Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread ram
I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing But the irritant 419's are still coming in ( and some get past SA ), in many new variants. I have

Re: hit frequencies (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread John Wilcock
Yet Another Ninja a écrit : If these are hit rates with a very minimal daily corpus, don't know if the present ruleset is ready for production unless you have 0 tolerance for any bulk, period I'm afraid I must agree. I don't have a confirmed and sorted corpus per se, but after a single

Re: Fake MX Record(s) Trick

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008 Benny Pedersen wrote: 14400 is 4 hours (4*3660) which is a bit low for an MX 86400 (24 hours) is probably better. nice calc for 4 hours :-) mouss is french, you must know ;-) mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc- http://it-management.at //

Re: hit frequencies (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008 John Wilcock wrote: with just a bit of fine tuning I guess John Gallet needs a bigger corpus, maybe you could share some ham/spam with him. He does the work to create the rules, and with better corpus the rules will become better. I know this, I maintain the GERMAN

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Am/On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:10:53 +0530 schrieb/wrote ram: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing not really. I varies between 60 to 89 %,

Re: prevent to set a score for a non existend rule

2008-06-24 Thread Stefan Jakobs
On Tuesday 24 June 2008 02:33, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Tue, June 24, 2008 01:10, Stefan Jakobs wrote: I'm guess this doesn't work: amavis[31206]: (31206-01) SPAM-TAG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yes, score=7.88 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8,

Re: Fake MX Record(s) Trick

2008-06-24 Thread mouss
Michael Monnerie wrote: On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008 Benny Pedersen wrote: 14400 is 4 hours (4*3660) which is a bit low for an MX 86400 (24 hours) is probably better. nice calc for 4 hours :-) mouss is french, you must know ;-) yep. I have problems with anything but the

sql config problem - need advice

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel Chojecki
Hello, we use latest versions of postfix and spamassasin on slackware machines. Our postfix acts as smtp gateway - no local users. We want to set up white/blacklists per username. Spammassasin keeps white/black lists in sql. $GLOBAL definitions are working OK. Testing scenario: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Philosophy for opt-in (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread John Wilcock
John GALLET a écrit : I think I have a newbye simple problem of philosophy/strategy: my approach, for what it's worth, was that I flag anything that contains some unsubscribe links and French law reminders because anyway all the ones I receive are spam, and I add the opt-in mailing/newsletter

Re: seekrules over French spam (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
John GALLET writes: Hi, You run seek-phrases-in-corpus over the 2 corpora, and it'll spit out the patterns; you can then write rules based on these. I did so, the results are interesting, though I do not really know where to go from there. If I take the first 50 best patterns and

Opera's revolutionary e-mail client?

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
Hi folks -- this string has been cropping up a lot in the SOUGHT rules recently; it appears a spammer is using it: -- Using Opera's revolutionary [MUNGED] e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ (I added [MUNGED] in case you're using the ruleset in question ;) Grepping my ham corpora,

Re: seekrules over French spam (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread John GALLET
Re, Anyway, these are the patterns I tried to code in FR_SPAMISLEGAL and FR_HOWTOUNSUBSCRIBE, plus one I considered too generic (if you can't read this mail in html, click here). It might be worth collecting more ham that includes any such common text -- or even _generating_ mails along those

Re: Opera's revolutionary e-mail client?

2008-06-24 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:54 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: this string has been cropping up a lot in the SOUGHT rules recently; it appears a spammer is using it: FWIW, my devel OPERA_MID_* rules are designed to trigger on these recent forgery. :) guenther -- char *t=[EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: seekrules over French spam (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
John GALLET writes: Re, Anyway, these are the patterns I tried to code in FR_SPAMISLEGAL and FR_HOWTOUNSUBSCRIBE, plus one I considered too generic (if you can't read this mail in html, click here). It might be worth collecting more ham that includes any such common text -- or even

Re: Opera's revolutionary e-mail client?

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
Karsten =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Br=E4ckelmann?= writes: On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 09:54 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: this string has been cropping up a lot in the SOUGHT rules recently; it appears a spammer is using it: FWIW, my devel OPERA_MID_* rules are designed to trigger on these recent

Re: sa-update failed, dns: query failed: 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org = no nameservers

2008-06-24 Thread Vinogratzky
Sh..., you are right. Thanks. I never thought of that! Stupid! Chris I suspect Net::DNS cannot parse nameserver localhost. Try nameserver 127.0.0.1 instead, --j. Vinogratzky writes: I thought so, too. But ---8--- ; DiG 9.3.4 3.2.3.updates.spamassassin.org ANY ;;

HELP!!! Strange effects after installing spamassasin

2008-06-24 Thread manojp77
Guys, We are running a postfix mail server. We recently installed spamassasin. Since then, any email send in or out of the server send a copy of the email to the sender. For example, if i send an email from my gmail id to my work id, my gmail id gets a copy of it. We have done all we can in the

[Q] Auto delete mail from my domain

2008-06-24 Thread Lê Ngọc Hiếu
Hi, I setup my mail server with two instance of postfix to listen on port 25 for incomming mail, and port 11234 for outgoing mail. Only mail coming through port 25 are filtered by SA. But now I have too many spam from my server, they have bot to auto connect to our server and sending mail to me.

spamassassin and Mailman integration 3 doubts

2008-06-24 Thread kk CHN
People ; I have a spamassassin installation in my box , detail as follows [star]$ spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 running on Perl version 5.8.8 I want to deny the spam mails to the mailing lists running in this box , how to do that my MTA is postfix , mailman is the

Re: French advance fee fraud ruleset

2008-06-24 Thread John Wilcock
John GALLET a écrit : What happens with the agrave htmlentity ? I mean if the received spam is htmlentity encoded, or mixes utf-8 accents and ascii-htmlentity ? SA deals with that for you. Body rules are applied to text that has already been decoded, so you don't need to take account of html

Re: seekrules over French spam (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread John Wilcock
Justin Mason a écrit : John GALLET writes: Well, thanks for writing it. I think its main weak point for French and other accented languages is handling the different encodings for a same char with an accent, some kind of synonyms list. The same letter, say a with an accent, can be misspelled

Re: HELP!!! Strange effects after installing spamassasin

2008-06-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 24.06.08 03:41, manojp77 wrote: We are running a postfix mail server. We recently installed spamassasin. Since then, any email send in or out of the server send a copy of the email to the sender. For example, if i send an email from my gmail id to my work id, my gmail id gets a copy of it.

Re: seekrules over French spam (was Re: [Rule Set proposal] French Rules

2008-06-24 Thread Justin Mason
John Wilcock writes: Justin Mason a écrit : John GALLET writes: Well, thanks for writing it. I think its main weak point for French and other accented languages is handling the different encodings for a same char with an accent, some kind of synonyms list. The same letter, say a

Re: [Q] Auto delete mail from my domain

2008-06-24 Thread Matt Kettler
Lê Ngọc Hiếu wrote: Hi, I setup my mail server with two instance of postfix to listen on port 25 for incomming mail, and port 11234 for outgoing mail. Only mail coming through port 25 are filtered by SA. But now I have too many spam from my server, they have bot to auto connect to our server

SA-Bayes not working

2008-06-24 Thread Richard J. Kieran
I'm not sure if this is a SpamAssassin or a MIMEDefang problem. I set up MD and SA on a new machine running CentOS, MD 2.64, SA 3.2.4. I backed up the Bayes database on my old server, running FreeBSD, MD 2.51, SA 3.0.3, and restored it to the new machine. I can train it and sync it and so-on,

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Randy Ramsdell
ram wrote: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing But the irritant 419's are still coming in ( and some get past SA ), in many new

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Ken Simpson
Our spam levels are 1/2 to 1/3 of what they were two weeks ago. Also, virus e-mails are also very very low. Low enough for me to start reviewing the e-mail logs for anomalies. The summer doldrums are upon us...

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:19 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: ram wrote: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are seeing Our spam levels are

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:19 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: ram wrote: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you all are

Re: [Q] Auto delete mail from my domain

2008-06-24 Thread mouss
Matt Kettler wrote: Lê Ngọc Hiếu wrote: Hi, I setup my mail server with two instance of postfix to listen on port 25 for incomming mail, and port 11234 for outgoing mail. Only mail coming through port 25 are filtered by SA. But now I have too many spam from my server, they have bot to auto

Re: [Q] Auto delete mail from my domain

2008-06-24 Thread Lê Ngọc Hiếu
Thank you all, I'll try amavisd-new :-) On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:27 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Kettler wrote: Lê Ngọc Hiếu wrote: Hi, I setup my mail server with two instance of postfix to listen on port 25 for incomming mail, and port 11234 for outgoing mail. Only mail

SA no longer scoring

2008-06-24 Thread mmedlin99
Running SA version 3.2.4 amavisd-new version 2.2.1 Postfix version 2.5.2 Upgraded postfix from version 2.1.x to 2.5.2 just a few hours ago. Now Spamassassin is giving everything a score of 0, even the obvious spam. Worked properly just minutes before I ran the upgrade. Looked at all the logs for

Re: [spamassassin] Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:19 -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: ram wrote: I am seeing a clear downtrend in the number for spams hitting our servers, I am not sure why ? Since Last week spams are at 50% of what they used to be last month. Is this what you

Re: Spam volumes down since last week

2008-06-24 Thread NFN Smith
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Our spam levels are 1/2 to 1/3 of what they were two weeks ago. Also, virus e-mails are also very very low. Low enough for me to start reviewing the e-mail logs for anomalies. The volume hitting my traps is significantly down, although a few days ago, I quit trapping

Re: SA no longer scoring

2008-06-24 Thread Evan Platt
Example headers? Output of spamassassin --lint ? mmedlin99 wrote: Running SA version 3.2.4 amavisd-new version 2.2.1 Postfix version 2.5.2 Upgraded postfix from version 2.1.x to 2.5.2 just a few hours ago. Now Spamassassin is giving everything a score of 0, even the obvious spam. Worked

Re: sql config problem - need advice

2008-06-24 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Tue, June 24, 2008 10:14, Daniel Chojecki wrote: Any idea ? problem is in mta not in spamassassin, mta sends to more then one to spamassassin, and scores with one in mind change this in mta so it just sends always to one recipient at a time, no matter how many you send to, that fixes the

Re: HELP!!! Strange effects after installing spamassasin

2008-06-24 Thread mouss
manojp77 wrote: Guys, We are running a postfix mail server. We recently installed spamassasin. Since then, any email send in or out of the server send a copy of the email to the sender. For example, if i send an email from my gmail id to my work id, my gmail id gets a copy of it. this is a

Re: sql config problem - need advice

2008-06-24 Thread mouss
Daniel Chojecki wrote: Hello, we use latest versions of postfix and spamassasin on slackware machines. Our postfix acts as smtp gateway - no local users. We want to set up white/blacklists per username. Spammassasin keeps white/black lists in sql. $GLOBAL definitions are working OK. Testing

Re: SA no longer scoring

2008-06-24 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:41 -0700, Evan Platt wrote: Example headers? Output of spamassassin --lint ? Since he's running amavisd-new, running `amavisd -c blah.conf debug-sa` would probably provide the most information... mmedlin99 wrote: Running SA version 3.2.4 amavisd-new version

Re: Opera's revolutionary e-mail client?

2008-06-24 Thread Kelson
Justin Mason wrote: Grepping my ham corpora, I find some hits from 2005 and 2006, but nothing in the past 2 years for this. Does anyone use recent builds of the real Opera mail? does it use this footer, or is it safe to list it in the rule? I don't normally use Opera for email, but I use it

Re: Opera's revolutionary e-mail client?

2008-06-24 Thread Kelson Vibber
To follow up, here's a message actually sent from Opera 9.5 on Windows, in case someone wants the info for header analysis. And yes, I've changed the signature, partly so that it won't trip the rule in question. -- Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications www.speed.net

Re: SA no longer scoring

2008-06-24 Thread mmedlin99
Thanks for responding, Output of spamassassin --lint is ..nothing. It just does it's thing and returns to the prompt. From what I've read no messages should be a good thing. You;ll have to forgive me I'm sometimes not so bright, I assumed that blah.conf meant amavisd.conf. Ran what you

Re: prevent to set a score for a non existend rule

2008-06-24 Thread Matt Hampton
John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Stefan Jakobs wrote: But now I get a lint warning: # spamassassin --lint [12533] warn: config: warning: score set for non-existent rule JM_SOUGHT_3 Would be worth considering extending the conditional section of the parser to cope with this? if

Re: prevent to set a score for a non existend rule

2008-06-24 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 09:44:40PM +0100, Matt Hampton wrote: if defined JM_SOUGHT_3 score JM_SOUGHT_3 1.5 endif Has anyone thought to ask JM to make sure that 3 rules are always generated, even if the third one is empty ala: meta JM_SOUGHT_3 0 thereby skipping all of the kluging

Re: prevent to set a score for a non existend rule

2008-06-24 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Theo Van Dinter wrote: Has anyone thought to ask JM to make sure that 3 rules are always generated, even if the third one is empty ala: meta JM_SOUGHT_3 0 thereby skipping all of the kluging suggestions to work around it? No. Kludging is fun. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ