RE: header To =~ question

2010-06-22 Thread Adam Lanier
You do use 'spamassassin --lint' when you're writing new rules, correct? Sincerely, Adam Lanier Voyant Strategies Inc. -Original Message- From: David Michaels [mailto:micha...@ucrwcu.rwc.uc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:35 PM To: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: header

Re: Can anyone help me?

2008-01-29 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:19 -0500, David Zinder wrote: > I think my problem is related to surbl.org, but I can't figure out how > to reach them. list.surbl.org times out, and has for several weeks. > > I had been using Spamassassin 3.1.5 under RHEL 3. Works great, until Jan > 1, 2008. I started

Re: Received from rule?

2007-10-24 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 17:54 +0200, Christian Nygaard wrote: > How do I write a local spamassassin rule that matches received from > header mail?.example.com . I've tried > writing a header matching rule but it doesnt seem to work. Can you > show a short example > of a working header matching rule f

[Fwd: Re: List of 600,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers]

2007-09-11 Thread Adam Lanier
Forwarded Message > From: Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Adam Lanier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: List of 600,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:04:09 -0700 > > And I've put you on my bla

Re: List of 600,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-11 Thread Adam Lanier
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 08:30 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Screw you. Congratulations, you have been permanently added to my kill file.

Re: Plugin Location

2007-07-18 Thread adam lanier
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 12:25 -0400, Kevin Plested wrote: > I'm trying to add a new plugin to Spamassassin, I located my plugin > directory on my server: > > /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/ > > by searching on my server for URIDNSBL.pm. > > When I put my new plugi

Re: How would i write this rule?

2007-04-04 Thread Adam Lanier
Peter Russell wrote: Sorry last question - seems the parent company is doing spam checks and adds the spam score to the headers. How could i add/change the second condition for a spam score greater than 10.00 ? the header is X-Spam-Score: *** (11.507) Many thanks Pete To ask th

Re: How would i write this rule?

2007-04-03 Thread adam lanier
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 16:06 +, Duane Hill wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, adam lanier wrote: > Shouldn't it be: > >From !~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i > > > meta SPAM_FROM_RELAY__GATEWAY_RELAY && __NOT_PAR_DOMAIN yep, i'm 0 for 2 today, time to

Re: How would i write this rule?

2007-04-03 Thread adam lanier
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:37 +1000, Pete Russell wrote: > > How do i write a rule that says; > > if mail is recieved from parent company email gateway/s AND the from > address is not from the parent company domain THEN give XX score. Something like? header __GATEWAY_RELAY Received =~ /\[111\.2

Re: How would i write this rule?

2007-04-03 Thread adam lanier
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:55 +1000, Pete Russell wrote: > > adam lanier wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 00:37 +1000, Pete Russell wrote: > >> How do i write a rule that says; > > header __GATEWAY_RELAY Received =~ /\[111\.222\.333\]/ > so in this line th

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-09 Thread Adam Lanier
On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:01 -0800, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Feb 9, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Matt Kettler wrote: > > Jo Rhett wrote: > >> > >> Again, I have a 100% stock SA configuration. > > No you don't have a 100% stock config. There are at least two > > differences relevant to them message you posted: > >

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:31 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > No, the charset isn't triggering the base64 rules. The fact that the > Content-Transfer-Encoding declares the message is base-64 encoded is > causing it. > > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:26 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > >I was looking in the wrong file, it should be 50_scores.cf. And, in that > file there are: > > score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL 0 0.306 0 0.231 > score DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0 0.479 0 0.200 > score DNS_FROM_RFC_BOGUSMX 0 2.034 0 1.945 > score DN

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 07:25 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: >When I run spamassassin --lint I see a number of rule-related warnings. > However, when I look in /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules/ I can't find the > specific text referenced. > >Here's the pertinent lint output: Unless you've installe

Re: What to do about False Positives on messages I am sending?

2006-12-20 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:38 -0600, Noel Jones wrote: > On 12/20/06, Jon Ribbens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John D. Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...sign up with a service like Habeas or Bonded Sender and put their > > > headers in your messages? > > > > I suppose we could do. Does a

Re: What to do about False Positives on messages I am sending?

2006-12-19 Thread Adam Lanier
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 16:58 +, Jon Ribbens wrote: > > But that's all a bit philosophical and beside the point of my > question, which is: should I change our emails, and if so, in what > way - or do SpamAssassin's default settings as provided on > updates.spamassassin.org need changing? Perha

Re: blacklist messagID ?

2006-12-07 Thread Adam Lanier
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 16:00 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Apparently a remote server is having issues- > It keeps sending this message here- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Can I blacklist a message without blacklisting the sender? Is the sending host someone that you care about receiving messages

RE: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?

2006-11-27 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 08:43 -0800, Bret Miller wrote: > > I'd like something quasi-official if possible, so I can tell my > > bosses: according to this report, even with diligent spam filtering, > > xx% of the email people receive is still spam. If fewer than xx% of > > your email is spam, we're ah

Re: sa-update versus rulesdujour questions

2006-10-18 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 12:14 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > According to the home page for the script > http://www.exit0.us/index.php?pagename=RulesDuJour > > > Add a TRUSTED_RULESETS line to your config file that contains the > > names of the rulesets you chose. Example below: > > > > * TRUS

Re: switching from global bayes to per-user bayes

2006-10-05 Thread Adam Lanier
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switching from global bayes to per-user bayes

2006-10-04 Thread Adam Lanier
I am looking into switching from a global bayes/awl/setting environment to a per-user environment with MySQL as a backend. Would anyone care to offer an opinion as to whether and/or to what degree this might make in overall effectiveness? Anyone back up that opinion with cold hard facts? Will I

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:52 -0700, Ken A wrote: > > The web page says that it's a policy, not an error. Perhaps the rule > misfired and they backed it out, but it looks like they have every > intention of blocking URLs in email that consist of IPs rather than > hostnames. Perhaps we're speakin

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:36 -0700, Ken A wrote: > Anyone else seen this one? > http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html > Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. As reported on the SPAM-L mailing list, this was an error on AOL's part. According to AOL, they've removed the rule

Re: Get an error when updating RDJ

2006-09-25 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 10:28 -0500, Steve Ingraham wrote: > I have been attempting to update SA rules using Rules Du Jour. > Whenever I run the Rules Du Jour script an error is generated. The > error is shown below as it was emailed to my account. > > config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, ski

Re: Systemwide Bayes ...

2006-05-19 Thread Adam Lanier
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 14:55 +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Freitag, 19. Mai 2006 12:10 Will Nordmeyer wrote: > > bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin/bayes/bayes > > Remember that this should be a file name. You showed a dir, maybe > there's the problem? The bayes_path should actually point to

Re: socket SA is not fast enough, help

2006-03-29 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 08:50 -0800, Kenneth Kim wrote: > My spamassassin is running on a remote server, no way to get around > this at the moment. I am connecting to spamd on the remote server > using sockets in php. Unfortunately I have to close the socket to get > a response/spam score from the se

Soliciting advice from the list members

2004-12-09 Thread Adam Lanier
s these types of spamming nastiness. Thanks, - -- Adam Lanier Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBuL3cyiJGTGcJL0cRAv3kAJ0f3ldqM0H6noaaSJ+H4z7EdyY4ewCcDnI

Re: I am a spammer???

2004-10-27 Thread Adam Lanier
to directly send me one sample from each and I'll post the results. -- Adam Lanier Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC

Re: List number of ham and spam in Bayes

2004-10-26 Thread Adam Lanier
Mathieu Nantel wrote: Good day, I'm sorry if that question has been answered before, but I could not find an answer. Is there a command / way that will show how many spams and hams have been learned by the Bayesian filter? sa-learn --dump magic -- Adam Lanier Bernard L. Madoff Inves

Re: Plain text terminal window. emacs rmail. How to use the spamassassin headers set up on the system.

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Lanier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Don Saklad wrote: | Thank you Adam Lanier ! | | The emacs rmail is run in a plain text terminal window with ssh to the | university. | | Eli Tziperman appears to use a graphical set up. | No graphical setup necessary. I just followed the directions

Re: emacs rmail. How to use the spamassassin headers set up on the system.

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Lanier
il with no mastery of computers". However, you should be able to add some filters based on the spamassasin headers to delete/move mail as you see fit. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/eli/Downloads/rmail-spam-filter/ - -- Adam Lanier Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC -BEGI

Re: The "definitive" SPF How-to

2004-09-07 Thread Adam Lanier
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Re: shifting the midpoint between the average spam and average ham scores back to 5.0

2004-09-03 Thread Adam Lanier
ou need to alter the average scores of ham/spam? - -- Adam Lanier Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBOHB0yiJGTGcJL0cRAqeZAJsEfqAelo37ZWhN