Re: Annoying stocks scams

2007-03-06 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Rick Cooper wrote: Sorry to mess up the thread, I lost the original -Original Message- From: Dhawal Doshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:39 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Annoying stocks scams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List

Re: Annoying stocks scams

2007-03-06 Thread Dhawal Doshy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List! I'm getting hit by a bunch of annoying stock scams which aren't found by any of my sare lists, they keep on scoring low. So I decided to write a custom rule, which seem to work pretty well for my case: body __HILO_STOCKS1 /(High|Low|Curr[e3]nt|Cur(r|

Re: 4.64 compile problem on Linux 2.6.19.1

2006-12-20 Thread Dhawal Doshy
George R. Kasica wrote: Trying to compile 4.64 here using the same settings as 4.63 (which compiles just fine) and am seeing the following error during make: gcc transport.c In file included from transport.c:17: /usr/local/include/sys/sendfile.h:26:3: error: #error " cannot be used with _FILE_OF

trusted_networks why /16 network

2006-12-14 Thread Dhawal Doshy
My organization is allocated a /19 network by apnic. My trusted mail servers (mx, smtp and delivery) all fall under a single /24 that i could set manually using the trusted_network setting but i'd prefer it to be automated out-of-the-box. From Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf if the 'from' IP address

Re: Filtering THIS list [OT]

2006-12-14 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Dhawal Doshy wrote: Make that 2 of us. I for one would like to filter out all mails/threads originated by perkel (yeah which would include this mail as well).. i *really* would like to filter this list for obvious reasons based on sender / thread originated by sender while continuing to

SA and Blackberry

2006-12-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Hello List, Here is a sample mail sent from a blackberry device. === Received: from smtp01.bis.eu.blackberry.com (smtp01.bis.eu.blackberry.com [216.9.253.48]) by mx1.netmagicians.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D9D8CC70C for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 20:18:13 +

Re: Sorry Dhawal - no personal attacks allowed [OT]

2006-12-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Marc Perkel wrote: Well - if you don't like me then why don't you write a filter rule to delete message coming from me? I'm not going away so get used to it. If my threads weren't so damn interesting it wouldn't generate so much interest. I think that your personal attack is not appropriate f

Re: Filtering THIS list (Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan)

2006-12-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Rob McEwen wrote: Dhawal said: Also "from my limited memory", a fuzzyocr like implementation existed on antispan.imp.ch long before it was discussed on the sa-users list. Someone can correct me if this is incorrect information. And, like SURBL, regardless of the official origin of the idea, I

Re: Filtering THIS list (Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan)

2006-12-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Jeff Chan wrote: On Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 12:29:26 AM, Rob McEwen wrote: It is just these types of discussions which led to things like SURBL and fuzzyOCR. In the interests of preserving some history, SURBLs were not created as a result of discussions here. We created SURBLs concurrent

Filtering THIS list (Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan)

2006-12-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Steve Thomas wrote: Once again, Perkel clutters the SpamAssassin list with a non-SpamAssassin discussion. One which, IIRC, he's just rehashing from a year or so ago (are we going to see a rehash of the "the future of email storage is sql" thread, too?). There are FAR more appropriate forums for t

Re: "Distributed" Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Dhawal Doshy wrote: Matthias Leisi wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation

Re: "Distributed" Bayes DB?

2006-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Matthias Leisi wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Do you see additional options? Use a SQL server backend. If you must have a no-failure option for the bayes DB, use a cluster of SQL servers. [..] Also see the SQL readme: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BetterDocumentation/SqlReadmeBayes I al

Re: --lint ok but still have errors

2006-11-02 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:03:14 -0500, "Debbie D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last week I made some changes to my rules and I performed -- lint which showed no errors.. Yesterday AM there was a HUGE influx of spam and I SSH'd in when I saw the loads jumping up. The first th

Re: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-09 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Ramprasad wrote: All my rulesets and the LARGO rules are for catching inline png and inline gif. Now I am getting stock spams with images like --=_NextPart_001_000C_01C6BBE8.11C02650-- --=_NextPart_000_000B_01C6BBE8.11BB4450 Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="militarism.jpg" Content-T

Re: URIBL and SURBL no lnger hitting

2006-08-08 Thread Dhawal Doshy
DAve wrote: [snip] If it happens again I'll have some logs, provided I catch it in time, dnscache makes logs like bunnies make more bunnies. Until then I'm inclined to think it was a resource issue or anomaly on my system rather than an issue with SA or dnscache. I run dnscache on all my we

Re: Allowing IMAP/POP to Send Email & United Nations etc....

2006-08-03 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Nigel Frankcom wrote: I'll put on my flameproof underwear for this There's been a huge amount of crossfire on these/this subject, but I don't see how it has anything to do with SA; or am I missing the point? Different protocols, yet another level of policing, but nothing about the fact that

Re: Looking for advice on rule creation & regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Coffey, Neal wrote: Logan Shaw wrote: For what it's worth, I thought all spams of that form were prescription drug spams, but recently I got one like this as well: [snip: rolex, tiffany, etc...] Come to think of it, I've seen one or two of these ones, too, and totally forgot. Guess I'll be m

Re: bottleneck analsyis on spamassassin

2006-07-26 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Ramprasad wrote: I can tell you right now, its either Net tests or poorly written rules. Otherwise SA runs pretty darn good. Darn good is how good ? On a Dual Xeon with 4GB ram can SA scan 30k mails per hour. Today at 15k the machine starts signalling problems , 20k is the max it can do bey

Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject

2006-07-19 Thread Dhawal Doshy
John Horne wrote: [SNIP] Hello, I'm guessing here that this is an SA 3.1 thing (subject whitelisting)? We are running 3.0.6. My question though is does whitelisting something cause SA to abort trying the other tests? That (aborting other tests) is called short-circuiting and doesn't exist

Re: Stock Spams; aka Pump and Dump

2006-06-01 Thread Dhawal Doshy
DAve wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: This may be a daft question, if so, apologies in advance; but, do you train these spam into sa? Nope, been down the Bayes road a few times and the load on the server never justified the spam it caught. When using bayes we always end up babysitting it too muc

Re: Setting up my own RBL - How?

2006-05-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Mike Jackson wrote: So - if I wanted to set up my own RBL for others to query me, how would I do that? I'm seriously thinking about it. Alternatively, I can stream my spam to anyone else who is already doing it. I've modified my spam stream to exclude stuff already listed in several other popu

FP with FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD

2006-05-17 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Running SA 3.1.1 on centos 4.3 with original rules (no sa-update).. The mail is genuine ham. Are more details required?? Received: from bay0-omc1-s5.bay0.hotmail.com (unknown [65.54.246.77]) by mx1.netmagicians.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D46CB9E2 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 16 May

Re: bayes db issue

2006-04-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
JD Smith writes: I recently switched to using mysql bayes. I am getting a [1135] dbg: bayes: unable to initialize database for root user, aborting! When I do spamassassin -d --lint any idea what I need to change? Try a "select id,username,spam_count,ham_count from bayes_vars" on your bate

Re: Cannot install SA-3.1.1 FreeBSD 5.4

2006-04-08 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Marc Dufresne wrote: Downloaded install-Clam-SA for 0.88.1 and SA3.1.1 When I run the ./install.sh You'll be better off asking this question on the mailscanner list.. i don't use the install-sa-clam package but a lot others on the mailscanner list do so. In any case (purely speculating h

Re: Spamassassin Appliances?

2006-03-24 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Paul Hutchings writes: I currently run a Linux relay based around Postfix and Spamassassin. The hardware is getting old so I'm considering replacing it with an entry level rack mount server. I wondered if anyone had any suggestions on appliances that might be worth looking at that are bas

Re: FP with MSGID_DOLLARS_RANDOM

2006-03-14 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Dhawal Doshy wrote: Hello, The following Message ID causes a '+3.78' (bayes+network) score for hitting a meta rule MSGID_DOLLARS_RANDOM, SA Version 3.1.x Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Intrapop 1.4 SMTP Component 1.0 It is a regular mail and the sender appea

FP with MSGID_DOLLARS_RANDOM

2006-03-13 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Hello, The following Message ID causes a '+3.78' (bayes+network) score for hitting a meta rule MSGID_DOLLARS_RANDOM, SA Version 3.1.x Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: Intrapop 1.4 SMTP Component 1.0 It is a regular mail and the sender appears to be using a mailserver developed by

Re: more pharmacy woes

2006-03-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Payal Rathod wrote: On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:07:34PM +0530, Dhawal Doshy wrote: Do you use SURBL (surbl.org), URIBL (uribl.com) and collaborative network tests like razor/pyzor/dcc? No, can you please tell in short how to use surbl exactly? I am very new to SA. What is your SA version

Re: more pharmacy woes

2006-03-10 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Payal Rathod wrote: Hi all, I need help in decoding pharmacy spam again. I am getting 100s of them. I have attached them at, http://pastebin.ca/45108 Do you use SURBL (surbl.org), URIBL (uribl.com) and collaborative network tests like razor/pyzor/dcc? Also the pasted spam originates from a k

Re: rules better than bayes?

2006-01-09 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Robert Bartlett writes: Ok I confused myself. Im sorry for being an idiot. I get it now. Everytime an email comes in it tries to access it as the user, since bayes is being feed to just the root account it doesn't see anything for the users in bayes. With the override I force it to use the root

Re: DCC stops working.

2006-01-04 Thread Dhawal Doshy
User for SpamAssassin Mail List writes: I've noticed when my mail server starts taking a big load hit that the DCC stop working. I get lines like this in the syslog: Jan 4 10:59:21 mail dccproc[1051]: continue not asking DCC 227 seconds after failure Jan 4 10:59:21 mail dccproc[1052]: continu

Re: Google search as spam URI

2006-01-04 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Dallas L. Engelken writes: adding a redirector_pattern will catch this. redirector_pattern /^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?google\.com\/search\?q=site:([A-Za-z0-9\-\.]+)$/I better write a rule for google translate as well.. i see it being abused soon. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=www.do

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.5 RELEASED

2005-12-08 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Theo Van Dinter writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 09:30:42PM +0530, Dhawal Doshy wrote: Someone forgot to update the spec file. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpmbuild -ta Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.5.tar.gz error: File /root/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.4.tar.gz: No such file or directory Yeah, I unfortunately

Re: SpamAssassin 3.0.5 RELEASED

2005-12-08 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (NOTE: this is a maintainance release of the 3.0.x branch. If you are already running the more up-to-date, stable 3.1.0, pay no attention! This is only for people who are stuck on 3.0.x for some reason.) We got enough votes for

Re: spam stats

2005-11-17 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Pál László wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some stat maker which can analyse my mail log. I'm using SA 3.1.0 with Mailscanner and Postfix and I've tried spamstats-0.6b on my mail.log but it does not produce any output. Could you please recommend a working solution? Thank you Laszlo See (all on on

Re: GERMAN ruleset updated

2005-11-14 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Michael Monnerie writes: On Samstag, 12. November 2005 16:04 Dhawal Doshy wrote: warning: description for ZMIfish_VOLKSBANK2 is over 50 chars warning: rule 'ZMIde_EMAIL_CAREERBULLDER' is over 22 chars warning: rule 'ZMIfish_NETBANKING_FROM' is over 22 chars Oh sorry.

Re: GERMAN ruleset updated

2005-11-12 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Michael Monnerie wrote: Hello list, http://zmi.at/x/70_zmi_german.cf contains the newest rules to catch german SPAM. Also available automagically via rules du jour name ZMI_GERMAN Also documented here: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets Please report your german SPAM with fu

Re: new rules for stock spam?

2005-11-11 Thread Dhawal Doshy
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 URLs in the message body. Bayes is probably the best bet

Re: OT: DB connections coming from unqualified hostname

2005-11-09 Thread Dhawal Doshy
email builder wrote: Hello, When we connect to our bayes/awl/user_scores databases, the connections are being made by clients with unqualified hostnames. If we try to use GRANTs such as 'user'@'%.example.com', connections are refused since only the hostname portion is being used to connect I

Re: HUGE bayes DB (non-sitewide) advice?

2005-11-08 Thread Dhawal Doshy
email builder wrote: In-memory storage: All data stored in each data node is kept in memory on the node's host computer. For each data node in the cluster, you must have available an amount of RAM equal to the size of the database times the number of replicas, This refers to the first line: "In

Re: MailScanner, SpamAssassin and Bayes rebuilds

2005-10-24 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Pierre Thomson wrote: I just upgraded to MailScanner 4.46.2 (current stable version) and SpamAssassin 3.1.0. I have five MailScanner child processes, and they restart themselves every 4 hours. On startup, the first of the five MS processes discovers that a Bayes rebuild is due, and proceeds

Re: Managing a personal SURBL list

2005-10-18 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Chris Santerre writes: -Original Message- From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Managing a personal SURBL list Hi all, We are running spamassassin 3.1 with Mailscanner. The SURBL checks are very efficient in catching spams ( without risk of FP's).

Re: Spamd / RDJ

2005-10-05 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Casey King writes: Because RDJ -lints SA, I have tried to create a cron job that would stop Spamd from running. I do not want it using up so much memory since MailScanner calls SA on its own. My crontab looks like this: [snip] Does anyone have another idea of what I can do to shutdown SA

Re: {SPAM} Re: new type of spam

2005-09-30 Thread Dhawal Doshy
wolfgang wrote: In an older episode (Friday, 30. September 2005 20:56), Matt Kettler wrote: Attached is a subset of some porn rules I've been working on. They're experimental, but the seem to work pretty well with fairly low FP rate. They might have some FP cases I haven't noticed yet, so be c

Re: Running spamd under daemontools

2005-09-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Markus Eskola wrote: Where your log go?, maybe you don't have logging enabled. Try '-s /var/log/spamd.log' Logging should be handled by deamontools aswell better check the log/run script under the supervise directory. /markus From: http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/dist/doc/spamd.h

Re: Running spamd under daemontools

2005-09-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Matthew Yette wrote: I've looked on Google for a while now - I haven't been able to find directions or references to having spamd monitored under daemontools. Specifically where I would find how to create the supervise directory for spamd. Has anyone successfully done this? Matt See if this h

Re: 3.0.4 hotmail FP's?

2005-08-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Warren Togami wrote: Is anyone else seeing consistent hits of DNS_FROM_RFC_POST from legitimate hotmail mail? Warren Togami [EMAIL PROTECTED] most of us do since thats the correct behaviour.. check http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=hotmail.com they've been listed in rfc_pos