Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread jdow
Thanks. That does help understand what is going on. This might be a good writeup for the wiki. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jdow writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTDT, bought the T-shirt. Adding

Re: Spam messages got negative points

2005-05-05 Thread Tom Q. Citizen
How does one delete the bayes database? Peace... Tom On Wed, May 4, 2005 3:02 pm, Ryan Castellucci said: Looks like bayes is dropping the score. Did you manualy train your bayes database, or use autolearning? You may need to delete your bayes database and start over. On 5/4/05, BAKONYI

RE: Spam messages got negative points

2005-05-05 Thread Michael Priest
Sa-learn --clear May be recommended to run a sa-learn --backup first incase you want to restore it. Cheers, Michael -Original Message- From: Tom Q. Citizen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 5 May 2005 9:51 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spam messages got

I seem to be in surbl, can someone please help me

2005-05-05 Thread Scott Haneda
I don't fully understand how SURBL works and all the details, I have been on this list for a few weeks getting ready to get SA installed and working, trying to learn. I just posted to mysql mail list and got this back: The following message could not be delivered to mysql@lists.mysql.com at host

Re: I seem to be in surbl, can someone please help me

2005-05-05 Thread Scott Haneda
on 5/4/05 7:14 PM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this seems in error, which is not a huge deal, I just turn my sig off for now :-) But do I fall out of surbl autmatically? And how do I find out why this happened and prevent it? I just also got this back from mysql lists:

Re: I seem to be in surbl, can someone please help me

2005-05-05 Thread Scott Haneda
on 5/4/05 7:14 PM, Scott Haneda at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just posted to mysql mail list and got this back: The following message could not be delivered to mysql@lists.mysql.com at host lists.mysql.com (213.136.52.31) because the message content was rejected. 552 newgeo.com in

Re: AWL whaaat

2005-05-05 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 5/4/05, Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's great.. I was trying to think up a good scenario for that acronym, but couldn't. Obviously it's the Automated Spam Sorting Average Scoring System Involving Ninjas

Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Craig Baird
Today, I've received a number of spams containing a domain that is listed on almost all the SURBL lists. I've recieved around 10 of these today, and none of them have hit on any of the SURBLs despite the domain being listed. Here is the message: --- Begin Spam --- Return-Path: [EMAIL

Re: Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread List Mail User
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 4 21:21:27 2005 ... Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 22:21:11 -0600 From: Craig Baird [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL ... Today, I've received a number of spams containing a domain that is listed on

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Bikrant Neupane
On Thursday 05 May 2005 04:38, Justin Mason wrote: jdow writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTDT, bought the T-shirt. Adding memory will help. Short term solution can be adding swap space. Another option can be running SA remotely on another machine (users run spamc -d sa.machine.com)

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bikrant Neupane writes: from maillog Deep recursion on subroutine Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::finish at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659 could you try this patch? if it doesn't work, I

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Bikrant Neupane
On Thursday 05 May 2005 11:52, Justin Mason wrote: Bikrant Neupane writes: from maillog Deep recursion on subroutine Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::finish at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659 could you try this patch? if it doesn't

Re: [SURBL] how to report

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 8:37:45 AM, martin smith wrote: MFrom: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MA good way to report spams is to use SpamCop. The SpamCop Mspamvertised site data goes into sc.surbl.org: M M http://www.surbl.org/lists.html#sc M Jeff, does this include the links that

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 9:21:11 PM, Craig Baird wrote: Today, I've received a number of spams containing a domain that is listed on almost all the SURBL lists. I've recieved around 10 of these today, and none of them have hit on any of the SURBLs despite the domain being listed. Here

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yes, I think this definitely should be on the bugzilla ;) - --j. Bikrant Neupane writes: On Thursday 05 May 2005 11:52, Justin Mason wrote: Bikrant Neupane writes: from maillog Deep recursion on subroutine

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Re: [SPAM-TAG] Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
On Thursday, May 5, 2005, 12:10:32 AM, Jeff Chan wrote: On Wednesday, May 4, 2005, 9:21:11 PM, Craig Baird wrote: Today, I've received a number of spams containing a domain that is listed on almost all the SURBL lists. I've recieved around 10 of these today, and none of them have hit on

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 07:05:17PM +0200, Patrick von der Hagen wrote: Hi all, I've been using SpamAssassin 3.0.2 for quite some time (about three month) on my mailservers and so far I didn't notice any problems. Load and message-throughput have been quite constant. However, yesterday one

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Dennis Davis
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Justin Mason wrote: From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:53:13 -0700 Subject: Re: memory-usage going BOOM jdow writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BTDT, bought the T-shirt.

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Dennis Davis wrote: [...] Some on this list recommended reducing --max-conn-per-child from the default of 200 to reduce possible memory leakage in earlier versions of SpamAssassin. I doubt that this is a problem now, but it might be worth trying as a precautionary measure. I am absulotely CERTAIN

Re: usr_prefs not working

2005-05-05 Thread Loren Wilton
I just upgraded my spamassassin from v3.0.1 to v3.0.3 and know my user_prefs don't appear to being read. I have a couple of test rules I use to verify if the local.cf or user_prefs are be read and local.cf works but user_prefs don't. After checking any upgrade info to make sure you haven't

Re: Spam messages got negative points

2005-05-05 Thread Loren Wilton
tests=BAYES_00,DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_XX, Bayes says it is absolutely dead sure ham, not spam. Broken bayes database, it sounds like. Loren

Re: Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Loren Wilton
I believe someone noticed this yesterday and submitted a bug against it. That still leaves the problem of existing systems that are open to this attack. Probably a quick rule to check for that header and add 10 points or so would be a good idea. Loren - Original Message -

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Loren Wilton
from maillog Deep recursion on subroutine Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::finish at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 659 As far as I know (which may be wrong) the deep recursion thing isn't related to either bayes or awl expiry. I seem to recall

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
Hello All, Justin: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 is a lot better at effective RAM usage than 3.0.0 ... This is because it (a) runs with a smaller number of active children ... keeps one or two servers very busy, using the others for overflow We process 60K messages a day and use most of our 10 spamd

Re: AWL whaaat

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:00 PM 5/4/2005, jdow wrote: Accurate or not AWBL for Automatic White/Black List might be obscure enough to inspire a minimal level of reading. Along those lines, we could name it RTFM :)

Re: usr_prefs not working

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:41 PM 5/4/2005, Randy Gibson wrote: I just upgraded my spamassassin from v3.0.1 to v3.0.3 and know my user_prefs don't appear to being read. I have a couple of test rules I use to verify if the local.cf or user_prefs are be read and local.cf works but user_prefs don't. I'm using

PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Dan Barker
I can't find any doc on PTR rules. Specifically, I'd like to make my SpamAssassin 3.0.1 score if there is no PTR record for the first foreign IP in the Received by chain. This can't be difficult, but I've scanned the doc to the best of my ability (my best may not be particularly goodg) and come

SURBL issues

2005-05-05 Thread Bryan Haase
Anyone seeing problems with SURBL "AB"? This morning I have had more false positives then I have ever seen. Some examples cox-internet, peoplepc, expedia and my new headache my own domain. Is the problem with peoplereportingsober virus emailsasspam?If this is the "top 400" spammer list it

Re: SURBL issues

2005-05-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
yes - should be fixed as while ago, just needing the DNS change to propogate. Someone added .com to the list! -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Bryan Haase wrote: Anyone seeing problems with SURBL AB? This morning I have had more false

Fwd: [SURBL-Discuss] Brief problem with ab.surbl.org

2005-05-05 Thread Jeff Chan
From: Jeff Chan To: SURBL Discus Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005, 12:39:58 AM Subject: [SURBL-Discuss] Brief problem with ab.surbl.org FWIW there was a brief error where .com got into ab.surbl.org and that caused it to hit all .com domains. This problem lasted an hour or two today and happened

Re: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Dan Barker wrote: I can't find any doc on PTR rules. Specifically, I'd like to make my SpamAssassin 3.0.1 score if there is no PTR record for the first foreign IP in the Received by chain. This can't be difficult, but I've scanned the doc to the best of my ability (my best may not be

Re: Problem with changing the Markup

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Carlo Wood wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 01:03:18PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: In -well- every mail. That is not too weird, since this is my domain! Why does rate 'alinoe.com' and 'com' and 'carlo' as spammy tokens? Is that normal? No, it's not normal. Have you been training

RE: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Dan Barker
It looks to me like your rule says if it's got a ([ip address, it's got no PTR and if it's got a {something[ip address it has one. That could be useful, except my mailer doesn't do such things. Bad Header: Received: from rnaiewno.com [66.0.118.65] by visioncomm.net (SMTPD32-8.15) id

Re: [SPAM-TAG] Content type allowing spammers to evade URIBL

2005-05-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:10:32AM -0700, Jeff Chan wrote: If you'll notice, the content type is shown as ;text/plain;. It seems that the semicolons are causing Spamassassin not to parse the mail properly. If I [...] SA devs, should this get a bugzilla? Already do:

hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ugh. I'm getting stuff from these jerks slipping through left right.. anyone else seeing this stuff? :| It's hitting the sbl rules, but still only scoring 4.152.. From: ChristianMortgageUSA.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Let our experts help you save on your home Date:

Re: hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread Martin Hepworth
Jonathan the ALL_TRUSTED rule is misfiring. Read the documentation on setting ythe trusted_networks etc and configure this for you setup and that will help the problem -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 Jonathan Nichols wrote: Ugh. I'm getting

Re: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Dan Barker wrote: I guess rnaiewno.com is the HELO or some such, because it sure isn't a name from 66.0! I guess I'm just screwed. We went from 2k emails a day (1900 spam) to 4K with the latest worm, and SA doesn't appear to be able to help at all. Sigh. Dan Dan, I have to agree with Matt

RE: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread hamann . w
We went from 2k emails a day (1900 spam) to 4K with the latest worm, and SA doesn't appear to be able to help at all. Sigh. Dan Hi, get a few birds in the garden to take care of the rainworms :) Probably my setup is unusual, but SA would not even see infected mail, because the virus

Re: How ill-advised are nightlies?

2005-05-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know from watching that 3.1 might be a ways off, and am wondering if based on anyone's experience whether running an interim build is a good idea or not? I understand the risks of doing this in general, just

Re: hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:20:53PM +0100, Martin Hepworth wrote: the ALL_TRUSTED rule is misfiring. Read the documentation on setting ythe trusted_networks etc and configure this for you setup and that will help the problem It's not really misfiring here. In the sample message, there are no

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick von der Hagen writes: Dennis Davis wrote: [...] Some on this list recommended reducing --max-conn-per-child from the default of 200 to reduce possible memory leakage in earlier versions of SpamAssassin. I doubt that this is a problem

Re: hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread List Mail User
... Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 09:14:28 -0700 From: Jonathan Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: pbp.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: hillsdale media

RE: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Swan
Couldn't we just write a rule that adds points when it see's the unknown in the MX, I also use postfix, so postfix specific.. Received: from predialnet.com.br (unknown [200.218.176.14]) Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother.

Re: memory-usage going BOOM

2005-05-05 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Justin Mason wrote: [...] on 3.1.0 or 3.0.2? 3.0.2 [...] Are you limiting the size of messages being passed to spamd? Scanning The limit is 200k. as far as I know, there is not a remotely-exploitable bug here. Obviously these would be more serious and we encourage those to be reported on the

Re: hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: It's not really misfiring here. In the sample message, there are no Received headers, so the message looks as if it was sent from local to the machine. He may not have posted the received headers for some ineffable reason.Plus, if the actual email did not originally

reading in exchange folder for salearn

2005-05-05 Thread Johnson, S
Ive created a public folder on exchange for the purpose of putting in spam that SA missed. Im attempting to use fetchmail to grab the messages. Has anyone else done this before? I found a few posts on the internet but nothing too descript. Do I need to dump these messages into a

Re: reading in exchange folder for salearn

2005-05-05 Thread Kevin Peuhkurinen
Johnson, S wrote: Ive created a public folder on exchange for the purpose of putting in spam that SA missed. Im attempting to use fetchmail to grab the messages. Has anyone else done this before? I found a few posts on the internet but nothing too descript. Did you try the wiki?

RE: reading in exchange folder for salearn

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Swan
I do this on our servers here, I use fetchmail with IMAP. I have setup the public folder for everyone to dump into but then have to pull the SPAM into a local folder in my inbox to feed it to fetchmail, because IMAP does not support the public folders only mailbox folders. I setup a folder

Re: PTR Rules

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We went from 2k emails a day (1900 spam) to 4K with the latest worm, and SA doesn't appear to be able to help at all. Sigh. Dan Hi, get a few birds in the garden to take care of the rainworms :) Probably my setup is unusual, but SA would not even see infected

Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Lima Union
Greetings SA admins, I'm planning to deploy SA in a couple of weeks, I've been testing SA 3.02 (Debian distro) during the last weeks and it works very well but I'm a bit concerned about the the memory leaks reported here. My question is, should I wait till SA 3.1 is released or just install

Re: Newbie question

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Ozer
If you don't plan on using AWL, you shouldn't have any difficulty with the debian 3.0.2 package. The only memory problems I experienced with SA, Amavis, and Postfix were related to large AWL files. Because I use AWL (or ASS as the case may be), I've updated my servers to 3.0.3. RO -

Re: hillsdale media

2005-05-05 Thread Jonathan Nichols
He may not have posted the received headers for some ineffable reason.Plus, if the actual email did not originally hit ALL_TRUSTED, then the original score would have been 4.152 + 2.4 (ALL_TRUSTED score) = 6.552 which should have stopped the email unless his kill level is set higher than

No rebirth for spamd children

2005-05-05 Thread Gene Black
I've been running SA on Debian stable for a few years now without any real issues, upgrading SA and related items as needed from time to time origionally through debian, later from source, and last night (in a vain attempt to fix the problem I'm about to describe) through backports.org. A few

RE: reading in exchange folder for salearn

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Yackley
Robert Swan said: I do this on our servers here, I use fetchmail with IMAP. I have setup the public folder for everyone to dump into but then have to pull the SPAM into a local folder in my inbox to feed it to fetchmail, because IMAP does not support the public folders only mailbox folders.

RE: reading in exchange folder for salearn

2005-05-05 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matt Yackley wrote: Robert Swan said: IMAP does not support the public folders only mailbox folders. snip I've been pulling messages out of Exchange public folders via IMAP for awhile now. I've done it with Exchange 5.5, 2K and 2K3, sometimes the path can give you headaches, but it should

Forged headers

2005-05-05 Thread Ronnie Tartar
We run a descent sized datacenter. The problem I have is that someone sent out a spam with our abuse email address as the reply to. I have added an spf record to the dns now to try and reduce the forged headers problem. Any other suggestions would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

Re: Forged headers

2005-05-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Ronnie Tartar wrote: We run a descent sized datacenter. The problem I have is that someone sent out a spam with our abuse email address as the reply to. I have added an spf record to the dns now to try and reduce the forged headers problem. Any other suggestions would be helpful. Thanks