Re: [SAtalk] 'spamassassin -d' not stripping SA reports from email

2004-01-29 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:41 PM 1/20/04 -0600, C. Bensend wrote: Is the problem that I'm _forwarding_ the tagged emails from one host to the other? I don't have the capability to bounce, I can only forward. A forwarded message is a brand new message. That brand new

Re: [SAtalk] too much spam...

2004-01-28 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Paul Diaguila wrote: No Bayes db yet, but I would think the one rule would score it a 5 Paul Covington, Chris wrote: Your Bayes must be hosed if what you think is spam gets BAYES_00. Chris [snip..] Greetings Using SA Ver. 2.63 with Mimedefang, and still

RE: [SAtalk] Rules Du Jour v 1.07b

2004-01-27 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Smart,Dan wrote: Humm This command works every time from command line, but not passed as a param from SA_RESTART. postfix stop ; sleep 15 ; /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart ; postfix start It runs the postfix stop and then quits. Any idea why? I can create a sed

Re: [SAtalk] Using Mail::SpamAssassin to clean a message

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to take an email message that may contain MIME and HTML and to strip it down to basically nothing but text. (I know that SpamAssassin already does this in large part so that it can analyze the message properly.) So I'm not

Re: FW: [SAtalk] How to stop this kind of stuff?

2004-01-23 Thread David B Funk
|-Original Message- |From: Evan Platt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 15:03 |To: SpamAssassin |Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How to stop this kind of stuff? Real easy, this is a predictable spamhaus, Empire Towers Go check the records on this outfit at

Re: [SAtalk] Selectivly disabling DYNABLOCK

2004-01-22 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Peter McGarvey wrote: Greetings all, I have a mailserver which handles all my incomming and outgoing mail. Outgoing mail (stuff I send) is passed to the server via ASMTP. Incomming mail (stuff sent to me) comes in via SMTP. There is absolutely no way my server will

Re: [WL] Re: [SAtalk] More obfuscation

2004-01-21 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Charles Gregory wrote: Right now, there would be no statistics, because the text obfu has just started. But as a side note, we don't have the disk space to run Bayes for all our users though I'm getting awfully tempted to talk the boss into an extra disk or two. So

Re: [SAtalk] trusted_networks being ignored at times?

2004-01-21 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Will McCutcheon writes: I am running SpamAssassin 2.61 with Sendmail 8.12.8 using Procmail 3.22. [snip..] A's IP as being in an RBL of dynamic IP's, despite my setting in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

RE: [SAtalk] Turning off Habeas?

2004-01-20 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Terry Shows wrote: Maybe it is good for -16, but in every case I looked at that passed thought with habeas set, none of them set the violator, and every single one was flagrantly spam. [snip..] The way it is now, it is just another header that can be added by a spammer,

Re: [SAtalk] List moderation and spam removal

2004-01-20 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Sean McCrohan wrote: [snip..] The problem is that the moderation request the list sends to me gets wrapped in MIME, and SA (as currently installed) doesn't do a very good job of analyzing it, in part because there's a set of instructions stuck on the front that are the

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX)

2004-01-16 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ross Vandegrift wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:20:16AM -0600, David B Funk wrote: If you SMTP reject the spam, it never hits your queue, so no problem with the garbage piling up and no bombarding poor innocent 'joe-job' victims. It's better than auto-deleting spam

Re: [SAtalk] Acronym Update

2004-01-16 Thread David B Funk
--On Friday, January 16, 2004 12:13:21 -0600 Carl Chipman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the new people on the list, I was wondering what the following acronyms mean: LART Luser Attitiude Readjustment Tool Reporting the offending user to [EMAIL PROTECTED] UBE/UCE Unsolicited Bulk

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on Gateway server (MX)

2004-01-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 09:56 AM 1/15/04 +0545, Pankaj wrote: I feel I am being a bit misunderstood. I simply need to configure my MX to have SpamAssassin running.I do not need any antivirus . How do I do it ? Running RedHat Linux 8.1 and Sendmail 8.12.10 in it. [snip..]

Re: [SAtalk] no subject

2004-01-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Christopher Tarricone wrote: The permissions on my bayes_journal and bayes_toks files keep changing. Has anyone else encoutered this problem? [snip..] I look in /usr/share/spamassassin/db/ and behold! The permissions are: [EMAIL PROTECTED] db]# ll total 23012

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes NFS safe?

2004-01-15 Thread David B Funk
On 15 Jan 2004, Rocky Olsen wrote: I too would greatly appreciate any information - as we have 9 boxes doing Spam scanning. Anyone tried this? On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 13:31, Mike Jackson wrote: If you have multiple SA filtering boxes, is it safe to NFS-mount a partition with a system-wide

Re: [SAtalk] The CAN-SPAM act....

2004-01-15 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Jonathan Nichols wrote: Did the CAN-SPAM act really take away a citizen's right to sue spammers? I'd like to write to this marketing company and have them provide me with absolute proof that I signed up for *anything* at all. (they won't be able to) I think the whole

RE: [SAtalk] How to find values assigned to different tests?

2004-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: I thought there was a patch that added the score to the headers... then you didn't have to go looking - has anyone seen it lately? m/ Depending upon how you have SA integrated into your mail system, it may only require a change to your 'local.cf',

Re: [SAtalk] Configuring SA to be more aggressive..

2004-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Mail Monitor wrote: Hi, We have installed SA 2.6 on linux RH 9.0 on a mail gateway. The total mail transaction/day through this server is 75,000 and spam mails caught by SA is around 10-15%. But spam mails are still getting through, we have not implemented razor,

Limitation in SA (Re: [SAtalk] Obfusticated URI?)

2004-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Larry Starr wrote: Just noticed a message with an encoded URL, that misses, the BIZ_TLD rule, etc. The message body contains: a href=3dhttp://gf=2eclearmath=2ebiz/jsimp/index=2ehtml;font face=3darialscored /fontthis way=2e brimg

Re: Limitation in SA (Re: [SAtalk] Obfusticated URI?)

2004-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Justin Mason wrote: David B Funk writes: I can see two different ways to handle this, either make SA more flexible and decode the bastardized QP so normal rules will hit or write a rule that hits such bastardized QP coding as a spam-tool signature. Are you sure about

Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-13 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Rich Puhek wrote: [snip..] Be patient. Use additional rules/tools to catch the latest spammers (clue: most come from spam zombie processes). Report the Habeas violators (more $$$ out of the spammers pockets!). Let's keep the Habeas marks as a tempting target for the

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail/Milter/ProcMail/Spamassassin

2004-01-12 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike Carlson wrote: Right now I am using spamass-milter to send all the email into spamassassin but I would like to implement a deletion process where the email gets deleted if it gets certain score. As it stands I cannot do that right now with my setup. Read the

Re: [SAtalk] Oh Joy, another abusable URI redirector

2004-01-09 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, David B Funk wrote: Oh Joy, another abusable URI redirector. Saw this in a recent spam: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://cardtraffic.com Proposed rule: uri L_URI_REDIR3/http:\/\/www\.google\.com\/url?q=http:/i describe L_URI_REDIR3 open URI redirector #3

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Fresh WhoIs data (emails, phones, etc.) on sale!

2004-01-09 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Steve Thomas wrote: Yay. Yet another a-hole blatantly disregarding the various WHOIS directorys' terms of use and raping it for marketing purposes. Gee, I can't wait to get three more copies of the same spam for every domain I own... Awww, Gee, I thought that he was

Re: [SAtalk] send mail and spamassasin must be on the same machime

2004-01-08 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Douglas Kirkland wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:32, Ceva wrote: hi everybody, does sendmail and spamassassin must be on the same machine, or they can be on diferent machines? They can be on different machines. You will have to call spamassassin with spamc to

Re: [SAtalk] New rule? Based on domain registry

2004-01-05 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, oj wrote: Hello, Recentry i have had problem with spam that consist of html and one image only. The image is fetched from different domains each time. The domains have one thing in common though. They are all registered by the same registry: Whois Server:

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ed Kasky wrote: At 08:56 AM Monday, 1/5/2004, Tom Meunier wrote -= With bigevil.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin, all I see that remotely relates to the file is the following: spamd[22495]: debug: using /usr/share/spamassassin for default rules dir spamd[22495]: debug:

Re: [SAtalk] Assistance with bigevil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, SAtalk Mail User wrote: Hello all, I am needing some assistance in regards to the output below, I have added what I think should get parsed out of the bigevil.cf file in /etc/mail/spamassassin directory. Added for testing --- uri BigEvilList_193 /\b(?:hotmail)\.com\b/i

Re: [SAtalk] Having trouble coding a local rule

2003-12-29 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Kiem wrote: Hi David, So you either need to change your rule to match the header from address or code it to look for the envelope from address. What is the rule for matching envelope from address? That is mail system dependent, as there is no standard

Re: [SAtalk] Having trouble coding a local rule

2003-12-28 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Kiem wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add local rules to allow certain senders that always get caught by SA to lower their scores and give them a better chance of getting through. The rule I added was header LOCAL_GOOD_SENDER_11 From =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ score

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Having trouble coding a local rule

2003-12-28 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Peter Kiem wrote: Preferably not as if someone does forge it, then the mail goes straight through... Isn't that what whitelist_from_rcvd is for? man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf The point is I *DON'T* want to whitelist. I wanted just to lower the SA scores with a

Re: [SAtalk] Single image spams with random info

2003-12-23 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Greg Webster wrote: We're getting a TON of these, all of similar format. htmlbody center!--2rdxveiyf7a8--a href=http://www.mdv678.com?rid=1098;!--srz4f4qaLBUw--img src=http://www.whosout.com/c2.gif; border=0/a/center /html/body The '2rdxveiyf7a8' and 'srz4f4qaLBUw'

Re: [SAtalk] We have big evil now we need big good...

2003-12-22 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Gary Smith wrote: So we implemented SA some time ago because our clients were getting too much spam. Lately we have found that several html marked up emails have been getting marked as spam. These ones are clearly fp's. Some of the domains include Morningstar.com,

Re: [SAtalk] new spamming techniques are flooding me. Any suggestions?

2003-12-18 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, mairhtin wrote: I am getting a new flood of spam that appears not to be even selling anything, but merely trying to get through the filters. Could they be trying to learn from this? I don't see how, but someone suggested as much. Here's a copy of the spam mail and

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with bayesian classification and autolearn

2003-12-12 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote: I've been experimenting with configuration of spamassassin for sitewide use (in particular, using spamassassin 2.60 with sa-exim 3.1 and exim 4.30, under Solaris 8), and for the life of me, I can't seem to get bayesian classification and autolearn

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn ... R/W: tie failed!

2003-12-11 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, AthlonRob wrote: Just for SG, try doing a 'sa-learn --dump magic' and see if it likes what it sees. If you cannot even --dump magic then it's truly corrupted, no repair, just delete and start fresh. I got some funky output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$

RE: [SAtalk] Content Analysis

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Thomas Shoaf (PromoStep) wrote: As for correcting the items listed in my original post, I am looking for an example of the correct content that should be included in the content of the HTML message relating to such items appearing in the Content Analysis when checked

RE: [SAtalk] Content Analysis

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Thomas Shoaf (PromoStep) wrote: The answer to your question, Gary... We are an incentives marketing firm with an affiliate element. Our members can send virtual promotions from their account to friends, family, colleagues, etc; however, some email services such as

Re: [SAtalk] Log Help!

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Ryan Lumsden wrote: Hi all. how do I get spamd to log to a diffrent file besides messages and mail.log. I am up2date with sa and I am running debian woody, any body have any ideas. Thanks in advance. Ryan Yes, look at the man pages for syslogd and spamd. Note the

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject rendering streams

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Gary Funck wrote: It might be convenient to view each these transformations as operating on the output of the previous. I think you were. By doing so, it avoids replicating the description of the previous phase. I meant to add the following sugested additional

Re: [SAtalk] Writing a DNSBL rule for both SPEWS levels

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:08 PM 12/10/2003, Justin wrote: So that's how check_rbl and check_rbl_sub work? I always wondered about that. So what happens if an IP exists in two subzones at the same time? With SORBS, it's done by returning multiple results for a single

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn ... R/W: tie failed!

2003-12-10 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, AthlonRob wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:50, Adam Denenberg wrote: in the same directory as the bayes DB files. Unfortunately, there are no .lock files in that directory. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.spamassassin$ sa-learn --rebuild -DD debug: Final PATH set to:

Fishing lesson (Re: [SAtalk] DB_File

2003-12-09 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jack Gostl wrote: I sent you the error message, I'm pretty sure there was no user associated with it. There were tens of thousands of those errors in the log. I'm not sure how to pinpoint the culprit. I guess I'll have to go to each user and rebuild their database. Yes,

Re: [SAtalk] Generic V-whatever drug with no GV rule hits (fwd)

2003-12-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:54 AM 12/8/2003, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I just opened a Bugzilla report for this: http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2817 (SA 2.60, Solaris, perl 5.6.1) For the moment, I'd suggest a rule like this one that I just cooked

[SAtalk] Re: Generic V-whatever drug with no GV rule hits (fwd)

2003-12-08 Thread David B Funk
On 8 Dec 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote: On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 16:43:15 -0500, Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Or *, to catch more than one obfuscating character.. ie: V...i..a.gr..a As I suggested in my email, there's lots of combinations that spammers can do to avoid the original

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-12-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got SA 2.60 running on a Solaris 8 box with SunONE Messaging Server. It is doing spam scanning for all our users (~7000). In order to keep the system as speedy as possible, I've configured the bayes journal to sit on /tmp which is a memory

Re: [SAtalk] DB_File

2003-12-08 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Jack Gostl wrote: My bet is that your Bayes database got trashed. Possible, but which database? We have many users all with their own? Also, if its a trashed Bayes db, why does the message go away when I restart spamd? Which ever database it was looking at when it

Re: [SAtalk] bayes permission errors

2003-12-07 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Lukreme wrote: spamd[33762]: Cannot open bayes databases /home/user/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/O: tie failed: Permission denied spamd[33762]: processing message [EMAIL PROTECTED] for kremels:5003. spamd[33762]: clean message (0.8/5.0) for user:5003 in 0.2 seconds, 5526

Re: [SAtalk] Custom Rules

2003-12-04 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Fred I-IS.COM wrote: Just a minor correction, try this: header__BLOCKTOFFICEOUTTo =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i header__BLOCKFOFFICEOUTFrom =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i metaBLOCK_MY_OFFICE(__BLOCKTOFFICEOUT !__BLOCKFOFFICEOUT) describe

Re: [SAtalk] spamds that don't finish

2003-12-04 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: Hi All, I've got two spamd processes that just wont go away. They've been running for well over 11 hours and are taking up 100% of my cpu. I've run truss spamd-pid but it doesn't report anything. The same user, coincidentally, is the recipient

RE: [SAtalk] spamds that don't finish

2003-12-04 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Pete Henshall wrote: Hi dan, list, I think it's simply a function of load. The first system gets the bulk of the mail thoughput. You can see that the erratic loads tail off over the weekend. It's wierd. I have tried disabling RBL, bayes and even removing all my

Re: [SAtalk] Interesting about BIG HUGE EVIL RULEs

2003-12-04 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Scott Harris wrote: Because I don't have sourceforge whitelisted, 6 of the last 20 messages to the list were labeled as spam. Rules that hit were: 3.0 BigEvilList_70 BODY: Generated BigEvilList_70 3.0 BigEvilList_150BODY: Generated BigEvilList_150

Re: [SAtalk] What is this? Bayes poison?

2003-12-04 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Kenneth Porter wrote: I'm getting a bunch of these. Are these just intended to poison Bayes DB's? What's the sender's objective? Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from 212.199.108.10.forward.012.net.il

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with email=no content

2003-12-03 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Robert Menschel wrote: headerRM_hx_from exists:From describe RM_hx_from From header found score RM_hx_from 0.001 meta RM_hn_from !RM_hx_from describe RM_hn_from From header not found score RM_hn_from 1.00 The first rule tests for the existence

Re: [SAtalk] BIG HUGE EVIL RULE NEWS!!!!

2003-12-03 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: BIG HUGE NEWS A major breakthrough has taken place ALL EVILRULES FILES HAVE BEEN COMBINED!! 2622 domains into 178 rules!!! Ramdon/tracking hosts tags removed! They only increase spamd memory by 1 meg!!! 1 meg! You read correctly!

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

2003-12-03 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Richard Bewley wrote: Hi, Now, I have the following: header RCVD_IN_MY_BNBLeval:check_rbl('bl', 'bl.blueshore.net.', '2') describe RCVD_IN_MY_BNBL Listed by bl.blueshore.net tflags RCVD_IN_MY_BNBLnet score RCVD_IN_MY_BNBL

Re: [SAtalk] How to whitelist this mailinglist

2003-11-27 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Martin Lyberg wrote: Hi, I want to whitelist the SA mailinglist. Is this the right way to do it: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sourceforge.net Thanks in advance / Martin Almost, whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] sourceforge.net will work PROVIDED

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes expiry

2003-11-26 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Yevgeniy Miretskiy wrote: Hello, sa-learn stopped learning messages. Debugging shows that it can successfully tie Bayes db, extracts tokens, etc, but never actually writes data to the database. I had a db corruption issue some time ago, so, this could very well be

Re: [SAtalk] bayes database size

2003-11-26 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, alan premselaar wrote: I've recently noticed something I think is a little strange but I'd like to confirm it with the list. My bayes database seems excessively large at 967M: -rw-rw-rw-1 defang defang61k Nov 26 16:34 bayes_journal -rw-rw-rw-1 defang

Re: [SAtalk] lock failed: little help PLEASE

2003-11-26 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, German Staltari wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:30:02 -0500, JC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm going to guess that you are running spamassassin as an unprivliged user... Based on that, I would like to suggest that you run spamd and spamc on a port higher than 1024.

RD: Re: [SAtalk] Lint and SaUriCustomRules

2003-11-26 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: At 11:10 PM 11/26/03 +, Alan Munday wrote: If I lint with this in the SaUriCustomRules uri MY_YAHOO_BOUNCED /http:\/\/srd\.yahoo\.com\/drst\/.*\* http:\/\/ describe MY_YAHOO_BOUNCED Trying to hide real URL through Yahoo redirect

Re: [SAtalk] Way to disable auto-learn for messages with specific subject lines?

2003-11-25 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Brian Knittel wrote: Hi, Is there a way to inhibit auto-learning when any specific rule is matched? I noted that the auto-whitelist filters inhibit auto- learning, but can this be extended to arbitrary other rules? I'm my network's postmaster and I get nondeliverable

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian 100% on all my mail

2003-11-25 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Robert Menschel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Aaron, Tuesday, November 25, 2003, 8:58:58 AM, you wrote: AY ... Recently I started getting a lot of false positives with SA 2.60. AY I noticed that all my mail was getting a bayesian score

RE: [SAtalk] SpamScore check

2003-11-25 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Nick Tong wrote: If so is this possible on a windows platform? Nick Tong -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Tong Sent: 25 November 2003 17:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] SpamScore check Dear

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin/Milter not scan outgoing emails

2003-11-24 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Chris Cook wrote: Hello, We are currently using Spamassassin + sendmail + spamass-milter to tag our mail, but we would like to not have outgoing mail scanned. lda and outgoing mail are on the same box. I have tried to just use spamassassin+procmail but the load

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes File Ownership

2003-11-21 Thread David B Funk
From: Gorm Jensen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:04 PM I run sa-learn as root using SA 2.55 and 2.6 on two redhat systems. Both systems run spamd and call spamc from procmail with -u user1 (or user2). Because there are only two users, each system has a common

Re: [SAtalk] header reports missing??

2003-11-21 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Dan Tappin wrote: I have recently installed SA 2.60 from the source code on OS X along side Tenon's Post.Office mail server. This was a manual upgrade from the Tenon supplied SA 2.55 release to be used with their supplied SA 'plug-in'. All is well and e-mail is being

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes File Ownership

2003-11-21 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Gorm Jensen wrote: I run sa-learn as root using SA 2.55 and 2.6 on two redhat systems. Both systems run spamd and call spamc from procmail with -u user1 (or user2). Because there are only two users, each system has a common bayes database with file access permitted to

Re: [SAtalk] DCC and Pyzor Problems

2003-11-20 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Josh Dayberry wrote: I would appreciate any help that can be offered to me. I was using spamd and spamc, and everything was working fine. For some reason I upgraded spamassassin to the newest version and now spamd and spamc won't run the dcc and pyzor tests. If I use

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn and SpamAssassin headers

2003-11-20 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Carlos Jorge Santos wrote: Thanks a lot for your answer. The problem now is that SpamAssassin (spamc to be more precise) is called by Qmail-Scanner, which in turn adds this headers to emails: Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by mail.host-services.com by uid 101 wi

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Sanity checking new uri rules?

2003-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: Thanks, I got it now. I updated my evilrules last night, and they tested great overnight! I shall post them shortly. This should speed them up greatly for everyone! Would this help even more? /?:\bsomedomain\.com\b/i would the addition of the ?:

[SAtalk] Perl history (was: Re: Sanity checking new uri rules?)

2003-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: LOL, the only reason I recognise the name Larry Wall is because of Theo's sigs! :) I guess I need to go but that book and help support the man. --Chris Santerre Mumble Mumble, kids these days, no respect for their elders. OK, mandatory homework

Re: [SAtalk] bayes works!

2003-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Bryan Hoover wrote: The reason I mention it - aside from being pleased - is to point out that it appears the problem was either the old spambouncer headers, or forgetting, wasn't (the latter being what I started out suspecting, until I discovered the spambouncer headers).

Re: [SAtalk] Negative score for SAtalk messages

2003-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Marc Steuer wrote: Hi list members, I want to score messages from [SAtalk] with a negative score so examples posted to the list won't be tagged as spam. This is my first venture into regex and I've tried: header MY_SATALK Subject =~ /\[SAtalk\]\b/

Re: [SAtalk] Need help with a simple custom rule

2003-11-19 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Robert Davidson wrote: Hi everyone, I set up a SpamAssassin system for a company but they alerted me to a problem today. They have content filtering rules to stop people from abusing their employees. Basically any e-mails with naughty words are given 50 points and

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Sanity checking new uri rules?

2003-11-18 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, William Stearns wrote: anchoring with \b = fast OK, cool. As I'm doing full domains, I'll change: uri WLS_URI_1 /0-go.org/i to uri WLS_URI_1 /\b0-go.org\b/i in the next version. Also escape that '.' so that it's taken as a litteral

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Sanity checking new uri rules?

2003-11-18 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: uri WLS_URI_1 /^http:.*\b0-go.org\b/i Regex confusion on my part! '\b' is bounding, but I thought that meant bound by space??? wouldn't this above regex _NOT_ hit : http://stuff.0-go.org/stuff Isn't it looking for: http://stuff. 0-go.org

Re: [SAtalk] SA LIST PROBLEM? Quoted Printable problem?

2003-11-18 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Charles Gregory wrote: Hello, Lately on several e-mails from the list, I've been seeing an error message in my Pine mail program that says: [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] More importantly, the message is *truncated* in the

Re: [SAtalk] Proposal for a delete option to spamc

2003-11-18 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Øystein Halvorsen wrote: Our only MTA for externally received email is sendmail, which again forwards user emails to an internal exchange server. In fact, we have tried this out, and it works quite nicely (at least our local users are delighted). In order to make spamc

Re: [SAtalk] Validate Sender Users

2003-11-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Eduardo Alfonso wrote: Hi I've been trying to configure SpamAssasin to check for the existence of the user on the local machine that is trying to send the message and I couldn't find how to do this. Is it possible ?? Thanx I'm using sendmail MTA in a RedHat9 box

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist_from_rcvd

2003-11-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Martin McWhorter wrote: I am having a problem with whitelist_from_rcvd not working. I have Spamassassin running on a redhat 9 box with sendmail 8.12.8 as our companies gateway MTA. I have MIMEdefang running as well, but with the Spamassassin portion of the defang.conf

[SAtalk] Re: URI database lookup feature (was Sanity checking new uri rules?)

2003-11-17 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Justin Mason wrote: BTW, given that a URI DB cannot use regular expressions, or patterns, would this really be useful? Basically with a DB you only gain efficiency when looking up exact strings. So for this to be useful against URIs, you'd have to pick out *just* the

[SAtalk] Re: URI database lookup feature

2003-11-16 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Carl R. Friend wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, David B Funk wrote: I've been thinking about that exact topic. The Bayes engine already parses and tokenizes hostnames from URIs (the UD: tokens). If there were a hash DB made with the spam-site hostname as key

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with spamd spinning on bayes_toks

2003-11-15 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Bob Amen wrote: We've been seeing a problem with spamd that happens at random times. Occasionally, a spamd thread will spin, clocking up CPU time and never finish. This causes other spamd processes to hang and eventually all memory and swap is used up by multiple

[SAtalk] URI database lookup feature (was Re: Sanity checking new uri rules?)

2003-11-15 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Carl R. Friend wrote: For the assembled group -- is it possible to do a DB lookup, either in an eval() or some other mechanism, in a uri rule? If we could do a DB lookup on URIs (or, more properly, the domain portion of URIs) I think that'd be a win (at, of course,

Re: [SAtalk] Run spamd as root ?

2003-11-15 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: I have found that spamd will not use razor on my system because of permissions. Is it safe to run spamd as root? Mike, spamd will not run as root, it is a security risk. If you start it as root and you do not tell it who you want to run as (IE leave

Re: [SAtalk] Razor does not work with spamd?

2003-11-13 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, MIKE YRABEDRA wrote: I have been trying to get razor to work with spamd. I know it works with ./spamassassin --lint -D It also works with CGPSA (calls SA directly). But it does not want to work with spamd? Where are some places I can look , things I can try, to

RE: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter

2003-11-12 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Larry Gilson wrote: The preferred method is any way you prefer. ;) That is really an honest answer. Everyone has their own preferred method and a lot of times it depends on your specific situation. Some people will pipe to a filter shell script, Procmail, maildrop, or

Re: [SAtalk] Attachments

2003-11-12 Thread David B Funk
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: At 01:38 PM 11/12/2003, Scott Antonivich wrote: but can attachments be tagged as spam per user? If so, what do I need to place in this users config file? You'd have to create a custom rule to look for mime boundaries.. However, to do it per-user,

Re: [SAtalk] order of preferences in white / black listing

2003-11-11 Thread David B Funk
On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Tristan Nixon wrote: Hello all, I have a question regarding the way in which SA deals with whitelisting blacklisting. If I want to whitelist all but a few select entries from a domain, how would I do it. Should the following work? whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Trouble restarting spamd

2003-11-11 Thread David B Funk
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Debbie D wrote: Thanks.. ut yes Ishold have stated that.. stop start.. [root admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd stop Shutting down spamd: ok [root admin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/spamd start Starting spamd: spamdCould not create INET socket: Address already in use

Re: [SAtalk] [MailServer Notification]To recipient: Message matched eManager setting and action was taken.

2003-11-11 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eManager Notification * The following mail was blocked since it contains sensitive content. Love the stupid -PC- double-talk here. Gee, what was the content sensitive to? (is it sensitve to light, heat, shock...)

Re: [SAtalk] rule to whitelist Listserv (tm) list traffic

2003-11-10 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Chris Barnes wrote: I am in need of a rule that will tell SpamAssassin to whitelist all email traffic which comes from our local Listserv (tm - www.lsoft.com) lists. The problem is that messages from the Listserv list have the original author's email address in the

[SAtalk] [RD] Re: Abused redirector URLs ?

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: Hi [snip..] The mail also contained a broken variant of the wrong/forgotten Parameter of their Spam-Mailer: ' $RANDOM IZE ' So: body RANDOM_IZE / \$RANDOM IZE / score RANDOM_IZE2 describe RANDOM_IZE contains broken

Re: [SAtalk] problem with Razor and spamd

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Peter Buonora wrote: Ok, I am running on Solaris 8, latest version of Spamassassin, perl 5.8. For some reason when using the 'spamassassin' executable, razor works. When I try to switch over to spamc/spamd everything works except razor. There isnt even anything in the

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 'random' character sets

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Justin Mason wrote: BTW, SpamAssassin originally started with accumulating rules. But I took it out, as it meant a long hammy mail had a much higher chance of FP'ing, due to containing more text. I'd be worried that accumulating hits would reintroduce the same

Re: [SAtalk] installation fails [perl]

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Maarten J H van den Berg wrote: I eventually found the reason for this behaviour after I noticed that root could start it okay, but the unpriv user spamd couldn't...: machine:~ # ls -la /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Mail/SpamAssassin drwx--2 root root

[SAtalk] Accumulator rules (Re: 'random' character sets)

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Menschel wrote: Or better: what if we specified in the rule a maximum score to accumulate to? Maybe something like: accumbody T_SAMPLE /(?:word1|word2|word3|word4|word5)/i,max=2.5 describe T_SAMPLE Message has medical words frequently used in spam score

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Accumulator rules (Re: 'random' character sets)

2003-11-07 Thread David B Funk
DBF On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Robert Menschel wrote: Or better: what if we specified in the rule a maximum score to accumulate to? Maybe something like: accumbody T_SAMPLE /(?:word1|word2|word3|word4|word5)/i,max=2.5 describe T_SAMPLE Message has medical words frequently used in spam

Re: [SAtalk] How to balance spamd max children?

2003-11-04 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Steven W. Orr wrote: My ISP went down, so when it came back up aqnd my secondary mx record kicked it all back to me I got a lot of messages from sendmail saying Nov 4 06:58:26 saturn spamd[952]: hit max-children limit (5): waiting for some to exit I bumped it up to 10

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