Re: new RX stuff

2007-01-24 Thread hamann . w
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:11:20AM +0200, Henrik Krohns wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:41:33AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: since yesterday I have seen quite a few of them: Will we eventually get a check for obfuscated urls? Wolfgang http://www.bullshit*com

Re: spamdoptions ???

2007-01-24 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 1/23/07, R Lists06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Redhat or CentOS machines would that be under SPAMDOPTIONS ? Using the RPM install of spamassassin from either the CentOS project or rpmforge, you make changes to the spamd command line in /etc/sysconfig/spamassassin, and yes, you place those

Incorrect EMPTY_MESSAGE classification

2007-01-24 Thread Mariusz Kruk
I'm having problems with SA provided by debian, version 3.1.7-1. I run spamc from /etc/procmail. spamd is run with `-x --max-children 5'. Anyway, the problem is, messages are classified as EMPTY_MESSAGE, which has description of `Message appears to have no textual parts and no Subject: text',

Re: new RX stuff

2007-01-24 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 24, 2007 2:11 PM +0200 Henrik Krohns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess this works until spammers just use a remove the space from domain method, which pretty much defeats the uri handler. :) Perhaps a simpler test is to see if the domain is resolvable by the

RE: Perl Help With FuzzyOCR Needed

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Gary V wrote: Are you using SpamAssassin version 3.1.4 or newer? If not, you need to. Gary, SpamAssassin-3.1.7. What version of FuzzyOcr? 3.5.1 Are you trying to load the plugin from more than one place - in other words if you are trying to load it via an entry

Re: Whitelist file to large?

2007-01-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Tue, January 23, 2007 16:58, bryan haase wrote: My whitelist file currently has 13,500 lines and is 503K. spamd is about 58-59M. amavisd-new sql whitelist/blacklist would love this Is there a point when the whitelist file becomes to large? is spam scanning needed for the recipients at

Re: what are the rules directories

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Ramprasad wrote: I have been using SA for more than 3 years now and I have a dumb question I am using SA 3.1.5 on Centos AFAIK By default Spamassassin reads from /usr/share/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin But If I have /var/lib/spamassassin with some files in it SA is

Re: what are the rules directories

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:17:15PM +0530, Ramprasad wrote: But If I have /var/lib/spamassassin with some files in it SA is apparently ignoring /usr/share/spamassassin/*.cf Yes. That's how updates work. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a coordinate

Re: How to stop this spam - don't use antidrug

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: With sa-update ran within the last week, I run it once a week, and rules du jour, there is one type of spam still getting through. The subject varies and the body usually starts with a paragraph then stock info: The Motion Picture Group Symbol: MPRG Price: $0.431

Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
When I run spamassassin --lint I see a number of rule-related warnings. However, when I look in /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules/ I can't find the specific text referenced. Here's the pertinent lint output: [22906] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL .4 is not

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 07:25 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: When I run spamassassin --lint I see a number of rule-related warnings. However, when I look in /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules/ I can't find the specific text referenced. Here's the pertinent lint output: snip Unless you've

RE: Perl Help With FuzzyOCR Needed

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Gary V wrote: I placed ImageInfo.pm in the SA Plugin directory /./Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin Gary, Aha! Found it. I had it in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/. There are several directories with perl modules in them. Gets me confused as to what belongs where. Now this

Antidrug.cf - error file posted to comcast.

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
I have posted the promised error-generating file for antidrug.cf to the comcast webspace. Anyone RDJ'ing antidrug from comcast (instead of verizon) will start getting lint errors so they will hopefully pay attention to the new site notice in the rulefile. For those that have missed my numerous

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 07:25:38AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: [22906] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL .4 is not valid for score, skipping: score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL .4 .4 isn't a valid number and so can't be parsed. Try 0.4. -- Randomly Selected Tagline:

sa-learn --import not importing DB_File v2 DB

2007-01-24 Thread Kris Deugau
Or doing whatever it shows itself to be doing, anyway. I have several *old* systems, running 2.64. I've finally managed to find the key bit of hardware necessary to allow upgrading to 3.x. (This amounts to complete cascading replacement of the systems in question.) I'm now trying to get

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Theo Van Dinter wrote: .4 isn't a valid number and so can't be parsed. Try 0.4. Theo, When I look for '.4' in the rules files I cannot find it. Otherwise I would have changed it. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. |The Environmental Permitting

Amavisd-new systemwide and SA with user_pref and bayes DB

2007-01-24 Thread Leonardo Secci
Hi, I'm testing a Mail Server with sendmail+maildrop, and I'd like to include antivirus+antispam features. I'd like the system checks spam in incoming and outgoing messages so I need a systemwide configuration for SA. I installed amavisd-new as a milter (amavisd-new-milter) that performs

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:22:07AM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: When I look for '.4' in the rules files I cannot find it. Otherwise I would have changed it. If you run in debug mode, you'll see all the files that SA is using for configs. At least one of those files will have the invalid

Re: Amavisd-new systemwide and SA with user_pref and bayes DB

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:25:24PM +0100, Leonardo Secci wrote: Can I configure the SA executed by MDA to start from the spam score obtained from the systemwide SA to minimize rule checking? No. SA is designed specifically to only be run once on a message. -- Randomly Selected Tagline:

RE: sa-learn --sync importance ???

2007-01-24 Thread R Lists06
I didn't quite parse that. But man sa-learn, it has many an informational statement about how it all works. In short, by default, it stores token timestamp updates. Whenever the journal goes over a certain size, SA will automatically sync it for you. Thank you Theo and Matt for the

sa-learn on dedicated spamabuse email account

2007-01-24 Thread Oenus Tech Services
Hi there! Most of our email is delivered through pop3, so right now bayes filtering is off. Nevertheless Spamassassin is doing a good job filtering email, but we want to setup a way for our customers to report to us undetected spam by forwarding that spam to an [EMAIL PROTECTED] account in our

Re: USER_IN_WHITELIST problem

2007-01-24 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Sherman Lilly wrote: [Snipped text about forged mail from own domains whitelisted...] I was looking on the net and I came across a plugin on spamassassin I don't think i have loaded. Will the SPF plugin help with this problem? If you publish SPF records for your domains, you can use

SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
GENTS! I have setup rbldnsd daemon, and am rsyncing down from NJABL... I have made the local DNS cachers forward queries to rbldnsd. That can be tested via dig @dnscacheserver 2.0.0.127.dnsbl.njabl.org... i see that query get forwarded to rbldnsd, and i see the query in the log so i know 100

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Theo Van Dinter wrote: If you run in debug mode, you'll see all the files that SA is using for configs. At least one of those files will have the invalid config lines. My guess is something in the site-wide config directory (/etc/mail/spamassassin). Theo, Here is

Re: SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: GENTS! I have setup rbldnsd daemon, and am rsyncing down from NJABL... I have made the local DNS cachers forward queries to rbldnsd. That can be tested via dig @dnscacheserver 2.0.0.127.dnsbl.njabl.org... i see that query get forwarded to rbldnsd, and i see the

Antidrug.cf - error file posted to comcast.

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
I have posted the promised error-generating file for antidrug.cf to the comcast webspace. Anyone RDJ'ing antidrug from comcast (instead of verizon) will start getting lint errors so they will hopefully pay attention to the new site notice in the rulefile. For those that have missed my numerous

One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread IT_Architect
I'm thinking about using SpamAssassin. Is it possible to have the suspected spam to one account to have one person clear or delete possible spam. When they say it's good, will it then go to the correct user? Thanks! -- View this message in context:

Re: INVALID_TZ_EST flagged in all emails

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
[back on list] Brian C. Huffman wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:55 -0500, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Brian C. Huffman wrote: Looking through /usr/sbin/amavisd, it appears that it *does not* add the Received header if it is called via a milter (which it is). So, this wouldn't seem to be the

Re: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread Evan Platt
At 09:37 AM 1/24/2007, you wrote: I'm thinking about using SpamAssassin. Is it possible to have the suspected spam to one account to have one person clear or delete possible spam. When they say it's good, will it then go to the correct user? Yes, but that would be done in your MUA, or with

Re: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread IT_Architect
Evan Platt wrote: Yes, but that would be done in your MUA, or with something like procmail. SpamAssassin can only mark messages. It cannot do any sort of what you're attempting to do. Doesn't sound like the right fit. Thanks! -- View this message in context:

RE: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Evan Platt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:54 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: One person to filter spam At 09:37 AM 1/24/2007, you wrote: I'm thinking about using SpamAssassin. Is it possible to

Re: SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:46:28AM -0500, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: be tested via dig @dnscacheserver 2.0.0.127.dnsbl.njabl.org... i see [...] Can someone please help me setup NJABL properly? I am invoking SA via MS... as you can see below, SA does seem to check NJABL... [...] [15101] dbg:

Re: SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Excellent, Now we are in the right direction. Now. I use the NJABL-provided rsync syntax to sync... $ cat /usr/local/bin/njablrsync #!/bin/sh rsync -vaL rsync.njabl.org::njabl/rbldnsd/ /var/dnsbl/njabl/ which provides me with: ls /var/lib/rbldns/work/ bhnc.gz

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Rich Shepard wrote: [22906] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL .4 is not valid for score, skipping: score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL .4 [22906] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE .4 is not valid for score,

Re: SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Problem solved, I had to forward combined.njabl.org in named conf on the cachers... duh! THANKS! Vasiliy Boulytchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Excellent, Now we are in the right direction. Now. I use the NJABL-provided rsync syntax to sync... $ cat

Re: SA, MS, RBL problem

2007-01-24 Thread Vasiliy Boulytchev
Further question, Since the *combined.njabl.org*: dnsbl.njabl.org and dynablock.njabl.org in a single zone is what you get and : With the advent of Spamhaus's PBL (http://spamhaus.org/pbl/), dynablock.njabl.org has become obsolete. Rather than maintain separate similar DNSBL zones,

Re: Fixing Broken Rules

2007-01-24 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 11:26 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I was looking in the wrong file, it should be 50_scores.cf. And, in that file there are: score DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL 0 0.306 0 0.231 score DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE 0 0.479 0 0.200 score DNS_FROM_RFC_BOGUSMX 0 2.034 0 1.945 score

Re[2]: market buy with image

2007-01-24 Thread Fred T
Hello Henrik, Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 2:17:04 PM, you wrote: I tried File001 some time ago, and didn't need wait long for FPs. The scores are way too high (many are 10+? whats up with that?), and the rules are _very_ broad. For example, just mistype remov or ssex in your mail, and it goes

Re: Fixing Broken Rules -- FIXED!

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Adam Lanier wrote: Did you do a grep for 'DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL' (for example) in /etc/mail/spamassassin? Adam, I _thought_ that I had, but I'm trying to simultaneously fix problems with three applications, so I missed doing this. I'm betting you have a 'score

How to deal with mailing list spam?

2007-01-24 Thread Chris Purves
I was wondering what is the best way to deal with spam that comes through on mailing lists? For mailing lists like spamassassin I whitelist all mail because I expect to see examples of spam, but for other lists, is it a good idea to run 'sa-learn --spam'? What about reporting those spam to

Re: sa-learn --sync importance ???

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:37:01AM -0800, R Lists06 wrote: Do you know what the size or time threshold is? perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf, look for bayes and or journal. :) Im sure time is a factor in there too right as maybe the size wouldn't make it there in a reasonable timeframe?

user_prefs

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Allison
I would like to suppress user_prefs and stick with a single site-wide user_prefs. I don't think I actually need to do much for this. But I get a lot of warnings. I also want to be able to switch users for the bayes list (SQL) but continue using the same prefs for all users. If I call

Re: How to deal with mailing list spam?

2007-01-24 Thread Kelson
Chris Purves wrote: I was wondering what is the best way to deal with spam that comes through on mailing lists? For mailing lists like spamassassin I whitelist all mail because I expect to see examples of spam, but for other lists, is it a good idea to run 'sa-learn --spam'? As long as you

RE: INVALID_TZ_EST flagged in all emails

2007-01-24 Thread Brian C. Huffman
Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: You are running the latest version of amavisd, correct?  I know for *sure* that a milter must fake a received header before passing the message to SA and I'm 99.9% sure that it was amavisd that wasn't doing this only a couple of months ago. I am running the latest

Re: sa-learn on dedicated spamabuse email account

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Russell
See attach python script written by one of the folks on the MailScanner list. Its designed for use with exchange, so i will describe the Exchange usage and you can modify as you see fit to work on your pop3 server. In Exchange 2003 create a public folder called SPAM, give everyone

Re: How to deal with mailing list spam?

2007-01-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/24/2007 3:29 PM, Chris Purves wrote: I was wondering what is the best way to deal with spam that comes through on mailing lists? For mailing lists like spamassassin I whitelist all mail because I expect to see examples of spam, but for other lists, is it a good idea to run 'sa-learn

Re: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Russell
IT_Architect wrote: Evan Platt wrote: Yes, but that would be done in your MUA, or with something like procmail. SpamAssassin can only mark messages. It cannot do any sort of what you're attempting to do. Doesn't sound like the right fit. Thanks! www.mailscanner.info can do that and a

Re: One person to filter spam

2007-01-24 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/24/2007 12:37 PM, IT_Architect wrote: I'm thinking about using SpamAssassin. Is it possible to have the suspected spam to one account to have one person clear or delete possible spam. When they say it's good, will it then go to the correct user? It's possible to do that but not with

Re: INVALID_TZ_EST flagged in all emails

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Brian C. Huffman wrote: Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: You are running the latest version of amavisd, correct? I know for *sure* that a milter must fake a received header before passing the message to SA and I'm 99.9% sure that it was amavisd that wasn't doing this only a couple of months ago.

sa-update problem : head_test redefined at...

2007-01-24 Thread Florent Gilain
Hi all, It seems i have a problem with sa-update using my SARE rules channels ; i followed the doc at URL : http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt and used the rules from here : http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SareChannels Any idea of what I have to do ?

bayes store PgSQL error

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Allison
[1174] dbg: bayes: using username: tallison [1174] dbg: bayes: unable to connect to database: missing = after bayes:192.168.0.100:5432 in connection info string bayes_store_module Mail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::PgSQL bayes_sql_dsn DBI:Pg:bayes:192.168.0.100:5432 bayes_sql_username

Re: bayes store PgSQL error

2007-01-24 Thread Tom Allison
NEVER MIND!! I'm not paying attention to the ruddy docs! Tom Allison wrote: [1174] dbg: bayes: using username: tallison [1174] dbg: bayes: unable to connect to database: missing = after bayes:192.168.0.100:5432 in connection info string bayes_store_module

Re: sa-update problem : head_test redefined at...

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Florent Gilain wrote: Hi all, It seems i have a problem with sa-update using my SARE rules channels ; i followed the doc at URL : http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/sare/sare-sa-update-howto.txt and used the rules from here : http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SareChannels Any idea

Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
The quantity of spam for various varieties of quicker-dicker-upper pills into my inbox has increased over the past couple of weeks. The filters in /usr/share/spamassassin/20_drugs.cf don't seem to be up to full strength. Are there newer rules (I'm running 3.1.7) to cover the changing

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rich Shepard wrote: The quantity of spam for various varieties of quicker-dicker-upper pills into my inbox has increased over the past couple of weeks. The filters in /usr/share/spamassassin/20_drugs.cf don't seem to be up to full strength. Are there newer rules (I'm running 3.1.7) to cover

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Use sa-update. Thank you, Daryl. I guess that I'm up to date on those rules so I need to tweak elsewhere. I read in the man page that the default directory is /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007. That directory does not exist here. I have

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Use sa-update. Thank you, Daryl. I guess that I'm up to date on those rules so I need to tweak elsewhere. I read in the man page that the default directory is /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007. That directory does not exist

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Have you actually run sa-update? I just did so. Nothing was returned. I have no idea what rules you're copying, where you're copying them to, or why your even copying them anywhere. I originally updated with CPAN. That left no executable

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Doc Schneider
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Have you actually run sa-update? I just did so. Nothing was returned. I always run sa-update -D to see what is happening. -- -Doc Penguins: Do it on the ice. 10:12pm up 11 days, 7:10, 15 users, load average:

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: Have you actually run sa-update? I just did so. Nothing was returned. There's usually no output if you run it without the debug option -D. An exit code is returned though. I have no idea what rules you're copying,

Re: Enhancing Detection of Certain Spam

2007-01-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:11:50PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: I just did so. Nothing was returned. sa-update provides no output by default. Run with -D to see what it's doing. I originally updated with CPAN. That left no executable binary file. Then I updated from the tarball. That made

Re: bayes sql initialization

2007-01-24 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:01:58PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: Am I correct in understanding that I have to run sa-learn for every user who is going to have a bayes token store? If you are running per-user Bayes (nothing else makes much sense, IMHO), yes, but only if they want to train their

Drug spam, some caught some not - none caught by drug rules

2007-01-24 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Does anyone have any idea why there are such scoring disparities between these two emails? I've been seeing a few of these creep through lately. http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam01.txt http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam02.txt http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam03.txt

Re: Drug spam, some caught some not - none caught by drug rules

2007-01-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any idea why there are such scoring disparities between these two emails? I've been seeing a few of these creep through lately. http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam01.txt http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam02.txt

Re: Drug spam, some caught some not - none caught by drug rules

2007-01-24 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:40:30 -0500, Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have any idea why there are such scoring disparities between these two emails? I've been seeing a few of these creep through lately. http://dev.blue-canoe.net/spam/spam01.txt