FuzzyOCR: manually add an image and score to the database

2007-02-08 Thread Claude Frantz
Hello Folk ! How can I add this to the database when FuzzyOCR does not recognize the image as it is ? Thanks a lot ! Claude smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Nuisance stock spams

2007-02-08 Thread Ramprasad
The stock spams are getting obfuscated to extreme lengths. This mail went clean thru spamassassin. All it got hit were my custom rules where I score mails containing companies mentioned in stock spam ( risky but no alternative ) Stock spams are a real nuisance , because the spammer just has

BAD_ENC_HEADER?

2007-02-08 Thread Per Jessen
All, I've got a header with MIME encoding that looks like this: Subject: Benachrichtung zum =?unicode-1-1-utf-7?Q?+ANw-bermittlungsstatus (Fehlgeschlagen)?= which triggers BAD_ENC_HEADER. As far as I can tell, it shouldn't? /Per Jessen, Zürich

FuzzyOCR: pamthreshold

2007-02-08 Thread Spamassassin List
Hi, I am running CentOS 4.4 and have netpbm installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] textspam]# rpm -q netpbm-devel netpbm-devel-10.25-2.EL4.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] textspam]# rpm -q netpbm-progs netpbm-progs-10.25-2.EL4.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] textspam]# rpm -q netpbm-devel netpbm-devel-10.25-2.EL4.3 I still have

RE: FuzzyOCR: pamthreshold

2007-02-08 Thread Leon Kolchinsky
Pamthreshold is in 10.34 and higher versions of netpbm. Use patches from here http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam2.html to solve your problem. Regards, Leon Kolchinsky From: Spamassassin List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

SQL Auto-whitelist woes

2007-02-08 Thread Dean Manners
Hey guys, Im head butting a wall here trying to get SQL auto-whilist to work. I cant seem to get even the --lint test to recognise sql auto-whilist. The plugin loads, and there are no errors reported during the --lint test. Instructions used from:

Online game spam

2007-02-08 Thread Spamassassin List
Hi, I am getting hit by the online game spam. If i test it using spamassassin -t email, the result score 24.9. Please see http://202.42.86.68/result.txt But the header says:- X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=disabled

Re: BAD_ENC_HEADER?

2007-02-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:17:24AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: Subject: Benachrichtung zum =?unicode-1-1-utf-7?Q?+ANw-bermittlungsstatus (Fehlgeschlagen)?= which triggers BAD_ENC_HEADER. As far as I can tell, it shouldn't? You have whitespace in the encoded section which

Re: BAD_ENC_HEADER?

2007-02-08 Thread Per Jessen
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:17:24AM +0100, Per Jessen wrote: Subject: Benachrichtung zum =?unicode-1-1-utf-7?Q?+ANw-bermittlungsstatus (Fehlgeschlagen)?= which triggers BAD_ENC_HEADER. As far as I can tell, it shouldn't? You have whitespace in the

Re: Nuisance stock spams

2007-02-08 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 14:46:31 +0530, Ramprasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The stock spams are getting obfuscated to extreme lengths. This mail went clean thru spamassassin. All it got hit were my custom rules where I score mails containing companies mentioned in stock spam ( risky but no

Scoring strangely

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Barker
I received a spam yesterday with two different scores (one directly to me, one to a webmaster account that forwards to me). This was very odd, because the scores were quite different. I understand differences in the AWL and Bayes scores, due to being processed with different user directories

False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread Ben Hanson
I spent some time recently reading the wonders of creating a false primary MX record (Nolisting). Supposedly compliant mailers automatically mail to the primary MX record first, and then upon failure retry to the secondary, delivering to the real server, while non-compliant spammers just stop

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Adam Lanier
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:31 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: No, the charset isn't triggering the base64 rules. The fact that the Content-Transfer-Encoding declares the message is base-64 encoded is causing it. Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered by the

RE: False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread Martin.Hepworth
Ben I found A LOT of spam tries secondary MX first as a way to circumvent spam filters.. -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300 -Original Message- From: Ben Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 February 2007 13:55 To:

RE: Scoring strangely

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Barker
Never mind. I figured it out. I'm not sure I like it, but I figured it out. If the Bayes counts are too low for Bayes scoring, then some of the other tests don't work. I guess it's turning off some text collection (that it thinks it won't need) that later rules have come to depend upon (because of

Re: Scoring strangely

2007-02-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:08:37AM -0500, Dan Barker wrote: If the Bayes counts are too low for Bayes scoring, then some of the other tests don't work. I guess it's turning off some text collection (that it Well, the scores are different, which may enable/disable other rules. Should it be

Re: Scoring strangely

2007-02-08 Thread jdow
From: Dan Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] I received a spam yesterday with two different scores (one directly to me, one to a webmaster account that forwards to me). This was very odd, because the scores were quite different. I understand differences in the AWL and Bayes scores, due to being

RE: False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 14:04 +, Martin.Hepworth wrote: Ben I found A LOT of spam tries secondary MX first as a way to circumvent spam filters.. Yes, I have had spammers sending directly to the e-mail address of a domain's 'A' record, trying to bypass our filtering gateways. -- Robert

RE: Senders with single quote in email address

2007-02-08 Thread Bowie Bailey
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:49:25AM -0600, Larry Starr wrote: Not having run sa-update before, I copied my /etc/spamassassin directory to /tmp, to play it safe and ran sa-update using the /tmp/spamassassin directory as the updatedir (Nothing happened!): [17203]

Re: Re: Drug Spam

2007-02-08 Thread Ben Wylie
As I understand it, these undefined dependencies are errors where a meta rule has been written to depend on another rule, which does not exist. These don't have catastrophic consequences, it just means that rule may not be effective. Ben Spamassassin List wrote: div class=moz-text-flowed

Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Barker
Blackberry emails trigger a bunch of BASE64 rules, that are not meaningful. It's just the way it works. Two thoughts: a) If blackberry.com doesn't often spam, why not: whitelist_from_rcvd * blackberry.com Doing this appears to work, but there is a note in perldoc::mail::spamassassin::conf that

Baysian clear

2007-02-08 Thread Jess Mooers
Exim 4.66, SA 3.1.7 I am getting a large number of spam messages with this in the header, which is causing many spams to hit under the 5.0 mark. * -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% Obviously something is wrong with my db. I am wondering if there is a way to

ALL_TRUSTED rule fires despite no trusted_networks defined

2007-02-08 Thread Stéphane LEPREVOST
We are actually checking the configuration of our SA installation (SA 3.1.7 + qmail + qmail-scanner 1.25st + clamav running on SLES *) and just saw a very weird thing : despite we don't have any 'trusted_networks' line in our local.cf file, more than 50 000 received mails over 90 000 did fire

Re: ALL_TRUSTED rule fires despite no trusted_networks defined

2007-02-08 Thread Jim Maul
Stéphane LEPREVOST wrote: We are actually checking the configuration of our SA installation (SA 3.1.7 + qmail + qmail-scanner 1.25st + clamav running on SLES *) and just saw a very weird thing : despite we don't have any 'trusted_networks' line in our local.cf file, more than 50 000 received

RE: ALL_TRUSTED rule fires despite no trusted_networks defined

2007-02-08 Thread Stéphane LEPREVOST
Seems like you're right Jim... This server is efectively nat'ed and MX's for our domains on other servers are nat'ed too... Looks like we have to configure all this stuff manually :-( It should be quite easy with TrustPath and TrustedRelays wiki's articles. In fact I'm afraid a lot of rules

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Jo Rhett
On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered by the fact that the message is base-64 encoded text AND has a Date: header that's missing a proper timezone. Apparently a batch of stock spam went out at some point with both of these abnormal

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread SM
At 07:44 08-02-2007, Dan Barker wrote: Blackberry emails trigger a bunch of BASE64 rules, that are not meaningful. It's just the way it works. b) Maybe I'd be better off with a few points (vs -100 from a whitelist) if the received_from ends blackberry. I could write a rule for that, and score

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Loren Wilton
As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered by the fact that the message is base-64 encoded text AND has a Date: header that's missing a proper timezone. Apparently a batch of stock spam went out at some point with both of these abnormal features. I have to admit, it's a pretty rare combination.

FuzzyOcr:Use of uninitialized value in hash element at...

2007-02-08 Thread Steven W. Orr
From use of FuzzyOcr-3.5.1 Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /etc/mail/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr/Config.pm line 703, HASH line 1. Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /etc/mail/spamassassin/FuzzyOcr/Config.pm line 703, HASH line 2. Learned tokens from 0 message(s) (1 message(s)

Re: Online game spam

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Spamassassin List wrote: But the header says:- X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7 I see no network tests (e.g. RCVD_IN_XBL) - do your logs show *any* messages hitting on

Re: False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben Hanson wrote: I spent some time recently reading the wonders of creating a false primary MX record (Nolisting). Ideally you need three: false at low and high, and real in the middle. Have spammers started targetting secondary MX records first? They have been for a

RE: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Dan Barker wrote: How's this? Too loose? header CRACKBERRY Received =~ /blackberry.com\b/i /\.blackberry\.com\b/i It'll trust forgeries, though. Example header: Received: from smtp01.bis.na.blackberry.com [216.9.248.48] by mail.visioncomm.net with ESMTP

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Dan Barker wrote: b) Maybe I'd be better off with a few points (vs -100 from a whitelist) if the received_from ends blackberry. I could write a rule for that, and score say -4. Maybe the core SA should add a beigelist_from_rcvd that scores -2 or so, for those MTAs you

RE: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Barker
Thanks John, that was exactly the feedback I was requesting. Yes, that is my MTA's header and I'll add the qualification you suggest. I was assuming (oops, shouldn't do that) that Received =~ meant the first, non-local Recieved line. Evidently (from your comment about forgeries), SA uses ALL

RE: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Dan Barker
John, it almost workedg. The from blah.blah.blah.blackberry.com is at the beginning of the header. So \s needed to be ^ instead. Anyhow, Thanks again. Dan /^from \S{1,30}\.blackberry\.com\s\S+\sby mail\.visioncomm\.net\s/i -Original Message- From: John D. Hardin [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
FWIW, if you were to write the rules using the X-Spam-Relays-External pseudo header (or X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted for older versions of SA) you could write generic rules that work for everyone (or survive changes to your mail topology). Daryl Dan Barker wrote: John, it almost workedg. The

Spam filtering on SA list?

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
WTF, over? On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:55:22 -0800 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details The original message was received at Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:54:58 -0800

RE: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Dan Barker wrote: John, it almost workedg. The from blah.blah.blah.blackberry.com is at the beginning of the header. So \s needed to be ^ instead. Anyhow, Thanks again. d'oh! -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: FWIW, if you were to write the rules using the X-Spam-Relays-External pseudo header (or X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted for older versions of SA) you could write generic rules that work for everyone (or survive changes to your mail topology). ...can you

sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Seccombe
Hi everyone, Tried Googling this but no success Any advise would be greatly appreciated Is it updating or is that error mean it is stopping at the end and not updating? When I run sa-update -D I get the following: nibbler:/etc/spamassassin# sa-update -D [9013] dbg: logger:

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Doc Schneider
Philip Seccombe wrote: Hi everyone, Tried Googling this but no success Any advise would be greatly appreciated Is it updating or is that error mean it is stopping at the end and not updating? When I run sa-update –D I get the following: [9013] dbg: channel: extracting

RE: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Seccombe
This is what happens: commit: wrote /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm CPAN: Storable loaded ok CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[LWP::Protocol::MyFTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.perl.org'] Fetching with

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: FWIW, if you were to write the rules using the X-Spam-Relays-External pseudo header (or X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted for older versions of SA) you could write generic rules that work for everyone (or survive changes to your mail

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:02:52PM +1300, Philip Seccombe wrote: This is what happens: commit: wrote /etc/perl/CPAN/Config.pm CPAN: Storable loaded ok CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500]

RE: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Seccombe
I ran perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle:CPAN' and went through all the updates using defaults Now it says: nibbler:~# perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::IO' CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok Sorry, we have to rerun the configuration dialog for CPAN.pm due to the following indispensable but missing

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Doc Schneider
Bob McClure Jr wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:02:52PM +1300, Philip Seccombe wrote: This is what happens: Warning: Cannot install File::IO, don't know what it is. Try the command i /File::IO/ That should be IO::FILE. ARG... Dyslexics of the world untie! My bad for sure. perl

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:26:31PM +1300, Philip Seccombe wrote: I ran perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle:CPAN' and went through all the updates using defaults Now it says: nibbler:~# perl -MCPAN -e 'install File::IO' Don't forget that should be IO::File. CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Philip Seccombe wrote: [9013] dbg: generic: SpamAssassin version 3.1.0 Upgrade SA to anything newer than 3.1.0.

RE: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Seccombe
Running through that gets me to this: Typical frequently used setting: --uninst 1 # uninstall conflicting files Your choice: [] --uninst 1 Please remember to call 'o conf commit' to make the config permanent! CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read

RE: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Seccombe
I really am getting confused here nibbler:/etc/init.d# spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.4 nibbler:/etc/init.d# nibbler:/etc/init.d# apt-get install spamassassin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done spamassassin is already the

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 12:47:54PM +1300, Philip Seccombe wrote: Running through that gets me to this: Typical frequently used setting: --uninst 1 # uninstall conflicting files Your choice: [] --uninst 1 Please remember to call 'o conf commit' to make

How to config to do this about bayes?

2007-02-08 Thread Monty Ree
Hello, all. I have setup bayes at local.cf below and works well.0 use_bayes 1 bayes_path /var/spool/spam/.spamassassin/bayes bayes_file_mode 777 bayes_auto_learn1 but after that, bayes* files increasing continuously. I'm afraid that this would make SA runs more slowly.

Re: sa-update gives error message Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch

2007-02-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 09 February 2007 00:52, Philip Seccombe wrote: I really am getting confused here nibbler:/etc/init.d# spamassassin -V SpamAssassin version 3.0.3 running on Perl version 5.8.4 nibbler:/etc/init.d# nibbler:/etc/init.d# apt-get install spamassassin Reading Package Lists... Done

RE: False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread Kenneth Porter
On Thursday, February 08, 2007 2:04 PM + Martin.Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found A LOT of spam tries secondary MX first as a way to circumvent spam filters.. I don't think there's anything that prohibits you from listing a server multiple times, so you could include your

Re: Online game spam

2007-02-08 Thread Spamassassin List
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Spamassassin List wrote: But the header says:- X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7 I see no network tests (e.g. RCVD_IN_XBL) - do your logs show *any* messages hitting on

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: FWIW, if you were to write the rules using the X-Spam-Relays-External pseudo header (or X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted for older versions of SA) you could write generic rules that

Re: Online game spam

2007-02-08 Thread Spamassassin List
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Spamassassin List wrote: But the header says:- X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.5 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06, HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY autolearn=disabled version=3.1.7 I see no network tests (e.g. RCVD_IN_XBL) - do your logs show *any* messages hitting on

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: FWIW, if you were to write the rules using the X-Spam-Relays-External pseudo header (or X-Spam-Relays-Untrusted for older versions of SA) you could write

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread John D. Hardin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: You could, of course, check the helo instead. Isn't the HELO easily forged? -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
John D. Hardin wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Daryl C. W. O'Shea wrote: You could, of course, check the helo instead. Isn't the HELO easily forged? Yeah (that's why I suggested a rule using rdns), but that has nothing to do with the documentation about the pseudo headers in question (which is

Re: FuzzyOCR: pamthreshold

2007-02-08 Thread Spamassassin List
Use patches from here http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/image_spam2.html to solve your problem. thanks. but is the site down? unable to access to it.

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Matt Kettler
Jo Rhett wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered by the fact that the message is base-64 encoded text AND has a Date: header that's missing a proper timezone. Apparently a batch of stock spam went out at some point with both of these

Re: Blackberry email

2007-02-08 Thread Loren Wilton
Thanks John, that was exactly the feedback I was requesting. Yes, that is my MTA's header and I'll add the qualification you suggest. I was assuming (oops, shouldn't do that) that Received =~ meant the first, non-local Recieved line. Evidently (from your comment about forgeries), SA uses ALL

Re[2]: False Primary MX Record = MORE spam?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Nitschke
I found A LOT of spam tries secondary MX first as a way to circumvent spam filters.. I don't think there's anything that prohibits you from listing a server multiple times, so you could include your primary in multiple MX records, including 1st, 2nd, and last. Here are some figures for the

Re: complete false hits for BASE64 and LW_STOCK_SPAM4

2007-02-08 Thread Jo Rhett
Matt Kettler wrote: Jo Rhett wrote: On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Matt Kettler wrote: As for LW_STOCK_SPAM4, it's being triggered by the fact that the message is base-64 encoded text AND has a Date: header that's missing a proper timezone. Apparently a batch of stock spam went out at some point