When spamprogs go wrong...

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Keller
That's a nice one :) but looks like a sophisticated prog... max_grabnew_if_bad = 250 debug_unk_user = false num_dns_tries = 6 slow_start_count = 8000 user_agent_in_alt_position = true debug_to_console = false #use_helo_isphost = true proxy_account_per_email = false filter_hosts = true

Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Phil Barnett
/spamassassin/tripwire.cf /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/99_ --- FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2; mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/tripwire.cf.20070621-0225 /usr/share/spamassassin/tripwire.cf; Lint output: [24363] warn: config: failed to parse line

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Frankcom
, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/tripwire.cf /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/99_ --- FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2; mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/tripwire.cf.20070621-0225 /usr/share

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Nigel Frankcom wrote: I've been getting the same for weeks. I ended up manually updating rules; especially the stock one since more and more seem to be slipping through. The problems seemed to start after the DDoS on rulesemporium; since then I've not been able to get any sense out of it via

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Keller
. Rolling configuration files back, not restarting SpamAssassin. Rollback command is: mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/tripwire.cf /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/99_ --- FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2; mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/tripwire.cf.20070621

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:30:00 -0400, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nigel Frankcom wrote: I've been getting the same for weeks. I ended up manually updating rules; especially the stock one since more and more seem to be slipping through. The problems seemed to start after the

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Frankcom
--- FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2; mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/tripwire.cf.20070621-0225 /usr/share/spamassassin/tripwire.cf; Lint output: [24363] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: HTMLHEADMETA HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=0.1 [24363] warn: config: failed to parse line

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:38, Matthias Keller wrote: Just try to delete the downloaded files in your rules_du_jour folder (for example /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules_du_jour/* ), respectively just the rule(s) that go wrong.I then redownloads the rules correctly and you're clear to go with RDJ

SA Upgrade from 3.1.8 - 3.2.1 via CPAN fails

2007-06-21 Thread Joerg Reisslein
Hi List. I’d like to upgrade our running SA to the latest version 3.2.1, using cpan Mail::SpamAssassin. Install fails, see the output below: t/spamc_optCNot found: reported spam = Message successfully reported/revoked # Failed test 2 in t/SATest.pm at line 635

Re: SA Upgrade from 3.1.8 - 3.2.1 via CPAN fails

2007-06-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Joerg Reisslein wrote: Hi List. I’d like to upgrade our running SA to the latest version 3.2.1, using cpan Mail::SpamAssassin. Install fails, see the output below: snip Any ideas what is going wrong? This looks to be a known bug in 3.2.1, make test fails when run as

AW: SA Upgrade from 3.1.8 - 3.2.1 via CPAN fails

2007-06-21 Thread Joerg Reisslein
This looks to be a known bug in 3.2.1, make test fails when run as root, which inherently breaks all CPAN installs. http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5510 As a workaround, you can either: 1) download the tarball, and do your build and make test as a non-root user,

Re: Correct way to deactive AWL checks

2007-06-21 Thread Angel L. Mateo
Hello, I would bet that I restarted amavis and spamassassin, but it seems I didn't :-(. I have restarted amavis and spamassassin and AWL is not being check now. The only thing to do is to comment the line in /etc/spamassassin/v310.pre. Sorry for the bothers. -- Angel L. Mateo

Re: SA 3.2.1 not using SQL for bayes

2007-06-21 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:39, Duane Hill wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Hamie wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:09, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: From: Hamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Small problem with SA 3.2.1... I'm using a mysql database. The DB works fine for amavisd-new, and

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Keller
Phil Barnett wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:38, Matthias Keller wrote: Just try to delete the downloaded files in your rules_du_jour folder (for example /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules_du_jour/* ), respectively just the rule(s) that go wrong.I then redownloads the rules correctly and

Re: SA 3.2.1 not using SQL for bayes

2007-06-21 Thread Hamie
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:39, Duane Hill wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Hamie wrote: On Wednesday 20 June 2007 18:09, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: From: Hamie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Small problem with SA 3.2.1... I'm using a mysql database. The DB works fine for amavisd-new, and

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Haegele
Phil Barnett schrieb: On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:38, Matthias Keller wrote: Just try to delete the downloaded files in your rules_du_jour folder (for example /etc/mail/spamassassin/rules_du_jour/* ), respectively just the rule(s) that go wrong.I then redownloads the rules correctly and you're

Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Roman Sozinov
I'm using spamassassin about 1 year and for that period I already have good BAYES tokens base. But about 2 weaks ago began something wrong - my system became to catch spam very bad. About 80% of spam have BAYES_50 score :( What's wrong? I'm using Spamassassin 3.1.8 with mysql backend (awl

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Haegele
Roman Sozinov schrieb: I'm using spamassassin about 1 year and for that period I already have good BAYES tokens base. But about 2 weaks ago began something wrong - my system became to catch spam very bad. About 80% of spam have BAYES_50 score :( What's wrong? You use sa-learn till now?. Some

Setting up a body rule.

2007-06-21 Thread Diptanjan
Hi friends, I am very new to spamassassin. I want to set up a local rule in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file so that any mail with link in it http//*.abc.com/* will be blocked and I want to give a score of 3.5 to that. I have so far written a rule for that but it not working properly. Can

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread jdow
--- FVGT_Tripwire.cf.2; mv -f /usr/share/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/tripwire.cf.20070621-0225 /usr/share/spamassassin/tripwire.cf; Lint output: [24363] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: HTMLHEADMETA HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=0.1 [24363] warn: config

RE: Setting up a body rule.

2007-06-21 Thread Randal, Phil
A uri rule would make more sense. You're going to match xyzabc.com with that rule, too, so think carefully. Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Diptanjan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2007 13:40 To:

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread jdow
Daryl, note that a simple update to RDJ to add a time gap between individual file update attempts gets through the DDoS protection somewhat better than a raw RDJ. A friend of mine made such a change and has it working better. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread jean-philippe luiggi
Hello Roman, It's not a problem with SA but with the bayes's concept instead. Keeping an big but old bayes's database doesn't mean you'll catch the new spam. Each day, spammers change them in order to evade detection so in order to be as accurate as possible you need to learn often. In the last

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Roman Sozinov
Matthias Haegele-2 wrote: You use sa-learn till now?. Some people suggest not to learn old spam/ham ... Think its pretty normal that bayes hits are not very good on new spam (spammer tweak their messages every day to slip the filters ...). Some new spam messages here only get BAYES_00

Re: Setting up a body rule.

2007-06-21 Thread jdow
Yeah, I was going to comment that the rule might be a little over- enthusiastic. A little extra context checking for the http followed by the .abc.com part followed by whitespace might be a little better. On the other hand, if it passes lint there is nothing wrong with it. Watch for false alarms

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Haegele
Roman Sozinov schrieb: Matthias Haegele-2 wrote: You use sa-learn till now?. Some people suggest not to learn old spam/ham ... Think its pretty normal that bayes hits are not very good on new spam (spammer tweak their messages every day to slip the filters ...). Some new spam messages here

Re: Setting up a body rule.

2007-06-21 Thread Matt Kettler
Diptanjan wrote: Hi friends, I am very new to spamassassin. I want to set up a local rule in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file so that any mail with link in it http//*.abc.com/* will be blocked and I want to give a score of 3.5 to that. I have so far written a rule for that but it not

RE: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Steve Ingraham
-Original Message- From: jdow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:50 AM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net Daryl, note that a simple update to RDJ to add a time gap between individual file

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Roman Sozinov
jean-philippe luiggi-2 wrote: Hello Roman, It's not a problem with SA but with the bayes's concept instead. Keeping an big but old bayes's database doesn't mean you'll catch the new spam. Each day, spammers change them in order to evade detection so in order to be as accurate as

Re: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread arni
Suhas Ingale schrieb: Wht score do others get on this? Can you please please forward spam only as an attachment, thanks. If you forward inline you: * May have the message marked as spam * Mis learn other peoples bayes * May get beaten by AWL's next time you send smth arni

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Roman Sozinov
Matthias Haegele-2 wrote: Use blacklists, the botnet plugin, SARE rules, sa-update ...? upgrade to a newer SA release? Thanks :) What about my BAYES base? delete it? Do it from new? -- View this message in context:

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Phil Barnett
On Thursday 21 June 2007 08:47, jdow wrote: Unless something has changed with the most recent versions of SpamAssassin I see two configuraton errors present. 1) YOu do NOT use /use/share/spamassassin to store rules. They belong    in /etc/mail/spamassassin or some other such place. This is

AW: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread Joerg Reisslein
Mit freundlichen Gru?en Do you have a link for the botnet plugin? cheers -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Roman Sozinov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 16:01 An: users@spamassassin.apache.org Betreff: Re: Bayes became to work very bad Matthias

sa-update for multiple servers

2007-06-21 Thread ram
I have been using SA 3.1.5 with RDJ for my updates all this while. Now I wish to SA 3.2 with sa-update instead of RDJ I have around 20 servers running spamassassin for our clients. Till now I have been pulling rules from SARE on one machine into a http area and then all other machines pull

Spam getting thru

2007-06-21 Thread Leonardo Magallon
Hi, My server is having a problem with spamd using a lot of resources( spamd startup script is using -m 5 ) and a lot of spam is getting thru. The installation is new using CentOS 5, spamassasin 3.1.8 and I am using RulesDuJour ( I deleted the blacklist.cf and blacklist related rules to

Re: Spam getting thru

2007-06-21 Thread ram
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 09:47 -0500, Leonardo Magallon wrote: Hi, My server is having a problem with spamd using a lot of resources( spamd startup script is using -m 5 ) and a lot of spam is getting thru. The installation is new using CentOS 5, spamassasin 3.1.8 and I am using RulesDuJour

Re: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread SM
At 03:45 21-06-2007, Suhas Ingale wrote: Wht score do others get on this? BAYES_95 and in-house rule to identify questionable hosts. Regards, -sm

Re: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread SM
At 06:37 21-06-2007, arni wrote: If you forward inline you: * May have the message marked as spam * Mis learn other peoples bayes * May get beaten by AWL's next time you send smth That won't happen if you whitelist this mailing list. Regards, -sm

RE: Spam getting thru

2007-06-21 Thread Leonardo Magallon
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Re: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread arni
SM schrieb: At 06:37 21-06-2007, arni wrote: If you forward inline you: * May have the message marked as spam * Mis learn other peoples bayes * May get beaten by AWL's next time you send smth That won't happen if you whitelist this mailing list. Regards, -sm did i mention that spam without

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2007-06-21 Thread lmagallon
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RE: Spam getting thru

2007-06-21 Thread Leonardo Magallon
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Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm seeing a lot of people saying that bayes isn't working like it used to, that load levels are high, and that they are getting a lot of image and botnet spam. There are a few simple tricks you can do to get rid of 90% of it. First - use dummy MX records. Real mail retries. Botnet and must

RE: Spam getting thru

2007-06-21 Thread Leonardo Magallon
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Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread arni
Marc Perkel schrieb: I'm seeing a lot of people saying that bayes isn't working like it used to, that load levels are high, and that they are getting a lot of image and botnet spam. There are a few simple tricks you can do to get rid of 90% of it. 56th reinvention of the square wheel You

Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Matthias Häker
Marc Perkel schrieb: I'm seeing a lot of people saying that bayes isn't working like it used to, that load levels are high, and that they are getting a lot of image and botnet spam. There are a few simple tricks you can do to get rid of 90% of it. ah nice can you tell me how to implant

Question about sa-compile

2007-06-21 Thread Nigel Frankcom
Hi All, Whenever I run sa-compile I get the following... body_0.xs: In function `XS_Mail__SpamAssassin__CompiledRegexps__body_0_scan': body_0.xs:43: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code body_0.xs:51: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code body_0.xs:59: warning: ISO

Re: sa-update for multiple servers

2007-06-21 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
ram wrote: I have been using SA 3.1.5 with RDJ for my updates all this while. Now I wish to SA 3.2 with sa-update instead of RDJ I have around 20 servers running spamassassin for our clients. Till now I have been pulling rules from SARE on one machine into a http area and then all other

Re: Question about sa-compile

2007-06-21 Thread Justin Mason
Nigel Frankcom writes: Hi All, Whenever I run sa-compile I get the following... body_0.xs: In function `XS_Mail__SpamAssassin__CompiledRegexps__body_0_scan': body_0.xs:43: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code body_0.xs:51: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code

Re: sa-update for multiple servers

2007-06-21 Thread Jason Frisvold
On 6/21/07, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just use sa-update on all of them. You could do sa-update on one and then rsync the files around, though, if you wanted. If you're daring, you can try an NFS mount as well. Although, with either of these (rsync or nfs), doesn't SA

Re: sa-update for multiple servers

2007-06-21 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jason Frisvold wrote: On 6/21/07, Daryl C. W. O'Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd just use sa-update on all of them. You could do sa-update on one and then rsync the files around, though, if you wanted. If you're daring, you can try an NFS mount as well. Although, with

Setup SA to use MySQL DB

2007-06-21 Thread carnold5
We have a small office (under 10 people) and use SA 3.1.0. We only use SA with spamd (no options). Just SA and hula (i think it is a netmail product) mail server running on SLES9. I have been tasked with making SA use our MySQL DB. Now, we have been using SA in a site-wide config for sometime now.

Rule verification

2007-06-21 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with an ISP in Africa- there is a message stuck in their queue that keeps getting delivered- In the interim I have created this rule so that the my box will reject that specific message- I want to know if I did it correct header __TO_TUNTU To =~

Blank line in header with sendmail -- headers show is msg body

2007-06-21 Thread Randall Perry
I recently updated to spamassassin 3.2.0 and sendmail 8.13.8. Mail originating from the server, or relayed through the server to other ISPs has an extra blank line added at the end of the 1st X-Spam-Status: line, causing headers to show in the message body. Here's an example: X-Spam-Status:

Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Matt
First - use dummy MX records. Real mail retries. Botnet and must spammers don't. It's easier for them to try to spam someone else than to fight your filter. MX config is as follows: dummy - 10 real - 20 real-backups - 30 dummy - 40 dummy - 50 dummy - 60 Currently I have mail.mydomain.com as

Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Craig Carriere
Matt wrote: First - use dummy MX records. Real mail retries. Botnet and must spammers don't. It's easier for them to try to spam someone else than to fight your filter. MX config is as follows: dummy - 10 real - 20 real-backups - 30 dummy - 40 dummy - 50 dummy - 60 Currently I have

RE: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread Suhas Ingale
Any custom rules to catch this? -Original Message- From: arni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:38 PM To: SM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spam slipped SM schrieb: At 06:37 21-06-2007, arni wrote: If you forward inline you:

Setup SA to use mysql DB

2007-06-21 Thread carnold5
OK, i have gotten a little further after searching some other email. This is what i get when i run spamassassin --lint [3069] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping: bayes_store_dsn DBI:mysql:sadb:Spamassassin Can't locate Mail/Spamassassin/BayesStore/MySQL.pm in @INC (@INC

Re: Spam slipped

2007-06-21 Thread arni
Suhas Ingale schrieb: Any custom rules to catch this? without headers i cant tell but i had the same spam, so here is my report: * 4.4 HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr * 2) * 0.0 FH_HELO_EQ_D_D_D_D Helo is d-d-d-d

Re: Solution to Bayes poisoning, high load levels, image spam, and botnet spam

2007-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Craig Carriere wrote: Matt wrote: First - use dummy MX records. Real mail retries. Botnet and must spammers don't. It's easier for them to try to spam someone else than to fight your filter. MX config is as follows: dummy - 10 real - 20 real-backups - 30 dummy - 40 dummy - 50 dummy - 60

Re: sa-update for multiple servers

2007-06-21 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:01:50PM +0530, ram wrote: Do I need to do the same for sa-update too. How can I do this ? Or should all servers simply do a sa-update IMO, you can either a) create your own internal channel and everyone can use that, or b) just run using the public channels. It

Re: a rule to allow authenticated users stopped working, unless run at user level

2007-06-21 Thread digitalsushi
We figured it out. Wanted to post something back for the next guy- there's a patch for spamass-milter. We simplified it down to always allowing authenticated users. in the spamass-milter 0.3.1 soure code, in the file called spamass-milter.cpp, search for a couple lines that look like struct

Yellow Listing and other new conceots

2007-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - yes it's a term I invented. Yellow listing is a DNS list of hosts that are mailservers for big ISPs and other sources of mixed ham and spam. yahoo, gmail, hotmail, comcast, aol are examples of hosts that would be yellow listed. Why yellow list? The idea of a yellow list is to prevent

Re: Bayes became to work very bad

2007-06-21 Thread jean-philippe luiggi
Hello Roman, Perhaps we could get other advices but i think learning is still a good thing. About the old BAYSES-base, i've no opinion, i think it may still be valuable but i've no idea of the accuracy. Best regards, Jean-philippe. On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Roman Sozinov

RE: Setup SA to use mysql DB

2007-06-21 Thread Jonn R Taylor
This is what I use and it has been working for the last 3 years. # MySQL Setup use_razor2 1 use_bayes_rules 1 allow_user_rules 1 use_auto_whitelist 1 user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:127.0.0.1 user_scores_sql_usernamex user_scores_sql_passwordx

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread jdow
From: Phil Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 21 June 2007 08:47, jdow wrote: Unless something has changed with the most recent versions of SpamAssassin I see two configuraton errors present. 1) YOu do NOT use /use/share/spamassassin to store rules. They belong in /etc/mail/spamassassin or

Re: Fwd: RulesDuJour Run Summary on taz5.fiberhosting.net

2007-06-21 Thread Phil Barnett
On Friday 22 June 2007 00:54, jdow wrote: I think it was mentioned around these precincts about the time tripwire was converted to 99_FVGTTripWire.cf and added to the SARE repositories as a SARE rule set. I also note that I don't use it here anymore. The return on CPU cycles investment was