Re: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Grau
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

RE: Rule advice please

2005-02-28 Thread Chris Santerre
Hello. 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. As noted in other discussions, words with scrambled letters between the first and

Re: rule for mixed case URI scheme

2005-02-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
Daniel What would a suggested initial score be? -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Daniel Quinlan wrote: Something close to this will be in 3.1, so you'll want to remove the rule then, maybe name it something else too. uri

Re: rule for mixed case URI scheme

2005-02-04 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Daniel, Thursday, February 3, 2005, 6:58:47 PM, you wrote: DQ Something close to this will be in 3.1, so you'll want to remove DQ the rule then, maybe name it something else too. DQ uri URI_SCHEME_MIXED_CASE /^(?![a-z]{3,6}:|[A-Z]{3,6})[A-Za-z]{3,6}:\// DQ describe

RE: Rule causing timeout

2005-01-10 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: MIKE YRABEDRA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:02 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Rule causing timeout This is a follow up to last weeks post. I found that one of my custom rules was causing my server to bog down and

Re: Rule causing timeout

2005-01-10 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:01 AM 1/10/2005, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: This is a follow up to last weeks post. I found that one of my custom rules was causing my server to bog down and process real slow. It started again today, so I started deleting rules one-by-one to see what happened. I deleted the Mangled rule and

Re: Rule causing timeout

2005-01-10 Thread Loren Wilton
I deleted the Mangled rule and instantly things improved 100%! Any ideas or thoughts on this? We'd have to see the rule, but it probably contains something like .* someplace. Loren

Re: Rule using external command ? Unknown domain filtring ?

2005-01-07 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:56 PM 1/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to create a rule that use a external command ? I'd like to do a rule to filter unknown domain. Assuming 3.0.x this is possible. For Older versions, it's not without hacking the SA code. You'll need to write a perl plugin to do that.

Re: Rule based on English words

2005-01-03 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Murty -- It should be easy enough to write a plugin which - - registers an eval rule function - - calls $permsgstatus-get_decoded_stripped_body_text_array() in that, to get the array of decoded lines in the message (HTML stripped, MIME

RE: Rule based on English words

2005-01-03 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 1:18 PM To: Murty Rompalli Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Rule based on English words -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Murty -- It should be easy

Re: Rule Sets

2004-10-27 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:29 AM 10/27/2004 -0500, you wrote: Knowing that the more rules sets you add, the longer it takes to scan a message, what rule sets do you recommend? I have found several sites with sure sets such as The Rules Emporium and the SA wiki but I am certain I do not need every rule set from those

Re: Rule for words with multiple punctuation characters?

2004-10-07 Thread John Wilcock
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 09:42:48 -0700, Loren Wilton wrote: Haven't seen these myself, but if they are drug spams, make sure you have the obfu drug rules installed and maybe up the score on some of them. Should have gotten about 4 hits in that first sentence. Yes, the drug rules are catching them,

Re: Rule problem (.exe attachments)

2004-09-30 Thread Jay Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay Hall wrote: I am experiencing a problem with one of my rules that I cannot seem to find. I have the following rules defined. rawbody __RAW_EXE_ATTACHMENT/filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_VBS_ATTACHMENT/filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_COM_ATTACHMENT

Re: Rule problem (.exe attachments)

2004-09-30 Thread LuKreme
On 29 Sep 2004, at 16:10, Jay Hall wrote: I changed the rules as you suggested, but e-mails with exe attachments are still not being marked as SPAM. However, others are. Following are the headers from an e-mail sent with an exe attachment. div class=JediThese are not the headers you are

RE: Rule problem (.exe attachments)

2004-09-29 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Jay Hall wrote: I am experiencing a problem with one of my rules that I cannot seem to find. I have the following rules defined. rawbody __RAW_EXE_ATTACHMENT /filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_VBS_ATTACHMENT /filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_COM_ATTACHMENT

Re: Rule problem (.exe attachments)

2004-09-29 Thread Jay Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay Hall wrote: I am experiencing a problem with one of my rules that I cannot seem to find. I have the following rules defined. rawbody __RAW_EXE_ATTACHMENT/filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_VBS_ATTACHMENT/filename=\.*\.exe\/i rawbody __RAW_COM_ATTACHMENT

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-20 Thread Sherwood Botsford
In my logic, there is no valid reason that a remote sender would connect directly to our SMTP server from their dynamic/DSL/cable IP to send our customer's an email ... I think ? Valid 'remote to local' emails being sent from these DSL/cable/dialup IP would normally be relayed via

Re: [sa-list] Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Sherwood Botsford wrote: In this case, you should get a smart host on some other mail server, and authenticate against that. You are still an endpoint, and should not be directly talking to mail servers. Only mail servers should talk to mail servers. -Dan In my logic,

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-20 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:25 AM 9.20.2004 -0600, Sherwood Botsford wrote: In my logic, there is no valid reason that a remote sender would connect directly to our SMTP server from their dynamic/DSL/cable IP to send our customer's an email ... I think ? Valid 'remote to local' emails being sent from these

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-20 Thread Stewart Nelson
The school I work at is some 20 km from the nearest phone exchange. DSL, ADSL, Cable are all non-starters here. We connect through DirecPC oneway. So our outbound connection is thorugh Telus, our local phone company. They refuse to give out a static IP. Ok, so run your smtp through their

Re: rule idea for catching 'zombie spam relays' and question of my logic

2004-09-17 Thread John Rudd
Loren Wilton wrote: In my logic, there is no valid reason that a remote sender would connect directly to our SMTP server from their dynamic/DSL/cable IP to send our customer's an email ... I think ? Valid 'remote to local' emails being sent from these DSL/cable/dialup IP would normally

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Kelson
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: (What's really annoying is that sendmail doesn't log the ip of the remote connection until it's done (if you're blocking them) -- I'd love to be able to create an RBL on this and nip it in the bud). We use a variation of rumplekiller.pl for exactly this purpose:

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 07:13 PM 9/15/2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: For example, my father's wife peggy has the domain peggytaggart.com, she ONLY gives out the peggy@ email address for this. For some unknown reason, the whole domain is popular with spammers. I've

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Kelson
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Yes, I know this. I actually wrote something to create a RBL based on virus senders. I'd just like to be able to drop (or maybe teergrube) the connection in the BEGINNING instead of after the hangup. Look into the sendmail config option BAD_RCPT_THROTTLE. The

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Kelson wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Yes, I know this. I actually wrote something to create a RBL based on virus senders. I'd just like to be able to drop (or maybe teergrube) the connection in the BEGINNING instead of after the hangup. Look into the sendmail

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Guys, Given that some spammers like to just slam mail at everyone at an entire domain, is there an option to greylist these addresses? For example, my father's wife peggy has the domain peggytaggart.com, she ONLY gives out the peggy@

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Ryan Moore
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Guys, Given that some spammers like to just slam mail at everyone at an entire domain, is there an option to greylist these addresses? For example, my father's wife peggy has the domain peggytaggart.com, she ONLY gives out the peggy@ email address for this. For

Re: Rule Suggestion

2004-09-16 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, David B Funk wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Guys, Given that some spammers like to just slam mail at everyone at an entire domain, is there an option to greylist these addresses? For example, my father's wife peggy has the domain peggytaggart.com,

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