Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Kim Christensen
Hey list, I have qmail+vpopmail+spamassasin configured and working correctly. However, I have a situation where some of the users wants to have their spam moved to a folder in their IMAP accounts. Therefore, I have set up a procmail script which seems to be working, but since spamd is

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-23 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:04, Bob Proulx wrote: But in this case it is an example of poor form for the forward and reverse dns not to match.  If you are running a mail server this is one of the things that should be set up properly for it.  When that is fixed then the rule won't trigger

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread John Andersen
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:56, Kim Christensen wrote: Therefore, I have set up a procmail script which seems to be working, but since spamd is stopping all spam before it gets to vpopmail for procmail management, I need to set up some kind of filter in spamd for those particular domains

Re: SPF and SMTP AUTH

2006-11-23 Thread Rene Caspari
* Mark [2006-11-22 13:02]: -Original Message- From: Rene Caspari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I configure spamassassin to do not recognize the dialin account as a mailserver? The better route, really, is to configure your MTA, mail.domain.tld, to set pass for trusted

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:15:16 -0900, John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 22:04, Bob Proulx wrote: But in this case it is an example of poor form for the forward and reverse dns not to match.  If you are running a mail server this is one of the things that should

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-23 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:32, Nigel Frankcom wrote: t's worth hassling your ISP. If they want to sell 'business' packages then an rDNS *should* be part of the deal (imo). If your current ISP won't do it, switch to one that will, they are out there. I'm surprised none seem to use it as a

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Kim Christensen
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-23 00:24:02 -0900]: On Wednesday 22 November 2006 23:56, Kim Christensen wrote: Therefore, I have set up a procmail script which seems to be working, but since spamd is stopping all spam before it gets to vpopmail for procmail management, I need

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:00, Kim Christensen wrote: That's what I'm doing, sorry for not being totally clear about that. Thank you for your quick reply! Well if a user has a (dot) .procmailrc script in their directory it will over-ride the one in /etc. That way those users that don't

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Kim Christensen wrote: Hey list, I have qmail+vpopmail+spamassasin configured and working correctly. However, I have a situation where some of the users wants to have their spam moved to a folder in their IMAP accounts. Therefore, I have set up a procmail script which seems to be

Re: backscatter from a joejob is killing me

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Mason
Bob Proulx writes: 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

RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-23 Thread Jeremy Fairbrass
Hi all, It says at http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#network_test_options that when an IP address is added to a 'trusted_networks' entry (eg. in local.cf), DNS blacklist checks will never query for hosts on these networks. However, from what I can see

Spamassassin does not rewrite jubject

2006-11-23 Thread Cristi Tudose
Hi all . I have some problem with subject rewriting. I use qmail+vpopmail+clamav+spamassassin+qmail-scanner This is my local.cf ## local.cf ### # Add *SPAM* to the Subject header of spam e-mails # rewrite_header subject SPAM(_SCORE_)

RE: Greylisting

2006-11-23 Thread Randal, Phil
RFC 1123 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1123.txt) 5.3.1.1 Sending Strategy The general model of a sender-SMTP is one or more processes that periodically attempt to transmit outgoing mail. In a typical system, the program that composes a message has some

Re: Spamassassin does not rewrite jubject

2006-11-23 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:43:12 +0200, Cristi Tudose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all . I have some problem with subject rewriting. I use qmail+vpopmail+clamav+spamassassin+qmail-scanner This is my local.cf ## local.cf ### # Add *SPAM* to the

RelayChecker (now Botnet ) 0.4

2006-11-23 Thread John Rudd
(since I've recently mentioned this plugin on the mailscanner and communigate pro mailing lists, as an effective means of catching spam from botnets, I'm cross-posting this message) I've changed RelayChecker's name to Botnet (since that's its real purpose: identify potential botnet

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Kim Christensen
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-23 01:21:15 -0900]: On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:00, Kim Christensen wrote: That's what I'm doing, sorry for not being totally clear about that. Thank you for your quick reply! Well if a user has a (dot) .procmailrc script in their directory

Re: FP because of HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR

2006-11-23 Thread John Rudd
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 00:32, Nigel Frankcom wrote: t's worth hassling your ISP. If they want to sell 'business' packages then an rDNS *should* be part of the deal (imo). If your current ISP won't do it, switch to one that will, they are out there. I'm surprised none

Spamassassin does not rewrite jubject

2006-11-23 Thread Cristi Tudose
Try changing rewrite_header subject SPAM(_SCORE_) to rewrite_header subject SPAM KR Nigel Don't work Nigel ... Received: from 66.249.92.173 by mail.prosportequipment.ro (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED], uid 82) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.6/2205.

Re: RBL checks and -lastexternal

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Jeremy Fairbrass wrote: Hi all, It says at http://spamassassin.apache.org/full/3.1.x/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html#network_test_options that when an IP address is added to a 'trusted_networks' entry (eg. in local.cf), DNS blacklist checks will never query for hosts on these networks.

Re: Spamassassin does not rewrite jubject

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Cristi Tudose wrote: Hi all … I have some problem with subject rewriting. I use qmail+vpopmail+clamav+spamassassin+qmail-scanner You're using qmail-scanner. This tool does it's own markups, at which point any rewrite_header commands in your local.cf are irrelevant. This is my local.cf

Re: how to solve errors after upgrade

2006-11-23 Thread Mark Martinec
Leon, 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=15039-05, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method max_parts via package MIME::Parser at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 5933. Your version of MIME::Parser (i.e. MIME-Tools) is too old, use 5.420. Mark

Re: Spamassassin does not rewrite jubject

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
No, I can't help you any further. You've blacklisted my whole ISP. It would be impossible for me to reply to your off-list messages such as this one. Feel free to email me when you've removed Verizon from your badmailfrom list. (There are much better ways to control spam than by simply blocking

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-23 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Philip Prindeville wrote: Received: (private information removed) It just boggles my mind why anyone would go through that much trouble to deliberately damage a header line, rather than just delete it. The only reason I can think of for that (in this case) is that ther want to keep those

Re: RelayChecker (now Botnet ) 0.4

2006-11-23 Thread Jonas Eckerman
John Rudd wrote: a) Does anyone think I _should_ switch to Net::DNS for the botnet_baddns function? Or is the gethostbyname() call good enough? If they provide what you need, I think using the permsgstats object's lookup methods would be the right thing. I also think you should check

spamassassin uid / firewall port 6277 DCC

2006-11-23 Thread dinmir
Hi, I recently installed the DCC plugin for SA (default install on CentOS 4.4). I opened the outgoing destination port 6277 UDP for uid 0 (root) and uid 99 (nobody). I noticed this didn't work, so I opened port 6277 for all users to get DCC working. I'd rather only give outgoing access to port

prefork: child states

2006-11-23 Thread Rejaine Monteiro
After upgrade my SA to 3.1.x version, I start SpamAssassin maximum children 15 # /usr/sbin/spamd -x -u spamd -d -m 15 And now spamd will send messages like this : Nov 23 10:15:43 server spamd[26862]: prefork: child states: BIBB Nov 23 10:15:45 server spamd[26862]: prefork: child

Re: prefork: child states

2006-11-23 Thread Thiago LPS
I think that mean the usage of childrem.. something like: BUZZY(B) and IDLE (I) if you got B probably all the cildrem are buzzy... and you cpu load is really high try to compare it.. :) On 11/23/06, Rejaine Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrade my SA to 3.1.x version,

Re: RelayChecker (now Botnet ) 0.4

2006-11-23 Thread Jonas Eckerman
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin:: John Rudd wrote: I hope no one has any new feature suggestions... Not a feature suggestion, but a thoght about a small change. Is there any specific reason why you have not put the module in Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::? To me it seems more logical to name it

Re: RelayChecker (now Botnet ) 0.4

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Mason
They're not very well documented, unfortunately :( But it would be a good idea. in particular, Mail::SpamAssassin::DnsResolver is much more efficient in terms of resource usage than Net::DNS is. For what it's worth, SpamAssassin 3.2.0 has a generalized asynchronous-rule system in

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Kim Christensen
* Matt Kettler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-11-23 05:22:12 -0500]: Kim Christensen wrote: Hey list, I have qmail+vpopmail+spamassasin configured and working correctly. However, I have a situation where some of the users wants to have their spam moved to a folder in their IMAP accounts.

RE: spamassassin uid / firewall port 6277 DCC

2006-11-23 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Isn't it the uid under which your MTA runs? giampaolo -Original Message- From: dinmir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:22 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: spamassassin uid / firewall port 6277 DCC Hi, I recently installed the DCC

Blacklist mails with embedded gifs

2006-11-23 Thread Andreas Wideroe Andersen
Hi, Is there a way I can blacklist or write a rule for emails that contains embedded GIFs? I want them all thrashed. Right now I'm using SAproxy 3.1.5.1, but I'm about to install Spamassassin on two mailservers. Thanks, Andreas --- Norsk Smalfilm AS Andreas Widerøe Andersen [EMAIL

RE: spamassassin uid / firewall port 6277 DCC

2006-11-23 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Invoke 'ps axu' and look for the line regarding spamd. The uid under which is running will be at the first column of the line. giampaolo -Original Message- From: dinmir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:05 PM To: Giampaolo Tomassoni Subject: Re:

Re: spamassassin uid / firewall port 6277 DCC

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
dinmir wrote: Hi, I recently installed the DCC plugin for SA (default install on CentOS 4.4). I opened the outgoing destination port 6277 UDP for uid 0 (root) and uid 99 (nobody). I noticed this didn't work, so I opened port 6277 for all users to get DCC working. I'd rather only give

Re: Skip spamd for certain users

2006-11-23 Thread Bob McClure Jr
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:21:15AM -0900, John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:00, Kim Christensen wrote: That's what I'm doing, sorry for not being totally clear about that. Thank you for your quick reply! Well if a user has a (dot) .procmailrc script in their directory

Multi-user bayes

2006-11-23 Thread Giampaolo Tomassoni
Dears, actually, I see the Bayes database in SA can be either per-user or system-wide. I would like to have a way to puts bayes tokens on a per-user basis, and fetch them on a more system-wide (or pheraps domain-wide) way. My intention is to have each user's bayes to contribute to scoring

Bayes - Autoexpiry, bayes_seen, and bayes_tok

2006-11-23 Thread Jason Frisvold
Greetings, Just a few quick questions. First, I noticed that prior to 3.1.0 bayes_seen was not auto expiriing. That bug is marked as fixed, so is it safe to say that bayes_seen is now expiring automatically and that a 20+ meg bayes_seen file is valid? Next, the bayes_tok database is over 3

Improving Results

2006-11-23 Thread Luke Shannon
Good Morning; I have SpamAssassin 2.55 running on my server with a required hits setting of 2.5. Already my spam is down about 60 messages a day. I am still getting about 40 a day. This is still a 4-1 spam ratio for me. How can I improve this? I'm going to upgrade to 3.1.7 for starters. Should

Re: SPF and SMTP AUTH

2006-11-23 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Rene Caspari wrote: Yes, this seems to be the problem, for authentication we use an external daemon for pop-before-smtp. Exim (3.36 - I know, its extremely outdated :-) reads the database file for the IP to allow relaying. So there is no authenticated content in the Received-headers, but a new

Re: Multi-user bayes

2006-11-23 Thread Matthias Haegele
Giampaolo Tomassoni schrieb: Dears, actually, I see the Bayes database in SA can be either per-user or system-wide. I would like to have a way to puts bayes tokens on a per-user basis, and fetch them on a more system-wide (or pheraps domain-wide) way. My intention is to have each user's

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-23 Thread Craig Morrison
Justin Mason wrote: 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

Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Charlie Clark
Looks like there are some pretty impressive self-learning systems out there. I'm enclosing the content of the text part of a new spam. I think it's quite an interesting vocabulary that they are using, presumably from their own trained ham database. This spam got through four different

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:53:40PM +0100, Charlie Clark wrote: Looks like there are some pretty impressive self-learning systems out there. I'm enclosing the content of the text part of a new spam. I think it's quite an interesting vocabulary that they are using, presumably from their

saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Jack Gostl
I'm trying to understand saupdate and how to use it. I have two questions. I'm running AIX 5.3. Question 1: I run the following command: /usr/opt/perl5/bin/sa-update --nogpg -D --updatedir /tmp/update It finishes with a return code of 1. It sounds to me like something failed. I can't find

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Craig Morrison
Jack Gostl wrote: I'm trying to understand saupdate and how to use it. I have two questions. I'm running AIX 5.3. Question 1: I run the following command: /usr/opt/perl5/bin/sa-update --nogpg -D --updatedir /tmp/update It finishes with a return code of 1. It sounds to me like something

Re: Braindeath in the Navy

2006-11-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
Jonas Eckerman wrote: Philip Prindeville wrote: Received: (private information removed) It just boggles my mind why anyone would go through that much trouble to deliberately damage a header line, rather than just delete it. The only reason I can think of for that (in this

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Jason Frisvold
On 11/23/06, Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to understand saupdate and how to use it. I have two questions. I'm running AIX 5.3. Question 2: After running saupdate, I assume that all I have to do is to restart spamd. How can I force spamd to restart and reload its rules? Can

List weirdness

2006-11-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
I'm seeing the following (attached). I went back and looked at the message that seems to have provoked it, and there was nothing odd about the message: no attachments, nothing but text/plain 7-bit, in the body (though it's weird that it's a 7-bit body, but charset=iso-8859-1). Is this a lurking

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
Charlie Clark wrote: Looks like there are some pretty impressive self-learning systems out there. I'm enclosing the content of the text part of a new spam. I think it's quite an interesting vocabulary that they are using, presumably from their own trained ham database. This spam got through

RE: A false positive...

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Craig Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:53 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: A false positive... TZ format you should consider sa-learn'ing the messages as ham. On your SA setup these messages are

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Craig Morrison
Please keep replies on the list for the benefit of others.. Comments inline.. Jack Gostl wrote: Question 2: After running saupdate, I assume that all I have to do is to restart spamd. How can I force spamd to restart and reload its rules? Can a do a simple kill -1? Or do I need an

Re: A false positive...

2006-11-23 Thread Craig Morrison
Michael Scheidell wrote: -Original Message- From: Craig Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:53 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: A false positive... TZ format you should consider sa-learn'ing the messages as ham. On your SA setup

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: Craig Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: spamassassin users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: saupdate Please keep replies on the list for the benefit of others.. Comments inline..

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Craig Morrison
Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: Craig Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: spamassassin users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:40 PM Subject: Re: saupdate Please keep replies on the list for the benefit of others..

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread hamann . w
Hi, anybody recall that ELIZA program from ages ago? It would be interesting to see her response to those utterances :) Wolfgang Hamann Looks like there are some pretty impressive self-learning systems out =20= there. I'm enclosing the content of the text part of a new spam. I =20 think

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Mason
there was a very interesting project described in CEAS which did just this -- engaged 419ers and other spammers in negotation, to waste their time. It's a great idea! --j. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, anybody recall that ELIZA program from ages ago? It would be interesting to see her

Re: saupdate

2006-11-23 Thread Jack Gostl
- Original Message - From: Craig Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: spamassassin users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: Re: saupdate Jack Gostl wrote: - Original Message - From: Craig Morrison [EMAIL

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
Given that spammers read this list to figure out how to defeat us... Why don't we just secure a copy of ratware and engineer a retro-virus for it? -Philip Justin Mason wrote: there was a very interesting project described in CEAS which did just this -- engaged 419ers and other spammers in

RE: A false positive...

2006-11-23 Thread Michael Scheidell
-Original Message- From: Craig Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 2:45 PM To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: A false positive... If learning them as ham doesn't affect the score then what is the point of the learning system at all?

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Justin Mason
er, it's illegal, and we're not criminals like they are? ;) --j. Philip Prindeville writes: Given that spammers read this list to figure out how to defeat us... Why don't we just secure a copy of ratware and engineer a retro-virus for it? -Philip Justin Mason wrote: there was a

Re: Interesting text content in the new spams

2006-11-23 Thread Philip Prindeville
Poor choice of words. Not a virus. A vaccine. ;-) -Philip Justin Mason wrote: er, it's illegal, and we're not criminals like they are? ;) --j. Philip Prindeville writes: Given that spammers read this list to figure out how to defeat us... Why don't we just secure a copy of ratware and

List of fake email addresses spammers use?

2006-11-23 Thread Kelly Jones
Spammers often spoof fake email addresses when sending email, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]. It's easy to tell this address is fake: host -t mx lycos.com lycos.com mail is handled by 10 rmail-alt2.lycosmail.lycos.com. lycos.com mail is handled by 5 rmail.lycosmail.lycos.com. lycos.com mail is handled

razor-agent.log being placed in root directory

2006-11-23 Thread Chris Purves
I noticed today that razor-agent.log is placed in the root directory. I have --helper-home-dir=/etc/spamassassin/helper-home-dir set as a spamd option, but the log is not being written to there. How can I fix this problem? Thanks. -- Chris

Re: Blacklist mails with embedded gifs

2006-11-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:05:29PM +0100, Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: Is there a way I can blacklist or write a rule for emails that contains embedded GIFs? I want them all thrashed. I wouldn't recommend doing this (some ham has embedded graphics), but: meta EMBED_IMG __TVD_INT_CID score

Re: List weirdness

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Philip Prindeville wrote: I'm seeing the following (attached). I went back and looked at the message that seems to have provoked it, and there was nothing odd about the message: no attachments, nothing but text/plain 7-bit, in the body (though it's weird that it's a 7-bit body, but

Re: Improving Results

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Luke Shannon wrote: Good Morning; I have SpamAssassin 2.55 running on my server with a required hits setting of 2.5. Already my spam is down about 60 messages a day. I am still getting about 40 a day. This is still a 4-1 spam ratio for me. How can I improve this? Your upgrade plain is

Re: List of fake email addresses spammers use?

2006-11-23 Thread Matt Kettler
Kelly Jones wrote: Spammers often spoof fake email addresses when sending email, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. It's easy to tell this address is fake: snip But this is network-intensive to do for *every* incoming email (and no one supports VRFY anymore). Has someone

translation help please

2006-11-23 Thread Chris
This was tossed into my spam folder tonight but it was during my NANAS report run. I'm not sure if its a reply from abuse@ or just a spam: Hola, La dirección a la que acabas de escribir está dedicada a recoger todas las dudas y preguntas de los usuarios del servicio de galeon.com. A

Re: translation help please

2006-11-23 Thread Claudia Burman
Hi, this seems to be an automated help mail from galeon.com which is a free hosting service in Spain. The first paragraph reads, more or less: Hi, the address you just wrote to is for gathering all questions from users of galeon.com service. Here is where you can find the answer you are seeking,

Re: translation help please

2006-11-23 Thread Ezequiel Alfie
Hi, On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Chris wrote: This was tossed into my spam folder tonight but it was during my NANAS report run. I'm not sure if its a reply from abuse@ or just a spam: Hola, The first paragraph says something like: Hello, The address you've just written to is dedicated to

Re: List of fake email addresses spammers use?

2006-11-23 Thread hamann . w
Spammers often spoof fake email addresses when sending email, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lycos.com. It's easy to tell this address is fake: host -t mx lycos.com lycos.com mail is handled by 10 rmail-alt2.lycosmail.lycos.com. lycos.com mail is handled by 5 rmail.lycosmail.lycos.com. lycos.com