Re: Score maths

2017-04-25 Thread Geoff Soper
; wasn't blocked. So the 2.9 indicates that it's not 3 ;) > > Kind regards, > >Tom > >> On 25-04-17 10:27, Geoff Soper wrote: >> X-Spam-Status: No, Score=2.9 >> >> X-Spam-Report: >> >> * -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message

Score maths

2017-04-25 Thread Geoff Soper
X-Spam-Status: No, Score=2.9 X-Spam-Report: * -0.0 NO_RELAYS Informational: message was not relayed via SMTP * 3.0 GS_NO_RLYS_PHP No description available. X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on server.alphaworks.co.uk Can anyone explain why this isn't scoring 3.0? :)

Writing a rule to match a header name and value

2017-04-24 Thread Geoff Soper
I'm trying to write a rule that matches both the name of a header and its value. I've had no luck so far, can somebody point out my mistake? My current attempt is: header __GS_PHP_ORIG ALL =~ /^X-PHP-Originating-Script: [0 -9]+:(Mailer|Sendmail|Api).php/i An example line is: X-PHP-Or

Spam with attachments and UNPARSEABLE_RELAY

2016-11-24 Thread Geoff Soper
For a few weeks I've been suffering spam messages with attachments getting through with a suspicious score of 0.0. Upon inspection, they all had the following lines in the header: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on server.alphaworks.co.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Sta

Program failure (69) of "spamc"

2014-09-10 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi, I'm calling spamc (3.3.2) from procmail as suggested at https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail Having made a change to not use the lockfile (as suggsted in another thread) I'm now getting the following error in my procmail log: procmail: Program failure (69) of "spamc" proc

Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-09-03 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi, I've got an issue whereby spam messages seem to be somehow bypassing SA and getting into my inbox. I call SA via procmail as per https://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UsedViaProcmail The exact procmail file that calls SA is as follows: # #Standard SA call to be included from .procmailrc fil

Regular spam with distinctive URLs

2013-12-03 Thread Geoff Soper
I've been getting messages featuring distinctive URLs for some months and they're about the only spam that's making it past SA. I've posted a few example URLs at http://pastebin.com/qWvsW8HZ , you can see that they all follow a similar pattern (i.e. keywords in the path along with series of num

Back to spam

2013-09-13 Thread Geoff Soper
After a couple of years without being greatly troubled by spam (a few a week), about a fortnight ago I started seeing 10-20 a day. They have a similar look and tone but I can't see any obvious ways to get them with rules. My trouble is that while all has been well, I've forgotten how SA works!

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Geoff Soper
On 13/01/2010 15:03, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed 13 Jan 2010 02:53:13 PM CET, Geoff Soper wrote saupdates.openprotect.com channel which contains recommended SAREs rules and all is working! outdated sare rules is not recommended, and openprotect do care ? :) if you update sare rules via sa

Re: SA not picking up rules from /var/lib/spamassassin/

2010-01-13 Thread Geoff Soper
On 13/01/2010 13:46, Jason Bertoch wrote: geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: I'm using SA 3.2.5 and sa-update but SA doesn't seem to be picking rules up from /var/lib/spamassassin/ Can anyone advise what the problem might be and what diagnosis I can perform? The output of 'spamas

Keeping SA up to date

2010-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
I've had an installation of SpamAssassin which I've been happy with for a number of years, its rulesets have been updated using Rules Du Jour. I've moved to a new server which has less rulesets installed and is catching less spam. The rulesets in this new installation are currently not updated.

spamc and extra rules

2008-11-23 Thread Geoff Soper
I call spamc from various .procmail files (relating to different users) as below: | spamc I want to add some extra rules for one of these users. From the spamc docs I thought I'd have to replace this with : | spamc -F /path/to/file but this didn't seem to have any effect. Is this the right

Re: Problems with sa-update

2008-05-10 Thread Geoff Soper
On 10/05/2008 18:40, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 18:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [21292] dbg: diag: module installed: IO::Zlib, version 1.01 find where this is installed: rpm -qa | grep IO-Zlib rpm -e IO-Zlib-1.01 (only if its there) i do not know if its really called

Problems with sa-update

2008-05-10 Thread Geoff Soper
I've previously used RDJ to keep my SA rules up-to-date but have got the impression I should be using sa-update instead. My first step was to run "sa-update && service spamassassin restart" but this gave the following error: IO::Zlib version 1.04 required--this is only version 1.01 at /

Unknown option: a when restarting spamd

2007-01-05 Thread Geoff Soper
I've recently moved from calling spamassasin to using spamc/spamd. Today I had a "/etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd restart" fail with the message "Unknown option: a". Googling this led me to the /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin and /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd files, both of which specified the "a" option (the form

How best to restart SpamAssassin with RDJ

2006-12-11 Thread Geoff Soper
I'm moving from calling SA on a per message basis to using spamc. This means I need to specify a value for SA_RESTART. Should I being using /usr/bin/spamassassin or /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamassassin and reload or restart? What's the difference between the two different files? Thanks, Geoff

Re:

2006-07-18 Thread Geoff Soper
Richard Collyer wrote: Andreas Walter wrote: unsubscribe end Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe. Good luck, I'm still here a week after first trying to unsubscribe! ;-)

RE: Unsubscribing from SA Users

2006-07-17 Thread Geoff Soper
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Mon 17-Jul-06 14:33 > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Unsubscribing from SA Users > > > > On Monday 17 July 2006 12:53, Geoff Soper took the opportunity to write: >> It also suggested looing for a "Return-Path:"

Unsubscribing from SA Users

2006-07-17 Thread Geoff Soper
I'm loath to post this message but I can't manage to unsubscribe! First of all, I sent a blank mail from this address (i.e. the subscribed address) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as indicated by the relevent header in each mail I receive from the list: list-unsubscribe: This caus

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-10 Thread Geoff Soper
jdow wrote: From: "Geoff Soper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .qmail contains the lines: | true ./Maildir/ Caveat: I don't use qmail, and don't even particularly like qmail, so what I'm abo

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-10 Thread Geoff Soper
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: I think I need to specify the .procmailrc as the .procmailrc file is per e-mail address, not per user or even system-wide I think we've just uncovered a crucial bit of missing informati

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-08 Thread Geoff Soper
Bart Schaefer wrote: On 7/8/06, Geoff Soper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .qmail contains the lines: | true ./Maildir/ Caveat: I don't use qmail, and don't even particularly like qmail, so what I'm about to say are really educated guesses rather than definitive answers.

Re: Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-08 Thread Geoff Soper
jdow wrote: From: "Geoff Soper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, I'm getting the following three warning in my procmail log (machine name removed, just in case!), I assume I'm missing some configuration somewhere but don't know where! Can someone advise? Thanks, Geo

Warnings in procmail log

2006-07-05 Thread Geoff Soper
Hi, I'm getting the following three warning in my procmail log (machine name removed, just in case!), I assume I'm missing some configuration somewhere but don't know where! Can someone advise? Thanks, Geoff [8162] warn: config: cannot write to //.spamassassin/user_prefs: No such file or dir

Mortgage spam

2005-06-08 Thread Geoff Soper
About half of the false negatives I now get concern mortgage offers. Currently I have the following rulesets installed and updated by rules de jour. SARE_ADULT SARE_GENLSUBJ0 SARE_HEADER0 SARE_HTML0 SARE_OEM SARE_RANDOM SARE_RATWARE SARE_SPECIFIC SARE_SPOOF SARE_BML EVILNUMBERS Are there any others

Re: Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper writes: >> > Geoff Soper writes: >> >> bash-2.05a$ perl -V >> >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) >> configuration: >> > .. >> >> @INC: >> >> /home/alphaworks/perl_mo

Re: Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper writes: >> bash-2.05a$ perl -V >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: > .. >> @INC: >> /home/alphaworks/perl_modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux/ >> /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i3

Perl problems with getting SA to run

2005-01-25 Thread Geoff Soper
I'm having a problem running SpamAssassin, it's not finding the Digest::SHA1 module. I've successfully installed this modules locally in /home/alphaworks/perl_modules: bash-2.05a$ find /home/alphaworks/perl_modules -name 'SHA1.pm' -print /home/alphaworks/perl_modules/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386

Re: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-02 Thread Geoff Soper
> Geoff Soper wrote: >> I run SpamAssassin on my web host's machine. I install it in my directory >> using: >> >> perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME >> make >> make install >> >> My problem is that my host doesn't have the Digest::SHA1

RE: Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
dule. Any suggestions appreciated! Thanks, Geoff > New host? > > Your ISP shouldn't have any problems installing modules like that. > > Gary > > ________ > > From: Geoff Soper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sat 1/1/2005 10:50 AM > To:

Problem installing SpamAssassin 3.0.2

2005-01-01 Thread Geoff Soper
I run SpamAssassin on my web host's machine. I install it in my directory using: perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=$HOME make make install My problem is that my host doesn't have the Digest::SHA1 module installed. I don't have the ability to install Perl modules centrally but I can install the module local

And mortgages too

2004-12-14 Thread Geoff Soper
Further to my previous message, are there any rulesets which will handle all these mortgage spams which pretend to be following up previous correspondance? Thanks, Geoff

Watches and pain relief

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Soper
My current spam problem consists almost entirely of spam advertising watches and various pain relief products. I have a reasonable variety of rulesets installed including the following (it's not definitive as I don't have access to the server right now): SARE General Subject SARE HEADER SARE html0

RE: List options?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Soper
Geoff >> -Original Message- >> From: Geoff Soper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:30 PM >> To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >> Subject: List options? >> >> >> I've just rejoined the list after leaving it a whil

List options?

2004-12-10 Thread Geoff Soper
I've just rejoined the list after leaving it a while ago. Can someone point me in the direction of some list options such as setting digest mode, suspending my subscription and leaving the list? I didn't receive a welcome message from the list, I can't see anything at http://wiki.apache.org/spamas