bounces

2008-02-20 Thread Andrea Bencini
I received from [EMAIL PROTECTED] this e-mail: -- Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the users@spamassassin.apache.org mailing list. Messages to you from the users mailing list seem to have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce message I

Re: Score vs Bars

2008-02-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:52:09PM -0500, Don Ireland wrote: When I look at the message source, the following is among them--this is actually from YOUR reply. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 X-Spam-Score: -65 X-Spam-Bar: -- In a standard config,

SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-20 Thread Anders Norrbring
I've actually been running this set of 5 rules on several of the ISP mail systems I've got my fingers in (watch for line wrap, sorry): # Nice girl wants to send pics, but only if you email the address in the body # start scoring at .5, see how that whacks'em. body NICE_GIRL_01

Why SA don't use bayes for some e-mails?

2008-02-20 Thread spamis
(sorry my poor english) Hi, I have a machine with qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin 3.0.0. Some time ago, I have saw that some spam are passing through filter with 0 score. Then, I activated sa_debug='1' and sa_hdr_report='1' in qmail-scanner for see how SA are giving the score to e-mails and I

Re: Score vs Bars

2008-02-20 Thread Jonathan Armitage
Matt Kettler wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:52:09PM -0500, Don Ireland wrote: When I look at the message source, the following is among them--this is actually from YOUR reply. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.6 X-Spam-Score: -65 X-Spam-Bar: -- Looks like it

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Andy Dills
(Sorry for the length, if you hate the wall of text, the last three paragraphs contain the essence of my thoughts and concerns on this) On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Justin Mason wrote: Matt Kettler writes: In general I'm somewhat averse to systems with undocumented or vague policies in SA.

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 2/20/2008 1:01 PM, Andy Dills wrote: snipping-warm-air This was way too long but I'm waiting on a couple buildworlds and the more I think about this the more shady it feels to me. wow, for someone who didnt know URIBL existed, and doesnt see any value in it, you sure have a lot to say.

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Jeff Chan
If you think blacklists should be free, then you should set up your own, spend thousands of hours per year on it, undergo constant threats of DDOs or worse, and listen to complaints if you dare to consider being partially paid for your work. Jeff C.

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Andy Dills wrote: I just can't parse the logic; the seperation between those who should pay and those who shouldn't is based on volume, yet if those who generate too much volume wish to eliminate the traffic entirely...they must pay for the traffic of those who do not hit the arbitrary cutoff?

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin Golding
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andy Dills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I must be stupid, I'm not able to invent an explanation that doesn't involve a profit motive. I think it's very safe to assume that URIBL is not profit making and never likely to be so. providing free service (in theory) to

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Frovarp
mouss wrote: Francesco Abeni wrote: Good morning everyone, i'm in charge of reducing SPAM at a customer site. Already have SPAMASSASSIN, sa-update weeklyexecuted. I'd like to implement a Bogus MX for further filtering of SPAM. I don't know if this is the correct name, by Bogus MX i mean

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Rob McEwen
Jeff Chan wrote: If you think blacklists should be free, then you should set up your own, spend thousands of hours per year on it, undergo constant threats of DDOs or worse, and listen to complaints if you dare to consider being partially paid for your work. Yes! And some need to start

RE: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Santerre
-Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008-02-20 07:59 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default? If you think blacklists should be free, then you should set up your own, spend

No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread Emmanuel Lesouef
Hi all, Nowadays, I get more and more spam that get these headers : X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] Is it normal ? How can I make these spams tested ? Thanks. -- Emmanuel Lesouef DSI | CRBN t: 0231069671 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Andy Dills
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Kevin Golding wrote: Seriously Andy, I understand you're annoyed about the situation and there is plenty of scope for discussion about SA policy, and the URIBL lists would probably be a more on-topic location for debates about the implementation, but whilst I'll happily

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Aaron Wolfe
Quotes from this thread (and the nolisting site which was posted as a response): Michael Scheidell - Do NOT use a bogus mx as your lowest priority. Bowie Bailey - I would say that it is too risky to put a non-smtp host as your primary MX nolisting.org - longterm use has yet to yield a single

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Richard Frovarp wrote: We do something like nolisting. You will lose legit mail no matter which trick you use. So it's best if you have a method of fixing that. Our first mx record is a real smtp server, it's just firewalled off to most of the world. It's used as a fast lane for our internal

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Frovarp
mouss wrote: Richard Frovarp wrote: We do something like nolisting. You will lose legit mail no matter which trick you use. So it's best if you have a method of fixing that. Our first mx record is a real smtp server, it's just firewalled off to most of the world. It's used as a fast lane

URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Rocco Scappatura
During last days I have noticed an increasing of 'rejected' messages. I'm currently using 'zen.spamhaus.org' and 'list.dsbl.org' as reputation servers. At the same time, the number of false negative is growth. I would like to know if is there any better reputation server that anyone know (of

Re: FW: Suggestions to block this spam

2008-02-20 Thread Bazooka Joe
Do you think anyone has notified blogspot.com that their site is being abused by spammers? On Feb 19, 2008 7:27 PM, Karsten Bräckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 16:08 +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed,

Re: FW: Suggestions to block this spam

2008-02-20 Thread Rick Macdougall
Bazooka Joe wrote: Do you think anyone has notified blogspot.com that their site is being abused by spammers? I have submitted urls 4 or 5 times to them. I've never heard back but the sites did vanish pretty quickly. You can do it here

RE: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Aaron Wolfe wrote: Quotes from this thread (and the nolisting site which was posted as a response): Michael Scheidell - Do NOT use a bogus mx as your lowest priority. Bowie Bailey - I would say that it is too risky to put a non-smtp host as your primary MX nolisting.org - longterm

RE: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Bowie Bailey
Richard Frovarp wrote: mouss wrote: Richard Frovarp wrote: We do something like nolisting. You will lose legit mail no matter which trick you use. So it's best if you have a method of fixing that. Our first mx record is a real smtp server, it's just firewalled off to most of

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Richard Frovarp
Bowie Bailey wrote: I completely agree with you. I have no idea what effect our solution is having on spam. I know that our internal mail isn't slowed down by large influxes of spam as they can't get to the server that processes internal mail, which was the goal of our system. I know for a

RE: Why SA don't use bayes for some e-mails?

2008-02-20 Thread Robert - elists
(sorry my poor english) Hi, I have a machine with qmail+qmail-scanner+spamassassin 3.0.0. Some time ago, I have saw that some spam are passing through filter with 0 score. Then, I activated sa_debug='1' and sa_hdr_report='1' in qmail-scanner for see how SA are giving the score to

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
Hi, At 08:01 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Nowadays, I get more and more spam that get these headers : X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] Is it normal ? How can I make these spams tested ? It's not normal. Upload a sample of the spam

sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread pichels
Hi all, I'm new to the forum, please bear with me on details or eticate! I have a RHEL 2.1 Linux machine running Postfix/Amavis/SA. SA version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam-email]$ sa-learn --version SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 Perl version: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# perl -v This is perl, v5.6.1

RE: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Robert - elists
This was way too long but I'm waiting on a couple buildworlds and the more I think about this the more shady it feels to me. Good luck regardless, --- Andy Dills Andy Think about it like this... in terms of just your immediate family or businesses If you are so overloaded helping others,

RE: bounces

2008-02-20 Thread Robert - elists
but I don't send messages to you from the users mailing list seem to have been bouncing. What do I have to do to resolve the problem? Andrea Andrea If you are using SA on your mail server, make sure that you whitelist all the lists that you are subscribed to... sometimes they will be

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Kevin W. Gagel
- Original Message - Quotes from this thread (and the nolisting site which was posted as a response): Michael Scheidell - Do NOT use a bogus mx as your lowest priority. Bowie Bailey - I would say that it is too risky to put a non-smtp host as your primary MX I can't disagree with

RE: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Robert - elists
I'll defer to the wisdom of the people who invest their time and effort to provide the services and develop the software that the rest of us have come to rely on. If you guys don't have a problem with it, then that's good enough for me. --- Andy Dills Andy You are a smart person, just

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Let me clarify something about using bogus MX records. Let's assume the following. bogus0.domain.com - MX 10 real.domain.com - MX 20 backup.domain.com MX 30 bogus1.domain.com MX 40 bogus2.domain.com MX 50 The host bogus1 and bogus2 are 100% safe and effective. The bogus IPs can be dead on

Re: SV: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-20 Thread Kris Deugau
Anders Norrbring wrote: Sorry, I've been missing quite a lot of this thread... Can I please get an example of the complete ruleset, and a hint on where to place it? That was it. I copy-pasted those rules from /etc/mail/spamassassin/misc.cf on one of the servers I maintain; they're just

Re: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-20 Thread Kris Deugau
Michael Hutchinson wrote: body NICE_GIRL_01 /Hello! I am (?:bored|tired) (?:today|this (?:afternoon|evening)|tonight)\./ Forgive my ignorance, but what does the question mark and colon do at the start of the brackets? I have (bored|tired) in my own rules, so how does (?:bored|tired)

RE: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Robert - elists
Quotes from this thread (and the nolisting site which was posted as a response): Michael Scheidell - Do NOT use a bogus mx as your lowest priority. Bowie Bailey - I would say that it is too risky to put a non-smtp host as your primary MX nolisting.org - longterm use has yet to

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, pichels wrote: Then, when I tried to run sa-learn - none of my messages are learning? [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam-email]$ sa-learn --spam mosconj-022008-1 Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) That just means that sa-learn has already learned that message

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread pichels
Hi John, But, I've tried learning any email after I recieved the Perl error message and none are being learned? And why is the spam being scored wioth spamassassin? I don't understand? Could my Bayes DB need to be re-synced or forced to expire some dups or ? My users are getting the nice girl

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Marc Perkel wrote: Let me clarify something about using bogus MX records. Let's assume the following. bogus0.domain.com - MX 10 real.domain.com - MX 20 backup.domain.com MX 30 bogus1.domain.com MX 40 bogus2.domain.com MX 50 The host bogus1 and bogus2 are 100% safe and effective. The bogus IPs

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread SM
At 08:05 20-02-2008, Aaron Wolfe wrote: I am interested in this technique, and have been for some time. It seems like every discussion of it leads to a group saying you will lose mail and a group saying you will not lose mail. Is there any In my opinion, it may cause mail delivery problems.

Re: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:40:33 +0100, Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During last days I have noticed an increasing of 'rejected' messages. I'm currently using 'zen.spamhaus.org' and 'list.dsbl.org' as reputation servers. At the same time, the number of false negative is growth. I

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:24:28AM -0800, pichels wrote: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/Message/Node.pm line 119. Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s) examined) So, I found a post that explained this was a bug and to pach the Node.pm file and so I patched it:

Re: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:52:14PM +, Nigel Frankcom wrote: Anyway I heard talking about URIBL, which as I have understod is a quite different service (it blacklists 'domains' rather 'IPs'). But is it maybe a dangerous practice to fight spam? Anyway, does anyone suggest me to use URIBL?

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:59:58 -0500, Chris Santerre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeff Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2008-02-20 07:59 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default? If you

Re: Time to make multi.uribl.org optional rather than default?

2008-02-20 Thread Rob McEwen
Andy Dills wrote: given that they openly ask for paypal donations, have google ads, and sell branded merchandise Which probably doesn't account for much revenue.. which is why (I think) they *later* added the paid access. I guess I have grown too accustomed to the long standing symbiotic

RE: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Santerre
71.920 77.1604 1.23310.984 0.710.00 URIBL_BLACK You've always surprised me with your Ham rates Theo. I'm guessing these are prbly good sites that fell into the affiliate spam category and got listed. Anyway to pull out the top hitters of Ham and let us know. I'd like to find out

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, pichels wrote: But, I've tried learning any email after I recieved the Perl error message and none are being learned? And why is the spam being scored wioth spamassassin? I don't understand? Could my Bayes DB need to be re-synced or forced to expire some dups or ? Note

Re: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:41:09PM -0500, Chris Santerre wrote: 71.920 77.1604 1.23310.984 0.710.00 URIBL_BLACK Anyway to pull out the top hitters of Ham and let us know. I'd like to find out if we overlooked something. I'd like to correct this if it is an issue. FWIW, I

cannot open bayes databases Interrupted system call

2008-02-20 Thread Mike Fahey
Every 24 hours I see the following errors and spamassassin has to be restarted. Other machines running SA are fine. SA 3.2.4_1 freebsd 6.2 perl5.8.8 spamd[19777]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /usr/local/share/spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call

SA database?

2008-02-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Like everybody else, I'm tired of this nice girl spam. But the only place I can find any of those files on this F8 system is in usr/share/spamassassin. Are those the ones to play with for system wide rules? -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:

Re: SA database?

2008-02-20 Thread mouss
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; Like everybody else, I'm tired of this nice girl spam. But the only place I can find any of those files on this F8 system is in usr/share/spamassassin. Are those the ones to play with for system wide rules? no, do not modify files in the distribution

Re: SA database?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
At 12:29 20-02-2008, Gene Heskett wrote: Like everybody else, I'm tired of this nice girl spam. But the only place I can find any of those files on this F8 system is in usr/share/spamassassin. Are those the ones to play with for system wide rules? See

Re: sa-learn not learning?

2008-02-20 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Bayes DB has been learned and in effect for a long time - years before my time. No ID's have changed or the config that has caused this error. I add users to the whitelist - and use sa-learn - that's it. ok. 0.000 0 797361

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread Emmanuel Lesouef
Le Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:19:06 -0800, SM [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi, At 08:01 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: Nowadays, I get more and more spam that get these headers : X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 required=5 tests=[none] Is it normal ? How can I make

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread SM
At 13:51 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: http://pastebin.com/m61564e4 The message hits RDNS_NONE, HTML_MESSAGE, URIBL_WS_SURBL, URIBL_JP_SURBL, URIBL_OB_SURBL, URIBL_SC_SURBL, URIBL_BLACK, URIBL_RHS_DOB. The total score is 12.6. Are you using SURBL (

Re: No scoring because of not beeing tested ?

2008-02-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:40 -0800, SM wrote: At 13:51 20-02-2008, Emmanuel Lesouef wrote: http://pastebin.com/m61564e4 That's not a default SA header. X-Spam-Checker-Version is missing, and that X-Spam-Status is missing autolearn and version. Whatever calls SA, you want to check with that.

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Scheidell
Postini uses it for their clients. They set up 4 'real' mx records (priority 100,200,300,400) that point to real postini servers. They set up priority 500 that points to the (firewalled) smtp server of the client. (as in firewalled to the world, except to postini) Works great. Spammers hitting

Re: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Michael Scheidell
From: Rocco Scappatura [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:40:33 +0100 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Conversation: URIBL Subject: URIBL Anyway I heard talking about URIBL, which as I have understod is a quite different service (it blacklists 'domains' rather 'IPs'). But is

Re: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:03:58PM -0500, Dave Koontz wrote: I remember there was a period of time when dozens of URI delist requests were submitted all together without any detail. Could that have been the case with your reports? I'm not sure if it was specifically what you're thinking

Re: [OT] Bogus MX opinions

2008-02-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Michael Scheidell wrote: Didn't qmail have a problem if it hit a 'dead' primary mx server first? Qmail has a problem if it gets a 421 on the lowest MX. But if the lowest MX is totally dead Qmail is fine with it.

Re: cannot open bayes databases Interrupted system call

2008-02-20 Thread Matt Kettler
Mike Fahey wrote: Every 24 hours I see the following errors and spamassassin has to be restarted. Other machines running SA are fine. SA 3.2.4_1 freebsd 6.2 perl5.8.8 spamd[19777]: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /usr/local/share/spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system

RE: URIBL

2008-02-20 Thread Rocco Scappatura
For what it's worth I'm seeing an escalation here in the UK and on US and AUS servers so it's not isolated. Admittedly it's not a large proportion but it is a rise. How do you have inferred this? rocsca