ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Monnerie
Dear users of the ZMI-GERMAN ruleset. I manage those ruleset, and just (again) received the message below, about you won a trip. Those messages are spammy, although you really can do such a trip and only pay the flight ticket (which then costs enough to also include the trip itself ;-).

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Michael Monnerie spake: Dear users of the ZMI-GERMAN ruleset. I manage those ruleset, and just (again) received the message below, about you won a trip. Those messages are spammy, although you really can do such a trip and only pay the flight ticket (which then costs enough to also

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Stefan Luetje
Am 03. Jun 2009 um 08:57 CEST schrieb Timo Schoeler: thus Michael Monnerie spake: But maybe, if response and urge is high, I will include them. What do you think? Is it spam for you? Hi, yes, this is spam. ack mfg Stefan -- Der Holocaust war eine schlimme Zeit in der Geschichte

Re: New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.06.09 17:01, fchan wrote: I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found one of them had the hostname called localhost which I think is a attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back to Vietnam. Also I found that a large percentage

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Jari Fredriksson wrote: But if the connection is refused, there simply is no-one listening. How about trying the other alternatives? On 02.06.09 23:04, Bob Proulx wrote: The documentation leads me to believe it does that now. If host resolves to multiple addresses, then spamc

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 6/3/2009 8:53 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: Dear users of the ZMI-GERMAN ruleset. I manage those ruleset, and just (again) received the message below, about you won a trip. Those messages are spammy, although you really can do such a trip and only pay the flight ticket (which then costs

best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread ryefish
Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: 1) blacklisting in local.cf: add blacklist_from *.info, blacklist_from *.tv,

Re: ZMI-GERMAN: question to the users

2009-06-03 Thread Kerstin Espey
Am Mittwoch 03 Juni 2009 schrieb Stefan Luetje: Am 03. Jun 2009 um 08:57 CEST schrieb Timo Schoeler: thus Michael Monnerie spake: But maybe, if response and urge is high, I will include them. What do you think? Is it spam for you? Hi, yes, this is spam. ack ACK. -- Freundliche

Re: An idea for spamc (failsafe option)

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Jari Fredriksson wrote: However the killer bad thing for me is this: Note that this fail-over behaviour is incompatible with -x; if that switch is used, fail-over will not occur. I am not willing to stop filtering mail through spamassassin if my spamd machine is

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, ryefish wrote: Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: 3) Create custom rule: design

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: So that's why you

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:35 +0100, Martin Gregorie wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote: Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do

Re: how to know what blacklists i'm checking against

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:29 +1200, Kate wrote: MailScanner 4.76.24 spamassassin 3.2.5 MTA - postfix ClamAV 0.95.1 I am trying to trouble shoot why a particular server cannot send into our email system. There is no reference in the logs to this server ever trying to connect. Err, maybe

Re: generate message with a specific score

2009-06-03 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 23:12 +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hi Matus, On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 10:48:25PM +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 25.05.09 17:12, Rudy Gevaert wrote: Is it possible to generate a rule that when it applies gives the message that specific score? If so, how do I

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread ram
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 00:48 -0700, ryefish wrote: Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: 1) blacklisting in local.cf:

How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Bob Cohen
Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated Spamd In Postfix recipe (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix ). How do I invoke spamd and then make sure it runs at boot? I'm

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Starr
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Adam Katz wrote: Larry Starr lar...@fullcompass.com wrote: I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above the Bayes-99 score. Theo Van Dinter responded: Well, the first problem is that the AWL has no impact on

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Larry Starr
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: I have been using the AWL ( --add-addr-to-blacklist ) for some time, to bump new spam senders above the Bayes-99 score. My problem is that this feature seems, extreemly slow. I'm now trying to use the ( --add-to-blacklist ) option and

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Robert Schetterer
Bob Cohen schrieb: Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated Spamd In Postfix recipe (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix). How do I invoke spamd and then make sure it

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 09:41 -0400, Bob Cohen wrote: Sorry for the dumb question but I can't seem to find the answer in the documentation or by googling. I'm trying to follow the Integrated Spamd In Postfix recipe (http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/IntegratedSpamdInPostfix ). How do

was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread jp
It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardware with the

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 08:41, Martin Gregorie wrote: Take a look at the daemon management scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d You should find one called spamassassin (or possibly spamd - its called spamassassin in Fedora distros). On my FreeBSD it is /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd and requires the

RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT
Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. I have found three possible ways to do this. Which if any is the preferred method: 1) blacklisting in local.cf: add blacklist_from *.info, blacklist_from *.tv,

RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
-Original Message- From: Maurice Lucas - TAOS-IT [mailto:mslu...@taos-it.nl] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 5:06 PM To: ryefish; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: best way to mark TLDs as spam Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread Adam Katz
ryefish wrote: Hello: I am attempting to configure SA to mark as spam all email from Top-Level-Domains other than .com, .net, and .edu. What about .org, .us, .ca, .co.uk, and all the others that you have no good reason to filter? Usually, when I see this kind of reasoning, it's resulting

Re: how to know what blacklists i'm checking against

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Lists wrote: I am trying to trouble shoot why a particular server cannot send into our email system. There is no reference in the logs to this server ever trying to connect. Are users of that system getting reject notifications? Have them forward one such to an address

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 10:47 -0400, jp wrote: It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient as far as watts

Style Tag abuse

2009-06-03 Thread Charles Gregory
Good morning! Seeing some messages come through with large amounts of bayes poison text inserted between style /style tags. Short of using a 'rawbody' test, is there some other characteristic that we could catch? For example, and another question: Is there any mechanism in SpamAssassin to

Re: Style Tag abuse

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 11:07, John Hardin wrote: What I'd like to see is tflags exponential, so that each hit would add score*hits_so_far, to make it easier to punish stuff harder the more it is repeated. Oooo! can you imagine the scores MS WOrd - HTML - Email would get if you did that?

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem occurs restarted spamd and runs

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this problem

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
It's getting a little off topic, but keeping old hardware because it still works can be a bit of a false economy. Yeh, it's nice to have it working and useful rather than landfill. But on the other hand, they are so inneficient as far as watts used, you could pay for new hardware with the

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Jari Fredriksson wrote: Hah. The CPU does not even have a cooler on it! All there is PSU fan. Such a machine can not waste energy, at least it does not generate heat.. I'd think that in Finland that would be a drawback rather than a benefit... :) -- John Hardin

Re: was failsafe option, old hardware

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
But keep in mind that newer hardware may or may not be more energy efficient but it has more processing power. So you can use one faster newer machine with x Watt energy or use several x Watt older machines to do the same task. I now have a new HP DL385G5p using 80Watt running 1 linux

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
Is spamd running on the same machine? if spamd is running on the same machine. Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any messages that might indicate problems at the time the error occurred? mailog I get this: ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Michael Scheidell wrote: What optional fields are you refering to? I have seen this, on the spamassassin WIKI: CREATE TABLE awl ( username varchar(100) NOT NULL default '', email varchar(200) NOT NULL default '', ip varchar(10) NOT NULL default '', count

Re: How to Start spamd

2009-06-03 Thread Bob Cohen
On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: The following assumes that your system uses the Unix System V / RedHat daemon startup system. Thank you. I should have mentioned I'm running Fedora 9, so yes System V applies. There was no init.d script but the Spamassassin source

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: Is spamd running on the same machine? if spamd is running on the same machine. Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any messages that might indicate problems at the time the error occurred? mailog I get this: ServerA spamc

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:09 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: Does the maillog file on the machine running spamd log have any messages that might indicate problems at the time the error

Custome Plugin and Variables

2009-06-03 Thread Vahriç Muhtaryan
Hello to all , We would like to create our own plugin . I red custom plugin section but maybe I do not understand, I would like to find out how spamassasin can provide me header of mail , body of mail because I would like to play on body and header. Could somebody show me the way for from

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: There are a bunch of word-triplets in the copy-n-paste, re-arranged randomly, making the text hard to comprehend -- a repeating pattern all over the reply. Yeah, I suspect he's using Babelfish or some such to translate to ... Spanish perhaps?

Re: New method to bypass SA?

2009-06-03 Thread mouss
fchan a écrit : I recently was checking on servers that were sending out spam and found one of them had the hostname called localhost which I think is a attempt to bypass SA. The IP address is 222.252.188.181 which maps back to Vietnam. SA will not use localhost unless your MTA is borked.

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.471682500 [775] info: spamd: result: Y 15 - DCC_CHECK,DIGEST_MULTIPLE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,MISSING_DATE,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RDNS_NONE,URIBL_BLACK

Re: Identifying Source of False Positives

2009-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: This *really* suggests that one of two things MUST be occuring: 1) What you are seeing is NOT what spamassassin sees. Charles, Quite possible. 2) A character (null/ascii-zeros?) has been injected into the e-mail somewhere in the headers,

Re: best way to mark TLDs as spam

2009-06-03 Thread RW
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:28:59 -0400 Adam Katz antis...@khopis.com wrote: The other is RelayCountry, which you'll have to enable in init.pre, which lets you discriminate against countries rather than just their domain names. This discrimination is unfair and quite prone to biting back at

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:00 +, Luis campo wrote: this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.471682500 [775] info: spamd: result: Y 15 -

FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Luis campo
We have increased the 20 as well as samples: / usr / bin / spamd-v-u vpopmail-m 20-x-q-s stderr-r / var / run / spamd / spamd.pid \ 172.16.10.9-A-i 172.16.10.0/24 2 1 | \ / usr / local / bin / setuidgid qmaill \ / usr / local / bin / multilog t! spamdappend / var /

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: this is an example of var / log / qmail / spamd 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531889500 [19168] info: prefork: child states: BB 2009-06-03 12:00:16.531949500 [19168] info: prefork: server reached --max-children setting, consider raising it There is a

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Luis campo wrote: In simscan have configured as follows - enable-per-domain = y - enable-attach = y - enable-spam = y - enable-ripmime = / usr / local / bin / ripmime - enable-received = y - enable - spam-hits = 5.0 - enable-spamc = / usr / bin / spamc - enable-spamc-args

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:54 +, Luis campo wrote: We have increased the 20 as well as samples: That's not exactly slowly, as I suggested. Well, your server, feel free to kill it. In simscan have configured as follows . / configure - enable-clamav = y - enable-clamdscan = / usr / local

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Karsten Br?ckelmann wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:54 +, Luis campo wrote: user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost user_scores_sql_usernamespamuser Any chance your SQL backend actually is the culprit and taking way too long?

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 16:23 -0700, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: user_scores_dsn DBI:mysql:spamassassin:localhost user_scores_sql_usernamespamuser Any chance your SQL backend actually is the culprit and taking way too long?

FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-03 Thread Adam Katz
://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3#3.38 header KHOP_MAYBE_FORGED Received =~ /\(may be forged\)/ describe KHOP_MAYBE_FORGED Relay IP's reverse DNS does not resolve to IP scoreKHOP_MAYBE_FORGED 0.8 # 20050802, raised 0.15-0.8 20090603 # Violates rfc2821? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCrDNS#Uses

Re: Question on add-to-blacklist

2009-06-03 Thread LuKreme
On 3-Jun-2009, at 14:02, Jari Fredriksson wrote: `ip` varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', 10? -- There is NO Rule six!

Re: FCrDNS and localhost

2009-06-03 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Adam Katz wrote: Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: 181.188.252.222.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer localhost. That is why FcRDNS is being used everywhere... localhost has address 127.0.0.1 = fail. Actually, localhost doesn't resolve via DNS; it has no A record, nor any

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread d . hill
Quoting Luis campo lcr_2...@hotmail.com: The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this

Re: FW: SpamAssassin error Interrupted system call

2009-06-03 Thread d . hill
Quoting Luis campo lcr_2...@hotmail.com: The service is still active spamd just does not process the emails, all giving a score of zero and then get the error message ServerA spamc [7277]: connect to spamd on 172.16.0.14 Failed, retrying (# 1 of 3): Interrupted system call When this