Participate in the ASF 25th Anniversary Campaign

2024-04-03 Thread Brian Proffitt
tion project. The ASF will very occasionally send out messages relating to the Foundation to contributors and members, such as this one.] Brian Proffitt VP, Marketing & Publicity VP, Conferences

Re: Looking for advice about limiting DNS queries

2023-01-07 Thread Brian Conry
nd skip only that content in which we expect to find trouble. I believe I can do variants A) and B), so worst case would be choosing B, but I'm willing to put in some additional work to implement variant C) if that is possible. If you've made it this far, I congratulate you on

Looking for advice about limiting DNS queries

2023-01-06 Thread Brian Conry
efore making any changes to our configs. Thank you, Brian Conry

BAYES_00 Query

2014-04-26 Thread Brian Eliassen
other rules that are hitting. I cannot figure out why BAYES_00 would hit on these. Thanks in advance. Oh, this is a sendmail -> mimedefang -> spamassassin/clamav/razor installation. Any recommendations on additional plugins to consider and/or SARE-like channels to subscribe to would be greatly appreciated. Brian

Rule FH_RANDOM_SURE causing FPs

2014-01-16 Thread Brian Bebeau
We're having a problem with the FH_RANDOM_SURE rule causing false positives. It has a subrule __ALL_RANDOM, which is: header __ALL_RANDOM ALL =~ /(?:[%\#\[\$]R?A?NDO?M?|\%(?:CUSTOM|FROM|PROXY|X?MESSA|MAKE_TXT|FROM_USER))/i We have a user "ndrier", so legitimate email sometimes has a

RE: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Duncan, Brian M.
I am considering taking a look at building my own DNSBL, when I have more time later I will check out the tools you made, I took a quick look at the Perl scripts and they look like it makes it allot easier to do myself. Thanks for making that available to everyone. Brian

RE: Large # of Spam getting through all of a sudden.

2013-06-10 Thread Duncan, Brian M.
On 6/10/2013 2:45 PM, Duncan, Brian M. wrote: > I rarely have seen any SpamAssasin hits on the bodies of these messages. > > (cached, score=-0.125,required 6.5, autolearn=not spam, > RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.12) Do you train the Bayes database manually? Or via autolearn only?

Ham hitting too generic rule

2012-02-07 Thread Brian Bebeau
hrase, and it has an awfully high score (2.199). I can well imagine people getting mail from their stock broker or the like with this phrase in it somewhere. Any chance the score can at least be reduced? -- Brian Bebeau Security Researcher - Spiderlabs Research Trustwave bbeb...@tru

RE: Adding a blacklist via sa-update - would you mind?

2011-12-05 Thread Brian Bebeau
for it to a large number of scanners. If this went through, we'd need a good amount of notice to put that in place. -- Brian Bebeau Security Researcher Spiderlabs Research Trustwave bbeb...@trustwave.com This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, and/or

Re: --virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-10-16 03:37 PM, RW wrote: > > Could you not just run a script from cron that does chown ${USER}:spamd > and chmod g+rw on all the files in the virtual home directories. You seem to have gotten lost in minor details and lost sight on the original problem which is that of being able to run sp

Re: --virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-10-16 03:12 PM, RW wrote: > > Not if you set --virtual-config-dir. Right. But such a change (i.e. a different $HOME on the server than on any other machine) is still on the "transparent to users" change that I am looking for -- the change that requires no user re-training and no increase i

Re: --virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
m, and add a symlink to the user's NFS mount point on the server. Yeah. I have been considering an approach like this where $HOME on the server is a local dir with the .spamassassin dir in it and a symlink to their automounted $HOME like: $ ls -la $HOME drwx-- 4 brian brian4

Re: --virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-10-16 01:31 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > Have you thought of running spamc remotely? This way you could avoid the > need to login the the server just to process mail. Hrm. I'm not sure I follow. The server receives the mail and the server delivers it to the user's mailbox but on the way

Re: --virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On 11-10-16 12:16 PM, Christian Grunfeld wrote: > > You should have spamd running as root, But I do that already. That is what is causing the problem with the new switch (--virtual-config-dir=...): spamd: cannot use --virtual-config-dir without -u > then it can setuid to the > calling spamc ui

--virtual-config-dir without -u

2011-10-16 Thread Brian J. Murrell
o the server and create a symlink in each users' ~ to link back to the server-hosted .spamassassin dir as such: $ ls -l ~/.spamassassin lrwxrwxrwx 1 brian brian 35 2011-10-16 09:17 /home/brian/.spamassassin -> /net/mail/home/spamassassin/brian/ But to achieve this and make spamd use this /home

RE: FuzzyOCR

2011-07-06 Thread Brian Bebeau
> after an apt-get upgrade FuzzyOCR has stopped working. I get the > following error in the log: > > FuzzyOCR: 2011-06-22 17:00:38 [3057] /usr/bin/jpegtopnm: Returned > [2048], skipping... I had this problem too, after upgrading SA to 3.3.x and FuzzyOCR to 3.6.0. Upgrading netpbm fixed it for me.

RE: Writing an MTA

2010-07-27 Thread Brian Bebeau
Look in the source directory for spamc. Use the libspamc API. That’s what I do. It’s pretty simple. From: Christopher Dobbs [mailto:crdo...@lybredyne.net] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 12:39 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Writing an MTA I am writing an MTA that uses mysql as a backe

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/22/2010 2:23 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 7/22/2010 11:29 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On tor 22 jul 2010 20:03:18 CEST, Charles Gregory wrote A forged sender looks no different than a legitimate sender. Postfix would have no way to be 'smart' about this (except for some instances of SPF

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-23 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/20/2010 1:01 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: You are mistaken. I'm a proponent of port 25 blocks. What I am saying is that port 25 blocks work far better than attempting to spamfilter outbound mail. It is the other guy who is arguing that spamfiltering outbound mail is better than port 25 b

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/19/2010 4:01 PM, RW wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:25:26 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: It's been our experience that spam-scanning outbound mail causes a lot more problems than setting up mailserver monitoring and being responsive to it. Sooner or later one of your customers is going to

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/19/2010 2:25 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 7/19/2010 12:56 PM, Brian Godette wrote: On 7/19/2010 1:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 7/19/2010 8:43 AM, Brian Godette wrote: On 7/15/2010 6:55 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Hi all, Few months ago I asked this list if using SA on

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/19/2010 1:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: On 7/19/2010 8:43 AM, Brian Godette wrote: On 7/15/2010 6:55 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Hi all, Few months ago I asked this list if using SA on outgoing smtp was a good idea (Thread: SA on outgoing SMTP). This thread quickly moved to "

Indirectly related to SA.

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Godette
Like some people I run a small internal spamtrap of never used by real users addresses for use in feeding Bayes as well as reporting to Razor and internal IXHASH. In addition I also have a database that returns "550 User unknown" for all email addresses that are "dead", with the date they were

Re: thanks to thinking people.

2010-07-19 Thread Brian Godette
On 7/15/2010 6:55 PM, Alexandre Chapellon wrote: Hi all, Few months ago I asked this list if using SA on outgoing smtp was a good idea (Thread: SA on outgoing SMTP). This thread quickly moved to "Block direct port 25 for non-mta users! I was really afraid of doing so and didn't really wante

Re: URIBL Notice

2010-03-12 Thread Brian
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 07:48 -0800, Ray Dzek wrote: > I just received the dreaded URIBL “You send us to many DNS queries” > notice. This is fine. We have been growing and I am sure our queries > have gone up. But when looking at their data feed service options the > first thing I noticed was that

Re: Bogus mails from hijacked accounts

2010-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 07:55 -0600, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > > 1) Spammers rotate sender addresses and hijacked account info more > > often than most of us change our underwear. An account *may* get > > reused; chances are it'll be months before it does, and the spammers > > will have rotated t

Re: Bogus mails from hijacked accounts

2010-03-11 Thread Brian
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 12:26 +, Ned Slider wrote: > David B Funk wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Dennis B. Hopp wrote: > >> > >> I have put a sample at: > >> > >> http://pastebin.com/9BDXrxmm > >> > >> Note I did change the real e-mail address in this message but the > >> hotmail address used is

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:22 -0800, Bob O'Brien wrote: > Noel Butler wrote: > > He has a point though, and why is it when people don't agree with > > someone the troll label comes out, FFS get over your selves. People > > always only half read, and then go half cocked, its called life, get > > u

Re: End of Thread [Was: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt]

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:16 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:35 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > >> Brian wrote on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:51:45 +: > >> > >>> Yes, but that does not answer my question {and is once more Postfix

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 12:35 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Brian wrote on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:51:45 +: > > > Yes, but that does not answer my question {and is once more Postfix > > biased} AFAIK Postfix is totally unable to reject mail at SMTP time that > > Spamassassin

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:45 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Brian : > > > So Ralf - author of 'The Postfix Book', can you please now tell me how > > to get Postfix to reject mail before it accepts it and gives a 250 - > > When Spamassassin tags it as spam? &g

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:38 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:04 +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > >> to stay on the Postfix 'merry-go-round' for an answer, or we > >>> can just agree Postfix can't easily do this

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:24 +, Robert Brooks wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:00 +, Robert Brooks wrote: > >> Brian wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:17 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > >>>> * Brian : > >>>&g

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:17 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Brian : > > > In the year 2010 it is not unreasonable to expect the MTA that takes > > responsibility for accepting a message to make reasonable checks about > > the validity or content of that message.

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 14:04 +0100, Yet Another Ninja wrote: > to stay on the Postfix 'merry-go-round' for an answer, or we > > can just agree Postfix can't easily do this and move on and stop > > flogging this dead horse :-) > > good idea - > > Here, its totally off topic. > > Move it to Postfix

Re: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:00 +, Robert Brooks wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:17 +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > >> * Brian : > >> > >>> In the year 2010 it is not unreasonable to expect the MTA that takes > >>> respon

Re: Fwd: SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-09 Thread Brian
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 02:36 -0700, LuKreme wrote: > On 08-Mar-10 23:51, Brian wrote: > > Yes, but that does not answer my question {and is once more Postfix > > biased} AFAIK Postfix is totally unable to reject mail at SMTP time that > > Spamassassin decides IS SPAM without t

Re: Fwd: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:44 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Brian wrote: > >> That's Postfix 2.3.3 on RHEL5 BTW :-) > >> > >> $ rpm -q postfix > >> postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64 > >> > > Tell me Ned, how do you get Postfix (2.3.3 on RHEL

Re: Fwd: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
> That's Postfix 2.3.3 on RHEL5 BTW :-) > > $ rpm -q postfix > postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.x86_64 > Tell me Ned, how do you get Postfix (2.3.3 on RHEL5) to reject at SMTP time without using a the milter or something hideous like Amavis-crashalot? Perhaps if they added some features to that old dinosa

Re: Fwd: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:16 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:08 -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > >> just a heads up: I don't know if there is a problem with SA milter, but > >> there is a snort signature for it now. > >

Re: Fwd: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Attempt

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:08 -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > just a heads up: I don't know if there is a problem with SA milter, but > there is a snort signature for it now. > > > Original Message > Subject: [Emerging-Sigs] SIG: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin Remote > Arbit

Re: Zen.spamhous.org score for spam assassin...

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 12:41 +, Mike Cardwell wrote: > On 08/03/2010 12:34, Brian wrote: > > > Is zen.spamhous.org new? Personally I'd check your spelling ;-) > > m...@haven:~$ host 1.0.0.127.zen.spamhous.org > 1.0.0.127.zen.spamhous.org A 208.73.210.27 &g

Re: Zen.spamhous.org score for spam assassin...

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
Is zen.spamhous.org new? Personally I'd check your spelling ;-)

Re: How to find where email server has been blacklisted

2010-03-08 Thread Brian
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 10:51 +0100, Mikael Syska wrote: > Hi, > > Then something is broken at your end ... > > I see 4 icons ... timeout, listed, non-listed and offline. > > Or am I missing your point here ? *HINT* Are you colour blind or normal sighted?

RE: which SA database to use

2010-01-08 Thread Brian Bebeau
> I have qmail running with the > > :allow,QMAILQUEUE="/usr/bin/qmail-spamc" > > in /etc/tcp.smtp > > I have some hams/spams that I want to run sa-learn against, but I > can't figure out which database it is qmail filters through. Is it the > db of the user "spamd", "root" or some qmail

Re: giftcardsurveys.us.com

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Godette
Johnson, S wrote: > I’ve done really good with blocking spam up until this one… > > It looks like a “legitimate” e-mailer from both the system perspective > and the system perspective. > > When I look at my logs, the servers are reporting their domains > correctly so their mailserver looks ok whe

Re: Server overload, queuing for SA possible?

2009-03-25 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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. Let the sending MTA queue it > back up (or zombies will just go away) I don't really see that as a socially resp

RE: Server overload, queuing for SA possible?

2009-03-24 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:10 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Your assessment sounds right to me. I would make two suggestions. > > 1) Memory is cheap these days. Add some more RAM. That's a mitigation strategy, yes, but it doesn't really answer OP's question about how to make spamd stop trying t

Re: false positive on X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook

2009-02-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
GID pattern as an exclusion for __FORGED_OUTLOOK_DOLLARS. > Hmm, that fix also landed in the 3.2 branch, and even has been pushed > out to the updates. So it isn't that one? No. That fix still does not use the __HOTMAIL_BAYDAV_MSGID pattern to validate the __FORGED_OUTLOOK_DOLLAR

false positive on X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook

2009-02-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Hi I have a message in hand that is triggering false positives based on the ratware rules in 3.2.4. The specific headers are: Message-ID: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6838 Specifically, it seems that the X-Mailer header matches __OUTLOOK_DOLLARS_MUA, and the Message-ID matches __H

Re: excessive scan time

2009-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:37:09 +, Justin Mason wrote: > you should definitely investigate ways to avoid doing NFS reads/writes > of the bayes files -- that is extremely I/O intensive, and NFS deals > with it very badly. OK. Noted. Maybe I will push the bayes database into MySQL as previously

Re: excessive scan time

2009-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:27:57 +0100, Jonas Eckerman wrote: > > If you're not allready using a SQL database for bayes and AWL I'd > suggest you do that. Those two I might be willing to consider, however... > I'd also suggest using SQL for user preferences. The user interface (i.e. editing a file

profile the various tests being done

2009-01-21 Thread Brian J. Murrell
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 where the longest ones are? Even enabling the kind of debug that "spamassassin -D" produc

Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::DNS::RR::TXT"

2009-01-20 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I seem to be getting a lot of these in the last 36h: 12:02:26 spamd Can't locate object method "new" via package "Net::DNS::RR::TXT" at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/DNS/RR.pm line 305. 12:02:26 spamd caught at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/DnsResolver.pm line 419 Any ideas why? b.

Re: excessive scan time

2009-01-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:47:24 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > When did you sa-update for last time? Ubuntu appears to install a cron.daily cron job which does this amongst other things. > How many processes are you running > in parallel? I have a pretty low volume system but I did jus

excessive scan time

2009-01-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
_ONLY,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RDNS_NONE,TVD_APPROVED,URIBL_BLACK scantime=604.3,size=3325,user=brian,uid=1001,required_score=5.5,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=49135,mid=<20090118234025.2fa951cc7...@66v.uwp30.udelmarva.com>,bayes=1.00,autolear

Re: skew the AWL on spam report

2008-12-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:38 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > To follow-up on this suggestion... > That said, why add code to sa-learn when spamassassin can already do > something even more complete. Try feeding the message "spamassassin -r > --add-to-blacklist". It seems (looking at -D output) that

Re: skew the AWL on spam report

2008-12-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 22:38 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > > That said, why add code to sa-learn when spamassassin can already do > something even more complete. Try feeding the message "spamassassin -r > --add-to-blacklist". Ahhh. I was mistakenly thinking that sa-learn == [ update-bayes datab

Re: skew the AWL on spam report

2008-12-04 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 18:35 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > > ie: you > can't tell sa-learn a message is spam and have it apply that information > in any way to the AWL. I guess that's really what my point was, and I > expressed it poorly. I guess as the OP of this thread, my point was that why sho

skew the AWL on spam report

2008-12-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
If I get a spam and I need to have SA learn that it's spam with sa-learn, wouldn't it be useful to also skew the AWL for that sender so that future uses of the AWL for that spammer will push the overall spam score up? Thots? b.

RE: why is SA testing my server in DNSBLs?

2008-12-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:17 -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > > The checks it's doing below are all RHBL checks, so it's probably testing the > Return-Path:. Indeed, this was the case. What's even better is that is only for the case where I test out of my mailbox as that Return-Path: is only

why is SA testing my server in DNSBLs?

2008-12-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
Hi All, I was doing a bit of "spamassassin -D" testing with SA 3.2.4 and noticed that it's running my own mail server name through various DNSBL tests. Here are the headers of the particular message I am testing: >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 2 05:24:59 2008 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Martinez
Folks, Thanks for your responses thus-far. It seems that my head is floating in the clouds today and I appear to be dreaming half of this situation. A couple of months ago, as I said, our network admin pointed out this problem to me. I can no longer find the email he sent me where he stated

RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP question(s)

2008-08-13 Thread Brian Martinez
Howdy folks, I'm experiencing a problem with some people (myself included) who are not properly receiving their Consumer's Energy bills. Rather, the bills are being marked as spam and sent into their SPAM folders. One of the two things being marked by the Spam-Report are RCVD_ILLEGAL_IP I

Re: sa-learn error message

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Eliassen
gic sa-learn --no-sync --ham --progress --mbox /export/home/brian/Ham sa-learn --sync sa-learn --no-sync --spam --progress --mbox /export/home/brian/Spam sa-learn --sync sa-learn --dump magic spamassassin -D --lint /etc/init.d/mailserver start 1) Shutdown Sendmail/ClamAV/MIMEDef

Telling spamd to give up

2007-11-29 Thread Brian Bebeau
omputer, not letting me even move the mouse. Needless to say, that won't fly for production use. So I could really use some way to tell it to give up. If the only way is to not scan messages over a certain size, I guess I'll have to live with that, but I need to be able to tell TPTB that tha

Re: debbie-dealz / frosty-saver / got-hyrda / aero-dog spam

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Wilson
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Brian Wilson wrote: I've somehow made it onto spam list that isn't being picked up by RBLs or by bayes. All messages have a url that looks like this (where X's are all digits): http://aero-dog.com/1-23-28276-45381XXX.html All messages are originati

debbie-dealz / frosty-saver / got-hyrda / aero-dog spam

2007-09-12 Thread Brian Wilson
itting them to spamcop. A sample message is here: http://bubba.org/spam/newspam1.txt Any suggestions for detecting this? My bayes has been pretty much spot on for months, so this has me puzzled. Thanks, Brian

Re: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin?

2007-08-19 Thread brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I want to temporarily disable SpamAssassin to free up enough resources to let the mail queue clear. How do I do that? Further to the other comments, this page might be helpful: qmail + spamassassin + c

Re: spamd is dying

2007-08-16 Thread brian ally
maillist wrote: brian ally wrote: postfix-2.3.3-1 cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-3 spamassassin-3.1.5-1 spamass-milter-0.3.0-1.1.fc2.rf perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.5-1 I'm seeing spamd processes dying consistently: How are you starting spamd? I think you are starting spamd as a user without permis

spamd is dying

2007-08-16 Thread brian ally
postfix-2.3.3-1 cyrus-imapd-2.2.10-3 spamassassin-3.1.5-1 spamass-milter-0.3.0-1.1.fc2.rf perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.5-1 I'm seeing spamd processes dying consistently: Aug 13 09:06:07 subtropolix spamd[23480]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Pe

Re: Blacklist mail

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Godette
Johnson, S wrote: > The only reason I ask about if I should "learn" the messages is that > my users have a hard time putting good email into the good email > folder. Everyone is quick to put in spam messages though. My filter > is getting about 50 to 1 spam to ham right now. Everything I've > re

Re: Question - How many of you run ALL your email through SA?

2007-08-16 Thread Brian Godette
Marc Perkel wrote: > As opposed to preprocessing before using SA to reduce the load. (ie. > using blacklist and whitelist before SA) > We don't. We use a locally modified MaRBL that uses weighted scoring, RHSBLs against helo/sender domain/reverse, and the BOTNET plugin (each meta-rule gets its

SMTP AUTH problem/question

2007-06-06 Thread Brian C. Hill
sers don't connect from trusted networks, which is why they have to SMTP AUTH to relay mail through my system. Am I missing something? Will that high negative score only be applied to SMTP AUTH from trusted nets? Brian

RE: AWL Troubles

2007-05-07 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Abba Communications - www.abbacomm.net wrote: Thanks for the advise. Is there a way to view the contents of the AWL? How do I remove the table? Go into your source directory Mail-SpamAssassin-3.2.0/tools and look for check_whitelist. This will dump the contents of

Re: [AMaViS-user] Most RBL DNS entries are failing

2007-05-01 Thread Brian C. Dilley
I can't resolve them here (tried on two different co-located servers as well) On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 21:05 +0200, Oenus Tech Services wrote: > Hello. I know this is a little off-topic, but I'm having this problem > and I guess this is a good place to ask for this kind of help. Today, > 1st of May,

Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-27 Thread Brian Godette
Oenus Tech Services wrote: > After much testing, we have decided to put the RBLs on Postfix for > performance reasons. Before checking with those RBLs, our system does > EHLO checks against a known-spammer blacklist database as well to filter > the most obvious cases. Then we use zen.spamhaus.org,

Re: Alternative to red.uribl.com?

2007-04-06 Thread Brian Wilson
our modified version. Bill I can also confirm Bill's unmodified version works like a charm. 8 hits on my single mailbox since yesterday. Brian

Re: bayes autolearn only on non image mails

2007-03-31 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mar 31, 2007, at 11:06 AM, ram wrote: Can I configure SA to autolearn only on non image mails. Prbably use in conjunction with the LARGO rulesets If a mail contains an image , this could probably be an image spam and I dont want to learn words from here and poison my database There w

Re: could someone run these messages....

2007-03-26 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, maillist wrote: The only tests that they score for me are BAYES_99, which should be enough to get them sent to my spam-drop, but they get to the users instead. When I --lint -D I don't see anything that tells me that I have a config problem. I start spamd this way, as

Re: Who is emaildirect.com and CIHost?

2007-03-24 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mar 24, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 24 March 2007, jdow wrote: I was recently on the receiving end of an ssh attack (which had less chance of success than a nitrocellulose cat in a traditional hell of succeeding) from CIHost. And now I received a spate of low scoring

Re: Problem with forwarding and SPF

2007-03-19 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mar 19, 2007, at 5:22 AM, Paul Hurley wrote: Hello all, Happy Pi day for last week... I'm running Spam Assassin V3.1.7.0 via SAProxy for Win32 (http:// sourceforge.net/projects/sawin32/). I've recently implemented SPF for my domain, which is working well. However I ahve a problem wit

Re: Can't Locate Tie/Handle.pm

2007-03-16 Thread Brian Wilson
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, John D. Hardin wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: Getting this error: Can't Locate Tie/Handle.pm Where do I find this and how do you figure out where to find it? ...doesn't the SA documentation or wiki have a list of required CPAN dependencies somewhere in

Re: Low Scoring Message

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mar 14, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Brian Wilson wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John D. Hardin wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Anyway... this is the redirect code they're using: yvxj = "ef=";kacm = "ttp://&quo

Re: Low Scoring Message

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Wilson
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, John D. Hardin wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Anyway... this is the redirect code they're using: yvxj = "ef=";kacm = "ttp://";apgy = "fe";ioo = "'h";usf = "ershikin";uos = ".";iaswx = "inj";bdj = "com'";rpul = "l";fgbww = "nhu";wnx = "ocati

Re: Low Scoring Message

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Wilson
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Brian Wilson wrote: Ok, I've got one; apparently from a gmail user to my gmail account, then forwarded to an external account. The html links go to a blogspot.com site, then redirect to some Pharmacy Express site. Raw Mes

Low Scoring Message

2007-03-14 Thread Brian Wilson
Ok, I've got one; apparently from a gmail user to my gmail account, then forwarded from my gmail account to an external account. The html links go to a blogspot.com site, then redirect to some Pharmacy Express site. Raw Message: http://bubba.org/spam/spam_lowscore.txt Message renders like t

Re: Low Scoring Message

2007-03-13 Thread Brian Wilson
Ok, I've got one; apparently from a gmail user to my gmail account, then forwarded to an external account. The html links go to a blogspot.com site, then redirect to some Pharmacy Express site. Raw Message: http://bubba.org/spam/spam_lowscore.txt Message renders like this: http://bubba.or

Re: Sorting SA Discussion List Messages

2007-03-03 Thread Brian Wilson
On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Mário Gamito wrote: Don Ireland wrote: Every email list I've ever subscribed to has had something in the subject line (usually in square brackets) to identify 1) that it is a mailing list and 2) what list it is. Maybe, just maybe, you can filter through e-mail ad

Re: Using sa-learn and fetchmail

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:59 AM, Matthew Bickerton wrote: Hi all, As described in the SA wiki, I have set up fetchmail to read a mail folder in to sa-learn. However I get the following error: /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -a -s -n --uidl --keep --folder LearnAsSpam -m '/usr/local/bin/sa-learn --

Re: how to start using sa-update

2007-02-25 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 25, 2007, at 3:24 PM, John Fleming wrote: - Original Message - From: "David Goldsmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bram Mertens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 2:10 PM Subject: Re: how to start using sa-update -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: Crooked JPG's not being recognized by FuzzyOCR?

2007-02-25 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 25, 2007, at 2:29 PM, David Goldsmith wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, I had a permissions issue on some of the FuzzyOCR files so it couldn't properly parse it. Now that the permissions are fixed, my system is catching that image. SA results are: X-Spam-Report

Re: FuzzyOcr - how do I "teach" it?

2007-02-24 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Robert S wrote: I have just installed FOCR 3.5.1 with the hashdb option. I have been receiving image spams about China Fruits Corporation which are cleverly designed not to contain words in the words list. How do I insert the hash into the database and label this

RE: FuzzyOcr image spam not getting scored

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Wilson
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Randal, Phil wrote: Charming! Being part of a large community on this mailing list, my answer was addressing all readers and not just you. So I included the extra info for those readers who scanned your email and found low SA scores regardless. What FuzzyOCR scanset did y

RE: FuzzyOcr image spam not getting scored

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Wilson
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Randal, Phil wrote: I caught these by adding corpo to my FuzzyOCR.words file. But you should also br running a bunch of SARE rules, and sa-updated rulesets. Wow, thanks for not reading my email or reading the scores in the message I posted. As I originally noted, the

Re: Fwd: FuzzyOcr - how do I "teach" it?

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Wilson
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Jorge Valdes wrote: Brian Wilson wrote: On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Robert S wrote: I have just installed FOCR 3.5.1 with the hashdb option. I have been receiving image spams about China Fruits Corporation which are cleverly designed not to contain words in the words

Fwd: FuzzyOcr - how do I "teach" it?

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 20, 2007, at 6:36 PM, Robert S wrote: I have just installed FOCR 3.5.1 with the hashdb option. I have been receiving image spams about China Fruits Corporation which are cleverly designed not to contain words in the words list. How do I insert the hash into the database and label this i

FuzzyOcr image spam not getting scored

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Wilson
Passing this along in case someone has a scanset that is able to pick this one up. Yes, it was tagged as spam from other rules, but I got nothing from FuzzyOcr on it. http://bubba.org/spam/imagespam12.gif http://bubba.org/spam/imagespam12.txt -B

Re: Be bumblebee do shaft

2007-02-22 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 22, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: Your best bets at the moment are FuzzyOCR and the SARE_STOCKS ruleset. FuzzyOCR would have a real good chance of catching that image. You didn't include the headers, so it is hard to say what is in there. If you aren't running the net rul

Re: New stock spam (2/14/07)

2007-02-14 Thread Brian Wilson
On Feb 14, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: From: Quinn Comendant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:18:46 +0100, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: I think SARE and some network tests are even better (scores 11.5 with my surprising Bayes :) I agree, mine scored it in a

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