Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:01 -0700, John Hardin wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > Finally a personal point: PLEASE don't implement smilies/emoticons as > > part of the forum. The WINE mailing list often contains messages from > > the li

Re: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
> I have now registered http://www.spamassassin-forum.com > spamassassin-forum.com and I will make sure that the first sticky thread > on the forum to be, contains a link to your list, so that our users are free > to choose. I'm not doing this to compete but to complement. I hope you > understan

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 12:25 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: > > Are you quite sure that an upstream copy of SA, e.g. in your ISP or at a > > sender site that scans for outgoing spam, hasn't already added X-* > > headers to the message? > > > > > > Martin > > > > > No. Is that even possible to track d

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
Dan Schaefer wrote: > > If this is the case, then why does my email have the X-* headers in > it? I have nothing in my postfix header_checks to discard the BL > rules. Does anyone have a detailed flow chart of SA/postfix setup and > describes blacklisting? Or even a webpage describing the proces

Re: copy spam mail to separate mailbox

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:48 -0400, Dan Schaefer wrote: > > I have a postfix/SA setup and I was wondering if anyone knew how to > > COPY an email marked as spam instead of redirecting. > > Not this: > > /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REDIRECT spam...@example.com > > > This should work, right? > http://onetf

Re: Avoid processing of email with specific headers

2009-07-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 04:14 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > If you postfix calls SpamAssasin directly as configured > in /etc/postfix/master.cf I have no ideas. > I think you can run a script that calls spamc rather than spamc itself. The script could use grep or (better) awk[1] to search for sp

Re: I want to use RelayCountry

2009-07-22 Thread Martin Gregorie
> Thanks Matus for the advice. I wasn't aware of that but am trying to learn > as quickly as I can. Is there a command that I can run to tell me what the > OS/distro package manager is? I'm using CentOS 5 with DirectAdmin as my > hosting manager. > CentOS is heavily dependent of RedHat, so it prob

Re: Eliminating unnecessary rules

2009-07-22 Thread Martin Gregorie
> I've learned a lot over the past year, and I now think some of these > patterns may be catching valid mail, so I'd like to figure out how > best to prune at least the ones that are no longer triggered or are > triggered but don't cause the email to become spam. IOW, the message > would be spam re

Re: Spamassassin rules in a mysql database

2009-07-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
> put any custom rules in the database, and modify the spamd? start > scripts to write the custom rules to flat files. modify your update > program to signal a spamd reload every time you modify the rules, or, > use unison. we use unison (not for our VPS spam clusters) but for > syncing flat file

Re: spamassassin not working

2009-07-13 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 12:03 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 10.07.09 10:28, Admin wrote: > > I do not see spamassassin processing information in the SMTP header of > > incoming messages. So I am fairly sure that the processing is not > > working. I am hoping to get the postfix->proc

Re: OT--Linux environment

2009-07-10 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 06:12 -0700, MrGibbage wrote: > Just a little off topic here, but relevant. When I test SA, I log into a > bash shell. I set my environment variables in .bash_profile (loading > changes with the 'source' command). > I use spamc/spamd and the answer is simple. I use a script

Re: Am I fscking up my bayes db?

2009-07-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:50 -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > My question is, given that the messages have already been processed by > the 'cuda's (with their header stamps in place), am I damaging, or at > risk of confusing the learning process of SA when I classify these > messages as SPAM? > Not r

Re: Howto AND-combine several tests in a single rule?

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:33 +0200, Peter Daum wrote: > Just for clarification: > > - I guess, your answer implies that the only way to write a rule where each >of several tests must match is via such a "meta" rule? (i.e. there is no >way to write a "regular" rule with multiple tests that m

Re: Howto AND-combine several tests in a single rule?

2009-07-07 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 09:43 +0200, Peter Daum wrote: > Is there a simpler and better way to specify that all tests in a rule > have to match? (or, just for symmetry, to say that a test should > not match)? > describe RULE Combined tests header__R1 From=~/something/ header__R2 User-Age

Re: good Spamassassin Summary report

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Gregorie
My logwatch add-in has now been modified to work entirely from spamd log messages, installed, tested and is now running as part of my standard logwatch setup. It is available for download from: http://www.gregorie.org/computing/spamscan/spamscan.tgz

Re: SpamAssasin .pm & .cf file

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 03:04 -0700, chauhananshul wrote: > I'm new to linux world can some one please help in understanding .cf &.pm > files. > I've used .cf files from http://www.rulesemporium.com i used to copy in > /usr/share/spamassassin/ & it works but at some sites both .pm & .cf fiels > are a

Re: good Spamassassin Summary report

2009-07-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:45 -0400, Daniel Schaefer wrote: > Cool. Having it as part of the Logwatch report would be just fine with > me. I have created a short logwatch script to count and show me a > running total of each spam score number, but your script I'm sure is a > lot better than mine.

Re: good Spamassassin Summary report

2009-07-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:03 -0400, Daniel Schaefer wrote: > If you have found something similar to this, good. If you have created > your own script to do this, better. If Spamassassin has this script > created already and I missed it, even better. > I wrote my own but it is somewhat specialized

RE: Plugin extracting text from docs

2009-07-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 14:15 -0400, Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote: > > And, please tell me of problems. > > > pdftohtml is imho not found in gentoo, but pdf2html is maybe the same ? > > It appears that "pdftohtml" is only available as a Windows executable > (on Sourceforge). I need something that wi

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
> So you want obfuscated urls to be recognised as urls but not treated as > urls? > Of course. Its spam. > If this is just for a few own pcre body rules, I'd suggest you to > handle those de-obfuscations in your rules. > Guess what I'm doing. > You can also publish your own plugin, if you think t

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 13:14 +0200, Jan P. Kessler wrote: > Martin Gregorie schrieb: > >> ... go to WWW EVIL ORG for new meds ... > >> > >> and > >> > >> ... digging through the WWW HE SAW this link ... > >> > > Both IMO should be ca

Re: [NEW SPAM FLOOD] www.shopXX.net

2009-06-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
> ... go to WWW EVIL ORG for new meds ... > > and > > ... digging through the WWW HE SAW this link ... > Both IMO should be caught and given a positive score. I've never seen legitimate mail containing URLs written this way. > And what about URLs that don't start with WWW, like > >

Re: SA on Windows (XP) with Cygwin

2009-06-29 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 02:45 +0100, Lee wrote: > I've yet to grasp the purpose of SpamC and/or SpamD on Windows in my > kind of scenario. I've seen mention of them a lot in my web searches, > but all I think I have yet grasped is that SpamC makes the mail > filtering faster due to a multi threade

RE: SA RegEx Rules

2009-06-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 09:01 +0100, rich...@buzzhost.co.uk wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:23 +0930, Cory Hawkless wrote: > > Ahh, I have played with regexbuddy but when copy and pasting the SA > rules in it does strange things that are inconsistent with the result > i get from SA, These recent sh

Re: new spam image with random body message

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 18:02 +0300, Ibrahim Harrani wrote: > http://pastebin.com/m6a027715 > http://pastebin.com/d2c94dba0 > http://pastebin.com/m21c9df0 > http://pastebin.com/m775253b7 These all have three things in common: - the MIME type of the image attachment doesn't match the attached image

Re: new spam image with random body message

2009-06-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 14:50 +0200, Paweł Tęcza wrote: > Sorry, but it's not academic, because we are not talking only about spam > messages received by Ibrahim. It's discussion about "BAD GOOD PENIS" > spam at all. I agree that Subject header for that spams often includes > sex-related words, but i

Re: Plugin configuration

2009-06-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
Many thanks. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Martin On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 15:13 +0200, Jonas Eckerman wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > Now I'd like to configure the database configuration details from a .cf > > file, preferably the one containing the ass

Plugin configuration

2009-06-13 Thread Martin Gregorie
I'm developing an SA plugin to whitelist incoming mail from the contents of a database-based mail archive. The plugin and associated rule are working, but only because I've hard-coded the database type, name, user name and password in the plugin's 'new' method. Now I'd like to configure the databa

Re: tests= SIZE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED ??

2009-06-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 14:58 +0200, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 04:46 -0700, Stefan Guenther wrote: > > Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > > > > > Some sw components to be ruled out: > > > > - this isn't amavisd-new doing it, at least none of the official > > > > versions; > > > >

Re: sa-update error

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 00:39 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > does there exists a perl-cleanup in you distro ? > There's not a general one. On the assumption (true for Fedora) that both Perl and SA are distro supported packages, if I was tackling this I'd do the following: - make safety copies of SA

Re: [sa] New slew of spams

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 07:17 -0700, ktn wrote: > I am also starting to get a lot of these ".rtf attachment only with no email > body text" spams. Unfortunately, we use hostmonster.com for our email so my > ability to customize SA is greatly limited (i.e. I cannot use custom rules). > You can, of c

Re: backscatter from dnswl

2009-06-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 15:41 +0200, Arvid Picciani wrote: > Hi, > i'm getting _massive_ amounts of backscatter and some of the offenders > are listed in dnswl.org. > is there anything i can do about that? > thanks > Has your domain got an SPF record? If not, setting one up may well help. Some time

Re: Controlling spamd logging from spamc

2009-06-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 18:32 -0400, Jeff Mincy wrote: > From: Martin Gregorie > > Wouldn't it be easier to run another spamd on a different machine for > rule development and testing? Or perhaps just running as a different > 'test' user, and then ignore log

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

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

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: >d

Controlling spamd logging from spamc

2009-06-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
How difficult would it be to let spamc control spamd's logging output on a per-message basis? My reason for asking is this: I maintain a body of spam that I use to develop and regression test local rules and, during rule development, use spamc to pass the test messages through my only copy of spa

Re: New image spam

2009-05-26 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 17:49 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 26.05.09 11:23, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > Yes - comparing MIME image type to the file extension is already > > obsolete. > > Are you sure? Have you made any measures that tell such comparision is > use

Re: New image spam

2009-05-26 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:20 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Well, first issue was only to compare file extension to provided mime type, > so it would hit .gif file of type image/jpeg > > >> or do we need a FileType plugin? > Yes - comparing MIME image type to the file extension is already o

RE: learning from IMAP spam collection

2009-05-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 15:05 +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Nope. It needs to modify the body as well. We have a lengthy "this is > SPAM" text in the beginning of recognized Spam, with the original mail > attached. this way, it cannot "happen" that users "accidentally" click > on stupid Viagra lin

Re: learning from IMAP spam collection

2009-05-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 03:03 +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote: > Yes, I want to use spamc. But what parameters does it need to remove > existing spam markup, just like "spamassassin -d" does? > I don't think it does that, but it should be easy enough to add the option and submit the result as a pat

Re: learning from IMAP spam collection

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:11 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 17-May-2009, at 01:42, Michael Monnerie wrote: > > fetchmail -asnp IMAP --folder autolearn --user $username -m "formail > > -s > > |spamassassin -d >>/tmp/x" $mailserver > Switch to using spamc/spamd and this way of using SA is OK. Start t

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 09:27 -0400, Randy wrote: > Also they changed the name > and image ( slightly ) . Now the image is "Gibas.png" or at least, they > are using this too. > They're using a variety of names these days, but all following the fprm you quote: PersonalName.png. I've decoupled my ima

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 02:08 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: > I had one sneak through today which didn't hit any rules at all (it hits > a few DNSBLs now but not when I received it). It contained an inline png: > > Content-Type: image/png > Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 > Content-Disposition: inline

Re: Flooded by a SPAM always containing the same picture

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 14:16 +0200, "Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)" wrote: > Both my personnal and pro. emails get this stupid spam. > Here is the image: http://dedibox.le-vert.net/divers/DSC.png > > Is there any rules that can block it ? It seems the picture is always > the same. > Most stop these mes

Re: [SA] Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 14:04 -0400, Adam Katz wrote: > mimeheader __DSCL4_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\"DS[CL]\d{4,5}\.png\"/ > body __PNG_240_400 eval:image_size_exact('png',240,400) > meta DSCL4DIG_PNG __DSCL4_PNG && __PNG_240_400 > describe DSCL4DIG_PNG Supposed digital camera photo is

Re: Further information on tweaking tips...

2009-04-10 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 14:05 -0400, martes wrote: > Thanks for the tips guys. > > In response to the simpler of the two inquiries, after using the > syslog switch, I am only able to get the logs sent directly to > spamd.log, so the frequent archiving that syslogd does is not going to > be done for

Re: Further information on tweaking tips...

2009-04-10 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:13 -0400, martes wrote: > Where should I start in troubleshooting this type of issue? > Are you getting rules updates? If not, that could have a bearing. Running sa_update as a daily or weekly cron job is pretty much a fire and forget solution. > I have not had the time

Spam from an odd alias

2009-04-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
Has anybody else noticed spam coming from dmulk.com? It seems to be associated with Yahoo: its in their IP space, has MX addresses pointing to Yahoo mailservers, is a cname for one of Yahoo's servers. www.dmulk.com is a Californian biker's blog so its probably within the Yahoo blogosphere. Marti

Local rule monitoring

2009-03-31 Thread Martin Gregorie
As promised, today I've put my local rule monitoring script on my website along with my spam killer. They are downloadable from: http://www.gregorie.org/computing/index.html The downloads you want are all referenced under 'Topics': spamscan - the rule monitoring Perl script spamkiller - delet

Re: New kind of spam

2009-03-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:26 +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Wed, March 25, 2009 17:59, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > > http://codepad.org/W53onqK9 > > > and changing to fast to make custom rules. > > use rules that catch on non fqdn would be a pointer > I have a rule I wrote a few months ago

Re: help lowering score on a specific email list situation

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 17:28 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 28-Mar-2009, at 15:32, RobertH wrote: > > i have problems with the cabletv.org email list. > > Why re you running SA over known list messages? > I'm a member of four lists that are not moderated and do not restrict access to paid-up members o

Re: help lowering score on a specific email list situation

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 14:32 -0700, RobertH wrote: > hello > > i have problems with the cabletv.org email list. > > it is hosted on a charter static and has wierd reverse dns etc etc blah. > > so, almost always scores as spam > > here is what it is tripping on... > > 0.7 FH_HOST_EQ_D_D_D_

Re: "This is your" spam

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 28 March 2009, Martin Gregorie wrote: [snippage] > >Total mail 2968 messages > >Spam 198 messages > >MG_LIVESP91 hits > >MG_LIVESF22 hits > > How did you generate this

Re: "This is your" spam

2009-03-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 07:48 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had an incantation for this one. > I see that the message is there to punt a spaces.live.com website. I'm using a meta rule to recognise messages containing a spaces.live.com URI but that are not sent from that do

Re: Suddenly bouncing emails

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:46 -0400, klowther wrote: > I started suddenly getting lots of bounces. I'm using the latest > Mandriva. I have traced it down to EVERY email getting points from > uribil and surbil. I checked one list on surbil and it isn't listed. I > guess I need to know how to fi

Re: warn: util: cannot untaint path: "ARRAY(0x8819ebc)"

2009-03-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 15:44 +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote: > The goal is to put the regexes, which are being searched for in the > body of the mail, out of the configuration file, to avoid clutter and > to allow easy addition of new regexes. > But have you got a plot for compiling the regexes when they'

Re: SPF_NEUTRAL scoring?

2009-03-11 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 15:16 -0400, spamassas...@corwyn.net wrote: > v=spf1 a mx ptr Interesting: I just pointed thre SPF testing tools at http://www.kitterman.com/spf/validate.html at sinister.net. That retrieved: spf1 ip4:75.180.132.0/24 mx include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:mail.zoneedit.com

Re: how to make a custom ruleset

2009-03-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 21:31 +0800, Adi Nugroho wrote: > I found that a lot of spam is using recipient email address as the sender. > (from a...@internux.co.id to a...@internux.co.id, or from i...@apache.org to > i...@apache.org). > The only disadvantage is that you'll label test messages as spam.

Re: Bye Bye Bayes

2009-03-04 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > John Hardin wrote on Wed, 4 Mar 2009 06:17:16 -0800 (PST): > > > ("Oops! Disk failure! Well, that was trash, you can afford to lose > > that.") > > thanks for the laugh :-) > How many of you have seen the BOFH (Bastard Operator From Hell)

Re: More Google group messages

2009-03-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:51 -0500, Albert E. Whale wrote: > Now we are getting the following: > > Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:24:14 -0800 (PST) > From: Matty Hermann > Reply-To: obey1939stet...@yahoo.com > Subject: Hey! This is Rachelle from Mount Olive, Alabama. Wanna date? > > Meet a gal, take he

Re: config status

2009-02-28 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 21:02 +, Ray wrote: > Karsten Bräckelmann rudersport.de> writes: > > > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:12 +, Ray wrote: > > > Is there a feature like PostFix's `postconf` to display the currently > > > parsed > > > and calculated config? > > > > That pretty much equals yo

Re: How to disable DNSWL?

2009-02-27 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 11:56 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > since 2009-02-25 I become bombed by arround 430.000 spams like the one > below and I had to decrease my spamscore, since I was not able to > disable this crappy test of RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW which persists. > Have you tr

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 21:41 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Sounds neat, but I know squat about java, sorry. > OK, I think something like this should match: header UNDISC_RECIP To ~= /un(disclos|list)ed( |-)recipient[:;]{1,2}/i Disclaimer: this has not been tested or compiled As I said before, I

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 20:00 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > The string "Undisclosed recipients:" is > > actually a legal group address name. > > > No, it is not. It needs to be closed with ';' to be

Re: Something doofuzzled in a * ^To: line.

2009-02-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 17:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Anybody got an idea how the spammers have managed that? > Sorry, I can't help with the invisible stuff, but I do know a little about the other part of your question: > And better yet, how to defend against it as I'd like to /dev/null any me

Re: Missing pieces of perl?

2009-02-21 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sat, 2009-02-21 at 10:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Fedora 8. What packages should I install? > I use spamc/spamd with Fedora 8. If your system has been kept fully updated you should see this: # yum list perl spamassassin Installed Packages perl.i386 4:5.8.8-41.fc8 i

Re: netlawyers: why is this patentable?

2009-02-20 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:01 -0600, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 16:54 -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > > Perhaps just because someone has the Chutzpah to try to patent it and > > the patent office hasn't a clue. Technology of all sorts has moved too > > quickly for the patent off

Re: Custome rule problem. Resolved

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
> Feel free to mangle it, I'd appreciate a copy of any wider ranging > working versions though. > Here's what I've been using for quite a while. It was written when there was a spate of spam punting LiveSpace websites: header __MG_LSP1 From =~ /spaces\.live\.com/i uri __MG_LSP2 /^http:.{1,

Re: Custome rule problem.

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 14:50 +, Nigel Frankcom wrote: > Hi All, > > I've written the following rule to deal with spam a particular set of > users are getting hit by that very few of my rules are hitting. > > Using --lint the rule come back clean but on testing it appears to be > ignored. It's

Re: Two servers, one database. A question

2009-02-15 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 02:05 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > Lindsay, if you end up doing some benchmarking, please let us know. I > wouldn't be surprised if you're actually the first one to do this across > the Internet. :) > Just a thought. Since getting message sizes and counts on traffic be

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 18:01 +0100, Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Thu, February 12, 2009 19:29, John Hardin wrote: > > Ultimately that's what you have to do. The only way to automatically > > filter 100% of spam is to unplug your MTA from the 'net. > > unless one implement policyd to whitelist known s

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 16:04 -0600, McDonald, Dan wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 19:10 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:50 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > > Is there any way that greylisting can be implemented that would allow > > users to opt in/out o

Re: Last-5-percent tuning

2009-02-12 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 12:50 -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > John Hardin wrote: > > Do you greylist? > > Not currently. I'm not sure it's a useful option for a core ISP mail > system, either; a LOT of the more vocal customers are the ones who > expect email email to approximate instant messaging...

Re: system response message backlash from spam messages

2009-02-11 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 19:29 +, Ned Slider wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > > This backscatter is precisely what SPF records are meant to alleviate. > > You should have a valid SPF message set up for every registered domain > > handled by your mail servers. &g

Re: system response message backlash from spam messages

2009-02-11 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 11:10 -0600, Karl Boyken wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've got SA with a few features installed and it's working great and > > has been for a while. > > > > However, over the past few weeks I've had a few select users complain > > about receiving 3-4 thousand bounce message

Re: How can I set this up in S.A.?

2009-02-06 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 13:06 -0800, nambi wrote: > then gets emailed to f...@mydomian.com then the fax server periodically > checks for queued mail then receives faxes out then emails back the result. > Please describe your system in a little more detail on a few points: 1) Describe the path inco

Re: Filtering/ blocking forged emails

2009-02-06 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 12:52 -0800, Nandini Mocherla wrote: > I am new to postfix/SpamAssassin and thinking for a way to block the > email address which does not come from that domain. For example, if > someone with a @xxx.com email sends to a list it must come from a server > in the xxx.com doma

Re: Scanning Through Saved Emails

2009-02-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:47 -0800, asimsinan wrote: > Hi. > I am currently working on a project. We have thousands of emails and we want > to scan through these emails.These emails are stored in files.Each file > contains email headers and content. How can I scan those saved emails with > spamassas

Re: Secure spamd server

2009-02-03 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 14:46 -0500, Andre wrote: > However, we can't find a way to tell exim to connect via SSL (basically > the equivalent of 'spamc -S'). > > So, how do we enable SSL here? Is anyone running a similar setup? Are > we just missing something? Other stories to tell... > Would settin

Re: html experts: empty

2009-01-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 12:56 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: > IE had a nasty habit of ignoring the MIME type in HTTP headers and > rendering HTML even when one wanted it displayed as text/plain. So it > wouldn't surprise me if Outlook (Express) had the same annoying > "helpfulness". > I've wasted

Re: Spam Reports

2009-01-29 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 22:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Jeremy Davila wrote on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:18:48 -0500: > > > I meant a SA log file with history of how much spam we took in for the day > > and their scores. > > This very much depends on the calling program. AFAIK, SA by itself doesn't

Re: Help with meta rule

2009-01-26 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:46 +0100, R.Smits wrote: > Hello, > > I have searched the archives, but not found a clear answer to this... > maybe someone can give me a hint. > > I have a few strings that i want to use with a meta rule. > > example : > --- > body __WORD_01 /string1/ > body __W

Re: Whitelisting or passing messeges using db query

2009-01-22 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:53 -0800, malatio wrote: > How could I hook spamassassin up to a script that connects to my db (mysql) > and marks a message as non-spam if it finds that the 'To' address is found > in a certain table? > Write a plugin that does the lookup and returns a reply that can be u

Re: Filter from *and* to

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 18:51 +, Rik wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 19:25 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 16.01.09 11:26, Helmut Schneider wrote: > > > can I (and if how) create a filter that catches mails _from_and_to_ > > > specific email addresses? It should only apply if a specif

Re: Spamassassin & dnsbl questions

2009-01-19 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 09:51 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Rasmus Haslund wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if this seems like a stupid question but I am just trying to > > understand the config files better. > > > > For example these: > > > > header __RCVD_IN_NJABL eval:check_rbl('njabl', 'combine

Re: Novice Installation Help

2009-01-09 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 03:58 -0800, dave_c00 wrote: > Thanks, > > I am now trying to edit my .qmail- file to filter it and send it on > but am having no luck in getting it working. The original file looked like > this: > Obvious question: did you also install spamd and is it running as a daemon?

Re: custom post-processing. Howto?

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 23:12 +0300, JVlad wrote: > >> sendmail + spamassassin milter (written by Georg C. F. et al) > >> everything works great so far, except I need to save the spamassassin > >> results (score+sender) and do this synchronously, right after the score > >> is calculated. > > > What

Re: Novice Installation Help

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
> If you are running Linux, there IS a package manager installed. We > simply need to figure which one. It would help if you know the flavor on > Linux you are using. I know the hosting company does because they > probably asked which distro. you want to use. > One way to get more details of ex

RE: Daily run output

2009-01-08 Thread Martin Gregorie
> Could someone tell me what configuration file i need to change in order > to > change the email address this email is being sent to? > > *** > > I'd check crontab (crontab -l as root, list /var/spool/cron and > /etc/cron.* and /etc/crontab) for what is running at the time the mail > is sent

Re: Implementing SPF

2009-01-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 21:51 -0800, Bijayant wrote: > 2) What should I do to whitelist the senders because, if I will whitelist > the senders then it will not check for the Spam and the mail will passed > without the spam TAG. > I have a database containing an automatically built list of everybody

Re: New Mandriva 2009, SA not scanning

2009-01-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 22:47 -0600, Chris wrote: > I've been working on updating to MDV2009 and have SA installed. Fetchmail > fetches ok, procmail is tossing to the folders, but, SA seems not to be > scanning. I can scan a message from the cli but whereas before it would > score mail to my inbox

Re: Implementing SPF

2008-12-30 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 15:36 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2008 12:44:09 Bijayant wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am a newbie so please excuse me if its a very silly question. I have been > > searching the forums and Internet about my query but could not found > > satisfacto

Re: Rules for porn spam from Yahoo/live.com etc

2008-12-23 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:42 -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > I have one particular user being hammered by porn spam from freemail > accounts, mostly Yahoo and live.com . These are getting by existing > rules, including 70_sare_adult_cf . > You may find this following approach. Its aim is

Re: Spam slipping through

2008-12-17 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:49 -0500, Greg Skouby wrote: > http://pastebin.com/m791c34be Here's just the SA headers: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on zoogz.gregorie.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=5.5 required=6.0 tests=FORGED_MUA_EUDORA,MG_SEX1, U

Re: windows live spam, again

2008-12-14 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 14:57 +0100, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: > HI, > what was the solution again for windows live spam? It hit me finally. > (does this list have a search facility?) > Here's mine. This targets livespace spam: - not sent from a livespace address - sent via the Sourceforge lists

Live.space and Sourceforge

2008-12-07 Thread Martin Gregorie
I've been getting a bit of spam recently via Sourceforge mailing lists that punts live.space websites. As this is easy to detect without running much risk of FPs, I've written a rule. describe MG_LIVESF Spam via SourceForge but contains spaces.live.com URI uri __MG_LSF1 /^http:.{1,40}\.sp

Re: Off Topic?

2008-12-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:04 -0500, Ray Jette wrote: > Sorry if this is off topic. I am using a Microsoft DNS server. I am > putting a big load on it with Mailscanner / Spamassassin and MTA RBL's. > Would you recommend that I use a local BIND Cache server? Does anyone > have any good resources as

Re: Whitelist Dynamic List of IP's

2008-12-05 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 15:20 -0600, Matt wrote: > Is there a way to tell Spamassassin to whitelist a dynamic list of > IP's in a file? I have have a dynamic list of IP's called ./pop_hosts > that have checked email by pop3 within last 15 minutes and I would > like to white list them all if thats po

Re: whitelist_from_rcvd parsing error

2008-12-02 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 05:55 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > You need a second parameter to whitelist_from_rcvd. The second parameter > is the hostname (or fragment thereof) that should be found in the > Received: headers generated by the last internal host (ie: your mx). > This part does assume that

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