Re: Regular expression help

2009-01-23 Thread Joseph Brennan
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:04 AM + rje...@vzw.blackberry.net wrote: I am attempting to create a regular expression to give a negative score for purchase orders. I need to match the following: PO PO: PO# P.O. P.O. # PO # I have not been able to get this to work correctly. I have

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
Everyone has given very helpful feedback! At present it definitely sounds like I should tweak my rules and train my bayes. I will try taking steps here and see how it goes. Thank you all so very much! -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/please-help%2C-getting-hammered-wit

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Derek Harding
Dennis Hardy wrote: Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( Any thoughts/advice are appreciated :-) When this started happening to us the only solution I found was manual CIDR blocks. Yea I know very last millennium but I didn't find anything else to work with. Some particular sno

Re: Zero exit-code after SIGPIPE

2009-01-23 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, RW wrote: I'm having a problem whereby Spamassassin is sometimes being killed by SIGPIPE before it's written-out the email to stdout, and then returns a zero exit-code. Ouch. Open a bug in the bugzilla. While the devs may read this list, they don't use it for taking bug

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dennis Hardy wrote on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:36:59 -0800 (PST): > see http://www.spamhaus.org/faq/answers.lasso?section=Glossary#233 Ah. I know a lot of spam terms, but this is certainly new to me ;-) > > > If the former, put some example up on a pastebin (not ehre!). > > Yes already done: http:

Zero exit-code after SIGPIPE

2009-01-23 Thread RW
I'm having a problem whereby Spamassassin is sometimes being killed by SIGPIPE before it's written-out the email to stdout, and then returns a zero exit-code. Whilst I'd be keen to eliminate the SIGPIPE problem, the more important problem is the return of the zero exit-code, because it turns del

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Dennis Hardy wrote: Here is what I have been using (from previous help from this mail list!): uri SSS_URI30 /\bhttp:\/\/[^\.\/]+\.(?i:com|net|info|biz)\/\w{30}\b/ uri SSS_URI30 1.5 this uri rule does work very well. but they change the length sometimes, so I have a

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
> your BAYES is misfiring. Ths difference between BAYES_05 and BAYES_99 is 4.6 > so you could have score of 5.7 if you'd have well-trained BAYES. Yes, that would be great. I will look at trying this. I do get tens of thousands of e-mails a day through this system though so it is hard to do manu

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
> Can you repost that with full headers? Yes, I have to wait for more to come through though as I have gotten into the habit of just deleting the FNs. > No DNSBL hits on the URI domain? No, the domains change too quickly, so I almost never get DNSBL hits for these. I have DNSBL greylisting fro

Re: excessive scan time

2009-01-23 Thread LuKreme
On 22-Jan-2009, at 13:57, Brian J. Murrell wrote: Now users need to know how to edit SQL records, or I need to install a web interface for that. The ROI here for that is just not high enough. Really? A webface to edit user configuration options in an SQL database is trivial. I know its

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > why are those scores low? What gives them negative score? > > those rules have quite high score... On 23.01.09 08:26, Dennis Hardy wrote: > Here is an example (without my rules): http://pastebin.com/m4400a74d X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,DCC_CHECK,DIET_1,

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Dennis Hardy wrote: why are those scores low? What gives them negative score? those rules have quite high score... Here is an example (without my rules): http://pastebin.com/m4400a74d Can you repost that with full headers? The ones that get through are relatively sho

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
> I've been using this rule to knock some of these down: > [...] > Highly unusual to have a url like that in ham... > I'm running a meta to bump up the score... Yes, I've actually been doing the very same thing (URI detection and metas, and then string matching in the tail part of the e-mail) !

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 07:56 -0800, Dennis Hardy wrote: > Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( I've added rules to try to > catch common formats of included URLs in the spam, but I'm wary of scoring > these rules too high because of the potential for false positives. It's > hard to come u

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
> Is this spam for snowshoes or some "spam term"? "Like a snowshoe spreads the load of a traveler across a wide area of snow, some spammers use many frequently-changing IP addresses and domains to spread out the spam load in order to dilute recipient reputation metrics and evade filters." see ht

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Dennis Hardy wrote on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:56:44 -0800 (PST): > Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam Is this spam for snowshoes or some "spam term"? If the former, put some example up on a pastebin (not ehre!). Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Service

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
> why are those scores low? What gives them negative score? > those rules have quite high score... Here is an example (without my rules): http://pastebin.com/m4400a74d The ones that get through are relatively short and simple, and many are very "clean". This example is just one that focuses on

Re: please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.01.09 07:56, Dennis Hardy wrote: > Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( I've added rules to try to > catch common formats of included URLs in the spam, but I'm wary of scoring > these rules too high because of the potential for false positives. It's > hard to come up with other rul

Re: training for spamassassin

2009-01-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Ralf Heidenreich wrote: > > sa-learn coaches spamassassin. On 23.01.09 10:45, Bowie Bailey wrote: > Actually, sa-learn coaches the Bayes db if you want to be specific. I prefer word "train" instead of "coach" :-) > > Is it better, to coach spamassassin with mails, that are not examined > > thr

please help, getting hammered with snowshoe spam

2009-01-23 Thread Dennis Hardy
Hi, I'm getting hammered by snowshoe spam :-( I've added rules to try to catch common formats of included URLs in the spam, but I'm wary of scoring these rules too high because of the potential for false positives. It's hard to come up with other rules as the spam e-mail content is so generic.

Re: experienced comments on these rules and their effectiveness in large installations please

2009-01-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 22.01.09 14:54, RobertH wrote: > would those of you in the know please comment based upon your data re: the > below rules and their effectiveness in hitting spam vrs ham and/or false > readings in diverse or fairly diverse large scale isp and/or corporate > installations please I think they all

Re: excessive scan time

2009-01-23 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Brian J. Murrell wrote: I'd also suggest using SQL for user preferences. The user interface (i.e. editing a file) for user preferences is a different story. Now users need to know how to edit SQL records, or I need to install a web interface for that. Or you use a small script that reads

RE: training for spamassassin

2009-01-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Ralf Heidenreich wrote: > Hello, > > sa-learn coaches spamassassin. Actually, sa-learn coaches the Bayes db if you want to be specific. > Is it better, to coach spamassassin with mails, that are not examined > through spamassassin. Also original spam-mails. > If spamassassin examines mails, and

training for spamassassin

2009-01-23 Thread Ralf Heidenreich
Hello, sa-learn coaches spamassassin. Is it better, to coach spamassassin with mails, that are not examined through spamassassin. Also original spam-mails. If spamassassin examines mails, and writes a Spam-Status flag into the header, can these mails used for sa-learn? greetings Ralf

Re: experienced comments on these rules and their effectiveness in large installations please

2009-01-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
RobertH wrote on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:54:41 -0800: > would those of you in the know please comment based upon your data re: the > below rules and their effectiveness in hitting spam vrs ham and/or false > readings in diverse or fairly diverse large scale isp and/or corporate > installations please