RE: [SAtalk] Score based header

2002-09-26 Thread Chris Santerre
I believe there was a post about this a while back. Using procmail to check the level and then determine just what you are asking. I haven't played with it yet. Try a quick search of the archives. I think it was less then 2 months ago. The basic answer is what Theo said. SA doesn't do this,

RE: [SAtalk] Why isn't CPAN mentioned on SA website? (was: Newbie help-RH7.2+Postfix)

2002-10-03 Thread Chris Santerre
I used CPAN for installing update preq's. But I used a tar for SA. It was however the easiest way to update things. I haven't used up2date yet :) -Original Message- From: McClung, Darren W. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:00 PM To: 'rODbegbie' Cc: [EMAIL

[SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Santerre
I've already upgrades from SA 2.31 to 2.40. I'm now going to 2.42 and figured I'd ask a simple question. What is the easiest method of upgrading? CPAN or straight .tar? I can't remember if CPAN will keep my config files intact. I saw no upgrade info on the FAQ. Is this worth adding to it? I'll

RE: [SAtalk] New spammer trick (aka: stupid browser trick)

2002-10-09 Thread Chris Santerre
It's just another form of decimal notation scam. I have a program in my palm to convert just such little beasties :) Users with a clue somtimes use the same aproach to defeat web filters. THey want their porn that bad at work, fine. I just get to show the boss that cool little palm ap and show

RE: [SAtalk] spamd uses a lot of CPU

2002-10-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Of course, you probably need to use a userprefs database in that case, rather than the userprefs in each user's home directory. Aside from moving the process to another system, Are you saying that seting up the users in a database is a faster process then putting configs in user directories? I

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-17 Thread Chris Santerre
I was excited, then I saw the script. :) This will install many instances of SA on the system. While it will work, it just doesn't seem right. It would be better to install sitewide and then just customize the calling of SA in users local procmail file. This way you just have to copy the

RE: [SAtalk] [Off Topic] Procmail help

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Santerre
I've seen this same question asked many times here. And I'm an SATALK noob! Can we add a section in the FAQ in big bright neon letters that says how to do just this? Or as Josh mentioned, place it in the example under big blinking monkeys :) How to remove high scoring spam and mark up low

RE: [SAtalk] help with goldfish

2002-10-22 Thread Chris Santerre
How would the term 'goldfish' score in the corpus? :) There isn't much to key off of in the email itself. Very short. Heck, virus writers could just make viruses with common, non spam realted words in them. (Goldfish, spoon, eclipse, hoceky, monkeychow,) Then you would be adding custom rules

RE: [SAtalk] SA/Razor effectiveness

2002-10-29 Thread Chris Santerre
Quick question. I'll admit I haven't looked into this at all. But I don't recall seeing anything like this in the docs. If local rules set an email over your spam limit, then can it be set to skip Razor2 check? At that point it is already spam, no sense in checking any further. I only ask

RE: [SAtalk] Generating Statistics (new graph enclosed)

2002-10-29 Thread Chris Santerre
WOW! That is slick and easy. Nice work. -Original Message- From: Jeremy Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 4:35 PM To: Rich Wellner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Generating Statistics (new graph enclosed) On Thu,

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo's link?

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Santerre
I've been looking into this problem for a while now. I've searched the archives and found many questions but little answers. Problem: Use SA on Aliases and / or virtusers AND real users combined. So far the only solution looks like using MySQL. (Which for reasons of my own I don't want to do

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users. Theo

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Santerre
Sorry gagel, I'm having trouble following you. How are you doing your config? Are all your users local, aliased, virtual, database stored, or combo? -Original Message- From: gagel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:18 PM To: Chris Petersen; Chris Santerre

RE: [SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Santerre
This is done easily in procmail, by checking for the spam status. Check the procmail example that came with SA. But this may NOT be a good idea. Suppose some worker's wife sends him an email like, When you get home I'm going to RAPE you like the little love monkey you are! and ect SHould

RE: [SAtalk] Graph of caught spam

2002-11-07 Thread Chris Santerre
Very nice. You don't say if your doing simply local or RAZOR2, DCC, ect... checks. You have to be happy with that kind of improvement! (and price) -Original Message- From: Hugh Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 5:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

[SAtalk] Question on 2.5 Bayesian training for newbies?

2003-01-02 Thread Chris Santerre
When SA 2.50 goes live, will there be a way to get a pretrained generic version or corpus to train with? I haven't gone live with my SA yet, still trying different things in the little spare time I have, and I don't have a corpus. I think I remember a thread saying there was a public download of

RE: [SAtalk] RBLS w/ known spam sources, Theo, and I'm starting to see the lig ht!

2003-01-06 Thread Chris Santerre
Great advice from everyone here. Interesting to see how admins take different approaches to the same problem. Due to many FPs, I'm not going to use RBLs for the company. Makes sense. I sent out a message to the users to send me the email addresses of people they deal with overseas. I'll check

RE: [SAtalk] Goodbye

2003-01-07 Thread Chris Santerre
My leaving the project is just a drop in the ocean. That will send out ripples! I think Your situation will be discussed more then you think. The idea of this happening has a major impact on open source. What if NAI suddenly hired Dan Quinlan, Justin and Theo? Then we go from major contributors

RE: [SAtalk] Guidelines for Mass Mailings

2003-01-09 Thread Chris Santerre
I'm fighting the same problem here. I've passed thru our weekly newsletter thru SA and it scores low. We only send to current customers and people in the industry. SO I'm not trying to sell an Eskimo Nigerian weight loss sex enhancers. :) Well written, good content, and industry specific. Also

[SAtalk] RE: Miltrassassin/Spamd/Sendmail relay server config?

2003-01-14 Thread Chris Santerre
: Jason Farrar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:33 PM To: 'Chris Santerre' Subject: RE: Miltrassassin/Spamd/Sendmail relay server config? Thanks Chris. Do you know where in the procmail config I would call spamd

RE: [SAtalk] Just went live this weekend. Curious results.

2003-02-07 Thread Chris Santerre
*snip* It sounds like you should be using spamass-milter or mime_defang. These tie SA into the MTA before delivery. That way, if a return receipt is requested, it can be generated with the original sender, since their address will still be in the envelope from. I keep hearing more and

RE: [SAtalk] 'Norton Antivirus' hoax?

2003-02-14 Thread Chris Santerre
I use NAV for exchange here. There really isn't a tool to pick and choose which to respond to. :( I wish there was. Simply ignore it for the most part. I can't believe that Klez is still around. -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February

[SAtalk] PUSH THIS :)

2003-03-31 Thread Chris Santerre
Obviously everyone on the list has seen the spam that came thru that said PUSH THIS instead of click here. Is that something relatively new? It actually made me laugh. Should the rule that catches Click Here be adjusted to also catch PUSH THIS? Or is everyone now relying on Bayes? :) My

RE: [SAtalk] multiple actions based on hits?

2003-04-01 Thread Chris Santerre
using procmail and mimedefang I believe you could. Anything above a 6 goes to my spamtrap account for manual review. NOTHING EVER gets deleted without me seeing it. -Original Message- From: Shayne Lebrun [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: Enough with the conspiracy theories! (was Re: [SAtalk] (no subject))

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Santerre
I'm glad you followed up on it. But why then, do they NEVER reply to the answers that people give them? That would be common sense. As for conspiracy theories, I don't think you are the real jmason. Someone stole your identity. The real jmason is trapped in the trunk of a car on the way to

[SAtalk] [OT] MSN has a good penis pill story :)

2003-06-06 Thread Chris Santerre
http://www.msnbc.com/news/921042.asp?0dm=C14PN 1 fraud down, 10,000 to go :/ Mentions the [EMAIL PROTECTED] contact as well. Chris SanterreSystem Admin"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."- Willy Wonka

[SAtalk] Nigerians are getting funny! (or sad)

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
I won't go posting the whole email , but the last Nigerian I just read in my spamtrap had me literally LOL! They seem to be so desperate that they changed it around so much, it bearly makes ANY sense anymore :) Even knowing what they are trying to say, it isn't right. Check these 2

RE: [SAtalk] kicking SPAM: AWL, custom rules

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] kicking SPAM: AWL, custom rules Guenther wrote on 26 May 2003 01:03:10 +0200: header X_KNOWN_SPAMMER From =~

RE: [SAtalk] How detect messages like these?

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
? I don't really know how to setup my own rules, how would I do what you described below? Thanks Ricardo On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:09:24 -0400 Chris Santerre wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 8:15

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
$10 says it is a harvester! Kyle: After all that? Shenanigans! Shenanigans SHENANIGANS!! -Original Message- From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 1:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin Because of you I

RE: [SAtalk] Nigerians are getting funny! (or sad)

2003-05-27 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 4:28 PM To: Chris Santerre; Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Nigerians are getting funny! (or sad) At 03:04 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: Opfuscate urgen

RE: [SAtalk] Whitelisting Reply-To

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Edward Brookhouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Whitelisting Reply-To I assume this is possible, looking for suggestions on howto. Any pointers to different docs appreciated.

RE: [SAtalk] I hate SpamAssassin

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Santerre
tir, 27.05.2003 kl. 23.49 skrev Ben M. VanWagner: What amazes me is that everytime some idiot does this.. ...and gets answered, they never reply back! This guy was most likely a spammer trying to get our goat or harvest more addresses. Look at all the time wasted talking about this. Has

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Santerre
. Sadly no time for that. :( HTH, Chris Santerre System Admin A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore. If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your

[SAtalk] 2 rules to check for me plz :)

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Santerre
corpus soon ;) here are two quick rules: rawbody TEST1 /spacer\.gif/i and rawbody TEST2 /alt\=/i Just curious on the rates. Thanks! Chris Santerre System Admin A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM

2003-05-29 Thread Chris Santerre
I don't know what's funnier. The fact that we keep getting these posts, or the sig quote you responded with to Diane! :) -Original Message- From: William Stearns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:29 PM To: Dianne Moore; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

RE: [SAtalk] Attaboy

2003-05-31 Thread Chris Santerre
I completely agree that SA is incredible I'm not even using bayes! Here are my stats: 90% of marked spam is scored over 7 and goes into spamtrap! Not even delivered. I've had 4 FPs since Febuary! Stats per log. Totals to a month worth. -rw--- 1 root root 4.6M May 30 12:00

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-05-31 Thread Chris Santerre
Has anyone gotten a reply from these kinds of posts after you answer them. I think the score is like 1-6. 1 reply after we all answered, and we've had about 6 of these kinds of posts. Didn't anyone call the person? I am s tempted :) -Original Message- From: Brian K. West

RE: [SAtalk] Which version of Red Hat?

2003-06-04 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:42:24AM -0700, Cassandra Lynette Brockett wrote: Personally not really liking rhat very much, I'd suggest another OS, but for stability, so far 6.2 is the most stable of the rhat

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
UNtil you figure out how to send it to the correct address. No human handles the list. Welcome to the internet! -hint- check the header of EVERY email you got from SATALK list. -Original Message- From: Frank Chibesakunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:19

RE: [SAtalk] OT: SpamAssassin in Playboy 07/2003

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
LOL, I wonder if I can get that written off as an expense! They have important tech articles now! Good to see someone talking about SA! Chris Santerre System Admin A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka -Original Message- From: Jeremy Kister

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
Received: from marge (ppp025.pfa.centurytel.net [207.230.201.227]) by r2d2.centurytel.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h541GkPB015914 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 from marge Hm.. ppp025 Hmmm. Me thinks if we contacted centurytel.net they would have

[SAtalk] CNET downloads.com has new spam filter section

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
Like the subject says, they have a new section devoted to spam filters. As you may have guessed, no mention of SAProxy. http://download.com.com/3150-2382-0.html?tag=dir I can see why no mention of Spamassassin, as the site is geared towards end lusers. But SAProxy should have been

RE: [SAtalk] Restarting sa

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
try this ps -ef | grep spamd note process id# then kill -TERM id# then start spamd again (/usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a) or something like that. -Original Message- From: Marius Kirschner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:29 PM To: 'Duncan Findlay'; [EMAIL

[SAtalk] @ in href

2003-06-05 Thread Chris Santerre
Anyone seeing the @ symbol used a lot in URIs? href=""http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp/gh/index.html">http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mp/gh/index.html I've seen quite a few. Might be worth a looksee as the latest spammer trend. Chris SanterreSystem Admin"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by

RE: [SAtalk] Really OT: Microsoft buys out RAV

2003-06-11 Thread Chris Santerre
Wow This is OT. But while we are at it, I had a win NT 3.1 PDC YES 3.1 server running at my last job for about 2-3 years. Service pack 1 only :) To my knowledge it is still running! About 7 years+ Mangmnt decided if it ain't broke... NT, behind a firewall, without worrying about inside

RE: [SAtalk] black listing domain

2003-06-12 Thread Chris Santerre
IF you truly want to BL them and save overhead, and you have permission to change the file, add them to your access file as reject. That way the email won't even get in to be processed. HTH Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

2003-06-13 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Dan Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 8:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] a few suggestions I'm having great luck with spamassassin... a few things slip thru of course, and I wanted to post in case it gives

[SAtalk] New type of generic rule.

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Santerre
This isn't a request, more an open discussion. Would it be good to program a default counter function in SA so that users may custom write rules using it. IE a simple function call in SA called 'counter' instead of header. Then you simply feed it a regex and give it a minimum. counter

[SAtalk] want a quick laugh? Ironic!

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Santerre
I just got this subject placed directly into my spamtrap folder: *SPAM* Email ads are the most effective :) SO funny I had to share. Keep up the great work guys! I'll upgrade one day, I swear! 2.4x and still rocking! Chris SanterreSystem Admin"A little nonsense now and then,

[SAtalk] OK, this Nigerian takes the cake, hands down!

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Santerre
I received a Nigerian spam today. It was caught, but they have definitely mutated it beyond logic. Here is the kicker part: "I must use thisopportunity to implore you to exercise the utmostindulgence to keep this matter extraordinaryconfidential, whatever your decision, while Iawait your

RE: [SAtalk] New type of generic rule.

2003-06-16 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:21 PM To: Christopher Eykamp Cc: Chris Santerre; Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] New type of generic rule. Christopher Eykamp said

RE: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!!

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Jonathan Vanasco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:38 PM To: Jim Ford Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] We TEACH you how to SPAM and make a Fortune!! I've been looking at Sugarplum spam poison and teergrube/tar

RE: [SAtalk] Question on XSPAM report in header.

2003-06-19 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:23 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Question on XSPAM report in header. On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:04:17PM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote

RE: [SAtalk] As seen on ...

2003-06-19 Thread Chris Santerre
but reduce it to maybe 3. Just to see what kinds of hits I get. What does the 's', in /is do anyway? I never used it. Oh and Tony, I'm using 2.43 :p Chris Santerre System Admin You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.- Willy Wonka

[SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT skipping rules???

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Santerre
OK, I've had some problems tagging this repetitive spam. I'm using SA 2.43 (quiet you!) :) I'm getting excellent results! But this one has got me goofy. It simply skips some of my rules!! I'm not sure why. In the header you can see it hits MY_DSL which is a header rule. But I have a

RE: [SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT skipping rules???

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: satalk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 11:31 AM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT skipping rules??? On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:07, Chris Santerre wrote: OK, I've had some

RE: [SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT skipping rules???

2003-06-23 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 12:04 PM To: Chris Santerre; Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] BASE64_ENC_TEXT skipping rules??? At 11:07 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: OK, I've had some

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin

2003-06-24 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Link, Pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Spamassassin I am looking for help with Spamassassin... My spamassassin still allows quite a few SPAMs to the owner of the company...

RE: [SPAM] [SAtalk] spamassassin-talk get you hacker toolz here cwgh

2003-06-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Alan Leghart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SPAM] [SAtalk] spamassassin-talk get you hacker toolz here cwgh --On Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:12 PM -0400 Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] I'm fed up with Viagra spam ...

2003-06-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Tony Earnshaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] I'm fed up with Viagra spam ... ... time for new spam types. What's more, I'm in a vile mood today. Many spammers follow this

[SAtalk] quick regex question for rules

2003-06-25 Thread Chris Santerre
\w is a word correct? Is this right:? /(build(ing)?|increase|more) \w?wealth/i should hit "building real weatlh" ? Or is it just easier to write: /(build(ing)?|increase|more).{1,10}wealth/i Chris SanterreSystem Admin"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men."-

RE: [SAtalk] quick regex question for rules

2003-06-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:31 AM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] quick regex question for rules On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:17:33AM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote

RE: [SAtalk] URI rule -- how big?

2003-06-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Charles Mount [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] URI rule -- how big? PLEASE DO NOT REPLY UNLESS YOU CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION. I have a working

RE: [SAtalk] quick regex question for rules

2003-06-26 Thread Chris Santerre
/pcre LOL, I sometimes think I'm TOO MUCH of a security nut! No FTP in or out to this box. :) I'll get it today. THanks! Doesn't everyone lockdown their email servers tight as a frog's bum? :) Best, Tony Thanks again Tony. This should reduce my number of quick question posts ;) Chris

[SAtalk] OT-spam virus? anyone heard of this?

2003-06-27 Thread Chris Santerre
I checked sarc.com but nothing on it. I heard this on a car board I am on. Any truth? "Just a note of warning... For the last couple of weeks, I have been getting "connection refused" errors on my Win XP computer at home any time I tried to access web pages. I got the message on 3Si, SBN,

RE: [SAtalk] Creative spam, any ideas?

2003-07-01 Thread Chris Santerre
a few more I can't remember. But each has its own rule, with just about every possibilty of OBFU I could come up with. Chances are if they have other words OBFU'd, they have these already. So I hit most with just these famous few. HTH Chris Santerre System Admin You should never, never doubt what

RE: [SAtalk] spamd simply replaces spamassassin? don't think so

2003-07-01 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Iago [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] spamd simply replaces spamassassin? don't think so I'm running perl 5.8, spamassassin 2.55, solaris 2.7, postfix 2.something (latest

[SAtalk] 2.60 and Base 64 enc text?

2003-07-02 Thread Chris Santerre
How does 2.60 deal with the embeddedbase 64 encoded text trick? I up'd the score overnight to see what would happen and hit a ton of FPs. I'm still using 2.43, but you all knew that already :) Does it look for the double embedded entry? I'm tagging everything but these pains, because the

[SAtalk] Interesting FP from webmail.

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Santerre
I got a very interesting FP this morning. Korean emails usually give me a tough time with FPs, but this one had something different. The email came from a domain hosted on kpost.com. No biggy. web2.kpost.com is a webmail interface. Now I have a rule that looks for Width and Height to be

RE: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Santerre
the time. Chris Santerre System Admin You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.- Willy Wonka --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available

RE: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:09 AM To: Alain Fauconnet Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or

RE: [SAtalk] Regexp Rule Question

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Santerre
things between the two. This should also reduce FPs. YMMV, HTH Chris Santerre System Admin A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites

RE: [SAtalk] No Hits higher than Required Hits but Not marked as SPAM

2003-07-08 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 10:47 AM To: Rhett Gibson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] No Hits higher than Required Hits but Not marked as SPAM On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:24:42AM -0500, Rhett

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rules Forum? Listing?

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Santerre
Did my list give you the rule writing sickness Bill? ;) I'min for a rule forum for sure! I just keep writing more rules every week. But to make it separate will not work. The SA developers should be part of the discussion, as they may have better insight as to what the next SA ruleset will

RE: [SAtalk] Missed Spam samples

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: David Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Missed Spam samples My site has been receiving some odd spam with little to no content, increasing amounts over the last fortnight

[SAtalk] [OT] Are lawmakers stupid? RID Spam law

2003-07-09 Thread Chris Santerre
Cnet has this article: http://news.com.com/2100-1028-1023740.html?part=dhttag=ntop Lawmakers are debating and opt-in vs.opt-out. Why is opt-out retarded? Hi I'm abc spam inc! Buy my junk.don't want, well then opt-out here. *opts-out* spammer gets confirmation of email and someone

RE: [SAtalk] tricky spam

2003-07-10 Thread Chris Santerre
of the rules. Like looking for multiple instances of the rule. It is easy to write a rule for some of the better knowns ones like /(f|ph)(o|0)t(o|0)/i but with all the ways of doing OBFU it would be kind of big. Your spam was a nice example. HTH Chris Santerre System Admin You should never

RE: [SAtalk] spam with no body...

2003-07-10 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: VonEssen, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 12:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] spam with no body... I have been seeing this sort of spam come up on several different mail servers I work on. The email is

RE: [SAtalk] How to balance new rules for hams that looks like spam

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Raul Dias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] How to balance new rules for hams that looks like spam Hi, Now I am facing a problem with hams. Some advertising mails are

RE: [SAtalk] tricky spam

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:15 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: 'German Staltari'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] tricky spam On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: I had a rule note on this from

RE: [SAtalk] tricky spam

2003-07-11 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: David B Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 12:38 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SAtalk] tricky spam On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: Usually write it like, /(f|ph)ot0|(f|ph)0to/i

RE: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22

2003-07-15 Thread Chris Santerre
Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:37 AM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22 Hi, My list does exactly that... but... I am very selective about what ISP's get

RE: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22

2003-07-18 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Alan Leghart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:03 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22 --On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:56 AM -0400 Chris Santerre [EMAIL

RE: re[2]: [SAtalk] Information on writing rules

2003-07-22 Thread Chris Santerre
I have been contemplating putting together a few web pages of collected custom rules. Lots of times looking at other rules will help people learn how to write them. I just have been real busy now. Any interest in seeing a quick and dirty site? I was going to break down rules into pages of header,

RE: [SAtalk] Rule problem

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Michael W. Cocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Rule problem Everytime I think I'm starting to understand this thing... GR. Could come kind person tell me what I'm doing

[SAtalk] SA Custom Rule Emporium is alive :)

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Santerre
Ok, I did it real quick. Web site with a bunch of rules is up. Please send me your rules! I have rules from people but I don't have permission to post to web. So If you send them to me I will add them and give you credit. The more the better! I'm already working on the next version

[SAtalk] FW: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2003-07-23 Thread Chris Santerre
You are denying a message I sent to the spamassassin list and you! You are denying it because it looks like spam! Please don't do this for posts to the SA list or direct replies to you from a post you made on the SA list, or 90% of the reply/posts will be denied! CC'd to the list so that others

[SAtalk] [RD] rule discussion

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
continue to use SAtalk? I think we should. Maybe just put [RD] in the subject for rule discussion? I did the wiki thing, That is kinda cool ;) Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium Keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm "A little nonsens

[RD] RE: [SAtalk] rules needed: iraq most wanted playing cards

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
Something like this: header MY_PLAYING_CARDS Subject =~ /pl(a|\@)ying.?c(a|\@)rds?/i describe MY_PLAYING_CARDS Talks about playing cards in Subject score MY_PLAYING_CARDS 1.0 Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium Keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] rule discussion

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Kai MacTane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] [RD] rule discussion At 7/25/03 07:09 AM , Chris Santerre wrote: Well I've done another update on the rules site. Some great rules

RE: [RD] RE: [SAtalk] rules needed: iraq most wanted playing cards

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
there are about 5 different ways of looking at this messege and figuring out how to catch it. I just don't want start it here until I get a word from the list admin we can start doing that. Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot

RE: [RD] RE: [SAtalk] rules needed: iraq most wanted playing ca rds

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
/gorilla/tips.htm Lots more to come, thanks to this great community. Thanks for the word on the rule discussion JM. [RD] will do great! Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now

RE: [SAtalk] spam funny

2003-07-25 Thread Chris Santerre
describe MY_NO_QU Q without a U score MY_NO_QU .5 Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka -Original Message- From

RE: Re[2]: [SAtalk] spam funny

2003-07-28 Thread Chris Santerre
to be from spammers! So I'm watching it closely. Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka -Original Message- From: Robert

RE: [SAtalk] Advice on how to create this rule

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Santerre
in it. That might be what you're looking for. Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka

[SAtalk] [OT] Interesting results from emporium :)

2003-07-29 Thread Chris Santerre
be an rootes machine. No biggy, just interesting they started the other day. Anyone else ever get this after contributing? Devs? Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now and then, is relished

RE: [SAtalk] [OT] Interesting results from emporium :)

2003-07-30 Thread Chris Santerre
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:59 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail); William Stearns Subject: Re: [SAtalk] [OT] Interesting results from emporium :) Good afternoon, Chris, On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Chris Santerre wrote: It seems that since

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Random characters in SPAM

2003-07-30 Thread Chris Santerre
chars together score MY_OBFU_MISC .33 Chris Santerre System Admin and SA Custom Rules Emporium keeper http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Random characters in SPAM

2003-07-30 Thread Chris Santerre
tweak to their own lanquage. -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 10:14 AM To: Chris Santerre Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Random characters in SPAM Compaq. Ipaq. Iraq. Qatar. I think all of these would be more common

RE: [SAtalk] newbie: SA not catching contents in HTML

2003-07-30 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Gary Lopez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] newbie: SA not catching contents in HTML Good afternoon, I'm sure I'm not unique to this, but I have search the archives and web

  1   2   3   4   5   6   >