RE: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
Tristan Miller wrote: Greetings. In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Theo Van Dinter wrote: FWIW: While this type of thing may sound like a good idea, it also opens you to a remote abuse of resources. If I'm a spammer and I want to annoy people, I'd start sending all of my mails with fake

Re: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Justin Mason
Bowie Bailey writes: I think the real question is: Is there a benefit to doing this? You are creating a rule with a negative score. Negative scoring rules are for the purpose of preventing false positives. Are you having a problem with signed emails being marked as spam? If not, this

Re: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 19:34 Bowie Bailey wrote: I think the real question is: Is there a benefit to doing this? I had an idea of a *really big* benefit: If SA checks the sig, and inserts into the header whether it's valid or not, even clients *without* any GPG installation can have a

RE: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
Michael Monnerie wrote: On Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 19:34 Bowie Bailey wrote: I think the real question is: Is there a benefit to doing this? I had an idea of a *really big* benefit: If SA checks the sig, and inserts into the header whether it's valid or not, even clients *without* any

Re: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 23:11 Bowie Bailey wrote: And if a spammer decides to spoof that header?  The client has no way to distinguish between headers added before or after it came to your server. If SA runs it of course has to remove old such headers preexisting, and insert it's own

Re: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:20:24PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: Not exactly on SPAM detection rate, but on GPG/sig acceptance. If SA could validate such sigs, there's a big benefit for *every* recipient, 'cause if somebody forges e-mails with wrong sigs, it's marked as SPAM and sorted

Re: Rule for OpenPGP-signed mail

2006-04-06 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Donnerstag, 6. April 2006 23:37 Theo Van Dinter wrote: It's worth noting that I've seen signed mails get regularly mangled when going through mailing lists, That happens when the list filters certain types of content-type and such sections. It's up to the list admin to fix that. which is

Re: Rule help ... if one rule matched, ignore another

2006-04-02 Thread David Landgren
mouss wrote: David Gibbs wrote: Folks: [...] My particular example ... I want to create a rule that will assign a specific score if the subject contains the word 'euromillion', but have a lower score if the subject contains 'million'. Obviously if I put two separate rules with the

RE: rule for spam with geocities link, multiline expression

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: rule for spam with geocities link, multiline expression -Original Message- From: Maarten de Boer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:06 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: rule for spam with geocities link, multiline _expression_

Re: rule for spam with geocities link, multiline expression

2006-02-23 Thread Loren Wilton
I am receiving, already several weeks, a lot of spam in the following form: - \w+, http://\w\w.geocities.com/\w+\d+ \w+ \w+ - For example: - Beth, http://au.geocities.com/ethylic40187 Rocco Maldonado - Is it possible to write a rule to detect

Re: Rule Scores in Marked Spam

2006-02-08 Thread Loren Wilton
Basically, just for some testing, when spam assassin marks a message as spam I want it to provide me with the different rules that were processed in that mail and what scores they contributed to the total score - appended into the marked message. spamassassin -t message.txt Loren

Re: Rule to catch strange Sender Address?

2006-02-04 Thread mouss
Larry Starr a écrit : Lately I have seen a number of SPAM messages with a sender in the form of: @somedomain.whatever sender envelope or From header? Can you send me a copy? for example: @ipyub.com I'm not sure if this is intentional or simply broken ratware. I guess it is broken.

Re: Rule Help

2006-01-21 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:17:50PM -0600, Rob Poe wrote: I need a custom rule that looks for X-Status: F In the header, and adds a value to the score. (i.e. 2.5) If anyone has some direction .. :) header X_STATUS_F X-Status =~ /^F$/ score X_STATUS_F 2.5 -- Randomly Generated

Re: Rule for Stock Spam

2005-12-08 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:43:59PM -0700, Chris Stone wrote: Works great here (watch wrapping): header __SUBJ_NEWS Subject =~ /(^news$)|(^[a-z]+ news$)|(^news alert$)|(^press release$)|(^news report$)|(^winner$)|(^plea?s[ae]nt news$)/i meta SENET_BRK_NEWS_GIF

Re: Rule for Stock Spam

2005-12-07 Thread Chris Stone
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 06:33 am, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: Recently I have been receiving a TON of Stock Spam lately. For the most part, the subject is news related (news, updated news, breaking news, etc) and the message itself is empty except for a .GIF file with Stock information on

RE: Rule for this

2005-11-22 Thread Casey King
SARE_BMLSARE_SPOOFSARE_BAYES_POISON_NXMSARE_OEMSARE_RANDOMSARE_HEADER_ABUSESARE_SPECIFICSARE_CODING_HTMLSARE_GENLSUBJSARE_UNSUBSARE_URI0SARE_REDIRECT_POST300SARE_SPAMCOP_TOP200SARE_OBFU -Original Message-From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:55 PMTo: users@spamassassin.apache.orgSubject: Re

Re: Rule for this

2005-11-22 Thread jdow
It would appear that you are hopelessly stuck, then. Trusted hosts has become a very important part of SA's activities. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Casey King [EMAIL PROTECTED] I do understand that the trusted hosts needs to be fixed, but not being fully in control, I am not

Re: Rule for this

2005-11-21 Thread Loren Wilton
Title: Message  First, fix your trusted hosts. You shoudln't be trusting a DSL line on some other system. Second, you don't mention what version of SA you are using, nor what rules files you are using. It looks like you don't have antidrug rules, which would imply 2.6x. In any case some of

RE: Rule for this

2005-11-18 Thread Casey King
this? -Original Message- From: Jean-Paul Natola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 2:50 PM To: Gene Heskett; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule for this ??-LINT On Monday 14 November 2005 11:22, Casey King wrote: Okay, I have the rule in my local.cf as body

RE: Rule for this ??-LINT

2005-11-15 Thread Pierre Thomson
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I *believe* I have applied the following rule correctly, To verify I ran the --lint , it all checked out ok BUT its giving some errors with respect to the whitelisted entries I have in the local.cf that resides in the SA directory I know my whitelist

RE: Rule for this ??

2005-11-14 Thread Rikhardur.EGILSSON
This one works like magic .. Also on the new variant which seems to have been released this weekend. body L_DRUGS11 /([CVAXP] ){5}/ header L_DRUGS12 MESSAGEID =~ /^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ meta L_DRUGS1 L_DRUGS11 L_DRUGS12 score L_DRUGS1 5 describe L_DRUGS1 Strange Message-ID and Spam signature in

RE: Rule for this ??

2005-11-14 Thread Casey King
to '1' or '11'??? thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 3:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule for this ?? This one works like magic .. Also on the new variant which seems

RE: Rule for this ??

2005-11-14 Thread Pierre Thomson
Casey King wrote: body L_DRUGS11 /([CVAXP] ){5}/ header L_DRUGS12 MESSAGEID =~ /^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ meta L_DRUGS1 L_DRUGS11 L_DRUGS12 score L_DRUGS1 5 describe L_DRUGS1 Strange Message-ID and Spam signature in body. This rule goes in the local.cf file right? I added this rule, and

RE: Rule for this ??

2005-11-14 Thread Casey King
; SpamAssassin Users Subject: RE: Rule for this ?? Casey King wrote: body L_DRUGS11 /([CVAXP] ){5}/ header L_DRUGS12 MESSAGEID =~ /^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ meta L_DRUGS1 L_DRUGS11 L_DRUGS12 score L_DRUGS1 5 describe L_DRUGS1 Strange Message-ID and Spam signature in body. This rule goes

Re: Rule for this ??

2005-11-14 Thread Gene Heskett
-Original Message- From: Pierre Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:19 AM To: Casey King; SpamAssassin Users Subject: RE: Rule for this ?? Casey King wrote: body L_DRUGS11 /([CVAXP] ){5}/ header L_DRUGS12 MESSAGEID =~ /^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ meta L_DRUGS1 L_DRUGS11

RE: Rule for this ??-LINT

2005-11-14 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Pierre Thomson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 9:19 AM To: Casey King; SpamAssassin Users Subject: RE: Rule for this ?? Casey King wrote: body L_DRUGS11 /([CVAXP] ){5}/ header L_DRUGS12 MESSAGEID =~ /^[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ meta L_DRUGS1 L_DRUGS11

Re: Rule for this ??

2005-11-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Here’s an intelligent html coder I viewed the source of the code because I was curious as to how these words flew right through my SA , You will note that if turned into plain text , he used a bunch of tables and cells to produce the following; Try this

Re: Rule for the SOFTWARE spam

2005-11-02 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 20:20 Daniel Watts wrote: I'm not The God Of Regex, but maybe that helps: body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY2 /(\$\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2}){10,}/s #matches $xx.xx at least 10 times If you have $133, your rule doesn't fit, as you forgot the .. Try body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY2

Re: Rule puzzlement

2005-09-18 Thread mouss
M.Lewis a écrit : I've written a rule that *should* be catching a fair amount of spam. I've ran spamassassin --lint and it shows no errors. I purposefully created an error in this set of rules and did spamassassin --lint again and it shows the error. So I know my set of rules is being

Re: Rule not trapping

2005-08-26 Thread Kris Deugau
Thomas Deliduka wrote: I have been dealing with a spammer that seems to defy every option to limit him. So, I decided to create a final rule that should kill him. I noticed that the subject in the text file always looks like =3D?iso-8859-1?blah blha blah It may or may not have 3D

Re: Rule not trapping

2005-08-26 Thread jdow
From: Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas Deliduka wrote: I have been dealing with a spammer that seems to defy every option to limit him. So, I decided to create a final rule that should kill him. I noticed that the subject in the text file always looks like =3D?iso-8859-1?blah blha blah

Re: Rule not trapping

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Deliduka
Perhaps someone on the list can give me a suggestion then. Here is 5 e-mails and how the subject line is done. (different every time) perhaps a pattern can be found that I haven't found? Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=D4od_pro_CI=C2IS_VI=E1GRRA?= Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Go=F6d_offr_C=EFAIS_VI=E3GRRA?=

Re: Rule not trapping

2005-08-26 Thread jdow
How about 70_sare_header.cf and 99_OBFU_drugs.cf? Slap it down GOOD. {^_-} - Original Message - From: Thomas Deliduka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps someone on the list can give me a suggestion then. Here is 5 e-mails and how the subject line is done. (different every time) perhaps a

Re: Rule not trapping

2005-08-26 Thread hamann . w
In fact, if the header is correctly writtren (the relevant part is =?ISO-8859-something?B?text?= or =?IOS-8859-something?Q?text?= for base64 or quoted printable, and the something can range from 1 to 15), it would be a sure indication of a european sender. The b and q can be lowercase, and

Re: Testing with four spaces before Testing was Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-09 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, August 06, 2005 4:18 PM -0700 jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By that I meant that telnet localhost pop3 followed by an retr 1 (once logged in) showed the spaces normalized to exactly one in all cases. That's interesting... I just went checking my uncaught spam folder for

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread Ralph Seichter
jdow wrote: 2.2. Header Fields Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon (:), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF. A field name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e., characters that have values between 33 and 126,

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread hamann . w
Hi Ralph, now if most software is sending a message with 0 or 1 whitespace after the colon, it might be an idea to consider 2 or more whitespaces there as an indicator of an unusual mail program. Now if it could be confirmed that certain often used mailers always trim the subject specified by

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread jdow
From: Ralph Seichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] jdow wrote: 2.2. Header Fields Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon (:), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF. A field name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e., characters

Testing with four spaces before Testing was Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread jdow
So this should tell something. I'm not sure what. {^_-} - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Ralph, now if most software is sending a message with 0 or 1 whitespace after the colon, it might be an idea to consider 2 or more whitespaces there as an indicator of an unusual

Re: Testing with four spaces before Testing was Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread jdow
Tells me that dovecot normalizes headers to include exactly one space. (I did a little more testing with zero spaces squeezed through procmail to my mail folder. It came through that just fine. But it lost the customized spacing in dovecot.) {^_^} - Original Message - From: jdow [EMAIL

Re: Testing with four spaces before Testing was Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-06 Thread jdow
From: Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Saturday, August 06, 2005 3:23 AM -0700 jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tells me that dovecot normalizes headers to include exactly one space. (I did a little more testing with zero spaces squeezed through procmail to my mail folder. It came

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:09:50PM -0400, Matthew Yette wrote: Does anyone know how I would create a rule that detected any subject lines that start with a whitespace? For example: Subject: This would be tagged as spam By convention, all subjects start with whitespace. Subject: Re: Rule

RE: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Matthew Yette
) 315-356-0597 (f) AIM/Yahoo: MAPolceNOC MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 3:24 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace On Fri, Aug 05, 2005

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Kris Deugau
Matthew Yette wrote: When I wrote quotes, it was just to imply the actual subject. I'm looking to detect messages that have a space before the first letter of the subject. If I recall the appropriate RFC correctly, you're looking for something that - by definition - doesn't exist. Whitespace

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Ralph Seichter
Kris Deugau wrote: If I recall the appropriate RFC correctly, you're looking for something that - by definition - doesn't exist. Whitespace is whitespace, so the content of a header begins with the first non-whitespace character after the colon. I checked

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread jdow
would create a rule that detected any subject lines that start with a whitespace? For example: Subject: This would be tagged as spam By convention, all subjects start with whitespace. Subject: Re: Rule for ... starts with a space, for example. In your example, the subject starts with a double

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread jdow
From: Ralph Seichter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kris Deugau wrote: If I recall the appropriate RFC correctly, you're looking for something that - by definition - doesn't exist. Whitespace is whitespace, so the content of a header begins with the first non-whitespace character after the

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Matt Kettler
jdow wrote: If I understand you then you are looking at a subject line that looks like this in the raw mail file. Subject: This would be tagged as spam This would render in email programs as a subject including the quotes: This would be tagged as spam The normal subject header begins

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread jdow
From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] jdow wrote: If I understand you then you are looking at a subject line that looks like this in the raw mail file. Subject: This would be tagged as spam This would render in email programs as a subject including the quotes: This would be tagged as

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread jdow
From: Kris Deugau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ralph Seichter wrote: I checked http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html for this: 2.2. Header Fields Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon (:), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF. A field name

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Loren Wilton
That said, the rule I think you're looking for might look something like: header SUBJ_SPACE_START Subject:raw =~ /^\s+/ But I don't think that will ever trigger. I was just looking at a bunch of stock market spams last night. One of the most notable characteristics of them was that

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, August 05, 2005 6:03 PM -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a lot of mail/news programs assume that the subject body starts immediately after Subject: , unless the character immediately after the colon isn't a space, in which case the subject starts there.

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread jdow
From: Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Friday, August 05, 2005 6:03 PM -0700 Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think a lot of mail/news programs assume that the subject body starts immediately after Subject: , unless the character immediately after the colon isn't a space, in

Re: Rule for subjects that start with a whitespace

2005-08-05 Thread Keith Ivey
Matt Kettler wrote: 1) \b is NOT a substitute for spaces. It's zero-width. For things other than the beginning/ending of a rule, use \s unless you REALLY understand the difference. i.e. you should know why /hello\bWorld/ will never match anything. In this case /\\bT/ would match both T

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Robert Menschel wrote:header FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS     From:addr =~ /^\d{6,}\S+\@/i The email address used in the From header begins with 6 (or more) digits. it's not hitting on 360SkinCare.com, but on the user part of the email address (doesn't even look at the domain

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:52:26 -0700: Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll advise not to start the username with 360°. That degree sign isn't allowed unescaped in there anyway. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread Loren Wilton
If that username starts with six digits, it hits that rule, as shown in Loren's example. Ah, here is the From header: From: 360° Skin Care [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll advise not to start the username with 360°. No, you misunderstood

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-15 Thread dennis
On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Loren Wilton wrote:If that username starts with six digits, it hits that rule, as shown in Loren's example. Ah, here is the From header: From: 360° Skin Care [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not 6 digits, but maybe the degree symbol is contributing. I'll advise notto start the

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
Been using SA for quite a while and agree it's working great. Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to name a domain? Is this related to the suspicious hostname flags? Or is that related to the use of webmail? If the former, then they're getting dinged at

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread Loren Wilton
Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to name a domain? From the rule name (without looking) I'd say it refers to the from address. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It may be that it refers to the hostname itself starting with numbers, but that seems a little unlikely.

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote:Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Are you really located in England?  So far as I know PacBell doesn't serve that area. I

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Are you really

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread dennis
On Jul 14, 2005, at 8:55 AM, Duncan Hill wrote:On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Jul 14, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Loren Wilton wrote: Received: (qmail 31028 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2005 21:00:29 - Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Jul 2005

Re: Rule Advice

2005-07-14 Thread List Mail User
... Been using SA for quite a while and agree it's working great. Is FROM_STARTS_WITH_NUMS appropriately spammy if it's a legal way to name a domain? Is this related to the suspicious hostname flags? Or is that related to the use of webmail? If the former, then they're getting dinged at

Re: Rule: envelope to header to - help?

2005-07-11 Thread Matt Kettler
Michael W Cocke wrote: Does anyone have a rule to chech the envelope To: against the header to: ? I'm sure that there's a reason why it's allowed to be different, but it doesn't apply here, and almost half of the spam that gets thru everything else would get stopped by that. No. It's

RE: Rule: envelope to header to - help?

2005-07-10 Thread Herb Martin
Does anyone have a rule to chech the envelope To: against the header to: ? I'm sure that there's a reason why it's allowed to be different, but it doesn't apply here, and almost half of the spam that gets thru everything else would get stopped by that. [First I am new here and so may know

Re: Rule for Message is Local Only

2005-06-27 Thread Matt Kettler
John Rudd wrote: Forgive me if the newer versions of SA have this built in (I know there's something about defining your local IP addresses), but I had a user ask me today if I could set up our system to flag messages which have only been circulated around our campus. If your

RE: rule edit

2005-05-12 Thread Gray, Richard
you'll need to escape the * so body VIRUS_SOBER5 /\*\*\* Attachment-Scanner: Status OK/I HTH Richard From: Robert Swan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 May 2005 14:00 To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org

Re: rule edit

2005-05-12 Thread Tim Jackson
On Thu, 12 May 2005 09:00:10 -0400 Robert Swan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having trouble with a custom rule and wondered if anyone know why this didn't work. I have pasted an error from sa-learn and also the rule below. body VIRUS_SOBER5 /*** Attachment-Scanner: Status OK/i

Re: rule edit

2005-05-12 Thread wolfgang
hi Robert, In an older episode (Thursday 12 May 2005 15:00), Robert Swan wrote: I am having trouble with a custom rule and wondered if anyone know why this didn't work. I have pasted an error from sa-learn and also the rule below. I am running Redhat 9 and Spamassassin 3.0.3

RE: rule edit

2005-05-12 Thread Robert Swan
Thanks all Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother. From: Robert Swan Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 9:00 AM To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org Subject: rule edit I am having trouble with a custom rule and wondered if

Re: Rule of thumb for max children?

2005-04-26 Thread Eugene Kurmanin
Hello, Mike. Do you limit the maximum size of messages to be scanned? For reduce receiving of 100% spam messages use the Exim sender verification; then if you are use exiscan and it can, do reject messages from zombie computers with bogus HELO, like HELO 123.123.123.123 or HELO

Re: Rule of thumb for max children?

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:58 +0100, Mike Grice wrote: Hi there, I'm running SA 3.0.2 via spamc/spamd on an Exim mail server, but I'm finding I quickly run out of memory and the machine collapses into a burning heap as soon as it touches swap. Is there a rule of thumb of how many SA

Re: Rule of thumb for max children?

2005-04-25 Thread jdow
From: Mike Grice [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:58 +0100, Mike Grice wrote: Hi there, I'm running SA 3.0.2 via spamc/spamd on an Exim mail server, but I'm finding I quickly run out of memory and the machine collapses into a burning heap as soon as it touches swap. Is

Re: Rule Set

2005-04-16 Thread Loren Wilton
Indeed, coincidence. Grab the SARE rulesets that deal with OEM stuff and Mortgage stuff. Loren - Original Message - From: Daniel Kaliel To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:08 AM Subject: Rule Set There are two forms of spam

Re: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Newton
Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does. The main site for rules is generally

Re: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Ron McKeating
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:53 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site for the latest rulesets and an explanation of what each one does.

Re: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Newton
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:00:52AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 10:53 +0100, Matthew Newton wrote: Ron, On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:23:24AM +0100, Ron McKeating wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied about the job offer spams. Could anybody point at the best site

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Gray, Richard
Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too.

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Santerre
Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? Ron see this page: http://www.rulesemporium.com/links.htm I need to add more.

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Ron McKeating
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own rules. And if so where is it? You

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious question is has anybody written a good howto on writing your own

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:44 AM Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule-sets From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: Thanks to all

RE: Rule-sets

2005-04-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:27:58 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I started doing this. In particular, useful things like back chaining and forward referencing are useful to

RE: Rule to catch 0 in words

2005-04-04 Thread Pierre Thomson
Sure, but it's probably prone to FP's... use at your own risk. body PT_01/[a-z][01\|][a-z]/ This also catches the vertical bar which is used as a substitute for lowercase 'l'. I use it as part of a META rule; by itself I would give it a very low score. Pierre Thomson BIC

Re: Rule Design Benchmark/Resource Question

2005-04-01 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Rocky, Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 7:34:05 PM, you wrote: RO Before i pull my hair out doing bench/resource test, i was wondering if RO anyone out there knew if there was much of a speed/resource usage RO difference between the following way of writing the same rule. RO Method A: RO body

Re: Rule Design Benchmark/Resource Question

2005-03-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Rocky Olsen wrote: Before i pull my hair out doing bench/resource test, i was wondering if anyone out there knew if there was much of a speed/resource usage difference between the following way of writing the same rule. Method A: body rule_a /(?:feh|meh|bleh)/i vs. Method B: bod

Re: Rule Design Benchmark/Resource Question

2005-03-31 Thread Rocky Olsen
Thanks On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:16:25PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: Rocky Olsen wrote: Before i pull my hair out doing bench/resource test, i was wondering if anyone out there knew if there was much of a speed/resource usage difference between the following way of writing the same rule.

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Loren Wilton
Ok. What totally minless dumb thing did I do that I just can't see? How are you running SA? Did you restart spamd? In many setups SA is persistant, and needs to be explicitly reloaded in some way or other to reload the modified rules. Did you run spamassassin --lint from the console on your

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:03 PM 3/16/2005, Vicki Brown wrote: Ok. What totally minless dumb thing did I do that I just can't see? This rule is in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf body CF_BAD_URL4 /www\.(vdrugz|gh6)\.net/i score CF_BAD_URL4 10.0 describe CF_BAD_URL4 .net Junk site I received a piece of

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Vicki Brown
At 17:57 -0800 03/16/2005, Loren Wilton wrote: Ok. What totally minless dumb thing did I do that I just can't see? How are you running SA? spamd -d -c at system startup then, from procmailrc, I push each message through | /usr/local/bin/spamc -s 256000 -t 60 Did you restart spamd?

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Alan Premselaar
Vicki Brown wrote: At 17:57 -0800 03/16/2005, Loren Wilton wrote: Ok. What totally minless dumb thing did I do that I just can't see? How are you running SA? spamd -d -c at system startup then, from procmailrc, I push each message through | /usr/local/bin/spamc -s 256000 -t 60 Did you

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread List Mail User
gh6.net-munged, don't the SURBLs have this one yet? Another from the taiwanmedialtd.com-munged group (two new domains a day - time for Spamhaus to take notice; Also they seem to hace given up on the Turkish address as on last week). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! gh6.net-munged, don't the SURBLs have this one yet? Another from the taiwanmedialtd.com-munged group (two new domains a day - time for Spamhaus to take notice; Also they seem to hace given up on the Turkish address as on last week). gh6 .net is listed in about every SURBL list. If

Re: rule didn't fire

2005-03-17 Thread List Mail User
Loren, While true for vdrugz.net-munged, gh6.net-munged does not always use a www. prefix. Also, now gh6.net-munged is caught by the SBL, 4 SURBLs, and completewhois (if you use it). I get 14.6 points for just the bare domain name. vdrugz.net-munged is caught by the SBL and 4

Re: rule for mail not to me

2005-03-13 Thread Vicki Brown
At 20:15 -0800 03/06/2005, Vicki Brown wrote: I can create a user rule for mail not addressed (To or Cc) to me header CF_NOT_FOR_METoCc !~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ score CF_NOT_FOR_ME 4.0 describe CF_NOT_FOR_ME Neither To nor Cc me However, the

Re: Rule for downwards writing spam

2005-03-11 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Matthew, Thursday, March 10, 2005, 6:19:48 AM, you wrote: MN I've put together the following rule to try and catch the MN read-downwards type spam shown below. Could someone with a decent MN size corpus check it for me please? :-) (or if you see any obvious MN errors or improvements; it

Re: Rule for downwards writing spam

2005-03-10 Thread List Mail User
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Re: Rule advice please

2005-03-02 Thread Loren Wilton
Following discussions on this list about obfuscating words to avoid spam detection, and not being a ninja, I'd like some feedback about the possible efficacy or pitfalls on rules like the following. [snip] In general, there are three main ways of dealing with these obfuscations: 1.

RE: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Gray, Richard
SNIP subject =~ /\b(?!cartoon|croatan|carroon)c[arto]{5}n\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!downloadable)d[ownladb]{10}e\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!dripping)d[ripn]{6}g\b/i subject =~ /\b(?!ejaculating|enunciating)e[jacultin]{9}g\b/i You can't use rules like this. The pattern can matches your first

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