sa-update error

2007-12-06 Thread Juergen . Boehm
Hi can anyone help me with this? I think its the archive::tar which makes problems, so i installed a newer version, but the error remains... [23086] dbg: channel: populating temp content file [23086] dbg: channel: file verification passed, testing update [23086] dbg: channel: extracting archive

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Matthias Haegele
John Rudd schrieb: In the past, turning off a rule was supposed to be as simple as setting its score to zero. Is that no longer the case? I set a rule to zero, and it's still showing up in my logs (but it looks like the value is correctly being recorded as zero, so it's not affecting my

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Justin Mason
John Rudd writes: In the past, turning off a rule was supposed to be as simple as setting its score to zero. Is that no longer the case? I set a rule to zero, and it's still showing up in my logs (but it looks like the value is correctly being recorded as zero, so it's not affecting

Best Practice to whitelist logcheck mailings?

2007-12-06 Thread Matthias Haegele
Hi all! What you suggest would be best method to whitelist logcheck mails?: A sniplet of a quarantined message: Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: spam-quarantine X-Envelope-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Quarantine-ID: 1JtIvtWCm2i6 X-Spam-Flag: YES

Re: Best Practice to whitelist logcheck mailings?

2007-12-06 Thread Per Jessen
Matthias Haegele wrote: Hi all! What you suggest would be best method to whitelist logcheck mails?: [snip] I considered putting [EMAIL PROTECTED] in whitelist but i am not sure if it is the only possible (and really good) solution? How about: whitelist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread Per Jessen
Jonathan Armitage wrote: Provided it is possible with your MTA, you could consider rejecting such email at that level, thus relieving SA of the burden of having to scan it at all. This is easy in Exim, but I don't know if other mailers can do the same thing. In postfix, a header or a body

Re: sa-update error

2007-12-06 Thread Philipp Snizek
Hi can anyone help me with this? I think its the archive::tar which makes problems, so i installed a newer version, but the error remains... [23086] dbg: channel: populating temp content file [23086] dbg: channel: file verification passed, testing update [23086] dbg: channel: extracting

Antwort: Re: sa-update error

2007-12-06 Thread Juergen . Boehm
It won't install: Test Summary Report --- t/02_methods.t(Wstat: 65280 Tests: 252 Failed: 65) Failed test number(s): 18-25, 71-72, 74-75, 77-80, 82-83, 92-97 105, 110-117, 123-125, 151-154, 162, 167-168 186-189, 195-197, 214-217, 225,

whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Jack Gostl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving spam from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since he does business with verybigcompany.com, he had them in his white list, and as expected, the spam slipped through. Based on the advice I got in this newsgroup, I

Re: SpamAssassin and LaTeX

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Griffith
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:36:22 -0500, John D. Hardin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Paul Griffith wrote: I guess I could write rules that verify a valid .tex and .bib document and then assign a minus score, it would be better if e-mail clients actually send attachments as true

RES: Does not rewrite the Subject with SPAM tag

2007-12-06 Thread Douglas Marcel dos Santos
It works now. Qmail-scanner uses fast-spamassassin as default configuration and this does not rewrite the subject header. I regenerate the qmail-scanner.pl file with the --scanners verbose-spamassassin and it starts to tag messages immediately. Douglas Marcel dos

Re: SpamAssassin and LaTeX

2007-12-06 Thread Paul Griffith
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:33:49 -0500, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I guess I could write rules that verify a valid .tex and .bib document and then assign a minus score, Except trying to run the document through LaTeX, I cannot see how you can realy verify the validity. Let

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:30:34AM +, Justin Mason wrote: if that doesn't work, it's a bug; please report it at the Bugzilla. ... assuming that the local.cf file is actually being read and doesn't have an error causing the parsing of the file to fail. :) -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Now

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread John Rudd
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:30:34AM +, Justin Mason wrote: if that doesn't work, it's a bug; please report it at the Bugzilla. ... assuming that the local.cf file is actually being read and doesn't have an error causing the parsing of the file to fail. :) That

Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread Rosenbaum, Larry M.
Some time ago (and more than once) there have been discussions on this list about email containing hyperlinks where the link text is a URL that doesn't match the URL in the link HREF, and the pros and cons of testing for and scoring these mismatched links. My management has raised this issue.

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread DAve
Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Some time ago (and more than once) there have been discussions on this list about email containing hyperlinks where the link text is a URL that doesn’t match the URL in the link HREF, and the pros and cons of testing for and scoring these mismatched links. My

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, DAve wrote: I would think if you scored based on mismatched URLs you would tag the same messages incorrectly. You could mitigate that bby using it in a meta along with rules that hit on phishing-like text, and leave the score for a single mismatched URL low, like 0.1 or so.

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread Richard Frovarp
Randal, Phil wrote: Unfortunately, people who should know better (e.g. McAfee) do this all the time. There'd have to be a huge whitelist of safe URLs to make this workable. We use MailScanner, which has this sort of phishing detection built in, flagging suspicious links. Cheers, Phil

Re: Mondo bayes_toks - millions of entries

2007-12-06 Thread Wes
On 12/3/07 11:14 AM, Justin Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered turning off autolearn to reduce the number of writes? That is where I am at now. Whether with a database or DBM, I have scaling and concurrency problems. I am also having problems with expire failing in both -

Re: Mondo bayes_toks - millions of entries

2007-12-06 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Wes wrote: We're going to switch to all-manual learning and hopefully convince enough users to send in spam and false positives to train it well. Sufficient participation is a big question, but appears to be the only viable option at this point. That could be automated

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Jonas Eckerman
John Rudd wrote: The score is correctly being set to 0, but the rule is still showing up in the list of triggered rules. What happens when a zero score rule (not named __.*) is used in a meta rule? Regards /Jonas -- Jonas Eckerman, FSDB Fruktträdet http://whatever.frukt.org/

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
The URL mismatch that seemed like a sure thing to us was showing the reader https but really linking to http! Believe it or not major financial institutions send mail with these fraudulent (I would say) links. Very sad. OK, well, then say as long as the https and http links go to the same

RE: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread Randal, Phil
Unfortunately, people who should know better (e.g. McAfee) do this all the time. There'd have to be a huge whitelist of safe URLs to make this workable. We use MailScanner, which has this sort of phishing detection built in, flagging suspicious links. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network

great opportunity to help stop spam

2007-12-06 Thread antispam
FYI-Cloudmark the anti-spam solutions provider that protects over 300 million mail boxes worldwide has a position open for a Sales Engineer that will be focused on supporting Apache customers running the Cloudmark Authority plugin for Spam Assasin. This is a great opportunity to help rid the

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:56:30PM +0100, Jonas Eckerman wrote: What happens when a zero score rule (not named __.*) is used in a meta rule? There's no difference between those two things. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but

Re: Mismatched URLs revisited

2007-12-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:52:30AM -0500, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: Some time ago (and more than once) there have been discussions on this list about email containing hyperlinks where the link text is a URL that doesn't match the URL in the link HREF, and the pros and cons of testing for and

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:12:44AM -0800, John Rudd wrote: That wouldn't cause the score to actually be 0 though. The score is correctly being set to 0, but the rule is still showing up in the list of triggered rules. Are you sure it's 0 and not 0.001 or something else small and non-zero?

Re: zip spams

2007-12-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 10:30:11PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many spam messages with a .zip attachment in them. How do you stop it in SA rules? Block mails w/ zip attachments at your MTA. Otherwise you could write a mimeheader rule to look for those filenames. pgp39d1lYLKqm.pgp

Re: Antwort: Re: sa-update error

2007-12-06 Thread Philipp Snizek
try this: perl -MCPAN -e 'notest force install Archive::Tar' no warranty that this will not cause any problems with Archive::Tar at some point later. I remember your spamassassin --lint -D saying that it found Archive::Tar, so I guess there is an install of this module on your box. However

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread jidanni
Anyway, Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf should admit that it doesn't mention What if I hate a specific language, people, culture. Is there e.g., a not_ok_locales? Don't put the answer here, put it on Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf, even if the answer is that there is no answer. Thank you.

Re: Turning off rules

2007-12-06 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John Rudd wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 09:30:34AM +, Justin Mason wrote: if that doesn't work, it's a bug; please report it at the Bugzilla. ... assuming that the local.cf file is actually being read and doesn't have an error causing the parsing of the file to

Re: whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Jack Gostl wrote: I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving spam from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since he does business with verybigcompany.com, he had them in his white list, and as expected, the spam slipped through. Based on the advice I got in this newsgroup, I changed him from

Re: whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: Jack Gostl wrote: I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving spam from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since he does business with verybigcompany.com, he had them in his white list, and as expected, the spam slipped through. Based on the advice I got in this

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread jidanni
The basic user understands whitelist_from and blacklist_from. But when he encounters the locales, he wonders why cannot there be whitelist_locales and blacklist_locales. He does not want to learn the superior logic of why his wish is not smart. He just wants to find the commands for

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MK Let's say you speak English and Chinese, and hate Russian because you MK get lots of spam in that text format and don't speak it. That's me, English and Chinese, and hate Russian. MK In this situation, why would you want not_ok_localles ru instead of MK

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread jidanni
MK I'll be happy to change my assumptions, but can you name any good reason MK why they would want to do so? The Matt theme: restrict oneself from getting mail from any but a few safe people, languages, or whatever. Life goes on in its familiar grey days. But alas, the software knows best. The

Re: whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: spam users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: whitelist Matt Kettler wrote: Jack Gostl wrote: I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf should admit that it doesn't mention What if I hate a specific language, people, culture. Is there e.g., a not_ok_locales? Don't put the answer here, put it on Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf, even if the answer is that there is no answer.

Re: whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: spam users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:19 PM Subject: Re: whitelist Matt Kettler wrote: Jack Gostl wrote: I have an odd problem. I

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MK I'll be happy to change my assumptions, but can you name any good reason MK why they would want to do so? The Matt theme: restrict oneself from getting mail from any but a few safe people, languages, or whatever. Life goes on in its familiar grey days. But alas,

Re: whitelist

2007-12-06 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matt Kettler wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Jack Gostl wrote: I have an odd problem. I have a user receiving spam from something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since he does business with verybigcompany.com, he had them in his white list, and as expected, the spam slipped through. Based on the advice

Re: the opposit of ok_locales ??

2007-12-06 Thread Dave Pooser
The jidanni theme: open up life to a rainbow of possibilities. Y'know, at the risk of being rude, does the rainbow of possibilities include the possibility of READING the expletive-deleted CONF FILE? Just asking. But the basic user is not in the business of understanding things. Then he