Re: Bayes & Apache James server

2011-08-03 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 7/29/2011 3:08 PM, Adam Moffett wrote: On 07/29/2011 02:13 PM, Kelson Vibber wrote: > Also, to complete the system, I recall there were some AV-mailets at the age. If possible use> them before SA to catch message carrying viruses. Absolutely - we've got ClamAV running first, before anythin

Re: Suggest OCR plugin on Spamassassin 3.3.1 for image spam

2011-07-20 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 7/20/2011 9:18 PM, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: On 07/20, Sharma, Ashish wrote: Can someone suggest some better OCR plugin for Spamassassin 3.3.1 for image spam? It still seems strange to me that anybody has ever bothered with using OCR to deal with image spam, when it's so easy, and for m

Re: RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN

2011-07-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 7/18/2011 2:44 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 7/18/11 1:42 PM, Greg Troxel wrote: I got spam from constantcontact, claiming that I had signed up for itb * -1.5 RCVD_IN_IADB_OPTIN RBL: IADB: All mailing list mail is opt-in In trying to figure out what's wrong, searching lead me to:

Re: BOTNET IPv6 patch

2011-06-16 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 6/13/2011 7:51 AM, Matthew Newton wrote: I've therefore hacked together the following patch to Botnet.pm (0.8). It should fix the main issue that BOTNET does not do any lookups for IP addresses that look like IPv6 addresses. It I've put the patched Botnet.pm here: http://www.le.ac.uk/

Re: Hijacked email accounts

2011-04-04 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/04/04 12:12 PM, Daniel McDonald wrote: Now if I could just find a list of url shorteners that included j.mp ... DecodeShortURLs plugin from Steve Freegard http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.pm http://www.fsl.com/support/DecodeShortURLs.cf -- /Jason

Re: Obfuscating advanced fee scams with html attachements?

2011-03-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/29 1:41 AM, Ned Slider wrote: On 28/03/11 23:44, Daniel McDonald wrote: I just got a spam that scored relatively low (mostly due to DNSWL_MED). It looks like I've been getting these as well, with all being relayed through messagelabs. Apparently, messagelabs has something broken

Re: fake URL's in mail

2011-03-21 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/21 12:18 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Does anyone successfully use plugin or at least rules that catch fake URLs? Fake URLs? Do you mean URL obfuscators/redirectors like bit . ly and tiny url . com? If so, I've had considerable success with Steve Freegard's DecodeShortURLs p

Re: __PILL_PRICE Problems

2011-03-21 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/21 11:16 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Nope, that probably isn't the pill_price rules then. They were added on feb 13 rev 1070308. then they were updated? why didn't anyone have problems (100% cpu, loops, swap filling up) till this weekend? Presumably due to lack of sufficient ham/sp

Re: sa-updates

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/10 2:17 PM, Adam Katz wrote: On 03/10/2011 07:59 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: I'd be happy to contribute, but we bounce or outright delete high scoring spam. After Reading these wiki articles: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HandClassifiedCorpora http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Co

Re: sa-updates

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/10 10:59 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: Discussion on the dev list points to a lack of sufficient ham in the corpus which is necessary to generate score updates and publish new rules. There was a recent drive for new submitters, but I'm still trying to figure out how I can rearrange my conf

Re: sa-updates

2011-03-10 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/03/10 6:41 AM, Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been covered, an admittedly fairly cursory Google showed nothing new. My local sa-update hasn't updated in the better part of a month. Is it that there have been no updates or do I need to dig into my systems to see what

Re: using spamhaus droplist with sa ?

2011-02-22 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/02/22 3:55 PM, Adam Katz wrote: That's nontrivial since there is no DNSBL serving it. Setting one up requires regularly scraping that data. Actually, the DROP-file format is directly compatible with rbldnsd. However, DROP still wasn't meant to be used this way. Use it in BGP or rout

Re: using spamhaus droplist with sa ?

2011-02-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/02/17 9:23 AM, Andreas Schulze wrote: Hello, http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=DROP FAQ mention as very last point to use the Spamhaus Drop list with SA. is anybody doing this and can explain it in detail ? I played around with this a number of years ago and found it

Re: Another URL shortening site for the DecodeShortURLs plugin

2011-02-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/02/17 10:13 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: I just got spam with a short URL http://www.zoodl.com/19714 in it. www.zoodl.com isn't in DecodeShortURLs.cf so its maintainer may want to add it. I also added x.co to the list. -- /Jason

Re: channel 70_zmi_german.cf.zmi.sa-update.dostech.net update?

2011-02-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/02/11 4:26 AM, C.M. Burns wrote: what happend to channel 70_zmi_german.cf.zmi.sa-update.dostech.net ? is this not being updated anymore although still advertised on http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomRulesets ? The CustomRuleset wiki is dreadfully out of date and needs wiping.

Re: SARE and RulesDuJour still relevant

2011-01-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/01/14 7:28 AM, James Lay wrote: Hey All! Been a while since I did a full blown install of SpamAssassin, and as I'm looking at my old setup, I see a fair amount of changes. I have the SARE rules as well as RulesDuJour running, but noticed that on a fresh install of SA, after doing an sa-u

Re: BlackBerry Email Being Blocked by SpamAssassin

2011-01-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2011/01/13 1:40 PM, Brendan Murtagh wrote: X-spam-flag: YES X-spam-status: Yes, hits=3.01 required=3.00 tests=HTML_MESSAGE=0.00,RATWARE_RCVD_BONUS_SPC=1.00,VOWEL_URI_5=1.00,NO_RDNS2=0.01,MR_DIFF_MID=1.00 version=3.2.5 X-spam-level: *** X-spam-checker-version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (1.1) Yes, 3.

Re: [Asrg] draft-levine-iprangepub-01

2010-12-30 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/30 7:49 AM, David F. Skoll wrote: Actually... is anyone on the list aware of an IPv6 provider that assigns less than a /64 to end-users? My tunnel broker gives us a /64 for our tunnel and a routed /48 for our network. Our hosting provider gives us a /64 for each host. Anyone on the

Re: Single dot PTR

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/29 11:55 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On ons 29 dec 2010 17:29:05 CET, Jason Bertoch wrote In the sited example, yes, the PTR is set by the ISP and not delegated to the spammer, but a pattern is a pattern and that's what we're here for. Plus, for all we know, the ISP has a web

Re: Single dot PTR

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/29 11:42 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: In the sited example, yes, the PTR is set by the ISP and not delegated to the spammer, but a pattern is a pattern and that's what we're here for. Plus, for all we know, the ISP has a web interface for setting PTR records rather than using delegation.

Re: Single dot PTR

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/29 11:24 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: The PTR is set by the ISP, not the spammer. My guess would be that the period for a PTR would be a policy of a particular network operator or group of operators. So matching it in spam assassin would be scoring messages on the ISP they came from rathe

Single dot PTR

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
I'm starting to see a (new to me) pattern of spam, and only spam, with PTR records consisting of a single dot, such as: Received: from ejru38.pindmosel.info (. [184.154.78.38] (may be forged)) It doesn't appear that there is a stock rule yet to identify this particular case. RDNS_NONE match

Re: NJABL is dead?

2010-12-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/29 9:29 AM, Jack L. Stone wrote: All of my net checks are done at the MTA level (sendmail) and none in SA -- it's turned off. What is the benefit of checking twice? Maybe I missed the benefit. If you trust a BL completely, and don't mind the occasional FP, then you can certainly hav

Re: Issuing rollback DBI Mysql

2010-12-27 Thread Jason Bertoch
Jack L. Stone wrote: I'm getting a lot of these error messages from the perl module Bayes.pm. The SA archives or google shows very little useful about it. Can anyone help? AFAIK, only started with upgrade to SA-3.3. Dec 24 08:54:05 mail spamd[24172]: Issuing rollback() due to DESTROY without ex

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/17 2:48 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: forget trusted_networks use i.e spamass-milter with spamassassin with option -I: skip (ignore) checks if sender is authenticated Though I've not used spamass-milter, will this really work if the authentication server is not local? -- /Jason

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/17 12:19 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: why are you using authenticated SMTP from trusted networks? The whole point of auth smtp is to come from UN-trusted networks. In the OP's case, his authenticating server is separate from his SA server. In any case, the server indicating authen

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/17 11:47 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: And what prevents a spammer from forging this into a header and bypassing SA? Just askin. Without checking, I'd guess that matching an authentication header with an address in trusted_networks would be sufficient. If your authentication server

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/17 11:46 AM, Aaron Bennett wrote: -Original Message- Based on the headers you included, there's nothing indicating the sender was authenticated. Are you using the following in postfix? smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header yes No, I'm not -- that's a good idea. If I

Re: preventing authenticated smtp users from triggering PBL

2010-12-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/17 11:28 AM, Aaron Bennett wrote: I've got an issue where users off-campus who are doing authenticated SMTP/TLS from home networks are having their mail hit by the PBL. I have trusted_networks set to include the incoming relay, but still the PBL hits it as follows: Received: from

Re: Comment - GFI/SORBS

2010-12-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 12/14/2010 8:06 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote: http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2010/12/gfi-sorbs-considered-harmful-part-5/ I've seen the headaches of getting off SORBS, but how did you really end up there? While I agree that SORBS is not reliable enough for use at the MTA level, I've not seen o

Re: spam with different "Received" and "To" headers

2010-12-07 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/07 9:20 AM, Florescu, Dan Alexandru wrote: My question is: shouldn't there be a rule to verify that the mail specified at "To:" header actually corresponds to the one at "Received: [...] for<>"? No, take this list for example. RCPT TO: will be your address, while To: is us...@spam

Re: sender in black list

2010-12-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/01 11:51 AM, Salvatore wrote: Sorry but I do not understand SA doesn't block mail, it only processes the contents and provides a score. It's up to your MTA (postfix), or glue (amavis?), to do something with that score. If you want to reject mail from a particular e-mail address,

Re: IPv6 and anonymity (was Re: Do we need a new SMTP protocol? (OT))

2010-12-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/12/01 12:55 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: Actually, since the smallest allocation unit is a /64, you could switch IP addresses once per nanosecond and not run out for almost 585 years. If you have a /48, you could last for about 38 million years. So at a minimium, an IPv6 DNSBL will have to

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/11/2010 9:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote: On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:35:11 -0500 Jason Bertoch wrote: After many complaints from the DNS community over SPF "hijacking" the TXT record, a new SPF record type was eventually accepted. The proper fix would have been to make SPF l

Re: sa-compile error

2010-11-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/12/2010 6:05 PM, fchan wrote: 2) re2c 0.12.3 I can't say I even recall using re2c 0.12.x, but I do remember several bugs in 0.13.x prior to the current 0.13.5. Is upgrading an option? 0.13.5 has been stable for over 2 years and works great here. -- /Jason

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/12/2010 11:33 AM, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Are there domains that have actually defined SPF record type records? I haven’t been able to find any, but it could be the fault of the tools I’m using. I set both for customers that request SPF records of any type and for those without an M

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/11/2010 8:38 PM, René Berber wrote: On 11/11/2010 4:13 PM, Noel Butler wrote: *and* as an SPF record type, the TXT method is deprecated, but for time being it's good to use it since there are a lot, and I mean a LOT of outdated DNS servers around that do not support it even today, yes,

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/11/2010 8:09 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 19:57 -0500, Jason Bertoch wrote: On 11/11/2010 7:41 PM, Noel Butler wrote: but then again, SA doesn't support SPF record type, only TXT type.. Really? I don't use SPF in SA, only MTA, if that's the case,

Re: email address forgery

2010-11-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 11/11/2010 7:41 PM, Noel Butler wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 17:31 -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 11/11/10 5:13 PM, Noel Butler wrote: > *and* as an SPF record type, the TXT method is deprecated, but then again, SA doesn't support SPF record type, only TXT type.. Really? I don't use

Re: comparing From and Reply-To:

2010-11-03 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/11/03 8:05 AM, haman...@t-online.de wrote: Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: It's the only purpose of the Reply-To header to be different from To: - otherwise it can be omitted anyways. What did I miss? Hi Bernd, although I have seen scenarios using the feature, they never involved both addresses

Re: prevent rule from being considered for Bayes auto-learning

2010-10-21 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/10/21 12:17 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: we decided that we didn't too much care to auto learn as 'not spam', emails sent from marketing companies, (because the reverse is true for auto learn ham) thus: aa_scores.cf:tflags RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI net nice noautolearn aa_scores.cf:tflags RCVD_IN

Re: Constant .info domain spam

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 10/14/2010 8:26 PM, Julian Yap wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Jason Bertoch wrote: On 2:59 PM, Julian Yap wrote: NOTE: I changed the domains below to 'dot info' as the mailing list rejected my initial submission. I'm pretty sure it's not just me but th

Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 10/14/2010 5:30 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: any work has been done on the bug? > > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6380 According to the bug, quite obviously, no one has been working on it. Until your patch just today. Thanks! Yes, I decided this was a logic is

Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/16 5:03 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: How is this messing you up? This should not affect any of your other channels. The only effect is that the sought rules don't get updated. I'm not sure how everyone else is doing it, but my script checks for updates using --channelfile, then r

Re: Constant .info domain spam

2010-10-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2:59 PM, Julian Yap wrote: NOTE: I changed the domains below to 'dot info' as the mailing list rejected my initial submission. I'm pretty sure it's not just me but there is some constant spamming from dot info domains. Perhaps for the past 2 months or so. Often they send hundreds per day a

Re: overlapping HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI and RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED

2010-10-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/10/13 12:25 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Hello, I've received a spam that his both HABEAS_ACCREDITED_SOI and RCVD_IN_BSP_TRUSTED. I believe it's because both BSP and HABEAS were bought by ReturnPath Inc. There's good info on these rules in Bug 6247 https://issues.apache.org/SpamA

Re: New plugin: DecodeShortURLs

2010-10-05 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/10/04 6:35 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: Just a data point for you. I'm running DecodeShortURLs with the as-issued .cf file (log,cache,syslog options commented out). I initially tried running the plugin with these options commented out, but it just doesn't work. It needs those defined.

Re: new install

2010-09-30 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 9/30/2010 9:09 PM, dhottin...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us wrote: So I added our domain to the local.cf file: whitelist_fr...@harrisonburg.k12.va.us. Ouch, bad idea, unless this daemon is dedicated to internal mail only, and even then it's still not a good solution. If you're having issues th

Re: Arabic Spam

2010-05-26 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/05/25 7:02 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:35 +1200, Jason Haar wrote: Not as far as ok_locales and the respective CHARSET_FARAWAY rules are concerned, IIRC. They have been written long ago to trigger on the char-sets used. They don't detect the char-set based on

Re: Arabic Spam

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/05/25 10:48 AM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:27 -0400, Jason Bertoch wrote: A user reported the following FN [...] It is not a FN. It isn't even a proper message. That's some headers, plus a screen-scraped, rendered version of the message, includin

Re: Arabic Spam

2010-05-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/05/24 6:17 PM, Jason Haar wrote: On 05/25/2010 09:47 AM, RW wrote:. My guess is that none of of these is being hit because there's enough English mixed-in with the Arabic. I think the "FARAWAY" rules and other locale checks are dependent on email using the old, pre-Unicode "charset" fo

Re: Arabic Spam

2010-05-24 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/05/24 1:50 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Jason was speaking about a FN, not an FP. Am I missing something? Yes, this was a FN. These are the findings with one of my setup (SA 3.3.1, all locales allowed): Content analysis details: (11.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name

Arabic Spam

2010-05-24 Thread Jason Bertoch
A user reported the following FN to me which is written in an Arabic character set. I have "ok_locales en" set, but I don't see any rules hitting that appear language related. I also found the normalize_charset option, but don't know if it will help or hurt my ability to detect these messag

Re: Bayes spam and ham out of proportion

2010-04-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/29 8:25 AM, Frank Bures wrote: I've been running spamassassin for years. I am using auto-learn with very conservative thresholds. However, after several years of usage my spam database is about three time larger than my ham database and I am starting to see false positives. Is there

Re: FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT 2.2 anti-Gmail

2010-04-17 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 4/17/2010 6:26 AM, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Well Gosh, * 2.2 FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT Envelope-from freemail username ends in * digit (mb2365[at]gmail.com) I swear when I recently helped a loved one apply for a Gmail account, Gmail offered names like "vippenheimer3

Re: flat file bayes locking issue and difference errors depending on file locking method

2010-04-14 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 4/14/2010 4:59 PM, R-Elists wrote: I'd guess that you have a bayes expire running that is either taking too long or not finishing and leaving lock files around. Turn off bayes_auto_expire and use bayes_learn_to_journal. Add a cron job to periodically sa-learn --sync (say hourly) and another c

Re: accepted connection from DNSBL's

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/13 3:30 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ideally, correct me if I'm wrong, wouldn't I want SA to drop the connection after doing a lookup on the IP or are you saying I should do that on the gateway SA doesn't have the ability to drop connections. It only scans what is handed to it. Th

Re: accepted connection from DNSBL's

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/13 2:38 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Well just to confirm I have taken the IP addresses and entered them here http://www.dnsbl.info/dnsbl-database-check.php and almost ALL of them are listed in at least 5 of the lists, this one was on 9 of the lists see below var/log/exim/mainlo

Re: accepted connection from DNSBL's

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/13 2:11 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: ... I think my blacklists aren't working... ...I'm getting a bunch of "refused too many connections"... It sounds like your hitting a MTA connection limit, which doesn't have anything to do with blacklists, although I suppose it could also be

Re: FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS matches on text-to-email

2010-04-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/13 12:07 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: As I don't get either spam or ham from this type of address, I'd be pleased if anybody who does can put an example on Pastebin and post the link here. http://pastebin.com/eTsbwZBb phone number changed to protect the innocent. -- /Jason smi

Re: FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS matches on text-to-email

2010-04-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 4/12/2010 4:58 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: I had quite a bit to do with phone numbers en mass a while back. My initial reaction is that its not easy: not only do phone numbers vary in length between locales, but even such things as the 'international dialing' and non-local-call prefix vary from

FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS matches on text-to-email

2010-04-12 Thread Jason Bertoch
I just received a FP report on a message sent from a phone via their text-to-email gateway. FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS matched because the sender's address is [10-digit phone numb...@somecarrier.com. My initial instinct was to file a bug suggesting there be a check in the rule to see if there ar

Re: Is report_safe broken?

2010-04-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/04/01 11:38 AM, Michael Weber wrote: spamassassin --lint runs clean. I re-entered the line by hand and deleted the original so that shouldn't be an issue. I also reviewed the configuration file location list and there are no other local.cf files or user_prefs files in the list of dir

Re: Sought Rules Back?

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/02/01 10:30 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Update returned sought rules 1/31/2010. Actually back since Jan 6. :) Re-viewed about 1k fraud spam the following days, for the Sought Fraud sub-set. Btw, the three rules JM_SOUGHT_FRAUD_{1,2,3} have a score of zero as per Justin's request (Bug 61

FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT score

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
I recently received a FP report on an e-mail that hit on, among other things, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT. This rule has a score of 1.6, which seems maybe a little high. Henrik mentioned the same thing in comment 185 [1] of Bug 6155 which is closed as resolved/fixed. The assumption was that t

Re: FREEMAIL_REPLY

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/22 1:03 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Jason Bertoch wrote: On 2010/03/22 12:26 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Jason Bertoch wrote: > Should FREEMAIL_REPLY really be looking in attachments Sure. Just looking at the presence of freemail domains, ther

Re: FREEMAIL_REPLY

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/22 12:26 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Jason Bertoch wrote: Should FREEMAIL_REPLY really be looking in attachments Sure. Just looking at the presence of freemail domains, there's nothing to distinguish the mail you got an FP report on from 419 spams that pu

FREEMAIL_REPLY

2010-03-22 Thread Jason Bertoch
I recently received a FP complaint on a message that hit FREEMAIL_REPLY. The FP complaint is not in a format that would be useful for posting, but I don't believe that's going to be necessary. Here's what happened: some_u...@comcast.net saves a web page and sends it as an e-mail attachment

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.3.1 available

2010-03-19 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/19 2:24 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 3/19/10 12:31 PM, Justin Mason wrote: Release Notes -- Apache SpamAssassin -- Version 3.3.1 http://www.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.3.1.tar.gz.md5 error 404 the requested file is not found on this server. I have

Re: bayes, numbers of tokens and performance

2010-03-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/18 10:56 AM, tonjg wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote: Don't do that. why not? Rule scores are generated based on a default required_score of 5. Fiddling with the required_score should be the _last_ thing you do, if at all. You should really try to determine why your system isn't per

Re: sa-update channels

2010-03-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/17 6:20 PM, Micah Anderson wrote: I'm trying to find out what the current state of the art is for plugins and channel updates. For channels I've been using: updates.spamassassin.org sought.rules.yerp.org saupdates.openprotect.com But I wonder if the last two are still relevant, or

Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

2010-03-16 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/16 2:44 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: On Tuesday 16 March 2010 19:37:02 Jason Bertoch wrote: On 2010/03/16 9:30 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: How is this messing you up? This should not affect any of your other channels. The only effect is that the sought rules don't get updated. I&

Re: What happened to SOUGHT rules' server?

2010-03-16 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/16 9:30 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: How is this messing you up? This should not affect any of your other channels. The only effect is that the sought rules don't get updated. I'm not sure how everyone else is doing it, but my script checks for updates using --channelfile, then runs

Re: Exclude Sender from Autolearn

2010-03-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/11 9:10 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:41:06 -0500 Jason Bertoch wrote: For what it's worth, whitelisted addresses are excluded from Bayes autolearn. No, they can be autolearned. The autolearn plugin computes it's own version of the score that ignores noautol

Re: Exclude Sender from Autolearn

2010-03-11 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2010/03/11 6:32 AM, idahank wrote: I use spamassasin 3.2.4 with amavisd-new 2.5 and sendmail 8.13.1 on Redhat Enterprise LINUX 4.8 Several of my network's users receive quarantine Emails from other providers that contain lots of spam-tokens without being spam. As different rules detect these

Bayes and Time of Day

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
Although I grasp the concept of Bayes in the SA system, I don't fully understand how and which tokens it grabs from mails passed through SA. Although many servers deal with 24-hour customers, mine is 98% business only 8AM to 5PM. Does the SA Bayes system even look at time of day for tokens?

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/25/2010 8:08 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: The forward issue is definitely an annoyance. But SPF has a problem in that as the supporters admit, it doesn't block spam, and it can't be used as a white rule because spammers often use SPF correctly. I'm not sure what you mean that forwarding has be

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/25/2010 6:37 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: A lot of posts with useless rants on a personal grievance against SPF Marc, I suspect you're not seeing a bunch of supporters of SPF post on this thread because most find it tiresome, bothersome, pointless, or all of the above. I bit my lip until no

Re: Off-topic? Off-list!

2010-02-25 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/25/2010 6:26 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Please, guys, let it go. If you *know* this ain't the right place, stop it. +1 /Jason

Re: Bogus Dollar Amounts

2010-02-24 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/24/2010 10:14 AM, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: ... but where there should be a comma it puts a period. I put an example of one of these messages at: http://pastebin.com/SXuGELUS It is common in many parts of the world to use a period instead of a comma as a digit group separator, and vice-ve

Re: RetrunPath and Bayes Poisoning

2010-02-23 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/23/2010 9:35 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: > why not just do tflags RULENAME nice net noautolearn (oh.. and to find them, grep '^tflags.*RCVD_IN' *.cf some interesting ones. not sure why they rate a net nice: Grepping for 'autolearn' turns up the built-in whitelist and blacklist rules.

Re: RetrunPath and Bayes Poisoning

2010-02-23 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/23/2010 9:20 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: Unfortunately, I'm still seeing false positives and am concerned that they are pushing the scores low enough to poison my Bayes database. you can edit the tflags and add noautolearn example: 72_active.cf:tflags RCVD_IN_RP_CERTIFIEDnet nice

RetrunPath and Bayes Poisoning

2010-02-23 Thread Jason Bertoch
Are there any internal checks that disable Bayes autolearn when these artificial whitelist rules match? I'd disabled these rules in versions prior to 3.3.0 but, with all the discussion on the matter, I thought I'd leave them in to see the "new and improved" version. Unfortunately, I'm still

Re: how to SET required score in spam_assassin_check();

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/3/2010 5:16 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: A basic problem with running SpamAssassin at a MTA level (like through a milter) is that a message may have multiple recipients, yet spam checking is typically done only once per message, not once per recipient. This rules out possibilities like having p

Re: Sought Rules Back?

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/1/2010 10:58 AM, RW wrote: On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 16:30:04 +0100 Mark Martinec wrote: Update returned sought rules 1/31/2010. Actually back since Jan 6. :) Re-viewed about 1k fraud spam the following days, for the Sought Fraud sub-set. Btw, the three rules JM_SOUGHT_FRAUD_{1,2,3} have a sc

Re: Sought Rules Back?

2010-02-01 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 2/1/2010 10:30 AM, Mark Martinec wrote: Btw, the three rules JM_SOUGHT_FRAUD_{1,2,3} have a score of zero as per Justin's request (Bug 6155 c 38, c72, c89, c124). Not sure if people using the channel realize that scores need to be bumped up. Btw, I prefer to avoid them monopolizing the score

Re: [OT?] Web Form Spam

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/29/2010 12:44 PM, te...@cnysupport.com wrote: Really, I was just trying to figure out what the point would be for someone to fill out the form with obviously invalid data. My guess is that it's a spammer's bot looking for a broken web form to abuse.

Re: sa-compile and 3.3.0

2010-01-29 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 10:20 PM, René Berber wrote: Now using re2c 13.5 same problem, to be precise it doesn't hang, it loops (the CPU usage goes up and down, RSS the same, up and down) at the same point. Here's the output http://pastebin.com/m438000e0 Assuming you recompiled your rules after the re2c

Re: sa-compile and 3.3.0

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 3:54 PM, René Berber wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with spamassassin 3.3.0 after doing sa-compile. The operation didn't return any error and seems to go as usual, but running 'spamassassin --lint' hangs, and it didn't before using sa-compile (it doesn't after using the solution b

Re: removing check for rulenames

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 2:51 PM, Spamassassin List wrote: I did reported to list.dnswl.org but there is no reporting tool for SenderScore Well, there is, but it has been notoriously difficult to find. Although the rule names have changed with the release of 3.3.0, you can find reporting information i

Re: removing check for rulenames

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 2:29 PM, Spamassassin List wrote: Hi, How do I remove checking with RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW and RCVD_IN_RP_SAFE -0.7 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, low trust [67.131.25.23 listed in list

Re: DomainKeys.pm

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 2:25 PM, Spamassassin List wrote: Hi, After upgrading to 3.3.0. I began to get an error Jan 29 03:12:40.458 [9168] warn: plugin: failed to parse plugin (from @INC): Can't locate Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/DomainKeys.pm in @INC (@INC contains: Did I missed out anything? Just the re

Re: blog article on 3.3.0

2010-01-28 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/28/2010 1:52 PM, Warren Togami wrote: I wasn't planning on responding to this thread, but other positive responses have annoyed me. This article is borderline misleading. +1 I've been biting my tongue trying not to respond.

Re: Fuzzyocr and rule errors after upgrade to 3.3.0

2010-01-27 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/27/2010 1:02 PM, John Wilcock wrote: Le 27/01/2010 18:57, Justin Mason a écrit : Either someone forgot to delete all these rules, or (more likely IMO) someone forgot to include 72_active.cf and 80_additional.cf in the sa-update files. I think you're dead right. It appears one of the bu

Re: 3.3.0 local.cf parse error

2010-01-27 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/27/2010 11:19 AM, Jackson, Jeff wrote: I'm getting the following parse errors after upgrading to 3.3.0: Jan 27 08:04:15.172 [30437] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": use_auto_whitelist 1 Jan 27 08:04:15.172 [30437] warn: config: failed to p

Re: Problems with false positives

2010-01-19 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/19/2010 7:52 AM, Taylon Silmer wrote: Hello guys! I use: Postfix 2.3.3 Amavis 2.6.4 Spamassassin 3.2.5 CentOS 5.4 with linux kernel 2.6.18 The spamassassin rules are updated and the amavis and postfix configuration files are the same in all servers (so, make no sense to be some problem o

Re: [Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)]

2010-01-19 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/18/2010 6:38 PM, mouss wrote: David B Funk a écrit : On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Jason Bertoch wrote: Can a list admin disable the spamassas...@hundredacrewood.willspc.net account as we're still getting bounces? Original Message Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Fa

Re: is bayes enabled by default?

2010-01-18 Thread Jason Bertoch
On 1/18/2010 1:33 PM, tonjg wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: So you have to make sure that when you are testing or learning, you use the same user that is used in production. thanks for your response. The only config for my SA is a global one. I'm the only user so all the settings I've tinkered wit

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

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
Geoff Soper wrote: OK, I'm slightly confused as to what the advice is here. Is there consensus on SAREs? Should I still use them (via the channel list described at http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SareChannels ) or is it better not to use them? I get the impression that there is consensus

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

2010-01-13 Thread Jason Bertoch
geoff.spamassass...@alphaworks.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that, can you point me in the direction of some info on the 90_2tld.cf.sare.sa-update.dostech.net channel? I found http://taint.org/2007/08/15/004348a.html in relation to sought.rules.yerp.org Info is included in the file itself: # uti

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