Re: Out of memory during ridiculously large request at

2008-08-22 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Matthias: 2008/8/22 Matthias Häker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi i found Wed Aug 20 19:10:54 2008 [81756] warn: rules: failed to run BAYES_99 test, skipping: Wed Aug 20 19:10:54 2008 [81756] warn: (Out of memory during ridiculously large request at

Re: Our secret is out

2008-08-15 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2008/8/15 John Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From a Slashdot thread about somebody suddenly seeing no spam on their mail feed and wondering why: A group of the original SpamAssassin developers got together with a group of mercenaries and created SpammerAssassin. It's in alpha, and looks good

Can I block/blacklist via SPF??

2008-05-20 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hello, list. I've been wondering how to stop traffic from certain hosts which only seem to distribute spam. I'm tired of reporting the emails to their ISP, Spamcop, etc. Since the servers are identically configured (they seem to be virtual machines fired up/cloned from the same template), and have

Re: Can I block/blacklist via SPF??

2008-05-20 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2008/5/20 mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler wrote: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hello, list. I've been wondering how to stop traffic from certain hosts which only seem to distribute spam. I'm tired of reporting the emails to their ISP, Spamcop, etc. Since the servers are identically

Re: MySQL my.cnf file for innodb

2008-05-19 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Mark: 2008/5/18 Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just looking for some my.cnf example files for SA. Server has 4 gigs of ram, dual core CPU. What do I want in my my.cnf file? Thanks in advance. Could you AT LEAST post this kind of questions as OFF TOPIC??? Or maybe to the right list? (Mysql,

Re: Trouble with VBounce

2008-05-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Eric 2008/5/13 Erik Dasque [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I checked the debug result of my a --lint and got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ spamassassin 21 -D --lint | grep ounce [13492] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::VBounce from @INC [13492] dbg: config: fixed relative path:

Re: Trouble with VBounce

2008-05-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Karsten: 2008/5/13 Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yup. Did you whitelist your servers? If you don't do it, SA doesn't know how to tell a legit bounce from UBE-generated bounces. You should have something like whitelist_bounce_relays my.server.name other.server.name in

Re: Change subject depending on score

2008-05-07 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi 2008/5/7 pingu22 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, what I want to do is: If score = 5 = 15 change subject to ***SPAM*** If score = 15 change subject to HIGH_SPAM*** with procmail I can control the score level and p.e. put the mail in a different folder. The question here is how do

Re: Filtering out delivery status notifications

2008-04-15 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Jarek 2008/4/15, Jarek [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I've a problem with mass of DSN messages, which are replays to spam sent by spammers with my address. How can I create rule to tag DSN as spam, if it is not the answer to messsage send from my IPs ? Boy, backscatter

Re: Returned mail spam

2008-04-09 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2008/4/9, John Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, mouss wrote: Thanks for confirming that spf doesn't fix the problem. There's no silver bullet. SPF will tend to reduce the problem. Would't DKIM help also? I've implemented both methods, and encouraged my colleagues to do it

Feature request

2008-04-03 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, everybody (but specially developers). I've been running a sitewide Bayes setup for almost three years, with a wonderful result. Along with that, I report spam messages to my local spamassassin setup (and some to spamcop) via a web interface (embedded in our Webmail). From the last training

Re: SA-UPDATE How often new updates?

2008-03-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Sn!iper quite a nick!: 2008/3/25, Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sn!per wrote: You should be able to just do something like this: 27 * * * * /usr/bin/sa-update /etc/init.d/spamd restart Will that also update sought and openprotect when new rules are made available?

Re: SA-UPDATE How often new updates?

2008-03-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
$exitcodeC -ge 4 ] then echo Spamassassin update exited with error code of $exitcode exit fi #--eof-- 2008/3/25, Luis Hernán Otegui [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sn!iper quite a nick!: 2008/3/25, Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sn!per wrote: You should be able to just do something like

Re: Celebrity spams

2008-03-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, 2008/3/25, AM ImpacT [W. Kranenborg] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, We also have this problem at our company. It would be nice if there is a rule for this spam. Could you please post a full message to some place accessible to everybody? (e.g., pastebin). Regards, Wessel Kranenborg AM

Re: How can I catch these?

2008-03-19 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, Mouss 2008/3/18, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Loren Wilton wrote: Hi, I'm kinda getting tired of reporting these mails (both to my local SA and to SpamCop), and so are my customers. My problem is that the spammers are using a large ISP's mail server, and that particular ISP (as all

How can I catch these?

2008-03-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, I'm kinda getting tired of reporting these mails (both to my local SA and to SpamCop), and so are my customers. My problem is that the spammers are using a large ISP's mail server, and that particular ISP (as all the others here in Argentina) don't bother checking the abuse reports. What

Re: How can I catch these?

2008-03-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Matthias 2008/3/18, Matthias Haegele [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui schrieb: Hi, I'm kinda getting tired of reporting these mails (both to my local SA and to SpamCop), and so are my customers. My problem is that the spammers are using a large ISP's mail server

Re: sa-learn user problem

2008-03-01 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Matthias 2008/3/1, Matthias Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am/On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:23:28 -0300 schrieb/wrote Diego Pomatta: Matthias Schmidt escribió: Hello, my mac os x leopard (10.5.2 with updated amavis-new and spamassassin) runs a script, which calls sa-learn with sudo and

Re: Is http://www.rulesemporium.com?

2008-02-29 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, same here, from Argentina 2008/2/29, DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: I have the same problem here: traceroute to www.rulesemporium.com (72.52.4.74), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 roxanne.pcez.com (209.102.124.1) 0.179 ms 0.146 ms 0.143 ms

Re: Lots Of SPAM

2008-02-26 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, tarak 2008/2/26, Tarak Ranjan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi List, i have posted my RAW email in http://pastebin.ca/918849 , i'm receiving 1000 to 4000 per day this king of mesages. SA also skipping this kind of mails / Well, I get a beautiful BAYES_99 on the mail you've shown. You

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-21 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Scott, I'll give you my two cents here 2008/2/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi John, Looks like yo replied directly to me. I couldn't find your reply on the list yet? At any rate... The Bayes DB has been learned and in effect for a long time - years before my time. No

Re: URIBL

2008-02-21 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
HI, Rocco 2008/2/21, Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyway I heard talking about URIBL, which as I have understod is a quite different service (it blacklists 'domains' rather 'IPs'). But is it maybe a dangerous practice to fight spam? Anyway, does anyone suggest me to use

Re: autolearn vs sa-learn / Bayes

2008-02-21 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hola, Diego 2008/2/21, Diego Pomatta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list. Does the bayes system use a separate db for the autolearn mode? Today I noticed that my SA bayes has 50 spam and 45 ham mails learned, when I thought the db had a lot more, because bayes IS being used. # sa-learn

Re: Bayes: What am I missing

2008-02-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2008/2/17, comparity [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have found that in the last few months a lot of mail has been coming through. I believe that the bayes filter isn't working. None of the caught messages include a bayes score. I have dutifully put all of my uncaught spam into a folder for the

Re: Apache SpamAssassin 3.2.4

2008-01-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi 2008/1/11, Bret Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: New upgrade is running GREAT here :) Running fine here on Windows Server 2003 with CommuniGate Pro. :) Well, scan times went DOWN a LOT!!! According to Amavis-Logwatch:

Re: New credit card scams .. how to catch these

2008-01-04 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Ram, 2008/1/4, ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: https://ecm.netcore.co.in/tmp/dinner.eml.txt The scam works like this: They send you a mail asking wether you accept credit cards at your hotel They get you to confirm you will accept credit card for payment. Once you agree they ask you to bill

Re: Will DKIM reduce the spam score

2007-12-21 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Merlin: I have a couple of -very- old Postfix 2.1.5 mail servers up and running with DKIM signing support. How did I achieve that? by means of Amavisd-new and DKIM-Proxy. Basically, I route every mail originated at my server (e.g, via webmail, OR TLS-authenticated users) to a different Amavis

Re: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams

2007-10-19 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Rob, 2007/10/19, Rob Sterenborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Anyway, the Faculty I work for tries to keep the e-mail system only for research purposes, and mostly students and (sadly) technicians tend to goof around with mail. Bandwidth isn't cheap here, so

Re: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams

2007-10-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, 2007/10/18, ram [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:51 +0200, Yet Another Ninja wrote: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams Atleast 70% of email users dont have their speakers on, the spammer has got his basics wrong We block .avi, .mp3, .mpg, etc. here, because we think

Re: upgrade question

2007-10-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Chuck 2007/10/18, Chuck Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I didn't find it on the web page FAQ section. Is there a how to for upgrading from 2.63 to present release (3.2.3)? If not, please, some pointers on what to read to make this as painless as possible. As

Re: coming to your inbox: mp3 stock spams

2007-10-18 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Per 2007/10/18, Per Jessen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: We block .avi, .mp3, .mpg, etc. here, because we think it's a waste of bandwith to share those extensions via email, Voicemail (from a mobile for instance) is quite often sent in .wav or .mp3 format, so we don't

Sa-compile error

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, everybody, sa-compile was running allright in my systems, and the saturday it began to spit out this output (from sa-compile -D): cd /tmp/.spamassassin28680clJUyOtmp cd Mail-SpamAssassin-CompiledRegexps-body_0 Wide character in print at /usr/local/bin/sa-compile line 379, $fh line 4428. re2c

OT: How to report a known spammer company?

2007-09-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list. In the past few months, I've seen an increasing rate of mails coming from many servers hosted here in Argentina, with valid domains, and Linux architecture (at least, that's what p0f is reporting), thus they get -1'ed at scoring. Digging around I've found many of these companies offering

Re: OT: How to report a known spammer company?

2007-09-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/9/25, John D. Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: I want to know how to report them to a RBL server (currently I report them via SpamCop, Razor and DCC, besides I'm blacklisting them at local.cf), but I think it would be good for the rest of us

Re: Converting to MySQL

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Raquel, 2007/9/24, Raquel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On a new server I'm running Debian Etch, Sendmail and SpamAssassin, hosting email for a few accounts. I'm contemplating converting my SpamAssassin to using MySQL. Is there a HOWTO somewhere which would be good to follow? -- Raquel

Re: sender name same as recipient name

2007-09-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, feral 2007/9/24, feral [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry if this is a well-known issue... first I have encountered it. I am using SA 3.1.9 installed on a CentOS Linux system. One of my clients just noticed a huge spike in spam getting through, even though SA is turned on for his email account

Re: New distribution rule not working ?

2007-09-21 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/9/21, Richard Smits [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, In a spammail I found this rule : RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4 The DNSWL check went stock over sa-update some time ago. However, it might happen that some spam could get passed through a server with a good reputation (or a medium one, lithe the header

Re: How to analyze scan time

2007-09-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/9/13, Skip [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is probably going to be a stupid question, but how do I go about implementing patches like this? Should this file be copied in place of the file located here?: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/ - Skip ASQ (another stupid question):

Re: FW: List of 700,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/9/12, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just added you to my blackhole list. So, You've just added Gmail to it. A Wise one, eh? -- - GNU-GPL: May The Source Be With You... Linux Registered User #448382. When I grow up, I wanna be like

Re: FW: List of 700,000 IP addresses of virus infected computers

2007-09-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/9/12, Jon Trulson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Jason Bertoch wrote: On Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:07 PM Marc Perkel wrote: The details are a little to complex for this forum ... OK - had quite a few trolls here who seem to be hostile to my breakthroughs so I wasn't

Re: OT blacklist check

2007-08-28 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Jean Paul, check this site: http://www.robtex.com/rbl.html It does multi RBL checks, saved my butt a few times ;) Peace, Luis 2007/8/28, Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I saw that my server wound up on http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml so I had my server removed- however , I

Re: SPF-Compliant Spam

2007-08-27 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/8/27, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Meng Weng Wong wrote: On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Kelson wrote: Jason Bertoch wrote: Is it wise to blacklist both, or is this yet another case where SPF has failed to meet projections? It's a case where the spammer has just handed you

Re: SPF-Compliant Spam

2007-08-27 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/8/27, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: 2007/8/27, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Meng Weng Wong wrote: On Aug 27, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Kelson wrote: Jason Bertoch wrote: Is it wise to blacklist both, or is this yet another case where SPF has

Re: SPF-Compliant Spam

2007-08-27 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/8/27, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/smtp-spf-is-harmful.html SPF is harmful. Adopt it. You've come to this page because you've said something similar to the following: SPF (sender permitted from a.k.a. sender policy framework) is a

Re: how to upgrade 3.1.7 to 3.2.x

2007-08-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
It could be good if you provide us with some details about your installation (OS, method of installation at least). If you want to go the old compile way, backup your /etc/spamassassin (or /etc/mail/spamassassin/), and then: #wget last-version-of-spamassassin.tar.gz #tar xzvf

Re: not everyone is happy with SA

2007-07-19 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Funny how the closed-source companies need to base their marketing policies on FUD, or even worse, user-defined indexes. If I'm allowed to non-literally quote Homer Simpson here: Ah, Kent, everything can be proven these days with statistics. 60% of the people knows it... I used to work as

Re: Need a rule written - Can whitelisting be this easy?

2007-07-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
2007/7/12, Meng Weng Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Need a rule written to take advantage of this trick and this could be a major breakthrough in white listing. Here's what it needs to do: 1) Take the IP of the connecting host and do an RDNS lookup

Re: Upgrading to 3.2

2007-07-03 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, 2007/7/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are trying to upgrade from 3.1.0 on SLES9 using spamd. I have viewed the install notes and downloaded the zip. Extracted and CD'd to that new SA dir. Followed these install instructions: [unzip/untar the archive] cd

Re: Rules in 2 locations

2007-06-29 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
thought SA uses both directories and includes 2 sets of rules. Since it uses only 1 directory, it puzzles me where these duplicates are coming from. Does anybody know? Thank you Irina === - Original Message - From: Luis Hernán Otegui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Irina

Re: Rules in 2 locations

2007-06-29 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Irina: This is normal. Stock distribution rules are installed in /usr/local/share/spamassassin when you install SA. But as new rules are updated via SARE, they get downloaded to /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002001/updates_spamassassin_org/. Notice the version dependent subdir. After sa-update, SA will

Re: Rules in 2 locations

2007-06-29 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, here we go me and my big mouth... No, really, thanks for the explanations, Bowie and Theo... Luix 2007/6/29, Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:14:03PM -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: This is normal. Stock distribution rules are installed in /usr/local/share

SASL and SPF Fail

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list, several of my users are beggining to use the SASL method to send mails trhough the server. The point is that the messages from one of these users are getting tagged as spam (the lil' bastard uses Incredimail, so a bunch of another stuff regardind this crappy piece of software gets his

[Maybe OT] how do I avoid SPF_FAIL?

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list, I've recently added the feature of SMTP Auth to my MTA (Postfix running on Debian Sarge), and when any user tries to send a mail trhoug the server, it hits SPF_FAIL (which, on the other hand, seems natural, since one of the relays sits outside of the mynetworks directive of Postfix. Is

Re: SASL and SPF Fail

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
has the exact reverse score of SPF_FAIL. I think it would be more elegant to zero that rule in this particula case. But I don't know how to do it... Thanks Luis 2007/6/13, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, list, several of my users are beggining to use

Re: SASL and SPF Fail

2007-06-13 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, got the picture. Guess I'll go for the upgrade of postfix. Thanks again, Luis 2007/6/13, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: OK, Daryl, got the point. Made a rule to match my Postfix-2.2 auth headers. Now, a question: how do I assign a score of zero

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, I dint't have rbl_timeout set, but after your mail, I did. The DNSs I have set in resolv.conf are mine, they both cache and work as internal and external resolvers. But the UNLP NOC got screwed in the last days, so setting the timeout a little higher wont't hurt. Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-08 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, Raymond, I don't have any URIBL rules firing up (SA 3.2.0 from source here, most of the other relevant info is in the header of the mail I sent before to test). Where did you get them? Thanks, Luis 2007/6/8, Raymond Dijkxhoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi! They aren't scoring very much

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-08 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, Raymond, I don't have any URIBL rules firing up (SA 3.2.0 from source here, most of the other relevant info is in the header of the mail I sent before to test). Where did you get them? Run sa-update to get URIBL_BLACK and URIBL_GREY. Daryl

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-08 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
updates.spamassassin.org you've got a working set of rules for URIBL_BLACK and URIBL_GREY. It turns out that they didn't hit for Raymond either, so you won't see them in this case. Daryl Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Well, right now I'm running these commands to get updates: sa-update --gpgkey GPGKEY --channel

Re: These are getting through SA...

2007-06-08 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
at 18:46 -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: OK, i?ve been googlin' around, and it seems like an issue between Amavis (or MailScanner, for waht I've found) and some unsupported versions of Net::DNS, because when I run the message through SA by itself, this comes out: Whatever you manually fed SA

Re: Problem with sa-update and ImageInfo

2007-06-05 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
You're probably loading the plugin twice, one from your local.cf or a v3**.pre file, and the other from the ImageInfo.cf. Take out one of the LoadPlugin directives (preferably the one from local.cf or the *.pre files), and everything will go fine. Luix 2007/6/5, CHIME System Admin [EMAIL

Re: zen.spamhaus.org

2007-06-01 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Search through the archives, there was a patch to add it to SA. Luix 2007/6/1, Martin Jürgens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am running Debian Etch, Exim4 and Spamassassin 3.1.7. Now I am trying to find out how to make Spamassassin use Spamhaus Zen. I am stuck. Could anyone please tell me what I

Re: VBounce not working in 3.2.0

2007-05-30 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, it isn't working here too. Came up since upgrade to 3.2.0. Worked fine with 3.1.8... Luis 2007/5/27, Henrik Krohns [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:12:27AM +, Bob Mortimer wrote: Hi, I had Justin's VBounce ruleset working fine until I switched to 3.2.0 and I seem to

Re: AWL File Locking - Permission Denied

2007-05-17 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
You should start probably by checking file permissions on the dir awl sits, and its parent... Luix 2007/5/17, Daniel Aquino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I seem to see this message allot... warn: auto-whitelist: open of auto-whitelist file failed: locker: safe_lock: cannot create lockfile

Problems with live.com alerts service

2007-05-16 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Interesting approach by M$... offering an alerts service for PayPal, which is supposed to be secure, and then using mailservers which don't resolv to anything... This came up today (the user deleted the mail, and then decided to give me a call, so all I have are the mail logs): May 16 11:48:15

Re: tracking down problem messages

2007-05-15 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
How are you calling SA? procmail? Amavis? plugins? Which version are you running? Most likely, the RBL checks are the reason for that delays. Try setting skip_rbl_checks 1 in the local.cf, then look over the statistics again. If scan times go down, blame your nameserver... Luix! 2007/5/15,

Re: SA 3.2.0 logging

2007-05-12 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Yup, it's Amavis. What could be ahppening is that either the no-quarantine threshold was too low, or the mails never got quarantined because they never scored high enough. Chech you Amavis config. For instance, I don't quarantine, just change the subject of mails with scores between 5 and 8 and

Disabling some DNS tests

2007-05-11 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list, I'm currently running zen.spamhaus.org and cbl.abuseat.org as RBLs over Postfix, how can I disable them in SA? (I mean, if I'm already blocking connections which got listed in those RBLs, why let SA check them? I suppose it should lower scan times...) Thanks, Luix --

Re: Disabling some DNS tests

2007-05-11 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
0.0 Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Luis Hernán Otegui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2007 14:33 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Disabling some DNS tests Hi, list, I'm currently running

Re: Bayes DB

2007-05-11 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
First, RTFM. Second, Google. Third, oh, well... You NEED to feed Bayes a significant amount of data, so it knows what is spam and waht is ham, due to the fact that the kind of spam and ham you receive is different from the ones I get on my servers. Then it will start auto learning on that basis.

Re: Bayes DB

2007-05-11 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Have you trained the bayes database? Is this a fresh install? It needs at least 200 spam and 200 ham messages to get it going. However, the more ham and spam you can feed it, the better it will perform... Luix 2007/5/11, Daniel Aquino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I setup Bayes and whitelist db paths in

Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0

2007-05-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, here, P4 HT 3.06 GHz, 2 GB RAM (just added 1GB, wanted to test performance) Debian Sarge pretty standard, Perl 5.8.8 from Backports, SA 3.2.0 from source, re2c 0.12.0 from source, a bunch of SARE and openprotect rules, several plugins, sa-compile delivered this: # time sa-compile real

Re: sa-stats and no spamd logs.

2007-05-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, try Amavis Logwatch, by Mike Capella. It's working great here, and you could run it from logwatch, or standalone: http://www.mikecappella.com/logwatch It's pretty straightforward to install and run, and it gives you lots of info about Amavis performance, as well as antivirus antispam

Re: Evaluating how good is a rule

2007-05-07 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, it all depends on how do you run SA (as a content filter, through AMAVIS, via procmail, etc). Via AMAVIS you could use the log parser which MrC wrote, which works like a charm here. It could work as a control, since it tell you which rules hitted harder, which ones didn't, etc. SA cannot

Re: R: Evaluating how good is a rule

2007-05-07 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Messaggio originale- Da: Luis Hernán Otegui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, it all depends on how do you run SA (as a content filter, through AMAVIS, via procmail, etc). Via AMAVIS you could use the log parser which MrC wrote, which works like a charm here. It could

Justa a small nag from 3.2.0...

2007-05-04 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list, I have a cron job running in order to learn from each user's HAM and SPAM subdirs. Whenever it runs, it complains like this: Subroutine FuzzyOcr::O_NONBLOCK redefined at /usr/share/perl/5.8/Exporter.pm line 65. at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/POSIX.pm line 19 Any hints on how to avoid this nag?

Re: notice diff between using 3.1.8 and 3.2.0 ?

2007-05-04 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Yup. Maybe a little too early to jump to conclusions, but since we're running SA 3.2.0 here (two days ), less spam has made through it. I have some spam trap accounts set up, and since the upgrade, none of them has got any messages! (their daily rate varied from 2 to 10 messages a day). As for

Re: Justa a small nag from 3.2.0...

2007-05-04 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Ditto. I'm running 5.8.4 in one machine, and 5.8.8-4 in another, and happens in both of them... 2007/5/4, Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This apparently is fixed in perl 5.8.8, but still happens in 5.8.6, 5.8.5, etc. I see it in perl 5.8.8 --

RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list, I know this is one of those egg and chicken kind of questions, but having now the possibility of checking the impact of various setups, I was wondering if it is more convenient to let the MTA perform the RBL checks, or disable them and let SA do this job. Currently I am using

Re: RBL tests on MTA vs. RBL rules on SA

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
currently running on saupdates.openproect.com. Any suggestions on this subject? Thanks, Luis 2007/4/25, Randy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, list, I know this is one of those egg and chicken kind of questions, but having now the possibility of checking the impact

Re: One word spam

2007-04-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
As I recall, this has been discussed earlier on the list. It seems like spammers are fishing for valid addresses Not lately, but I have seen this kind of spam a lot two months ago or so... Luix 2007/4/24, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm seeing a lot of one words spam. I'm guessing

Re: spam test

2007-04-10 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
The last one is the lowest scoring here, look at the results: For the first mail: Content analysis details: (13.2 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description -- -- -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO

Re: spam graphs

2007-04-05 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Chris, would you, by chance, share your modified scripts? I've been looking for a tool to test the effectiveness of rules since a long time ago, and your comment on the ability to test the effectiveness of RBLs has just stunned me... BTW, I'm no Perl guru, or anything close to that... Thanks,

Re: spam graphs

2007-04-04 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, if you have Postfix and Amavis, I've tried amavis-stats (a little bit old now, and frankly, never worked correctly on my Debian-based servers). I'm currently using Mailgraph, from the Debian package. Works like a charm almost out-of-the-box. Though it should be available as a package for

An lot of these messages getting through

2007-03-30 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, List, could somebody run these messages trhough SA and give me the scores? On my servers they aren't scoring much, as you can see from the headers added by SA. Any special rules to catch them? Thanks, Luis -- - GNU-GPL: May The Source Be

Re: An lot of these messages getting through

2007-03-30 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Thanks, these Stocks Du Jour rules have been created by you, aren't they? or is there a script to create/download them? Luis 2007/3/30, Bill Randle [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:18 -0300, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, List, could somebody run these messages trhough SA and give

Re: Just a general question

2007-03-24 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, let me see... 15 domains... 3000 users approx... oh, and two small ones with 1 user each... Luix 2007/3/24, Andy Figueroa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gary V wrote: I've been on this mail list only for a few months now, and am wondering if I am the smallest guy here. No, you're not. Oh

Re: Is Bayes Dead? Have the spammers won?

2007-03-23 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, my two cents on this: When I upgraded my servers (about half a year ago) and started using a mysql-based Bayes DB, image spams began to drive me crazy. Seemed like there was no way to stop them. But with a good purge of bayes, a rebuild, and the addition of sa-update rules, it all began to

Re: Reporting spam by forwarded/attached message

2007-03-22 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, I got it working (started a thread like this one month ago or so) thanks to some other users contributions. What I did (following someone elses instructions) was insert these lines in local.cf: code bayes_ignore_header ReSent-Date bayes_ignore_header ReSent-From bayes_ignore_header

How to whitelist mail lists?

2007-03-06 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, several of my users have mail lists (such as Yahoo ones, or some other, at elsevier.com, or other scientific publications). I've been searching the web, trying to find a way to whitelist the messages from these lists. Could anyone point me some directions? Thanks in advance, Luis --

Re: How to whitelist mail lists?

2007-03-06 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, but the point is that I run SA trough AMaViS, so procmail recipes aren't the answer. Thanks a lot, I suppose I should create some type of whitelist in AMaViS to avoid SA. Luis 2007/3/6, David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luis Hernán Otegui

Re: HAM and SPAM mailboxes

2007-03-05 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
the forwarded one? Thanks, Luis 2007/3/2, Chris St. Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, people, I am currently researching, trying to implement a way for my POP3 users to train SA via message forwarding. I've read in the list that the messages should

HAM and SPAM mailboxes

2007-03-02 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, people, I am currently researching, trying to implement a way for my POP3 users to train SA via message forwarding. I've read in the list that the messages should be forwarded as attachments. My question is how do you make SA process them. I was thinking of creating two accounts ( [EMAIL

[ semi OT ] Bounced Mails

2007-02-20 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, List, my users are getting increasing amounts of Mail Delivery Subsystem mails, and I suspect spammers are using their addresses as senders. I have my servers registered with SPF, but now I wonder how could I stop this mails from getting to their accounts? I've tried to explain to them that

Re: [ semi OT ] Bounced Mails

2007-02-20 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, I'll give it a try. Thanks a lot Luis 2007/2/20, Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jeff Chan writes: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 06:08, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi, List, my users are getting increasing amounts of Mail Delivery Subsystem mails, and I suspect spammers are using

SA not catching apostrophes in sender's addressess?

2006-12-26 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Hi, list. I have been under heavy stocks alerts spamming. Currently, my setup goes like this: -Debian Sarge -Postfix 2.1.5-9 with VDA patch -Amavisd-new 2.4.2 -SA 3.1.5 -ClamAV 0.84-2.sarge.1 -Mysql 4.0.24-10sarge System was installed and is mantained via apt. I've recently added the sa-update

Re: SA not catching apostrophes in sender's addressess?

2006-12-26 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
OK, I'm using sa-update AND Rules Du Jour. However, I'm not sure about which rulesets are te most convenient to download. Could somebody pass a config file for RDJ? Thanks again, Luis 2006/12/26, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 9:04 am, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Hi

SA 3.0.1, still memory issues...

2004-10-26 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
Well, I've upgraded to SA 3.0.1 several of my servers, and since the bugfixes seemed so promising, I decided to give it a try on the server which had the memory issues (I've sent a couple of mails to the list a month ago, or so). Good news is spamd doesn't chew up the memory as fast as with 3.0.0.

Re: Memory footprint of spamd 3.0

2004-10-11 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
I use ok_locales es en On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 22:03:21 -0700 (PDT), Jerry Glomph Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the default /usr/share/spamassasin/10_misc.cf file, I have ok_locales all ok_languagesall Nothing related in the personalized files in

Re: SA 3.0 is eating up all my memory!!!

2004-10-06 Thread Luis Hernán Otegui
In my setup this is not an option, because I run SA as a milter, via spamass-milter. If every process has to die after the scan, it cannot pass the results of the scan to Sendmail (at least, this is what happened after I tried this option, so I kept on receiving messages like this: Oct 4

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