Re: AWL observations

2010-07-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/22/2010 11:07 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: > On 7/22/2010 10:32 AM, Eric A. Hall wrote: >> If the current code is intended, I'd like to request a new function call >> that tells if the tuple exists and the number of times it has been seen > > For what purpose? (N

Re: AWL observations

2010-07-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
ule doesn't fire unless the conditions are met -- Eric A. Hall http://www.eric-a-hall.com/ Network Technology Research Grouphttp://www.ntrg.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

AWL observations

2010-07-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
when corrective scoring occurred. Is this a bug? or should the text be changed? If the current code is intended, I'd like to request a new function call that tells if the tuple exists and the number of times it has been seen -- Eric A. Hall http://www.eric-

Re: SVN notifications killing spamassassin

2008-02-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 2/18/2008 5:50 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > Eric A. Hall writes: >> I sometimes get SVN notifications that contain lists of files and their >> status. The filenames will often get picked up by the URI matching >> algorithm, each of which end up being processed thr

SVN notifications killing spamassassin

2008-02-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
needs to be smarter. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
ility scoring systems. for those of us that can afford this approach it works very well. I'm sorry you can't, but that's not our fault. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
nvalid commands, invalid recipients, etc), but otherwise it just looks for the spam score and if its too high the transfer is rejected. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-08-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
ve updated the rules and added more comments to explain the prerequisites at http://www.ntrg.com/misc/spamassassin/stranger_gifts.cf -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-08-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/14/2007 3:49 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > Like other folks I've been getting hit with the PDF spam pretty hard. I > think the way to solve this and the image spam in general is to do a > plugin that does two things: > > 1) looks in the message to see if there is a binar

some of you have bad meta rules...

2007-08-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
es: meta test SARE_HEAD_SUBJ_RAND has undefined dependency 'SARE_HEAD_XAUTH_WARN' [10637] dbg: rules: meta test SARE_HEAD_SUBJ_RAND has undefined dependency 'X_AUTH_WARN_FAKED' don't feel bad, I had some broken ones myself :) --lint probably ought to be extended to cat

Re: Rule suggestion - smtp sanity

2007-07-14 Thread Eric A. Hall
27;ve got on my to-do list for future development. The big problem is that there is no real standard and every MTA records the details differently. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

plugin to test attachments from unknown senders

2007-07-14 Thread Eric A. Hall
n 3) if (1==true) && (2==false) fire a score I've been meaning to adapt my SAGREY plugin [1] for this but have not had time and may not have time for a while yet, so I thought I'd throw this out there to see if anybody else is interested in doing it [1] http://www.ntrg.com/m

Re: Rule based on X Greylist header

2007-03-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
wing will either work or get you close: header L_MILTER_GREY X-Greylist =~ /^Sender succeeded SMTP Authentication/ score L_MILTER_GREY -100 put that into a cf file in one of your rules directory -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Pr

[Fwd: Re: *****POSIBLE SPAM***** Re: Annoying stocks scams]

2007-03-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
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Re: Annoying stocks scams

2007-03-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 3/6/2007 5:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's my first meta rule, which only gives a score if both conditions are > true, and I was wondering if there's a possibility to make the score more > "intelligent" : my local rules use combinations. any message that hits AT LEAST one rule gets t

Re: feature req

2007-02-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 2/15/2007 8:53 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > Eric A. Hall writes: >> need a --show-rule option to spamassassin cmd that will display all the >> information associated with a named rule (DESC, SCORE, rule syntax, etc) > > could you open a feat req on the bugzilla? it'l

feature req

2007-02-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
need a --show-rule option to spamassassin cmd that will display all the information associated with a named rule (DESC, SCORE, rule syntax, etc) -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
to do that but not with spamassassin alone. You'll need a mailer that can resumbit the messages after they've been cleared, at the very least. That's trivial, but it's not something spamassassin does. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsc

Re: How to deal with mailing list spam?

2007-01-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
d replies that are TO you but CC the list also get boosted -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: INFO_TLD

2007-01-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/16/2007 1:52 AM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > On 1/16/2007 12:06 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:44:33PM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: >>> sa-update nuked INFO_TLD which I was still finding useful >>> can somebody with the rule send it to me? th

Re: INFO_TLD

2007-01-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/16/2007 12:06 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 10:44:33PM -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: >> sa-update nuked INFO_TLD which I was still finding useful >> can somebody with the rule send it to me? thanks > > It's pretty straightforward to write, bu

INFO_TLD

2007-01-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
sa-update nuked INFO_TLD which I was still finding useful can somebody with the rule send it to me? thanks -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

would SA benefit from port to Java

2006-11-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
aller memory footprint, better reclamation, better hooks for plugins etc? OTOH, would it be harder to build, given the dependence of SA on perl modules? Thoughts? -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/ca

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
to the message. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
n't have Return-Path yet. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Feature Request: envelope scanning

2006-10-25 Thread Eric A. Hall
ns (eg, "ldapfilter_env_from_header") But yeah, if they are provided and if there is a way to tell spamassassin where to look, they are very useful. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-25 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/24/2006 4:01 PM, John Rudd wrote: > Eric A. Hall wrote: >> Note that this is entirely legal, and even necessary: >> >> [ root# ] host 207.65.71.14 >> 14.71.65.207.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 14.in-addr.ntrg.com. >> 14.in-addr.ntrg.com is an alias for 1

Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
ddress, with no separators. That may be spam-sign, but unless there's something more than what you're showing it's not a standards violation. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/23/2006 10:50 PM, John Rudd wrote: > Eric A. Hall wrote: >> On 10/23/2006 7:01 PM, John Rudd wrote: >>> a) does the hostname in the PTR record point to a CNAME instead of an A >>> record >> That's not illegal. It's pretty common too, since subne

Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-23 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/23/2006 7:01 PM, John Rudd wrote: > Eric A. Hall wrote: >> http://www.ehsco.com/misc/spamassassin/std_compliance.cf might help or >> work for what you're doing. >> >> Make sure to read the disclaimers and warnings > > Those helped a lot. There&#x

Re: R: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
can't drop a message based solely on the parameter of > the EHLO command. You MAY check it, if you like to. But you MUST NOT > drop it. 2821 is for implementors, not operators. Software developers must not automatically drop mail for this reason -->as a matter of design<-

Re: R: R: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-19 Thread Eric A. Hall
erely quarantines their > messages, via spam assassin score, instead of rejecting them. Yeah, I moved almost everything out of postfix and into spamassassin so that I could work on probability instead of binary. Just make sure to whitelist all traffic for any mailing list that you're on,

Re: Scoring PTR's

2006-10-19 Thread Eric A. Hall
http://www.ehsco.com/misc/spamassassin/std_compliance.cf might help or work for what you're doing. Make sure to read the disclaimers and warnings -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/ca

Re: Any comments of the SpamHaus lawsuit?

2006-10-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
rs for Spamhaus to choose from." http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/10/spamhaus_needs.html -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: double letter porn

2006-10-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
bly need to write a plug-in that used some kind of typo-matching logic to find porno words. Would be a good plug-in actually. Get busy :) -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: testing for empty text/plain

2006-08-07 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/7/2006 12:25 AM, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 12:07:58AM -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: >> Anybody written a rule that tests for empty text/plain, preferably only >> when a non-empty text/html or some other media-type is provided? > > Sounds very simi

testing for empty text/plain

2006-08-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
Anybody written a rule that tests for empty text/plain, preferably only when a non-empty text/html or some other media-type is provided? Thanks -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: spec file for cpan2rpm and suse 9.3

2005-10-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 10/20/2005 1:27 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > Anybody got one that works with gnome/evolution? > > evolution requires "spamassassin", which requires "perl-spamassassin". > cpan2rpm makes "perl-Mail-SpamAssassin", which doesn't satisfy either of >

spec file for cpan2rpm and suse 9.3

2005-10-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
c file generated with cpan2rpm have failed miserably. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Individual scoring at SMTP time

2005-10-14 Thread Eric A. Hall
nto the chain (have to read the settings, apply them to the local scanning process without clobbering the others, etc). Really though the problem is load, since you are looking at multiples of scanning processes. FWIW, I wrote a primer on this kind of architecture for Ne

Re: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
st though -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/22/2005 3:50 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > IP::Country use Whois lookups instead though, and UDP/DNS lookups are > going to be faster than chained TCP/Whois queries. > I'll play with the plugin and see what kind of times and load I get Some poking around, IP::Country::Fast us

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 8/22/2005 3:34 PM, Derek Harding wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 20:05 -0400, Eric A. Hall wrote: > >>What's the benefit of using this instead of the uridnsbl plugin? The code >>below will look for the IP address behind a URI and then query the >>cn-kr.blackholes.

Re: [SPAM] RE: GeoCities Link-only spam

2005-08-21 Thread Eric A. Hall
na: uridnsblURIBL_CNKR cn-kr.blackholes.us TXT bodyURIBL_CNKR eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_CNKR') tflags URIBL_CNKR net score URIBL_CNKR 2.0 I'm sure there's a difference but I guess I'm not seeing it -- Eric A. Hall

SAGrey plugin

2005-08-21 Thread Eric A. Hall
e a DEFER verb), but can also be used in other models (such as delivery routines). The plugin and cf are posted at http://www.ntrg.com/misc/sagrey/ and I've also updated the wiki -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols

Re: OT: sa-learn, interfaced with Cyrus mailboxes

2005-08-21 Thread Eric A. Hall
ore of a problem. http://www.google.com/search?q=sa-learn+cyrus seeems to return a bunch of relevant matches -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: having spamc/spamd include hostname?

2005-08-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
one > to use -- maybe based on the connecting ip, maybe based on a command > line/config file variable passed. A simple plug-in would probably do the trick. You'd need to call the Sys::Hostname::Long module yourself, since SA itself does not need or provide the local hostname

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-13 Thread Eric A. Hall
ikewise. I have trained my users better than that, which is why I don't care about these tests. Other people might tho. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-12 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/10/2005 4:41 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > On 7/10/2005 3:49 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > >>However, if you want something like this, just off the top of my head: >> >>header __HAS_TOTo =~/\S/ >>body__HAS_BODY/\S/ >>metaEMPTY_MSG(!__H

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/10/2005 4:56 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > Rawbody will miss the subject, so you will need to add a test for that too. I'm not looking for that -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 7/10/2005 3:49 PM, Loren Wilton wrote: > However, if you want something like this, just off the top of my head: > > header __HAS_TOTo =~/\S/ > body__HAS_BODY/\S/ > metaEMPTY_MSG(!__HAS_TO && !__HAS_BODY) Good idea. rawbody works better but the mode

Re: messages with no body

2005-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
sets. > The problem is you can't check just missing body, as you will get way > too many FPs in a business environment. I guess I should have asked the obvious question: "and if so, could you post it?" thanks -- Eric A. Hallhttp:/

messages with no body

2005-07-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
Anybody got a rule that will catch messages that don't have a body? -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: OT: Insecure dependency in connect?

2005-06-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 6/16/2005 5:47 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > I'm trying to update my ldap plugin to use SRV lookups for server > discovery but am getting barked at during tests with the "Insecure > dependency in connect..." error. I'm not having much luck with googling > this

Re: AWL pokes, and SAGray.pm

2005-06-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
t really trying very hard either, since I've got other stuff to work on. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

OT: Insecure dependency in connect?

2005-06-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
ssin before, and I'm wondering if anybody knows what the resolution was. Thanks -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: AWL pokes, and SAGray.pm

2005-06-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 6/10/2005 3:04 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > What I specifically need from AWL is number of instances for the current > sender tuple, with the value of "one" (for the current message) being the > magic number. Any suggestions would be appreciated. http://spamassassin.apache.

Re: AWL pokes, and SAGray.pm

2005-06-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 6/10/2005 3:04 PM, Eric A. Hall wrote: > [I should state the obligitory -- this module won't do much for people > who call SA from procmail. Actually there is the possibility of using a rule that adds ~1.0 to the score, instead of adding a header. I can check for the presence of

AWL pokes, and SAGray.pm

2005-06-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
the value of "one" (for the current message) being the magic number. Any suggestions would be appreciated. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

ldapfilter.pm updated

2005-06-08 Thread Eric A. Hall
ks in. This seems to have fixed the sporadic timeout problems with LDAP searches, and it seems to operate in persistent mode reliably now. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Comparison of SA and commercial solutions

2005-05-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
s don't say as much then they're junk. There is a critical difference with SA, however, which is that the admins need to be proficient at stuff like CPAN, Perl, etc., while some of the packaged offerings provide simple click-the-button GUI, and those can have significantly lower salary as

Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

2005-05-26 Thread Eric A. Hall
are auto-filed into the Junk Email folder). Bayes is great for per-user stuff, but unless you are willing to manage the per-user databases (which I'm not), it is easier to just tweak the system scores and rules. Less management overhead, less CPU, etc. -- Eric A. Hall

Re: LDAPfilter plugin posted

2005-05-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
t be an artifact of my system's super-weird kernel/perl setup. >>Is the wiki locked? I wanted to post a link there but the pages don't >>appear to be editable. > > you need to create an account and log in. (I think there's a mention > of this somewhere o

LDAPfilter plugin posted

2005-05-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
I got my plugin finished (I think) and have posted links to the plugin and documentation at http://www.ntrg.com/misc/ldapfilter/ Is the wiki locked? I wanted to post a link there but the pages don't appear to be editable. -- Eric A. Hall

Re: Simple question TRUE or FALSE (More data to answer this question)

2005-05-19 Thread Eric A. Hall
65]: 2005/05/19-16:53:51 CONNECT TCP Peer: "127.0.0.1:36813" Local: "127.0.0.1:27" [...] May 19 16:53:56 goose spampd[13065]: Closed connections I do a ~dozen RBL lookups, URIDNSBL, Razor2 lookups, ClamAV scans, my own LDAP tests, and some more stuff -- Eric A. Hall

Re: Relaying Server and sa-learn --spam

2005-05-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
/rfc822 attachment, just like what SA does when it creates a report for an (attached) message. Stripping the embedded message out should be relatively straightforward using some of the mime tools. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core

Re: [OT]Appropriate OS and other software to work with SA

2005-05-12 Thread Eric A. Hall
of existing *NIX mail spool directoriess), and postfix is an easy MTA to configure. You can play with calling in stuff like procmail or postfix filters pretty easy from there. Good luck. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols

Re: SPAMassassin headers missplaced and follow message body

2005-05-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
ng turned into a blank line. OTOH, I know that postfix does some cleanup before it performs analysis (it adds Message-ID and does other stuff), so it is entirely possible that it is doing a CR/null conversion as part of that. Very annoying whatever it is -- Eric A. Hall

Re: SPAMassassin headers missplaced and follow message body

2005-05-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
ank line as the > begining of the body. No kidding. The problem we are seeing happens when there is a EOL marker at the end of a header, and when that is cleaned up we have two CRLF pairs all of a sudden, with all of the headers which follow suddenly being part of the message b

Re: SPAMassassin headers missplaced and follow message body

2005-05-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 5/11/2005 3:02 PM, Martin G. Diehl wrote: > Eric A. Hall wrote: >>I haven't really looked into this much yet, but it appears that some >>embedded CR or LF characters are getting processed by SA and then fed back >>to Postfix, which then cleans up the message and spl

Re: SPAMassassin headers missplaced and follow message body

2005-05-11 Thread Eric A. Hall
ebody wants to see the message I should have it in my trash still. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: spamd or amavisd-new

2005-05-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
e rejections instead of after-transfer rejections. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: AWL whaaat

2005-05-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 5/4/2005 1:11 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: > Got any better suggestions for a name? STS = Sender Trending Score It is an independent score that is applied separately based on the sender's historical trend. Consonants make better acronyms. And it's accurate! --

Re: PTR Rules

2005-05-06 Thread Eric A. Hall
o note that this rule will not fire # if the HELO identifier is an IP address or domain-literal, or if the # 'helo' field is empty. # This stuff seems to have proven pretty stable, so I guess I should find out what's needed to get it formalized -- Eric A. Hall

Re: What is better DCC or Razor2?

2005-04-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
couple DCC with a whitelisting system of some kind. Razor scores are based on tags that reflect on content, the credibility of the reporter, etc. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: SpamAssassin Without Bayes

2005-04-04 Thread Eric A. Hall
weaking your rules works just as well, and you don't have to maintain a bunch of user-specific databases. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-28 Thread Eric A. Hall
s to blacklist for all of the other recipients too, so running it through SA with blacklist_to is needed for that, even with really high bayes marks -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-28 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 3/28/2005 9:30 AM, Matt wrote: > That worked but your right it has no effect on the autolearn=spam. Any idea > how I get it to autolearn all email to a given address as spam? can you pipe incoming mail for that account to sa-learn? -- Eric A

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-27 Thread Eric A. Hall
them to be bayes auto_learn spam. Add this to one of your *.cf files score USER_IN_BLACKLIST_TO 100.0 or whatever score you want Dunno if the bayes auto-learner works with blacklist_to rules; it doesn't work with some whitelist rules. -- Eric A. Hall

Re: question about greylisting

2005-03-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
r at least > one major purpose of it) Yeah, it would still require CPU processing, which is one of the advantages of refusing to accept the mail in the first place. OTOH, it would still have value in terms of keeping spam away from the end-users, which is its own reward sometimes. -- Eric A. H

Re: Effectiveness

2005-03-23 Thread Eric A. Hall
e spam and mailing list to multiple trojaned PCs, so my spamtraps are having a little bit less success lately, but they still work very well. You can also use the messages to feed a ~global bayes training process if you're willing to accept the possibe side-effects of one

Re: RES: Dictionary Attack

2005-03-23 Thread Eric A. Hall
atic clients and my fat-fingered tests. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: How do I whitelist this list?

2005-03-22 Thread Eric A. Hall
g lists in a big whitelists.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

plug-in timeouts

2005-03-21 Thread Eric A. Hall
;s a pretty common cluster of crashes, mostly failing on the same rules (but succeeding on them the majority of the time). Quite curious. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: plugins and parrallelization

2005-03-21 Thread Eric A. Hall
Eric A. Hall wrote: > I'm storing the session variables (such as login status) as part of $self, > and storing message variables with $permsgstatus. But where do I put the > logout/disconnect code? DESTROY seems to get called after every message > ("seems to" but I&#x

what diff between init.pre and local.cf?

2005-03-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
I'm trying to figure out any issues regarding config data and my ldapBlacklist plug-in, and this is a mystery to me. Why purpose does init.pre serve excactly if local.cf and user_prefs can load the same plug-in modules? -- Eric A. Hall

Re: call-back plug-in

2005-03-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
> verification/harvesting `bots. Also, the Postfix notes warn that you > should expect people to complain if you enable the option:) Yep. One option might be to cache addresses so that it only does it once per sender per ~six month window, although I'm not keen on keeping a d

call-back plug-in

2005-03-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
seem to find trustworthy numbers and experiences. Anybody got any thoughts here? -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Best way to disable a test from running?

2005-03-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
Vicki Brown wrote: > I could give it a score of 0 but I'd like to simply say "don't even test > against it". > > I'm getting tired of seeing ALL_TRUSTED. We run SMTP; they connect directly > to us; there are no interim hosts. You just want to do this fo

Re: DCC License Change

2005-03-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
knowledge. Seems to me that most of this stuff should be using the plug-in interface anyway. So maybe just move it out of the core and into a plug-in, and then hand the module off for Vernon to do whatever he feels like with it. SA can still provide pointers in the distro and a link on the Wiki.

Re: plugins and parrallelization

2005-03-19 Thread Eric A. Hall
ct code? DESTROY seems to get called after every message ("seems to" but I'm fairly blurry at this point), which causes the session to get killed after every message. Where am I supposed to put this stuff? Thanks -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehs

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
also notice that they are NOT arguing that this is allowable and legal "from" syntax. It's something else entirely. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
mouss wrote: Eric A. Hall wrote: Huh? The helo= stuff is inside the parenthesis. Perhaps I am missing something but your point 3 seems to conflicewith your point 2. comments are only allowed where whitespace occurs can you give you me the line num in the rfc? It's actually somewhat stricter

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-17 Thread Eric A. Hall
Christopher Weimann wrote: On 03/16/2005-04:49AM, Eric A. Hall wrote: Loren Wilton wrote: Received: from ar39.lsanca2-4.16.241.28.lsanca2.elnk.dsl.genuity.net ([4.16.241.28] helo=watson1) by pop-a065d23.pas.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1DBKRe-Kp-00; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:23:22

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
r I do wish that postfix would let me add dynamic headers to the message before the proxy filter is called, or give me an ACL for no-filter, either of which would work to skip well-known message origins -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet C

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
List Mail User wrote: the "with" is sometimes also either a "by" or "via" (and probably other string values which I haven't noticed). BTW. "by" "via" and "with" are separate sub-fields with their own meaning -- Eric A. Hall

Re: Is this Received header correctly formatted?

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
HOULD NOT use unregistered names. | Protocol = "ESMTP" / "SMTP" / Attdl-Protocol | Attdl-Protocol = Atom | ; Additional standard names for protocols are registered with the | ; Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). SMTP servers | ; SHOULD NOT use unregistered names. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

need testers for ldapBlacklist.pm plug-in

2005-03-16 Thread Eric A. Hall
et me know. Be warned that this plugin can really beat the crap out of your LDAP server, and will add some measurable latency if the SA system is already burdened down. But it works pretty well, and is interesting if you're into LDAP. Responses off-list pls. Thanks -- Er

Re: Header-Rule with multiple lines

2005-03-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
which don't talk rfc. http://www.rulesemporium.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105 has a set of rules that might do what you want, or might be adaptable. -- Eric A. Hallhttp://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

Re: plugins and (more)

2005-03-15 Thread Eric A. Hall
Eric A. Hall wrote: Over the weekend I banged together a preliminary ldapBlacklist.pm plugin which lets the master process query an ldap server for whitelist or blacklist flags associated with the connecting SMTP client's reverse DNS, the HELO identifer, the mail-from address, the From ad

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