Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/12/2014 11:02 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7007#c1 For the archive: it was an installation error, having two versions of SpamAssassin installed at the same time in different locations. Mark Good catch!

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

2014-02-12 Thread jpff
I got the same error installing via cpan. Trouble is I do not know where the other system is or how to find it. There are a number of Util.pm files ll over the place. This is on a debian system but not really using their package ==John ff

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

2014-02-12 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/12/2014 11:53 AM, jpff wrote: I got the same error installing via cpan. Trouble is I do not know where the other system is or how to find it. There are a number of Util.pm files ll over the place. This is on a debian system but not really using their package ==John ff Please reopen

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Martinec
On 2/12/2014 11:53 AM, jpff wrote: I got the same error installing via cpan. Trouble is I do not know where the other system is or how to find it. There are a number of Util.pm files ll over the place. This is on a debian system but not really using their package This should get rid of

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.0 available

2014-02-12 Thread jpff
Thank you -- that is what I needed On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Mark Martinec wrote: On 2/12/2014 11:53 AM, jpff wrote: I got the same error installing via cpan. Trouble is I do not know where the other system is or how to find it. There are a number of Util.pm files ll over the place. This is

Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Quinn
This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one that had the scene where Daisy first meets Jay Gatsby. Sometimes they add some

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one that had the scene where Daisy first meets Jay

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Joe Quinn
On 2/12/2014 3:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one that

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread RW
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:02:20 -0500 Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at the end of their email. My favorite is one that had the scene where Daisy

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:15 PM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Bayes. Well, yes and no. Bayes isn't very good about detecting this kind of thing per se because it's full of random crap... in fact, they specifically pull text from innocuous things like web reviews, movie reviews, news

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs out of a large body of text and put it at

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 12, 2014, at 1:15 PM, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: Bayes. Well, yes and no. Bayes isn't very good about detecting this kind of thing per se because it's full of random crap... in fact, they specifically pull text from innocuous

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Axb
On 02/12/2014 10:06 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: On 2/12/2014 3:15 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Joe Quinn wrote: This pattern has been showing up in a good 80% of spam I have looked at in the past month. Spammers take a few paragraphs

Effectiveness of Bayes poisoning (was Re: Spam Pattern)

2014-02-12 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:11:19 -0800 (PST) John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: That only works if your hammy mail stream contains text that looks like the random garbage they put in to try to spoof bayes. Indeed. Just for kicks, I ran the OP's pastebin example through our Bayes database and

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Axb wrote: On 02/12/2014 10:06 PM, John Hardin wrote: Perhaps something like this: body __HEXHASHWORD /\b[0-9a-f]{30,}\s[a-z]{1,10}\b/ tflags__HEXHASHWORD multiple maxhits=5 meta HEXHASH_WORD__HEXHASHWORD 4 describe HEXHASH_WORD

Re: Spam Pattern

2014-02-12 Thread Axb
On 02/12/2014 10:46 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 12 Feb 2014, Axb wrote: On 02/12/2014 10:06 PM, John Hardin wrote: Perhaps something like this: body __HEXHASHWORD /\b[0-9a-f]{30,}\s[a-z]{1,10}\b/ tflags__HEXHASHWORD multiple maxhits=5 meta HEXHASH_WORD

spamassassin 3.4.0 spec file for rhel4 rhel5 rhel6 and compatible os's

2014-02-12 Thread Email Lists07
Greetings Thank you SpamAssassin team and other contrib people for all your hard work in getting out 3.4.0 and more ! I have been playing with the spec file for spamassassin 3.3.1 and have been able to get 3.4.0 to turn into the RPM's Then I do a yum localinstall test and it looks like I will