Re: Suddenly tons of spam

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote: > >> Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: >> >> [29434] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 1301418690 >> [29434] dbg: bayes: corpus size: nspam = 114087, nham = 43887 >> [29434] dbg: bayes: score = 0.0443902978533707 >> [29434] dbg: bayes: DB expiry: to

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:09:08 -0700 jdow wrote: > On 2011/03/29 11:30, RW wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:55:51 -0500 > > Max wrote: > > > >> Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: > >> > >> [29434] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all > >> [29434] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG > >> [29

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 2011/03/29 12:15, Mikael Syska wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:07 PM, missingshrink wrote: Not to hijack this thread - but I am experiencing the same issue. Well ... same problem. I too - started experiencing tons of spam getting through since a few weeks ago. Okay. Erm, tons

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 2011/03/29 11:30, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:55:51 -0500 Max wrote: Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [29434] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [29434] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [29434] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version Update to the current version. It's not w

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 3/29/2011 8:30 AM, RW wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:55:51 -0500 Max wrote: Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [29434] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [29434] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [29434] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version Update to the current version. It's not

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 29/03/11 22:54, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:12:27 -0700 (PDT), missingshrink wrote: Going by the recommendation of others here, I have removed my installation originally done with RPM (CentOS 4.9) and removed all my bayes files. never install directly from cpan, make rpms

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:12:27 -0700 (PDT), missingshrink wrote: > Going by the recommendation of others here, I have removed my installation > originally done with RPM (CentOS 4.9) and removed all my bayes files. never install directly from cpan, make rpms from cpan is okay, but it would be even b

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

;> While it should look like this: >> >> bayes_path /tmp/bayes >> >> This setting needs to be both the directory path as well as the first >> portion of the filename for the bayes files. This will almost always >> look like '/path/to/directory/bayes'

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

Tried to update spamassasin with cpan, it failed of course did: perl -MCPAN -e shell [as root] install Mail::SpamAssassin quit Test Summary Report --- t/spamc_bug6176.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 2 Failed: 2) Failed tests

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 12:07 -0700, missingshrink wrote: > Not to hijack this thread - but I am experiencing the same issue. > Upgrade. 3.2.4 is very old and its default rule set is likewise. If you're not already using greylisting, its worth thinking about. When my ISP introduced it, the spam I r

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 3/29/2011 3:07 PM, missingshrink wrote: > Not to hijack this thread - but I am experiencing the same issue. > > > I too - started experiencing tons of spam getting through since a few weeks > ago. > In the past hour, 18 messages were not corrected tagged as spam, 3 were. My > required score is 2

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

released. Visit the downloads page to pick it up, and for more info. > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Suddenly-tons-of-spam-tp31269789p31270648.html > Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > mvh Syska

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Suddenly-tons-of-spam-tp31269789p31270648.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 13:14 -0500, Max wrote: > For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as > text and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the > random characters of the image data increase the entropy of the database > and cause some less than defi

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On 3/29/2011 2:14 PM, Max wrote: > For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as > text and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the > random characters of the image data increase the entropy of the > database and cause some less than definitive scores? >

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:55:51 -0500 Max wrote: > Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: > > [29434] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all > [29434] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG > [29434] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version Update to the current version. It's not worth giving it any more

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote: For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as text and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the random characters of the image data increase the entropy of the database and cause some less than definitive scores? I'm

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

The maximum message size sent to spamd is set at 4mb On 03/29/2011 01:14 PM, Max wrote: For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as text and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the random characters of the image data increase the entropy of the da

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as text and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the random characters of the image data increase the entropy of the database and cause some less than definitive scores? That aside. It seems like all my ham

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On occasions we will train the .Junk folder and others using sa-learn. Also here is an example of spam as requested http://www.nomorepasting.com/getpaste.php?pasteid=36037 On 03/29/2011 01:00 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote: I'm going to change my required spam cutoff s

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote: Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [29434] dbg: bayes: DB journal sync: last sync: 1301418690 [29434] dbg: bayes: corpus size: nspam = 114087, nham = 43887 [29434] dbg: bayes: score = 0.0443902978533707 [29434] dbg: bayes: DB expiry: tokens in DB: 135674

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote: I'm going to change my required spam cutoff score though Please, not until other troubleshooting steps are tried! X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=3.6 tests=BAYES_50, X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 required=3.6 tests=BAYES_50,HTML_IMAGE_RATIO_06, X-Spam-Sta

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

Heres the output of spamassassin -D --lint: [29434] dbg: logger: adding facilities: all [29434] dbg: logger: logging level is DBG [29434] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 [29434] dbg: config: score set 0 chosen. [29434] dbg: util: running in taint mode? yes [29434] dbg: util: taint mode:

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Max wrote: > Thanks but yeah it is running. I get a spam score on my messages. I'm going > to change my required spam cutoff score though 3.6 is very low and on my servers I would get way to many false positives. I'm running at 5.6 If that is the only rules

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

Thanks but yeah it is running. I get a spam score on my messages. I'm going to change my required spam cutoff score though That should help with a large majority of it. It just concerns me that it was so sudden. All my ham is below below 0 heres a grep sample: X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.6 r

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 12:20 -0500, Max wrote: > Hey, I know this message is kind of vague but I set up spamassassin a > while ago. It's been working great for a long time, but then out of no > where we started getting 127 or so spam messages per day. Could someone > point me in the right direction

Re: Suddenly tons of spam

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Max wrote: > Hey, I know this message is kind of vague but I set up spamassassin a > while ago. It's been working great for a long time, but then out of no > where we started getting 127 or so spam messages per day. Could someone > point me in the right direct

Suddenly tons of spam

Hey, I know this message is kind of vague but I set up spamassassin a while ago. It's been working great for a long time, but then out of no where we started getting 127 or so spam messages per day. Could someone point me in the right direction to diagnose/correct this problem? All I've done so fa