All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

[Patrick Beard]

Hi I'm using Spamassassin with Exim on a Debian stable system. The version
of SA is a
backport from Debian Sid.
Everything is working fine except inbound PDFs attachments appear to be
defanged. When this happens there is also no SA tags in the header even
though it is being handled by the SA-Exim router.
Two tests I've done is to send three identical emails. One with a PDF, the
other two with a DOC and jpg. The 'doc' and jpg emails come through with the
header tags and a
'doc' and jpg attachment.The PDF email comes through with no SA tags header
and the pdf
is now inline ASCII. Neither of these two emails were tagged as spam (which
is correct).
I have tried setting report_safe to zero but no change.
Also I turned on debug, and its as if spamassassin doesn't see it - it logs
nothing

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Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

[Patrick Beard]

>>The 'doc' and jpg emails come through with the
> > header tags and a
> > 'doc' and jpg attachment.The PDF email comes through with no SA tags
header
> > and the pdf
> > is now inline ASCII. Neither of these two emails were tagged as spam
(which
> > is correct).
> > I have tried setting report_safe to zero but no change.
> > Also I turned on debug, and its as if spamassassin doesn't see it - it
logs
> > nothing
>
> Are you also using mimedefang or mailfilter?

No I'm only using spamassassin and exiscan. Exiscan is not configured to do
anything with spam.
All this used to work fine with spamassassin from stable. However our spam
has seen a huge increase in the last few weeks, so I took the decision to
upgrade to a backport of spamassassin.
As a test I sent the same emails again with spamassassin turn off, and the
pdf attachment came through ok.




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Email size - spamassassin (was All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin)

[Patrick Beard]

>The PDF email comes through with no SA tags header
> and the pdf
> is now inline ASCII. Neither of these two emails were tagged as spam
(which
> is correct).
> I have tried setting report_safe to zero but no change.
> Also I turned on debug, and its as if spamassassin doesn't see it - it
logs
> nothing
After a few more tests it seems that it is nothing to do with pdf
attachments.

emails with a total attachment of less than 200k come through fine. Emails
greater than 200k are corrupted.
The fact that spamassassin is not logging anything in debug would suggest
its having real problems. With spamassassin
disabled, mail greater than 200k is just fine.

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Patching Debian Kernel Source

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,

I have compiled the Kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 from testing. All is working
well with the exception of my smartmedia. This is giving me a 'wrong fs
type' 99 time out of 100 mounts. From what I've managed to find out 2.6 does
FAT checking that 2.4 (my previous kernel) didn't. There appears to be a fix
in the latest patch (2.6.0-test9-bk17) on kernel.org. Can I apply this patch
to the source, or will that screw up the 'Debianization' of the source. My
other thought was to manually apply the changes to /fs/fat/inode.c, but I'm
not sure if that's a good idea.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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How to unsubscribe?

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Hi,
I'm trying to unsubscribe this email address from this list because of my
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RE: How to unsubscribe?

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>> four times now but after replying to the confirm message I get no
response
>> but
>> the messages keep coming. 

>What's the first line of the headers look like?  For me, it says 
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RE: How to unsubscribe? (long)

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>the unsubscribe message you sent?
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Modprobe errors after second kernel compile.

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,
I upgraded to kernel 2.4.19 to allow me to add the i810 framebuffer patch.
everything went fine except I had missed the generic-scsi support
and so my cdrw didn't work. I turned this option on and recompiled. This
time when I went to install the resulting .deb I received a warning
about installing the same revision of kernel (I did change the -rev on the
kpkg command) and modules.dep could be wrong but this would be sorted on a
reboot.
However now when I boot up I get a handful of modprobe errors for things
that are working just fine (sound, usb mass storage and the like). The
system is 
working fine but I hate these errors. What did I do wrong, and how can I
resolve it?

I'm using Woody with 2.4.19 kernel

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Re: libcupsys dist-upgrade Sarge

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"Hugo Vanwoerkom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi list!
>
> I did a Sarge dist-upgrade (after backing up the partition with
> mondoarchive) and got 71 packages upgraded. It went with blazing speed
> (4.4Kb/sec) on my 56kb line.
> However...
> After the installation I get this error from Xprt:
>
> debian Xprt_64: lpc: /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.7: no version information
> available (required by /usr/lib/libcups.so.2)

Yep. I've got that also. I haven't reported it yet because It doesn't seem
to be affecting anything, and also due to recent events with the Debian
site. I figure once things are sorted with security and maintainers start to
post updates that it will be sorted.

> Problem is my cartridges ran out on my canon BJC-2110 printer at the
> same time, or because of it, I cannot tell.

I reckon its pure coincidence. Like I said everything seems to be running ok
with CUPS on my system dispite this warning.

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Re: problems installing java

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> > Strange that it works, actually, because it *is* a bug. Firebird
> > simply crashes; others have had the same problem. I believe they've
> > worked out a fix for it, but ...
> >
> > So, wonder how come it works for you?
> > ... or why it doesn't work for me...

Firebird needs jre1.4.2 or later.

Create a folder in /usr/local then download into it the latest self
extracting jre form Sun.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

Run the self extracting archive you just downloaded. (root required)

Create a sym link for the plugin;
ln -s
/usr/local/yourfolder/j2re1.4.2_xx/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji
.so /path to firebird plugin folder/libjavaplugin_oji.so
(Note: Its the ns610-gcc32 plugin)

If you leave it like this firebird will crash. You need to run the
following;

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java Java
/usr/local/yourfolder/jdk1.X/bin/java 120

Firebird should now play ball with Java

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Re: problems installing java

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> Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately that didn't help.

What do you get back from 'type java' (remove quotes) at the command line?




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Re: problems installing java

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> I get 'java is /usr/bin/java'.
> Which I assume is as it's supposed to be.
>
> I believe it's a case of bug #225423,
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225423
> Which has been taken care of. It's just not implemented in the current
> debian build.

Sorry for the direct reply. Hit reply instead of reply to group.

Yep that's what you should be getting.
Well that's me stumped. What I find strange is I'm using the Firebird in
sarge without any problems.

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Firebird+Flash+Esound - Arrrg!

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,
First, I'm running Debian Sarge with a custom 2.60-test9 kernel.
I'm having real problems getting Firebird+Flash to work with esound. I use
ICEWM and was happily using no sound server as I have no need for bell and
whistles on events, and call me primitive, but I can only listen to one song
or sound track at a time. However, while browsing the web the other day I
noticed that if the page is flash based and has sound, then any media
contained on the site plays with no sound. The site I noticed this on is
http://www.fromhellmovie.com There is a 'location walk through' clip that
mplayer-plugin loads and plays, but there is no sound. I presume any of the
recent movie sites are the same.
Anyway, I installed esound and configured xmms and mplayer to use it - all
seemed happy. I then tried firebird - no joy. I then installed
esound-clients, and tried 'esddsp mozilla' from xterm this time the above
site showed the flash loader and when this completed firebird appeared to
hang. As a last resort I installed 'mozilla-browser' and tried esddsp again.
Mozilla-browser showed the same symptoms. After loads of googling I've come
to a halt on this one. Lots of posts on this, but the majority seem to
suggest that esddsp should work. My sound is onboard and uses ES1371 module.

So I would appreciate if anyone can offer help on this one.

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Re: recent Canon printers and Linux

[Patrick Beard]

> I don't want the ability to create Canon  printer control language: it's
> up to the Mac and Windows computers to do that.  I do want to know
> whether the USB componentry is likely to work.
>

I use the canon i850 using the turboprint driver mentioned earlier. Works a
treat with cups.
Its connected via its usb port and has no problems.

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Re: Resize partitions urgent help

[Patrick Beard]

> The /dev/hda7 has been utilized 100% so i would like to increase  it to
> 22GB and /work to 2.6GB
> Is it possible? If so how do i do it without data loss or
> undestructively?

If you don't mind spending a bit of cash, have a look at 'Partition
Commander'
I got it fairly cheap on Amazon. Can move and resize ext3 non destructively.
You will need the packaged version as this contains a bootable CD. I used it
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Re: Boot partion too small

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 next partition, but another has / as the adjacent partion.
>
> Is there anyway I can grow these partions  and shufle/shrink the others
> with out loosing information?
> Thanks all
> Glenn
>
Glen,

I had a similar problem. I looked at parted but on certain filesystems the
start of the partition had to remain the same (At least the last time I
looked).
I hunted around and finally decided to actually pay for some software. I
went for 'Partition Commander'. You need the retail pack as the CD is
bootable and so no need for a install which is M$ only.
Cheapest place I found it was on
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/BC64YU/qid=1086191886/sr=1-1/re
f=sr_1_8_1/202-7929417-0671065

Worked great for me.

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Re: Debian on Dell

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> I'd greatly appreciate hearing about people's experiences of success
with
> Debian on Dell, and related advice, suggestions, and working
> configurations. Thanks in advance.

I use Debian Woody on a Dell PowerEdge at work. It came with RH which I
duly removed. The Server is not running X and so there was no issues at
all with the install.
At home I'm using Debian Sarge on my Dimension L800r. This came with MS
Millennium (Yuk!!!). I installed woody originally with no issues at all.
Upgraded to serge for kernel 2.6. Again no issues - in fact there were
less issues due to not having to patch the kernel for fb support. The
only change I've made to the system was to replace the soundcard. The
original worked, but I wanted a card that could handle 'multi-open'.

One suggestion I'd make would be to go to the Dell support site and
search for the system that your thinking about, there you'll be able to
browse the driver downloads - that should give you a rough idea of what
is in the system.

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Re: Exim

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> I have just setup my new debian server. I m new in Debian and Exim.
>
>
> How to configure exim only allow server ip and 192.168.0.2 to relay ?
>
> Need HELP

You need to read the exim manual - see www.exim.org

Assuming your using debian woody then this link should answer your
question.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-3.30/doc/html/spec_11.html#IDX712

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Kernel 2.6.3 i810fb Block Cursor

[Patrick Beard]

Hi,
I've been using the i810fb in kernel 2.6.x with no problems on sarge.
Below is the append line I used in Lilo;
video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:55,vsync1
:50,vsync2:85,accel,mtrr
(note: The hsync and vsync are not the actual values. I'm not at my
system and can't remember what they are.)

Last night I switched from using lilo to grub. everything went ok. I
added the above to my grub config and rebooted. The console is fine
except for one thing. I get what appears to be a block cursor in the
middle of the screen. When I log in, the cursor stays in the middle of
the screen until I hit enter, it then jumps to the bottom left. From
then on it sort of follows what I type but not quite, it remains
somewhat out of sync with where the cursor should actually be. I tried
using 'hwcur' on the above but this didn't do anything.

I'm using the same parameters that I used with lilo, yet I never had
this issue.

Apart from switching back to lilo, is there anything I can try to
resolve this?

TIA

Paddy




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Re: Kernel 2.6.3 i810fb Block Cursor

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>
video=i810fb:vram:2,xres:1024,yres:768,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:55,vsync1
> :50,vsync2:85,accel,mtrr

Hi,
I removed the accel option and this resolved the issue. Not sure why it
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Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

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> dpkg-divert: rename involves overwriting
`/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft.h'
> with
>   different file `/usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed

I had the exact problem with this upgrade upgrade.

What I did was to move Xft.h out of the way.

Try this;
cd /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xft/
mv Xft.h Xft.hbak

Then do;

apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure -a

That solved it for me.

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Re: Help! update - upgrade Problem

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> Thanks, Paddy, that did it for me, too. Out of curiosity (as a Debian
> newbie) what had gone wrong with the package upgrade?
>
> Ollie

Glad to help.
I still class myself as a newbie to. It would appear to be a simple bug
with the way the libxft-dev was built.
If you noticed the line in the error that said;
libxft-dev: Depends: libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) but 2.1.2-6 is installed
In testing libxft2 is at 2.1.2-6 but the libxft-dev package was built to
require 2.1.2-5 specifically. I'm not sure but I reckon it was just a
typo when the package was built and it should have actually been
'Depends: libxft2 (= > 2.1.2-5)' or perhaps '(= 2.1.2-6)' looking at the
package on debian.org I think its the latter.
Whatever it was, these things can happen, the maintainers do a great
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Re: Debian Backup ?

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> Hi! Debian Users
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> How to make a hole Debian O/S backup if I don't have any Backup
Device..?
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> Best Regards,
> Support

Have a look at mkCDrec. I've used it to make a recovery disk of one of
our webservers.

http://mkcdrec.ota.be/project/

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Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

[Patrick Beard]

>However, there is no sound. I have used alsamixer and pushed every
>channel to 100% volume, but there is not a single tone that emerges
>from the speakers, connected to Line Out.

I had something like that a while back.
Using gnome-alsamixer solved my problem.

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Re: Alsa seems to be working, but no sound

[Patrick Beard]

>> I had something like that a while back.
>> Using gnome-alsamixer solved my problem.

>I don't run Gnome. However, I tried with alsamixergui, aumix, gamix,
>and xamixer-0.4 without success, so I doubt gnome-alsamixer is going
>to solve it...

Fair enough. I just thought I'd mention it because when I upgraded to
kernel 2.6.x I started using alsa for the first time.
Everything looked as if it was working. XMMS would play and its spectrum
analyser would show the signal - yet no sound. I googled around and
found recommendations of using Gnome-alsamixer over alsamixer. I don't
use gnome either (I use icewm), but do use some gnome apps so I had the
gnome libs installed. I therefore gave it a try. What I found was,
although I had unmuted alsa using alsamixer, when I fire up
gnome-alsamixer it still showed it as muted. I then unmuted it with
gnome-alsamixer, and hey-presto I had sound.

Thats not to say this is your problem - it just looked familar.

Good luck

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Re: No sound with Flash

[Patrick Beard]

"Marc Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I have had this problem for a while, but since I don't use a lot of
> Flash sites, I haven't worried about it.  A recent apt-gt upgrade
> installed a new Flash, however, and I thought I would check out the
> sound.  Still no go.

Marc,

Are you using KDE? I seem to remember reading somewhere that ARTs (KDE's
sound daemon) can sometime not play ball with Flash.
Try changing ARTs setting from within "Sound & Multimedia" in KDE's
control section (can't remember what it's called). If that doesn't work
tell mozilla not to use arts.

Sorry I can't be more specific, but its been that long since I've used
KDE. Google for 'Flash no sound ARTs'.

Hope this helps.

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Re: usb cd-writer

[Patrick Beard]

"LeVA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi!
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> I'm wondering, if anyone is using an usb cd-writer under debian. How it
> is working (which kernel, which modules etc...).

Yep. I'm using the Philips JackRabbit.. Works a treat. I'm now using it with
kernel 2.64 (USB2), prior to that I was using bf2.4.18 (USB1.1).
Just the usual modules for USB Mass storage i.e. ide-scsi emulation,
usb-mass-storage etc.

If you can, I would use USB2. When I went to kernel 2.6, I got a USB2 PCI
card and can now write reliably at 16X

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