whitelist poisoned? spam getting through

2006-08-04 Thread Mathias Homann
Hi, ohw can it be that the attached spam got through... the SA report says user in whitelist, thus it gave the spam a really high negative score. How can that be, or rather, how can i stop it? bye, MH --- spam starts here --- Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-04 Thread hamann . w
From: Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:02 PM -0700 MennovB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, IMHO with SYN throttle you would only be rate-limiting the zombies, I would rather they stopped sending spam completely.. What I don't understand is

Re: whitelist poisoned? spam getting through

2006-08-04 Thread Kelson Vibber
On Thursday 03 August 2006 11:02 pm, Mathias Homann wrote: ohw can it be that the attached spam got through... the SA report says user in whitelist, thus it gave the spam a really high negative score. How can that be, or rather, how can i stop it? Looks like they used the same address for both

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-04 Thread John Rudd
On Aug 3, 2006, at 11:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kenneth Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:02 PM -0700 MennovB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, IMHO with SYN throttle you would only be rate-limiting the zombies, I would rather they stopped sending

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Michele Neylon:: Blacknight.ie
Spamassassin List wrote: Put the .pm file that is attached in your M::SA::Plugins dir. Add to your init.pre (or v310.pre) the following line. Where is the usual Plugins dir? regards It doesn't really matter as you can specify the plugin location in the *.pre file eg. loadplugin

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread MennovB
Matthias Keller wrote: It seems to load fine but I get some errors every time I run a check: warn: plugin: failed to load plugin /etc/mail/spamassassin/ImageInfo.pm: No such file or directory Yes, I had to comment this line in 70_imageinfo.cf: #loadplugin

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 02:21 -0700, MennovB wrote: Matthias Keller wrote: It seems to load fine but I get some errors every time I run a check: warn: plugin: failed to load plugin /etc/mail/spamassassin/ImageInfo.pm: No such file or directory Yes, I had to comment this line in

Re: RBL with Spamassassin works, but spamc/spamd don't use it

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Maidment
John Andersen wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 00:57, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi I've got a similar problem. I've just moved from a 32 bit AMD to a 64 bit AMD for my external mail server and now the rbls don't trigger. I'm not using -L as the following from ps shows. 27386 ?Ss 0:05

Re: RBL with Spamassassin works, but spamc/spamd don't use it

2006-08-04 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 04 August 2006 02:07, Bill Maidment wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 00:57, Bill Maidment wrote: Hi I've got a similar problem. I've just moved from a 32 bit AMD to a 64 bit AMD for my external mail server and now the rbls don't trigger. I'm not using -L as

Re: RBL with Spamassassin works, but spamc/spamd don't use it

2006-08-04 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 04 August 2006 02:07, Bill Maidment wrote: Thanks. I've done that (see attached). I'm not running razor and nothing else seems to jump out at me. Any more ideas? Ooops, found your attachment. Nothing obvious. Grab a real spam and send it thru spamassassin spam.txt Then run the

HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi, I am wondering whether using HTML_MESSAGE makes any sense. Nearly 60% of the mails on my servers hit that rule, and the HAM-SPAM ratio for this rule is about 50:50. Okay, it only adds 0.001 points but uses resources, right? MIME_HTML_ONLY and HTML_FONT_BIG have a pretty bad ratio, too. Even

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread MennovB
Maurice Lucas wrote: Maybe i'm off there spamlist ;) but I think i'm just lucky for a few hours. I've got zero hits here sofar, very little image-spam comes in and what does is discarded by postfix rules. We'll see after the weekend.. Regards Menno -- View this message in context:

Re: sa-update error

2006-08-04 Thread Chris
On Thursday 03 August 2006 10:17 am, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:08:16PM +0100, Nigel Frankcom wrote: channel: attempt to rm channel pre file failed, attempting to continue anyway at /usr/bin/sa-update line 694 --lint -D shows no errors, just wondering if I should

Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Loren Wilton
Hi, I am wondering whether using HTML_MESSAGE makes any sense. How many metas with nice hit ratios depend on that base rule? Loren

Helpful spammer includes spam signature

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Porter
I just received a message with runs of lines full of hyphens and the following line repeated twice, in both text and HTML part: (This safeguard is not inserted when using the registered version) My rule: body KP_UNREGISTERED_SAFEGUARD /This safeguard is not inserted when using the registered

Tests for SPF and Razor?

2006-08-04 Thread decoder
Hello, small question, are there test samples or something similar to verify that stuff like SPF and Razor are working correctly as they should? Thank you very much Chris

RE: Tests for SPF and Razor?

2006-08-04 Thread Michael Scheidell
We use spf, so look at your logs and see if your have a SPF_PASS on this one. -Original Message- From: decoder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:50 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Tests for SPF and Razor? Hello, small question, are

Re: What changes would you make to stop spam? - United Nations Paper

2006-08-04 Thread Craig Morrison
John Rudd wrote: I've been re-thinking Marc's IMAP for sending, instead of SMTP proposal. And this block Bcc part got me thinking even more. I think he may be on to something. But lets take it one step further. Email via fingerd. That'll throw off the spammers. Wouldn't identd be more

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Wolfgang Zeikat
Will that work in SA 3.0.*? Sorry for first sending that question to you off list, Dallas. cheers, wolfgang

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread dirk
Dallas, one question/suggestion/feature request: I found quite a few GIF images in spam are broken insofar as Image::Info (which you don't use) is unable to report an images width and height (I presume due to the spammer's doing around with the binary data). Did you observe anything like it? If

RE: Tests for SPF and Razor?

2006-08-04 Thread Sietse van Zanen
For razor usage, you can always see if traffic goes to the server by tcpdumping on port 2703 -Sietse From: Michael Scheidell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 04-Aug-06 14:14 To: decoder; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Tests for SPF and Razor?

Re: postres bayes db and high load

2006-08-04 Thread Mark Martinec
postgreSQL v8.0.4 SM writes: Upgrade to Postgresql 8.1.4 if you can. Turn on autovacuum. Use BayesStore::PgSQL. Very good advice. As an interesting side-information, I can say that when using pen-pals whitelisting with amavisd-new, SQL database maintenance operations (purging old records)

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Wolfgang Zeikat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 07:22 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA Will that work in SA 3.0.*? Sorry for first sending that question to you off list, Dallas. Moses

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 07:26 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA Dallas, one question/suggestion/feature request: I found quite a few GIF images in spam are broken

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Donald F. Caruana
Sorry if I missed it, but why such a large area for the GIF size? Or maybe I don't understand how that works... I just had 3 image spams but only one got caught by this rule. The two that didn't actually had smaller pixer coverage, ~67K. I know this is a bit of a quick fix and not real

Where do you put new plugins

2006-08-04 Thread Patrick Sherrill
Sorry to be so lame, but where is the default plugin directory. I find several (ie lib and blib). Do I populate all? Thanks. Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Donald F. Caruana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 08:51 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA Sorry if I missed it, but why such a large area for the GIF size? Or maybe I don't understand how that

RE: Where do you put new plugins

2006-08-04 Thread Dallas L. Engelken
-Original Message- From: Patrick Sherrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 08:52 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Where do you put new plugins Sorry to be so lame, but where is the default plugin directory. I find several (ie lib and blib). Do I

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Augustus
Pardon the question but how are you generating these stats? Dave On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:35 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:05:52PM -0500, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: I made some major edits (1/3 smaller and also faster :) ), but the core algorithm is the same.

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Randle
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 04:22 -0700, MennovB wrote: Maurice Lucas wrote: Maybe i'm off there spamlist ;) but I think i'm just lucky for a few hours. I've got zero hits here sofar, very little image-spam comes in and what does is discarded by postfix rules. We'll see after the

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread MennovB
I'm having a bit of troubles to get this ImageInfo to hit anything. For example the attached image gives no hit, maybe because it seems to be snowing on the image or because I configured something wrong. Could somebody check if this viewer81.gif picture triggers the imageinfo rule? (first time I

Re: sa-update error

2006-08-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:25:04AM -0500, Chris wrote: Aha! I see the issue! Crap! Theo, why would you get this if the /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001004 'does' exist? The problem is, yet again, of assumption. The code assumes that if the update directory exists, that certain channel files

Re: Where do you put new plugins

2006-08-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:11:15AM -0500, Dallas L. Engelken wrote: Sorry to be so lame, but where is the default plugin directory. I find several (ie lib and blib). Do I populate all? on redhat/fedora/cent it is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.x.x/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugins There's two

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:36:17AM +0200, Jim Knuth wrote: Yeah, the files are in my sandbox: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/rules/trunk/sandbox/felicity/ only the two files, ImageInfo.pm - 70_imageinfo.cf? And the others? When talking about the ImageInfo stuff, yes, just

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:20:41AM -0500, Dave Augustus wrote: 7.162 8.3673 0.1.000 0.953.00 T_DC_GIF_UNO_LARGO 4.016 4.6920 0.1.000 0.843.00 T_DC_IMAGE_SPAM 0.666 0.7786 0.1.000 0.364.00 T_DC_GIF_MULTI_LARGO 0.576 0.6732

Re: postres bayes db and high load

2006-08-04 Thread Dan
I do use BayesStore::PgSQL and although I don't have autovacuum turned on, I do vacuum the database nightly (as well as a weekly vacuum full).I didn't know that 8.1 offered was that much faster, but it's worth a shot. I'll also have to check out amavisd-new 2.4. The pen-pal whitelisting sounds

Reporting spam with MailWatch

2006-08-04 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
Hello everyone. I'm running the following: CentOS 3.7 sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.6 spamassassin-3.0.4-1 mailscanner-4.54.6-1 mailwatch-1.0.3 This setup works very well. However, one feature in mailwatch, the ability to send a piece of mail through bayes and report it to dcc, razor, and pyzor

image spam detection idea

2006-08-04 Thread Logan Shaw
Looks like people have started to get a grip on the image spams that are so popular lately, but here's an additional idea I thought I'd toss out. (I'm not familiar enough with SA to easily figure out how to make a plugin.) Basically, these spams all have a bunch of images which are tiles of a

Re: whitelist poisoned? spam getting through

2006-08-04 Thread Kelson
Mathias Homann wrote: Kelson Vibber schrieb: Simple answer: don't whitelist your own address. Some spammers will do this deliberately, hoping it will get them past filters. I understood as much, but how exactly do i do that, in terms of mysql-stored spamassassin user preferences? if i use

RE: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: HTML-tests good or bad? -Original Message- From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 7:36 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: HTML-tests good or bad? Hi, I am wondering whether using HTML_MESSAGE makes any sense.

RE: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread Dave Koontz
Many Thanks Dallas, this plugin Rocks! It's amazing how many image only spams this baby has flagged in the short time I've been running it. -Original Message- From: Dallas L. Engelken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 4:14 PM To: dev@spamassassin.apache.org Cc:

Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Andy Spiegl
How many metas with nice hit ratios depend on that base rule? Exactly. That rule is used more in combination with other rules. On its own, its of no great use. But combined with other rules to form meta rules, its a force so powerful it should be a category 5 hurricane :) I thought about

RE: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: HTML-tests good or bad? -Original Message- From: Andy Spiegl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:23 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: HTML-tests good or bad? How many metas with nice hit ratios depend on that base rule?

Re: ImageInfo plugin for SA

2006-08-04 Thread MennovB
Bill Randle wrote: In the last 11 hours since I installed the plugin, it's caught 837 messages. Good for you! I'm now at 11 hours too and in the meantime only 12 image spams came in, 11 were discarded by postfix rules, 1 new one came through and was catched by SA but was not marked by the

DnsResolver.pm gives up unnecessarily on EACCES result

2006-08-04 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
SpamAssassin version 3.1.4 running on Perl version 5.8.7 SunOS email 5.9 Generic_118558-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 In the connect_sock() method in DnsResolver.pm, there is a loop starting at line 177 that starts out like this: # find next available unprivileged port (1024 - 65535) #

Re: DnsResolver.pm gives up unnecessarily on EACCES result

2006-08-04 Thread Vincent Li
2006/8/4, Rosenbaum, Larry M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SpamAssassin version 3.1.4 running on Perl version 5.8.7 SunOS email 5.9 Generic_118558-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V210 In the connect_sock() method in DnsResolver.pm, there is a loop starting at line 177 that starts out like this: # find

OCR scanner still causing SA to crash

2006-08-04 Thread Jeff Moss
The OCR scanner is still causing SA to crash sometimes even though I've got everything patched properly. I can't figure out what the problem is. When I use giftopnm and gocr on the offending images from the command line I don't get any errors. I guess I'll turn it off until Monday when I can

Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread jdow
From: Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... --Chris (If I spelt everything correct.I'm sorry.) ^What's this spelt stuff? It sounds nasty.

RE: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted At: Friday, August 04, 2006 4:14 PM Posted To: sa-users Conversation: HTML-tests good or bad? Subject: Re: HTML-tests good or bad? From: Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... --Chris (If I spelt everything correct.I'm sorry.)

Re: HTML-tests good or bad?

2006-08-04 Thread jdow
From: Rosenbaum, Larry M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... --Chris (If I spelt everything correct.I'm sorry.) ^What's this spelt stuff? It sounds nasty. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/spelt It's a type of wheat. Also the past tense of

Internal Networks Not Trusted?

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Johnston
Shouldn't internal_networks be automatically trusted? When I use this config: internal_networks 127/8 10. trusted_networks 216.65.194.186 I get this: [15275] dbg: received-header: parsed as [ ip=10.2.100.6 rdns= helo= by=ebby.com ident= envfrom= intl=0 id=25268392 auth= ] [15275] dbg:

Re: sa-update error

2006-08-04 Thread Chris
On Friday 04 August 2006 9:33 am, Theo Van Dinter wrote: The problem is, yet again, of assumption. The code assumes that if the update directory exists, that certain channel files will be in there because it creates them (aka: channel.cf and channel.pre). So when an update occurs, the code

Re: Internal Networks Not Trusted?

2006-08-04 Thread Matt Kettler
Stuart Johnston wrote: Shouldn't internal_networks be automatically trusted? Not when you manually declare both, such as below: When I use this config: internal_networks 127/8 10. trusted_networks 216.65.194.186

Re: RBL with Spamassassin works, but spamc/spamd don't use it - solved

2006-08-04 Thread Bill Maidment
John Andersen wrote: On Friday 04 August 2006 02:07, Bill Maidment wrote: Thanks. I've done that (see attached). I'm not running razor and nothing else seems to jump out at me. Any more ideas? Ooops, found your attachment. Nothing obvious. Grab a real spam and send it thru