Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Ask List
We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating system to run spam assassin. So we have decided to post this question to the mailing list so we can have other opinions. I realize everyone will have a different opinion on the subject and some will have none at all, linux is linux

Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Ask List
Ask List askthelist at gmail.com writes: We can not seem to come to an agreement on the best operating system to run spam assassin. So we have decided to post this question to the mailing list so we can have other opinions. I realize everyone will have a different opinion on the subject

Re: Re: Which Operating Systems Do You Use and Why?

2006-04-06 Thread Ask List
Gary W. Smith gary at primeexalia.com writes: Better question, what do you want to run? This might better help us address the pros/cons. -Original Message- From: news [mailto:news at sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Ask List Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 12:54 PM To: users

Re: Cathy Caparula emails

2006-04-06 Thread List Mail User
... Anyone else seeing these? These are really one of the very few things that are still sneaking through: How are you, Cathy Caparula ME dical Ree-fill for Cathy Caparula is ready. Please re-confirm your information. http://geocities.com/VickieBarrett4208 Your order info as per our

Re: Is Spamassassin failing math?

2006-04-05 Thread List Mail User
... Loren Wilton wrote: 3 decimal places, not 3 significant digits. ie: 10.001 has 5 significant digits, but 3 decimal places. AFAIK there are no SA rules with scores more exact than 3 decimal places. So, no.. you would not have any rounding issues at that point. Yes you would, or

Re: Amusing spam

2006-04-01 Thread List Mail User
... I'm not sure if this on was a legitimate spam or if it was a troll from someone that didn't like this company... Loren ... They look like a quite legitimate company, but a little sloppy (check out the registration for cyberservicesllc.com - which is them also). They appear

Re: Broken FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK checks

2006-03-31 Thread List Mail User
... Michael Monnerie wrote: Hi, I get some legitimate newletter that's incorrectly marked as FORGED_OUTLOOK. Could someone fix that tests? Others may have that problem, too. (almost) full message at http://zmi.at/x/ham01.txt mfg zmi Are you sure that is a valid OE-email? Doesn't appear to

Re: Trusted or internal networks not recognized

2006-03-29 Thread List Mail User
... mouss wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: While daryl's comment here isn't entirely on the mark, it is close. Daryl, read the docs closer. SA does accept this format. Stephan, If you want to do an implied mask to cover a whole, you MUST end in a . ie: you must use 10. not 10. If you fail to

Re: Adult spam hitting only Bayes

2006-03-25 Thread List Mail User
I have three samples of what looks like the same adult spam. When I first received it, it scored 0 points. Training on the first sample now scores Bayes_99, but nothing else. Each sample adds itself to DCC, but subsequent ones are not hitting DCC at all, until I train on those. I can add

Re: exceptions

2006-03-24 Thread List Mail User
Larry wrote: Can I blacklist a domain but make an exception for one person in that domain? Like; blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the exception of [EMAIL PROTECTED] blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] won't blacklist [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now blacklist_from

error after upgraded to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Spamassassin List
Hi List, After upgraded SA from 3.10 to 3.11, ran spamassassin --lint, encountered the error as follows:- [21824] warn: config: SpamAssassin failed to parse line, SARE_MLB_Stock3 .794 is not valid for score, skipping: scoreSARE_MLB_Stock3 .794 [21824] warn: config: SpamAssassin

Re: error after upgraded to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Spamassassin List
Leading zeros are required for values between (-1,1). Thanks. After examine all the rules, found out that 70_sare_stocks.cf is causing it. It contains lines like:- body SARE_MLB_Stock3 /Last[ _](?:Trade|Price)[ :]/i scoreSARE_MLB_Stock3 .794 bodySARE_LWSAFEH

Re: error after upgraded to 3.11

2006-03-13 Thread Spamassassin List
You have an older version of the stock rules. Doc fixed this one a week or two ago, since we knew it was going to come up. Weird. rules_du_jour did not grab the newer version.

Re: Out of curiosity, anyone know which spam gang these scum are?

2006-03-12 Thread List Mail User
... Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by mx-103.gdicustomers2.ws (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id 32Nhzj9ndZMB.) for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat Mar 11 05:40:17 2006) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED])) Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:40:17 PST From: Scott Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Latest spammers' trick - email address in body instead of url

2006-03-11 Thread List Mail User
Message-IDs, and all other cases in RFC2396, RFC2483 and the new Standards Track RFC3986). Also note that URI types are IANA registered and a complete list of allocations is available at iana.org. NOTE: the issue of incomplete URIs is still an open problem (e.g. email addresses like [EMAIL

Error Message

2006-03-09 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
We are getting a error message on our log files and the spamd process is swelling to over twice it size in memory. The log files show this message: Mar 9 09:53:00 mail spamd[20283]: Deep recursion on subroutine Mail::SpamAssassin::Message::Node::_find_parts at

Re: intimidation from spammer

2006-03-04 Thread List Mail User
. Consider whatever I wrote to a mailing list (unless marked otherwise) as public domain. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blah blah customer/viewer #123456789

2006-03-03 Thread List Mail User
- 1850 For those on this list who know how to check, there are at least 80 more bogus domains hanging off these name servers (SURBL URIBL take note); Most at IP 199.232.32.16 (if you want to look up in that fashion). Actual control seems to be via a host at Yahoo

Re: URIBL_SBL

2006-03-02 Thread List Mail User
Hi All, A specific message is hitting the following rule: * 5 URIBL_SBL Contains an URL listed in the SBL blocklist * [URIs: annealbatross.org] The sender would like to know how to fix it and i am unable to find any reference anywhere on the procedure stating how to go

Re: FP on URIBL_JP_SURBL + URIBL_SBL

2006-02-27 Thread List Mail User
4dquiz-com (dot instead of dash) is getting DNS service from orderbox-dns_com ('_' instead of '.') - This makes them immediately suspect; Some of the subdomains and servers in that domain are strictly black, others are grey - They have been widely discussed in some non-public forums

Re: Spammy left his index open

2006-02-21 Thread List Mail User
Cute registration too - name BUSINESGROUPNY, address in New York, but the address is only valid if you change HILLSIDE, NY to HILLSIDE, NJ. (The excellent USPS site at http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp gives up this data in a few seconds). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Annoying spammer

2006-02-20 Thread List Mail User
this is quite easy to do - enable the option reject_unknown_sender_domain in one or more of the clauses in main.cf. If you feel comfortable with it, MTA tests on a .njabl.org list would also block a lot of these and definitely a block on the XBL (unless you are so unfortunate as to be at the very start

Re: URIBL_BLACK + OB_SURBL double-listed nonspam domain

2006-02-19 Thread List Mail User
List Mail User wrote: winterizewithscotts.com Scott's lawncare registered user updates. Matt, winterizewithscotts.com looks like a case of affiliate spamming or misuse of sweepstakes entries. See: http://forums.gottadeal.com/archive/index.php/t-14640.html http

Re: URIBL_BLACK + OB_SURBL double-listed nonspam domain

2006-02-19 Thread List Mail User
... Matt, In each case, normal HTML gives a referrer page, so no affiliate ID is needed. Paul.. None of those pages contain a link. The user would have to copy-paste or hand-type the url. That would defeat any referrer mechanism. Also, whether cutpaste generates a

Re: URIBL_BLACK + OB_SURBL double-listed nonspam domain

2006-02-19 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Paul.. None of those pages contain a link. The user would have to copy-paste or hand-type the url. That would defeat any referrer mechanism. Also, whether cutpaste generates a referral all depends on your browser and the setting used in some (e.g. Opera

Re: URIBL_BLACK + OB_SURBL double-listed nonspam domain

2006-02-19 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Huh? (Lookup strawman in a dictionary, please.) That's my understanding of what you were claiming happened. Yes, it looks like an absurdly weak argument. However, it's the argument you presented, as best I can make sense of your posts. Or are you admitting that you

RE: A Spam Message That Got Through!

2006-02-18 Thread List Mail User
... On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:45 -0700, Gary V wrote: Without the entire message I don't think anyone can determine if there is some problem with your system, or if this particular spam simply scored low because the spammer is good at what they do. BTW, it is helpful to see what rules

Re: URIBL_BLACK + OB_SURBL double-listed nonspam domain

2006-02-18 Thread List Mail User
in their sweepstakes that he is agreeing to allow future emails (of course most of us reading this list realize if you give a company an email account, you *should* expect advertising from them). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Over-scoring of SURBL lists...

2006-02-16 Thread List Mail User
filter operating on this list will now score the domain alone at over 15 points (i.e. the 10 points that ChrisS complained about in his hockey-deprived state). Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Over-scoring of SURBL lists...

2006-02-16 Thread List Mail User
at RulesEmporium and had an Outblaze account to complain from. AFAIK, it takes more than a single complaint to get onto either SpamCop or SURBL [sc], seems fairly difficult to get on the [ab] list os AbuseButler itself, and you'd have to spam Joe Wein or Raymond to make the SURBL [jp] list. I do

query score for Re: r news 5860 spam

2006-02-06 Thread Spamassassin List
Hi, I had been attacked by a spam ( http://60.49.100.123/news5860.txt ) in all my mail servers. Surprising it has a 0:0 hit. X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,UPPERCASE_25_50 autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 What are your scores? Which ruleset do u use to

Re: SURBL

2006-01-14 Thread List Mail User
... On Friday, January 13, 2006, 10:12:40 AM, Irina Irina wrote: Hello Matt and all, I enabled SURBL checks on a secondary server yesterday. It catches spam so great that I like it very much. Today I enabled it on our main server... Queue started to grow, messages were piling up. I had

Re: [OT] Paypal scam emails

2006-01-14 Thread List Mail User
... If you ever made a payment or received one via paypal the address would not be private. -- Mr Michele Neylon ... Yes, but how to connect a paypal tagged email, an eBay account name and an eBay email contact account. Clause 'C' of the PayPal privacy policy says that your PayPal email

Re: Ohya

2006-01-08 Thread List Mail User
===8--- Make it happen! Here : www.rektoky ,ohya add .com ^_^ ===8--- Slips past the filters. sigh {^_^} Looks like a relatively new pair of ROKSO members, Brian Fabian/Gregory Parsons. Mostly pills and porn from Canada - largely hosted on zombies. The name servers at

RE: URIBLFP? [Was: SA or Commercial AntiSpam products]

2006-01-07 Thread List Mail User
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 1:31 PM To: mouss Cc: Jeff Peng; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: URIBLFP? [Was: SA or Commercial AntiSpam products] mouss wrote: (top posting because not a reply:)

Re: URI's and geocities subwebs..

2006-01-06 Thread List Mail User
... Is their a way to get the URI's to look at stuff like this?? I'm seeing = more and more spam with these kinds of things in them to get by URI = detection.. http://asia.geocities.com/april19781matt1487 Thanks, Billy ... Not that it answers your question, but this is Robert Soloway

Re: Kinda O/T: Block Return-Path: mail?

2006-01-06 Thread List Mail User
with . Also, any failure to deliver mail sent out and accepted (e.g. user over quota) comes with a DSN/. And finally, someone might list you at rfci (not me though) - See: http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-dsn.php. There are generally better methods for this, but they are not nearly

Re: Poor James McCalla.... snicker

2006-01-06 Thread List Mail User
... Seems he's been tagged for $11.2 BILLION for sending 280 million spams to a small Iowa based ISP. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28733 http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/01/04/news/local/doc43bb692ac9e86281138542.txt#top And he's apparently unknown to Rokso! {O.O} He may not

Re: Google search as spam URI

2006-01-04 Thread List Mail User
... This drug spam message body seems problematic, since the URI is google, being used to search for the spammer's. Naturally the actual spammer domain bluevallet.com is blacklisted. This showed up Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:45:48 +0100 ... Leo is good at finding new forms of abuse. The

DCC stops working.

2006-01-04 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, I've noticed when my mail server starts taking a big load hit that the DCC stop working. I get lines like this in the syslog: Jan 4 10:59:21 mail dccproc[1051]: continue not asking DCC 227 seconds after failure Jan 4 10:59:21 mail dccproc[1052]: continue not asking DCC 227 seconds

Re: correct way of whitelisting mailing lists

2006-01-04 Thread List Mail User
Many people have opinioned: Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães a écrit : SA ML, and several others, maintain From address as the original sender of the message, which made me have some troubles whitelisting it. I tought using whitelist_from, but it wouldnt work because there's no

Re: correct way of whitelisting mailing lists

2006-01-04 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User a écrit : Many people have opinioned: Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães a écrit : SA ML, and several others, maintain From address as the original sender of the message, which made me have some troubles whitelisting it. I tought using whitelist_from, but it wouldnt

Re: spamer spoofing SA headers

2005-12-28 Thread List Mail User
... Paul, the procmail script Loren and I use simply strips it out. I've read too many folks on this list talk about scanning outbound for one reason or another to figure premarking is a good spam sign. Of course, there are odd cases to consider. Suppose somebody honest or at least passing

Re: SA FP on a gfi newsletter

2005-12-28 Thread List Mail User
... mouss wrote, ... Adding a 2.798 just because mail comes from a misconfigured ISP may be too much if the sender uses a semi-broken mailer (the gfi NL is an example, but I've seen worst!) and these ISPs are aware of the situation since long, so it doesn't seem they are doing anything to

Re: spamer spoofing SA headers

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
At 08:48 AM 12/27/2005, Jonn R Taylor wrote: How can I make this go thourgh SA when it thinks it allready has Why wouldn't it go through SA? SA doesn't have any built-in behaviors that will prevent it from re-scanning a message. Did you do something in your procmailrc to cause procmail to

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote on Mon, 26 Dec 2005 16:46:00 -0800 (PST): How about the case of http=3A=2F=2Fwww=2Ecnn=2Ecom=2F2003=2F inside of HTML? i.e. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ - from a phishing spam, the full line was: You mean it displayed like this in the mail agent *after* Q decoding

Re: SA FP on a gfi newsletter

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
of the above plus whitelist them. It looks like nearly any one of the rules above, if cleared would bring the mail below the threshold (and they *should* fix the registration data, even if it was an unintentional mistake - In fact, if they just used the same data formatted as they list

Re: spamer spoofing SA headers

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
... You can only safely skip messages with an X-Spam-Status: that reads yes, due to the fact that you can't trust it. Of course, spammers can always forge a X-Spam-Status: on themselves that declares the message to be spam, but if they do.. more power to em.. Or even better, you can check

Re: SA FP on a gfi newsletter

2005-12-27 Thread List Mail User
, MIME_BOUND_NEXTPART=0.241, SUBJECT_EXCESS_BASE64=0] So they managed to cross the line;-p Question: Isn't DNS_FROM_RFC_POST score too high? I think so. I've set the score to 0 in my local.cf. IMO, the postmaster list from rfc-ignorant.org takes anti-spamming a little too far into false positive

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread List Mail User
... Mouss, List Mail User a écrit : updated.by - check http://www.tld.by/cgi-bin/registry.cgi You'll see that update.by is a registered domain! Therefore updated.by is indeed a URI. QED the question is: if foo.example-DEMUNGED is listed in uribl/surbl, does that make

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-26 Thread List Mail User
... Is foo.tld=bar a valid hostname part in a URI? I doubt that. now, would a MUA show that as a URI followed by bar? I think that SA should provide an option to enable/disable: uri_broken_mua, so that people not caring for broken MUAs can avoid such false positives. How about the case

Re: SARE_URI_EQUALS false positives

2005-12-23 Thread List Mail User
updated.by - check http://www.tld.by/cgi-bin/registry.cgi You'll see that update.by is a registered domain! Therefore updated.by is indeed a URI. QED Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Dig for RBL lookups.

2005-12-22 Thread List Mail User
... So far, so good. Everything I'm trying gives me an NXDOMAIN response, though. Anyone have a couple of IPs that are on Spamhaus that I could use for testing purposes? -Aaron Boyles ITC Applications Programmer Almost all RBLs (not RHSBLs) will respond to the test point 127.0.0.2. In

RE: Using Dig for RBL lookups.

2005-12-22 Thread List Mail User
... Ah, List, Matt, and Dallas, thanks all. Used all of them to get the answer I was looking for. So simply parsing the the Answer section to see if there was a 127.0.0.2 response should verify for me, it seems. I also vaguely remember reading something about .4 and .6 responses as well. Anyone

Re: Public Blacklists?

2005-12-21 Thread List Mail User
... On a side note, is anyone very familiar with any protocols involving public blacklists? I'm looking for the ability to simply toss an IP at a site somewhere, and get a simple 'yes/no' response as to whether or not it's a spam IP? -Aaron Boyles ITC Applications Programmer ... Far

Re: Does tuxorama.com sound familiar to anyone?

2005-12-21 Thread List Mail User
tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll have to block some other IP or range), so they, while irritating are very easy

Re: Does tuxorama.com sound familiar to anyone?

2005-12-21 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: tuxorama.com does a SMTP probe for every posting to this list and is one of the very few IPs I have firewalled off. The probes seem to always come from 81.169.185.26 (now they'll probably change IPs and I'll have to block some other IP or range), so they, while

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-19 Thread List Mail User
... On the contrary. That's exactly what it asks for. The key for understanding the requirements here is client identity. If we rewrite it this way: So we find it is actually not only *not* contained with RFC2821 any requirement that the HELO/EHLO argument match the reverse DNS record,

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-18 Thread List Mail User
... mous replied to my comments (originally directly to Kai): List Mail User a écrit : [snip] Leave the FQDN part out and you can try to base an argument on 2821, but there sections 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 simply and clearly states that Domain names are used as names of hosts and of other

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread List Mail User
email from slightly over 1K sites which HELO/EHLO'd with a single dot. Admittedly about 1/3 of these were from spammers (not spam, but from spam domains). But included in the list are all of the HotPop domains (I have mail from ~15-20 different ones), atitech.com, atheros.com, hotmail.com

Re: Novice question regarding mail server identity check

2005-12-16 Thread List Mail User
wrote on 16 Dec 2005 16:22:29 -: what is the problem with putting a single computer into a hosting center, name it mycompany.com, and also let it helo as mycompany.com? It's not considered an FQDN, it's a domain. Depending on how strict the helo syntax test is it will fail at this

Re: trusted_networks

2005-12-12 Thread List Mail User
... DJB is generally of the opinion that if you do not know how to properly configure your mail server, you should be hiring someone who does. So no, his software generally does not work right out of the box. opinion - not troll Personally I have some rather harsh ideas about mail server

New 'free web service' problems

2005-12-12 Thread List Mail User
Well, now to join Geocities and Tripod, we have Leo on AOL. The URL, http://hometown.aol.com/assavralloWi/immerse.html redirects to www.uditines.com, a fairly vanilla pill site (IP 61.31.214.81, listed in SBL35716). Further redirection takes you to the landing page in a subdirectory at:

Re: Scoring for MAPS

2005-12-12 Thread List Mail User
sure that I'm still stricter than 95% of the people on this list (though you've mentioned local rules that would cause me problems, with my own domain and others - e.g. a single '.' FQDN rule for HELO/EHLO - my case is a corner case at best, but look at ibm.com, sgi.com and microsoft.com - who all

Re: Scoring for MAPS

2005-12-12 Thread List Mail User
the FP rate would be if you 4xx'd it instead of 5xx'ing - i.e. how many of those FPs are corrected before the MTA re-delivery timeout period (yes, I know that many sites use less than the recommended 5 days). Personally, I 450 the SpamCop list, and do occasionally delay real mail, but for my site, I

Re: trusted_networks

2005-12-10 Thread List Mail User
, I have many thousands of these in a saved and archived mailbox (100% spam - a spam feed) - just ask off-list. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A thought about phone numbers and URIBLs

2005-12-10 Thread List Mail User
Hey folks, I was having a thought about phone numbers in spam messages, and the old brain pinged an idea at me. I'd really appreciate any feedback! It occurred to me that I get a fair amount of spam which includes phone/fax numbers. It also occurred to me that given a string like

Question about --max-children

2005-12-08 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, When starting the program, I'm wondering about how many children I can start and what the problems might be with too many. My start up file states: # NOTE: version 3.0.x has switched to a preforking model, so you # need to make sure --max-children is not set to anything higher than # 5,

RE: Question about --max-children

2005-12-08 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
How much memory are you running? Thanks, Ken On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: # NOTE: version 3.0.x has switched to a preforking model, so you # need to make sure --max-children is not set to anything higher than # 5, unless you know

Re[3]: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-12-02 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Yes, clamd does a good job on phishing emails. Thanks, Ken Rea On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Robert Menschel wrote: Hello User, Thursday, December 1, 2005, 4:26:43 PM, you wrote: UfSML SARE_FRAUD was suggested but would this be a duplication when UfSML we are running clamd virus scanner on all

spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, I'm getting these errors on some user when the spamd program tries to setuid to the users ID. Here is some of the log file showing the error: Dec 1 09:24:38 mail spamd[1897]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 57112 Dec 1 09:24:38 mail spamd[1897]: fatal: setuid to chuck

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Yes the users do exist and usually it works fine. Ken On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:54:17PM -0800, User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: I'm getting these errors on some user when the spamd program tries to setuid to the users ID. Here

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
]: clean message (-2.2/6.0) for jbrugger:2917 in 0.8 seconds, 4001 bytes. So how does one fix the problem of to many open files on a system? Thanks, Ken Rea On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: Yes the users do exist and usually it works fine. Ken On Thu

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
if that solves the problem. Thanks, Ken Rea On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: I think this is where the problems is coming in. Looking through the logs I found this: Dec 1 09:13:20 mail spamd[31417]: DCC - check failed: cannot fork: Too many open

Re: spamd: fatal: setuid

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: Matt, It's a Debian Stable system, and I did bump up that file and also put in a script on boot up to raise that number. Some of the ideas I found (after doing a google search) suggested changing the inode-max as well but I could not find that in the proc file system

Re[2]: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-12-01 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Thanks Bob, SARE_FRAUD was suggested but would this be a duplication when we are running clamd virus scanner on all the mail? Thanks, Ken Rea On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Robert Menschel wrote: Wednesday, November 30, 2005, 11:59:23 AM, Matt wrote: MK I'm not well versed in picking the

What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-11-30 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, We have a mail system that looks at about 30k incoming emails a day. We have been running SA for about month (ver 3.03). We run this on a spamass-milter off of sendmail. With the standard rules it has been running OK but does not stop as much spam as we would like (we do sa learn as

Re: What Optional Rules do I really need?

2005-11-30 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Matt Kettler wrote: User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: Hello, We have a mail system that looks at about 30k incoming emails a day. We have been running SA for about month (ver 3.03). WARNING: 3.0.3 is subject to a remotely exploitable DoS attack. All

Re: SORBS

2005-11-25 Thread List Mail User
at both ends. Why should a static mail server need a 1/2 hour TTL? Try asking Earthlink. SORBS will list any host with a TTL of less than 1/2 *day* as dynamic (seems reasonable to me, but I don't make the rules). See the FAQ and note the reuirement for a TTL of at least 43200 seconds

Re: f-secure messaging security gateway x-series??

2005-11-24 Thread List Mail User
... Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 23:11 schrieb jdow: From: Mathias Homann [EMAIL PROTECTED] the ProofPoint Spam Detection (TM) module uses the ProofPoint MLX(TM) technology for automated learning (pat.pend.) which in itself doesn't tell ^---

Re: Blacklists and SA

2005-11-23 Thread List Mail User
(though I'd like it to). The primary effect of this that I see there are many others and it was argues on the list and the developer have their reasons) is that dropbox emails in 419s don't get scored at all. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamcop.net tactics

2005-11-23 Thread List Mail User
... On Wednesday, November 23, 2005, 3:33:47 AM, Leonard SA wrote: Hello, I have had to remove spamcop from my rbl check list. they have had some legitimate mail servers listed recently. They had the gentoo mail list listed and some other important servers which i cant see why they were

Re: Need help with DCC

2005-11-21 Thread Spamassassin List
On 11/22/05, Spamassassin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to enable DCC support but as far as I can see no DCC_CHECK is being involved. Your advise would be greatly appreciated. Did you enable local, -L? Remove this when you call spamd No, spamd is called without -L: spamd_flags

How can I test SURBL is working

2005-11-20 Thread List
Hi, I have 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q caching-nameserver caching-nameserver-7.3-3 2) Net::DNS is up to date. 3) /usr/bin/perl -T -w /usr/bin/spamd -L -x -u vpopmail Running on FC4 with SpamAssassin 3.10, init.pre has loadplugin

Re: How can I test SURBL is working

2005-11-20 Thread List
; charset=us-ascii Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://surbl-org-permanent-test-point.com Saved it to testsurbl. Did a spamassassin -D -L testsurbl and the result :- [5542] dbg: check: subtests=__CT,__CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED,__CT_TEXT_PLAIN,__HAS_MSGID

Re: How can I test SURBL is working

2005-11-20 Thread List
-test-point.com] -9.8 AWLAWL: From: address is in the auto white-list

Impressive - almost 23 points for a blank zombie spam

2005-11-17 Thread List Mail User
Lots of real spam doesn't score this high. 22.9 points on SA 3.0.4. Someone's zombie ratware misfired. Is this some record for points per line - infinite. The only change was to substitute {VICTIM} for the actual account. Paul Shupak [EMAIL PROTECTED] pts rule name

Re: geocities rule?

2005-11-16 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: Of course, the originals transmogrify quite quickly and the '/?' was posted a couple of days ago. Actually it was posted a couple weeks ago. About two or three days later I started to get spams without the query string. The rule worked well for a few weeks

Re: Picture based spam

2005-11-16 Thread List Mail User
... Hi, I have setup SA 3.1 under FC4, which is working quite well. However, one type of message that still gets through is a series of mails that are made up of no text other than a varying subject, then a picture, which is black text on white, which looks exactly like an ordinary email.

Re: geocities rule?

2005-11-15 Thread List Mail User
... Unfortunately, I've had plenty of FPs with the basic *.geocities.com.. A lot of enthusiast websites of various sorts are hosted there and my users like to forward around links to them. I wonder what the effect of listing /\w\.\w\w\.geocities\.com\b/ would be? That would only catch the

Re: Blocking on tld and/or HELO with own domain

2005-11-14 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User a écrit : You're a lot more polite than I am. I prefer: my_domain.tld 550 You're lying - Trying to use my host .my_domain.tld550 You're lying - Trying to use my host I don't wanna risk being sued/beaten by some angry guy:) Its very

Re: geocities rule?

2005-11-13 Thread List Mail User
... Does anyone have a geocities rule that catches most of the spams and has few FPs? Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.surbl.org/ Do you want to block the general drug spam, the SoftTab/ED spam, the porn, the penis enhancers or the stock pumpdumps (don't

Re: Blocking on tld and/or HELO with own domain

2005-11-13 Thread List Mail User
... Note that OUR domain is vlaamse-kern.com and that the sender pretends to be vlaamse-kern.com as well! you can add an SA rule, but it's easier to block this in the MTA. I don't use SM, but in postfix, this amounts to creatin a file containing things like: vlaamse-kern.com REJECT

Re: spamcop.net MIA?

2005-11-12 Thread List Mail User
... Hi All, This may not be the right forum, but I am unable to contact spamcop.nethttp://spamcop.netfolks by e-mail. I've noticed that spamcop.net http://spamcop.net is MIA, when attempting to surf to their site I receive an error message An error occurred while processing your

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-12 Thread List Mail User
... On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:56 -0500, Pierre Thomson wrote: A slightly more compact way to treat the final digit: bodyPROLO_LEO1 /85\,45|1\,2[12]/ bodyPROLO_LEO2 /69\,95|3\,3[23]/ New uri showed up today, so the updated rule I use is

Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Hello, I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one change the temp directory that spamd uses? I see it using /tmp on our debian sarge server using a debian spamassassin 3.0.3-2 version. I would like to change it to /var/tmp which on our system is a much faster SCSI raid

RE: Change Temp Directory

2005-11-11 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
But spamd changes users id each time it's used this would not work to well would it? Ken On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User for SpamAssassin Mail List wrote: I've looked around and could not find this answer. How does one change the temp directory that spamd uses? I see

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-09 Thread List Mail User
... List Mail User wrote: ... I believe some people using the SARE rules report ~100 points for them (after half a day or so, they fail every net test, and very many small rules). Also, the typical ones are delivered by zombies, so often the DUL tests hit right away, and if you can afford

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-09 Thread List Mail User
... do not use SARE tests, just check, read and try to follow what they are doing). Paul, I'm not really THAT badly off; I run all default 3.1.0 tests plus Bayes and DCC, three RBL's, URIBL/SURBL, some SARE rule sets and a bunch of local rules. I do MTA-level blocking with Spamhaus

RE: More spam getting through

2005-11-09 Thread List Mail User
... Pierre, I does seem that the digests plus Bayes are the best defense against these. Just a few minutes ago another arrived: Y 15 -

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