ifspamh error logs

2009-05-01 Thread dave_c00
Hi, I am trying to get ifspamh working within my .qmail-user file but there is obviously an error either with the vars set up within the ifspamh file or somewhere else as the emails are just looping until I change the .qmail-user file back. I want to maybe try and run the ifspamh command from

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Raymond Dijkxhoorn
Hi! mimeheader DSL4DIG_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DSL[0-9]{4}\.png\/ Looks like they've changed from DSL to DSC! I have a few with DSC in today's quarantine, but they were caught by BOTNET rules. Methinks its time to update the above rule to look for DS[A-Z][0-9]{4}\.png or maybe even

spamassassin block *.png

2009-05-01 Thread vibi
Hello, How to use spamassassin block *.png so that going to the quarantine? 100% of spam that gets to me a plain e-mail with attachment *.png -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/spamassassin-block-*.png-tp23330686p23330686.html Sent from the SpamAssassin - Users mailing list

Re: spamassassin block *.png

2009-05-01 Thread Dennis Davis
On Fri, 1 May 2009, vibi wrote: From: vibi ml...@go2.pl To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 02:56:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: spamassassin block *.png How to use spamassassin block *.png so that going to the quarantine? 100% of spam that gets to me a plain e-mail with

RE: my emailBL is live!

2009-05-01 Thread Jeff Moss
The chance of a collision really is much smaller than I thought, even including the birthday paradox. But rather than just say it's small and ask you to take my word for it I'm providing a link. The Wikipedia page for Birthday Attack has a chart that shows the probability of collision for

Re: spamassassin block *.png

2009-05-01 Thread vibi
I use FuzzyOCR and a large portion of spam is cleared to image. But the news from *. png does not want to cut out: ( I made a record: mimeheader GIF_ATTACHMENT Content-Type =~ /image\/gif;\s*(\n\s+)?name=/ mimeheader PNG_ATTACHMENT Content-Type =~ /image\/png;\s*(\n\s+)?name=/ How do I

emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Katz
Jeff Moss wrote: This is not to suggest that I ever understood the part about using half-length MD5. No need. I'm using full-length hashes now, plus the SURBL/chmod style IP addresses. I must have lost the email I was composing on the topic, but it's fully propagated by now. I've attached my

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 5/1/2009 3:56 PM, Adam Katz wrote: Jeff Moss wrote: This is not to suggest that I ever understood the part about using half-length MD5. No need. I'm using full-length hashes now, plus the SURBL/chmod style IP addresses. I must have lost the email I was composing on the topic, but it's

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Mike Cardwell
Yet Another Ninja wrote: This is not to suggest that I ever understood the part about using half-length MD5. No need. I'm using full-length hashes now, plus the SURBL/chmod style IP addresses. I must have lost the email I was composing on the topic, but it's fully propagated by now. I've

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Katz
Yet Another Ninja wrote: I'm trying hard to convince myself this data is really useful. the whole http://anti-phishing-email-reply.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/phishing_reply_addresses file has 4518 entries, including vintage 2008 compared to the big_boyz my trap feed is quite small and I

Re: 'anti' AWL

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, LuKreme wrote: No, the senders AWL HURTS new spam. If the score is -2 from the AWL then -2 * -0.2 = 0.4 Ah. Missed the negative. Then this particular piece of the logic is good. The odds of any AWL(perIP) other than the legit sender having a negative average are

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Gregory
Uh, what do these 'ratware' rules trigger on? How effective are they, and what are the chances of false positives? - Charles On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, LuKreme wrote: (single lines) header KB_RATWARE_OUTLOOK_16 ALL =~ /^Message-Id:

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Jesse Thompson
Yet Another Ninja wrote: I'm trying hard to convince myself this data is really useful. the whole http://anti-phishing-email-reply.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/phishing_reply_addresses file has 4518 entries, including vintage 2008 compared to the big_boyz my trap feed is quite small and I

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Charles Gregory
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, LuKreme wrote: A tip: the PNG takes up considerably more disk space (and thus loading time) and you're not increasing any quality (since it was originally lossy). Actually, the PNGs load considerably faster for me as desktop images, which is why I convert them. I agree

RE: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 09:23 -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I just upgraded to 3.2.5 ran sa-update and I got this message with only one rule tripped I'm putting a link to the message as well as the headers If anyone can shed some light here , I would appreciate it.

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Craig
I could be asking the same thing as Charles, if I am I apologize. I installed the rules below, ran the headers.txt file- thru SA and the rules did not trigger. Do I need to configure something else? Thanks Craig Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org 5/1/2009 9:48 AM Uh, what do these

Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have a script that runs daily against whatever I put in the spam folder, and it is suddenly having a hard time. The error: bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 1883. This

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Yet Another Ninja
On 5/1/2009 4:52 PM, Jesse Thompson wrote: Yet Another Ninja wrote: I'm trying hard to convince myself this data is really useful. the whole http://anti-phishing-email-reply.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/phishing_reply_addresses file has 4518 entries, including vintage 2008 compared to the

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Charles Gregory cgreg...@hwcn.org Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 10:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Uh, what do these 'ratware' rules trigger on? The rules trigger on spam with a particular Message-Id and boundary pattern. How effective are they, and what are the chances of false positives? For

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Theo Van Dinter
I would say it's less someone poisoning your DB and more your DB becoming corrupt. As it says, a pack format of dec(73) is not a valid value. It's set by the BayesStore module itself, not influenced by the token in question. You can try to do a dump/verify/restore ... ala: sa-learn --sync

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 11:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 1883. This seems to be repeated at about 3x for every spam I put in the spam folder.

Re: Bombed by PNG spam and spamassassin say its HAM argh

2009-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Dave Funk wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: I was about to write the list and ask if there is a rule that could be triggered when a message [contains] only an image part but no text parts. There should already be rules for that exact format. Which rules? I see no rule hits here. I see that I can

Re: ifspamh error logs

2009-05-01 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 01:38 -0700, an anonymous Nabble wrote: I am trying to get ifspamh working within my .qmail-user file but there is obviously an error either with the vars set up within the ifspamh file or somewhere else as the emails are just looping until I change the .qmail-user file

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: mimeheader DSL4DIG_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DSL[0-9]{4}\.png\/ Make that 4,5 since they also vary the size of the filenames... You might also want to use \d instead of [0-9]. Bytes don't grow on trees, y'know. :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Adam Katz wrote: The emailBL mechanism could easily be populated by a spamtrap, but the danger from false positives (forged sender addresses) would be quite real. How would the phisher collect the password info from their target using a forged sender address?

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
mimeheader DSL4DIG_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DSL[0-9]{4}\.png\/ It seems a wave of image spam is going out. Would it be reasonable to push this rule (with suitable modifications for length, etc.) and/or the ImageInfo version out as a base SA update so that the most people can benefit?

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Yet Another Ninja wrote: Only little drawback is how to centralize (or not) all this gold to make it useful to more than me and my dog. I (and I'm sure others) would be willing to feed phishing corpa from our quarantines, so long as it's easy to do. -- John Hardin

Re: [SA] emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: How would the phisher collect the password info from their target using a forged sender address? A web form.

Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread jason_quick
Hello, I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. I need this to happen server-side because my users use IMAP, and most email clients don't allow filtering rules to deposit mail into an IMAP folder. My

Re: Re: Bombed by PNG spam and spamassassin say its HAM argh

2009-05-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Bob, Am 2009-04-30 21:41:30, schrieb Bob Proulx: I was about to write the list and ask if there is a rule that could be triggered when a message no only an image part but no text parts. I have no idea how to create it but that would be very useful for me and this type of spam. As far as

Re: [SA] emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Adam Katz wrote: John Hardin wrote: How would the phisher collect the password info from their target using a forged sender address? A web form. Hrm. Okay, I'll buy that. If you're going to spearfish a specific organization then it would be reasonable to put the effort

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 10:23 AM 5/1/2009, you wrote: I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. I need this to happen server-side because my users use IMAP, and most email clients don't allow filtering rules to deposit mail

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, jason_quick wrote: I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. Strictly speaking that isn't the province of SA. SA is only a scoring tool. procmail-3.22-17.1 If procmail is

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Walker
jason_quick wrote: Hello, I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. I need this to happen server-side because my users use IMAP, and most email clients don't allow filtering rules to deposit mail

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009, jason_quick wrote: I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. Strictly speaking that isn't the province of SA. SA is only a scoring tool.

Re: [SA] Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Katz
John Hardin wrote: mimeheader DSL4DIG_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DSL[0-9]{4}\.png\/ It seems a wave of image spam is going out. Would it be reasonable to push this rule (with suitable modifications for length, etc.) and/or the ImageInfo version out as a base SA update so that the most

Re: [SA] Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 14:04 -0400, Adam Katz wrote: mimeheader __DSCL4_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DS[CL]\d{4,5}\.png\/ body __PNG_240_400 eval:image_size_exact('png',240,400) meta DSCL4DIG_PNG __DSCL4_PNG __PNG_240_400 describe DSCL4DIG_PNG Supposed digital camera photo is a PNG

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Jesse Thompson
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009, Adam Katz wrote: The emailBL mechanism could easily be populated by a spamtrap, but the danger from false positives (forged sender addresses) would be quite real. On a related note: you also need to worry about the phishers intentionally forging the

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread LuKreme
On 1-May-2009, at 08:48, Charles Gregory wrote: Uh, what do these 'ratware' rules trigger on? Spammish message IDs with spammish MIME boundary tags. Message-ID: 000d01c9c74c$bc2f05d0$6400a...@venomousf From: Shannon England venomo...@blackmanlawoffice.com Subject: We hae the best alarm-clocks

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread LuKreme
On 1-May-2009, at 12:04, Adam Katz wrote: mimeheader __DSCL4_PNG Content-Type =~ /name\=\DS[CL]\d{4,5}\.png\/ body __PNG_240_400 eval:image_size_exact('png',240,400) meta DSCL4DIG_PNG __DSCL4_PNG __PNG_240_400 describe DSCL4DIG_PNG Supposed digital camera photo is a PNG Probably the

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread LuKreme
On 1-May-2009, at 11:23, jason_quick wrote: I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. I use procmail to do this on the server. I need this to happen server-side because my users use IMAP, and most

Re: Virtual Postfix Users move SPAM to .Junk

2009-05-01 Thread mouss
jason_quick a écrit : Hello, I have been trying to find a way to automatically move messages that have been tagged as spam by SA to my virtual users' .Junk folder. I need this to happen server-side because my users use IMAP, and most email clients don't allow filtering rules to deposit mail

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2009, Theo Van Dinter wrote: I would say it's less someone poisoning your DB and more your DB becoming corrupt. As it says, a pack format of dec(73) is not a valid value. It's set by the BayesStore module itself, not influenced by the token in question. You can try to do a

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Mandy
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jesse Thompson jesse.thomp...@doit.wisc.edu wrote: Yet Another Ninja wrote: I'm trying hard to convince myself this data is really useful. I work for a Canadian provincial government, on a system with about 50,000 mailboxes. I scanned our outbound mail logs

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2009, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 11:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: bayes: unknown packing format for bayes db, please re-learn: 73 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore/DBM.pm line 1883. This seems to be repeated at about 3x

Re: Looks like sa-learn --spam troubles

2009-05-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 01 May 2009, Theo Van Dinter wrote: I would say it's less someone poisoning your DB and more your DB becoming corrupt. As it says, a pack format of dec(73) is not a valid value. It's set by the BayesStore module itself, not influenced by the token in question. You can try to do a

Re: emailBL code

2009-05-01 Thread Adam Katz
Mandy wrote: I work for a Canadian provincial government, on a system with about 50,000 mailboxes. I scanned our outbound mail logs over the past 6 months with this data. There were 31 replies to Your webmail is expired!! ! type messages in that period. If we had had been blocking

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Ned Slider
LuKreme wrote: This is what I have in local.cf (single lines) header KB_RATWARE_OUTLOOK_16 ALL =~ /^Message-Id: ([0-9a-f]{8})\$([0-9a-f]{8})\$.{100,400}boundary==_NextPart_000__\1\.\2/msi # header KB_RATWARE_OUTLOOK_12 ALL =~ /^Message-Id:

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 1 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Can you please explain the rationale behind your scoring. I've just installed these 3 rules to test and so far either all 3 are being triggered on spam, or none at all. Presumably BOUNDARY is deemed safer (less FP potential) than OUTLOOK_12 or OUTLOOK_16.

Re: Almost no score

2009-05-01 Thread Ned Slider
John Hardin wrote: On Fri, 1 May 2009, Ned Slider wrote: Can you please explain the rationale behind your scoring. I've just installed these 3 rules to test and so far either all 3 are being triggered on spam, or none at all. Presumably BOUNDARY is deemed safer (less FP potential) than