Any amavisd-milter help out there?

2009-06-03 Thread Tony Su
Hope for some insight into what I'm looking at... Brand new install Scalix/SuSE11.1/Amavis/Amavisd1.4/SA/ClamAV Following "How To" published on the Scalix Wiki at http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?title=Scalix/Sendmail_%26_Amavisd-New_HOWTO All seemed to be working except when I attempted

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread d . hill
Quoting Luis campo : The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 > Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem occurs restar

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread d . hill
Quoting Luis campo : The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 > Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem occurs restarte

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Adam Katz wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 181.188.252.222.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. That is why FcRDNS is being used everywhere... localhost has address 127.0.0.1 => fail. Actually, localhost doesn't resolve via DNS; it has no A record, nor any oth

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 14:02, Jari Fredriksson wrote: `ip` varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', 10? -- There is NO Rule six!

FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-03 Thread Adam Katz
-general.sa.khopesh.com channel contains: # Sendmail's FCrDNS, see http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.38 header KHOP_MAYBE_FORGED Received =~ /\(may be forged\)/ describe KHOP_MAYBE_FORGED Relay IP's reverse DNS does not resolve to IP scoreKHOP_MAYBE_FORGED 0.8 # 20050802, rai

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 16:23 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost > > > user_scores_sql_usernamespamuser > > > > Any chance your SQL backend actually is the culprit and taking way to

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:54 +, Luis campo wrote: user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost user_scores_sql_usernamespamuser Any chance your SQL backend actually is the culprit and taking way too long? Especi

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:54 +, Luis campo wrote: > We have increased the 20 as well as samples: That's not exactly slowly, as I suggested. Well, your server, feel free to kill it. > In simscan have configured as follows > > . / configure - enable-clamav = y - enable-clamdscan = / usr / lo

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: In simscan have configured as follows - enable-per-domain = y - enable-attach = y - enable-spam = y - enable-ripmime = / usr / local / bin / ripmime - enable-received = y - enable - spam-hits = 5.0 - enable-spamc = / usr / bin / spamc - enable-spamc-args =-

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531889500 [19168] info: prefork: child states: BB 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531949500 [19168] info: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it There is a probl

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
We have increased the 20 as well as samples: / usr / bin / spamd-v-u vpopmail-m 20-x-q-s stderr-r / var / run / spamd / spamd.pid \ 172.16.10.9-A-i 172.16.10.0/24 2> & 1 | \ / usr / local / bin / setuidgid qmaill \ / usr / local / bin / multilog t! spamdappend / var

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:00 +, Luis campo wrote: > this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd > > 2009-06-03 12:00:16.471682500 [775] info: spamd: result: Y 15 - > DCC_CHECK,DIGEST_MULTIPLE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MISSING_DATE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CH

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:28:59 -0400 Adam Katz wrote: > The other is RelayCountry, which you'll have to enable in init.pre, > which lets you discriminate against countries rather than just their > domain names. > > This discrimination is unfair and quite prone to biting back at you, > for example

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: This *really* suggests that one of two things MUST be occuring: 1) What you are seeing is NOT what spamassassin "sees". Charles, Quite possible. 2) A character (null/ascii-zeros?) has been injected into the e-mail somewhere in the headers, caus

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.471682500 [775] info: spamd: result: Y 15 - DCC_CHECK,DIGEST_MULTIPLE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MISSING_DATE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_BLACK scantime=8.3,size=5837,user=fri

Re: New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-03 Thread mouss
fchan a écrit : > I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found > one of them had the hostname called "localhost" which I think is a > attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back > to Vietnam. SA will not use "localhost" unless your MTA is bor

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: There are a bunch of word-triplets in the copy-n-paste, re-arranged randomly, making the text hard to comprehend -- a repeating pattern all over the reply. Yeah, I suspect he's using Babelfish or some such to translate to ... Spanish perhaps?

Custome Plugin and Variables

2009-06-03 Thread Vahriç Muhtaryan
Hello to all , We would like to create our own plugin . I red custom plugin section but maybe I do not understand, I would like to find out how spamassasin can provide me header of mail , body of mail because I would like to play on body and header. Could somebody show me the way for from where

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:09 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: > > > Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any > > > messages that might indicate problems at the time the err

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: Is spamd running on the same machine? if spamd is running on the same machine. Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any messages that might indicate problems at the time the error occurred? mailog I get this: ServerA spamc [727

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Bob Cohen
On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: The following assumes that your system uses the Unix System V / RedHat daemon startup system. Thank you. I should have mentioned I'm running Fedora 9, so yes System V applies. There was no init.d script but the Spamassassin source distr

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: > What "optional" fields are you refering to? > > I have seen this, on the spamassassin WIKI: > > CREATE TABLE awl ( > username varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', > email varchar(200) NOT NULL default '', > ip varchar(10) NOT NULL default '',

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
Is spamd running on the same machine? if spamd is running on the same machine. Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any messages that might indicate problems at the time the error occurred? mailog I get this: ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> > But keep in mind that newer hardware may or may not be > more energy efficient but it has more processing power. > So you can use one faster newer machine with x Watt > energy or use several x Watt older machines to do the > same task. > > I now have a new HP DL385G5p using 80Watt running

RE: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT
> > It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware > > because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. > > Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than > > landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient > > as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardwar

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Hah. The CPU does not even have a cooler on it! All there is PSU fan. Such a machine can not waste energy, at least it does not generate heat.. I'd think that in Finland that would be a drawback rather than a benefit... :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware > because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. > Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than > landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient > as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardware with > t

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 > Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem oc

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 > Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem occurs restarted spamd and runs appr

Re: Style Tag abuse

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 11:07, John Hardin wrote: What I'd like to see is "tflags exponential", so that each hit would add score*hits_so_far, to make it easier to punish stuff harder the more it is repeated. Oooo! can you imagine the scores MS WOrd -> HTML -> Email would get if you did that? M

Re: Style Tag abuse

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: Good morning! Seeing some messages come through with large amounts of bayes poison text inserted between style /style tags. Short of using a 'rawbody' test, is there some other characteristic that we could catch? Nope, If you want to match tags,

Style Tag abuse

2009-06-03 Thread Charles Gregory
Good morning! Seeing some messages come through with large amounts of bayes poison text inserted between style /style tags. Short of using a 'rawbody' test, is there some other characteristic that we could catch? For example, and another question: Is there any mechanism in SpamAssassin to

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:47 -0400, jp wrote: > It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it > still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it > working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are > so inneficient as far as watts

Re: how to know what blacklists i'm checking against

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Lists wrote: I am trying to trouble shoot why a particular server cannot send into our email system. There is no reference in the logs to this server ever trying to connect. Are users of that system getting reject notifications? Have them forward one such to an address th

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Adam Katz
ryefish wrote: > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. What about .org, .us, .ca, .co.uk, and all the others that you have no good reason to filter? Usually, when I see this kind of reasoning, it's resulting fr

RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
> -Original Message- > From: Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT [mailto:mslu...@taos-it.nl] > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:06 PM > To: ryefish; users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam > > > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from >

RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT
> Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. > I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the > preferred > method: > > 1) blacklisting in local.cf: >add blacklist_from *.info, blacklist_from *.t

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 08:41, Martin Gregorie wrote: Take a look at the daemon management scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d You should find one called spamassassin (or possibly spamd - its called spamassassin in Fedora distros). On my FreeBSD it is /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd and requires the follo

was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread jp
It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardware with the energ

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:41 -0400, Bob Cohen wrote: > Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the > documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated > Spamd In Postfix recipe > (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix > ). How

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Robert Schetterer
Bob Cohen schrieb: > Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the > documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated Spamd > In Postfix recipe > (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix). How do > I invoke spamd and then make sure it

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Starr
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to > > bump new spam senders above the "Bayes-99" score. > > > > My problem is that this feature seems, extreemly slow. > > > > I'm now trying to use the "( --add-to-blacklist

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Starr
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Adam Katz wrote: > Larry Starr wrote: > >> I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some > >> time, to bump new spam senders above the "Bayes-99" score. > > Theo Van Dinter responded: > > Well, the first problem is that the AWL has no impact on Bayes. > >

How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Bob Cohen
Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated Spamd In Postfix recipe (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix ). How do I invoke spamd and then make sure it runs at boot? I'm s

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread ram
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, ryefish wrote: > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. > I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred > method: > > 1) blacklisting in local.cf:

Re: generate message with a specific score

2009-06-03 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:12 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Hi Matus, > > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:48:25PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 25.05.09 17:12, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > > Is it possible to generate a rule that when it applies gives the message > > > that specific score? If so

Re: how to know what blacklists i'm checking against

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:29 +1200, Kate wrote: > MailScanner 4.76.24 > spamassassin 3.2.5 > MTA - postfix > ClamAV 0.95.1 > > I am trying to trouble shoot why a particular server cannot send into > our email system. > There is no reference in the logs to this server ever trying to connect. Err,

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:35 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. > > I have found three possible ways to d

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. > I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred > method: So that's why yo

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, ryefish wrote: > Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from > Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. > I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred > method: > > 3) Create custom rule: >d

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > However the killer bad thing for me is this: > >Note that this fail-over behaviour is incompatible > with -x; if that switch is used, fail-over will > not occur. > > I am not willing to stop filtering mail through > spamassassin if my spamd machine is

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:49 +0200, Kerstin Espey wrote: > Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Stefan Luetje: > > Am 03. Jun 2009 um 08:57 CEST schrieb Timo Schoeler: > > > thus Michael Monnerie spake: > > >> But maybe, if response and urge is high, I will include them. What do > > >> you think? Is it

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Kerstin Espey
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Stefan Luetje: > Am 03. Jun 2009 um 08:57 CEST schrieb Timo Schoeler: > > thus Michael Monnerie spake: > >> But maybe, if response and urge is high, I will include them. What do > >> you think? Is it spam for you? > > > > Hi, > > > > yes, this is spam. > > ack > ACK

best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread ryefish
Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: 1) blacklisting in local.cf: add blacklist_from *.info, blacklist_from *.tv, blacklist

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/3/2009 8:53 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: Dear users of the ZMI-GERMAN ruleset. I manage those ruleset, and just (again) received the message below, about "you won a trip". Those messages are spammy, although you really can do such a trip and only pay the flight ticket (which then costs enou

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > But if the connection is refused, there simply is no-one > > listening. How about trying the other alternatives? On 02.06.09 23:04, Bob Proulx wrote: > The documentation leads me to believe it does that now. > >If host resolves to multiple addresses, then

Re: New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.06.09 17:01, fchan wrote: > I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found > one of them had the hostname called "localhost" which I think is a > attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back > to Vietnam. > Also I found that a large perc

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Stefan Luetje
Am 03. Jun 2009 um 08:57 CEST schrieb Timo Schoeler: > thus Michael Monnerie spake: >> But maybe, if response and urge is high, I will include them. What do >> you think? Is it spam for you? > > Hi, > > yes, this is spam. ack mfg Stefan -- "Der Holocaust war eine schlimme Zeit in der Gesc