Re: DNSing MX to 127.0.0.1: Ruleset (or something) for this?

2006-08-15 Thread hamann . w
Ken A wrote: Don't accept mail for non-existent users. Your MTA should reject it. Yeah, we should. Not quite there yet. In spite of that, I thought it may be a good test to do anyway. Even if the mail is addressed to an existent user, if the MX for the sender domain is DNSed to the

Re: DNSing MX to 127.0.0.1: Ruleset (or something) for this?

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Guy Waugh schrieb: The above stuff appears in my logs when, for example, our MX receives spam for an unknown local user and tries to bounce the mail back to the sender. You should not accept mail for unknown local users because bouncing it to a mostly faked sender means you're sending out

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Justin Mason
Mark Martinec writes: Thanks Justin and Daryl. (a) Is From:addr rather than EnvelopeFrom:addr the right header to use? I'd say yes. DK signs the message, not the envelope. I'm pretty sure the current milters look for a From: header to decide on what selector/etc to use. Right,

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Loren Wilton
in other words: - sender @ yahoo.com sends mail to mailmanlist @ somelist.com; - mailmanlist @ somelist.com appends the mailman footer to the body text/plain part; - recipient gets message, reads From addr, verifies DK sig, which now fails. FWIW, I've seen a few mails that

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Justin Mason
Loren Wilton writes: in other words: - sender @ yahoo.com sends mail to mailmanlist @ somelist.com; - mailmanlist @ somelist.com appends the mailman footer to the body text/plain part; - recipient gets message, reads From addr, verifies DK sig, which now fails.

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Ole Nomann Thomsen
Den 14.08.2006 kl. 19:48 skrev Sanford Whiteman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, in order to avoid bouncing spam back to the (almost certainly) faked sender-addresses, I thought I could use SA directly: What's your MTA and/or SA-invoking app? Surely it is easier to have that agent parse SA's

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: I run a qmail frontend for a FirstClass system. The qmail accepts mail for about 500 domains, hosted on the FirstClass system, and scans them with SA. In then injects them into FirstClass. If the domain is known, but the user is wrong (as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 10:46, Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: I run a qmail frontend for a FirstClass system. The qmail accepts mail for about 500 domains, hosted on the FirstClass system, and scans them with SA. In then injects them into FirstClass. If the domain is known, but the user   is

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Ole Nomann Thomsen
Den 15.08.2006 kl. 12:01 skrev Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While I don't really see why ldap isn't an option, even with an 99% load, callout might be the solution. However, I don't run qmail but here's how it works with exim

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tuesday 15 August 2006 11:28, Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: Yeah, that is pretty neat. But the Firstclass system is running at 99% capacity on the E-mail injection too. I mean, we are really pumping it in, trying to level the peak-priod and everything. Performing callouts will probably cause

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: Den 15.08.2006 kl. 12:01 skrev Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While I don't really see why ldap isn't an option, even with an 99% load, callout might be the solution. However, I don't run qmail but here's how it works with exim

spampd performance on a relay mail server

2006-08-15 Thread Dennis Teel
Is anyone out there using spampd? I've been trying to setup a Spamassassin relay mail server and I'm really having performance issues. Our incoming MTA is averaging about 3 message per second. I would think that Spamassassin could keep up with that just fine. Is anyone else having problems

Re: spampd performance on a relay mail server

2006-08-15 Thread Martin Hepworth
Dennis Teel wrote: Is anyone out there using spampd? I've been trying to setup a Spamassassin relay mail server and I'm really having performance issues. Our incoming MTA is averaging about 3 message per second. I would think that Spamassassin could keep up with that just fine. Is anyone else

RE: spampd performance on a relay mail server

2006-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dennis Teel wrote: Is anyone out there using spampd? I've been trying to setup a Spamassassin relay mail server and I'm really having performance issues. Our incoming MTA is averaging about 3 message per second. I would think that Spamassassin could keep up with that just fine. Is anyone else

Re: DNSing MX to 127.0.0.1: Ruleset (or something) for this?

2006-08-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Guy Waugh wrote: Aug 15 05:01:35 mailserver sendmail[13287]: k7EJ1YE7013287: SYSERR(root): localhost.fabulous.com. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Do people actively combat this somehow? Exim has a feature ignore_target_hosts which causes it to strip

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread DAve
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: I run a qmail frontend for a FirstClass system. The qmail accepts mail for about 500 domains, hosted on the FirstClass system, and scans them with SA. In then injects them into FirstClass. If the domain is known, but the user is wrong (as

RE: spampd performance on a relay mail server

2006-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
From: Dennis Teel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:05 AM 8/15/2006, you wrote: Dennis Teel wrote: Is anyone out there using spampd? I've been trying to setup a Spamassassin relay mail server and I'm really having performance issues. Our incoming MTA is averaging about 3 message per

Re: [Maia-users] SA BAYES TIMING INFO

2006-08-15 Thread David Morton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (This message is now CC'd to both maia-users and spamassassin mailing lists ) ( Continuing the thread in SpamAssassin ML RE: slow sql bayes store) Alexandre Ghisoli wrote: DB Server Actually, we got perfs problem with this one, probably related to

Re: SARE sa-update channels available!

2006-08-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
I noticed a number of people have been trying to update the 70_sare_whitelist_spf.cf ruleset. In case any one had missed it mentioned in this thread, the ruleset is broken upstream (it's missing some required ifplugin lines) so updating that ruleset/channel will fail until it is fixed.

about value of max-children

2006-08-15 Thread Halid Faith
Hello I use spamassassin as test. My mail server handles mails about 200 K in a day. What should I set value of the --max-children num in spamd ? I think the -m value is 5 as default. When I type perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN' I see 128 on display. Thanks

Re: about value of max-children

2006-08-15 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
On 8/15/2006 10:01 AM, Halid Faith wrote: Hello I use spamassassin as test. My mail server handles mails about 200 K in a day. What should I set value of the --max-children num in spamd ? I think the -m value is 5 as default. When I type perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN' I see 128 on

Re: [Maia-users] SA BAYES TIMING INFO

2006-08-15 Thread Justin Mason
could it be that local_tests_only is *not* set to 1? in other words, that network results are being used in bayes training? That slows things down quite a lot. --j. David Morton writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (This message is now CC'd to both maia-users and

Re: [Maia-users] SA BAYES TIMING INFO

2006-08-15 Thread David Morton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Justin Mason wrote: could it be that local_tests_only is *not* set to 1? in other words, that network results are being used in bayes training? That slows things down quite a lot. As far as I can see, there's no connection... bayes wouldn't have

RE: spampd performance on a relay mail server

2006-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dennis Teel wrote: My server is a brand new P4 with 1 GB of RAM. I'm using the default options with SA and have added Razor2. Please keep SA questions on the list. I'm not an expert, just another user. There are lots of other people who read the list who may have good advice for you as well.

Re: SPF and SORBS problems

2006-08-15 Thread Gino Cerullo
On 8/14/2006 6:45 PM, Xepher wrote: I've got a server configured with postfix and spamassassin. The mailserver is the only one for the domain, and thus receives mail from other servers, as well as letting users connect directly (with smtp auth) to send mail. Everything works fine, EXCEPT when

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Bookworm
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: Den 15.08.2006 kl. 12:01 skrev Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While I don't really see why ldap isn't an option, even with an 99% load, callout might be the solution. However, I don't run qmail but here's how it works with exim

Lots of bayes_toks.expire warn: bayes: cannot open bayes databases

2006-08-15 Thread Agustín Ciciliani
Dear List, I'm running spamassassin with simscan. The problem I got is that the e-mails that arrive to my server are scanned and forward to their mailboxes, but it seems that the server sending the e-mail doesn't notice that the mail arrived ok, so it sends it over and over getting sometimes

.GIF images without .gif in filename and empty messages

2006-08-15 Thread Craig Baird
I have two types of spam that are slipping through, and I'm wondering if anyone has rules to help with them. Thanks to the imageinfo plugin, most of my image spam has disappeared except for one particular type. I'm still seeing .gif image spams where the filename for the image does not contain

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Justin Mason
Mark Martinec writes: Thanks Justin and Daryl. (a) Is From:addr rather than EnvelopeFrom:addr the right header to use? I'd say yes. DK signs the message, not the envelope. I'm pretty sure the current milters look for a From: header to decide on what selector/etc to use. Right,

rulesdujour question

2006-08-15 Thread BG Mahesh
hi/etc/rulesdujour/config reads,[EMAIL PROTECTED] RulesDuJour]# more /etc/rulesdujour/config TRUSTED_RULESETS=TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1SA_DIR=/etc/mail/spamassassin MAIL_ADDRESS=[EMAIL PROTECTED]SA_RESTART=killall -HUP spamdEverytime we execute rules_du_jour cf

FuzzyOCR error on processing gif sample file

2006-08-15 Thread Rob Mangiafico
Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the gif sample I received: spamassassin -t ocr-gif.eml giftopnm: error reading magic number (null): EOF / read error reading magic number Broken pipe I have all the required files in

Re: rulesdujour question

2006-08-15 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Tuesday August 15 2006 12:41 pm, BG Mahesh wrote: hi /etc/rulesdujour/config reads, [EMAIL PROTECTED] RulesDuJour]# more /etc/rulesdujour/config TRUSTED_RULESETS=TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 SA_DIR=/etc/mail/spamassassin MAIL_ADDRESS=[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FuzzyOCR error on processing gif sample file

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Mangiafico wrote: Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the gif sample I received: spamassassin -t ocr-gif.eml giftopnm: error reading magic number (null): EOF / read

spam inside images

2006-08-15 Thread enediel gonzalez
Hello I have the problem that now we are receiving spams and all the content was written in one image attached into the email, in this conditions the rules to check words, phrases, etc , don't work Thanks in advance for any answer Enediel Linux user 300141 Debian GNU/Linux

Re: FuzzyOCR error on processing gif sample file

2006-08-15 Thread Rob Mangiafico
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, decoder wrote: Rob Mangiafico wrote: Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the gif sample I received: spamassassin -t ocr-gif.eml giftopnm: error reading magic number (null): EOF / read

RE: rulesdujour question

2006-08-15 Thread Bowie Bailey
BG Mahesh wrote: hi /etc/rulesdujour/config reads, [EMAIL PROTECTED] RulesDuJour]# more /etc/rulesdujour/config TRUSTED_RULESETS=TRIPWIRE SARE_ADULT SARE_OBFU0 SARE_OBFU1 SARE_URI0 SARE_URI1 There are quite a few good rule sets from SARE. You may want to go to

Re: spam inside images

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 enediel gonzalez wrote: Hello I have the problem that now we are receiving spams and all the content was written in one image attached into the email, in this conditions the rules to check words, phrases, etc , don't work Thanks in advance for

Re: FuzzyOCR error on processing gif sample file

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Mangiafico wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, decoder wrote: Rob Mangiafico wrote: Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the gif sample I received: spamassassin -t

How to give score a message which was learnt with sa-learn --spam ?

2006-08-15 Thread Halid Faith
Hi I use spamassassin3.1.1 How can I give a high score some messages I have teached to my server with sa-learn --spam /directory ? Thanks

Re: .GIF images without .gif in filename and empty messages

2006-08-15 Thread Loren Wilton
Thanks to the imageinfo plugin, most of my image spam has disappeared except for one particular type. I'm still seeing .gif image spams where the filename for the image does not contain .gif. Like this: Are you using the latest version that 'decoder' posted? I'm pretty sure he added code

Antiword Rules

2006-08-15 Thread Michel Vaillancourt
Does anyone have an anti word based PM/CF file-set? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't need to. Thanks. --Michel Vaillancourt Wolfstar Systems

Re: How to give score a message which was learnt with sa-learn --spam ?

2006-08-15 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Halid Faith wrote: How can I give a high score some messages I have teached to my server with sa-learn --spam /directory ? sa-learn adds the words in those messages to the Bayes database, in this case as signs of spam. They are not used to directly score messages, but

FuzzyOCR Config

2006-08-15 Thread pdxbrit
Hi Folks, I installed the ocrtext plugin yesterday, and although running it doesn't appear to block any of the GIF spams I receive, its analyzing them, just not coming up with anything. So I just found the FuzzyOcr plugin, but it doesn't seem to be executed by spamd. I added a

Re: FuzzyOCR Config

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
pdxbrit wrote: Hi Folks, I installed the ocrtext plugin yesterday, and although running it doesn't appear to block any of the GIF spams I receive, its analyzing them, just not coming up with anything. So I just found the FuzzyOcr plugin, but it doesn't seem to be executed by spamd. I

Re: Antiword Rules

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
Michel Vaillancourt wrote: Does anyone have an anti word based PM/CF file-set? I don't want to reinvent the wheel if I don't need to. Thanks. --Michel Vaillancourt Wolfstar Systems I wanted to implement the functions into FuzzyOcr maybe, and rename the plugin

Weird behaviour after disabling sa-learn

2006-08-15 Thread Scott Ryan
Hi, I have been doing some testing with SA - Using maildrop to do the spam scanning. In my maildrop script I was playing around with calling 'sa-learn --sync spam' everytime spam was detected and 'sa-learn --sync ham' when messages were clean. I had this running for a while to see what kind of

Re: .GIF images without .gif in filename and empty messages

2006-08-15 Thread Craig Baird
Quoting Loren Wilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks to the imageinfo plugin, most of my image spam has disappeared except for one particular type. I'm still seeing .gif image spams where the filename for the image does not contain .gif. Like this: Are you using the latest version that 'decoder'

Re: dreaming of a plugin ....

2006-08-15 Thread hamann . w
Bookworm writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that analyzes and scores email addresses: we have big companies that give their employees more or less random strings as email addresses (but length will not be extremely long) Otherwise we have email addresses that somehow are

Re: FuzzyOCR Config

2006-08-15 Thread pdxbrit
decoder wrote: I assume you did restart spamd? If so, set the verbose level in FuzzyOcr.cf to 2, that enables debug messages and creates debug out files in the current directory which contain the recognized format and the recognized text. Try running then spamassassin -t somesample

Re: bayes not run on some mail

2006-08-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 14 August 2006 11:02, Nigel Frankcom took the opportunity to say: On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:52:33 -0700, jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I manually train here. I distrust automatic training.) {^_^} I agree with not autotraining, imo it's a damned good way to get your bayes poisoned.

Re: FuzzyOCR Config

2006-08-15 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pdxbrit wrote: decoder wrote: I assume you did restart spamd? If so, set the verbose level in FuzzyOcr.cf to 2, that enables debug messages and creates debug out files in the current directory which contain the recognized format and the

Spamd not able to drop root privileges at arbitrary times

2006-08-15 Thread Ryan Steele
Greetings all, I have a bit of a mystery. Recently, I installed spamassassin on a new server. Everything seems to be working fine, except for one little hitch. It seems that arbitrarily, spamd is unable to drop root privileges. Here's the relevant log message: spamd: still running as

Re: Spamd not able to drop root privileges at arbitrary times

2006-08-15 Thread John D. Hardin
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Ryan Steele wrote: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1150, GEN1596 line 4. aolMe, too!/aol It happens to me pretty regularly. I don't have any per-user configs set up.

Re: Blocking based on ALL IPs in the header

2006-08-15 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 08 August 2006 21:32, Rob McEwen (PowerView Systems) took the opportunity to say: Just thought ya'll would be interested to know that I just spent about 45 minutes trying to convince an I.T. guy at one of the largest regional banks in my area that a spam filter should ONLY check the

Re: Spamd not able to drop root privileges at arbitrary times

2006-08-15 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 05:12:42PM -0400, Ryan Steele wrote: hitch. It seems that arbitrarily, spamd is unable to drop root privileges. Here's the relevant log message: spamd: still running as root: user not specified with -u, not found, or set to root, falling back to nobody at

Re: FuzzyOCR Config

2006-08-15 Thread pdxbrit
decoder wrote: Hey again, I have analyzed your image with my gocr, and I get: samples # gocr -i bell.gif ) Trading ,4lert for FRID,4Y, ,4UGUST ll! ,4 M,4_oR PR C,4MP,4IGN IS lNDERW,4Y! Some vey EXPLOSIVE G,4INS are eqe_ed!. i. !.

FuzzyOCR install issues

2006-08-15 Thread lists
Chris, I am in the process of installing and testing FuzzyOcr, but i am having some issues with netpbm. I installed netpbm via yum and have version netpbm-10.25-2.EL4.2 installed now. the problem is that giftopnm, jpegtopnm, and pngtopnm are nowhere to be found on the system. any

Re: FuzzyOCR install issues

2006-08-15 Thread lists
Ok, I installed libjpeg-devel, libpng-devel, and libtiff-devel, then I DL and compiled netpbm-10.34 from source. it all went well, and now I have all 3 of those convertor executables on my system. i then ran some tests on your sample mails. the gif sample works great. - exactly like

Re: about value of max-children

2006-08-15 Thread jdow
From: Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello I use spamassassin as test. My mail server handles mails about 200 K in a day. What should I set value of the --max-children num in spamd ? I think the -m value is 5 as default. When I type perl -MSocket -e'print SOMAXCONN' I see 128 on

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Martinec
Thank you all for the feedback. FWIW, I've seen a few mails that had multiple DK signatures, apparently as the result of going through a DK signed mailing list when the original message had also been signed. yeah, I think if the list re-signs the message, that's ok, because it then

Re: FuzzyOCR install issues

2006-08-15 Thread lists
Well, I finally got everything working after realizing that there is a RHEL4 package called netpbm-progs. So, i deleted everything i installed from source, and installed all of the rpms instead. No more errors. oddly enough, I only find 2 spam words in the sample jpeg mail, as opposed

Honest Phisher

2006-08-15 Thread Chris
Now here's an honest phisher: Subject: =?utf-8?Q?[PHISHING]: Important Information About Your Fifth Third Bank Account [Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:25:54 +0180]?= -- Chris 18:47:44 up 16 days, 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.23, 0.30, 0.27

Re: FuzzyOCR error on processing gif sample file

2006-08-15 Thread Rob Mangiafico
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, decoder wrote: Rob Mangiafico wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, decoder wrote: Rob Mangiafico wrote: Downloaded and installed the latest FuzzyOCR 2.1c Ran the tests and the jpg and png ones worked fine, but for the gif sample I received: spamassassin -t ocr-gif.eml

RE: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Mark Martinec [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 7:38 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo This is what I have now: I get this on a lint with SA 3.13: Does it need escape in front

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Chris Stone
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 01:37 +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: header __L_FROM_YAHOO From:addr =~ /@yahoo\.com$/i header __L_FROM_GMAIL From:addr =~ /@gmail\.com$/i You should escape the @ signs in the expression: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i Chris

Re: Rule for non-DK-signed mail from yahoo

2006-08-15 Thread Mark Martinec
On Wednesday August 16 2006 01:47, Chris Stone wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 01:37 +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: header __L_FROM_YAHOO From:addr =~ /@yahoo\.com$/i header __L_FROM_GMAIL From:addr =~ /@gmail\.com$/i You should escape the @ signs in the expression: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i Yes,

Re: .GIF images without .gif in filename and empty messages

2006-08-15 Thread David B Funk
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Craig Baird wrote: [snip..] The other type of spam I'm seeing are empty messages. They have a single word for a subject, but nothing in the body. About a year ago, I was getting flooded with these, and I solved the problem by using the SARE_HTML_NO_BODY rule from

SPF checks on internal relays (attn: Halid Faith [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2006-08-15 Thread John D. Hardin
It looks like ihlas.net.tr is running SPF checks on mail relays within their local network. This is a bad idea, since this will cause most if not all SPF checks performed on internal relays to fail, as nobody else can be assumed to have your maile gateway in their SPF list... On 15 Aug 2006

Performance of MySQL vs. Filesystem

2006-08-15 Thread Whisky
Dear list, I was thinking about switching our SAs from config files to MySQL. Now I am wondering if there are any advantages in SAs performance when using MySQL. Does anyone of you have any information on that? Thank you very much in advance, Stefan