03-07 Thread Agnello George
On 3/7/08, Eddy Beliveau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > You said > "then i add a crontab to run for ever 10 min > > crontab -e > 10 * * * * /your/location/of/script " > > Please note that your syntax said to execute once per hour at the 10th > minute of the hour > > To execute at interva

RDJ curl issue

2008-03-07 Thread Christian Campbell
When running the rulesdejour script, I'm getting the following: -- SARE_RANDOM -- RULESET_NAME=SARE_RANDOM INDEX=23 CF_URL=http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules/70_sare_random.cf CF_FILE=70_sare_random.cf CF_NAME=SARE Random Ruleset for SpamAssassin 2.5x and higher PARSE_NEW_VER_SCRI

prefork: child states: BBBBBBB

2008-03-07 Thread Agnello George
I see in my log the following what does it mean ?? Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: child states: BBB Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com www.bible-s

Re: Lots of "scam" messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread mouss
Robert S wrote: I have started, over the last few months, getting a lot of plain text "scam" messages ("Nigerian" type scams, lottery wins etc etc). Previously I had almost none of these. Unfortunately I'd need to send rather a lot of information about my configs, and log files to help, but

Re: prefork: child states: BBBBBBB

2008-03-07 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 07:04:07PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > I see in my log the following what does it mean ?? > > Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: child states: BBB > Fri Mar 7 21:07:12 2008 [11800] info: prefork: server reached --max-children > setting, consider raisin

Re: Lots of "scam" messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread ram
On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 22:41 +1100, Robert S wrote: > I have started, over the last few months, getting a lot of plain text "scam" > messages ("Nigerian" type scams, lottery wins etc etc). Previously I had > almost none of these. > > Unfortunately I'd need to send rather a lot of information abo

Re: RDJ curl issue

2008-03-07 Thread Rubin Bennett
Hey, Christian! So, for my clients I've switched from RDJ to sa-update; sa-update actually digitally signs all the files and is a little more elegant in how it check whether the file has changed. There's a tutorial here: http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt Let me know

Re: Bayes not run ?

2008-03-07 Thread Justin Mason
Dave Koontz writes: > I just noticed that for some reason only some of my messages are > actually being run through Bayesian classifying. I am not sure how long > this has been occuring. I did a google search which did not turn up much > as to what could cause this. > > One suggestion was th

AW: prefork: child states: BBBBBBB

2008-03-07 Thread Starckjohann, Ove
Hi Agnello, as Johann stated all SA-childs are "busy" ... so no more mail can be checked at that point of time. We encountered same problems on our systems (approx. 20.000 mails /day) and looked into depth. Normally the problems arose, when checks like FuzzyOCR took to long to complete o

Re: Lots of "scam" messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread Kevin Golding
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >But ultimately this boils down to end user education. >Recipients must realize that no one from Africa is going to transfer all >the millions of dollars in an unknown account , or there is nothing >called as a national lottery in the

Re: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-03-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-02-28 15:30:43, schrieb Mike Jackson: > Not "nearly impossible." I work daily with people who run servers > exactly like that, yet spam of all sorts is spewing from their mail > queues. Most of the ones I see are SMTP accounts with weak passwords. > The spammers authenticate as the users

Note on 2-digit years

2008-03-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
Mail from sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, coming from intuit.com servers 206.154.105.168, 169, 170, subject "TurboTax: Your New Account Has Been Created", is hitting DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K and INVALID_DATE. This is about 4.3 just for the two DATE hits, although they don't seem to hit anything else. It's

Re: Bayes not run ?

2008-03-07 Thread Dave Koontz
Justin Mason wrote: The only indication is SA's X-Spam-DataBase: Bayes not run. header. SpamAssassin doesn't add a header like that... what are you using: spamd, MailScanner, amavisd? --j. I use a product called MDaemon, which has a windows port of SA. Perhaps my header mapping in l

blogspot, etc

2008-03-07 Thread JP Kelly
i keep getting spam with low scores from what seems to be the same or similar sources. they all have a bunch of random words and a link to a throwaway domain (currently blogspot) also they always seem to be from an address at yahoo.co.uk anyone else having trouble with these? any possible sol

Re: Bayes not run ?

2008-03-07 Thread Justin Mason
aha -- that's being added by SpamAssassin alright, then, due to the add_header line. Are you using 1 global Bayes db, or per-user dbs? if the latter, maybe there just isn't enough training for bayes to be active? Try getting debug logs from SpamAssassin -- they'll fill you in on the reason (alth

Whitelisting IP's

2008-03-07 Thread Matt
I have a file that contains a list of all the IP's that have successfully POP3'ed there email within last 15 minutes. Its used for POPB4SMTP. Naturally the IP's in the file are constantly changing. /etc/virtual/pophosts Is there anyway to setup Spamassassin to whitelist all IP's in that file?

From with missing space

2008-03-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
Did you ever notice this, especially in phishing spam? From: "LAFCU"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is, no space between the " and the < signs. header FROM_NOSPACEFrom =~ /\"

Re: Whitelisting IP's

2008-03-07 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 07.03.08 09:58, Matt wrote: > I have a file that contains a list of all the IP's that have > successfully POP3'ed there email within last 15 minutes. Its used for > POPB4SMTP. Naturally the IP's in the file are constantly changing. > > /etc/virtual/pophosts > > Is there anyway to setup Spama

Re: Note on 2-digit years

2008-03-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> Mail from sender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, coming from > intuit.com servers 206.154.105.168, 169, 170, subject > "TurboTax: Your New Account Has Been Created", is hitting > DATE_SPAMWARE_Y2K and INVALID_DATE. This is about 4.3 > just for the two DATE hits, although they don't seem to > hit anything el

Re: From with missing space

2008-03-07 Thread Loren Wilton
Seeing a missing space there is not uncommon in spams, although it is (or historically hasn't been) hugely common either. I had a rule for it once when a particular spam tool was being rather vociferous in that way. I have seen this in legit mail from things like webmail systems, but it is fa

Re: Note on 2-digit years

2008-03-07 Thread Loren Wilton
The format of date is of course written and described in the RFC's, and have to formatted to that specific format in all systems, I think. Hardly no system outputs the correct format by some syscall. Kinda like Ebay that sends official notices with "-0800GMT" as the timezone on the date. I s

Re: Domain Name SPAM

2008-03-07 Thread Rob McEwen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know if there is a list of RBL's and where I can get it from. I have a customer who is getting alot of spam and I need to cut it down alot, he seems to be getting alot from drug companies and medical extension companies. Dave, I recommend the following 5 "1st ti

FH_FROMEML_NOTLD triggered for legitimate email

2008-03-07 Thread iter
I got the following rejection notice (full message available at http://www.lib.aero/~ari/email.msg) lib.aero is my personal domain, has an MX record, receives email, etc., and clearly has a a TLD. I'm also puzzled by the assertion that "message was not completely plain text." Ari. pts rule nam

Re: timeout-problem - additional information

2008-03-07 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 05/03/2008 5:44 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:44:02PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> On a new mailserver with 8Gb ram and 2xdual-core CPU's we get regular >> messages in the log: >> >> Feb 28 12:52:43 mail2 spamd[32558]: prefork: child states: BIBBB >> Feb 28 12:52:44 mail2

Re: prefork: child states: BBBBBBB

2008-03-07 Thread fchan
Hi, What this means there there are more incoming messages than spamd daemon can handle. You have you need to change the spamd --max-children to an higher setting. You need also make sure you system can handle the extra children processes so not to lock up your system due to an spam attack. I

Re: spamc/spamd .. diff versions, diff systems

2008-03-07 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > We are in the middle of a migration of users from a > > system which we can't upgrade running 3.1.8, to a new system > > (which can of course be upgraded) running 3.2.4 . > > > > I'm contemplating having the .procmailrc of users > > on the old system call spamc with the hostname of th

Re: spamc/spamd .. diff versions, diff systems

2008-03-07 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 07/03/2008 4:09 PM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: >>> We are in the middle of a migration of users from a >>> system which we can't upgrade running 3.1.8, to a new system >>> (which can of course be upgraded) running 3.2.4 . >>> >>> I'm contemplating having the .procmailrc of users >>> on t

RE: Whitelisting IP's

2008-03-07 Thread Robert - elists
> > I have a file that contains a list of all the IP's that have > successfully POP3'ed there email within last 15 minutes. Its used for > POPB4SMTP. Naturally the IP's in the file are constantly changing. > > /etc/virtual/pophosts > > Is there anyway to setup Spamassassin to whitelist all IP

Re: Lots of "scam" messages getting through SA

2008-03-07 Thread Robert S
> > Have you added the "sought " rules from > http://taint.org/2007/08/15/004348a.html > > With these rules and my custom rules I catch 99% of these > But I keep getting some 2-5 daily complaints yet from customers > I think you're right about the source of these scams. I've installed this acc

Re: script to send mail when error detected in log file

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Agnello George wrote: > #!/bin/sh -x > > if [ $(tac /var/log |grep -e "error: syswrite()" | wc -l ) = 0 ] ; then This can be improved. Let's walk through it. On my system /var/log is a directory of log files and not an actual log file. The typical log file is /var/log/syslog one many systems

Re: script to send mail when error detected in log file

2008-03-07 Thread Bob Proulx
Bob Proulx wrote: > if grep -q "error: syswrite()" /var/log/spamd.log; then > echo "your mailserver is down" | mail -s " pls check server ip > 216.185.xxx.xxx " [EMAIL PROTECTED] > exit 1 > fi > exit 0 Oh, and after I sent that previous message I realized I should have asked another

Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Cloutier
Hi ! Call me -- whatever :-) I took a look at SpamAssassin a while back, and (at least at the time), it seemed to scan the mailbox file after the message(s) were received. The program (again, at the time) was written in Perl. This whole process seemed somewhat inefficient, and also allowed the