Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2008-02-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
While investigating why a couple of emails took over 500 seconds to scan, I found a bunch of these errors in the log file: spamd[7586]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x8e, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at

Re: 'Malformed UTF-8 character' errors

2008-02-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
running on Perl version 5.8.5 upgrade, and let us know problem later if i remember unicode was a problem before 5.8.8

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-30 Thread Michael Van Der Beek
Henry Kwan wrote: Doc Schneider wrote: Not sure how you're using SA but I commented out every reference to CIALIS2 and just committed 1.00.11 so should be available within the hour. Also running CentOS 4.4 you know you can upgrade to perl 5.8.8 by doing a 'yum --enablerepo=centosplus update

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-29 Thread Henry Kwan
Doc Schneider wrote: I just now committed more fixes for 70_sare_obfu.cf, obfu0 and obfu1. These should be available within the hour. Please folks if you have a problem with a rule set from SARE please let us know what rule it is and what rule set it is in. Hi Doc, I just updated my

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-29 Thread Doc Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henry Kwan wrote: Doc Schneider wrote: I just now committed more fixes for 70_sare_obfu.cf, obfu0 and obfu1. These should be available within the hour. Please folks if you have a problem with a rule set from SARE please let us know what rule

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-29 Thread Henry Kwan
Doc Schneider wrote: Not sure how you're using SA but I commented out every reference to CIALIS2 and just committed 1.00.11 so should be available within the hour. Also running CentOS 4.4 you know you can upgrade to perl 5.8.8 by doing a 'yum --enablerepo=centosplus update perl' as

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-28 Thread Henry Kwan
Loren Wilton lwilton at earthlink.net writes: Perhaps a third answer would be to get the latest versions of the rules files? Doc fixed those errors about 5-6 days ago. Hmmm... Thanks for the heads up. I guess sare_adult.cf got updated after my last RulesDuJour run. But it seems that

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-28 Thread Loren Wilton
(sare_obfu1.cf seems to have been updated though). Do you know if Doc plans to update sare_obfu.cf soon? He's working on it. Said it was a bit of a bear to fix up the regexes in it. Loren

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-28 Thread Doc Schneider
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loren Wilton wrote: (sare_obfu1.cf seems to have been updated though). Do you know if Doc plans to update sare_obfu.cf soon? He's working on it. Said it was a bit of a bear to fix up the regexes in it. Loren I just now committed

Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-25 Thread Henry Kwan
Just updated to 3.20 this week and because everything seem to be working fine, I didn't notice my log files getting bloated (up to 8GB!) by errors like this: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately after start byte 0xd 2) in pattern match (m//) at

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-25 Thread Chris
On Friday 25 May 2007 7:06 pm, Henry Kwan wrote: Just updated to 3.20 this week and because everything seem to be working fine, I didn't notice my log files getting bloated (up to 8GB!) by errors like this: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately after

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-25 Thread Loren Wilton
After googling, it seems the common answers are to either upgrade to Perl 5.88 (I'm running 5.85) or stop using the SARE rules. Is there a third choice? Perhaps an uncoming patch for 3.20? Perhaps a third answer would be to get the latest versions of the rules files? Doc fixed those errors

Re: Malformed UTF-8 character errors

2007-05-25 Thread SM
At 17:06 25-05-2007, Henry Kwan wrote: Just updated to 3.20 this week and because everything seem to be working fine, I didn't notice my log files getting bloated (up to 8GB!) by errors like this: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation byte 0x00, immediately after start byte