Re: Botnet 0.7 syslog entry: Use of uninitialized value

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Yves Goergen wrote: Hi, I have installed Botnet 0.7 from the previous announcements on this list. This is a syslog entry I got today (and maybe already before): Jan 28 09:01:04 mond spamd[12174]: Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /etc/mail/spamassassin/Botnet.pm line 564, line 93. Is

Re: cbl RBL (RESOLVED)

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Thomas Bolioli wrote: Anyone with ideas, they would be greatly appreciated but right now I need to determine if it is SA that is having issues with the lookups or are the accounts screwed up in some way. bind does not seem to be throttled either so the volume of queries should not be the issue

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:52:29PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: /etc/procmail and it is fired off with a user .forward file "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail || exit 75 #tpblists". Still looking into Net::DNS. A few ideas. Fi

Re: Hmm - a server I manage is triggering Botnet

2007-01-28 Thread Thomas Bolioli
will have a problem. I have, to this list and you never responded... See below. Alumni connections is a forwarder service. uptilt is sending email for nashbar.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 09:29:46 -0500 From: Thomas Bolioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Thomas Bolioli wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:25:59PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: vanilla ones and customized ones. Yet, account x is the only one that RBL lookups is working on. Is there anything in how SA deals with DNS lookups that could cause this? SA

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 05:25:59PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: vanilla ones and customized ones. Yet, account x is the only one that RBL lookups is working on. Is there anything in how SA deals with DNS lookups that could cause this? SA calls Net::DNS, which

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:52:23PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: The RBL checks fired off from the command line (while a queryperf was running against the DNS server...) but not when postfix passes the email off through procmail as the same users ID. This is stumping

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Thomas Bolioli wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:40PM -, Alexis Manning wrote: If you're not seeing *any* BLs ever firing in your SA-marked up mails then it'd sound like a DNS issue, e.g. misconfigured firewall or router. Or you've dis

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:40PM -, Alexis Manning wrote: If you're not seeing *any* BLs ever firing in your SA-marked up mails then it'd sound like a DNS issue, e.g. misconfigured firewall or router. Or you've disabled rules, or disabled rbl checks, or you

Re: Hmm - a server I manage is triggering Botnet

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Josh Trutwin wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:43:17 -0800 John Rudd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: X-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from netbits.us ([209.18.107.89]) by 0 ([192.168.0.3]) with SMTP via SSL; 25 Jan 2007 23:47:53 - That would seem to be your problem. I

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:19:40PM -, Alexis Manning wrote: If you're not seeing *any* BLs ever firing in your SA-marked up mails then it'd sound like a DNS issue, e.g. misconfigured firewall or router. Or you've disabled rules, or disabled rbl checks, or you

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Alexis Manning wrote: Thomas Bolioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right you are... Then I have another issue. My RBL checks are not firing off... If you're not seeing *any* BLs ever firing in your SA-marked up mails then it'd sound like a DNS issue, e.g. misconfigured fi

Lint issues

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I am running sa w/lint and it never sees the email I am passing to it. the cmd line is: spamassassin -D --lint < email and the output is always: snip... [29845] dbg: check: is spam? score=2.216 required=6 [29845] dbg: check: tests=MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_SUBJECT,NO_REAL_NAME,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAY

Re: cbl RBL

2007-01-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Alexis Manning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get lookups against cbl (http://cbl.abuseat.org/) and it does not seem to be working. Not a direct answer to your rules question, but isn't the CBL already included in the XBL check? -- A. Right you are... Then I have an

Re: process for getting plugins included into the core dist

2007-01-03 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Thomas Bolioli wrote: I was curious what the process was for plugins that get included into the core distribution. Also, how are the scores determined? Is is best guess or is there actually a statistical analysis done with a corpus to determine the most efficient scoring for a particular rule

process for getting plugins included into the core dist

2007-01-03 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I was curious what the process was for plugins that get included into the core distribution. Also, how are the scores determined? Is is best guess or is there actually a statistical analysis done with a corpus to determine the most efficient scoring for a particular rule set? Also, does that sc

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-31 Thread Thomas Bolioli
See below for content. I forgot to send this to the list. John Rudd wrote: Thomas Bolioli wrote: It seems to have an issue with mail sent through forwarders like alumni accounts and one mail type systems. I am sending you a note off line with the details. No... it doesn't look that w

Re: Botnet 0.7 Plugin is available

2006-12-27 Thread Thomas Bolioli
John Rudd wrote: Botnet 0.7 is up and available. http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet-0.7.tar Botnet is a SpamAssassin plugin which attempts to identify hosts which are likely to be spambot/virusbot hosts, using various DNS fingerprints of the submitting relay. New things i

Re: roaming users sending mail internally and dynamic IPs issue

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Dan Horne wrote: Set up SMTP AUTH and require your users to log in to send email. If I understand correctly Spamassassin automatically trusts mails sent via SMTP AUTH. Th

Re: roaming users sending mail internally and dynamic IPs issue

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Dan Barker wrote: Another issue you'll run into with road warriors is blocks on port 25. They may not be ABEL to authenticate with your server. They'll have to use port 587 (submission) on some connections. This is so common, that I even support 587 inside my firewall so the client setup doesn't

Re: roaming users sending mail internally and dynamic IPs issue

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Dan Horne wrote: I see a couple of ways that this can be remedied, most of which is acceptable. a) Whitelist all of the users (or the entire domain) for every domain on the system [obviously bad since it allows spammers to spoof from headers with impunity even with SPF setup]. b) set up second

Re: roaming users sending mail internally and dynamic IPs issue

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Dan Horne wrote: I see a couple of ways that this can be remedied, most of which is acceptable. a) Whitelist all of the users (or the entire domain) for every domain on the system [obviously bad since it allows spammers to spoof from headers with impunity even with SPF setup]. b) set up second

Re: Botnet 0.6 plugin for Spam Assassin availabile

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Chris Lear wrote: * Oliver Schulze L. wrote (18/12/06 15:42): Nice stats! How do you generate them in SA 3.1.7 ? I use this: http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats-1.0.txt Chris Does this require using spamd instead of invoking spamassassin? Thanks, Tom

roaming users sending mail internally and dynamic IPs issue

2006-12-18 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Whenever our users travel outside the internal networks and send email to each other, the emails get tagged by the below reports (yes, I cranked up the default scores because of the botnet crap out there) because they are on dyn IPs and sending direct to the receiving MTA. I see a couple of wa

Re: SPF is hopelessly broken and must die!

2006-12-13 Thread Thomas Bolioli
John Rudd wrote: Spam Assassin wrote: Why was this topic not started on the SPF list? Was the original poster of this topic looking to get MORE attention on the SpamAssassin list? Whether you and the other amateur-topic-police* like it or not, the subject is related to the more general subj

sa-update

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Bolioli
when I run sa-update it puts new copies of the tests in /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001005/updates_spamassassin_org which I understand from the docs is the correct location. However, the default tests remain in /usr/share/spamassassin/ and I believe they are still being used. How is this supposed t

SPF test issue

2006-12-06 Thread Thomas Bolioli
age-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: Thomas Bolioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Thomas Bolioli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: test email spf Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:48:43 -0500 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Mlf-Threat:

Re: new mailman spam???

2006-06-01 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I definitely did not see an approval request. And I can now confirm that there are some people who are trying to opt out of the list saying they did not subscribe. I already have sent postmaster but I am not optimistic. Tom Benny Pedersen wrote: I have included the mailing in it

new mailman spam???

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I have included the mailing in it's entirety below. Is this an old trick I just have not seen or is this something new using mailman to send spam. I assure you I neither signed up nor confirmed a submission for this mailing list. Is this just a poorly configured mailman install? Tom Return-Pa

Something new to fool SURBL

2005-03-06 Thread Thomas Bolioli
As received (relevant snippet): http://Taiwanese.com href= "http://pickup-card.com";>pickup-card.com Now here is the SA report on it: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on nova.terranovum.com X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.2 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_20_30,

Mysterious AWL entries

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I have this one test that shows up in email headers from time to time (all on subscribe.ru addresses) but I have no idea where it is coming from. It is saying the address is in the AWL ("From: address is in the auto white-list") but I am 99% positive it is not. I am using SQL and have navicat o

Re: Continued problems with RBL

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
That version of Net::DNS is too old. Upgrade that and see if it fixes it. Tom Austin Weidner wrote: According to the docs: On UNIX systems the defaults are read from the following files, in the order indicated: /etc/resolv.conf $HOME/.resolv.conf ./.resolv.conf What

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
package maintainer decided to chmod all of the 5.8.3 site_perl locations 700 to avoid clashes with 5.8.5 in lieu of deleting the directories outright. Good in theory but he/she just went one dir to high when they did it. That's what I get for patching... Tom Thomas Bolioli wrote: Thanks for

Re: spam ham ratio for bayes filter

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Interesting but what happens in the case where someone, like me, is getting 250+ spam a day and only about ten or so legitimate emails? This is not counting this account that my mailing lists go to which I have far better bayes performance on (1:100 spam/ham ratio instead of 10:1 or lower with

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
e Jr wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 11:58:04AM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: Ok. I created copies of the /etc/resolv.conf file in the user's home dirs and made sure the copies were owned by those users and no go. It is still not executing network tests for any user other than roo

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
all method "bgsend" on an undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 112. ) Any ideas? Tom Thomas Bolioli wrote: Ok. I created copies of the /etc/resolv.conf file in the user's home dirs and made sure the copies were owned by those users

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
with procmail executing /usr/bin/spamassassin (not a spamc/spamd setup)? I know I have all the correct settings as other emails in this thread can show. Tom Thomas Bolioli wrote: I had not upgraded from a 2.6x install with Spam Cop. It was a totally stock install and it is still 3.0.0. I have

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-17 Thread Thomas Bolioli
/resolve.conf file when run as other users. This morning's chore is to create links to ~/.resolve.conf for a few users and get it owned by them and see what happens. Will advise. Tom Jeff Chan wrote: On Wednesday, February 16, 2005, 2:25:52 PM, Thomas Bolioli wrote: Hence my pr

Re: Odd issue with a few mailing lists..

2005-02-16 Thread Thomas Bolioli
appear to generally be PGP keys. Not a major issue, but now I have dozens of them (well, more). Not to pick on people, but just in the last few days, I see it from Theo Van Dinter, Michael Parker, Thomas Bolioli, and that seems to be it for the past week or so. I'm using Eudora Windows 6.2.

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-16 Thread Thomas Bolioli
om Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 04:50:52PM -0500, Thomas Bolioli wrote: Is there any way to reverse -L --local for the spam assassin binary. It seems to be on, despite the fact that I use a global procmailrc file and it clearly has /usr/bin/spamassassin as the

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-16 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Is there any way to reverse -L --local for the spam assassin binary. It seems to be on, despite the fact that I use a global procmailrc file and it clearly has /usr/bin/spamassassin as the inary to exec without any switches. Tom Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:58:18PM -05

Re: surbl not reporting on any incoming email

2005-02-16 Thread Thomas Bolioli
>>From the original email I used as seed for the test. Note, no surbl test hit. Tom X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on nova.terranovum.com X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=6.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_99,BIZ_TLD,    CONSOLIDATE_DEBT,G

Disappearing body of email

2004-10-21 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I recieved an email this morning that I get every morning but today it was missing the entire body past the headers. Notice though that SA' report on it leads one to believe it had analyzed the email at some point. I run SA through procmail so I have two places to look and what makes this worse

Re: sa-learn --ham not running from horde/imp.

2004-10-13 Thread Thomas Bolioli
What is likely happening is that sa-learn is running as root, with nobody's permissions since apache su's itself to nobody by default on RH 9/FC1 (I am assuming this version of linux from the LC_ALL/LANG issue, although mac osx is a possibility). When you click the link in horde, it is executin

Re: Public SA Corpus

2004-10-12 Thread Thomas Bolioli
Gerry Doris wrote: I managed to destroy my bayes database...don't ask. Since I only run a home system and don't receive a heavy flow of spam I really like to skip the wait for bayes to get up to speed. Is it recommended to use the public corpus on the SA website or is it too old for proper trainin

Re: SA-Learn script

2004-10-02 Thread Thomas Bolioli
It is not fully tested yet but here it is. NB that I changed the USER env variable to USERNAME. I do not know if this is common on all flavors of linux but USER does not transliterate under su conditions to the child id but stays the parent. The var USERNAME does change to reflect the child use

Re: SA-Learn script

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Bolioli
This is exactly the kind of starting point I needed to get me to get in gear and write something similar for my system. For me however, I am using the std UWash based IMAP and a few other differences but the important difference/addition is that I want to automatically train my users emails acc

Re: Problem with Bayes and AutoLearning

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Bolioli
ble dccproc found. debug: all '*From' addrs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] debug: all '*To' addrs: debug: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? no debug: is DNS available? 0 debug: running meta tests; score so far=2.077 debug: is spam? score=0.553 required=3 tests=BAYES_01,DATE_MISSING,NO_REAL_N

Re: Problem with Bayes and AutoLearning

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Bolioli
PM 9/24/2004, Thomas Bolioli wrote: bayes_path ~/.spammer This statement is invalid if a directory named ".spammer" exists in the user's home.. Please read the docs on bayes_path VERY carefully. Despite being named "path" it's really "path, plus filename prefi

Problem with Bayes and AutoLearning

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas Bolioli
I am having a problem with 2.63 not using bayes. (NB: setup is using individual data and triggering using .4ward, procmail and postfix with no individual .sa and .procmail files) I have trained each of three accounts with over 1000 ham and some 48K spam messages. SA is working and tagging spam