Re: Bayes resolution gettin weaker

2007-02-05 Thread Anthony Peacock
Hi, Jack Gostl wrote: I've been watching this for awhile, and there is now a pattern to what I'm seeing. I'm running a configuration with multiple users sharing a bayes files. This is an interim move to facilitate the spamassassin upgrades, and like many interim moves its been going on for

bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout

2007-02-05 Thread Ragnar Rova
Hi. I tried to migrate ~/.spamassassin to a new system but that failed. I had to remove auto_whitelist and bayes_*. Then I retrained the bayesian learner with sa-learn --ham and --spam and now I get: bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/sbin/spamd line 1085 After googling

Re: Bayes resolution gettin weaker

2007-02-05 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: Anthony Peacock [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SpamAssassin users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 3:56 AM Subject: Re: Bayes resolution gettin weaker Hi, Jack Gostl wrote: I've been watching this for awhile, and there is now a pattern to

Re: recurrent error with ripole and amavisd-new-2.4.5

2007-02-05 Thread Mark Martinec
Claude, Here is a typical error report in the log file: Feb 1 11:31:47 yellowsrv amavis[11701]: (11701-03) (!)collect_results from [] (/usr/bin/ripole): exit 30 ripOLE: decoding of /var/spool/amavisd/tmp/amavis-20070201T113001-11701/parts/p002 resulted in error 30\n Any idea ? This

Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Simon Marcil
I read the post TVD_SILLY_URI_OBFU and I'm having the same problem with http://www.zodrx*.com http://www.zodrx*.com/ - Remove * to make the link working! And http://www.zodrx.%com http://www.zodrx*.com/ - Remove % to make the link working! I'm still very new to spam assassin. I

Fake spam-status ?

2007-02-05 Thread Jarek
I've just received this email: Received: from imo-m26.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.7]) by mail.srv.pl with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HE20n-0006d4-4J for ; Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:27:53 +0100 Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo-m26.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.6.) id

RE: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Simon I use this rule to find URL's with illegal characters in it.. # 2007-01-24 new rules (adapted from Henrik Krohns # [EMAIL PROTECTED] on SA list) # http:// [user [:password] @] # legal uri characters + 1 illegal char + legal chars # + (end of uri or / or ? or :port) uri

RE: Fake spam-status ?

2007-02-05 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Jarek Looks like the spammers are trying to fool you into not checking email based on this header - ie it's already been scanned so I'll let it through.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: Jarek

rules_du_jour site down?

2007-02-05 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I got an email from cron's attempt to run rules_du_jour this morning, full of 404 messages, curl couldn't find www.rulesemporiam.com. Re-running it by hand gets be the same thing, one stanza of this per rule: SARE Spoof Ruleset had an unknown error: curl exit code: 6 curl: (6)

RE: rules_du_jour site down?

2007-02-05 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Gene Yup same for meI've just emailed Chris about it.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: Gene Heskett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 February 2007 14:14 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject:

spamc getting wrong usernames from qmail-queue-scanner.pl

2007-02-05 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list, I'm using SA in a qmail setup, thus invoking spamc through qmail-queue-scanner.pl. I've been using AWL through MySQL for a few hours now, and it works great so far. However, it seems that SA doesn't really get the correct username passed from qmail-queue-scanner.pl - every now and

RE: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Simon Marcil
Thank you very much Martin. It has already been trigged twice… Simon Marcil mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] S3 Technologies inc. 3445 Parc Suite 201 Montreal (Québec) Canada, H2X 2H6 T. (514) 284-6262 C. (514) 570-7066 F. (514) 281-8982 http://www.s3tech.ca

Re: Fake spam-status ?

2007-02-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 03:24:54PM +0100, Jarek wrote: there is X-Spam-Flag: NO. Is it possible, that this header caused spamassassin not to check this email ? This is regular porn site ad. SpamAssassin checks everything that is sent to it. Previously added headers are meaningless. --

RE: TVD_SILLY_URI_OBFU

2007-02-05 Thread Bowie Bailey
Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:15:39 +, Nigel Frankcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: body Test_01 /remove \\*|\%|\!\/i score Test_01 4.0 describe Test_01 Test remove asterisk for URL spams and oops #2 the | doesn't work as expected :-/ This does tho...

Where is stored information to delete from server or deliver?

2007-02-05 Thread z3r0
SA allows to delete spam from server or deliver it tagged as spam. What is the order that makes SA do so and where is that stored. Cpanel has a link saying: To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by SpamAssassin, click here now. where here points to

Re: Where is stored information to delete from server or deliver?

2007-02-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:51:21AM -0800, z3r0 wrote: SA allows to delete spam from server or deliver it tagged as spam. What gives you that idea? SA can only mark up mails, period. Cpanel has a link saying: To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by

Re: Where is stored information to delete from server or deliver?

2007-02-05 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
z3r0 wrote: SA allows to delete spam from server or deliver it tagged as spam. What is the order that makes SA do so and where is that stored. Cpanel has a link saying: To simply have the server DELETE and NOT deliver emails that are tagged as spam by SpamAssassin, click here now. where here

RE: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Simon Marcil
Anybody have a rule for these ones? http://hasle.progenyid-com/ http://hasle.progenyid-com Important: Replace - with . in the above link _ From: Simon Marcil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 5, 2007 10:07 AM To: Martin.Hepworth Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org

Re: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Doc Schneider
Simon Marcil wrote: Anybody have a rule for these ones? http://hasle.progenyid-com http://hasle.progenyid-com/ Important: Replace - with . in the above link Are you using SA 3.1.7? If so, do an sa-update there is a new rule that should be catching these and all mutations. --

Re: SA-gen'd message report headers appear differently (with/without linebreaks) in different mail clients

2007-02-05 Thread Kelson
snowcrash+spamassassin wrote: BUT, if i open the message in Thunderbird2, the line-breaks in the header are apparently stripped off; here's what it looks like. ... As per RfC (2)822, header _values_ are always just *one* line. To get around the (server) restriction of 998 usable characters

RE: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Simon Marcil
I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.1.3. Anything I should lookout for/beware of when I upgrade. Thanks -Original Message- From: Doc Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 5, 2007 3:27 PM To: Simon Marcil Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spam making it through

Re: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:27:18PM -0600, Doc Schneider wrote: http://hasle.progenyid-com http://hasle.progenyid-com/ Are you using SA 3.1.7? If so, do an sa-update there is a new rule that should be catching these and all mutations. Three things. First, the spammer has gotten smarter and is

Re: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Doc Schneider
Simon Marcil wrote: I'm running SpamAssassin version 3.1.3. Anything I should lookout for/beware of when I upgrade. Thanks Nothing jumps out at me as far as gotchas upgrading from 3.1.3 to 3.1.7. Since they're both in the same branch 3.1.x. Course it all depends on what OS you're using too.

Re: SA-gen'd message report headers appear differently (with/without linebreaks) in different mail clients

2007-02-05 Thread snowcrash+spamassassin
From your screen shot, I'm guessing you're looking at it via View-Headers-All. actually, in any/all header 'views' ... You can see the original formatting (even in Thunderbird 2) using the Message Source function instead. yup, aware of that. that's not the issue though ... rather, it's

Re: Spam making it through

2007-02-05 Thread Doc Schneider
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:27:18PM -0600, Doc Schneider wrote: http://hasle.progenyid-com http://hasle.progenyid-com/ Are you using SA 3.1.7? If so, do an sa-update there is a new rule that should be catching these and all mutations. Three things. First, the spammer

Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread John D. Hardin
How about this for testing whether a URL is obfuscated: just see if the host resolves via DNS? Pros: No complex REs needed. No more playing whack-a-mole chasing new obfuscation mechanisms. Cons: A DNS lookup. It won't catch obfuscation in the filepath part. (But then, the reason for the

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread Justin Mason
- (a) It provides an easy way for a spammer to tell if a piece of mail passes through a SpamAssassin filter, by monitoring hits on their NS. - (b) it's pretty common in some groups to mail around unregistered domains/unresolvable hostnames/XML DTD locations/etc. --j. John D. Hardin writes:

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Justin Mason wrote: - (a) It provides an easy way for a spammer to tell if a piece of mail passes through a SpamAssassin filter, by monitoring hits on their NS. They will also get hits from people following the URL. Maybe this will help to pollute their databases with a

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread hamann . w
How about this for testing whether a URL is obfuscated: just see if the host resolves via DNS? Pros: No complex REs needed. No more playing whack-a-mole chasing new obfuscation mechanisms. Cons: A DNS lookup. It won't catch obfuscation in the filepath part. (But then, the

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On 5 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about this for testing whether a URL is obfuscated: just see if the host resolves via DNS? some valid messages talk about non-existing domains, e.g. about example.com, mysite.com, yoursite.com, yourothersite.com (and, of course, the .com could

Re: Whitelist_subject and Blacklist_Subject

2007-02-05 Thread z3r0
Hello Would it work if add to user_prefs this line whitelist_subject good subject I mean will that give me -100 score if an email comes with good subject, in subject? My question is about validity of writing that in user_prefs file. Dhawal Doshy wrote: John Horne wrote: [SNIP]

Re: TVD_SILLY_URI_OBFU

2007-02-05 Thread Chr. v. Stuckrad
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Bowie Bailey wrote: body Test_01 /remove \\*\/i | /remove \\%\/i | /remove \\!\/i score Test_01 4.0 describe Test_01 Test remove asterisk for URL spams How about this? (untested) body Test_01 /remove \[*%!]\/i Since Sunday after two new obfuscation chars

Trying to get sa-update to work

2007-02-05 Thread Matthew Bickerton
Hi If I run : sa-update -D After a long pause I get (at the end of the debug trace): ... [8551] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org [8551] dbg: channel: update directory /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org [8551] dbg: channel: channel cf file

Some emails seems to disappear

2007-02-05 Thread Steve Kamerman
I am running FC4 w/Plesk8, SA 3.0.6, Qmail +QMAILQUEUE Patch +qmail-scanner +clamav. All seems to be going well, Spam is being identified wonderfully with Pyzor, Razor2 and DCC, but one of the clients has reported a strange problem. They received a 2.4mb IGES file (CAD file) from a customer and

Re: Trying to get sa-update to work

2007-02-05 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matthew Bickerton wrote: Hi If I run : sa-update -D After a long pause I get (at the end of the debug trace): ... [8551] dbg: channel: attempting channel updates.spamassassin.org [8551] dbg: channel: update directory /var/lib/spamassassin/3.001007/updates_spamassassin_org [8551] dbg: channel:

Re: Some emails seems to disappear

2007-02-05 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Steve Kamerman wrote: They received a 2.4mb IGES file Are you sure SA is even a part of this? Typically messages larger than ~250KB are not even passed to SA for scanning... -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Some emails seems to disappear

2007-02-05 Thread Steve Kamerman
Thanks for the prompt reply - I wasn't aware of that! I guess that's why SA never gave it a score (?/?) and just passed it on as score 0. Perhaps this is an issue with ClamAV then. I will have to look over the qmail-scanner script and try to figure out the flow of email. Is there some

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, February 05, 2007 9:51 PM + Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - (a) It provides an easy way for a spammer to tell if a piece of mail passes through a SpamAssassin filter, by monitoring hits on their NS. You could give the URIBL rules first shot at the raw name, then

EXTRA_MPART_TYPE

2007-02-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
I don't understand why EXTRA_MPART_TYPE is a spam indicator. It seems to be required by RFC 2387: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2387.txt Here's the rule, from SA 3.1.7: header EXTRA_MPART_TYPE Content-Type =~ /(?:\s*multipart\/)?.* type=/i describe EXTRA_MPART_TYPE Header has

Re: EXTRA_MPART_TYPE

2007-02-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:10:54PM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: I don't understand why EXTRA_MPART_TYPE is a spam indicator. It seems to be required by RFC 2387: Yes. There's a whole discussion about this in https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5110 FWIW, lots of RFC

Re: EXTRA_MPART_TYPE

2007-02-05 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Monday, February 05, 2007 10:14 PM -0500 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There's a whole discussion about this in https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5110 FWIW, lots of RFC compliant things are spam indicators. So does that mean he can't win? It does

Re: EXTRA_MPART_TYPE

2007-02-05 Thread Matt Kettler
Kenneth Porter wrote: On Monday, February 05, 2007 10:14 PM -0500 Theo Van Dinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. There's a whole discussion about this in https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5110 FWIW, lots of RFC compliant things are spam indicators. So does that mean

Re: TVD_SILLY_URI_OBFU

2007-02-05 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 13:03:08 -0500 , Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:15:39 +, Nigel Frankcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: body Test_01 /remove \\*|\%|\!\/i score Test_01 4.0 describe Test_01 Test remove asterisk for URL spams

Re: Some emails seems to disappear

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Haar
Steve Kamerman wrote: I am running FC4 w/Plesk8, SA 3.0.6, Qmail +QMAILQUEUE Patch +qmail-scanner +clamav. All seems to be going well, Spam is being identified wonderfully with Pyzor, Razor2 and DCC, but one of the clients has reported a strange problem. They received a 2.4mb IGES file (CAD

Re: Obfuscated URL detection via DNS

2007-02-05 Thread Jason Haar
John D. Hardin wrote: - (b) it's pretty common in some groups to mail around unregistered domains/unresolvable hostnames/XML DTD locations/etc. I would assume that your SA host has visibility to your internal DNS... Hmm - I would assume the opposite. Most people would run SA in