Re: Bayes always reject.

2023-12-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
> From: Pierluigi Frullani > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 07:49:24 +0100 > > Hello all, > I'm facing a strange problem. ... > tests=BAYES_95,MISSING_DATE,MISSING_HEADERS,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE How did you feed this message into SpamAssassin? Did you do something to strip of

Re: BAYES scores

2023-02-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
> From: joe a > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 11:37:34 -0500 > > Curious as to why these scores, apparently "stock" are what they are. > I'd expect BAYES_999 BODY to count more than BAYES_99 BODY. > > Noted in a header this morning: > > * 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 1

Re: Hits on item with " No description available"

2022-01-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
Greg Troxel writes: > From: Greg Troxel > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:32:53 -0500 > > I followed my own advice about egrep -R and found this immediately > > it's in > > 3.004006/updates_spamassassin_org/72_active.cf > > and it is > > ##{ FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1 > header FSL_HELO_NON_F

Re: DCC whitelisting

2015-06-11 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: sha...@shanew.net Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:02:59 -0500 (CDT) On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, John Hardin wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Shane Williams wrote: > >> Two examples that I know are legitimate senders, but get caught by DCC >> (and pyzor in some cases) and other

Re: effectiveness of DCC checks?

2015-04-14 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Quanah Gibson-Mount Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:59:28 -0700 I've noticed that DCC_CHECK is flagging on tons of items that are clearly not spam. The most recent hit for me today was a release announcement from the mariadb folks. Overall, it's a trend I'm routinely seeing

Re: SpamRATS RBL?

2015-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Kevin A. McGrail" Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:21:39 -0400 Anyone use this RBL or familiar with it? Pros/cons? Efficacy data? regards, KAM I get 5% spam hits on DYNA and 10% on NOPTR. The SPAM list isn't that great (< 1% spam and some false hits). -jeff

Re: Rule to match a blacklist of email addresses.

2015-01-10 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Steve Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 14:23:36 + I have a domain for which (for historic reasons) I want a catch-all rule to accept email. Until recently, Spamassassin has done a great job of separating the ham from the spam. Recently, I've been receiving a large num

Re: Spam messages bypassing SA

2014-10-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Bob Proulx Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 18:37:35 -0600 In the first email: # The lock file ensures that only 1 spamassassin invocation happens # at 1 time, to keep the load down. # :0fw: spamassassin.lock * < 40 | spamc -x Kevin A. McGrail

Re: Philosophical question on Bayes (was Re: 23_bayes_ignore_header.cf)

2014-10-14 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Axb Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:37:36 +0200 On 10/14/2014 11:08 PM, Adam Katz wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:10:52 +0200 Axb wrote: >>> and to avoid further discussions of what header may pollute bayes or >>> not, I've removed all header entries which are not directly

Re: Bayes Problem

2014-08-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Julian Brown Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:46:55 -0500 I work for a company that has lots of mail users. We use Exim with Spamassassin. My job is to track down this problem. We are getting complaints of too much spam and have tracked it down, using Google, to our bay

Re: New at SpamAssassin - how to not get headers

2014-08-05 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: RobertGrimes Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:50:44 -0700 (PDT) I don't know if this is fair to ask, but would you (or anyone) care to see if the message I am posting should be rated higher than 1.9? I appologize if this is not appropriate. The message is at http://pastebin

Re: getting tons of SPAM

2014-07-02 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: John Hardin Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:45:07 -0700 (PDT) On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, motty cruz wrote: > bayan filter is not running: according to header, > > X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at fqdn.com > X-Spam-Flag: NO > X-Spam-Score: -0.009 > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spa

Re: whitelist_from_spf dbg

2014-05-19 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 15:44:30 +0200 > On 17.05.14 14:11, Jeff Mincy wrote: > >It would have been easier to figure out why it was matching if the > >matching spf entry was printed out, for example something like this: > &g

Re: whitelist_from_spf dbg

2014-05-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 18:22:49 +0200 On 17.05.14 14:11, Jeff Mincy wrote: >I just got some spam that was erroneously spf whitelisted hitting WHITELIST_FROM_SPF >It took me a while to figure out why it was getting WHITELIST_FROM_SPF

whitelist_from_spf dbg

2014-05-17 Thread Jeff Mincy
I just got some spam that was erroneously spf whitelisted hitting WHITELIST_FROM_SPF It took me a while to figure out why it was getting WHITELIST_FROM_SPF but I eventually tracked it down down to this whitelist entry: whitelist_from_spf *@*buy.com The *@*buy.com (obviously) matches *@odyssey

Re: help with regex

2014-02-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Kevin A. McGrail" Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:06:34 -0500 On 2/26/2014 6:53 PM, Webmaster wrote: > I need a regex to match an alphanumeric string with letters and numbers. > > example: 48HQZBF404TY2298D1414BB8050022YQ3872444 > > The pattern is defined as: >

Re: re-learning ? was - bayes - large message

2013-04-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Joe Acquisto-j4" Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:10:26 -0400 >>> On 4/19/2013 at 8:33 PM, "Joe Acquisto-j4" wrote: On 4/19/2013 at 8:26 PM, "Joe Acquisto-j4" wrote: >> I thought I had corrected this issue, with someone's assistance, a while > ago: >> >> Apr 19

Re: rdns in received header

2013-02-21 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:36:18 +0100 >On 2/21/2013 9:03 AM, Jeff Mincy wrote: >>Well, I trust the network not to lie. This is more of an omission On 21.02.13 10:26, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >Your Clinton-esque logic likely d

Re: rdns in received header

2013-02-21 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Kevin A. McGrail" Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:07:20 -0500 On 2/21/2013 10:36 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > And how is this ISP's issue related to RFCs? The RFC does not mention > word > "trusted" A fair point that I didn't explain clearly enough. The RFC

Re: rdns in received header

2013-02-21 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Kevin A. McGrail" Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 08:46:40 -0500 On 2/20/2013 8:51 PM, Jeff Mincy wrote: > ... > > This leads to various bad things (RDNS_NONE & broken WHITELIST_FROM_RCVD) > > Is there anything in SpamAssassin that can deal

rdns in received header

2013-02-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
My local ISP (rcn.com) reconfigured their email servers. The 69.168.97.77 hop does not seem to be doing rdns lookups on the previous hop. For example, I get these two received headers at the trust boundary: ... Received: from mx.rcn.com ([69.168.97.77]) by mx06.atw.mail.rcn.net w

Re: X-Relay-Countries

2013-02-12 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Mike Grau Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:18:33 -0600 > Hmm I would do something like this (untested): > > header RELAY_NOT_US X-Relay-Countries =~ /\b(?!US)[A-Z]{2}\b/ I've had to use, IIRC. X-Relay-Countries =~ /\b(?!US|XX)([A-Z]{2})\b/ XX means unknown, mostl

Re: Spamassassin not parsing email messages

2012-12-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Sean Tout Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:10:02 -0800 (PST) Hi Henrik, Thank you much for the prompt response and points. I ran the Perl script with the code you pasted below, but still got the same report scores for all emails! by the way, when I also tried to print cont

Re: BAYES_00

2012-10-06 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Arthur Dent Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:03:18 +0100 Hello all, Following a hard drive crash I am rebuilding my small home server on a Fedora17 platform. One of the casualties of the HD crash was my spam corpus. I had a (very old) backup which happened to includ

Re: Very spammy messages yield BAYES_00 (-1.9)

2012-08-15 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Ben Johnson Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:36:08 -0400 Some 99% of the spam that I receive, which is grossly spammy (we're talking auto loans, cash advances, dink pills, the whole lot) contains "BAYES_00=-1.9" in the tests portion of the X-Spam-Status header. Might anyon

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST and SPF_FAIL

2012-06-19 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: RW Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:43:57 +0100 On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 18:02:28 -0400 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: John Hardin >Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:44:29 -0700 (PDT) > >On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Benny Pedersen wrote: > >&

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST and SPF_FAIL

2012-06-19 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: John Hardin Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:44:29 -0700 (PDT) On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Den 2012-06-19 22:39, Kevin A. McGrail skrev: > >> I think that's the concept behind the whitelist_from_spf > > but some use whitelist_from, its nothing new t

Re: Whitelisting with DKIM

2011-10-31 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Alex Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:18:33 -0400 I have a fedora15 system with sa-3.3.2 and amavisd-2.6.6 and would like to whitelist messages like these: Oct 31 11:19:42 mail02 amavis[3518]: (03518-01-20) SPAM-TAG, -> <50...@example.com>, No, score=-4.555 tagged_above=-1

Disposition deleted

2011-08-08 Thread Jeff Mincy
Can somebody clue me in on how to match 'Disposition: automatic-action/MDN-sent-automatically; deleted' in a disposition-notification mime attachment? --_=_NextPart_001_01CC55E0.440F392C Content-Type: message/disposition-notification Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Final-Recipi

RE: SA and Spear Phishing

2011-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Hamad Ali Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:46:08 +0400 ## back on topic ## Anyway, I would highly appreciate any help on spear phishing. A solution, a guess, or just if you know whether you get spear phish at all is good information for me (I started to think that 99% of mail admi

Re: new rules - where do i activate them?

2011-03-02 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: John Hardin Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 07:50:38 -0800 (PST) On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, tr_ust wrote: > This is what my rules look like now: > > uri LOCAL_URI_EXAMPLE /zynetsw.com\/forms\/use\/index\/form1.html/ > score LOCAL_URI_EXAMPLE 200 > uri LOCAL_URI_EXAMPLE /zy

Re: Trouble whitelisting domain users with whitelist_from_rcvd

2010-07-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: keithcommins Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Hi there , Having some trouble getting this to work correctly , it would seem.. Firstly, here is my whitelist_from rcvd config from my local.cf file. You can't use whitelist_from_rcvd on internal email.

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

2010-04-14 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "R-Elists" Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:43:21 -0700 having spent the better part of a two days searching as well as trying different configs and SA restarts we do not have a "hardware horsepower" resource starvation issue in reference to the error spamd[30339]:

Re: Limit SA to scan messages 100k and below

2010-03-31 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Keith De Souza Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:10:50 +0100 Hi *>> You need to change whatever glue you are using to pass messages to SA, >>and skip the scanning for messages larger than your desired threshold. *Sorry as I'm new to SA can you elaborated what you mean b

Re: Off Topic - SPF - What a Disaster

2010-02-23 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Martin Gregorie Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:04:07 + On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 16:17 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The only exception is if you have a strict SPF policy for your own > domain, you can use it to reject spam pretending to be from your users. Agreed. That's

Re: X-Relay-Countries can stick?

2010-02-12 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Robert Nicholson Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:32:00 -0600 Perhaps my confusion lies in the fact that it looks like headers != metadata? Is there a way or setting that allows metadata to result in headers in the message? Did you try add_header? ifplugin Mail::SpamAssassin:

Re: MTX plugin created (Re: Spam filtering similar to SPF, less breakage)

2010-02-11 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Charles Gregory Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:55:10 -0500 (EST) On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: > http://www.chaosreigns.com/mtx/ You know, just for a moment I thought I would take a look, just for curiosity sake, and instead got this moronic jack-as

Re: Rules for not passing SPF

2010-02-02 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: dar...@chaosreigns.com Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:38:20 -0500 On 02/02, Marc Perkel wrote: > Why would you want to catch domains without SPF as SPF has no > relationship to detecting spam? SPF is entirely about spam. Actually, SPF is about forgery and forgery is par

Re: How should this tricky spam be filtered?

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kārlis Repsons Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:20:23 + On Saturday 30 January 2010 15:48:36 Jeff Mincy wrote: > BAYES_99,DCC_CHECK,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_FIVETEN_SPAM,RCVD_IN_NIX > SPAM,RCVD_IN_UCEPROTECT1,RCVD_IN_UCEPROTECT2,RCVD_IN_UCEPROTECT3,BOTN

Re: How should this tricky spam be filtered?

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Ralph Bornefeld-Ettmann Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:14:10 +0100 Am 30.01.2010 16:48, schrieb Jeff Mincy: >From: Kārlis Repsons >Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:07:16 + > >On Saturday 30 January 2010 13:54:14 Jeff Mincy wrote: >

Re: How should this tricky spam be filtered?

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kārlis Repsons Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:07:16 + On Saturday 30 January 2010 13:54:14 Jeff Mincy wrote: > Retrain the message correctly in Bayes. Bayes will catch on to this > after a few times. The subject alone should be a strong enough clue > for bay

Re: How should this tricky spam be filtered?

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kārlis Repsons Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:35:26 + People, perhaps its simple to be done, but I personally would like to know the ways to get rid of something like this: Use pastebin and save the entire message including the headers instead of forwarding messages lik

Re: About upgrading

2010-01-11 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Alex Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 21:13:24 -0500 >   sa-learn --dump magic gives: >       0.000          0          3          0  non-token data: bayes db version >       0.000          0      57538          0  non-token data: nspam >       0.000          0      74876        

Re: About upgrading

2010-01-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Cecil Westerhof Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:24:56 +0100 Jeff Mincy writes: >I upgraded from 3.0.4 to 3.2.5. I have the feeling that sa-learn takes >more time with 3.2.5 as it took with 3.0.4. Can this be true? > >It is not a problem, b

Re: About upgrading

2010-01-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Cecil Westerhof Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:39:59 +0100 Cecil Westerhof writes: > I did the upgrade. It took some time and there was a slight problem with > permissions, but it looks like a successful upgrade. I only changed > /dev/null to a real mailbox, because of

RE: [sa] Re: FH_DATE_PAST_20XX

2010-01-02 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "R-Elists" Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 08:33:42 -0800 > > > /20[1-9][0-9]/ --> /20[2-9][0-9]/ > we changed it to this before the update and still had the issue. so we changed back to the older version and then zero'd the score. waitied for the update

RE: [sa] Re: FH_DATE_PAST_20XX

2010-01-01 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "R-Elists" Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:48:13 -0800 > Cc: Spamassassin users list > Subject: Re: [sa] Re: FH_DATE_PAST_20XX > > Damn -- mea culpa. When we fixed the bug in SVN trunk in bug > 5852, I should have immediately backported it to the 3.2.x > sa-update ch

Re: dkim whitelisting

2009-12-16 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: LuKreme Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:23:23 -0700 I'm adding address book users into the user_prefs files, but without the signing domain this is useless and emails for my users are still getting tagged up as spam (these in particular score 7-10 points without the whitelist).

Re: HABEAS_ACCREDITED SPAMMER

2009-11-24 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: LuKreme Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:08:11 -0700 On Nov 23, 2009, at 7:39, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Yes, why to differ between non-abusing and abusing marketers... We've been through this before. On my mail, habeas is a very strong indicator of spam.

Re: Timeouts: pyzor and razor2

2009-11-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Art Greenberg Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:58:48 -0500 (EST) Lately I'm seeing a fairly consistent timeout for checks sent to pyzor and razor2 by SA. Up until a couple of days ago this was a very rare concurrence. Seems odd that both of these would have this trouble at the

Re: Another dcc question

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Rick Knight Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:42:18 -0700 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Rick Knight >Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:53:21 -0700 > >Just following this thread because I recently got dcc working also. In >my case I didn'

Re: Another dcc question

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Rick Knight Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:53:21 -0700 Just following this thread because I recently got dcc working also. In my case I didn't have dcc installed. After installing dcc everything seems to be working but now I'm wondering about dccifd. On my system dccproc

Re: just enabled DCC

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Dan Schaefer Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:17:43 -0400 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Dan Schaefer >Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:18:44 -0400 > > Jeff Mincy wrote: >>From: Dan Schaefer >>Date: Tue, 13

Re: just enabled DCC

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Dan Schaefer Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:18:44 -0400 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Dan Schaefer >Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:54:29 -0400 > >Jason Bertoch wrote: >> Dan Schaefer wrote: >>> I just enabled DCC yesterda

Re: just enabled DCC

2009-10-13 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Dan Schaefer Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:54:29 -0400 Jason Bertoch wrote: > Dan Schaefer wrote: >> I just enabled DCC yesterday and everything appears to be working >> (DCC is registered). Just to make sure, can someone post an email to >> pastebin that has a DCC hi

Re: Incresing numbers of DCC_CHECK in ham

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Jari Fredriksson" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:44:09 +0300 > DCC identifies mail that has been sent often. That's what > the rule checks for, if other recipients have seen it, > too. > > You voluntarily installed DCC, knowing SA will use it. > This was on your disc

Re: Incresing numbers of DCC_CHECK in ham

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Jari Fredriksson" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:25:15 +0300 > Is someone trying to poison DCC? > > Yes, you are(:-) If you haven't whitelisted the > mailing list then > you are reporting the email from the mailing list to DCC, > which will > increase the

Re: Incresing numbers of DCC_CHECK in ham

2009-10-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Jari Fredriksson" Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 17:58:06 +0300 This looks worrying. I have it at 2.2 pts, and not caused any false positives, but still, odd. Or is it? I know it is a SPAM indicator but a bulk indicator. Auto correct: That should be 'I know it is *not* a spam ind

Re: Problems with whitelist_from_rcvd

2009-10-02 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Igor Bogomazov Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:34:55 +0400 When I add the string like: whitelist_from s...@domain.mail it works OK. But: whitelist_from_rcvd s...@domain.mail prefix.domain.mail doesn't work. I've checked rDNS of the prefix.domain.mail with 'hos

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-22 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: MySQL Student Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:38:47 -0400 > Try using a local SA setup for stripping the headers. By local, I mean > don't use your main production SA - run a separate copy with its own > (cut down) configuration and all data base accesses and UBL calls etc >

Re: Problem with whitelist_from_rcvd and forged reverse lookup

2009-07-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Sebastian Wiesinger Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:48:09 +0200 * John Hardin [2009-07-30 17:39]: >> Sendmail -> Procmail -> SA (spamc) > > Cool, that should be simple. > > Can you send: > > (1) the Received: headers from an email generated on that box, and >

Re: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-23 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Jonas Eckerman Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:37:11 +0200 Michael Hutchinson wrote: >> I saw a test >> message with just the word test in the subject hit DCC once. > That's really strange, I don't see how DCC would fire on the subject.. > the checksum of the messa

Re: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-22 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: RW Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:45:50 +0100 On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:42:52 +1200 "Michael Hutchinson" wrote: > If you get an E-Mail scoring in both Pyzor and DCC, the chances are > very high that the message is Spam. We only deal with around 90,000 > incoming deliver

Re: Underscores

2009-07-16 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matt Kettler Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:52:50 -0400 twofers wrote: > How can I pattern match when every word has an underscore after it. > Example: > This_sentenance_has_an_underscore_after_every_word > > I'm not really good at Perl pattern matching, but \w and \W

Re: rbl/dnsbl seems to use wrong ip sometimes

2009-07-11 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: dmy Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:27:34 -0700 (PDT) So is there a way to configure that ALL DNS tests just use the last external ip address (or at least NOT the first one?). Because to me it doesn't make any sense to test the ip people use to deliver messages to their smarthos

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST Not Scoring

2009-07-10 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Karsten Bräckelmann Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:43:03 +0200 On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 06:53 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: > My local root user sends me nightly emails with mail/spam statistics and > information. Because of the spam information contained in the email, i

Re: Controlling spamd logging from spamc

2009-06-04 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Martin Gregorie Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:54:11 +0100 How difficult would it be to let spamc control spamd's logging output on a per-message basis? My reason for asking is this: I maintain a body of spam that I use to develop and regression test local rules and, du

Re: AWL functionality messed up?

2009-05-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Linda Walsh Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:35 -0700 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Linda Walsh >Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:43 -0700 > >Bowie Bailey wrote: > >At face value, this seems very counter productive. >

Re: AWL functionality messed up?

2009-05-27 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Linda Walsh Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:48:43 -0700 Bowie Bailey wrote: > Linda Walsh wrote: >> >> I got a really poorly scored piece of spam -- one thing that stood out >> as weird was report claimed the sender was in my AWL. > > Any sender who has sent mail to

Re: spamassassin runs razor spamc not

2009-05-22 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Mester Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 14:52:08 +0200 >>> Check in the ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file for the user that runs >>> amavisd-new. I know the Mandriva package has that set to 'use_razor2 >>> 0', so I always have to hunt it down and fix it. >> I had no use_razor2 lin

Re: learning from IMAP spam collection

2009-05-19 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Michael Monnerie Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:34:53 +0200 On Sonntag 17 Mai 2009 Michael Monnerie wrote: > Why is it so extremely > slow and CPU consuming just to remove any existing markups? There really seems to be no other way than calling "spamassassin -d" to r

Re: whitelist_from_spf

2009-05-14 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Alvaro Marín Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:30:49 +0200 It seems that there is a problem resolving DNS records of that domain so I want to whitelist it. If I add: whitelist_from_spf *...@orange.es It's ignored by SA, as the log says. Reviewing code of SPF.pm from Sp

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Adam Katz Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 18:47:21 -0400 I am under the impression that virus checking is *not* that much easier than a fully-loaded SA implementation, so therefore spam detection should run first. Counter-point: online lookups cost bandwidth and latency, virus de

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Charles Gregory Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 10:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Uh, what do these 'ratware' rules trigger on? The rules trigger on spam with a particular Message-Id and boundary pattern. How effective are they, and what are the chances of false positives? For last month the KB

Re: 'anti' AWL

2009-04-29 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Charles Gregory Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:31:22 -0400 (EDT) I just turned off my AWL today, because of FP issues but > f...@example.com sends me lots of mail. Say it's over 100. It's all ham and > it all comes from mail.example.com. The AWL for this ema

Re: 'anti' AWL

2009-04-28 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: LuKreme Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:43:46 -0600 OK, working on my first cup of coffee this morning, so maybe this has potential. The way the AWL works is by keeping track of the origin of emails, both the address and the server (the top line Received header?) that

Re: AWL and FP's....

2009-04-22 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Charles Gregory Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:56:53 -0400 (EDT) Just curious if anyone has ever found a 'clean' way to handle the 'damage' done to the AWL when someone's mail is blocked by a false positive, and the sender is stupid enough to keep retrying the offending mail?

Re: use_auto_whitelist error in lint

2009-04-09 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: realshock Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:56:05 -0700 (PDT) Matt Kettler-3 wrote: > Find out where else you've got "use_auto_whitelist 0" in your config, > and remove it. > On the plus side, it does confirm you've correctly disabled the plugin. I searched all over the

Re: need help - procmail & spamassassin

2009-04-04 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "sebast...@debianfan.de" Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:56:38 +0200 Hello, i am filtering mails with spamassassin & procmail. This is more of a procmail question, so it doesn't actually belong here. The header of message X-Spam-Level: ** I

Re: New kind of spam

2009-03-31 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:33:49 +0200 > What do you mean "its impossible to train bayes"? i was assuming the random text at the end is what couses my bayes db to behave randomly. Random text that occurs only in spam rapidly becomes a spam si

Re: New kind of spam

2009-03-30 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:59:58 +0100 http://codepad.org/W53onqK9 i gave on this kind of spam. its impossible to train bayes and changing to fast to make custom rules. ... What do you mean "its impossible to train bayes"? Bayes really can b

Re: Blacklisting Cyrillic

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kenneth Porter Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:22:21 -0700 I'd like to score anything in Windows-1251 fairly high, as I don't expect to get anything legitimate in that charset. How can I read the charset declared in a Subject header, or in a MIME part, for matching in a rule?

RE: Server overload, queuing for SA possible?

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Bowie Bailey Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:07:23 -0500 Jeff Mincy wrote: > >If I'm reading the spamc man page correctly, it will wait 5 >minutes for spamd to process the message, but it will only wait >about 3 seconds for a connection to sp

RE: Server overload, queuing for SA possible?

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Bowie Bailey Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:55:45 -0500 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Bowie Bailey >Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:48:30 -0500 > >Brian J. Murrell wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:01 -0400, Micha

RE: Server overload, queuing for SA possible?

2009-03-26 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Bowie Bailey Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:48:30 -0500 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:01 -0400, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > > Match your MTA processes to the spamd children. Your MTA will send > > 4xx 'busy now, come back to play later' message.

Re: Spam Assassin White List

2009-03-24 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:30:23 +0100 On 23.03.09 21:58, dsh979 wrote: > I did not realise that items listed on the white list or the black list > would still be subject to the operation/analysis of the SpamAssassin Rules. all rules are pro

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-23 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Chris Barnes Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:14:37 -0500 Jeff Mincy wrote: > Yow. The negative scoring bayes rules are extremely reliable when well > trained. Ham messages are not trying to evade the filter. Defeating > bayes with poison is mostly a myth. T

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Jesse Stroik Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:39 -0500 Hoover Chan wrote: > The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is s

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Hoover Chan Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:55:08 -0700 (PDT) The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the th

Re: SpamAssassins bayes mechanism and message headers

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matt Kettler Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:49:53 -0400 Jeff Mincy wrote: >From: Matt Kettler >Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:30:02 -0400 > >fl...@pbartels.info wrote: >> Hello, >> >> instead of disabl

Re: SpamAssassins bayes mechanism and message headers

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Greg Troxel Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:33:31 -0400 Jeff Mincy writes: >From: Matt Kettler >Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:30:02 -0400 > >> shouldn't SpamAssassins bayes mechanism just ignore the complete >> message header

Re: SpamAssassins bayes mechanism and message headers

2009-03-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Matt Kettler Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:30:02 -0400 fl...@pbartels.info wrote: > Hello, > > instead of disabling a lot possibly set message headers using > "bayes_ignore_header" and ending up in strange configs like: > > bayes_ignore_header Return-Path ...

Re: Some emails pass spamassassin unprocessed

2009-02-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Monky Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:31:14 -0800 (PST) Hello, I am running the Spamd Daemon version 3.2.5 on my Linux web and mail server and in general it works well. From time to time (somewhere in between 1-10% of all emails) spam passes the filter - but not because spama

Re: vbounce and out of office messages

2009-02-01 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kai Schaetzl Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:40:00 +0100 Jeff Mincy wrote on Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:01:49 -0500: > I use vbounce rules to detect bounce messages that were missed by > various procmail filtering rules. Any message identified as a bounce > is proc

Re: vbounce and out of office messages

2009-02-01 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Kai Schaetzl Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:31:17 +0100 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:42:16 +0100: > FWIW, and to make Michael happy, I just caught one today -- hit another > rule, __BOUNCE_OOO_3. Sadly, it also hit __BOUNCE_AUTO_REPLY. So there's > mo

Re: profile the various tests being done

2009-01-21 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Brian J. Murrell" Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:15:19 + (UTC) I'm trying to figure out why in some cases, spamd is taking in excess of 1200s to process messages. Is there any way to profile (i.e. time, or timestamp) each of the tests that spamd is doing so I can see w

Re: Spam with clean URI's which forward to DNSBListed URL (by HTML redirect header)

2009-01-07 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Theo Van Dinter Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:36:18 -0500 On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:46:44PM +0100, Florian Lagg wrote: > So - if possible - I want spamassassign to: > 1. Request the links in the mail body and check them for http-error 302 or > meta redirects > 2. Check t

Re: sa-update damages existing SA installation

2008-12-18 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Marcin Krol Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:37:12 +0100 Hello everyone, When I run sa-update -D --gpgkey 6C6191E3 --channel sought.rules.yerp.org, it damages my SA installation! sa-update puts rules in /var/lib/spamassassin/ Once this directory exists all site rules are

Re: White List From RCVD

2008-12-11 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: mouss Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:55:44 +0100 Asif Iqbal a écrit : > I have this in local.cf in qmail.here.net's /etc/mail/spamassassin dir > > whitelist_from_rcvd joe.sm...@here.com qtdenexmbm24.AD.HERE.COM > > But email from that address still tagged

RE: about fake mails

2008-12-07 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: "Giampaolo Tomassoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:52:10 +0100 > -Original Message- > From: Yavuz Maslak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 3:02 PM > > Ok > I have started to use dkim verification. I defined whitel

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