Re: really slow spamd scan

2006-10-02 Thread Deephay
On 10/2/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using smapc/spamd or plain spamassassin? it is spamc/spamd.. OK, so it should be fast enough. And I think there is a way to tell spamassassin to report what tests actually take some time to execute, so you can see where you are

Re: Tom Van Overbeke is out of the office.

2006-10-02 Thread List Mail User
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:16:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 2, 2006 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 29/09/2006 and will not return until 08/10/2006. this is usefull to know on maillists :-) ... Better than his last vacation where the

Re: spamassassin on an open relay

2006-10-02 Thread Mike Kenny
On 10/2/06, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 01 October 2006 06:39, Mike Kenny wrote: Success in the sense that spam is no longer entering our system. However it is still being passed through. Well stop being an open relay and problem solved. I would have thought THAT would

plain gif/png/jpg spam

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Hi, is there any plan or idea in trapping this too? Or even just trying to better identify it? Regards, --- Giampaolo Tomassoni - IT Consultant Piazza VIII Aprile 1948, 4 I-53044 Chiusi (SI) - Italy Ph: +39-0578-21100

Re: plain gif/png/jpg spam

2006-10-02 Thread Matthias Haegele
Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: Hi, is there any plan or idea in trapping this too? Or even just trying to better identify it? look for fuzzyocr, use the sare-rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/ search the archives this has been discussed here recently ... Regards,

R: plain gif/png/jpg spam

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: Hi, is there any plan or idea in trapping this too? Or even just trying to better identify it? look for fuzzyocr, use the sare-rules from http://www.rulesemporium.com/ search the archives this has been discussed here recently ... Nah! Already discussed

Re: Non-blocklisted embedded URLs are getting hits on URIBL_AB_SURBL and URIBL_PH_SURBL in SpamAssassin 3.1.5

2006-10-02 Thread Justin Mason
David Ulevitch writes: On Sep 30, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Justin Mason wrote: David Ulevitch writes: Donald, We handle DNSBLs but not URIBLs, at the moment. Passing along to Noah to see what he can do. Sorry you had this happen to your SpamAssassin scoring. (Time to check mine... :-) ) You

Do all plugins get a crack?

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Nicholson
I've got plugins that are running and if they are positive I really don't need to run any more plugins. Q. Do all plugins run against a message or can you configure things so that one plugin aborts the running of others? in my init.pre I have # URIDNSBL - look up URLs found in the message

Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Dylan Bouterse
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything yet. Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
Have been answered few threads ago and more... May be you didn't scan enough ^^ You can use FuzzyOCR module (But dont ask me how to use, I've never tried ^^) -Message d'origine- De : Dylan Bouterse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : lundi 2 octobre 2006 15:38 À :

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Dylan Bouterse wrote: I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything yet. Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now all the good info is in an image and typically

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm about to ask about has been covered but I haven't seen anything yet. Lately I have been getting more and more of the stock alert spam but now all the good info is in an image and typically following the image is

Re: Do all plugins get a crack?

2006-10-02 Thread Justin Mason
Robert Nicholson writes: I've got plugins that are running and if they are positive I really don't need to run any more plugins. Q. Do all plugins run against a message or can you configure things so that one plugin aborts the running of others? in my init.pre I have # URIDNSBL - look up

Re: Tom Van Overbeke is out of the office.

2006-10-02 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:28:29 -0700 (PDT), List Mail User [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 01:16:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, October 2, 2006 00:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will be out of the office starting 29/09/2006 and will not return until 08/10/2006. this

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Dylan Bouterse
-Original Message- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:46 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Stock spam in images Dylan Bouterse wrote: I'm a newbie to the list and have been scanning recent posts to see if what I'm about to ask

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
...omissis... How about the FuzzyOCR plugin? That has been discussed quite a bit here recently. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin -- Bowie And, by the way, it seems to work! Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words (and, maybe, the fact that

Re: Problem with URIBL rules : false positive and not listed while mannually checking

2006-10-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Fabien GARZIANO wrote: I've tried each but I got 'not listed in multi.surbl.org and multi.surbl.com. Here's the score and detail from spamassassin : X-caliseo-MailScanner-SpamCheck: polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=6.133, requis 5.8, BAYES_00 -2.60, NO_REAL_NAME 0.01,

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
This has been covered so many times on this list. 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5 get it now, and run sa-update (via a cron job daily, but test first with a manual sa-update -D) 2: pop over to http://www.rulesemporium.com and get an appropriate selection of their rules, and configure

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: And, by the way, it seems to work! Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words (and, maybe, the fact that script text may probably get undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so. Some of the words would be perfectly

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so. Some of the words would be perfectly

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Fabien GARZIANO
Too bad, cause I agree with Giampaolo, it would be great. What about making a plugin including OCR components but instead of using inner dictionnary, passing it back to spamassassin through the MTA... Yeah, I know, the load will increase ... But that would be nice ? ... ... Ok,I go back to

Re: Do all plugins get a crack?

2006-10-02 Thread robert
The reason I brought this up was because I've added timings to show how long my filtering script takes to run and in come cases when the mail is spam it's 6-10 seconds or longer. Is that normal? Quoting Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert Nicholson writes: I've got plugins that are

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Stuart Johnston
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so. Some of the words would be

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Stuart Johnston wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so.

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
You'd need some clever rules... As an example, the word stock is perfectly valid in emails, but if you found it in an attached image you'd be pretty sure it was spam. So you'd need two sets of rules anyhow. It looks like SA 3.2 will let us do that in a sane manner. Phil -- Phil Randal Network

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Brent Kennedy
Newbie is a derogatory term and to call yourself a newbie is like calling yourself a moron(no offense). From Wiki: A newbie is a newcomer to a particular field, the term being commonly used on the Internet, where it might refer to new, inexperienced, or ignorant users of a game, a newsgroup, an

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
The real problem is the potentially fuzzy output from the ocr engine: shure all the copies of the very same spam would be detected the same, but what about slightly different copies? Would the use the sa force approach be feasible? The use of String::Approx in fuzzyocr has shurely a meaning,

R: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
You'd need some clever rules... As an example, the word stock is perfectly valid in emails, but if you found it in an attached image you'd be pretty sure it was spam. It would be perfectly valid in a, say, graph image too. SA is meant to work in the overall message content. It is not that

Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Swan
I have a legitimate client that I receive e-mail from and they are listed by Razor (sourceforge.net), among other things. Does any know how to get someone off of Razors list? Any help would be appreciated. Content analysis details: (11.3 points, 4.9 required) pts rule name

RE: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Bowie Bailey
Robert Swan wrote: I have a legitimate client that I receive e-mail from and they are listed by Razor (sourceforge.net), among other things. Does any know how to get someone off of Razor's list? Any help would be appreciated. From the Razor2 FAQ: Q: Razor has blacklisted my email address.

RE: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Randal, Phil
You could try telling the spammer (sorry, sender), to fix their spamming (sorry, emailing) software. Phil --Phil RandalNetwork EngineerHerefordshire CouncilHereford, UK From: Robert Swan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 October 2006 17:57To: SpamAssassin UsersSubject:

Re: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Kelson
Robert Swan wrote: I have a legitimate client that I receive e-mail from and they are listed by Razor (sourceforge.net), among other things. Does any know how to get someone off of Razor’s list? Any help would be appreciated. Razor doesn't list senders. It analyzes the message body,

RE: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Coffey, Neal
Robert Swan wrote: I have a legitimate client that I receive e-mail from and they are listed by Razor (sourceforge.net), among other things. Does any know how to get someone off of Razor's list? Any help would be appreciated. As has been pointed out, Razor does not have a list that they put

RE: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Robert Swan
These guys are having lots of trouble sending email to people, they are using an exchange 2003 server and are not listed on any SPAM database anywhere, per.. http://www.dnsstuff.com/ Robert Peace he would say instead of goodbyepeace my brother. -Original Message- From:

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Bret Miller
...omissis... How about the FuzzyOCR plugin? That has been discussed quite a bit here recently. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin -- Bowie And, by the way, it seems to work! Actually, the only limit I see is the own-made FuzzyOcr.words (and, maybe, the fact

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from

Re: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
You can also do a razor-revoke on the message. It doesn't necessarily lower the cf rating, but it's a vote none-the-less. :) On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 06:22:27PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: You could try telling the spammer (sorry, sender), to fix their spamming (sorry, emailing) software.

Re: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Bookworm
Robert Swan wrote: These guys are having lots of trouble sending email to people, they are using an exchange 2003 server and are not listed on any SPAM database anywhere, per.. http://www.dnsstuff.com/ Robert They may be using an Exchange Server for actually forwarding emails out, but it

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal, Phil wrote: This has been covered so many times on this list. 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5 get it now, and run sa-update (via a cron job daily, but test first with a manual sa-update -D) 2: pop over to

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:05:38AM -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: Would it also be possible to create a rule that matches on text rendered specifically from a non-text part and not the whole body? That way you You'd have to do that in a plugin, but otherwise, sure. There's currently no

OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Ken A
Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. Ken A. Pacific.Net

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:36 -0700, Ken A wrote: Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. As reported on the SPAM-L mailing list, this was an error on AOL's part. According to AOL, they've removed the rule

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Ken A
Adam Lanier wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:36 -0700, Ken A wrote: Anyone else seen this one? http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvuip.html Seems rather harsh, but probably quite effective. As reported on the SPAM-L mailing list, this was an error on AOL's part. According to AOL,

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Adam Lanier
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:52 -0700, Ken A wrote: The web page says that it's a policy, not an error. Perhaps the rule misfired and they backed it out, but it looks like they have every intention of blocking URLs in email that consist of IPs rather than hostnames. Perhaps we're speaking

Re: OT : aol blocking URLs with IPs rather than hostnames?

2006-10-02 Thread Vivek Khera
On Oct 2, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Ken A wrote: The web page says that it's a policy, not an error. Perhaps the rule misfired and they backed it out, but it looks like they have every intention of blocking URLs in email that consist of IPs rather than hostnames. They most certainly do and have

SpamAssassin-3.1.5 often spamd child process consuming 99%CPU

2006-10-02 Thread Volker
Hello, since the owner of that list does not reply to any mails looking for help ( I have been registred here for several years under Volker/[EMAIL PROTECTED], but my postings do not appear here anymore) I had to set up a new account. Following problem: I am running SpamAssassin-3.1.5 under

pfSense integration question

2006-10-02 Thread Keith S. Wiedemann
I am a new user to both pfSense and to SpamAssassin, but no stranger to networking, etc. I am running an SMTP server behind a non-standard port, and just switched to using pfSense for my firewall. It works fine with NAT forwarding. pfSense supports SpamAssassin as a plugin, but after

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Chan, Wilson
-Original Message- From: Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 3:58 AM To: Dylan Bouterse; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Stock spam in images This has been covered so many times on this list. 1: if you're not on spamassassin 3.1.5

Re: [OT] Re: Fw: failure notice / spaassassin.apache.org

2006-10-02 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, September 29, 2006 19:59, Andreas Pettersson wrote: It looks like you are listed in spamcop and apparently Comcast is either using spamcop or they have their own list that is blocking you. Comcast themselves are using a spam filter? (Let me taste that line one more time...) Comcast

RE: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Tue, October 3, 2006 00:01, Gary V wrote: For installing the ImageInfo plugin where do you put the ImageInfo.pm without defining a path? Im running CentOS4.4 Fedora Core 5 as test machines. This should find your Plugin directory (which is where you place it): find /usr -type d -name

Re: [OT] Re: Fw: failure notice / spaassassin.apache.org

2006-10-02 Thread Michael W Cocke
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:31:57 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: On Fri, September 29, 2006 19:59, Andreas Pettersson wrote: It looks like you are listed in spamcop and apparently Comcast is either using spamcop or they have their own list that is blocking you. Comcast themselves are using a spam

Re: pfSense integration question

2006-10-02 Thread Matt Kettler
Keith S. Wiedemann wrote: I am a new user to both pfSense and to SpamAssassin, but no stranger to networking, etc. I am running an SMTP server behind a non-standard port, and just switched to using pfSense for my firewall. It works fine with NAT forwarding. pfSense supports

Re: Razor removal

2006-10-02 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, October 2, 2006 18:57, Robert Swan wrote: I have a legitimate client that I receive e-mail from and they are listed by Razor (sourceforge.net), among other things. Does any know how to get someone off of Razor's list? Any help would be appreciated.