Re: Them spammers are getting smarter..

2006-11-22 Thread Ruggero Ferretti - BitDesign Snc
Anyhow, you can use: /^Me again/ it looks for Me again at the beginning of the expression; it detects Me again, but also Me again Richard, etc. Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:33:36PM -0800, Evan Platt wrote: So used to be mail from Richard Smith, subject Me again Richard.

Tools-Monitoring Spam vs Ham, etc.

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
What tool, or maybe I already have it and don't know it, can I use to get email stastics on my server and domains? Like total emails, those tagged as spam, etc? I have FC2, qmail, Spamassassin 3.1.7 Is sa-tools helpful? Is it worth installing? Thanks, Wes

Re: Bayes Database Missing

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
The files you are looking for are bayes_toks and bayes_seen They may be in /root/.spamassassin/ Try to find those files in a spamassassin default directory somewhere and cp them to that directory. First try to find them and do a: locate -u#catalogs all the files on your

Re: Them spammers are getting smarter..

2006-11-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Evan Platt wrote: So used to be mail from Richard Smith, subject Me again Richard. Now they're using the last name, ie Me again Smith Their fake Received: line is still the same. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ BAILEY: CYCLONIC BECOMING

RE: SPF and SMTP AUTH

2006-11-22 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: Rene Caspari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: dinsdag 21 november 2006 12:09 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: SPF and SMTP AUTH I have a little problem with SPF: For domain.tld there is a SPF record, which says that mail.domain.tld is

Re: FuzzyOcrPlugin hashdb permissions

2006-11-22 Thread Robert S
And you have added all the users, that need access to the users group in /etc/group? IE your /etc/group file contains a line like: users:x:100:user1,user2,user3,user4,useretc Yes. If so, than it is spamassassin that does not switch the user context correctly. It looks a bit like it.

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Kurt Buff wrote: Nope - it's not that. Looking through my syslog more closely reveals that I'm getting 'SA TIMED OUT' messages all over the place, and referring to rules as well as Bayes. So, I'm just as confused as ever, and don't know what's going on. More analysis needed, I suppose,

RE: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Chris St. Pierre
Here's an argument for you: http://www.nebrwesleyan.edu/people/stpierre/filtered.png This is the breakdown of mail filtered by one of our MXes over the past week. The RBL line shows mail rejected by an RBL, mostly by njabl; the Rejected line is line rejected by other MTA-level rules (like

FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread messju mohr
Hello, mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IPS? thanks in advance messju

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Richard Frovarp
I don't think the RFCs specify any time limit. Most timeout after 5 days of trying. We run 3 equivalent scanning machines, which requires us to run a greylisting that will sync between them. That could cause a large delay, if the sending machine tries to send to a different host that isn't

Message-ID in spamd log?

2006-11-22 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list, How do I go about to make spamd report message id, or any handle for that matter, into the log? Doing traces on spamlogs is a tough one without anything to go by :-) Best regards -- Kim Christensen With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels

how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Hello All, I'm running SLES9 with the following versions: spamassassin-2.64-3.2 perl-spamassassin-2.64-3.2 amavisd-new-20030616p9-3.6 I know I probably stuck with perl5.8.3 because SLES9 don't have the newer :( I've installed new versions of SA and amavis (see below) with the following packets

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Mason
messju mohr writes: mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IPS? stop

Re: [spamassassin] Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread messju mohr
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:39:43PM +, Justin Mason wrote: messju mohr writes: mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH).

Re: [OT really Amavis Q] how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Micke Andersson
You should upgrade your MIME::Parser as well. You are probably using a very old one, where it does not support of max_parts as stated in the error log! /Micke Leon Kolchinsky wrote: Example of maillog errors: Nov 22 14:25:39 mail postfix/smtp[15132]: 23CBE1CA24: to= [EMAIL PROTECTED] ,

Re: how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:33:39PM +0200, Leon Kolchinsky wrote: Nov 22 14:25:39 mail postfix/smtp[15132]: 23CBE1CA24: to= [EMAIL PROTECTED] , orig_to= [EMAIL PROTECTED], relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1], delay=25, status=deferred (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing,

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-22 Thread jay plesset
It never fails to amaze me now many mail server admins ask for ways to break the RFC's in the interest of security. I do tech support on mail servers, and get requests to configure out server for this kind of thing weekly. . . jay Philip Prindeville wrote: Well, I tried to contact some

Re: Sudden drop in spam-rate, parallel to a surge of new trojans - beware

2006-11-22 Thread Andrew Hearn (AAISP)
Chris wrote: On Tuesday 21 November 2006 6:47 pm, Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: Hi! Yesterday we had a sudden drop in spam-percentage from 80% to near 60%. Parallel to it I got six copies of an undetectable (by NAI and ClamAV) new trojan 'exe' in the Mail. Do we have to prepare for a new flood

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-22 Thread Joe Flowers
Yep, a problem I continually get is that people want to make email into something that it is not. It's not a credit card or an ATM card or Driver's license or a Visa or etc. Joe jay plesset wrote: It never fails to amaze me now many mail server admins ask for ways to break the RFC's in the

A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Steve [Spamassasin]
An ebay watched item email has been wrongly tagged as spam... with the following rules: -- 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date 0.1 TW_SJ BODY: Odd Letter Triples with SJ 0.0

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:20:29PM +, Steve [Spamassasin] wrote: Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 Am I overlooking something here? Why doesn't SpamAssassin like these dates? That's not a valid date header, the TZ is invalid. -- Randomly Selected Tagline: ... and we still have

Re: Using SpamAssassin variables

2006-11-22 Thread Stuart Johnston
John W Mickevich wrote: Hello all! ... I would like to know now to use a variable within SpamAssassin. For example, how would I “capture” the last name of the From header field for use in comparisons elsewhere? Here is a sample: From: Molly Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Me again

RE: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
From: Steve [Spamassasin] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 Should be -0700 not GMT-07:00. This may also trigger the DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, since probably the SA's date parsing module simply discards the zone offset data. giampaolo To:... Return-Path:[EMAIL

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Steve [Spamassasin] wrote: 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date Date:Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:03:16 GMT-07:00 Received:from sjc2bat08.sjc.ebay.com (sjc2bat08.sjc.ebay.com

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-22 Thread Justin Mason
Steve [Spamassasin] writes: An ebay watched item email has been wrongly tagged as spam... with the following rules: -- 2.2 INVALID_DATE Invalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) 0.8 DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 Date: is 6 to 12 hours before Received: date 0.1 TW_SJ BODY:

FP on TVD_FW_GRAPHIC_ID1

2006-11-22 Thread Richard Frovarp
I've got a FP on the TVD_FW_GRAPHIC_ID1 rule. It is a message with a single in line image from Outlook Express. I can't post the whole message, here are what I hope are the relevant parts: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Philip Prindeville
Don't they? I thought the recommended retry time was 2 minutes, doubling on each failure, and maxing out at 2 hours. That's what sendmail does (unless it's retry time has been explicitly set to more than 2 hours, of course). -Philip Richard Frovarp wrote: I don't think the RFCs specify any

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Willard
Hi Loren! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Loren Wilton wrote: Did you restart spamd after changing any options? Yes. It made no difference. Regards, Chris -- /* _\|/_ (o o) +oOO-{_}-OOo+ |Chris Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Willard
Hi Wes! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, twofers wrote: Are you saying that you have separate rules in user_prefs and those rules are not being processed? or are you talking about just configuration lines in user_prefs like use_bayes 1? Yes - it does not process the seperate rules that are in

Re: user_prefs not used

2006-11-22 Thread twofers
Have you run spamassassin -D --lint? to check for syntax, etc. errors? Wes Chris Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Wes! On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, twofers wrote: Are you saying that you have separate rules in user_prefs and those rules are not being processed? or are you talking about

Re: Sudden drop in spam-rate, parallel to a surge of new trojans - beware

2006-11-22 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 9:54 am, Andrew Hearn (AAISP) wrote: Chris wrote: Total: 580 reports in 39m 28s. 4.08 seconds per report. Tue Nov 21 22:08:56 CST 2006 Sorry to be OT, but are these spam stats a built in feature of SA, or have you got a plugin to get this information?

RE: Is my Bayes DB borked?

2006-11-22 Thread Kurt Buff
Good thought. The backup has slowly drained (while I was involved in solving a major firewall problem - god I love being an SA in a medium-sized firm), so I can't check it at this moment, but if it happens again, I'll have something to start with. Kurt | -Original Message- | From: Bowie

backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Chris
I've been receiving tons of supposed bounces from Peru saying I've sent messages to non-existant address using a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. One such bounce is below: Return-Path: Received: from pop.earthlink.net [209.86.93.201] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5) for

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Matt Kettler
messju mohr wrote: Hello, mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). How can we get our host removed from the list of DYNAMIC_IPS?

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread qqqq
| messju mohr wrote: | Hello, | | mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) | are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a | dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). | | How can we get our host removed from the list of

Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Ramprasad
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:34 -0600, Chris wrote: I've been receiving tons of supposed bounces from Peru saying I've sent messages to non-existant address using a [EMAIL PROTECTED] address. One such bounce is below: Return-Path: Received: from pop.earthlink.net [209.86.93.201]

Re: Greylisting

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Philip Prindeville wrote: Don't they? I thought the recommended retry time was 2 minutes, doubling on each failure, and maxing out at 2 hours. The traditional Sendmail would retry either every 15 or every 30 minutes. This would almost always be seen as the command line setting as sendmail

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
wrote: | messju mohr wrote: | mails from our host 80.237.202.55 (ds80-237-202-55.dedicated.hosteurope.de) | are tagged as HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR. Said IP is not dynamic, it's a | dedicated server hosted at german ISP (Host Europe GmbH). | | How can we get our host removed from the

Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Mick Pollard wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:34 -0600, Chris wrote: I've gotten about 500 of these today and its getting to be hell weeding through them to pull out my LARTs which are also bouncing. Any ideas/suggestions are whole heartedly welcome. This may be useful. I haven't had a