Re: SA rule: fortinet attachment removed

2022-09-27 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.09.22 07:56, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: I use upstream filtering all the time to add points with SA but I typically due it with headers.  Does Fortinet add any headers? it does for spam detection, not when it removed suspicious attachments. Especially depending on the size of emails, the

Re: SA rule: fortinet attachment removed

2022-09-27 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Hi matus, I use upstream filtering all the time to add points with SA but I typically due it with headers.  Does Fortinet add any headers? Especially depending on the size of emails, the attachment parsing plugins like OCR you might have, etc. your rule could get pretty heavy in terms of

SA rule: fortinet attachment removed

2022-09-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, some of mailservers I admin are behind fortinet device that does content inspection and removes viruses by replacing them with content: --=_NextPart_000_0012_F7463AA1.9316ADCB Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 221 Connection:

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-18 Thread Martin Gregorie
Do you test on a production server, other (test) server, or local mbox with Mutt as your client? There are lots of possibilities. I test using a big (and growing) spam collection, which I keep so I can regression test my current rule set. Thats quite crude: if everything in the collection is

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-18 Thread am
On 2015-07-18 04:54, Martin Gregorie wrote: There are lots of possibilities. I test using a big (and growing) spam collection, which I keep so I can regression test my current rule set. Thats quite crude: if everything in the collection is recognised as spam, nothing gets flagged up during the

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
on an attachment Hope this helps and perhaps you can edit our wiki and add any ideas you find useful for others! After searching, I'm still having a hard time understanding conventional SA rule checking/debugging methods. I've been going my own route so far, but I would like to have a basic

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-17 Thread am
On 2015-07-17 16:49, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: We use maildir most of the time on our servers. Is that a problem or are you referring to a mbox file on a client machine? I never ran spamassassin on a client before. Sorry, just trying to understand your test environment. I usually am working

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/17/2015 5:39 PM, a...@satester.com wrote: On 2015-07-17 09:27, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 7/16/2015 8:00 PM, Allen Marsalis wrote: Can you elaborate on the macros any? Sure. Mutt is a very powerful little mail client and it's perfect for me for analysis of mbox files. We use maildir

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-17 Thread am
On 2015-07-17 09:27, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 7/16/2015 8:00 PM, Allen Marsalis wrote: Can you elaborate on the macros any? Sure. Mutt is a very powerful little mail client and it's perfect for me for analysis of mbox files. We use maildir most of the time on our servers. Is that a

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/15/2015 6:41 PM, a...@satester.com wrote: I started writing SA rules about a year ago. Although I am new to this list, I have been lurking for quite a while. I would like to thank Kevin McGrail and others for providing rules and tips that inspires me to write my own custom rules. Today

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 7/16/2015 8:28 AM, a...@satester.com wrote: On 2015-07-16 04:53, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: You might find the regression_tests.cf in the trunk rules/ dir interesting. It's a way of giving strings you want to hit/not-hit on rules and see if it properly hits/doesn't hit as you expect. I also

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread Axb
On 16.07.2015 14:28, a...@satester.com wrote: On 2015-07-16 04:53, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: You might find the regression_tests.cf in the trunk rules/ dir interesting. It's a way of giving strings you want to hit/not-hit on rules and see if it properly hits/doesn't hit as you expect. I also

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread am
On 2015-07-16 04:53, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: You might find the regression_tests.cf in the trunk rules/ dir interesting. It's a way of giving strings you want to hit/not-hit on rules and see if it properly hits/doesn't hit as you expect. I also use mutt and a few macros such as one that run

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread am
On 2015-07-16 07:32, Axb wrote: header __KAM_NOTINMYNETWORK1 X-No-Relay =~ /./i header __KAM_MULTIPLE_FROM From =~ /^./ I think I get the first one (if anything exists in X-No-Relay) but I'll have to look deeper to understand why you would trigger on any From address. Anyway I'm having fun,

Re: SA Rule Tester/Checker

2015-07-16 Thread am
spamassassin -t 21 with a prompt for a keyword. Helpful for debugging. Can you elaborate on the macros any? After searching, I'm still having a hard time understanding conventional SA rule checking/debugging methods. I've been going my own route so far, but I would like to have a basic

SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Dharma Monie
Anyone experinced SA rule URIBL (spammhaus/local.cf) score false positive? — uridnsbl URIBL_SBLXBL sbl-xbl.spamhaus.orghttp://sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. TXT body URIBL_SBLXBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_SBLXBL’) — All of a sudden, it scores 40-50% false positive, latest 2-3 days. All summin

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Axb
On 12/19/2014 11:55 AM, Dharma Monie wrote: Anyone experinced SA rule URIBL (spammhaus/local.cf) score false positive? — uridnsbl URIBL_SBLXBL sbl-xbl.spamhaus.orghttp://sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org. TXT body URIBL_SBLXBL eval:check_uridnsbl('URIBL_SBLXBL’) — All of a sudden, it scores 40-50

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Dharma Monie
on this is most welcome. // Dharma Moniemailto:dha...@dharmacode.se On 19 Dec 2014, at 12:01, Axb axb.li...@gmail.commailto:axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/19/2014 11:55 AM, Dharma Monie wrote: Anyone experinced SA rule URIBL (spammhaus/local.cf) score false positive? — uridnsbl

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Axb
hit that lookup? // Dharma Moniemailto:dha...@dharmacode.se On 19 Dec 2014, at 12:01, Axb axb.li...@gmail.commailto:axb.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/19/2014 11:55 AM, Dharma Monie wrote: Anyone experinced SA rule URIBL (spammhaus/local.cf) score false positive? — uridnsbl URIBL_SBLXBL sbl

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 12/19/2014 12:28 PM, Dharma Monie wrote: The rule is shipped with SA by default, regarding if it’s enabled by default - checking against that exact uribl - I’m affraid I can’t provide you with a satisfying answer there, as I was not the initial admin configuring “this” file. On 19.12.14

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 14:12:47 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 12/19/2014 12:28 PM, Dharma Monie wrote: The rule is shipped with SA by default, regarding if it?s enabled by default - checking against that exact uribl - I?m affraid I can?t provide you with a satisfying answer there, as I

Re: SA rule - URIBL_SBL-XBL scores false positive?

2014-12-19 Thread Jose Borges Ferreira
Acording to this https://twitter.com/spamhaus/status/545139926191575040 , 2 days ago Spamhaus DBL had an issue and flagged all .net . Perhaps it's related somehow . José Borges Ferreira On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Dharma Monie dha...@dimachosting.net wrote: Anyone experinced SA rule

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28. jun. 2014 22.46.48 CEST, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: remove_header clear_headers and add_header control the new headers that are added at the end of the scan. The preexisting X-Spam-* headers are all stripped before the header tests begin. On 29.06.14 04:11, Benny Pedersen

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:43:19 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given a clean bill-of-health).

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread Axb
On 06/28/2014 03:43 AM, David B Funk wrote: Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given a clean bill-of-health). I wrote a few test

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:05:00 +0200 Axb wrote: On 06/28/2014 03:43 AM, David B Funk wrote: Checking the SA source I found in PerMsgStatus.pm a line of code: $self-{msg}-delete_header('X-Spam-.*'); that ran before any tests. So looking for SA headers inside of SA is pointless. see

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread Axb
On 06/28/2014 03:21 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:05:00 +0200 Axb wrote: On 06/28/2014 03:43 AM, David B Funk wrote: Checking the SA source I found in PerMsgStatus.pm a line of code: $self-{msg}-delete_header('X-Spam-.*'); that ran before any tests. So looking for SA headers

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread Dave Funk
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014, RW wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:43:19 -0500 (CDT) David B Funk wrote: Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 15:30:44 +0200 Axb wrote: On 06/28/2014 03:21 PM, RW wrote: I don't see how that helps. It allows you to customize the headers written by SA, but it doesn't stop it stripping all the pre-existing X-Spam-* headers. remove_header ham and only leave the pre tagged

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
On 28. jun. 2014 22.46.48 CEST, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: remove_header clear_headers and add_header control the new headers that are added at the end of the scan. The preexisting X-Spam-* headers are all stripped before the header tests begin. this potently breaks dkim signed mails

SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-27 Thread David B Funk
Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given a clean bill-of-health). I wrote a few test rules to look for these pre-existing X-Spam-

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
28.06.2014 04:43, David B Funk kirjoitti: Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given a clean bill-of-health). I wrote a few test

Re: SA rule to detect prior SA pass?

2014-06-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
28.06.2014 05:47, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: 28.06.2014 04:43, David B Funk kirjoitti: Looking at my mail streams I see evidence that spammers sometimes add faked SpamAssassin headers to their messages (I assume to try to trick recipients into thinking that the message has already been given

Re: Please Help with SA Rule: FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA

2010-06-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 6/17/2010 2:19 PM, gwilodailo wrote: I've discovered that some mail between two of my clients (on separate hosts) is getting flagged as spam, because of this rule (FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA). I'm not at all an expert with spamassassin, and I'm having some difficulty finding what this rule is

Please Help with SA Rule: FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA

2010-06-17 Thread gwilodailo
help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Please-Help-with-SA-Rule%3A-FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA-tp28917943p28917943.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Please Help with SA Rule: FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA

2010-06-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, gwilodailo wrote: I've discovered that some mail between two of my clients (on separate hosts) is getting flagged as spam, because of this rule (FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA). I'm not at all an expert with spamassassin, and I'm having some difficulty finding what this rule is about

Re: Please Help with SA Rule: FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA

2010-06-17 Thread Lee Dilkie
the rule is flagging the fact that the servers are using non-assigned address space. On 6/17/2010 2:19 PM, gwilodailo wrote: Hello all, I've discovered that some mail between two of my clients (on separate hosts) is getting flagged as spam, because of this rule (FH_HOST_IN_ADDRARPA).

SA Rule help question

2009-10-30 Thread Rose, Bobby
Does anyone know how a rule can be written to compare two header markers for similar info? I don't think SA can do variable storage so I was thinking maybe a regex rule that normalizes what I want to focus on from a header in the regex search of another header. For example, let's say that I

Re: SA Rule help question

2009-10-30 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Rose, Bobby wrote: Does anyone know how a rule can be written to compare two header markers for similar info? Take a look at MAILER_EQ_ORG here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/20_misc_testing.cf?view=log -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: [SA] Rule and Rule

2009-10-13 Thread Mark Martinec
Adam, That example may have been overly simplistic, but I thought it conveyed the idea. To see a real-world example, see KHOP_DNSBL_ADJ in http://khopesh.com/sa/khop-bl/khop-bl.cf (though please use the actual channel if you're going to use my rules, otherwise you won't get updates). Btw,

Re: [SA] Rule and Rule

2009-10-13 Thread Adam Katz
Mark Martinec wrote: Adam, Btw, channels only provide the khop-sc-neighbors.sa.khopesh.com for SA 3.3.0, but not the khop-bl.sa.khopesh.com, khop-blessed.sa.khopesh.com, and khop-general.sa.khopesh.com . First: It's awesome to see interest in my channels! Second: you are correct. I do

Re: [SA] Rule and Rule

2009-10-11 Thread Adam Katz
Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: Here's my workaround. It involves some redundancy, but it does the trick: After some brief moment of head scratching... The workaround basically is just weighting sub-rules in the meta, and works regardless if it is meant to be the individual sub-rules' scores

Can an SA rule use a database lookup?

2008-02-04 Thread Martin Gregorie
I have a Postgres database containing an automatically generated list of addresses to which I have sent at least one mail message. I would like to whitelist mail received from any of them. Is it possible to write a local rule that whitelists any address that is selected from the view? I've

Re: Can an SA rule use a database lookup?

2008-02-04 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Martin Gregorie wrote: I have a Postgres database containing an automatically generated list of addresses to which I have sent at least one mail message. I would like to whitelist mail received from any of them. You could write a plugin that queries your database for this info. Or, if the

RE: Can an SA rule use a database lookup?

2008-02-04 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Martin Gregorie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:28 PM I have a Postgres database containing an automatically generated list of addresses to which I have sent at least one mail message. I would like to whitelist mail received

Sa rule broken, fix with bugzilla id5750 RE: question on reverse DNS

2007-12-29 Thread Michael Scheidell
the reverse correctly configured. I have seen a lot of IPs that have some reverse name, but that name does not point back to the IP address. Best to block that in your MTA, it probally already does a RNS. Ask for help on your MTA list, or read below for fix for broken SA rule: is it possible

Re: Sa rule broken, fix with bugzilla id5750 RE: question on reverse DNS

2007-12-29 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães
that does not have the reverse correctly configured. I have seen a lot of IPs that have some reverse name, but that name does not point back to the IP address. Best to block that in your MTA, it probally already does a RNS. Ask for help on your MTA list, or read below for fix for broken SA

Re: Overagressive SA rule for misspelled opportunity

2007-11-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Woick wrote: ...very nice analysis of rule trimmed... Thank you very much for taking the time to look so closely at that rule. I still think it is not behaving as it was originally intended and as such is scoring too heavily. I filed a bug on this issue so that it would not get lost.

Re: Overagressive SA rule for misspelled opportunity

2007-11-03 Thread Alex Woick
Bob Proulx schrieb am 02.11.2007 18:24: body FRT_OPPORTUN1 /inter SP2post P2(?!opportun)OPPORTUN/I body FRT_OPPORTUN2 /inter W0post P2(?!opportun)OPPORTUN/I Huh? How are those rules matching? I am missing something. That can't the right rule that is being hit here. Can someone educate

Overagressive SA rule for misspelled opportunity

2007-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
A misclassified message caused me to look at the FRT_OPPORTUN1 and FRT_OPPORTUN2 rules. I think they are much too aggressive. Here is the summary from a false positive. Content analysis details: (5.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description --

Re: Overagressive SA rule for misspelled opportunity

2007-11-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Wow! If someone sends a message and misspells oppportunity by using three letter p's instead of two then they get tagged for 3.7 points! I think that is way too agressive. Scan this message to observe the problem. That may be that the likelyness a human make a miss spelling using 3 Ps is

RE: SA rule for userid in subject?

2007-08-12 Thread jeffsal
: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).+\nSubject:\s*Fw: .{0,30}\s*\1\b/i That covers Fw: userid and Fw: (some word[s]) userid. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SA-rule-for-userid-in-subject--tf1261071.html#a12119080 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive

Re: SA rule for userid in subject?

2007-08-12 Thread Loren Wilton
/i Loren Loren answered that a month ago. Is in the archives. You may use: header RULE_NAME ALL =~ /\nTo: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).+\nSubject:\s*Fw: .{0,30}\s*\1\b/i That covers Fw: userid and Fw: (some word[s]) userid. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/SA

SA Rule based on checks

2007-08-01 Thread Rose, Bobby
Is it possible to have a rule that looks at the SA checks already performed and score based off that. For example, I'm thinking about a rule that offsets a negative Bayes/CRM114 value if DCC and RAZOR or some other rules checks have tripped. -=B

Re: SA Rule based on checks

2007-08-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:15:55PM -0400, Rose, Bobby wrote: Is it possible to have a rule that looks at the SA checks already performed and score based off that. For example, I'm thinking about a rule that offsets a negative Bayes/CRM114 value if DCC and RAZOR or some other rules checks have

sa rule compile failure, AND success?

2007-06-02 Thread r lists
Running a latest sa update compile on, spamassassin --version SpamAssassin version 3.3.0-r534407 running on Perl version 5.8.8 I'm seeing BOTH a command failed! COMPILE DONE. That's a bit confusing. Can someone please clarify? ... [18965] dbg: check:

Re: SA Rule

2006-12-04 Thread Sven Schuster
Hi, On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:46:32PM -0800, John D. Hardin told us: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: for mangled viagra and other stuff ..is there any simple rule?? such as following text... Mangled rules are never simple rules. I have a perl script that will take a word

Re: SA Rule

2006-11-29 Thread Loren Wilton
for mangled viagra and other stuff ..is there any simple rule?? such as following text... Mangled rules are never simple rules. The SARE rules contain a lot of these, as does the antidrug stuff in SA itself. It may be that these specific cases aren't caught though. Loren

Re: SA Rule

2006-11-29 Thread John D. Hardin
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: for mangled viagra and other stuff ..is there any simple rule?? such as following text... Mangled rules are never simple rules. I have a perl script that will take a word list and generate REs for obfuscated versions of those words.

Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Whisky
There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. I have thus set up the following rule: body BODY_ADDS_22 /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i However, when I send a testmail that conatins the string /gal the rule is

Re: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/28/2006 3:53 AM, Whisky wrote: There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. I have thus set up the following rule: body BODY_ADDS_22 /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i However, when I send a testmail

Re: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Duane Hill
On Monday, August 28, 2006 at 7:53:40 AM, Whisky confabulated: There's a lot of spam lately, which contains urls with subdirectories, such as http://spamdomain.org/gal/ms/. I have thus set up the following rule: body BODY_ADDS_22 /(\/za\/|\/wd\/|\/iu\/|\/xi\/|\/gal\|\/tx\/|\/nu\/)/i

AW: Question: SA Rule Recognizing Directories

2006-08-28 Thread Whisky
Yes, Duane, we are using quite a number of network tests but somehow these mails don't get caught... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Duane Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 28. August 2006 14:18 An: Whisky Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Betreff: Re: Question: SA Rule

Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Hello One thing I've noticed about almost ALL spam that gets through at this point is that they have a LOT of misspelled (and obfuscated) words. Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the spelling of the text parts of the message, and if misspelled words exceeds, for

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Paolo Cravero as2594
Gustafson, Tim wrote: Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the spelling of the text parts of the message, and if misspelled words exceeds, for example, 50%, then we can add a few points to the SPAM score? I'm not sure how to begin coding this, but I think it

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Gustafson, Tim wrote: Hello One thing I've noticed about almost ALL spam that gets through at this point is that they have a LOT of misspelled (and obfuscated) words. Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the spelling of the text parts of the message, and if

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Ron Johnson
Paolo Cravero as2594 writes: Gustafson, Tim wrote: Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the spelling of the text parts of the message, and if misspelled words exceeds, for example, 50%, then we can add a few points to the SPAM score? I'm not sure how to

RE: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Gustafson, Tim
1) FPs on highly technical mail due to words not known to the spell checker. I hadn't thought of that, but people who are dealing with highly technical e-mails would probably also be able to customize their local.cf file to effectively turn off the rule. 2) FPs on email sent by folks of the

RE: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Gustafson, Tim
And how would you deal with messages in other languages? Over here 99% of messages in English are spam! AFAIK there's no language indicator in email messages. I wouldn't deal with messages in other languages. My clients are all english speaking Americans, and we already block all foreign

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Gustafson, Tim wrote: 3) FPs on email sent by lazy/stupid folks that can't spell. (Translation: management material) I don't mind these getting blocked. In fact, I'd love it if every time someone sent me a very poorly written e-mail they got a bounce message back telling them to turn on the

Antwort: RE: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread srunschke
Gustafson, Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 05.04.2006 17:11:10: 1) FPs on highly technical mail due to words not known to the spell checker. I hadn't thought of that, but people who are dealing with highly technical e-mails would probably also be able to customize their local.cf file to

RE: Antwort: RE: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Rule No.1: If a rule is likely to hit more ham then spam due to certain circumstances, it is not a rule to consider implementing unless you know you'll never meet the circumstances - but then it's up to YOU to modify your local.cf and implement the rule ;) You say to-may-to, I say

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Gustafson, Tim wrote: 1) FPs on highly technical mail due to words not known to the spell checker. I hadn't thought of that, but people who are dealing with highly technical e-mails would probably also be able to customize their local.cf file to effectively turn off the rule. Well,

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Also, the rule probably wouldn't detect misuses of then in place of than. ;-) (Nothing personal, lots of people, make that mistake, as well as insure/ensure, effect/affect and many similar ones.) Seriously though, I get the feeling that a well-trained bayes database, which to a big extent is

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Kelson
Magnus Holmgren wrote: Also, the rule probably wouldn't detect misuses of then in place of than. grin type=evil/ May bee yore you sirs half goad spelling, oar naught. Orphan, there justice likely two right pore lee. Eye no this is write cause Thunderbird excepts it. They're are know read

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Matt Kettler wrote: Gustafson, Tim wrote: Hello One thing I've noticed about almost ALL spam that gets through at this point is that they have a LOT of misspelled (and obfuscated) words. Could SpamAssassin benefit from a filter that would actually check the spelling of the text parts of the

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Philip Prindeville
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Gustafson, Tim wrote: 3) FPs on email sent by lazy/stupid folks that can't spell. (Translation: management material) I don't mind these getting blocked. In fact, I'd love it if every time someone sent me a very poorly written e-mail they got a bounce

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: Of course you could train your spell checker to your companies local mail words.. however, at that point you've implemented a low-quality version of a bayes checker. and he can just use a bayesian classifier to implement his feature. training is easy: - ham = all words

Re: Idea for new SA Rule

2006-04-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Philip Prindeville wrote: litre, and if I'm feeling really silly, aluminium (I hate that word). Aluminium rocks! Especially aluminium foil and aluminium airplanes.

SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Barry Callahan
I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.0 with sendmail, and I think it's great. I'm using milter-spamc to interface with SpamAssassin running as a daemon. It doesn't /quite/ catch everything, and some (very little, actually) SPAM gets through untagged. I spent some time looking at the SPAM and

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Matt Kettler
Barry Callahan wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin 3.1.0 with sendmail, and I think it's great. I'm using milter-spamc to interface with SpamAssassin running as a daemon. It doesn't /quite/ catch everything, and some (very little, actually) SPAM gets through untagged. I spent some time

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:15:58PM -0500, Barry Callahan wrote: I spent some time looking at the SPAM and compared it it to the legitimate email I receive. :) So, I was wondering if the following set of logic would be possible to implement in SpamAssassin, either as a collection of rules,

RE: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Barry Callahan wrote: On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. The legitimate email, on the other hand ALL has at least one additional Received: header, OR the machine it was received from is allowed to

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 3/16/2006 5:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Barry Callahan wrote: On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. The legitimate email, on the other hand ALL has at least one additional Received: header, OR the

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
Barry Callahan: On a large percentage of the SPAM that gets through, the only Received: header that exists was put there by my mailserver. BTW, it seems weird to me that you see these results. 58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 I did up a quick check to

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Barry Callahan
Theo Van Dinter wrote: BTW, it seems weird to me that you see these results. 58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 Interesting. I don't seem to have that rule. Which ruleset is it in? I used grep to search for RECEIVED_COUNT in all of my installed

Re: SA rule question / suggestion

2006-03-16 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:28:11PM -0500, Barry Callahan wrote: 58.171 62.4003 34.85560.642 0.820.01 T_RECEIVED_COUNT_01 I did up a quick check to gather some stats from my corpus (last 14 days). Interesting. I don't seem to have that rule. Which ruleset is it in? I used grep to

Re: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-13 Thread Jonathan Engbrecht
- De: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: viernes, 10 de marzo de 2006 21:57 Para: Ruben Cardenal CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org Asunto: Re: SA rule for userid in subject? Ruben Cardenal wrote: Hi, Loren answered that a month ago. Is in the archives. You may us

SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Jonathan Engbrecht
hello assassin-types, I'm seeing a lot of image-only spam of the following form: rcpt to: userid@domain.com Subject: Fw: userid Is there a way to create a simple spamassassin rule that will hit on this? I could use () and \1 in regular expressions and a giant, multi-line matching RE

Re: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Jonathan Engbrecht wrote: hello assassin-types, I'm seeing a lot of image-only spam of the following form: rcpt to: userid@domain.com Subject: Fw: userid Is there a way to create a simple spamassassin rule that will hit on this? I could use () and \1 in regular expressions and a

RE: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Ruben Cardenal
] Enviado el: viernes, 10 de marzo de 2006 21:17 Para: Jonathan Engbrecht CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org Asunto: Re: SA rule for userid in subject? Jonathan Engbrecht wrote: hello assassin-types, I'm seeing a lot of image-only spam of the following form: rcpt to: userid

Re: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:59:09PM -0500, Jonathan Engbrecht wrote: I'm seeing a lot of image-only spam of the following form: rcpt to: userid@domain.com Subject: Fw: userid Yeah, there's a lot of that. Is there a way to create a simple spamassassin rule that will hit on this? I could

Re: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Matt Kettler
Ruben Cardenal wrote: Hi, Loren answered that a month ago. Is in the archives. You may use: header RULE_NAME ALL =~ /\nTo: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).+\nSubject:\s*Fw: .{0,30}\s*\1\b/i That covers Fw: userid and Fw: (some word[s]) userid. True, but that's using () and \1, which is

RE: SA rule for userid in subject?

2006-03-10 Thread Ruben Cardenal
el: viernes, 10 de marzo de 2006 21:57 Para: Ruben Cardenal CC: users@spamassassin.apache.org Asunto: Re: SA rule for userid in subject? Ruben Cardenal wrote: Hi, Loren answered that a month ago. Is in the archives. You may use: header RULE_NAME ALL =~ /\nTo: ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Help with SA rule

2005-10-28 Thread Jeremy
Hi all, I've created a custom SA rule for myself to block spams that contain URLs which aren't yet listed by SURBL or URIBL. My rule looks like this: uri BAD_URI/baddomain1\.com|baddomain2\.com|baddomain3\.com/i describe BAD_URIBody contains blacklisted URL score BAD_URI

Re: Help with SA rule

2005-10-28 Thread Loren Wilton
I've created a custom SA rule for myself to block spams that contain URLs which aren't yet listed by SURBL or URIBL. My rule looks like this: uri BAD_URI/baddomain1\.com|baddomain2\.com|baddomain3\.com/i describe BAD_URIBody contains blacklisted URL score BAD_URI5.0

SA Rule - Matching on From AND Subject

2005-03-03 Thread Steve Dimoff
Hello, I'm running SA 2.63, and I have a rule I would like to create that would only be a positive number/match if two checks both were matched. I don't want one rule checking To and another checking Subject, I want to combine to the two rules so that if To and Subject both match

Re: SA Rule - Matching on From AND Subject

2005-03-03 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:52:53PM -0500, Steve Dimoff wrote: I don't want one rule checking To and another checking Subject, I want to combine to the two rules so that if To and Subject both match something then to give it a positive score. RTFM for meta rules. :) -- Randomly Generated

Re: SA Rule - Matching on From AND Subject

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:52 PM 3/3/2005, Steve Dimoff wrote: I'm running SA 2.63, and I have a rule I would like to create that would only be a positive number/match if two checks both were matched. I don't want one rule checking To and another checking Subject, I want to combine to the two rules so that if

RE: SA Rule - Matching on From AND Subject

2005-03-03 Thread Steve Dimoff
Perfect! Thanks!!! -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 2:10 PM To: Steve Dimoff; Spamassassin-Users ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Subject: Re: SA Rule - Matching on From AND Subject At 01:52 PM 3/3/2005, Steve Dimoff wrote: I'm

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