Re: [SAtalk] Spamd doesn't want to work correctly

2002-04-09 Thread Chris MacLeod
What user are you running spamd as? If you are running it as root (so that users can control their options themselves) then you'll need to do 2 things. 1. create the .spamassassin directory for root so that it can lock files etc (I'm actually not totally sure this is nessessary but I did it an

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd doesn't want to work correctly

2002-04-09 Thread Paul Rushing
I don't think using -c and -x means much. You are disabling per user config files with -x but wanting to create them if they don't exist. Using -a in this case you will get a site-wide auto-whitelist, your error is occuring because the user id of spamd doesn't have write permissions where it'

Re: [SAtalk] local.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin not being checked

2002-04-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:05:21PM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Uhoh, since when did they start using the 80.0.0.0 netblock? Your email was > slamming against my firewall for the last 2 days... Be wary of blocking networks because they're listed as "unassigned". I found a firewall at a client

Re: [SAtalk] unsub...

2002-04-09 Thread Kerry Nice
I was wondering about things like this. As I understand it, each of the rules are scored individually based on how many times they occur in the corpus. Are the rules combined in anyway. What I'm saying is, shouldn't seeing an unsubscribe in an email count a whole lot less if the header isn't

Re: [SAtalk] local.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin not being checked

2002-04-09 Thread Craig R Hughes
Uhoh, since when did they start using the 80.0.0.0 netblock? Your email was slamming against my firewall for the last 2 days... C Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from s1.uklinux.net (mail.uklinux.net [80.84.72.21]) by belphegore.hughes-family.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA10

Re: [SAtalk] performing all tests

2002-04-09 Thread Gus Oakfield
Matt Sergeant wrote: > Current CVS supports a -S option, which means "stop > at threshold", which does what you want. Perfect! > What if the (omitted) later tests would actually mark > down (score negative)? If you know the lower bound for each test, you could skip only the ones that couldn't

[SAtalk] Commercial spam blocking service to use Razor

2002-04-09 Thread Matthew Cline
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns2141 Some folks are going to use Razor to distribute spam signatures, and a SpamAssasin like system to check mail for spam characteristics and feed likely mail into the Razor system. -- Visit http://dmoz.org, the world's | Give a man a matc

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Duncan Findlay
> So... to report the original spam to razor, I have to unmunge this whole > mess. Sigh... > > Miles There are often reasons to not report spam to razor. This might just be one of those situations. -- Duncan Findlay ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing li

[SAtalk] SA install on a Qube 3

2002-04-09 Thread Steve Yuroff
Hello folks, I'd like to get SA running on a Cobalt Qube 3. Right now, I'm attempting to configure it just for a test account instead of experimenting on the whole domain at once. That's a good thing, b/c whenever I enable the .forward file in my account, I get this: The original message was

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dan, On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Daniel Liston wrote: > Here is another idea, and requires monitoring, but is easier than > trying to unmunge a majordomo bounce to a spammer; > > /etc/aliases > majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo",filename > > Filename is actually an archive of all message

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Daniel Liston
Here is another idea, and requires monitoring, but is easier than trying to unmunge a majordomo bounce to a spammer; /etc/aliases majordomo: "|/usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper majordomo",filename Filename is actually an archive of all messages sent to the majordomo address. Dan Liston Miles Fidelman

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Theo, On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > majordomo doesn't actually change anything. the bounce is essentially a new message >with the old > message as the body. so you could do something like this: > > perl -nle 'next if (1../^\s*$/) or /^>From /; print;' < bounce > fresh > > > So.

Re: [SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:55:26PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > - strip off both the spamassassin markup (easy - pipe through spamassassin > -d), AND... or tell SA to not filter majordomo bounce mails > - remove the stuff that majordomo changes (headers, BOUNCE info, etc.) majordomo doesn't a

Re: [SAtalk] /etc/mail/spamassassin/ not being read?

2002-04-09 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:09:10AM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Almost for certain it's a file permissions problem. Check that /etc/mail > /etc/mail/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf are readable by the > process that spamd is running as. Generally, there's absolutely no reaso

[SAtalk] Re: /etc/mail/spamassassin/ not being read?

2002-04-09 Thread Craig R Hughes
Yes, you need to restart spamd after system-wide config changes. Only per-user config files are read when processing each individual message. C Nevin Kapur wrote: NK> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:14:07 -0400 NK> From: Nevin Kapur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NK> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NK> Cc: [EMAIL PROTE

[SAtalk] Re: /etc/mail/spamassassin/ not being read?

2002-04-09 Thread Nevin Kapur
Craig R Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Almost for certain it's a file permissions problem. Check that /etc/mail > /etc/mail/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf are readable by the > process that spamd is running as. Generally, there's absolutely no reason not > to make the

Re: [SAtalk] /etc/mail/spamassassin/ not being read?

2002-04-09 Thread Craig R Hughes
Nevin, Almost for certain it's a file permissions problem. Check that /etc/mail /etc/mail/spamassassin and /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf are readable by the process that spamd is running as. Generally, there's absolutely no reason not to make the directories 755 and the .cf file 644 C Ne

[SAtalk] /etc/mail/spamassassin/ not being read?

2002-04-09 Thread Nevin Kapur
Hi, I'm trying to change the default behavior of SpamAssassin by adding the following rules to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: rewrite_subject 0 report_header 1 use_terse_report1 defang_mime 0 However these options are not being honored. If I add the same

[SAtalk] question re. reporting spam to razor

2002-04-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
To any of you gurus who understand both majordomo and spamassassin: I run several small email lists that people try to spam every once in a while. The general result is that: - 1. majordomo bounces the spam, because it doesn't come from a list member - 2. spamassassin catches the bounce message

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassasin and MS Exchange???

2002-04-09 Thread Tyler Hardison
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 08:16, Robert Leonard wrote: > Is there any way to use SpamAssassin in cooperation with Microsoft Exchange > Server? My company uses MS Exchange Server exclusively for mail, I'd love > to sit a linux box in front of it to catch all the spam and forward on the > real mail.

Re: [SAtalk] AWL as loophole

2002-04-09 Thread Craig R Hughes
Charlie Watts wrote: CW> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:31:02 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) CW> From: Charlie Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CW> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CW> Subject: [SAtalk] AWL as loophole CW> CW> I may have posted about this yesterday, but if so - I don't see that I CW> did. CW> CW> I'm

[SAtalk] Atttachment problems

2002-04-09 Thread Mike Black
I've just installed spamassassin with sendmail-8.12.3 and spamass-milter-0.1.1 and large attachments are blocking (they actually end up sending the attachment on every attempt by the client -- but the client (both Outlook Express and Outlook) timeout and spamass-milter processes keep

[SAtalk] AWL as loophole

2002-04-09 Thread Charlie Watts
I may have posted about this yesterday, but if so - I don't see that I did. I'm starting to get more and more spam that is From: and To: my address. This stuff is ending up in my Inbox because the AWL loves me. It would otherwise be tagged. It has been discussed before, a bit - a way to short-ci

Re: [SAtalk] performing all tests

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tuesday 09 Apr 2002 5:20 pm, Nick Rothwell wrote: > > Current CVS supports a -S option, which means "stop at threshold", which > > does what you want. > > What if the (omitted) later tests would actually mark down (score > negative)? Oh man, why didn't I think of that! :-) -- Matt. <:->get

Re: [SAtalk] performing all tests

2002-04-09 Thread Jason Kohles
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:20, Nick Rothwell wrote: > > Current CVS supports a -S option, which means "stop at threshold", which does > > what you want. > > What if the (omitted) later tests would actually mark down (score negative)? > If you are going to use -S, you should probably make sure tha

Re: [SAtalk] performing all tests

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Rothwell
> Current CVS supports a -S option, which means "stop at threshold", which does > what you want. What if the (omitted) later tests would actually mark down (score negative)? ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [SAtalk] European Girls spam consistently scores 0.0

2002-04-09 Thread Nick Rothwell
> Odd, this same spam scores 4.8 on my machine. Hmm, I just got another one, headers as follows. As you can see, I'm on SA 2.11. X-Coding-System: iso-8859-1-unix Mail-from: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 09 14:22:01 2002 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassasin and MS Exchange???

2002-04-09 Thread Tyler Hardison
On Tuesday 09 April 2002 08:16, Robert Leonard wrote: > Is there any way to use SpamAssassin in cooperation with Microsoft Exchange > Server? My company uses MS Exchange Server exclusively for mail, I'd love > to sit a linux box in front of it to catch all the spam and forward on the > real mail.

[SAtalk] A couple perhaps useful codelets

2002-04-09 Thread Rich Wellner
A couple people liked the graph I produced that other day and asked for info, so here it is. In .procmailrc *after SA has touched the mail* I added: -- SPAM_STATUS=`grep X-Spam-Status $i |cut -d' ' -f3|cut -d'=' -f2 |sort -n` MESSAGE_ID=`formail -xMessage-ID:: \ | sed -e 's/[;\`\\]/ /g' \ | expan

Re: [SAtalk] No suck thing

2002-04-09 Thread Craig Hughes
Fixed. C On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 20:12, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > In 20_body_tests.cf in the latest CVS: > > > describe NO_COSTNo suck thing as a free lunch (3) > > > ___ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://l

Re: [SAtalk] PostgreSQL

2002-04-09 Thread Craig Hughes
File a bugzilla ticket on it. If I'm bored one day, I'll do it just to get everyone to stop complaining about it :) C On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:13, Larry Rosenman wrote: > * Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020408 23:05]: > > > > > > I used postgresql, wasn't a problem, but you have to re-do the tab

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > Describe PURE_PROFIT Profit is dirty, not pure. > > I avoid such jokes in French translation, becaus eI am not sure it > would be perceived well by all French speaking communities. Not to mention the impact the joke had here: http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html>. -

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi > Describe PURE_PROFIT Profit is dirty, not pure. I avoid such jokes in French translation, becaus eI am not sure it would be perceived well by all French speaking communities. I think that those describe could change when SA become more mature. > However, I do agree that many tests descri

Re: [SAtalk] performing all tests

2002-04-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tuesday 09 Apr 2002 6:05 am, Gus Oakfield wrote: > SpamAssassin currently (v2.11) performs all tests on > each message, even when it's clear early on that a > message will be classified as spam. Some tests (most > notably the network tests) are quite slow. A single > message can take 20-30 se