RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: LuKreme [mailto:krem...@kreme.com] Sent: Thursday, 17 December 2009 4:59 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: emailreg.org - tainted white list On 16-Dec-2009, at 16:11, Michael Hutchinson wrote: So far only 1 person on this list has

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
The trouble with this is how often are these rules being re-examined and re-evaluated? Not that often. HABEAS has been through three iterations since those rules were set at −4 and −8. What is enabled by default should be the safest possible settings. Relying on a third party that is

RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
But I will miss (a) the entertainment value of some of his posts (his dark forces one from earlier today was a classic) --AND-- last but not least--I will miss his willingness to break through the political correctness and bring up various points that few others were willing (or brave

RE: [sa] RE: emailreg.org - tainted white list

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, The taunting *is* the issue. The rest of the arguments, about design and defaults, are carried on by numerous individuals in a quite civilized manner. But when someone starts throwing arond stupid accusations, then the person attacked focuses their efforts on 'defending' themselves,

RE: HABEAS_ACCREDITED SPAMMER

2009-11-30 Thread Michael Hutchinson
I do note that the company concerned continues spamming on a daily basis and remains white listed: 80.75.69.201 sa-accredit.habeas.com list.dnswl.org So please, spare me the sob story about what a wonderful idea HABEAS is. Talk is cheap, action speaks louder than words. +1 to that. I

RE: Geocities closed

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Mike Cardwell [mailto:spamassassin-us...@lists.grepular.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:54 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Geocities closed Alex wrote: Thought I would pass along that geocities closed up and went home today:

RE: Geocities closed

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk [mailto:rich...@buzzhost.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 3:00 a.m. Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Geocities closed I just found this one working:

RE: Non scoring 'Bank Deposit' spam

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: --[ UxBoD ]-- [mailto:ux...@splatnix.net] Sent: Monday, 14 September 2009 11:27 p.m. To: Matus UHLAR - fantomas Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Non scoring 'Bank Deposit' spam - Matus UHLAR - fantomas uh...@fantomas.sk wrote: | On

RE: Drivel

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Charles Gregory [mailto:cgreg...@hwcn.org] Sent: Tuesday, 15 September 2009 9:34 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Drivel On Mon, 14 Sep 2009, Clunk Werclick wrote: (more drivel) Good users all. Never heard of a troll? Nonsensical.

RE: antispam comparison by virus bulletin

2009-09-06 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: mouss [mailto:mo...@ml.netoyen.net] Sent: Monday, 7 September 2009 9:59 a.m. To: Justin Mason Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: antispam comparison by virus bulletin Justin Mason a écrit : In fairness, they got in touch to ask for help in

RE: Your message to the Irish Online Help Desk Re: ObfuscationQuestion

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:guent...@rudersport.de] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 1:34 p.m. To: Irish Online Help Desk Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Your message to the Irish Online Help Desk Re: ObfuscationQuestion See, this is one of the

OT: RE: your mail

2009-08-20 Thread Michael Hutchinson
+1 to that. I'm sick of seeing people being flamed in here. Makes you not want to post, TBH. Michael Hutchinson -Original Message- From: Evan Platt [mailto:e...@espphotography.com] Sent: Friday, 21 August 2009 3:18 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: your mail At 07

RE: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
that is delivered has dropped so significantly since then is... quite remarkable. (at a loss for other words). So perhaps instead of adding another RBL, maybe some admins need to consider adding in some HELO checking / rejection. Thanks and Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: received-header: unparseable:

2009-08-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:cpoll...@embarqmail.com] Sent: Monday, 17 August 2009 10:45 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: received-header: unparseable: I keep seeing this when running some messages throught spamassassin -D -t. Is this having an effect on

OT: RE: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
, but do not use that. We have made 6 exceptions for hosts that do not pass the HELO argument properly, that are out of our control, but known to our network (ie: trusted via VPN, etc). They haven't relayed any Spam either ;) Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: Any one interested in using a proper forum?

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Hutchinson
be Administering a Mail Filtering system at all. Just my 2cents. Michael Hutchinson.

RE: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-22 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- If you get an E-Mail scoring in both Pyzor and DCC, the chances are very high that the message is Spam. We only deal with around 90,000 incoming delivery attempts per day - but have not had a false positive from Pyzor or DCC yet, and have been using both for

RE: Pyzor or DCC

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Hutchinson
see FP's it would be a surprise, and the first I've heard of it, personally. Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-08 Thread Michael Hutchinson
memory well consumed for performance reasons. (Debian 3.1 Sarge). That looks good. These are superficial suggestions, of course. They all help, John. Thanks for your response and ideas! :) Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Hutchinson
locally with network tests enabled. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated ;) Thanks and Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Limited

RE: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello Matt, thanks for the response. -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:mkettler...@verizon.net] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 11:26 a.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hello everyone

RE: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello Dave, -Original Message- From: Dave Koontz [mailto:dkoo...@mbc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 11:34 a.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf Michael Hutchinson wrote ... (4/7/2009 7:09 PM): I have made some changes

RE: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:guent...@rudersport.de] Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 11:31 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:09 +1200, Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone know

RE: 20_dnsbl_tests.cf

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Hutchinson
MailServer:~/spamassassin# spamassassin -D dns -t /root/SpamA.txt [27256] dbg: dns: is Net::DNS::Resolver available? yes [27256] dbg: dns: Net::DNS version: 0.61 You might want to fire up CPAN and upgrade Net::DNS. [choke]. The last time I used CPAN for upgrading anything on this box, it

RE: JoeJobbed - Vbounce plugin - SPF?.

2009-03-18 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas [mailto:uh...@fantomas.sk] Sent: Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:17 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: JoeJobbed - Vbounce plugin - SPF?. On 17.03.09 14:02, Michael Hutchinson wrote: I'm running Spamassassin 3.1.7, with netqmail

JoeJobbed - Vbounce plugin - SPF?.

2009-03-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
publish them) but I guess that's an MTA question:) Thanks in advance for any useful information :) Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: Hopfield nerons for porn image detection

2009-03-03 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz [mailto:luis.daniel.lu...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2009 9:19 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Hopfield nerons for porn image detection Good one, Hopfield networks are not the fastest, but they can

OT: RE: URI with spaces are not recognized

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
plenty of people are greedy, gullible, uninformed, overly trusting, stupid, or some combination of the above This also means: Anyone that doesn't use a computer as much as an E-Mail administrator You can't expect everyone to know enough about Spam to not be fooled by it. The reason people do

RE: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::TXT

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Hutchinson
. HTH Cheers, Michael Hutchinson -Original Message- From: mouss [mailto:mo...@ml.netoyen.net] Sent: Thursday, 22 January 2009 9:40 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Can't locate object method new via package Net::DNS::RR::TXT Brian J. Murrell a écrit : I seem

RE: help please

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello brunope...@aol.com, Though it might sound mean to the un-initiated, I totally agree with Kai. If you have a Mail Server admin, and they are putting the job of fixing Spamassassin on the user, they are not doing their job. You may need a new Mail Server admin. Make a complaint to

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, You could write a Meta rule that contained two sub rules - one for matching The Bat! mailer, and the other matching the chat.ru link at the bottom. Fire a score if both rules hit. It may not be optimal, but it got rid of that Spam for me, and I haven't had a FP yet. If you check out

RE: Russian spam

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, Be careful with the character-set matching rules. I was using some of them and got a high rate of FP's - it was mainly because of the koi8-r charset, and scoring against that meant I was also scoring against perfectly legitimate technical resource newsletters that are in English.

TO: and FROM: line are the same.

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, There was some discussion on this list a while back about catching Spam that contains the same E-Mail address in the TO and FROM lines. I think it was decided that this could not be done, for some reason. I just read a post on the SARE mailing list from Tom Brown containing some rules

RE: TO: and FROM: line are the same.

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Hutchinson
I was just supplying info I found that related to an earlier discussion, that might be useful to some rule writers out there. I found it interesting that someone had discovered how to match TO and FROM in S.A. But yes, MTA level would be better. Sorry if I missed any archives that detailed

RE: Spam slipping through

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
,__TVD_BODY,__TVD_MIME_ATT_TP But must have missed enough for the combined rules not to fire. Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd -Original Message- From: Greg Skouby [mailto:gsko...@mail.sitesnow.com] On Behalf Of Greg Skouby Sent: 18 December 2008 9:50 a.m. To: users

RE: bohunu

2008-12-04 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4 December 2008 3:39 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: bohunu On Wednesday 03 December 2008 7:01 pm, Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hello, I was using Pyzor until about 2 months ago. It was quite

RE: bohunu

2008-12-03 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Niels Przybilla [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3 December 2008 6:01 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: bohunu Hi, is somebody here using bohunu.com Is it worth testing it ? BR Niels Hello, I was using Pyzor until about 2 months

Spamassassin Restart and E-Mail being scanned at time of restart.

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Hutchinson
what the score is here? Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd | Phone: 0800 328 324 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Web: http://www.manux.co.nz/

RE: False Positive on SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION rule

2008-09-30 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Ned Slider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1 October 2008 12:15 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: False Positive on SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION rule Ned Slider wrote: Hi List, I'm getting some FP hits against the SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION rule in

RE: New free blacklist: BRBL - Barracuda Reputation Block List

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello All, There were so many messages regarding this new Block List, I have to admit I have not read them all. I get the general idea that this new Barracuda Reputation Block List isn't all that hot. For instance, how do Barracuda generate their Block List? I don't think this has been answered

SPAM message received - but should not have been delivered.

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
to deliver a message who's recipients don't exist here? Thanks for any help in advance, Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd | Phone: 0800 328 324 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Web: http://www.manux.co.nz/

RE: SPAM message received - but should not have been delivered. [Solved]

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Hutchinson
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org... the apache listserv turns around and Bcc's all the messages it gets to all of its recipients. Well, that does make good sense. Thank-you Matt for the quick and informative reply :) Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd

RE: MagicSpam

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hello, I really don't see how Spamassassin is not up to par, considering many high end Net App's use Spamassassin and promote corporate level products that include it. Maybe it needs to be configured correctly? In fact, I don't think I've seen any real rival to Spamassassin - except, maybe,

RE: CPAN Install Fails

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: James Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3 September 2008 7:23 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: CPAN Install Fails Bob Cohen wrote: I'm running Fedora v9. All of the prerequisite and optional modules installed with no problem.

RE: adding score for email from noreply@

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Perl itself a little better... I bought a book to do that :) HTH, Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Limited.

RE: e greeting exe link

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
light shed upon the matter, Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions

RE: e greeting exe link

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2008 1:35 p.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: e greeting exe link On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote: I would be hoping to match the same sort

RE: e greeting exe link [SOLVED]

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 August 2008 1:49 p.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: e greeting exe link Michael Hutchinson wrote: But only match it from the last trailing / character. In other

RE: HELP!! spamasssin killing my server

2008-06-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: doktour1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 11 June 2008 08:02 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: HELP!! spamasssin killing my server If I disable spamassassin in my procmail file. The server load goes down to 85 or less processes in a

RE: Pyzor DCC

2008-05-04 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 3 May 2008 10:14 a.m. To: users Subject: Pyzor DCC When already running Spamassassin with Razor how much would adding Pyzor and DCC to the mix help? Matt Pyzor certainly helped our site, but not as much as Razor.

RE: Using Pzyor with high volume

2008-05-01 Thread Michael Hutchinson
In regards to Pyzor. I'm wondering if anyone out there is using this at any large scale. Unlike the razor-agent which appears to be a Perl module that gets loaded at startup, I'm concerned about SA having to exec the python interpreter and having that setup/teardown time for each and every

RE: Canadian Spam - tired of writing rules!

2008-04-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2008 8:48 a.m. To: James Wilkinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Canadian Spam - tired of writing rules! James Wilkinson writes: Michael Hutchinson wrote: There's been

RE: Dnsbl checks

2008-04-27 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 April 2008 9:08 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Spamassassin Users Subject: Re: Dnsbl checks =?utf-8?B?V2lsbGlhbSBUYXlsb3I=?= writes: I'm having some issues getting the dns blacklists to work on a

RE: SPF and Hotmail

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Benny Pedersen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 April 2008 7:25 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: SPF and Hotmail On Wed, April 16, 2008 00:14, Michael Hutchinson wrote: domain: def_whitelist_auth [EMAIL PROTECTED] user

RE: Upgrading

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
, /Hiram Michael Hutchinson-3 wrote: -Original Message- Sir, You or someone else, has managed to break apt-get's info about S.A. Im not going into fixing that, that is a Debian question. You need to download the package manually with 'wget'. You can apt-get

SPF and Hotmail

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
? Cheers, Michael Hutchinson Manux Solutions Ltd Phone: 0800 328 324 | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.manux.co.nz/

Canadian Spam - tired of writing rules!

2008-04-13 Thread Michael Hutchinson
to. Is there any way around this? I know there is a SARE ruleset against Pharmacy Spam, but I am very hesitant to employ it because we have several clients that are pharmacy outlets, and I worry those rules will burn them. Thanks in advance, for any information. Michael Hutchinson Manux

RE: Upgrading

2008-04-13 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: hiram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 April 2008 4:32 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Hi again! Sorry, that's what my wife means when she says: you hear but you don't listen :-((. Thanks for the answers. Still, I

DNS Blocklists with Spamassassin (scoring only)

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
FAQ, they have a trailing full-stop after the address name and I don't know if this is right or not. And, is local.cf the correct place to setup URIBL's? Thanks for any information in advance, Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: DNS Blocklists with Spamassassin (scoring only)

2008-04-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Kelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 April 2008 11:20 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: DNS Blocklists with Spamassassin (scoring only) Michael Hutchinson wrote: uridnsbl URIBL_DSBL list.dsbl.org. TXT body URIBL_DSBL

RE: Listing all rules and all scores

2008-04-09 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Craig Cocca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 April 2008 6:40 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Listing all rules and all scores Spamassassin Users, Is there an easy way to get spamassassin to list out all of the rules and all of the

RE: spamassassin lint warnings

2008-04-02 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Rodney Green [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 3 April 2008 12:35 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: spamassassin lint warnings Thanks Mike. However, I'm getting the same warnings for a majority of the .cf files in

RE: spamassassin lint warnings

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Rod G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2008 1:26 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: spamassassin lint warnings Hello. I'm running SA 3.2.4. When I run spamassassin --lint -D I get a bunch of warnings like those below. I'm

RE: Failed to check the emails

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Jason Haar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 31 March 2008 12:38 p.m. To: SpamAssassin Subject: Re: Failed to check the emails Piotr Zalewa wrote: But some are coming not being checked ... I can find this in the header of the message: with

RE: Failed to check the emails

2008-03-30 Thread Michael Hutchinson
,__MSGID_OK_HOST,__M SO E_MID_WRONG_CASE,__NONEMPTY_BODY,__SANE_MSGID,__UNUSABLE_MSGID As I said - emails sent normally from other servers are being checked for spam Piotr On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 13:02 +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: -Original Message- From: Jason Haar [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: SA-update error

2008-03-26 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Dennis Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 27 March 2008 3:18 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: SA-update error Using Spamassassin 3.1.8. I haven't updated SA in about six months. Ran SA-update -D using the default channel of

RE: Cyrillic spam

2008-03-24 Thread Michael Hutchinson
any Eastern European languages- is there a quick way to catch these? On 20.03.08 08:54, Michael Hutchinson wrote: You could use the ok_languages and ok_locales settings. I'm sure discussions on those can be found in the archives. that should be enough imho. CHARSET_FARAWAY

RE: blogspot spam

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Yet Another Ninja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 1:48 a.m. To: Arvid Ephraim Picciani Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: blogspot spam On 3/19/2008 1:24 PM, Arvid Ephraim Picciani wrote: On Wednesday 19 March 2008

RE: Cyrillic spam

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Mike Pepe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 5:18 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Cyrillic spam For some strange reason, I'm seeing Cyrillic spams very frequently lately. None of my users read any Eastern European

RE: blogspot spam

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Arvid Ephraim Picciani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 9:04 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: blogspot spam On Wednesday 19 March 2008 20:48:00 Michael Hutchinson wrote: For those that don't run SA 3.2.3, you

RE: Re: Cyrillic spam

2008-03-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NFN Smith Sent: Thursday, 20 March 2008 1:54 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Cyrillic spam Michael Hutchinson wrote: -Original Message- From: Mike Pepe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RBL's at Spamassassin time.

2008-03-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
doesn't seem to be enough to keep the Spam down to a reasonable level. Thanks in advance, Michael Hutchinson.

RE: Plugin eval failed

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Jean-Paul Natola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 14 March 2008 12:09 p.m. To: SpamAssassin Subject: Plugin eval failed Hi all, I upgraded to sa 3.2.4 And I've been restarting spamd every 15 minutes just to keep mail coming in, This is

RE: directly going to spam folder in yahoo

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
From: Agnello George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 7:07 p.m. To: Spamassassin Subject: directly going to spam folder in yahoo HI i am facing a problem from sending mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to my yahoo account , i receive the

RE: How to catch gibberish spam before URIBL lists it?

2008-03-16 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Bob Proulx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 17 March 2008 2:10 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: How to catch gibberish spam before URIBL lists it? These eventually show up in the URIBL but with the start of the wave they are not

Testing Bayes Database

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hi all, A few months ago we had to restart our Bayes database, as it went corrupt, according to SA at the time. This was during an SA upgrade, and I believe it was a faulty install that caused this. Our old database was running for years and is rather large ( I still have copies ). The new one

Spamassassin not checking a particular Email.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
Hi all, Another query.. another busy SA day. I have a piece of Spam that is getting through to one of our biggest clients. I have written rules to tag this Spam, but it is as if it isn't even being checked by Spamassassin. I have checked our qmail control files to ensure we are spamchecking the

RE: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Rick Macdougall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 11:01 a.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email. Michael Hutchinson wrote: Hi all, Another query

RE: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: D Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:23 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email. On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 18:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Michael Hutchinson

RE: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email.

2008-03-10 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Michael Hutchinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 March 2008 1:09 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Spamassassin not checking a particular Email. On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 at 18:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: SNIP

RE: giberish

2008-03-03 Thread Michael Hutchinson
up rewriting those rules every day in favour of this one. Cheers, Michael Hutchinson.

RE: any rules for this?

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Hutchinson
changes. PS beware the forward and backslash characters, they will need to be escaped with a single \ each. Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: Please help with rule

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Hutchinson
for every other site, antivirus checking, and spamassasssin checking are switched on, plus we block the listed attachments outright. Sorry if you don't run Simscan, just thought I'd post my $0.2 Cheers, Michael Hutchinson

RE: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Hutchinson
mail, like a mail server should. Cheers Michael Hutchinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [OT] Yahoo Deferred

2008-02-25 Thread Michael Hutchinson
I have tried different approaches, and let us not forget I have filled out 3 whitelist forms, and received no response from Yahoo. Their service is breaking RFC's by not delivering mail. They are ignorant towards other companies trying to use their service. But they do deliver the mail.

RE: Installation on SpamAssassin

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: jeco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 February 2008 1:55 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Installation on SpamAssassin Hi to all members here, I'm a new member and would like to ask help on how to install SpamAssassin? Aside

RE: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
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

RE: Suggestions to block this spam

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Bazooka Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 11:22 a.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: Suggestions to block this spam I too am getting dozens of these emails that are going right through SA + pyzor + dcc.

RE: How to Know

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Tarak Ranjan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 1:24 a.m. To: Spamassassin Subject: How to Know Hi List, how do i come to know that each and every incoming outgoing mail is massing through SA. / Tarak Hmm. Is this Spam?

FW: Suggestions to block this spam

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 3:33 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Suggestions to block this spam On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:26 +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: You'll be lucky to catch

FW: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- 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

FW: Nice girl like to chat spam

2008-02-18 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: ItsMikeE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 18 February 2008 11:33 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Nice girl like to chat spam For some time now I have been getting spams that look like Hello! I am tired this evening. I am nice girl

RE: user_prefs: mind the linebreak

2008-02-18 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 February 2008 4:43 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: user_prefs: mind the linebreak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MK Why would there ever be a problem fitting on

RE: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- For the most part you can match any character by the appearance of the character. Any character with special meaning needs to be escaped in some way. The easiest way is usually with a backslash, but in some cases you can also do it by making it a member of a

FW: Rule for Russian character sets (=?koi8-r? not quite acharset)

2008-02-17 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message-snipsnip We don't want to only allow the English locale, because we (here at my work) do not want our international clients (non Russian) to be denied email service. ok_locales en ja ko th zh This will allow anything but Cyrillic char sets. Please note that

RE: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- We're suddenly getting a ton of spam with koi8-r encoding...I tried to do a custom rule for it like this: header SUBJ_RUSS_CHAR Subject =~/koi8-r/i describe SUBJ_RUSS_CHAR has Russian char encoding score SUBJ_RUSS_CHAR3.5

RE: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 2:19 p.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule for Russian character sets On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote: Are we not meant

FW: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 3:07 p.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Subject: RE: Rule for Russian character sets On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote: Now what about matching a question mark and an equals sign

RE: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: John Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 3:07 p.m. To: Michael Hutchinson Subject: RE: Rule for Russian character sets On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote: Now what about matching a question mark and an equals sign

RE: Rule for Russian character sets

2008-02-14 Thread Michael Hutchinson
-Original Message- From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 15 February 2008 3:43 p.m. To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Rule for Russian character sets On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:19 +1300, Michael Hutchinson wrote: [...] Does anyone have

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