Re: bayes training doesn't seem to have any affect

2009-05-04 Thread Micah Anderson
Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com writes: Micah Anderson wrote: I got a phish message that was understood by bayes as: -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.] So I traiend with spamc -L spam but even after that I am

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.04.09 14:24, Charles Gregory wrote: Proposal: Personal SPF - A DNS-based lookup system to allow individual sender's of e-mail to publish a *personal* SPF record within the context of their domain's SPF records, that would identify an IP or range of IP's which they would be 'stating'

Re: False positive with FRT_VALIUM1

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag 04 Mai 2009 Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: So what's next? There's a known big bug where several Valium rules misfire at german messages. Should I open another bug? I found bugs 6060 and 6086 reporting it, both are NEW. I've commented both of them now, hope we get a quick

Re: False positive with FRT_VALIUM1

2009-05-04 Thread Justin Mason
yep, it's certainly useful -- even if the fix is just to include the FP messages in a mass-checked corpus for the next time FRT_VALIUM1's score is calculated, ensuring that it'll get a lower score. --j. On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:19, Michael Monnerie michael.monne...@is.it-management.at wrote:

Re: bayes training doesn't seem to have any affect

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Katz
Micah Anderson wrote: Also, to see how experienced your Bayes knowledge is - use $ sa-leanrn --dump magic This shows me that I have no idea what these magic things are :) Does this tell you anything useful? 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, John Hardin wrote: Try wiping his AWL entry. We can do that? What tool would I use? - Charles

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Katz
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I think that scanning for viruses is much faster and should be done first, preferrably oustide of SA. Are you suggesting that ClamAV is faster by an order of magnitude that exceeds the massively high ratio of non-virus spam to non-spam viruses? It's simple math:

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.04.09 14:24, Charles Gregory wrote: Proposal: Personal SPF - A DNS-based lookup system to allow individual sender's of e-mail to publish a *personal* SPF record within the context of their domain's SPF records, that would identify an IP or range of IP's which they would be 'stating' are

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I think that scanning for viruses is much faster and should be done first, preferrably oustide of SA. On 04.05.09 11:05, Adam Katz wrote: Are you suggesting that ClamAV is faster by an order of magnitude that exceeds the massively high ratio of non-virus spam

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Brent Kennedy wrote: I use ClamAV and SA too. My understanding is that you do not want to continue processing an email if it is already seen as a virus(saves processing time by the spam server). Keep in mind that some users also have their AV on another box. I also use the short

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 30.04.09 14:24, Charles Gregory wrote: Proposal: Personal SPF - A DNS-based lookup system to allow individual sender's of e-mail to publish a *personal* SPF record within the context of their domain's SPF records, that would identify an IP or

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:41:44AM -0400, Jeff Mincy wrote: Feeding virus email into SpamAssassin Bayes seems like a bad idea to me. The bayes tokens aren't going to be all that useful for catching non virus spam. buzzer What happens when you receive a virus that isn't detected by any

Re: Properly integrating clamAV into SpamAssassin

2009-05-04 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Adam Katz antis...@khopis.com Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 18:47:21 -0400 I am under the impression that virus checking is *not* that much easier than a fully-loaded SA implementation, so therefore spam detection should run first. Counter-point: online lookups cost bandwidth and

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: OUR mail server *requires* that a user be connected via our dialups. what do you mean? Users connected by your dialups can only be connected to your mail server? Yes, but also that the user must be connected to our dialup to gain 'relay'

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:44 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, John Hardin wrote: Try wiping his AWL entry. We can do that? What tool would I use? man spamassassin-run See the spamassassin options with whitelist in the name, particularly --remove-addr-from-whitelist. --

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread RW
On Sun, 3 May 2009 20:48:47 +0200 Magnus Holmgren holmg...@lysator.liu.se wrote: On onsdagen den 25 mars 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: BAYES_50 means Bayes has no opinion, the score for that should be 0. I've set the score for BAYES_50 to 0.7 (I could probably increase that) because in

Re: The weirdest problem I have ever met Dear all, Please help me with this very weird problem. I have a client with this user who's is suddenly having a problem sending out emails. When I checked

2009-05-04 Thread John Hardin
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Jodizzz wrote: ...the longest email subject _evar_! SA:SPAM-DELETE:RC:0(xxx.xx.xxx.xxx):SA:1(1528.3/5.5) 1528 is a ... rather large ... rather large SA score. Did that user send a GTUBE to someone and AWL is now trying to average everything he sends up to that score?

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-04 Thread Mandy
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Adam Katz antis...@khopis.com wrote: Can you determine how many of those were out-of-office messages?  Then again, even at just two, if you can stop such compromises, it's worth it (and then some). The replies I was talking about was, sadly, manually filtered to

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: We can do that? What tool would I use? See the spamassassin options with whitelist in the name, particularly --remove-addr-from-whitelist. Okay, maybe I'm misunderstanding. I was under the impression that spamassassin had TWO 'whitelists'. One

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
You're wrong (but you're close). :) You can configure your own whitelist_from_* and blacklist_from_* (or the other whitelist/blacklist commands) in your user_prefs/configs. Either you have the config or you don't, and the scores are for the rule not each sender, so in that sense, it's permanent.

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:16 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: The original statement which you snippet is important, since the question was how to do exactly that -- manipulating the AWL. Try wiping his AWL entry. We can do that? What tool would

Anti-phishing outside of just detection

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Katz
I wrote: I'd still rather block the offending message than intercept responses to it (as that means it has suckered users, which means it has wasted their time). I see APER as a possible aid in that pursuit, though as Jesse has mentioned, it is not fully reliable (as to be determined).

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:12 +0100, RW wrote: On Sun, 3 May 2009 20:48:47 +0200 Magnus Holmgren wrote: On onsdagen den 25 mars 2009, Bowie Bailey wrote: BAYES_50 means Bayes has no opinion, the score for that should be 0. I've set the score for BAYES_50 to 0.7 (I could probably

Re: The weirdest problem

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Katz
Theo Van Dinter wrote: Then there's the AWL, aka the historical score averager, which has some commands via spamassassin to do simple manipulation, usually to correct undesired entries. The score changes per message, typically. Any movement to rename AWL and thus to avoid explaining it so

Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
Thanks for the replies. All is now clear. Though I would (politely) request this be clarified in the entries in the docs. Thanks! - Charles On Mon, 4 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:16 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:

Re: False positive with FRT_VALIUM1

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Montag 04 Mai 2009 Justin Mason wrote: yep, it's certainly useful -- even if the fix is just to include the FP messages in a mass-checked corpus for the next time FRT_VALIUM1's score is calculated, ensuring that it'll get a lower score. It's in my mass corpus already, but I wonder if it's

Error: spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

2009-05-04 Thread Alejandro Cabrera Obed
Dear all, I use Postfix (version 2.3.8-2+etch1) + amavisd-new (version 2.4.2-6.1) + spamassassin (version 3.2.3-0.volatile1), and they are Debian Etch packages. Spamassassin is invoked from amavisd-new, so port TCP/783 is never open. A pair of days ago, I notice that the messages are not being

Honeypot opportunity? Spammers treating tertiary DNS as MX

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
Hallo! I run a mail server for exampleALPHA.tld, and that same box also happens to run as a 'tertiary' DNS server for exampleBETA.tld There is no direct relationship between alpha and beta, other than that our two organizations made an arrangement to act as fallback DNS for each other. We do

Re: False positive with FRT_VALIUM1

2009-05-04 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Montag 04 Mai 2009 Justin Mason wrote: yep, it's certainly useful -- even if the fix is just to include the FP messages in a mass-checked corpus for the next time FRT_VALIUM1's score is calculated, ensuring that it'll get a lower score. It's in

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Charles Gregory wrote: Proposal: Personal SPF - A DNS-based lookup system to allow individual sender's of e-mail to publish a *personal* SPF record within the context of their domain's SPF records, that would identify an IP or range of IP's which they would be 'stating' are the only possible

Re: Error: spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:57 -0300, Alejandro Cabrera Obed wrote: Dear all, I use Postfix (version 2.3.8-2+etch1) + amavisd-new (version 2.4.2-6.1) + spamassassin (version 3.2.3-0.volatile1), and they are Debian Etch packages. Spamassassin is invoked from amavisd-new, so port TCP/783 is never

Re: False positive with FRT_VALIUM1

2009-05-04 Thread Justin Mason
I haven't looked at the rules at all (yet)... On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 20:00, John Hardin jhar...@impsec.org wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009, Michael Monnerie wrote: On Montag 04 Mai 2009 Justin Mason wrote: yep, it's certainly useful -- even if the fix is just to include the FP messages in a

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
2009/5/4 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de: Bear in mind that an email that gets a Bayes score of more than one point can't be autolearned as ham. Nope, this is wrong. The Bayes rules (as well as some other rules) do NOT have any impact on the auto-learning. In fact, the

Re: The weirdest problem

2009-05-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
I think usually when renaming it comes up, people just start talking about the stuff it should or could be doing, and that branches into a write a more fully featured plugin conversation, which then doesn't go anywhere. :( The AWL has also been around for so long that renaming it would probably

Re: Error: spamc: connection attempt to spamd aborted after 3 retries

2009-05-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
If you're using amavis, what is calling spamc? It sounds like something changed your config somewhere. Did someone put in a procmailrc entry? On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alejandro Cabrera Obed aco1...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I use Postfix (version 2.3.8-2+etch1) + amavisd-new (version

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:49 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: 2009/5/4 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de: Bear in mind that an email that gets a Bayes score of more than one point can't be autolearned as ham. Nope, this is wrong. The Bayes rules (as well as some other rules)

Re: [SA] Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-04 Thread mouss
Adam Katz a écrit : procmail-3.22-17.1 replace procmail with dovecot sieve, and use sieve rules pr user Don't be so quick to implement that ... I've found sieve to be horribly limiting in comparison to procmail, and LuKreme's option looks more easily implemented than the sieve

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Jonas Eckerman wrote: Why do you think it would be easier to get those of your users that send through other servers to publish a personal SPF record with correct information about the external IP address of the outgoing relay they use than it would be to get then to use

Re: 419 emailBL?

2009-05-04 Thread mouss
Henrik K a écrit : On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 06:25:01PM +0200, mouss wrote: I can't use a dnsbl on recipient addresses in postfix. This requires additionnal code (exceptionally if the records are hashed...). MySQL on the other hand is supported by many daemons. Sure, SA would need a mysql

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread RW
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:38:00 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de wrote: According to that description and bug 2865 comment 3, the word strongly seems to be key here. Not checked the code, but comment 3 pretty much translates to an additional constraint, that the real result (using

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Theo Van Dinter
2009/5/4 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de: via https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=2865.  In No commit pointer. I'm lazy, Theo, any hints to the actual commit so I don't have to dig? :) Sure. I found it by a) looking at the code and validating my understanding,

Re: Honeypot opportunity? Spammers treating tertiary DNS as MX

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Scheidell
Hallo! I run a mail server for exampleALPHA.tld, and that same box also happens to run as a 'tertiary' DNS server for exampleBETA.tld There is no direct relationship between alpha and beta, other than that our two organizations made an arrangement to act as fallback DNS for each other. We

Re: Personal SPF

2009-05-04 Thread LuKreme
On 4-May-2009, at 09:40, Charles Gregory wrote: Yes, but also that the user must be connected to our dialup to gain 'relay' access to our mail server. If someone, even one of our legit users, is on a DSL connection, then they *cannot* send mail through our server. They must use the server

Re: Honeypot opportunity? Spammers treating tertiary DNS as MX

2009-05-04 Thread Alexander Hoogerhuis
Michael Scheidell wrote: No, actually, 'exampleBETA.tld' is invalid. (hint: without real domain names, no one can help you) It could be any number of things.. Is 'exmapleBETA.tld' an a record for the dns servers? Are the dns servers a records for the mx records? With the dwindling economy,

Re: [sa] Re: Honeypot opportunity? Spammers treating tertiary DNS as MX

2009-05-04 Thread Charles Gregory
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: No, actually, 'exampleBETA.tld' is invalid. (hint: without real domain names, no one can help you) I believe my descriptions are sufficiently precise that knowing the actual domain names is irrelevant. However, you may substitute 'hwcn.org' for

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:09 +0100, RW wrote: There are two separate tests, the autolearn result must be consistent with the overall classification, and not inconsistent with the bayes scoring. I stand corrected with egg on my face. Yes, you are perfectly right. Spent a while digging through

Re: Spam from windows live

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 17:18 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: 2009/5/4 Karsten Bräckelmann guent...@rudersport.de: via https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=2865. In No commit pointer. I'm lazy, Theo, any hints to the actual commit so I don't have to dig? :) Sure. I

Re: spamassassin block *.png

2009-05-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello John, sorry for the late answer, have not checked this mailfolder Am 2009-05-02 20:46:32, schrieb John Hardin: On Sun, 3 May 2009, Michelle Konzack wrote: * B ?? ^Content-Type: image/(png|pjpeg|gif) Adam, have you seen any pjpeg or gif attachments in your spams? Michelle, are

Re: bayes training doesn't seem to have any affect

2009-05-04 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 02:02 -0400, Micah Anderson wrote: Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com writes: Micah Anderson wrote: I got a phish message that was understood by bayes as: -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score:

Re: 419 emailBL?

2009-05-04 Thread Henrik K
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:51:14PM +0200, mouss wrote: That said, I am surprised because you defended the fact that the freemail plugin includes the list of freemail domains... Think about it. Maybe few thousand freemail domains, that hardly change. Why would that require realtime updating?

Re: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread Jodizzz
Ok, just did that. But still problem persists. He is still not able to send out using his email address. Weridest thing, he can send if he uses webmail. So I am guessing that he was not block by AWL? Karsten Bräckelmann-2 wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:44 -0400, Charles Gregory wrote:

RE: [sa] Re: The weirdest problem .....

2009-05-04 Thread RobertH
if people/you are using port 25 for submission, stop that. since you are using qmail, why dont you just create an login auth only smtpd service on port 587 for submission and let people hit it to login to relay emails make sure that the server does not check and score those emails coming in