Re: dear friend rule helps block whitehouse spam.

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
RW wrote: I couldn't find a single serious link about this on Google, just further oddball bloggers and forum posters, many of whom admitted that they had previously emailed the Whitehouse. how about cbs news? and if this is a non event, why did the whitehouse make policy changes to

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Bob Proulx wrote: The following header line: Received: from static-96-254-126-11.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [96.254.126.11] by windows12.uvault.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:26:40 -0400 Hits the HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR rule. I tested it this way: $ perl -le 'if

Re: Weirdness: SA 3.2.5 catches far less spam than 3.1.9?

2009-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Charles Gregory wrote: When you compare the hits on a message, is there any difference in BAYES? On 17.08.09 12:23, Kristina wrote: Unfortunately, no: in fact, Bayes was often the only thing that was hitting in 3.2.5. This may be the problem. Are the rule directories accessible/readable by

Re: Counting RAZOR2 hits

2009-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 17.08.09 20:33, Matt Kettler wrote: You can also set your min_cf in your razor config files, which will affect when the RAZOR2_CHECK rule fires. This does work in SpamAssassin, as I have over-ridden the min_cf on my own system, and have done so for years. On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 09:52

gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my importation of that key. Several times. How should I proceed? Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Bob Proulx wrote: The following header line: Received: from static-96-254-126-11.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [96.254.126.11] by windows12.uvault.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:26:40 -0400 Hits the HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR rule. I tested it this way: $ perl -le 'if

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Aug-2009, at 04:24, Ned Slider wrote: Question - in Postfix do user unknown rejections still incur a dns RBL lookup, or does the rejection occur before reject_rbl_client? HELO/EHLO rejections do not reach RBL, and neither do unknown, as long as you specify the right order in the

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Aug-2009, at 06:38, d.h...@yournetplus.com wrote: Nope. Only one query to the local spamhaus zone is performed: http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html#hangup Oooo, NICE. I'm implementing that right now. -- Lister: What d'ya think of Betty? Cat: Betty Rubble? Well, I would

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread Per Jessen
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: another serious question: should IPs with statically assigned IP addresses get the same processing as if they were dynamically assigned? Probably not, but there's no guaranteed way of telling them apart. Of course it's much better to have personalised DNS name

spamd doesn't starts

2009-08-18 Thread pm...@email.it
hi all! i'm trying to use spamassassin with SQL. when i start spamd -D -q i obtain: (spamassassin 3.2.5) [3492] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [3492] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [3492] dbg: logger: trying to connect to syslog/unix... [3492] dbg: logger: opening syslog with unix

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: another serious question: should IPs with statically assigned IP addresses get the same processing as if they were dynamically assigned? On 18.08.09 16:51, Per Jessen wrote: Probably not, but there's no guaranteed way of telling them apart. there is - if

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread RW
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:46 +0200 Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: another serious question: should IPs with statically assigned IP addresses get the same processing as if they were dynamically assigned? Probably not, but there's no guaranteed way of

sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I notice that there are no rules updates for 3.2.5 since about 2009-07-21, with the latest version shipped being 795855. FWIW, I queried different DNS servers in different networks to forestall stale DNS cache data for the number, but uniformly got this result. The daily QA testing pages,

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Hi Toni, If you go to here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/tags/ (web interface for the source repository) you will find that sa-update_3.2_20090720142344/ 795855 4 weeks jm tagging latest update release for 3.2 795855 -is- the latest rules release for 3.2.5 If you

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Ted, On Tue, 18.08.2009 at 11:06:32 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/tags/ you will find that sa-update_3.2_20090720142344/ 795855 4 weeks jm tagging latest update release for 3.2 795855 -is- the latest rules release for

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread Ned Slider
LuKreme wrote: On 17-Aug-2009, at 04:24, Ned Slider wrote: Question - in Postfix do user unknown rejections still incur a dns RBL lookup, or does the rejection occur before reject_rbl_client? HELO/EHLO rejections do not reach RBL, and neither do unknown, as long as you specify the right

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Toni Mueller wrote: Hi Ted, On Tue, 18.08.2009 at 11:06:32 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/tags/ you will find that sa-update_3.2_20090720142344/ 795855 4 weeks jm tagging latest update release for 3.2 795855 -is- the

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Tue, 18.08.2009 at 12:06:30 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt t...@ipinc.net wrote: Toni Mueller wrote: Understood. FWIW, (not only) I need newer rules because the current rules are becoming ineffective at a fast pace. Of course, but what do you want to say with that? From my experience

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 20:02 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: LuKreme wrote: On 17-Aug-2009, at 04:24, Ned Slider wrote: Question - in Postfix do user unknown rejections still incur a dns RBL lookup, or does the rejection occur before reject_rbl_client? HELO/EHLO rejections do not reach

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-18 Thread Bowie Bailey
Toni Mueller wrote: I'm open to ideas about what else to do. For me, the Sought rules catch more than anything other than the Zen blacklist. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SoughtRules -- Bowie

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855? [ off topic ]

2009-08-18 Thread Mike Cappella
[ off topic ] On 8/18/2009 1:00 PM, Toni Mueller wrote: Apart from not understanding flynn, I think I get what you want to An famous old saying, in reference to Error Flynn [1], the swashbuckling, Aussie-American actor, meaning everyhing is OK [2]. [1]

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855? [ off topic ]

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 18-Aug-2009, at 14:22, Mike Cappella wrote: Error Flynn this made me laugh, thanks. -- This above all, to thine own self be true And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my importation of that key. Several times. How should I proceed? General advice: Post the error messages. Do a debug run. Post the relevant parts of the debug info. Gene --

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Bob Proulx a écrit : The following header line: Received: from static-96-254-126-11.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [96.254.126.11] by windows12.uvault.com with SMTP; Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:26:40 -0400 Hits the HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR rule. I tested it this way: $ perl -le 'if

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel a écrit : http://www.sdsc.edu/~jeff/spam/cbc.html It appears from Jeff's Blacklists Compared list the Barracuda has overtaken spamhaus for the #1 position. Not sure about the accuracy of the list as compared to spamhaus but seams reasonably good to me. I don't really count apews

local mail headers

2009-08-18 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm a new user of spamassassin. I'm using version 3.2.5 on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix 2.3 as the MTA. Spamassassin is being called from amavisd-new version 2.6.4 to scan all messages. I don't want my outgoing emails scanned, i read spamassassin can be configured by

Re: local mail headers

2009-08-18 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm a new user of spamassassin. I'm using version 3.2.5 on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix 2.3 as the MTA. Spamassassin is being called from amavisd-new version 2.6.4 to scan all messages. I don't want my outgoing emails scanned, i read spamassassin

Re: local mail headers

2009-08-18 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:09 -0400, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm a new user of spamassassin. I'm using version 3.2.5 on a CentOS 5.3 machine with postfix 2.3 as the MTA. Spamassassin is being called from amavisd-new version 2.6.4 to scan all messages. I don't want my outgoing emails

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 August 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: One of the channels I use, yerp, has a failing gpg key despite my importation of that key. Several times. How should I proceed? General advice: Post the error messages. Do a debug run.

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-18 Thread rich...@buzzhost.co.uk
On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 01:06 +0200, mouss wrote: ... in short, whatever jeff says, spamhaus is the one. the fundamental concept is not how many spam it blocks, but how much do I trust it. Exactly!

Re: HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR false positive

2009-08-18 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Scheidell wrote: if this is a client of yours, you might help them get a VALID RDNS and setup the FQDN for their mail server. (more likely, its a zombie spambot anyway, ) Not related to me in any way. The mail message generated from there was legitimate. It came *to* a client of