ocr plugin - lets some gif spams through?

2006-08-05 Thread Gary Funck
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 second misses by a full point. Am wondering how these fare on

RE: ocr plugin - lets some gif spams through?

2006-08-05 Thread Gary Funck
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 required=5.0 > tests=BAYES_99,DC_GIF_MULTI_LARGO,EXTRA_MPART_TYPE,FORGED_RCVD_HELO, > HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_32,HTML

RE: Making the OCR software work

2006-08-06 Thread Gary Funck
Marc Perkel wrote: > Maybe I missed something but I installed the gocr program and fedd it > some stock spam files and the accuracy of what it read was really really > poor - unusable. Is there something else I need to install? I had the same experience. Have you tried feeding one of thos gi

RE: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-09 Thread Gary Funck
Menno wrote: > Ramprasad wrote: > > > > But still this mail is getting thru > > http://ecm.netcore.co.in/tmp/imagespam.txt > > > I tested your mail here with the latest imageinfo.pm and it comes through > indeed. The exact same one in .gif (same text, same background) > was detected > though. It wa

RE: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-09 Thread Gary Funck
Theo wrote (in part): > > sa-update is a generic tool that lets users download > "channels" (ie: bundles > of rules/plugins) from anywhere that decides to publish them > (requires a > certain setup, etc.) At the moment, the only published > channel that I know > of is updates.spamassassin.org

RE: Image spam with inline jpeg image

2006-08-11 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:33 PM > Gary Funck wrote: > > Has anyone considered also supplying new rules in the > > form of rpm's available via a yum-compatible repository? > > It

Re: Greylisting (was Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?)

2012-12-03 Thread Gary Funck
On 11/29/12 14:46:25, David F. Skoll wrote: > We greylist after the end of DATA. This wastes bandwidth, but lets us > use the Subject: line as an additional mix in the greylisting tuple. > This catches ratware that retries in the face of greylisting, but > mutates the subject line with each retry.

Re: "Fairly-Secure" Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC ? Can I get your opinion?

2012-12-03 Thread Gary Funck
On 11/29/12 10:44:54, John Hardin wrote: > You will probably want to put a little effort into maintaining lists > of regular correspondents who can bypass greylisting. There may be > tools to automate that, e.g. to whitelist someone a local user has > sent mail to. Has anyone looked into the use o

RE: feed MimeDefanged mail to sa-learn?

2005-01-02 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: Keith Whyte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 2:18 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: feed MimeDefanged mail to sa-learn? > > > Maybe another, more simple way to ask the question I asked yesterday: > > When my MimeDefa

RE: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-02 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: Geoff Soper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:49 PM > > Unfortunately that's not an option. I have installed the module without > issue in my space, I don't see a problem with getting SpamAssassin to call > that module. I just want

RE: feed MimeDefanged mail to sa-learn?

2005-01-03 Thread Gary Funck
Attached, is a Perl script, mdf2sa.pl, which converts spam messages that have been marked up by MIMEDefang, into a form that is similar to the message format used by SA. Also attached is a simple procmail script, mdf2sa.rc, which drives the perl script, and can be invoked via formail as follows:

RE: How got arcor.de into blocklist?

2005-01-03 Thread Gary Funck
> From: Thomas Arend > Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 7:55 AM > > I have received a FalsePositive because arcor.de got into trhe blocklists. > > Has someone informations why arcor.de got into the blocklist? > You probably need to go to the places where the URL's are blacklisted, and requrest that

RE: quick poll on SURBL hit %

2005-01-05 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 7:16 AM > > Just curious as to what average percent of spam people see SURBL > hitting. In > a non scientific manor, I average about 85% or greater hitting > SURBL for all > spam t

RE: feed MimeDefanged mail to sa-learn?

2005-01-12 Thread Gary Funck
> From: Keith Whyte > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:15 PM [...] > > anyway, on the messages where that regex does trigger, the resulting > mail is unreadable in Pine, which complains about not being able to open > text attachment, and thunderbird on windows via imap, which in some > cases j

RE: Spam getting through

2005-01-14 Thread Gary Funck
The usual suggestions that come up at this point, are: 1) If you're using spamc/spamd, don't forget to restart spamd so that it will reload your new rule. 2) If you're running SA directly from a milter, or some such, make sure that SA is started up in a way that it will find the new rule.