Re: [SAtalk] Consonant and Vowel Pairs or Sequences

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
"Fred I-IS.COM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I created a list which might be helpful, using a dictionary I searched for > letter pairs which did not exist. I created the following meta rule to > search for these non-existant pairs, it might do just what you are looking > for. Your meta rule see

[SAtalk] Rule for a specific spam

2003-10-14 Thread Andrea Riela
Hi folks, I've a type of spam with these words in the body: wewillneed.com/x.html How could I filter that? Thanks for your help Andrea --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Sou

[SAtalk] Help Installing

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Thompson
Hi Spamassassin-talk, I am trying to Install the latest SA on my RH 9 Linux mailserver and am running into a issue. Following the instructions on the web (I am a complete newbie btw) I get to the "make" instruction and I get a error of: Makefile:94: ***missing seperator. Stop How d

RE: [SAtalk] RD - Large complex rules vs. many small simple rules

2003-10-14 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Fred, Looks like there was no response to this so I will give it a try. My guess is that longer rules consume more memory but are more efficient in terms of time and processing. This is more of a guess on my part but I believe it is correct. Maybe someone can add better detail. --Larry > -

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for a specific spam

2003-10-14 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Andrea, > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Riela > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Rule for a specific spam > > > Hi folks, > > I've a type of spam with these words in the body: > > wewillneed.com/x.html > > How could I filter th

[SAtalk] how to tell x-Spam-Status to include scores

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Schrauder
Hi, I have been off the list for a while but just upgraded to 2.60 and am seeing a great increase in spam getting in below the threshold. To help me track this down, I would like to add the scores to the X-Spam-Status header. I have seen examples online in the dev archives that show:

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes on Passthrough Mail System

2003-10-14 Thread Diego Weinstein
You can use Bayes. Making it a relaying server won't affect it. The problem you will have, is when someone from an invalid mail address, sends a mail to an invalid mail address in the ecxhange, you will see your mail queue growing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through

2003-10-14 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Keith, Thanks for the reply! > -Original Message- > From: Keith C. Ivey > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 11:31 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through > > > Larry Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ### I wrapped the raw

Re: [SAtalk] System crashing with spamd

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Stauber
Hi David, > I did also update DB_File using CPAN, but I noticed at the end of the > CPAN output it said "DB_File is up to date" so I don't think it did actually > update anything. Do you know how to check the DB_File version so I can > confirm it's at 1.806? Sorry, I don't know that. What I'd do

Re: [SAtalk] RBL checks from behind firewall and virus appliance

2003-10-14 Thread Jon Fraley
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:14, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 05:00 PM 10/13/03 -0400, Jon Fraley wrote: > >I currently have RBL checks turned off on our SA 2.6. We do our RBL > >checks at the firewall. Can SA do the RBL checks from within our > >network behind a virus appliance, or does it just check th

Re: [SAtalk] Not reading local.cf?

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Bartmess
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 08:58, Matt Kettler wrote: > Yes, but it's also a security risk to run spamd/spamc both always as root, > which is why SA is falling back to "nobody" in the first place. > > Certainly the better solution is to specify a non-root user with the -u > parameter, however, baring

[SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Leon Oosterwijk
All, I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would automatically get unsubbed from some of these lists. Leon ---

Re: [SAtalk] Any Idea When RH RPMs are coming out?

2003-10-14 Thread David Rodgers
These RPMs worked on my RH9 system http://spamassassin.rediris.es/released/RPMs/ David Rodgers On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:06, Bill Polhemus wrote: > I really would prefer to implement something as complex as SA through the > RPMs on my Red Hat 9 system. So far, they are only up to SA 2.55. That h

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:28:24AM -0500, Leon Oosterwijk wrote: > All, > > I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if > spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through > it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would > a

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Christof Damian
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Leon Oosterwijk wrote: > I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What > if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came > through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way > people would automatically get unsubbed from s

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Tom Meunier
It's arguable whether that will unsubscribe them, or confirm to the spammer that they've scored a direct hit, and make your users a more valuable spam target. Think about it: Is someone who just hijacked a Taiwanese elementary school's mail server to send out necrophilia pornography with forged he

RE: [SAtalk] Not reading local.cf?

2003-10-14 Thread Dave Bartmess
Sorry, yeah, I did, and I took out the -H parameter... Still doesn't work with the -u parameter set to root... On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:30, Tom Meunier wrote: > [offlist] > > Dave, I dunno if you read my message. It seems to me that if you run > with -H -u root what you're saying is that the

Re: [SAtalk] Any Idea When RH RPMs are coming out?

2003-10-14 Thread David Rodgers
Spamassassin developers also include a spec file in the tarball so you can also build rpms on your redhat system from the spamassassin tarball by doing this rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60.tar.gz it will build rpms and put them in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ David Rodgers On Mon, 2003-10-

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
Leon Oosterwijk wrote: I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would automatically get unsubbed from some of these lists. Rule #1

[SAtalk] Re: how to tell x-Spam-Status to include scores

2003-10-14 Thread Shane Williams
Take a look at http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html particularly the sections on TAGS and MESSAGE TAGGING OPTIONS. On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Mike Schrauder wrote: > I have been off the list for a while but just upgraded to 2.60 > and am seeing a great increase in spam gett

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Scott Blomquist
Frrom somewhere in another dimension Leon Oosterwijk wrote: All, I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would automatically g

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:28 AM > What if spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails > that came through it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. The unsubscribe links of the worst of the worst spammers either don't work at all (invalid links, 404, etc.)

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Well, all I can tell you is what I'm running. 266 mhz, 64 megs ram, and probably around 3000 rules. Yup, I'll get an exact count later. But I test and run all the great rules people send me for the emporium. I am using spamd and I think you will see a bug difference there. The system runs nothing

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
You know I was just thinking about this. They might not --lint with lynx downloads due to line wraps? someone mentioned "^M" characters?? I'm like a chicken with my head cut off here at work. So I don't even remember what editor I used with the evilrules.cf :-) I don't have ftp running on the ser

[SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Did anyone else get a nasty email this morning? I did! This weekend ROCKED for my SA config. Jennifer, if you were here I'd kiss you and the deaf cat ;) Your rules bring a huge smile to my logs! Now check out this fan mail: *Warning, foul language nearby* " You are a piss head for hacking my site

Re: [SAtalk] More HTML Obfuscation: This One Made It Through

2003-10-14 Thread Kris Deugau
"Keith C. Ivey" wrote: > One fairly easily detectable spam sign is the almost-white text > (used to hide the irrelevant words), like this: > > argumentation scabby > > writhe > That should have triggered HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE, but I think > that test has some bugs. It certainly has a bug on my sys

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Patrick Morris
I got one of these, too, last night, from a machine at a Korean ISP, and I've been trying to figure what I did. Somehow I feel less special now. :) Chris Santerre wrote: Did anyone else get a nasty email this morning? I did! This weekend ROCKED for my SA config. Jennifer, if you were here I'd k

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/14/03 08:28 AM, Leon Oosterwijk sat at the `puter and typed: > All, > > I would like some feedback from you all on the following idea. What if > spamassassin followed unsubscribe links for all emails that came through > it's filter for emails that are obviously spam. This way people would >

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Just a quick note on the evilrules. My next update will try to only be the 'freshest' domains. I will leave the older evilrules on the site, but in an effort to shrink it down, I'm hoping that dealing with a smaller spamtrap file will help. It all depends on how much spam they send me ;) --Chris

[SAtalk] New rule for disguised html?

2003-10-14 Thread Bill Anderson
I am no rule coder, so I was wondering if anyone has a rule to catch spammers that hide their url in their email. Here is an example of what it getting through my spam filters: href="http://wewillneed.com/c/ 05;ron.html?farrow=elrlnm" It looks to me that a rule that find's http://, &, and number

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:33:03AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > I got one of these, too, last night, from a machine at a Korean ISP, and > I've been trying to figure what I did. > > Somehow I feel less special now. :) > > Chris Santerre wrote: > > >Did anyone else get a nasty email this morni

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/14/03 11:19 AM, Chris Santerre sat at the `puter and typed: > Did anyone else get a nasty email this morning? I did! This weekend ROCKED > for my SA config. Jennifer, if you were here I'd kiss you and the deaf cat > ;) Your rules bring a huge smile to my logs! Now check out this fan mail: >

[SAtalk] Seeing alot of this error from SA 2.6

2003-10-14 Thread Gustave
I am seeing alot of this error in maillog from SA 2.6 Is it anything to be worried about? How to fix it? spamd[15640]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/spamd line 554. Thank you. Gus - This mail sent with 3w

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Leon Oosterwijk
All, Thank you all for your posts. Of course I'm aware of the potential that unsub's actually attract mail. Here are some thoughts on this. - if in addition to your own address, (or in place of it) you submit a lot of bogus addresses (ones that won't even resolve for mx) you poison a source of

RE: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
I'm glad you like. :) I'm still a little taken aback by them. They've been almost too good to be true. I'm working on a couple rules to fill the holes. I've already noticed a few changes they've made to their technique (to no avail so far), and they seem to be working as I told Larry. I'll le

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
How much bandwidth / month does it average?? Jennifer >I don't have ftp running on the server. I was actually going to see if >anyone wanted to mirror my site, or just the files. I think distributing >the lists to another site is a good idea. Any takers for mirroring? --Chris > -Original Me

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
not much at all. I might average around 300+ hits a week. really just a trickle. I don't even have a fast connection and it doesn't seem to effect us at all. I can probably move it to a personal page on my home provider as well. I think I might do that too. It peaks after an update, but then dies o

Re: [SAtalk] how to tell x-Spam-Status to include scores

2003-10-14 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
Give this a try, Add to local.cf or something. add_header all Status _YESNO_, hits=_HITS_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTSSCORES(,)_ autolearn=_AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_ Frederic Tarasevicius Internet Information Services, Inc. Mike Schrauder wrote: > Hi, > I have been off the list for a whil

RE: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Yes :) http://spamhammers.nxtek.net They will be here until Chris does his site update, and then you can find them on his Rule Emporium site. Jennifer -Original Message- From: Terry Shows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:59 AM To: Jennifer Wheeler Subject

RE: [SAtalk] how to tell x-Spam-Status to include scores

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Schrauder
Yes sir, that did it. Someone else had told me the rtfm, but told me where in the fm to look, so I found it. Thanks! Mike S > -Original Message- > From: Fred I-IS.COM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 1:28 PM > To: Mike Schrauder; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Jim Ford
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:56:31AM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 10/14/03 11:19 AM, Chris Santerre sat at the `puter and typed: > Ok, I'm in. What rules did you use for this? I've got honeypot > addresses and legit ones. I'd love to start shutting down these > buggers. Count me in too - I'm

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread jnichols
> Did anyone else get a nasty email this morning? I did! This weekend ROCKED > for my SA config. Jennifer, if you were here I'd kiss you and the deaf cat > ;) Your rules bring a huge smile to my logs! Now check out this fan mail: > Wow! I feel so left out! Nobody left me any flaming emails this m

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:45 PM > I'd like to set up a couple such honeypots and see what the level of > attraction is they get. Perhaps this would make a good research project. I was curious as to how many spams actually had unsub links. So I flipped through my last 40 S

RE: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:57 AM > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down! > > >Ok, I'm in. What rules did you use for this? I've got honeypot >addresses and

[SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be the way to attack the spammers. When I called the provider of the provider of the provider of the spam host, they were 'dead' serious about stop

RE: [SAtalk] New rule for disguised html?

2003-10-14 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: Bill Anderson > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:03 PM > To: Spamassassin > Subject: [SAtalk] New rule for disguised html? > > > I am no rule coder, so I was wondering if anyone has a rule to catch > spammers that hide their url in their email. Here is an

[SAtalk] My recent stats

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Hey this spamstat program is cool!! I'm trying to run that hit freq script on my older 75 meg spamtrap. OUCH, the server is chugging on it. But my logs changed over on the 12th so this first set of stats is a good indication of the weekend. My evilrules.cf file looks like it cost me .46 seconds in

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/14/03 01:52 PM, Chris Santerre sat at the `puter and typed: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Louis LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:57 AM > > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down! > > >

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes not working.. On System Wide SA

2003-10-14 Thread Martin Radford
At Mon Oct 13 18:59:36 2003, Robert Leonard III wrote: > > Thanks for the tip.. I guess it was an addressing/permission issue.. I see > now, when I --lint -D that there are < 200 in my HAM db and the SPAM has now > gone over 200 so I am assuming it works.. do I need to do a.. > > sa-learn --spam

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Roger Merchberger
At 14:06 10/14/2003 -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: Leon Oosterwijk Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:45 PM > I'd like to set up a couple such honeypots and see what the level of > attraction is they get. Perhaps this would make a good research project. I was curious as to how many spams actually

RE: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
UPDATE! I just got off the phone with UPENN.edu! Apparently we have our boy. I think his name is Brian. He has had known issues from the past, and they were already in the process of dealing with the older ones. However I don't think he will get what he deserves. Why wouldn't they have shut him o

RE: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Chris Santerre Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:09 PM > OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has > to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be > the way to attack the spammers. If we start putting the squeeze on the image hosts,

RE: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Jennifer Wheeler
Congrats! :) ...I'm thinking now he wishes he hadn't written you the Love Letter. Your EEEee-vil rules are strong! Jennifer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Santerre Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:01 PM To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-

RE : [SAtalk] Bayes not working.. On System Wide SA

2003-10-14 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay-Leroux
>> I've tried sa-learn --spam, but it goes for a LONG TIME.. is that normal? >> I've never actually let it finish, thinking it was 'stuck'.. but it may just >> take a long time.. >You could add --showdots to the command-line, which will output a '.' >to the screen for each message processed. You

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Roger Merchberger Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:50 PM > Where might I find the script that's doing the automagic posting? I > wouldn't mind doing that, either... ;-) I don't think there IS one. That was some of the discussion we had here. I just manually tried them. Took about 10 minutes to g

RE: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread Leon Oosterwijk
Roger, I'm thinking about writing one. I'll post here if I come up with something. Leon > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Colin A. Bartlett > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 2:52 PM > To: Roger Merchberger; [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SAtalk] Spooky Malformed message

2003-10-14 Thread tech
So, I'm watching the mail logs like a hawk and just today I notice this: Oct 14 13:39:02 codeine spamd[9012]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0x93, with no preceding start byte) in transliteration (tr///) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm

RE: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > If we start putting the squeeze on the image hosts, do you think that > spammers will then just start to embed the images within their email? > Certainly the bandwidth requirements become more costly then, but it doesn't > seem like that would be a ha

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:33:03AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: >> I got one of these, too, last night, from a machine at a Korean ISP, and >> I've been trying to figure what I did. >> >> Somehow I feel less special now. :) >> >> Chris Santerre wrote: >> >> >Did anyone else get a nasty email this

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Jeff Funk
I could donate some bandwidth to the cause. I've got a surplus of outbound bandwidth . . . -Original Message- From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:25 PM To: 'Jennifer Wheeler' Cc: 'Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail)' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Too many ru

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic Unsubscribe

2003-10-14 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Set up a pristine new email address, but DON'T GIVE IT OUT TO > ANYONE. > Everytime you get a spam with an unsubscribe link, follow it and > unsubscribe this new pristine address. Nevermind who the message was > sent to, I promise the unsub page won

Re: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > OK, you all know I got the nasty email. You all know that my 'evilrules' has > to do with spam hosts. The ones that host the images. Well this seems to be > the way to attack the spammers. > [snip..] > Since many spammers are resorting to image spam, I

Re: [SAtalk] reporting the spam 'hosts"

2003-10-14 Thread mikea
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 03:25:14PM -0500, David B Funk wrote: > 2) Virus/worm hijacked PCs. We're seeing lots of PCs on cable modems > that have "remote control" trojan/worms on them that are being > used by spammers as open proxies (for both SMTP & HTTP). > So you may be able to

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Stewart, John
Okay, I wanted to drop in your evilrules.cf file into my SA setup, and I did so using (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/): lynx -dump http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.cf > evilrules.cf However, this seems to cause problems. After this, doing a spamassassin -t causes all sorts

[SAtalk] [RD] Emporium update!

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Well it has been long overdue. Matter of fact, I had way more to do. I decided some update is better then none. I also changed the update a little, so hit refresh on those pages :) First, I have to deeply apologies. It has been so long since the last update that I've misplaced a lot of where some

Re: [SAtalk] PINE shortcut to spamassassin -d ?

2003-10-14 Thread Jason Englander
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: > Hi, does anyone have any ideas about how to create a shortcut in PINE to > remove spam headers from a message? Also, it would be great if this shortcut > could pipe the results to sa-learn, so the message could be learned either > as ha

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Nope, it looks like WordPad is a bad place to edit :) Apparently it has some hidden characters in it. AS of 4:40 EST today, I resaved it under MSDOS text format in the hopes it fixed it. Did you get the file before then? This won't happen again once I solve it. It just that it was so big I checked

RE: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Chris Santerre Sent: > I don't have ftp running on the server. I was actually going to see if > anyone wanted to mirror my site, or just the files. I think distributing > the lists to another site is a good idea. Any takers for mirroring? Hosting is what we do and we have plenty of bandwidth. I w

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Stewart, John
> http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.cf Interestingly, this is triggering a rule in the evilrules.cf itself: rawbody G_WWW_MERCHANTSOVERSEAS_COM /www\.merchantsoverseas\.com/ describe G_WWW_MERCHANTSOVERSEAS_COMEvil_10_9_03 G_WWW_MERCHANTSOVERSEAS_COM score G_WWW

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Stewart, John
> Nope, it looks like WordPad is a bad place to edit :) > Apparently it has some > hidden characters in it. AS of 4:40 EST today, I resaved it > under MSDOS text > format in the hopes it fixed it. Did you get the file before then? Aye, I'm sure I did. However, someone has also suggested wget, w

[SAtalk] What Does This Error Message Mean (Custom Rules)

2003-10-14 Thread Bill Polhemus
I implemented some of the rules others have posted on this list regarding “obfuscating text”. Now that I am running SA 2.60, I note that I’m getting the following error message.   Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping:     (Bareword "i" not allowed while "strict subs" i

Re: [1.2] [SAtalk] [RD] Emporium update!

2003-10-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: > I saved these in *gulp* MSDOS text in the hopes it wouldn't have any crazy > characters. (Yeah I'm using a windows system!) Please let me know if you > have any problems. This is nearly always a problem for people trying to save stuff on Unix flavors,

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Robert Leonard III
I had the same problem.. though I think I just solved it.. if you open up the rules in whatever editor you choose, I found ONE line that wrapped and messed up the whole thing.. when I 'unwrapped' that single line, it --lint'ed' fine.. I'm implementing it now.. I had the same problem in the oct03_r

RE: [SAtalk] What Does This Error Message Mean (Custom Rules)

2003-10-14 Thread Chris Santerre
Something is wrong in the syntax. IE: a missing / or ) or something.  Maybe a line wrap. It says something about a bare 'i' which is usually found at the end of a regex. So I'm guessing line wrap.   Also run : spamassassin -d --lint after placing a new rule in.   THe MY_ looks like one

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stewart, John wrote: > > Nope, it looks like WordPad is a bad place to edit :) > > Apparently it has some > > hidden characters in it. AS of 4:40 EST today, I resaved it > > under MSDOS text > > format in the hopes it fixed it. Did you get the file before then? gvim work

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Roger Merchberger
At 15:39 10/14/2003 -0500, Stewart, John wrote: Okay, I wanted to drop in your evilrules.cf file into my SA setup, and I did so using (in /etc/mail/spamassassin/): lynx -dump http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.cf > evilrules.cf However, this seems to cause problems. After t

Re: [SAtalk] What Does This Error Message Mean (Custom Rules)

2003-10-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:00 PM 10/14/2003, Bill Polhemus wrote: Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping: (Bareword "i" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at /usr/share/spamassassin/70_obfuscate.cf, rule MY_RBDY_INVSTXT, line 1. ) Please pardon my abject ignorance, but I'll need someone to tran

[SAtalk] changing tags from X-Spam- to X-Spam-$whatever-

2003-10-14 Thread xavier
Hi, I'm using spamassassin 2.55 (willing to upgrade if necessary) I receive mails which already may have been filtered through spamassassin. (from sf.net, for example) My mta scans every mail i receive, possibly overriding any spam tag already set. Is there a way to change the tags spamassas

Re: [1.0] [SAtalk] What Does This Error Message Mean (Custom Rules)

2003-10-14 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Bill Polhemus wrote: > Failed to compile body SpamAssassin tests, skipping: > (Bareword "i" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at Just a quick guess. I'd say that you put a space in front of the 'i' that goes at the end of the condition that does not belong there.

[SAtalk] urrrgh!

2003-10-14 Thread jnichols
had one slip through: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_80,HTML_70_80,HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE, HTML_FONT_COLOR_GRAY,HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED, HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MISSING_MIMEOLE, MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME v

[SAtalk] Content-Disposition: inline ?

2003-10-14 Thread guenther
cheers folks, By default SA attaches suspected SPAM mails in non text/plain format as "Content-Disposition: attached", which means for me, that the mail only is displayed when I willingly click a button. This is very inconvenient for quickly scanning the SPAM mails for false positives. As I setup

Re: [SAtalk] [RD] Evil rules HUGE update!

2003-10-14 Thread Danny Aldham
> > > lynx -dump http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.cf > > evilrules.cf > The -dump causes lynx to put CR after 80 characters. Try lynx -source and you should get a clean file. -- Danny Aldham Providing Certified Internetworking Solutions to Business www.postino.c

[SAtalk] Re: [RD] How does a message like this get through?

2003-10-14 Thread SA
Chris, Thanks for the rules below. I'm a bit late jumping on some recent spam, since I was out of town on vacation, with an expensive dial-up connection. However, I have some variations you may want to consider (The Comma rule you may already have, and has proven very useful here -- the two other

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin Site-Wide "off by default" in USAGE document

2003-10-14 Thread Brian Nath
I'm a new installer of SpamAssassin on Red Hat ver 8 with the latest SA...   In the USAGE document for SA it states "*PLEASE* consider setting it up as "off by default" for most accounts, and let users opt-in to using it." Which sounds like a great idea, just exactly is the best way to tu

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Matthew Cline
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:19 am, Chris Santerre wrote: > Did anyone else get a nasty email this morning? I didn't. I'm feeling left out and unloved. ;-) -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Advanced SPAM fi

Re: [SAtalk] urrrgh!

2003-10-14 Thread Frank Pineau
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 15:46:10 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >had one slip through: > >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.3 required=5.0 >tests=BAYES_80,HTML_70_80,HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE, > HTML_FONT_COLOR_GRAY,HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED, > HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD,MIME_HTML_ONLY,M

Re: [SAtalk] Too many rules?

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Farber
I tried the evilrules.cf on my dual AMD 1Gb 2 Ultra-SCSI qmail server and it died in minutes. I run 100K+ emails in a 24 hour period. (98+% are tagged as spam) After reboot I see that spamd takes a while to catch up... avg is 30+ seconds per msg (all rbl look ups are set to timeout at 5 seconds

Re: [SAtalk] Content-Disposition: inline ?

2003-10-14 Thread Daniel Quinlan
guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By default SA attaches suspected SPAM mails in non text/plain format as > "Content-Disposition: attached", which means for me, that the mail only > is displayed when I willingly click a button. > > This is very inconvenient for quickly scanning the SPAM mail

RE: [SAtalk] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-14 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Jennifer, > -Original Message- > From: Jennifer Wheeler > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 12:27 PM > To: 'Larry Gilson' > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds > > > Hi Larry! > > I read your message late yesterday, and had to digest it a > little before responding. My

RE: [SAtalk] System crashing with spamd

2003-10-14 Thread David McMahon
Thanks Michael. I took your advice and installed a new DB_File the old fashioned way. ;) with the downloaded .tar.gz and that seems to have solved this spamd issue. I'm not exactly sure how DB_File is used by spamd, but commenting out the bayes in the local.cf didn't seem to make any differen

RE: [SAtalk] Popcorn, Backhair, and Weeds

2003-10-14 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Larry Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > / \w{1,7}<\/?[^<>]{0,150}>\w{1,7}/ > > This one seems to be working well so far. It will catch any > normal and funky stuff within the tags but makes sure it will > not run over any subsequent tags. Since '/' matches the character class '[^<>]', there

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin Site-Wide "off by default" in USAGE document

2003-10-14 Thread farber
That would depend on where you put the call to spamassassin. and how you integrate SA into your mail system. Brian Nath writes: I'm a new installer of SpamAssassin on Red Hat ver 8 with the latest SA... In the USAGE document for SA it states "*PLEASE* consider setting it up as "off by de

Re: [SAtalk] -a flag (awl on by default)

2003-10-14 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:03 PM 10/13/03 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Matt Kettler writes: > I could possibly see it becoming a configfile option, much like use_bayes, > in which case I'd guess the command line would be deprecated, but I don't > ever see it becoming a default without a lot of people (myself included) >

[SAtalk] Re: Consonant and Vowel Pairs or Sequences

2003-10-14 Thread era
On 14 Oct 2003 00:42:38 -0700, Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.mail.spam.spamassassin.general: > "Fred I-IS.COM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I created a list which might be helpful, using a dictionary I >> searched for letter pairs which did not exist. I created the >> fol