Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread mouss
RobertH a écrit : > > >> No. Scoring based on single-words is pretty much the >> opposite of the SA approach. That's all I was saying. >> > > karsten, > > i get the SA approach > > and to the no answer, baloney > > this word should get a *HIT* no mattter how small it is scored. > if you

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Scheidell
funny story: we just got an inquiry from a large ISP in 'that country' to implement a hosted anti-spam solution for them. Seems we were the only company that they looked at that didn't block email to/from or mentioning 'that country'. (other providers they emailed blocked their email!) They

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, January 31, 2009 12:40, mouss wrote: > The above assumes you don't get (much) mail from these countries. > adjust the score as you see fit. and of course, use at your own rix. i see more spam from outside this countrys, eg 419 spams not sent from there anyway, botnet sooks :) -- http://

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread mouss
Benny Pedersen a écrit : > On Sat, January 31, 2009 12:40, mouss wrote: >> The above assumes you don't get (much) mail from these countries. >> adjust the score as you see fit. and of course, use at your own rix. > > i see more spam from outside this countrys, eg 419 spams not sent > from there an

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread Henrik K
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:40:24PM +0100, mouss wrote: > > if you use the RelayCountry plugin, you can add rules for a few countries: If you are lazy, here is about all of africa.. header RELAYED_419 X-Relay-Countries =~ /\b(?:AO|B[IJW]|C[DFGIMV]|DJ|E[RT]|G[AHMNQW]|K[EM]|L[RS]|M[WZ]|N[AEG]|RW|S

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread SM
At 22:39 30-01-2009, RobertH wrote: when an email comes in with the word nigeria in it, it should get scored something. You could score the content if it mentions a country in Africa. We then have to obfuscate the words so that we can mention them on this mailing list. It's better to use Ba

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread RobertH
> > You could score the content if it mentions a country in > Africa. We then have to obfuscate the words so that we can > mention them on this mailing list. It's better to use Bayes > to deal with that type of email. > > Regards, > -sm > > actually, one does not have to obfuscate a w

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread RobertH
thanks mouss u the reason i made the subject, "country in africa" was that i didnt want to use the exact word i can see my mistake it that now. as always, i sincerely appreciate the vast programming and SA application wisdom & knowledge on this list. thank you all for you help. and again,

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread SM
At 08:18 31-01-2009, RobertH wrote: and if i understand correctly, you can tell the SA config not to bayes_ignore_from *...@spamassassin.apache.org bayes_ignore_to users@spamassassin.apache.org Right. There are still some subscribers who don't realize that some of the messages from this mai

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread John Hardin
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, SM wrote: We then have to obfuscate the words so that we can mention them on this mailing list. If you're running SA mailing list messages through SA you get what you deserve. -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread RobertH
is this good enough for a basic rule to flag that word or should it be different or raw or what? something better? body LOCAL_NIGERIA /\bnigeria\b/i score LOCAL_NIGERIA 0.1 describe LOCAL_NIGERIA This is a simple test rule for nigeria i know that single word rules in general are a bad

Spamd crash - redhat startup script problem?

2009-01-31 Thread John Horne
Hello, Using: spamassassin 3.2.5 on a CentOS 5.2 system. Unfortunately the spamd process on one of our mail servers crashed early this morning. The system mail log showed: == Jan 31 06:52:00 tracy spamd[23255]: spamd: connection from localh

Re: SA rules stats (Was: SARE false positives on MY_CID_* rules)

2009-01-31 Thread Stefan Jakobs
On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 06:33:49 Rajkumar S wrote: > > After activating the rule I haven't seen any more FP. But that doesn't > > mean much. Here are my stats from yesterday: > > > > Rank Hits% Msgs % Spam% Ham Score Rule > > -- --- -

Re: html experts: empty

2009-01-31 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:41:51 +0100: > Aren't there any MUAs that try to autodetect the right content type? > Even from microsoft? No. If they would then you couldn't send any plain text messages that *discuss* HTML code with examples. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, G

Re: html experts: empty

2009-01-31 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:31 PM +0100 Kai Schaetzl wrote: Aren't there any MUAs that try to autodetect the right content type? Even from microsoft? No. If they would then you couldn't send any plain text messages that *discuss* HTML code with examples. A simple-minded autodetect s

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Scheidell
RobertH wrote: it should get a hit. how many legitimate emails a day do you people get with the work Nigeria in it? several now that we are sending the 'n word' back and forth on this list now! -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporat

Re: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
RobertH wrote: > > > how many legitimate emails a day do you people get with the work Nigeria in > it? > Daily, not really. But often enough in email news feeds. i.e. I got one within the last 24 hours.. Remember the rebels threatening oil supplies in Nigeria 4 months ago? Yeah, they called

RE: country in africa

2009-01-31 Thread RobertH
matt i hear ya. ill be using it and scoring low (or whatever i desire) and using meta's it appears. i wasnt asking for it to be some major contention in SA core scoring... i just honestly cannot belive that there are still people out there sending these emails pretending to be someone from that

Re: SA rules stats (Was: SARE false positives on MY_CID_* rules)

2009-01-31 Thread Chris
On Thursday 29 January 2009 23:33:49 Rajkumar S wrote: > 2009/1/30 Stefan Jakobs > > > After activating the rule I haven't seen any more FP. But that doesn't > > mean much. Here are my stats from yesterday: > > > > Rank Hits% Msgs % Spam% Ham Score Rule > > --