better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread jeabacula
Hi list, i'm new in spamassassin, I have all the system configured ( I think ) but I have a question, when a spam message arrive the spamassassin mark it as the **spam*, then the message going to my mailbox My question it's: I want that some of this spams, instead of going to the user's

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread Matthias Haegele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi list, i'm new in spamassassin, I have all the system configured ( I think ) but I have a question, when a spam message arrive the spamassassin mark it as the **spam*, then the message going to my mailbox My question it's: I want that some of this spams,

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread Mike Woods
Matthias Haegele wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: procmail, (alternative: maildrop (if you use courier), or sieve iirc (cyrus)) Or if he has an mda that supports it (like cyrus) plus addressing is an option provided the content filter he's using supports it (like amavis)

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread Leander Koornneef
On 30-okt-2006, at 10:03, Matthias Haegele wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi list, i'm new in spamassassin, I have all the system configured ( I think ) but I have a question, when a spam message arrive the spamassassin mark it as the **spam*, then the message going to my

problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm newbie... I have a debian server with qmail e spamassassin 3.1.4 I've a lot of spam. I begin with only one question: how can I add in the header of my mail the result of scan also if the message is clean? Now spamassassin add header only if the mail is a spam mail. I need to read

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread Matthias Haegele
Leander Koornneef schrieb: On 30-okt-2006, at 10:03, Matthias Haegele wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi list, i'm new in spamassassin, I have all the system configured ( I think ) but I have a question, when a spam message arrive the spamassassin mark it as the **spam*, then the

Line wrapping

2006-10-30 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Hi all, I've noticed with SA 3.1.5 that the length of the lines in the X-Spam-Report header seems to have reduced, ie. the line length for each rule mentioned there is not as long as it used to be, and thus the lines are wrapping more often than before. Just in the X-Spam-Report only, the other

Re: problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread Loren Wilton
SA always adds information the header I believe. Although what you get depends on the report_safe option value in local.cf. Many of the mail tools that use SA will process the message through SA and then discard the result if it isn't marked as spam. So you don't see SA's markup in these

Re: problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks. I've found a possible answer. Spamassassin works with only 1 child. Now I have add another child, 2. And now all my mails have the header. Is possible that spamassassin couldn't process all mails because has only one child... so I have some mails with no header and much spam???

Re: Urldnsbl False?

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Sunday, October 29, 2006, 10:50:17 PM, Theo Dinter wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 01:36:51PM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: Why are you exempting xmr3 from the uri blacklist? egrep 'messagereach|xmr3' * 25_uribl.cf:uridnsbl_skip_domain xmr3.com yahoo.ca yahoo.co.kr yahoo.co.uk FWIW,

problem in updating the spam database with rulesdujour

2006-10-30 Thread ankush grover
hey friends, I am using spamassassin 3.1.3 on Fc3 along with postfix + mailscanner. I have configured rulesdujour to download latest spam rules. When I tried to ran the rulesdujour script I got the following errors at the end. Lint output: [6769] warn: config: failed to parse line, skipping:

Re: problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread François Rousseau
Yes, it is possible. If you use spamc/spamd:A simple way to see this is to check the log file of spamassassin (spamd).In my case, I have redirect the syslog channel to a separate file. Make a script with those line or run in manually... I have test it for SA 3.1.4 thru 3.1.7 but it will probably

SpamBayes for whole site

2006-10-30 Thread m . donicova
I want configure Spamassassin 3.1.5 for Spambayes in local.cf bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin in this directory I have bayes_seen and bayes_toks in db is 310 spam and 220 ham but this is not working

Re: problem in updating the spam database with rulesdujour

2006-10-30 Thread Vidar Tyldum Hansen
ankush grover, 30.10.2006 13:04: hey friends, I am using spamassassin 3.1.3 on Fc3 along with postfix + mailscanner. I have configured rulesdujour to download latest spam rules. When I tried to ran the rulesdujour script I got the following errors at the end. Lint output: [6769] warn:

question re. SPF checks

2006-10-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I starting to set up SPF records for the domains I manage, and have run into a little snag. I hope somebody can suggest an approach: BASIC CONFIGURATION: Debian Sarge Postfix (from stable - so it's a relatively old version, 2.1 I believe) amavisd-new spamassassin clamav Postfix

Thunderbird Forwarding Spam

2006-10-30 Thread itdelany
Hi I am running a Postfix mail server set up with flurdis guide using SpamAssassin as well with a Bayesian Filter. At SpamAssasin site said this: If you want to set up site-wide use of Bayesian classification, you should set up a way for your users to send in misclassified mail to be "learned"

RE: Thunderbird Forwarding Spam

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Scheidell
Title: Message sorry about the topposting, but my MUA and your MUA don't seem to like each other. for thunderbird, try the spam assassin coach. its not finished, doesn't do any diagnostics, user feed back, error checking at all, but might be a good start. other way to go is set up a shared

Re: Thunderbird Forwarding Spam

2006-10-30 Thread ankush grover
On 10/30/06, itdelany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am running a Postfix mail server set up with flurdis guide using SpamAssassin as well with a Bayesian Filter. At SpamAssasin site said this: If you want to set up site-wide use of Bayesian classification, you should set up a way for your

Re: problem in updating the spam database with rulesdujour

2006-10-30 Thread ankush grover
Have you checked your cron like the error suggests? Seems you are flooding the servers. How often is rdj ran? Have you 'tested' a lot? -- hey, Actullay other admin set the wrong crontab . Yes the script has ran atleast 5 times a day before I posted this problem I have disable the script for 1

Re: SpamBayes for whole site

2006-10-30 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want configure Spamassassin 3.1.5 for Spambayes in local.cf bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin in this directory I have bayes_seen and bayes_toks in db is 310 spam and 220 ham but this is not working First, fix your bayes_path. Read the docs closely. The

Re: URIXBL?

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Hardy
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:46 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: Jeff Hardy wrote: Hello all, I've been diddling with some tests and wondered why there is a spamhaus URIBL_SBL, but not URIBL_XBL (or better yet, combined URIBL_SBL-XBL). I can create this myself easy enough, but wondered if

Re: problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread Matt Kettler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I've found a possible answer. Spamassassin works with only 1 child. Now I have add another child, 2. And now all my mails have the header. Is possible that spamassassin couldn't process all mails because has only one child... so I have some mails with no

Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread Contriver
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=1.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 1) What is the No for? 2) Why is the score negative 2.6? How can an email contain negative spam? Thanks! -- View this message in context:

Re: Thunderbird Forwarding Spam

2006-10-30 Thread itdelany
Hey, thanks for your help, because i see that it will take me some time to do all that i'll ask you some preliminary questions: 1) Can i run the script by hand just for testing purposes? Do you know how can i do this? Do i have to pass some parameters to the command line? 2)The script takes

Re: Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Skanes
On Monday 30 October 2006 11:27, Contriver wrote: The 'No' means SpamAssassin doesn't think it is spam. The score is a rating given by SpamAssassin on how likely the message is spam. The higher the number the more likely the message contains spam. Negatives generally mean it isn't likely

RE: Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Lindell
No means that it didn't reach the spam detection threshold Meaning the rules that it did match didn't add up to 4.5 or whatever your default threshold is. -2.6 means it matches a rule that decreased it's score. Required = 1.5 means you have a default setting of 1.5 before it's marked as spam

ocrtext vs FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Chan
Does anyone have any opinions on which of these is better: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin Checks for specific keywords in gif/jpg/png attachments, using gocr. This can be used to detect spam that puts all the real contect in an

Re: ImageInfo vs FuzzyOCR performance?

2006-10-30 Thread Jorge Valdes
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Jorge Valdes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 5:12 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: ImageInfo vs FuzzyOCR performance? SPAM Results: 3936 Message(s) 49.83% 19.399 Average Score

How do the 'Score' fields work in the cPanel version of SpamAssassin?

2006-10-30 Thread Contriver
When you go into SpamAssassin configuration, at the bottom of the page there are five fields labeled Score. Does anyone know how to utilize this feature? Thanks! -- View this message in context:

Re: Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread Contriver
Thanks for the info guys! Now, I have to figure out why SpamAssassin is recently allowing a flood of similiar spam emails to pass. Contriver wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=1.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 1) What is the No for? 2) Why is the score

Re: ocrtext vs FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-30 Thread James Lay
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:19:44 -0800 Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which of these is better: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin Checks for specific keywords in gif/jpg/png attachments, using

Re: How do the 'Score' fields work in the cPanel version of SpamAssassin?

2006-10-30 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:22:49AM -0800, Contriver wrote: When you go into SpamAssassin configuration, at the bottom of the page there are five fields labeled Score. Does anyone know how to utilize this feature? You should ask the cpanel folks. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: Personally, I

Re: How do the 'Score' fields work in the cPanel version of SpamAssassin?

2006-10-30 Thread Expertsites, Inc.
When you go into SpamAssassin configuration, at the bottom of the page there are five fields labeled Score. Does anyone know how to utilize this feature? Each field allows you to override a default score for an existing rule. For example, if you enter NO_REAL_NAME 1.5 in a blank score

spamd process 100% 1 user

2006-10-30 Thread SDE
I'm running SA 3.1.7/Exim on CentOS. spamd start command: /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -m 10 Problem: I consistently have 1 user locking up the spamd process at 100%. I notice this when the system responds slow, so I will run a top command and see user xxx spamd at 100%. Any ideas what would cause

Re: ocrtext vs FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-30 Thread decoder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Lay wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:19:44 -0800 Jeff Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any opinions on which of these is better: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/CustomPlugins OCR scanner and image validator SA-plugin

Re: problem with spamassassin

2006-10-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Matt Kettler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I've found a possible answer. Spamassassin works with only 1 child. Now I have add another child, 2. And now all my mails have the header. Is possible that spamassassin couldn't process all mails because has only one child... so I have

FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Expecting some feedback on this. Thanks Warm Regards, Suhas System Administrator QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India: +91 (22) 6792 - 1480 Tel US: +1 (614) 827 - 1224 Fax India: +91 (22) 2530 - 3166 URL: http://www.qualispace.com

Re: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: Expecting some feedback on this. You're a real funny man. :)

Re: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread nick
Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: Expecting some feedback on this. Thanks Warm Regards, Suhas System Administrator *QualiSpace* - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India: +91 (22) 6792 - 1480 Tel US: +1 (614) 827 - 1224 Fax India: +91 (22) 2530 - 3166 URL:

RE: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Hi friends, I just wanted to know whether increasing the score will lead to false positives or not. As I am a new bee to SA, I don't have much idea about it. Hope you all will focus some light on this... Warm Regards, Suhas System Admin QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise

R: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
...omississ... Hope you all will focus some light on this... See, nick? The magic word is present... :) giampaolo Warm Regards, Suhas System Admin QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India: +91 (22) 6792 - 1480 Tel US: +1 (614) 827 - 1224

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread jeaspam
Well, some document to learn how I do the configuration for procmail or maildrop? I mean, postfix and procmail or maildrop This solution it's by server side? thanks jea - Original Message - From: Mike Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Monday, October 30,

Re: Thunderbird Forwarding Spam

2006-10-30 Thread ankush grover
On 10/30/06, itdelany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, thanks for your help, because i see that it will take me some time to do all that i'll ask you some preliminary questions: 1) Can i run the script by hand just for testing purposes? Do you know how can i do this? Do i have to pass some

Re: ocrtext vs FuzzyOCR?

2006-10-30 Thread James Lay
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:15:51 +0100 decoder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Lay wrote: Jeff C. -- I'd like to see something on this myself. The segfault patch for Fuzzy OCR failed, so I stopped right there as I wasn't sure what to

Re: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Ken A
I usually do something like: grep MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS /etc/mail/spamassassin/* /usr/share/spamassassin/* primitive but informative.. well, so long as you can read regex. Also, you can grep or zgrep MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS /var/log/maillog* or whatever your log is, and see what it's hitting. If it's

RE: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread Suhas \(QualiSpace\)
Thanks for your feedback ken. I will try this on my log files to find out whether it hits any legit emails on my server. Warm Regards, Suhas System Admin QualiSpace - A QuantumPages Enterprise === Tel India: +91 (22) 6792 - 1480 Tel US: +1 (614) 827 - 1224 Fax India: +91

RE: FW: MSGID_SPAM_LETTERS

2006-10-30 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Suhas (QualiSpace) wrote: I just wanted to know whether increasing the score will lead to false positives or not. As I am a new bee to SA, I don't have much idea about it. It depends a great deal on the character of your mail traffic. Your mail log should have

R: Further on DNS_FROM_RFC_*

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Hi, My spam scores look like these: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.0 tag1=-999.0 tag2=5.0 kill=5.0 tests=HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE, HTML_FONTCOLOR_RED, HTML_FONTCOLOR_UNSAFE, HTML_FONT_BIG, HTML_MESSAGE, MIME_HTML_ONLY, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL, RCVD_IN_XBL X-Spam-Level: ** How could I present

Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Wolfgang Uhr
Hello Sorry for my bad English, I'm German and soory therfore, that possibly I tell you old stories. I've entried this list to translate an idea in the German news group de.admin.net-abuse.mail. This ist not my idea, but of Paul Lenz and I only want to report it. The test contains the

Re: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Wolfgang Uhr wrote: The test contains the examination of all links in the body. You have to get the date of registration and to calculate the age of this urls. There is a URIBL for recently-registered domains - search the list archives for day-old bread. Of course for

Re: better solution?

2006-10-30 Thread jdow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list, i'm new in spamassassin, I have all the system configured ( I think ) but I have a question, when a spam message arrive the spamassassin mark it as the **spam*, then the message going to my mailbox My question it's: I want that some of this spams,

Re: Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread jdow
From: Contriver [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=1.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 1) What is the No for? 2) Why is the score negative 2.6? How can an email contain negative spam? 1) It is not spam. 2) It was probably whitelisted or else found some

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Age of a domain name - a new test? Its also one of the MANY things we look at for URIBL submissions. --Chris

Re: problems with redirected mail

2006-10-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 30 October 2006 06:07, Wojciech Potrzebowski took the opportunity to say: I am running spamassassin with qmail. It catchs up most of mail that is scored as spam. However, some e-mails that are redirected form the other mail server (also with spam checking system) get through even it

Re: Can someone explain what this header info means?

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Purves
Thomas Lindell wrote: Tests=AWL, Bayes_00 means it matched on Auto whitelist and bayes_00 and was determained to be valid. Auto white list is a list of approved senders and or content. At least I believe that's all correct unless someone cares to chime in Auto white list is score averaging

Re: URIXBL?

2006-10-30 Thread Clifton Royston
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:39:47AM -0500, Jeff Hardy wrote: On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:46 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote: Jeff Hardy wrote: Hello all, I've been diddling with some tests and wondered why there is a spamhaus URIBL_SBL, but not URIBL_XBL (or better yet, combined

Re: problems with redirected mail

2006-10-30 Thread Wojciech Potrzebowski
Thank you for your time in handling with this case! I have atached two e-mails with headers from both servers. I can only configure SA on my local server: iwonka.med.virginia.edu. I don't have access to the other mail server. Best regards, Wojtek ---BeginMessage--- Received: from localhost by

Re: problems with redirected mail

2006-10-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 30 October 2006 20:44, Wojciech Potrzebowski took the opportunity to say: Thank you for your time in handling with this case! I have atached two e-mails with headers from both servers. I can only configure SA on my local server: iwonka.med.virginia.edu. I don't have access to the

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Chris Santerre wrote: Its also one of the MANY things we look at for URIBL submissions. Good, but a domain has to be submitted to you for URIBL inclusion before you loot at that, no? A plugin would eliminate that on new domains. -- John Hardin KA7OHZICQ#15735746

Re: problems with redirected mail

2006-10-30 Thread Wojciech Potrzebowski
I understand that there are different configurations of two servers but I am wondering if there is any possibility to catch these mail (not treated as spam with remote server) on my local server. Thank's Wojtek Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 20:44, Wojciech Potrzebowski took

rules_du_jour

2006-10-30 Thread User for SpamAssassin Mail List
Has anyone come up with a rule that will combat the spam that I have been seeing lately? That is a spam that rambles about much of nothing then has an image or a link at the bottom. I see more and more of these and it seems like the spammers have figured out a way to get this past SA. I

Re: rules_du_jour

2006-10-30 Thread Leander Koornneef
Those kinds op spam are hitting all kinds of rules here, including rulesets from SARE: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=14.1 tagged_above=-999.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_99, EXTRA_MPART_TYPE, HTML_10_20, HTML_MESSAGE, MY_CID_AND_ARIAL2, MY_CID_AND_CLOSING, MY_CID_AND_STYLE,

Any caveats upgrading from SA 3.04 to 3.17

2006-10-30 Thread Patrick
Any caveats upgrading from SA 3.04 to 3.17? (SA,Amavis-new,Clamav,sendmail) TIA Pat... [EMAIL PROTECTED] CocoNet Corporation SW Florida's First ISP 825 SE 47th Terrace Cape Coral, FL 33904 (239) 540-2626 Voice

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Santerre
Title: RE: Age of a domain name - a new test? -Original Message- From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:30 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Wolfgang Uhr; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Age of a domain name - a new test? On

Re: Any caveats upgrading from SA 3.04 to 3.17

2006-10-30 Thread Leander Koornneef
I suggest you start here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ spamassassin/branches/3.1/UPGRADE Anyhoo, the upgrade is nothing to be scared of; certainly not if you know what you're doing. Seeing that you're using sendmail, I assume that you've probably got some (gray) hair on your chest

Re: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Chris Santerre wrote: -Original Message- From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 3:30 PM To: Chris Santerre Cc: Wolfgang Uhr; users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: RE: Age of a domain name - a new test? On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Chris

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread John D. Hardin
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Chris Santerre wrote: A plugin would eliminate that on new domains. Hell, I'd love to see it as well. Except this data alone does not make a domain evil. It just increases the chances that it is evil. And where would you get this info? How would you feed this list.

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: Wolfgang Uhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 30 oktober 2006 19:05 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Age of a domain name - a new test? I'm surprised people are so positive about this. Not that I'm negative about it per se, but I have

Re: rules_du_jour

2006-10-30 Thread Leander Koornneef
Hi Ken, please keep the discussion on the list, instead of mailing me directly, so maybe someone else can learn something from this in the future. Anyway: The EXTRA_MPART_TYPE rule is a native SA rule (in SA 3.1 at least; don't know if this is true for pre-3.1 versions) The MY_CID_*

Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread John Rudd
I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in MimeDefang. The purpose of these checks is to try to identify those messages that are likely to be coming directly (with no intermediary mail server) from a zombie-bot, and are thus likely to be spam (or

Re: Image spams getting thru

2006-10-30 Thread Philip Prindeville
Logan Shaw wrote: [snip] And there's also an easy way around it. Simply add noise to the image. There are a number of techniques, but an obvious one to use with GIF is to assign two palette entries to two nearly (but not quite) identical colors. For example, put 0xff and 0xfffeff in your

RE: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread Dylan Bouterse
-Original Message- From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:23 PM To: SpamAssassin Users Subject: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?) I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in MimeDefang. The purpose

RE: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Ring, John C
From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell, I'd love to see it as well. Except this data alone does not make a domain evil. It just increases the chances that it is evil. And where would you get this info? How would you feed this list. dailychanges.com? Essentially you are looking at

Re: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread John Rudd
Dylan Bouterse wrote: -Original Message- From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:23 PM To: SpamAssassin Users Subject: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?) I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in

Re: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread Rick Macdougall
John Rudd wrote: I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in MimeDefang. The purpose of these checks is to try to identify those messages that are likely to be coming directly (with no intermediary mail server) from a zombie-bot, and are thus likely to

Re: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread Rick Macdougall
John Rudd wrote: I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in MimeDefang. The purpose of these checks is to try to identify those messages that are likely to be coming directly (with no intermediary mail server) from a zombie-bot, and are thus likely to

Re: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread John Rudd
Rick Macdougall wrote: John Rudd wrote: I've written a plugin for Spam Assassin that does the relay checks I used to do in MimeDefang. The purpose of these checks is to try to identify those messages that are likely to be coming directly (with no intermediary mail server) from a

Re: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, October 30, 2006, 9:56:49 AM, Wolfgang Uhr wrote: The test contains the examination of all links in the body. You have to get the date of registration and to calculate the age of this urls. Of course for practal use you have to cache thoose whois-requests onto a central server and

R: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Generally speaking whois queries is a poor way to determine domain age, at least for client applications. The whois infrastructure is simply not designed to support the volume of queries required, even if locally cached. Other problems: 1. Inconsistent record formats 2. Rate limits

Re: R: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Jeff Chan
On Monday, October 30, 2006, 11:28:39 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Ok. Why not combine an age check with Hardin's spam-friendly registar plugin? I mean, a brand-new domain from a SFR (Spam-friendly registar) is really bad (scores 5?). A brand-new domain from a non-SFR is not that bad

R: R: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
On Monday, October 30, 2006, 11:28:39 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Ok. Why not combine an age check with Hardin's spam-friendly registar plugin? I mean, a brand-new domain from a SFR (Spam-friendly registar) is really bad (scores 5?). A brand-new domain from a non-SFR is not

R: R: Age of a domain name - a new test?

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
On Monday, October 30, 2006, 11:28:39 PM, Giampaolo Tomassoni wrote: Ok. Why not combine an age check with Hardin's spam-friendly registar plugin? I mean, a brand-new domain from a SFR (Spam-friendly registar) is really bad (scores 5?). A brand-new domain from a non-SFR is not

R: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-10-30 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
So, if people could take a look at it, test it, see if it does what it advertises, and see if it's as accurate as my experience indicates, I would appreciate getting feedback. If it pans out, I'll see about putting it in a tar ball, and submitting it to the wiki's list of plugins. I