Re: Filtering THIS list (Re: Breaking up the Bot army - we need a plan)

2006-12-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Michele Neylon :: Blacknight wrote: Maybe they're better suited to one of the other lists such as spam-l? May I suggest news.admin.net-abuse.email -- Andreas

Re: Writing a new DNSBL rule

2006-11-08 Thread Andreas Pettersson
D.J. wrote: Hi all. So I've got a DNSBL I want to use with SpamAssassin that wasn't included in the stock install. My question (and there's an alarming lack of anything useful in this area... wiki anyone on the SA site?) is if my syntax and placement are correct for what I've done. In my

Re: R: R: R: Relay Checker Plugin (code review please?)

2006-11-01 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Steven Dickenson wrote: On Oct 31, 2006, at 6:09 AM, John Rudd wrote: I've considered the exact opposite (adding static to the check for keywords). My rules are really looking more for is this a _client_ host, not is this a dynamic host. That one check looks for dynamic, but I'm not

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

2006-10-31 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Jeff Chan wrote: 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. Perhaps CRISP is part of the answer to this problem.

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Chris Santerre wrote: Just curious, but how many people see spam being sent to usersnames with the fisrt letter dropped? I see a ton in my logs. I believe spammers figure [EMAIL PROTECTED] will also have a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Too bad for them...they do not. :) Same here. I've also had lots

Re: Psst!

2006-10-20 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: Same here. I've also had lots of spam to addresses with various amounts of trailing d or n in local part. Like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to be fewer of these today though. I meant tailing. -- Andreas

Re: Is there any way to score this?

2006-10-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Robert Swan wrote: Is there anyway to get points added if the sending mail server has no PTR record *(unknown [196.211.162.65])?* I am using Redhat Fedora and Spamassassin 3.1.2 and Postfix I was looking for the same thing some time ago, but I couldn't easily find a way to do that in SA.

Re: Having issue with a type of spam I havn't seen before

2006-10-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Thomas Lindell wrote: but whas is the CID . Is that some sort of alternate notation for an ip address? It's a reference to an attached image. -- Andreas

Re: Having issue with a type of spam I havn't seen before

2006-10-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Thomas Lindell wrote: I don't see anything attached to the message though. Even when I view the source I don't see a mime attachment. Well, the attachment is missing then. Come to think of it, that would be some excellent rule :-] -- Andreas

Re: sometimes no bayesian filtering?

2006-10-08 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Paul29 wrote: Hi all, in the last days there were more and more SPAM mails where I found no bayesian scoring in the header. This lets me guess it did not take place at all. Is that conclusion right? I have not been able to find a common property in these mails to tell which mails are scanned

Re: What's the best method to use SA?

2006-10-04 Thread Andreas Pettersson
I use Exim with the integrated SA ACL. I'm really pleased with how it works. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html /Andreas

Re: Stock spam in images

2006-10-02 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Stuart Johnston wrote: Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Randal, Phil wrote: undetected). Wouldn't it be better to inject the detected text back to SA? There should be enough variants of spam worlds to let SA fuzzily catch the ones from images. I think so.

Re: SA gone mad, times out and stucks

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Jürgen Herz wrote: What I still get and not understand is warn: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/spool/exim4/.spamassa ssin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: File exists Make sure the file permissions hasn't changed when you ran the manual expire. Regards, Andreas

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather some statistics of where the mails come from. Files found here http://anp.ath.cx

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Bret Miller wrote: I used to have problems with bayes locking and journaling. When it finally corrupted the database, I decided it was time to put it into a real SQL database instead of using DB_File. Haven't had a single problem with bayes CPU or locking since. Maybe it's time you consider

[OT] Re: Fw: failure notice / spaassassin.apache.org

2006-09-29 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ken A wrote: It looks like you are listed in spamcop and apparently Comcast is either using spamcop or they have their own list that is blocking you. Comcast themselves are using a spam filter? (Let me taste that line one more time...) Comcast themselves are using a spam filter? Then why

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-26 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Bret Miller wrote: I used to have problems with bayes locking and journaling. When it finally corrupted the database, I decided it was time to put it into a real SQL database instead of using DB_File. Haven't had a single problem with bayes CPU or locking since.

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
? Is it normal to have an bayes_journal.old laying around? What more can I do to find the cause? If the core dump (22 MB) is of any interrest, I'll upload it somewhere. Best regards, Andreas Andreas Pettersson wrote: Ok, more information here. I found in spamd.log this line when the problem started

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
my problems started. But if the hogging continues even with bayes_auto_expire set to 0, then where should I be looking instead? Regards, Andreas Andreas Pettersson wrote: Me again. Since I'm not getting any responses I better keep posting more information as I've made some more

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Bret Miller wrote: I used to have problems with bayes locking and journaling. When it finally corrupted the database, I decided it was time to put it into a real SQL database instead of using DB_File. Haven't had a single problem with bayes CPU or locking since. Maybe it's time you consider

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Jonas Eckerman wrote: Andreas Pettersson wrote: Bus error (core dumped) This *can* be the symnptom of a hardware problem, such as bad memory or a bad disk. If you have a disk thats going bad, the symptoms often are corrupt files and extremeley slow writes (because the disk controller

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Bret Miller wrote: Are you sure you have enough RAM to handle the number of threads you are running? Yes, I'm pretty sure 512MB is enough. No swapping going on, and I only scan msgs smaller than 500 KB. Avg scan time is about 3-4 sec and I scan less than 1 a day. Regards, Andreas

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-25 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Logan Shaw wrote: One thing you could try is running db4_recover (or db_recover, depending on how it's installed) on the Bayes database. Seems like something to try. But I don't understand the utility: usage: db_recover [-ceVv] [-h home] [-P password] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] How can I

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu

2006-09-24 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ok, more information here. I found in spamd.log this line when the problem started: Fri Sep 22 19:55:22 2006 [74581] warn: bayes: expire_old_tokens: child processing timeout at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 1082 which was followed by lots of these: Fri Sep 22 19:55:52 2006 [74581] warn: bayes:

Some mail seems to hog spamd process

2006-09-23 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi. Since yesterday I am having problem with spamd processes hogging cpu. All is fine until suddenly spamd keeps using 95% cpu forever. I noticed that bayes.lock also contains the pid of the hogging process. After some minutes I kill the pid and removes bayes.lock by hand, but it only takes

Re: Some mail seems to hog spamd process

2006-09-23 Thread Andreas Pettersson
of time to process one mail at a time. Regards, Andreas Andreas Pettersson wrote: Hi. Since yesterday I am having problem with spamd processes hogging cpu. All is fine until suddenly spamd keeps using 95% cpu forever. I noticed that bayes.lock also contains the pid of the hogging process

Re: bayes sync is hogging cpu (was: Some mail seems to hog spamd process)

2006-09-23 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi, me again ;) I'm pretty confident that the hogging occurs when SA is trying to sync the bayes. The bayes_journal is cleared exactly when the hogging begins. And when I run sa-learn --sync I get the very same hogging effect. The permissions seems ok, doesn't it? -rw--- 1 spamd wheel

Re: Fishing

2006-09-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Steve Thomas wrote: /htt(?:p|ps):\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i Why not /https?:\/\/.*?\/.*\.com$/i ?

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-10 Thread Andreas Pettersson
mouss wrote: How does/would this compare to using RELAY_COUNTRY? are they similar (so one should only use one of them) or complementary? I don't know. I haven't used RELAY_COUNTRY, but now that I'm aware of its existense I'll have a look at it :) Regards, Andreas

Re: TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-10 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: I don't know. I haven't used RELAY_COUNTRY, but now that I'm aware of its existense I'll have a look at it :) Ok, I've had a quick look now. RelayCountry presents the country code of the last relay either as a separate header, or as the _RELAYCOUNTRY_ header

TQMcube Geo Zone config files

2006-09-09 Thread Andreas Pettersson
In case anybody is interrested, I've compiled a config file for the geo zone at TQM http://tqmcube.com/worldzone.php It might not be of great use, but it is interresting to gather some statistics of where the mails come from. Files found here http://anp.ath.cx/tqmcube/ Regards, Andreas

Live Messenger Invitation with forged Received header?

2006-09-03 Thread Andreas Pettersson
I need some help with understanding why some of the below rules triggered on these headers.. Received: from baym-sm1.msgr.hotmail.com ([207.46.1.190]) by mail.mydomain.com with esmtp (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) id 1GJcP7-00063q-JH for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 02 Sep 2006

Invalid date header

2006-09-02 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi. I got a mail with this Date header: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:23:11 +0200 which triggered this rule: 2.2 INVALID_DATEInvalid Date: header (not RFC 2822) What's wrong with it? The ? Regards, Andreas

Re: AWL confusion..

2006-08-29 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Anders Norrbring wrote: I just got rediciously confused.. I sent a mail to myself, testing some stuff, and of course it's in the same domain and network as the server. I got: 9.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list Shouldn't mail in the AWL get a *negative* score? Or did I

Re: [Sare-users] (no subject)

2006-08-22 Thread Andreas Pettersson
SysAdmin wrote: I wrote the following rule in an attempt to catch these but I've obviously made some error. Can someone give me a little guidance as to where I went awry? rawbody SWF_r_AMPGFX1 /\.(com|net)/\w+/\?90\amp/i The forward slashes need to be escaped as well. Regards, Andreas

Re: [Sare-users] (no subject)

2006-08-22 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Andreas Pettersson wrote: SysAdmin wrote: I wrote the following rule in an attempt to catch these but I've obviously made some error. Can someone give me a little guidance as to where I went awry? rawbody SWF_r_AMPGFX1 /\.(com|net)/\w+/\?90\amp/i The forward slashes need

sa-update and VirusScannerTypeUpdates

2006-08-21 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi. I keep seeing suggestions to use sa-update quite often on this list, but I thought it was no use doing so between releases according to this page: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/VirusScannerTypeUpdates with these exact words in the end: Daily and/or weekly updates aren't practical,

Re: sa-update and VirusScannerTypeUpdates

2006-08-21 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 05:46:19PM +0200, Andreas Pettersson wrote: I keep seeing suggestions to use sa-update quite often on this list, but I thought it was no use doing so between releases according to this page: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: I run a qmail frontend for a FirstClass system. The qmail accepts mail for about 500 domains, hosted on the FirstClass system, and scans them with SA. In then injects them into FirstClass. If the domain is known, but the user is wrong (as in [EMAIL PROTECTED]) the

Re: Using SA to prevent bouncing spam?

2006-08-15 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Ole Nomann Thomsen wrote: Den 15.08.2006 kl. 12:01 skrev Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While I don't really see why ldap isn't an option, even with an 99% load, callout might be the solution. However, I don't run qmail but here's how it works with exim http://www.exim.org/exim-html

SPF softfail when mail has been forwarded from another domain

2006-08-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Hi all. I've noticed a problem. We receive a few legit mails that has travelled through a forwarder. That causes some problems for the SPF check. Since the mail claiming to be from hotmail clearly doesn't arrive directly from one of the machines listed in hotmail's spf record, the

Re: SPF softfail when mail has been forwarded from another domain

2006-08-13 Thread Andreas Pettersson
Loren Wilton wrote: I've noticed a problem. We receive a few legit mails that has travelled through a forwarder. That causes some problems for the SPF check. Since the mail claiming to be from hotmail clearly doesn't arrive directly from one of the machines listed in hotmail's spf record, the