check_for_spam_reply_to() uses get_address_commonality_ratio(), which checks
to see how many characters the two addresses have in common. Why not compare
the domains of the hosts for equality? Take the last three parts of the
hostname for two letter TLDs ("foobar.co.uk") and the last two part
Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is exactly that -R doesn't work for me. I wrote a quick
> script to delete everything in the dbm:
-R was too inconvenient for me, so I wrote this. I have only tested
it against SA 2.01. It may eat your whitelist or some other bad thing
co
>Someone suggested doing an alias in /etc/mail/aliases that looked
>like this:
>
>spam:"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -r"
>
>I keep getting a procmail error that says "unknown user". I am doing
>"newaliases" in between each modification.
before the message is handed to procmail for delivery, it mus
> I just pushed out the new scores (and a bugfix or two) as 2.11
The new scores look MUCH better. By the way, using my corrected scores with 2.1
for the last few days, I've had excellent results. Not a single false positive
and only a couple missed spams. I think the new scores will be even bette
First of all, I'd like to thank you guys for developing some kick-ass software.
You guys rock! :)
I recently installed both SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor. While they each work
independently, spamassassin apparently has "issues" loading the razor_check. In
particular, I get the error message "
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:15:25 -0800
"Rob McMillin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would imagine it would work for others similarly situated. And I would
> seem to be in good company, with some US ISPs now taking the even more
> drastic step of disabling port 25 for Chinese subnets (203/8, for in
- Original Message -
From: "Philip Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: procmail error when forwarding to a razor database
> "Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >I'm
Lars Hansson wrote:
>On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 00:08:41 -0800
>"Rob McMillin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Let me get this straight -- we have ignorant and the willfully abusive
>>people in these countries creating or abetting spam for others to deal
>>with, and *we're* supposed to be concerned abo
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:22:03PM -0800, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Sunday 03 March 2002 05:58 pm, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> > I just pushed out the new scores (and a bugfix or two) as 2.11
> >
> > The new scores are done by constraining the GA more, using Michael Moncur's
> > submitted scores as a
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It is:
Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL,
R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D=$z:/,
I have smrsh installed...can I just change it to /usr/libexec/smrsh
which is where my smrsh is located.
Mike Loiterman
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On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 00:08:41 -0800
"Rob McMillin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me get this straight -- we have ignorant and the willfully abusive
> people in these countries creating or abetting spam for others to deal
> with, and *we're* supposed to be concerned about public relations?
The
On Sunday 03 March 2002 05:58 pm, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> I just pushed out the new scores (and a bugfix or two) as 2.11
>
> The new scores are done by constraining the GA more, using Michael Moncur's
> submitted scores as a starting point, and then hand-tweaking the output
> where basically any -
.ar is Argentina
Olivier
> >Both of them are code posted to BugTraq, one from Hong Kong and another
> >from .ar[1].
> >
> [...]
>
> >Footnotes:
> >[1] I can't recall where this is. Austria, maybe?
> >
> Yes. See http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/country3166.html
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I just pushed out the new scores (and a bugfix or two) as 2.11
The new scores are done by constraining the GA more, using Michael Moncur's
submitted scores as a starting point, and then hand-tweaking the output where
basically any -ve scores that came out but which only existed in the corpus as
Hi Craig,
>I agree that baseless discrimination is bad; however the goal here is
>not to punish evil country, or the people who live in them. In fact,
>the score of 3.0 for ROUND_THE_WORLD means that even if you happen to
>have one of those TLDs, you still need to be sending something
>spammy-lo
> > # make
> > make: *** No rule to make target spamassassin.raw', needed by spamassassin'.
> > Stop.
>
> That's very very odd. Are you in the distribution directory? type 'ls' and see
> if the spamassassin.raw file is there. What platform/OS/shell/perl/make are you
> using?
>
Yes, I'm i
Craig R Hughes wrote:
>Rob McMillin wrote:
>
>>>Both of them are code posted to BugTraq, one from Hong Kong and another
>>>
>>>from .ar[1].
>>
>
>>>Footnotes:
>>>[1] I can't recall where this is. Austria, maybe?
>>>
>
>>Yes. See http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/country3166.html
>>
>
>You mean no
Rob McMillin wrote:
> >Both of them are code posted to BugTraq, one from Hong Kong and another
> >from .ar[1].
> >Footnotes:
> >[1] I can't recall where this is. Austria, maybe?
> Yes. See http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/country3166.html
You mean no, argentina!
C
_
Daniel Pittman wrote:
>Both of them are code posted to BugTraq, one from Hong Kong and another
>from .ar[1].
>
[...]
>Footnotes:
>[1] I can't recall where this is. Austria, maybe?
>
Yes. See http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/country3166.html
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On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Craig R. Hughes wrote:
[...]
> It's great to hear that SA is increasingly being viewed as the #1 anti
> spam product. In some part I think that's probably due to both its
> effectiveness, and its flexibility. The simple fact is that in the
> corpus, there are 687 pieces of sp
On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:54 am, Rob McMillin wrote:
> You made the same spelling error twice in the original.
Gah! I really must use my spellchecker more often.
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Am Sunday, 3. March 2002 19:02 schrieb Rob McMillin:
> weight set to zero. But I've had at least one yea on this subject, and I
> bet a test against a decent-size spam corpus would yield decent results.
Tests depending on the TLD od the messages woul
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Am Saturday, 2. March 2002 23:32 schrieb Daniel Quinlan:
> > I think the idea with GAPPY_TEXT is to catch these things. I
> > suspect it's not working right though.
> Why not strip out all non-letters and then do matching for things like
> the "remov
Craig R Hughes wrote:
>You can remove/add addresses to the AWL using spamassassin's "-R" and "-W"
>flags. You can list the AWL contents using tools/check_whitelist
>
The problem is exactly that -R doesn't work for me. I wrote a quick
script to delete everything in the dbm:
use AnyDBM_File;
t
You can remove/add addresses to the AWL using spamassassin's "-R" and "-W"
flags. You can list the AWL contents using tools/check_whitelist
C
Rob McMillin wrote:
> Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 12:36:37 -0800
> From: Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: SAtalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [SAtal
Rob McMillin wrote:
> Craig, I'd be curious to see this corpus -- where can I find it? I'd
> like to know, once and for all, how badly this kills the non-spam. Also,
> is there a testbed suite for checking the results against an arbitrary
> corpus?
The stuff in the /masses directory of the di
Known bug in razor 1.20 which looks to have been released prematurely (there are
warnings about its state on the razor website). Downgrade to 1.19 to fix the
problem.
C
Rose, Bobby wrote:
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 11:10:10 -0500
> From: "Rose, Bobby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Per the README I did the following:
>
> # perl Makefile.PL
> Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
Looks good so far
> # make
> make: *** No rule to make target spamassassin.raw', needed by spamassassin'.
> Stop.
That's very very odd. Are you in the distributio
The best way of submitting them is to forward them as an attachment to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The downside of this method is that it's an open mailing list, so your
potentially private mail will be available to all via the mailing list archives,
so think before you submit.
C
David Cantrell wrote:
Ok, thank. In CVS now.
Matthew Cline wrote:
> Here's a CVS patch which fixes the problem of the spam report being added
> before the first MIME part.
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Rob McMillin wrote:
> Daniel Quinlan wrote:
>
> >Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >>When sysadmins in those TLDs fix their relays, I'll be happy to hear
> >>them out.
> >>
> >The other problem with using this type of test in a spam corpus is
> >that you're using a small subset of g
I can't get addresses -- or anything, really -- out of my
auto-whitelist. I'm running RedHat 7.2 with Perl 5.6. I've been able to
generate standalone dbm applications that can delete entries in an
arbitrary (ndbm?) database file, but I can't remove anything from the
auto-whitelist, even with a
Craig R Hughes wrote:
>Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
>>It would be best to avoid ruining the slowly building good reputation
>>of SA (attending Apricot yesterday, SA was cited as the best anti-spam
>>product one could choose -- Apricot is a yearly international
>>conference in Asia-Pacific).
>>
>
>I ag
Patches happily accepted :)
Bugzilla feature requests too :)
C
Daniel Quinlan wrote:
> It would be better to find a rule that just worked. For example, one
> method would be a TLD "whitelist". As spamassassin receives mail,
> there are two counters for each TLD. One is total messages and th
I know nothing specific of the BSD sighandling bug -- I just believed others who
reported it, and others who provided a patch, and others who told me the patch
worked. I've been unable to install a decent version of perl on my fiancee's Ti
powerbook w/OSX to do any BSD testing myself.
C
Dunc
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> It would be best to avoid ruining the slowly building good reputation
> of SA (attending Apricot yesterday, SA was cited as the best anti-spam
> product one could choose -- Apricot is a yearly international
> conference in Asia-Pacific).
I agree that baseless discriminati
Hmm, I had thought that section is generated during the merge process after the
GA generates new scores -- it's basically the scores which had been in the
previous scores file but which don't appear in the corpus and so were unmodified
by the GA (I think that's what it is anyway from memory).
Found it.
In Client.pm in the readserverlist routine.
For some reason when razor is called from spammassassin it doesn't like
the new push condition when the .razor.lst already exists. But does
like it when it's created during the spamassassin call. Maybe @list is
still lingering from the write
"Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm trying to set up a local mail account that I can forward messages
>to so that they will be reported to the Razor database. All that I
>need to do is run the command
>"| spamassassin -r"on the messages.
>
>Someone suggested doing an alias in /etc
I reinstalled 1.19 and it works so Spamassassin doesn't work with 1.20
of the razor agents. Here's the debug for 1.19 for comparison with the
debug of 1.2
debug: Razor is available
debug: Razor Agents 1.19, protocol version 2.
debug: Read server list from /home/admin/brose/.razor.lst
debug: 1270
Rob McMillin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm curious -- what release are you running that the FARAWAY_CHARSET
> rules are disabled? Is this a Debian thing?
Yes, it's a Debian thing. The scores for the FARAWAY_CHARSET rules
are set to zero in the Debian package. The rules are still there, so
Alan Shutko wrote:
>OTOH, the vast majority of spam I get is cjk spam, as is the majority
>of spam that gets through spamassassin. I would be quite in favor of
>including this test, as the debian package could easily disable it by
>default, and users could easily reenable it (as I have done so f
Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
>>Let me get this straight -- we have ignorant and the willfully abusive
>>people in these countries creating or abetting spam for others to deal
>>with, and *we're* supposed to be concerned about public relations?
>>
>I don't think you're getting it.
>
>If North America (
> Let me get this straight -- we have ignorant and the willfully abusive
> people in these countries creating or abetting spam for others to deal
> with, and *we're* supposed to be concerned about public relations?
I don't think you're getting it.
If North America (I'm from Canada) didn't have w
After upgrading to 1.20 razor agents, spamassassin doesn't seem to be
able to user razor anymore. Whenever it tries, it says
razor check skipped: No such file or directory undefined Razor::Client
In debug mode
debug: Razor is available
debug: Razor Agents 1.20, protocol version 2.
debug: Read
Olivier Nicole wrote:
>>When sysadmins in those TLDs fix their relays, I'll be happy to hear
>>them out. In the meantime, experience shows mail relayed through those
>>
>
>Too bad, wrong example again.
>
>It happens that Thailand TLD is just the room next to mine and I know
>they have no open rel
Matthew Cline wrote:
>On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:37 pm, I wrote:
>
>>rawbody ONLY_ATTACHMENTS eval:check_for_only_attachments()
>>describe ONLY_ATTACHMNETS Only attachmnets, no text
>>
>
>Ooops, spelling mistake in "describe". Should be
>
>describe ONLY_ATTACHMENTS Only atta
Sorry if I left out some steps.
Per the README I did the following:
# perl Makefile.PL
Writing Makefile for Mail::SpamAssassin
# make
make: *** No rule to make target spamassassin.raw', needed by spamassassin'.
Stop.
so I never even get to the "make test" stage.
Any ideas?
Ollie
On Sun, M
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I'm trying to set up a local mail account that I can forward messages
to so that they will be reported to the Razor database. All that I
need to do is run the command
"| spamassassin -r"on the messages.
Someone suggested doing an alias in /etc/m
I am trying to install SpamAssassin for the first time.
Starting with Mail-SpamAssassin-2.1.tar.gz, I follow the README
instructions, but "make" gives me the following error message:
make: *** No rule to make target spamassassin.raw', needed by spamassassin'.
Stop.
So, thinks I, I'll use the
Hi,
I've noticed that there's a couple of settings that can only be changed on the command
line/perl function call, but not in the config file - why?
local_checks_only
dont_report_to_razor
also the -a flag for spamassassin (autowhitelist) doesn't seem to have a config - file
equivalent.
esp.
Hi Jeffrey,
> I don't want to run Spamassassin for all users in every domain (i.e.,
> spamproxyd). I also would prefer that Sendmail do it's MTA
> job. The key here is, I want to be able to easily configure the
> Spamassassin service for multiple virtual domains, and I want it to
> be as effi
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:41:18PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> I just need to finish culling false positives from it automatically.
And talking of false positives ... I've looked on the site but could find
no way of reporting them. Could someone enlighten me?
Perhaps some way of submitting
On Sun, 03 Mar 2002, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
> I fully agree with Duncan (see my address above? :)
>
> I hardly receive any spam from .th, but I receive a heap from .com,
> should .com be banned?
I agree too. A quick grep through my spam folder results in about 300
matches on Received Lines of
On Sat, 02 Mar 2002, Rob McMillin wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>On Sat, 02 Mar 2002, Rob McMillin wrote:
>>>Duncan Findlay wrote:
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:50:03PM -0800, Rob McMillin wrote:
>I would like to suggest that the ROUND_THE_WORLD test, which seems
>to catch little r
On Saturday 02 March 2002 09:37 pm, I wrote:
> rawbody ONLY_ATTACHMENTS eval:check_for_only_attachments()
> describe ONLY_ATTACHMNETS Only attachmnets, no text
Ooops, spelling mistake in "describe". Should be
describe ONLY_ATTACHMENTS Only attachmnets, no text
> sub check_
Here's a CVS patch which fixes the problem of the spam report being added
before the first MIME part.
Index: lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm
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RCS file:
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