Re: Whitelist blacklist order

2006-05-22 Thread llerda
I invoke spamassassin through Mailscanner v 4.38 I use Mailscanner with: - sendmail - clamav antivirus - spamassassin -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Whitelist+-+blacklist+order-t1649123.html#a4500915 Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users forum at Nabble.com.

Re: Searching SA mailing list

2006-05-22 Thread Matt Kettler
Chan, Wilson wrote: Is there a way to search the SA mailing list? Thanks! http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/MailingLists Under the users section, pick any one of the three archives linked next to Search.

Re: Problem compiling SpamAssassin (DB_file issue)

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Freitag, 19. Mai 2006 16:06 James Lay wrote: So far there are no good answers...anyone have anything? No - but at least you got an answer this time *g* mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531

Re: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Matthews
I see in my webmin module, 'Location of DCC client program' but I don't think I have it installed, what package should I be looking for, i'm running rhel4 can i installed it from up2date or is there an rpm out there? Any information on using DCC with spamassassin and rhel would be great.

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Sietse van Zanen
DCC is at: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ Don't know about rpm's, you can try http://rpmfind.net (Don't think they have RH EL rpms) Or http://dag.wieers.com But probably you'll have to compile it yourself (As I did for my RH EL3), which is pretty simple. -Sietse

Re: Who wants my spam - seriously!

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Samstag, 20. Mai 2006 12:58 Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: You can use *separate* script to make spamcop.net send LARTs (munged or unmunged). e.g. http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl or previous art mentioned in previous thread about spamcop-ack.pl How do I create that cookies file

Re: A lot of these going around

2006-05-22 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:36, Ronald Nsubuga wrote: check the retry time and what os are u running pliz and the version you are using for spamassasin? retries less than 1 minute. Debian Sid, SA 3.1.1

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Paul Matthews
DCC is at: http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ Don't know about rpm's, you can try http://rpmfind.net (Don't think they have RH EL rpms) Or http://dag.wieers.com But probably you'll have to compile it yourself (As I did for my RH EL3), which is pretty simple. okay, i'll install it from

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread Sietse van Zanen
Source can be found at the URL I gave you http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/ . Pyzor is basically the same as razor2. Major difference is that pyzor is written in python and raozr2 in perl. Don't know if there is much sense in using pyzor, as it

RE: checksumming image spam

2006-05-22 Thread SRH-Lists
Razor is also a good check, but it only free for personal use (same as dcc): http://razor.sourceforge.net Razor compile and install is a bit more difficult than dcc or pyzor, as it might need a whole lot of perl modules (depending on what is already there), so better get your CPAN

Re: spamc/spamd/bayes

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag, 22. Mai 2006 01:12 Sergei Gerasenko wrote: But I'm reading everywhere that it's not a paricularly good idea. There's not a single answer to whether which method is best. I use a sitewide bayes, and it works good. sitewide: + spam learned helps all users + good when trained with 100%

Re: New German ruleset failing lint

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag, 22. Mai 2006 03:57 Jonathan Nichols wrote: [19298] warn: config: invalid regexp for rule ZMIde_URI: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Global symbol @freenet requires explicit package name My apoligies @all. Is somebody willing to write a wrapper script for me? I'd like to change to using

RE: spamc/spamd/bayes

2006-05-22 Thread Bret Miller
On Montag, 22. Mai 2006 01:12 Sergei Gerasenko wrote: But I'm reading everywhere that it's not a paricularly good idea. There's not a single answer to whether which method is best. I use a sitewide bayes, and it works good. sitewide: + spam learned helps all users + good when trained

Re: spamc/spamd/bayes

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag, 22. Mai 2006 17:28 Bret Miller wrote: Either that or the other 95% of users get no spam ever. *bruahaha* I just spit that nice coffee over my keyboard... mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660/4156531

Rules for that mutating subject drug mails

2006-05-22 Thread Eduardo Bejar
Hi, I´d like to know if it´s possible to filter efficiently all those emails about Viagra and friends with a subject that always changes and has different letters inserted between the letters of the drug name. I guess you know which ones I´m talking about (Re: test VhtAGGRA / CItAlLIS).

Re: Who wants my spam - seriously!

2006-05-22 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Michael Monnerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Samstag, 20. Mai 2006 12:58 Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: You can use *separate* script to make spamcop.net send LARTs (munged or unmunged). e.g. http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl or previous art mentioned in previous thread about

Re: Setting up my own RBL - How?

2006-05-22 Thread Mike Jackson
So - if I wanted to set up my own RBL for others to query me, how would I do that? I'm seriously thinking about it. Alternatively, I can stream my spam to anyone else who is already doing it. I've modified my spam stream to exclude stuff already listed in several other popular block lists.

Vouching for mail from a dynamic IP (was: SPAM-LOW: Re: Spam Assassin Detecting our emails as spam)

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:54 PM -0700 jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at your own email it comes from a COMCAST cable connection in Palmer Ranch Florida through the WFGB mailer. The WFGB mailer is not in SORBS anywhere. YOUR address most certainly is a dialup. So it WILL get tagged

Re: Who wants my spam - seriously!

2006-05-22 Thread Marc Perkel
Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: Michael Monnerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Samstag, 20. Mai 2006 12:58 Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: You can use *separate* script to make spamcop.net send LARTs (munged or unmunged). e.g. http://anfi.homeunix.net/perl/spamcop-ack.pl or

Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
I just grepped my entire mail hierarchy for .geocities.com and the only legitimate stuff I see either uses the www or uk subdomains. How can I write a rule that matches on that? If it were just one subdomain I could write one rule for all subdomains and one for just the one subdomain and use a

RE: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kenneth Porter wrote: I just grepped my entire mail hierarchy for .geocities.com and the only legitimate stuff I see either uses the www or uk subdomains. How can I write a rule that matches on that? If it were just one subdomain I could write one rule for all subdomains and one for just the

Re: Setting up my own RBL - How?

2006-05-22 Thread Dhawal Doshy
Mike Jackson wrote: So - if I wanted to set up my own RBL for others to query me, how would I do that? I'm seriously thinking about it. Alternatively, I can stream my spam to anyone else who is already doing it. I've modified my spam stream to exclude stuff already listed in several other

RE: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, May 22, 2006 12:28 PM -0400 Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you mean www.geocites.com and uk.geocities.com, right? Try this: /(?:www|uk)\.geocities\.com/ Add other anchors as appropriate... Doh! That was too easy! :P BTW, in my corpus the only legit use of

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag, 22. Mai 2006 18:28 Bowie Bailey wrote: /(?:www|uk)\.geocities\.com/ Or the full line could be: uri ZMIgeocitiesGOOD m{(?:www|uk)\.geocities\.com} describe ZMIgeocitiesGOOD probably good geocities site scoreZMIgeocitiesGOOD -1.2 or whatever score you want to give them. mfg

RE: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread Chan, Wilson
Still getting autolearn=failed but its no longer complaining about running spamd as root but its trying to create read files from root still even though I have the local.cf defined for the location of the bayes files. Any ideas? Thanks! May 22 08:13:57 localhost spamd[25519]: Creating

Re: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread gerases
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 08:17:57AM -1000, Chan, Wilson wrote: Still getting autolearn=failed but its no longer complaining about running spamd as root but its trying to create read files from root still even though I have the local.cf defined for the location of the bayes files. Any ideas?

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, May 22, 2006 7:24 PM +0200 Michael Monnerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or the full line could be: uri ZMIgeocitiesGOOD m{(?:www|uk)\.geocities\.com} describe ZMIgeocitiesGOOD probably good geocities site scoreZMIgeocitiesGOOD -1.2 or whatever score you want to give them.

RE: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread Chan, Wilson
That seemed to fix it. I guess the default is to create a prefs path. Thanks! /etc/sysconfig/spamasassin # Options to spamd SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -m5 -c -H -u spam --Removed -c Wilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 8:42 AM

Re: A lot of these going around

2006-05-22 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:36, Ronald Nsubuga wrote: check the retry time and what os are u running pliz and the version you are using for spamassasin? retries less than 1 minute. Debian Sid, SA 3.1.1 Bunch of these error messages seem to happening every few (five?) hours.

Re: Who wants my spam - seriously!

2006-05-22 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I've already made an arrangement with Spamcop to forward the spam directly to an account they set up for me. I've sent them over 100,000 spams and they seem to like what they see. I'm told it will be a live feed sometime later today. These are the

Re: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread Sergei Gerasenko
Also, I would add the path to your auto-whitelist file by adding this to your local.cf: auto_whitelist_path /home/spam/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:07:48AM -1000, Chan, Wilson wrote: That seemed to fix it. I guess the default is to create a prefs path. Thanks!

Re: Vouching for mail from a dynamic IP (was: SPAM-LOW: Re: Spam Assassin Detecting our emails as spam)

2006-05-22 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 22 May 2006, Kenneth Porter wrote: How does another machine properly vouch for it? If I route my mail to a colocated host under my control, how do I make that host vouch for the mail from my house? Send it over an ssh tunnel so that to the MTA it appears to be coming from 127.0.0.1.

RE: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread Chan, Wilson
Do you have a sample local.cf file I can base my on? Right now this is what I have. /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf required_hits 5.0 report_safe 0 rewrite_header Subject** SPAM ** # Setup Bayesian Database Files bayes_path /home/spam/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 0777 # Enable

Re: Bayes not learning (autolearn=failed)

2006-05-22 Thread gerases
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:29:18AM -1000, Chan, Wilson wrote: Do you have a sample local.cf file I can base my on? Right now this is what I have. That sounds pretty good. Mine is even shorter because bayes is enabled by default and so is bayes_auto_learn. According to man

Appending spam-status at the bottom of message body

2006-05-22 Thread chia3
Hello! Is there any way to append certain spam status info (ie spam score, spam tests etc) after the last line of the original message body? I'm not interested in putting the original message body + spam status report in two separate attachments, as done with the safe_report-option. I read

Re: Appending spam-status at the bottom of message body

2006-05-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 12:41:50PM -0700, chia3 wrote: Is there any way to append certain spam status info (ie spam score, spam tests etc) after the last line of the original message body? There's no way to do this with the standard SA (though you could fake it by running messages through

spam no longer being written

2006-05-22 Thread Jeff D
Hello, I am running SA 3.0.4 on FC3 with mailman 2.1.5. Until about a month ago everything was working well with my SA configuration. However, now the spam (that I am assuming still comes to my lists) is no longer being written to the spam folder for me to run sa-learn on it. No one

RE: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kenneth Porter wrote: On Monday, May 22, 2006 7:24 PM +0200 Michael Monnerie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or the full line could be: uri ZMIgeocitiesGOOD m{(?:www|uk)\.geocities\.com} describe ZMIgeocitiesGOOD probably good geocities site scoreZMIgeocitiesGOOD -1.2 or

Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

2006-05-22 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi, I can't seem to find this anywhere, so I guess it couldn't be too much of a faq :) I'd like spamassassin to be bypassed for mail which originates from the local server (sendmail running on freebsd) Is there a way to do this? Thanks! Rich

RE: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Bowie Bailey wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: Alternatively, is there regex syntax to match all patterns *except* the one given? Can I somehow express all geocities.com subdomains except www and uk as a regex? That is a bit trickier because Perl does not currently support variable length

Re: Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

2006-05-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 03:15:10PM -0500, Rich Winkel wrote: Hi, I can't seem to find this anywhere, so I guess it couldn't be too much of a faq :) I'd like spamassassin to be bypassed for mail which originates from the local server (sendmail running on freebsd) Is there a way to do this?

SA Milter problem

2006-05-22 Thread Chan, Wilson
Any else having this problem with spamass-milter with spamassassin? Looks like spamass-milter locks up and dies randomly. Is there a simple script that I can write to check say service spamass-milter to see if it comes back as running? If it isn't then just restart the service as a temp solution

Re: Filtering windows-1252 charset

2006-05-22 Thread Philip Prindeville
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote on Thu, 18 May 2006 08:47:48 -0600: How legitimate is email sent as windows-1252? Very, because broken Windows clients use it. Kai Ah, the Strong Arm school of standards enforcement. ;-) -Philip

Re: Vouching for mail from a dynamic IP (was: SPAM-LOW: Re: Spam Assassin Detecting our emails as spam)

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, May 22, 2006 12:28 PM -0700 John D. Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send it over an ssh tunnel so that to the MTA it appears to be coming from 127.0.0.1. That's how I do it. Any way to do that with sendmail at both ends? Currently I use an AuthInfo entry in the sending MTA's

RE: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: Alternatively, is there regex syntax to match all patterns *except* the one given? Can I somehow express all geocities.com subdomains except www and uk as a regex? That is a bit trickier because Perl does not

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
As it turns out, I had a SARE rule installed that should catch these, but I found some spams leaking through due to the insecure dependency bug (bug 3838), even though I'm running Perl 5.8.3. I'm applying Daryl C. W. O'Shea's patch for that bug. Here's the SARE rule:

Re: SA Milter problem

2006-05-22 Thread Craig McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chan, Wilson wrote: Any else having this problem with spamass-milter with spamassassin? Nope. (ask a vague question...) C. - -- Craig McLeanhttp://fukka.co.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where the fun never starts Powered by

Re: Bypassing scan on locally originated mail

2006-05-22 Thread Andrzej Adam Filip
Rich Winkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I can't seem to find this anywhere, so I guess it couldn't be too much of a faq :) I'd like spamassassin to be bypassed for mail which originates from the local server (sendmail running on freebsd) Is there a way to do this? How do you deployed

Spamd memory leak?

2006-05-22 Thread Alan Fullmer
I don't know if I should call it a memory leak or not, or just a memory release problem with spamd. I currently have 8 gigs of ram in this machine, I am running 30 processes currently as indicated in the spamassassin options: SPAMDOPTIONS=-d -c -H -x -m30 -q -u spamfilter --round-robin I have

Re: conf file

2006-05-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:27:55PM -0600, Nathan Broderick wrote: Where does the local.cf file first get read in by SpamAssassin? What do you mean exactly? Your question doesn't really make sense. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive

Re: Spamd memory leak?

2006-05-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:50:09PM -0600, Alan Fullmer wrote: Mem: 8108656k total, 5907792k used, 2200864k free, 218704k buffers Swap: 2031608k total,0k used, 2031608k free, 2867736k cached As you can see 6 gigs are being used. It increases over time. Sure. 5 days uptime

error on starting spamd

2006-05-22 Thread Jana Nguyen
Hi there, I'm having problem setting up the init scripts to start spamd on a RH linux box. I've installed Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1 using rpm: rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1.tar.gz I've created spamd file and added in /etc/sysconfig, but when I tried to setup the init scripts to start

RE: SA Milter problem

2006-05-22 Thread Chan, Wilson
This seems weird but as soon as I started specifying the location for the whitelist bayes SA-milter in local.cf SA-milter started to fail randomly. Could it be that SA-milter can't handle the all the email coming in? I also noticed it was more stable when I was using RBL's in sendmail. Any

Debugging spamd

2006-05-22 Thread Kenneth Porter
I just posted this: http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4906 I'd like to throw a line into _handle_hit to log the rule name that's causing it. What's the Perl syntax for if $score isn't defined, log the rule name?

Re: error on starting spamd

2006-05-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 04:18:40PM -0700, Jana Nguyen wrote: I'm having problem setting up the init scripts to start spamd on a RH linux box. I've installed Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1 using rpm: rpmbuild -tb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1.tar.gz That builds the RPM. Did you install the RPMs after

Naming conventions for tests

2006-05-22 Thread Ben Kreunen
Hi All I've been approaching the problem of filtering spam at the email client end using the SpamAssassin (3.x) header. Our email server (over which I have no control) has a couple of server-side filters that reject emails with infected attachments and messages with a spam score 15. This leaves

out of memory when receiving larger mails

2006-05-22 Thread nxxs
Hi folks! I really need help installing SA 3.0.3 to my debian 3.1 vserver with 256MB RAM and lots of swap space. I am using SpamAssassing together with Qmail through the ifspamh script. I added a call to the ifspamh script to my user's .qmail file and it works quite well. The only problem is

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread jdow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bowie Bailey wrote: Kenneth Porter wrote: Alternatively, is there regex syntax to match all patterns *except* the one given? Can I somehow express all geocities.com subdomains except www and uk as a regex? That is a bit trickier because Perl does not currently support

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread jdow
From: Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth Porter writes: As it turns out, I had a SARE rule installed that should catch these, but I found some spams leaking through due to the insecure dependency bug (bug 3838), even though I'm running Perl 5.8.3. I'm applying Daryl C. W. O'Shea's patch

Re: Vouching for mail from a dynamic IP

2006-05-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 5/22/2006 12:16 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: --On Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:54 PM -0700 jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at your own email it comes from a COMCAST cable connection in Palmer Ranch Florida through the WFGB mailer. The WFGB mailer is not in SORBS anywhere. YOUR address most

Re: out of memory when receiving larger mails

2006-05-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 5/22/2006 8:09 PM, nxxs wrote: The only problem is that I cannot receive mails above a certain size (usually mails with attachments). They simply dont get delivered. I can read the following error message in my syslog: qmail: 1148341842.937112 starting delivery 79: msg 61161737 to local

Re: Help with rule for geocities spam

2006-05-22 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 5/22/2006 6:14 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: As it turns out, I had a SARE rule installed that should catch these, but I found some spams leaking through due to the insecure dependency bug (bug 3838), even though I'm running Perl 5.8.3. I'm applying Daryl C. W. O'Shea's patch for that bug.