Re: Rule for PDF and eCard Spam Needed

2007-08-18 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 19:26 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > Loren Wilton wrote: > > From: "Jo Rhett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> So the only thing which is actually working to catch these is bayes > >> and bayes-based systems. Not rules, and not AV. > > > > Is that a statement about your own system?

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 06:16 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > http://ipadmin.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php > > You might want to bookmark this page. Try it out and see if your RDNS is > really correct. Hmmm Unless I'm doing something wrong, it doesn't seem to work. It always is reporting an error

Re: Forward Conformed Reverse DNS troubleshooting tool

2007-11-28 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:01 +0100, Mr Shunz wrote: > On Nov 28, 2007 4:47 PM, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hmmm Unless I'm doing something wrong, it doesn't seem to work. It > > always is reporting an error - even when using your own host

Re: Postfix Question with front end filtering [OT]

2008-01-12 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 08:14 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > > > Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > * Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Sorry for the OT question but just need a quick answer from a postfix > > > expert. > > > > > > Here's the problem. I run a front end spam filtering service.

Re: Help with SED [OT]

2008-04-26 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:17 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Trying to do something that should be simple. Using sed to remove the > first part of a hostname but not working. I want: > > abc.def.com to become def.com > > I tried a lot of variations of the following but it's either greedy or > does n

Re: Images spams cropping up again

2006-08-16 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 07:28 -0700, MennovB wrote: > > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > I used some recipes found with the help of this list that pretty much > > wiped out these images spams until this morning they are coming through > > again different, of course. Is the OCR solution what I need

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 09:59 -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: > > In the meantime ere is the mail I got based on your reply! > > > MTA-Interface: amavisd-new-2.3.3 (20050822) at mail.powerconsult.no > > X-Spam-Scanned: using SpamAssassin 3.1.4 (2006-07-25) at > > mail.powerconsult.no > > It looks like

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 10:59 -0700, mikemacfr wrote: > This reads $sa_tag_level_deflt = 2.0; # add spam info headers if at, or > above that level; > > at the moment, so you want me to change 2.0 to -99? Yes. At 2.0, it means that a spam will have to score 2.0 or greater before amavis logs the spa

Re: OS X Server spam still getting through :-(

2006-09-02 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 12:49 -0700, mikemacfr wrote: > Ok, one of the first replies to this thread pointed to: > > Have you checked out http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsingSpamAssassin > ("Spam getting through?")? > > > Which I have looked at and saw the following there: > > Edit your spa

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Bill Randle
> At 11:10 AM Wednesday, 9/13/2006, Michel Vaillancourt wrote -=> >>Fábio Gomes wrote: >> > Hi list, >> > >> > Is there any way to block messages with >> links to executables like *.exe, >> > *.com and *.scr? >> > >> >> If you are using Postfix as your MTA, this isn't hard to do at >

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix -> how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:07 +0200, Micke Andersson wrote: > znapper wrote: > > > > Big question is, how do I do this? The server is set up to relay all mail > > adressed to exhange-configured-domain.com and discard anything else. > > I've tried to add the spamtrap user and tried to send mail to thi

RE: sare suggestions.

2006-10-17 Thread Bill Randle
On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 18:40 -0700, R Lists06 wrote: > > > > This is a personal colo box with very light load. 1gb of memory and > > an AMD XP1800+ processor... old, old technology. > > > > The daemons are consistently around 70mb apiece, and there are > > usually 5-7 running. Low limit is 2, u

Re: rules_du_jour question

2006-10-29 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 01:41 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Sun, October 29, 2006 16:33, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > > > rules_du_jour restarts amavisd-new after it runs, but sa-update > > doesn't. Do most people run it out of cron and simply append an > > (without the quotes, of course) " && /et

Re: My Mail is being blocked

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, November 16, 2006 1:44 pm, Evan Platt wrote: > At 01:38 PM 11/16/2006, you wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> >> Running on Postfix 2.3.3, amavisd-new-2.4.2, SA 3.1.4. >> >> >> Some users on my server are starting to get a message stating >> "Unsolicated email apparently from you" has been stopped.

Re: My Mail is being blocked

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, November 16, 2006 2:25 pm, Nathan Zabaldo wrote: > Bill Randle wrote: > >> >> >>> That message is coming from amavisd-new. There are two ways his users >>> would be seeing that message: 1) he is scanning outgoing email >>> (why?) >>&g

RE: Percentage of email that is spam after filtering?

2006-11-27 Thread Bill Randle
Like other posters, I don't have real stats on the amount of spam that makes it past the filters, other than my own mailbox. I typically get from 2-3 spam messages per day, on rare occasions, maybe 6-10. We use blacklisting, the SARE rules, ImageInfo, FuzzyOCR and local custom rules. Our overall s

Re: How to upgrade spamassassin in Mandrake 10.1

2006-12-03 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 17:50 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I try to upgrade my SA in mandrake 10.1. > I've downloaded the latest SA and build the rpm. But, when I tried to upgrade > it, it errored: > rpm -Uvh spamassassin-3.1.7-1.i586.rpm perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.7-1.i586.rpm > error:

Re: ALL TRUSTED - not natted - getting negative scored spam

2006-03-18 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 09:54 -0600, Terry wrote: > Actually, > > I got the ALL_TRUSTED I think but I cannot get the x-spam-status > header to show up to even start debugging. SA is being called from > amavisd. I have these settings in amavisd.conf: > > $sa_tag_level_deflt = undef; ... > The fir

Re: Spam assassin and postfix..

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 16:43 -0700, J Rangi wrote: > Hello, > I configured sapmassassin with postfix. > Sapmassassin version is spamassassin-3.0.3-4.fc4 > Here is my spam filter script.. > > ** > [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat /usr/local/bin/spamfi

Re: Help With Configuration Issue

2006-06-11 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 10:08 -0400, L. Mark Stone wrote: > Started noticing the system flagging spam emails but not deleting them: [cut] > Jun 11 07:37:18 pinot amavis[10738]: (10738-04) spam_scan: hits=24.677 > tests=BAYES_99,HTML_50_60,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_20,HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_SHORT_LINK_IMG_3,HTML_T

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-08-01 Thread Bill Randle
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 18:02 -0700, jdow wrote: > From: "Rob Mangiafico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Derek Harding wrote: > >> rawbody INLINE_IMAGE/src\s*=\s*["']cid:/i > >> describe INLINE_IMAGE Inline Images > >> score INLINE_IMAGE 1.5 > >> > >> I haven't tested this aga

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Randle
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 04:22 -0700, MennovB wrote: > > Maurice Lucas wrote: > > > > Maybe i'm off there spamlist ;) but I think i'm just lucky for a few > > hours. > > > I've got zero hits here sofar, very little image-spam comes in and what does > is discarded by postfix rules. > We'll see after

Re: ocr plugin - lets some gif spams through?

2006-08-05 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 13:29 -0700, Gary Funck wrote: > Two graphic-laden spams came in this AM that missed being scored > high enough to be detected as spam: > http://intrepid.com/~gary/spam-gif-1.txt > http://intrepid.com/~gary/spam-gif-2.txt > The first is just shy of the 5.0 threshold, but the s

RE: ocr plugin - lets some gif spams through?

2006-08-05 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 14:38 -0700, Gary Funck wrote: > Bill Randle wrote: > > I don't have the OCR plugin installed, but am using the recently > > posted ImageInfo plugin. This is what I get on spam-gif-1.txt: > > > > X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=20.6 r

Re: Multiple image spams: best practices?

2006-08-08 Thread Bill Randle
On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 08:22 -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: > On Tuesday, August 8, 2006, 8:08:04 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: > > Aside from the experimental OCR some folks are trying, what SA > > techniques are folks having good luck with for stopping those > > stock spams that are multiple, vertical images? >

Re: sa-update vs RDJ

2006-08-10 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 22:35 -0400, DAve wrote: > DAve wrote: > > Panagiotis Christias wrote: > >> On 8/11/06, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> FWIW, the format sa-update expects is the standard format from sha1sum. > >>> Does FreeBSD have a sha1sum that produces the format that you

Re: statistic amavisd + spamassassin

2006-08-14 Thread Bill Randle
> MennovB wrote: >> Markus Edholm wrote: >> >>> I´m looking for some simple statistic script >>> using amavisd and spamassassin just to se how my own and "standard" >>> rules work >>> >>> >> There are several simple scripts for amavisd/SA but it depends on what >> info >> you want. >> For example

Re: sa-addon-stats.pl

2008-07-13 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 16:52 -0500, Chris wrote: > Bowie, you wrote this script back in 2006, I've been running it since back in > Aug 0f 2006 and today just noticed something. The addition doesn't seem to be > quite right. For instance: > > FreeMail.cf: > Rule Name Score

Re: sa-addon-stats.pl

2008-07-13 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 21:01 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > Nice looking script, where can I download it? > I found it here: http://markmail.org/download.xqy?id=pb36yqssesebgdhj&number=1 -Bill

Re: sa-learn with IMAP

2008-09-01 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 14:29 -0400, Raymond Jette wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I am trying to use sa-learn with a Microsoft Exchange server. The > users move spam / ham message from there Inbox to a Public folder. The > public folder is accessable via IMAP. > > How can I get the message from Excha

Re: night of pleasure spam

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:37 +1300, Kate Kleinschafer wrote: > John Hardin wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Lists wrote: > > > >> Here is an example of one that only scored low. > >> http://www.pastebin.ca/1267866 > > > > There was some discussion on the list of spaces.live.com URI spam a > > few we

Re: night of pleasure spam

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:51 +1300, Lists wrote: > Bill Randle wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:37 +1300, Kate Kleinschafer wrote: > > > >> John Hardin wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Lists wrote: > >>> > >

Re: First time home made rule not doing what I was thinkin....

2005-11-10 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 20:02 -0700, James Lay wrote: > Here's the rule: > > body GATEWAY_001 /tripod\.com/i > score 5 > describe match tripod.com > > Here's the result: > > Nov 9 13:42:03 gateway spamd[17880]: spamd: result: . -2 > -ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,GATEWAY_001

new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
Does anyone have any rules to squash the recent spate of stock alert spam that I've been seeing? The messages are coming from multiple sources, although some can be traced back to IPs belonging to kornet.net. There are no URLs in the message body. Bayes is probably the best bet, but on my global db

Re: new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
> Bill Randle wrote: >> Does anyone have any rules to squash the recent spate of stock alert >> spam that I've been seeing? The messages are coming from multiple >> sources, although some can be traced back to IPs belonging to >> kornet.net. There are no UR

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 23:47 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > >>A slightly earlier one got a much lower score with: > >> > > > > Umm... I don't see any SARE rules in there. The fact is, SARE isn't > > terribly effective against these 1-column drug spams. The only SARE hit > > I got

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:06 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > > > > bodyPROLO_LEO1 /85\,45|1\,21|1\,22/ > > bodyPROLO_LEO2 /69\,95|3\,33|3\,32/ > > > > No need to have 1\,21 twice in there. Huh? One is 1,21 (original) the other 1,22 (my

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:56 -0500, Pierre Thomson wrote: > A slightly more compact way to treat the final digit: > > > > bodyPROLO_LEO1 /85\,45|1\,2[12]/ > > > bodyPROLO_LEO2 /69\,95|3\,3[23]/ New uri showed up today, so the updated rule I use is

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-12 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 01:24 +0100, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > Hi! > > bodyPROLO_LEO1 /85\,45|1\,2[12]/ > bodyPROLO_LEO2 /69\,95|3\,3[23]/ > > > > New uri showed up today, so the updated rule I use is now: > > > > bodyPROLO_LEO1

Re: Learning at an MTA

2005-12-04 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 18:13 +0100, Jo wrote: > Alan Gutierrez wrote: > > >I'd like to install SpamAssassin in Postfix to filter spam for a > >Domino mail server. I'd like to use Bayesian filtering. > > > >How have people solved the problem of training the filter with user > >feedback when SpamAssa

Re: Drug Spam

2007-01-27 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:35 +, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:25:12 + > Nigel Frankcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:49:03 +, "--[ UxBoD ]--" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Sorry for asking as I am sure that it has already been covered

Re: An lot of these messages getting through

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Randle
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:18 -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: > Hi, List, could somebody run these messages trhough SA and give me the > scores? On my servers they aren't scoring much, as you can see from > the headers added by SA. Any special rules to catch them? About the only thing they score on

Re: An lot of these messages getting through

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Randle
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:35 -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: > Thanks, these Stocks Du Jour rules have been created by you, aren't > they? or is there a script to create/download them? Yes, I created them by hand. -Bill > Luis > > 2007/3/30, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PR

Re: An lot of these messages getting through

2007-03-30 Thread Bill Randle
On Fri, March 30, 2007 9:32 am, D Ivago wrote: > 2007/3/30, Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> >> Yes, I created them by hand. >> >> >> -Bill >> > > > Bill, do we need to add these lines in local.cf? > > > at the m

Re: PDFInfo plugin with SA 3.1.7

2007-07-12 Thread Bill Randle
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 16:03 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:54:51AM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > > > > i am now using > > clam and Sanesecurity to eleminate pdf spam. > > I have tried that, but clamav did not pick up one when scanning a > bunch of the pdf-spam. I h

Re: rbl checks, do in postfix or spamassassin

2005-03-07 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Rob Fantini wrote: > Thank you for the reply, > > Can someone suggest which RBL checks should probably be result in > rejecting mail in postfix? > > I'll also check in a postfix mail list, but would be interested in some > replies from this list.. I use sbl-x

Re: DCC in Spamassassin

2005-03-13 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 19:07 -0800, Norman Zhang wrote: > > I also uncommented the DCCIFD_ARGS line. > > # used to start dccifd > # a common value is > # DCCIFD_ARGS="-SHELO -Smail_host -SSender -SList-ID" > DCCIFD_ARGS= > > My DCCIFD_ARGS is empty. Should I add the options that is shown above

Re: Razor Files Missing

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:12 -0800, Norman Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > When I run > > # amavisd debug-sa > > I see the following errors. Do I need to crate the missing files > manually? May I ask for a few pointers? > > Regards, > Norman Zhang > > Razor-Log: No /var/lib/amavis/var/.razor/razor-age

Re: Razor Files Missing

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Randle
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 20:03 -0800, Norman Zhang wrote: > > Did you run "razor-admin -create" after installing razor? It will create > > the razor-conf and *.lst files. You will want to do this as the user > > that runs amavisd (typically, amavis or vscan). Given where amavisd is > > looking for the

Re: Re[2]: Phishing attempt wasn't blocked by SpamAssassin

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 18:29, Robert Menschel wrote: > Hello Wolfgang, > > Monday, December 6, 2004, 7:39:09 AM, you wrote: > > LW>> That's because such a rule won't work. All manner of real mail ends up > LW>> sending things that have a real link address different from the one > shown in > LW>>

Re: Re[2]: Phishing attempt wasn't blocked by SpamAssassin

2004-12-07 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 20:00, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Monday, December 06, 2004 6:44 PM -0800 Bill Randle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Obviously, these are tailored for each specific message, so it's > > not a generic solution, but it can help. Current

Re: New rules

2004-12-08 Thread Bill Randle
On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 05:22, Alex Broens wrote: > Matthew Newton wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've recently installed SA 3.0.1, and found some junk was > > getting through with scores too low for my liking, especially before the > > URLs made it into SURBL. I've put together a few rules to match some

Re: more spam gets through since SA 3.x

2004-12-18 Thread Bill Randle
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 01:21, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Hello there, > > I have found out something: > When I use amavisd-new, the spam score is much less (2.5). When I invoke > spamassassin < message, it is higher (5.2). Network tests are enabled in > amavisd-new. > > Does anyone have an ide

Re: OT Boincing Spam

2004-12-20 Thread Bill Randle
Ring, John C wrote: My boss is twisting off today because he got 350 messages marked [SPAM] over the weekend. His Reaction is to "Bounce em all, Let the isps sort it out." [snip] What you want to do, IMO, is run SpamAssassin during the SMTP session, such as with http://duncanthrax.net/exis