Re: Spamassassin not tagging some emails

2009-10-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, SpamAssassin DOES NOT bypass scanning, if the internal or trusted networks contain the server in it. Hmm.. thanks for correcting me. How would you, then, go about preventing SA from scanning the localhost or a specific domain without whitelisting that domain or range? Thanks, Alex

Re: Email / Inbox Speed Problems

2009-10-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I really hate to respond to this because it's so off-topic (how long did it take you to write that email, anyway?), but you're s missing the point that I just can't let it go, and it's slow on a late Friday night. Yet, you open up a new Mac and what's inside?  A PC motherboard and

Re: Elena wants an iron cast oven

2009-10-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, What's the business model of this scam? I can't believe they really want millions of iron cast ovens from all around the world. Maybe I should answer and ask directly ;D Long time since I've last seen one of these... My impression was, they want money of course. The victim falling for

Re: Elena wants an iron cast oven

2009-10-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, http://englishrussia.com/?p=2137 plenty of abandoned scrap metal already in Russia. Maybe they could blow it up like the brain surgeons did to that dead whale that was littering the beach in Oregon? # The Infamous Exploding Whale http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y Alex

Re: Spamassassin not tagging some emails

2009-10-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, On the message that should have been scanned: The emails that has not been tagged at all: [...] From: Angus - 3idea angus.d...@3idea.com To: supp...@3idea.com Are you forwarding this spam from your internal account to this other internal supp...@3idea.com account? It also looked like

hostkarma/uribl_black disparity

2009-10-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Over the past few days I have been investigating more closely email that wasn't tagged that I thought should have been, and vice-versa, using various factors, such as URIBL_BLACK and JMF_W. I'm very surprised that obvious hosts are on the URIBL_BLACK list, like receiveeweek.com. Even more

Re: Is there a WANTS_MY_INFO rule?

2009-10-17 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, In order to confirm you Web-Mail identity, you are to provide the following data; First Name: Last Name: Username/ID: Password: Date of Birth: Try John Hardin's fillform: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/rulesrc/sandbox/jhardin/?sortby=date Regards, Alex

Downloading sandbox rules

2009-10-17 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'd like to download a few of the rules from the SVN sandbox for testing without using svn for this. It used to be possible by clicking Download but in the last week or so the site was updated and that option is no longer available. Do I have to use svn now for this?

Re: Downloading sandbox rules

2009-10-17 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Sorry, just after I sent this I saw the message from yesterday about using svn. Thanks, Alex On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:24 PM, MySQL Student mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to download a few of the rules from the SVN sandbox for testing without using svn for this. It used

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-17 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, rawbody  __CCM_UNSUB /https?:..visitor\.constantcontact.com\/[^]{60,200}SafeUnsubscribe/ Ouch!  Rawbody, that hurts. Do you mean that it's much more resource-intensive than a regular body check? When is it necessary (or possible) to use it over the URIDetail substitute you mentioned?

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-16 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Does anybody here know anything about the legitimacy of Constant Contact http://www.constantcontact.com/anti_spam.jsp ? Sometimes abused, but too legit to outright block based on sending IP, imo. In addition to constantcontact, can I add the following to the list of hosts I'd like

Re: Constant Contact

2009-10-16 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, How is Constant Contact better than (say) GNU mailman for that purpose? I don't understand the concept of sending internal mail via an external third party... In addition to what's already been mentioned, CC also provides a nice template that people can drop their message into and click

Re: sneaky pharma spam shooting past standard rules

2009-10-15 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, With this:      Received: from public30108.xdsl.centertel.pl (HELO marcin-8963fd6f) (79.163.117.156) my postfix setup would have simply dropped it on the floor at the HELO/EHLO. If it doens't HELO with an FQDN and a proper rDNS, we don't talk to it. Kurt, can you explain how you're

Re: sneaky pharma spam shooting past standard rules

2009-10-15 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,        reject_invalid_helo_hostname,        reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname,        permit I'm currently using reject_non_fqdn_sender and reject_non_fqdn_recipient. I wanted to be sure I should use the two helo restrictions you've listed above

Re: Hostkarma whitelist needs something..

2009-10-14 Thread MySQL Student
Hi,  http://www.impsec.org/jhardin/antispam/ This should be: http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/antispam/ (note the missing tilde :-) Regards, Alex

Mismarked Ham

2009-10-14 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I thought I would look through the quarantine for BAYES_00 to see if there were any mis-marked messages or if bayes was not firing correctly, and I have found a few, although not how I expected it would be. Instead of finding BAYES_00 in spam, I've found it in ham that was pushed over the

Re: Mismarked Ham

2009-10-14 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, What makes you think any of the rules are incorrect? A score of 6.1 is not 100% (or even 99%, IIRC) spam. Incorrect in that at least one of the rules fired when they should not have, making the valid email to be marked as spam. there's a couple of things here. First, for some reason

Re: Mismarked Ham

2009-10-14 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm not sure which of those scored what. [...] Seconded. I do see quite a few custom rules. How much did they score? My apologies; I hadn't realized so much of it was non-standard. It's otherwise obviously not very possible to help without knowing what the rules are for if you haven't

Re: .cn Oddity

2009-10-11 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, We use some rules if we talk open about it and say hey this spammer is stupid look here, then it will take less then 12 hours and that gap is closed and we loose a valuable trick. yes its the way it is, spammers can also read maillists and adapt there spamming rules to get bypassed It

Re: Valid mail from blacklisted dynamic IPs

2009-10-10 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I also don't understand how SPF_SOFTFAIL could happen when there wasn't any SPF record to test to begin with. http://www.openspf.org/ i have no spf either http://old.openspf.org/wizard.html?mydomain=junc.orgsubmit=Go! :) But it's sent from cron, so the host is localhost. I definitely

Re: Valid mail from blacklisted dynamic IPs

2009-10-10 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have a set of users that are authorized to use the mail server via pop-before-smtp, but SA catches the mail they send through the system as spam because they are on blacklisted Verizon or Comcast IPs: why are they not using smtp authentication? I think you're referring to SASL? Some

Re: SA needs a new paradigm for rule structure

2009-10-09 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, What we need are rules that combine a lot of simple rules into concepts and then combine those rules into rules that score - and score big. As an example, [...] Yes, SA definitely needs that and sorely lacks this ultimate feature! Can I respectfully add to this that John Hardin has

Valid mail from .cn

2009-10-09 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Some portion of our users are from China. I hoped someone could help me troubleshoot the best way to permit a user from .cn to forward mail without improperly being tagged as spam, yet still block the majority of spam from .cn. Here's the SA report: X-Spam-Report: * 0.1

Fwd: SA needs a new paradigm for rule structure

2009-10-09 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I sent this message more than an hour ago, and it looks like it's yet to hit the list. Resending. Thanks, Alex -- Forwarded message -- From: MySQL Student mysqlstud...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:34 PM Subject: Re: SA needs a new paradigm for rule structure To: SA

Re: Valid mail from .cn

2009-10-09 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Could you ask them to provide ham samples for the automated masschecks?  We currently have none in the corpus so we cannot test the safety of rules against Chinese language mail. Yes, I know how important that is. I recall you mentioning that a few days ago. I think it would be quite

Re: Subject Rewrite Based on Score

2009-10-08 Thread MySQL Student
Hi,  I actually would be doing that but the filter does not know how to  handle int(), so I would have to build a filter for all possible number  combinations, but if I could just get SA to do the basic math for me and  write a header or subject I can filter off of that. We do something

Re: Subject Rewrite Based on Score

2009-10-08 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, That sounds overly complicated and like a lot of wasted cycles. Calling a Perl script for each message? What you just described sounds a hell of lot like this light-weight SA configuration: Yes, I should have mentioned that it is a copy of the mail that users receive and only visible by a

Re: Subject Rewrite Based on Score

2009-10-08 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, It still is spawning a Perl process per message. You can do away with that processing hog, if you use the add_header rule I mentioned before and have SA do it instead. You may be right. I'll have to investigate doing this for this specific user only. Thanks for the info. Thanks, Alex

Valid mail from blacklisted dynamic IPs

2009-10-08 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have a set of users that are authorized to use the mail server via pop-before-smtp, but SA catches the mail they send through the system as spam because they are on blacklisted Verizon or Comcast IPs: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.4 tag1=-300.0 tag2=5.0 kill=5.0 use_bayes=1 tests=BAYES_50,

Re: Valid mail from blacklisted dynamic IPs

2009-10-08 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Does your pop-before-smtp method cause your MTA to indicate they've been authed in the Received: header? I don't believe so. There doesn't appear to be anything additional in the header relating to pop-b4-smtp. I'm using postfix. Perhaps off-topic, but ideas on how to do this, if you think

Re: OT bad news

2009-10-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, It's a shame that, living in Denver, I will be *just* out of range of hearing the screams as the mailspools fill with viruses, malware, and massive payloads of Spanish Prinsoner spams. Awe, c'mon now. Yes, I agree SA is a better solution, but Microsoft didn't get to be a

Re: Uppercase E-mail in Latin America

2009-10-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, doesnt it appear to everyone else that this has the (slim to none) makings of a new urban legend? I have to admit that when Warren posted this, I went to snopes to check, and there was nothing there :-) Regards, Alex

Re: SpamAssassin Ruleset Generation

2009-10-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Other than the sought rules, all the rules are manually generated? Is there any statistics on how frequently are new rules/regex adopted by spamassasssin? Who are the people who write them? Any details related to Information on Justin Mason's SOUGHT rules is here:

Re: .cn Oddity

2009-10-02 Thread MySQL Student
Hi All, Regarding the .cn oddity, I added these to my rules, and of about 79k messages today so far, I have the following: uri LOC_URI_CN m;^https?://[^/?]+\.cn\b; uri T_CN_8_URL /[\/.]+\w{8}\.cn(?:$|\/|\?)/i LOC_URI_CN: 2926 T_CN_8_URL: 1634 HTH, Alex

Re: Hostkarma white list

2009-09-29 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, For those of you getting spam from IPs/Hostnames on my hostkarma white list, if you could email me a list of false hits (IP or host name) I could probable clean out the bad entries in the white list pretty quick. I'm not sure this is the best approach. I have a procmail recipe that

Re: Hostkarma Blacklist Climbing the Charts

2009-09-28 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, header RCVD_IN_JMF_W eval:check_rbl_sub('JMF-lastexternal', '127.0.0.1') describe RCVD_IN_JMF_W Sender listed in JMF-WHITE tflags RCVD_IN_JMF_W net nice score RCVD_IN_JMF_W -5 Hopefully my comment isn't out of place with the current discussion of JMF/Hostkarma. I think this is not only a

Re: New money/fraud spam

2009-09-27 Thread MySQL Student
Okay, my bad, please ignore. Damn google auto-complete. Alex On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:46 PM, MySQL Student mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Another batch of money spam attached. Everything is the same as the last time. Thanks, Alex

Sought regex problem

2009-09-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I posted bug 6198 a few weeks ago, and there have been no comments or fixes on it in two weeks, and I'm unsure what to do next. It's either not a bug and I'm doing something wrong or it's not significant enough to bother with the focus on v3.3. Thought someone might have some ideas here? I'm

Re: Sought regex problem

2009-09-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, [13204] dbg: config: read file /var/lib/spamassassin/3.002005/sought_rules_yerp_ org/20_sought.cf [13204] warn: config: invalid regexp for rule __SEEK_D52BRW:  grep doesn't find   __SEEK_D52BRW in my copy of the rules. This was from the sa-update when I submitted the bug report.

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Try using a local SA setup for stripping the headers. By local, I mean don't use your main production SA - run a separate copy with its own (cut down) configuration and all data base accesses and UBL calls etc turned off. Much better idea, thanks. Thanks for the script, too. Best, Alex

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-21 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Thank you all for your help. The mbox split suggestion is a good one. I'll follow that route and post my experience later. formail -s is the way to go. I thought about that as a component of procmail. Sounds great. Thanks, Alex

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-21 Thread MySQL Student
but this will invalidtate dkim headers if this headers is signed, are spamassassin aware of this problem ? (in general) Are you saying there is a bug? mutt -f mbox in mutt save to another folder if missclassified Yes, I use pine for that, but would like to eliminate as many of the FNs as

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-21 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, IIRC you previously mentioned using Pine. Just in case you're not aware the default format for Pine/Alpine is MBX, an extended version of MBOX. You can tell the difference because MBX mailboxes start with a dummy email that's hidden by the software. It seems that if you save messages

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-21 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, It's certainly not a fast operation, but using the following will split an mbox into individual messages: export FILENO=0 mkdir msgs formail -s sh -c 'cat - msgs/$FILENO' mbox-name.mbox I also created a loop that would strip all the SA headers from the messages: for file in *; do echo

Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have an mbox with about a 100 messages in it from a few days ago. The mbox is a combination of spam and ham. What is the best way to run SA through these messages again, so I can catch the ones that have URLs in them that weren't on the blacklist at the time they were received? Must I

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Do you just want to re-scan the whole mbox and see what rules hit now for research reasons? That's a good start, but I'd like to see if I can break out the ham to train bayes. There's no way to (directly) get SA to modify email that's already in an mbox file. The mass-check and sa-learn

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, You probably want spamassassin --mbox. :) It won't modify the messages in-place, but you can do something like spamassassin --mbox infile outfile. My apologies if it wasn't clear, but these messages have already been marked by SA. Some are ham, and the rest are FPs that I'd like to

Re: Re-running SA on an mbox

2009-09-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, You probably want spamassassin --mbox. :) It won't modify the messages in-place, but you can do something like spamassassin --mbox infile outfile. My apologies if it wasn't clear, but these messages have already been Wait, my mistake. I read that too fast. Does that work, and rewrite

URIBL_BLACK vs RCVD_IN_JMF_W

2009-09-18 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have been going through about 15MB of email generated from a procmail recipe searching for RCVD_IN_JMF_W, and you would not believe how many also match URIBL_BLACK or URIBL_GREY. Call me naive, but are there really that many providers that are unaware their clients are sending spam? (okay,

Re: Problems with high spam

2009-09-18 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, also if using amavisd make its temp dir on ram speed up scanning and it considered safe, mta have it on disk for the backup :) How about mounting /var with noatime? Does anyone do that? Do you think it helps? What Linux filesystem is best suited for this? ext4? Thanks, Alex

Re: URL rule creation question

2009-09-12 Thread MySQL Student
\s is the proper way to represent whitespace. lol, yes, I know that; I was actually trying to match 's' and the slash is the start of the pattern match. I wasn't referring to the beginning of the RE. Yeah, I realized that just after I sent this, if anyone cares :-) Thanks again, Alex

Re: URL rule creation question

2009-09-11 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, The 'doubleheadedrover' domain currently shows up in Razor(E8), uribl_black, surbl_jp, and invaluement. But it wasn't in all of those when he first started posting about it. Yes, that's correct. Thanks for your help. That's already caught a few. I have another that I thought you could

Re: JMF whitelist and RAZOR conflict

2009-09-11 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have several emails that are tagged with RCVD_IN_JMF_W, SPF_SOFTFAIL, and RAZOR2_CHECK such as this one: http://pastebin.com/m4a4d990e why accept SPF_SOFTFAIL ? cant this be solved ? I don't understand. I'm still learning how the SPF rules work. Shouldn't I be adding points for an

URL rule creation question

2009-09-10 Thread MySQL Student
Hi all, I've seen this pattern in spam quite a bit lately: href=http://doubleheaderover.com/jazert/html/?39.6d.3d.31.66.67.6b.79.77.63.77.63.65.6e.74.69.6e.6e.69 .61.6c.5f.68.31.33.33.2e.6f.39.39.41.4d.2e.30.30.45.33.39.2e.30.32.30.61.64.6b.37.61.76.61.67.63.31.66.

JMF whitelist and RAZOR conflict

2009-09-10 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have several emails that are tagged with RCVD_IN_JMF_W, SPF_SOFTFAIL, and RAZOR2_CHECK such as this one: http://pastebin.com/m4a4d990e Is the criteria for being listed on the JMF_W simply that it contains a domain that is whitelisted, despite whether it contains another URL that is

Re: JMF whitelist and RAZOR conflict

2009-09-10 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, http://pastebin.com/m4a4d990e Is the criteria for being listed on the JMF_W simply that it contains a domain that is whitelisted, despite whether it contains another URL that is blacklisted? I'm not sure what you are saying here, it's not as if the people running the whitelist could

Shortcircuit info

2009-08-31 Thread MySQL Student
Hi all, I'm trying to understand how shortcircuit works to ease some of the load on the severs. First, does anyone have any recommended metas that they use in their environment that might help? Can I add shortcircuit to an existing rule, or does the rule have to be designed to be used with

Re: Porn-portal spammers

2009-08-29 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I am getting rather tired from messages spamming porn-portals. They typically originate from hotmail.com, and advertise a porn-portal based on google.com/groups, google.com/reader, groups.yahoo.com, pipes.yahoo.com, spaces.live.com, docs.google.com, sites.google.com and livejournal.com.

Re: 3.3.0 alpha 2 on production mail servers / clusers ???

2009-08-29 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, On Saturday August 29 2009 19:47:32 R-Elists wrote: have many, or any of you folks on the list migrated your production servers to the 3.3.0 alpha 2 or later release? We are certainly one of them (actually running CVS head, which is pretty close to alpha2). About 1000 users here. Do we

Google/Yahoo Spam

2009-08-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi all, I'm seeing an increase in Google Reader and yahoo groups/personals/profile spam. Here's an example of the Google Reader spam: http://pastebin.com/m1021fc5f Any ideas on how to catch this one? For the Yahoo spam (with links to yahoo sites ending in '/1', I've created these: uri

Converting spam to email message

2009-08-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi all, I thought I understood, but I'm still having trouble converting a message in the quarantine back into a normal email message that I can forward on to a recipient. Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks so much. Best regards, Alex

Re: Converting spam to email message

2009-08-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I thought I understood, but I'm still having trouble converting a message in the quarantine back into a normal email message that I can forward on to a recipient. Does anyone know how to do this? Maybe I missed something, but SpamAssassin doesn't have a quarantine.

Training spam as ham and forwarding

2009-08-26 Thread MySQL Student
Hi SA users, I have a few messages found in the quarantine that I need to train as ham because they were marked as spam incorrectly. To do this, I added the following to the top of the file so it becomes a normal email: From DUMMY-LINE Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Is this correct? (without the

Re: lottery message scored hammy by bayes

2009-08-25 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, If you're using autolearning, what are your learning thresholds? What do you recommend for thresholds? I'm considering using autolearning, but very concerned about corrupting the database. I think I would use something like +15 for spam. There are FNs on occasion in the 2.x range with low

Re: spam mail with flagged style images

2009-08-21 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, mimeheader AS_090508_CTYP_PNG Content-Type =~ /image\/png/ mimeheader AS_090508_CTYP_JPG Content-Type =~ /image\/jpg/ mimeheader AS_090508_CTYP_JPEG Content-Type =~ /image\/jpeg/ All scored the same. Can be written as a single rule. I've spent some time and tried to refine

Re: spam mail with flagged style images

2009-08-21 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, mimeheader LOC_CTYP_IMG  ((Content-Type =~ /image\/png/) || (Content-Type =~ /image\/jpg/) || (Content-Type =~ /image\/jpeg/) || I thought this passed through my --lint, but I only caught it the second time. I was looking around for the (new) right way to do it, and found this in

Re: spam mail with flagged style images

2009-08-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Text added to e-mail is a bogus one, never repeated, same as the old styled spam mail with attached images. The OCR doesn't detect nothing, I understand because of flagged effect. Also, image file name changes, if it have. A few of these have slipped through on my systems, but for the

Junkmailfilter rules

2009-08-20 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I've been using the junkmailfilter rules for a few days now, and it's doing quite well. It occurred to me that I might be able to use the RCVD_IN_JMF_W rule filter whitelisted domain mail, and use that to train bayes ham. Would this work? There of course would be mail from

Re: sa-update: stuck at 795855?

2009-08-19 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, The problem is that the spammers test with the SA rulesets as soon as they are released, which is why the rulesets become ineffective. I'm not sure I agree with that. If this were the case, I would have a lot less spam with scores of 50 or more, which obviously aren't even trying to do

Re: Assistence needed with spamassasin under RedHat 5.2

2009-08-19 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, spamassasin.  I have a test message which is genuine.  Running this through spamassasin with -t (test) mode as described below gives the output below: Running : spamassassin -t /tmp/rose2 gives at the bottom the following (edited for privacy) report. Try adding some debugging output,

Re: gpgkey failures with sa-update

2009-08-19 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, list.  No errors reported then, and I've now forgotten the url. www.yerp.org now gets me a webmail login screen, so obviously that wasn't it.  Toss that url to me and I'll replay it again. You should be able to search through your browser history, no? With Firefox v3.5, you can also just

Re: Counting RAZOR2 hits

2009-08-17 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, You can also set your min_cf in your razor config files, which will affect when the RAZOR2_CHECK rule fires. This does work in SpamAssassin, as I have over-ridden the min_cf on my own system, and have done so for years. Thanks to everyone for their great ideas thus far. I'm looking

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-16 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, So perhaps instead of adding another RBL, maybe some admins need to consider adding in some HELO checking / rejection. Can you explain a bit more here? What are you checking for, that the host is valid? Thanks, Alex

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-15 Thread MySQL Student
Hi,                            Unknown user 32.00% (32.00%)            87427696                              Greylisted 24.88% (16.92%)            46225401                               Throttled 11.03% (5.64%)             15399444                     Relay access denied 0.01%  (0.00%)        

Re: Barracuda RBL in first place

2009-08-15 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, What log script do you good people use to generate the list above ? Is it a home brew or one we can download so we can compare our own hits ? http://www.rulesemporium.com/programs/sa-stats.txt Any chance someone knows where there is a compatible one that parses amavisd instead of spamd?

Counting RAZOR2 hits

2009-08-15 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I thought grep -c RAZOR2_CHECK through my mail logs would give me a good approximation of the number of times RAZOR2 was consulted, but that doesn't seem to be the case. There are some mails that don't have it listed in the tests= section. I've also tried the razor-* commands, and they don't

Elusive spam

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm having trouble catching a particular type of spam, and hoped someone had some time to take a look: http://pastebin.com/d57336542 It doesn't match RAZOR2, or any of the URI lists, and it's only BAYES_50. I have a pretty well-established BAYES db, so I'm surprised it's only BAYES_50. What

Re: Elusive spam

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Maybe this will sound dumb but wouldn't it be perfectly safe to blacklist example.com after all, that isn't a domain your ever going to get mail from. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing the example.com is the OP's munging. Yes, that's correct. My apologies. Best, Alex

Re: Elusive spam

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Are we to make guesses on what else might be munged? Is just example.com munged or the 172.0.0.1 also munged? Just the domain was munged. Thanks for the info. I should have been able to figure that out. Thanks, Alex

Re: Elusive spam

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, it hits spamhaus, and spamcop, what more do you want ? meta haus_cop (spamhaus spamcop) score haus_cop 5 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=4.8 tagged_above=-300.0 required=5.0 use_bayes=1 tests=BAYES_50, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB, RCVD_IN_XBL,

Re: Elusive spam

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0 2.188 0 1.960 # n=0 n=2 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_XBL 0 2.896 0 3.033 # n=0 n=2 70_relay_country.cf:score           RELAYCOUNTRY_US 0.1 50_scores.cf:score RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB 0 1.117 0 0.619 # n=0 n=2 50_scores.cf:score BAYES_50 0 0 0.001 0.001

Post trips pastebin spam filter

2009-08-12 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have another spam message that is very elusive, and thought someone might be able to take a look. I tried to post it to pastebin, and its spam filter apparently catches it, and prevents me from posting. It's definitely in the header. Is there something else I can do to post it, or does

Scores, razor, and other questions

2009-08-07 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, After another day of hacking, I have a handful of general questions that I hoped you could help me to answer. - How can I find the score of a particular rule, without having to use grep? I'm concerned that I might find it at some score, only for it to be redefined somewhere else that I

RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm trying to configure RelayCountry. I have it installed, and SA recognizes it: # spamassassin --lint -D 21|grep -i country [4278] dbg: diag: module installed: IP::Country::Fast, version 604.001 [4278] dbg: plugin: loading Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry from @INC [4278] dbg:

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I don't know if it makes a difference, but I call it Relay-Countries to match the name of the pseudo-header used in the tests add_header all Relay-Countries          _RELAYCOUNTRY_ It doesn't appear to make a difference. I must be doing something else wrong. Using spamassassin --lint -D

Anti-Phishing and Spear-Phishing Version 2

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Has anyone tried the phishing rules generated by Julian Field and developed by Google? It looks really neat: http://www.jules.fm/Logbook/files/anti-phishing-v2.html It's basically a list of 3.5k email addresses found in email thought to be spam. Looks to be developed by Google, so it's

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, [23760] dbg: metadata: X-Relay-Countries: The --lint test is *NOT* valid for this. --lint is *ONLY* to verify your config files are parseable. Yes, thanks, I should have known that, and I think I did. I mentioned in the previous post that I tried it with a real message, and even viewed a

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, This is also why the plugin works and you do get the per-country rule hits, but don't get the SA Relay-Countries header. Yes, you are correct. Thanks for the lead and the explanation. Here's a thread that talks about how to add the header for amavisd:

Re: RelayCountry Config

2009-08-06 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I find ordinary header and meta rules are all I need: http://pastebin.com/f5e5232d1 Among those rules you have: meta RELAYCOUNTRY_MED ! RELAYCOUNTRY_HIGH ( __RELAYCOUNTRY_AF || __RELAYCOUNTRY_AS || __RELAYCOUNTRY_EU_S || __RELAYCOUNTRY_OC_S || __RELAYCOUNTRY_AM_S ) It's

Upgrading bayes DB

2009-08-04 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm still working on my bayes training project, but also trying to upgrade the bayes DB due to upgrading perl and all the associated modules. I started with this output from sa-learn --dump magic 0.000 0 3 0 non-token data: bayes db version 0.000 0

Bayes training

2009-08-03 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, We have accumulated quite a large list of whitelisted users, primarily because they were previously tagged incorrectly. I've extracted a copy of all whitelisted mail into a separate mbox. Certainly there is some spam in there as well, but assuming I only learn the ham, would it make sense to

Upgrading perl modules for SA

2009-07-30 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I recently upgraded perl from 5.6.0 to perl-5.10.0, along with all the modules necessary for sa-3.2.5 and amavisd-new (an old version still). I'm now having a problem that I really don't understand: Jul 30 14:24:30 bigship amavis[1757]: (01757-175) TROUBLE in check_mail:

Re: Upgrading perl modules for SA

2009-07-30 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, check_mail: decoding2-get-file-types FAILED: 'file' utility (/usr/bin/file) failed, status=1 (256 ) at /usr/sbin/amavisd line How's this a SA question? Yes, my apologies. I don't know enough about amavis yet, and thought it may be related to all the modules I upgraded, and not amavis

Re: Low Scoring Lotto Spam

2009-07-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi,        *  3.0 RCVD_IN_UCEPROTECT2 RBL: Received via a relay in        *      dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net        *      [81.202.69.68 listed in dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net]        *  2.0 RCVD_IN_UCEPROTECT3 RBL: Received via a relay in        *      dnsbl-3.uceprotect.net        *      

Re: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-27 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I'm looking an email that appears to be one of the users from the whitelist, but instead was from: From probesqt...@segunitb1.freeserve.co.uk Mon Jul 27 19:49:19 2009 Why can't a comparison be made between the From: info and the actual sender? Is this because of virtual domains and/or

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Please don't paste examples to this list. Please post them to pastebin (or a similar service) and then include the link. .. Yes, understood. FWIW, I know enough to not post an entire message with headers to the list -- I'm sure half the time it would be filtered anyway. This time it was

Re: Lotto/Money email address spam

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, sa-update lint checks the rules in a sandbox, and does not update the local channel, if there are any issues. Moreover, do NOT copy these updates to your site config dir -- but keep it in the update dir where sa-update puts them [1]. SA knows how to use them instead of the install-time

Re: whitelist_from questions

2009-07-23 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, Firstly, before you convert all these to whitelist_from_rcvd, perhaps you ought to ask yourself whether you really need 1000 entries on your whitelist. I'm surprised you were the first to make that very comment, so thanks. Does mail from these addresses actually get miscategorised as

Eliminating unnecessary rules

2009-07-22 Thread MySQL Student
Hi, I have created a routine where I can enter a string into a text file and it gets converted into a set of rules that form a cf file. They are all of the form LOCAL_RULE_N, where N is a random 6-digit number. Two points are added if the rule is triggered. There are now about 3800 of these

Re: Spam troubleshooting

2009-07-22 Thread MySQL Student
How effective are razor/pyzor and SPF/DKIM? very effective, razor/pyzor altogether with DCC. SPF also helps much, although it should be implemented at SMTP level and refuse all messages that cause (hard) fail. While DKIM is currently in SA, the only place it currently applies is

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