dman writes:
> It came through just fine, though I can't display it in my console. I
> just found out that gvim can't display it either with my fontset. It
> does handle UTF-8 well, though; and I double-checked the UTF-8
> decoding myself. (read the UTF-8 RFC some time. It's really short
> an
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Does anybody already have a "submit to search engine" rule they'd like to
> share?
OK, so I'm impatient.
body SEARCH_ENGINE_PROMO
/(?:submitt?|list)(?:ed|ing|s)?\s+.{0,15}\b(?:in|to)\b.{0,15}\b(?:search(?:ing)?\s*(?:engine|site)|director(?:y|
There was some discussion about making a 419-specific version of the
phrases test.
I don't think anything came of it, though.
Would probably be a worthwhile place to invest energy.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> The current SA tests don't seem to catch the very common Nigerian sc
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:23:40PM -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote:
| Jason Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > denoting it. I don't read/speak Korean, so I have no idea what
| > exactly it is, but the characters are: 광고
| >
| > (hope that comes through)
It came through just fine, though I can't
> All of this requires the ability for 'per-user' configurations to work ...
>
> Now, getting this to work where the email has one recipient is a piece of
> cake, and can be done inside of postfix quite nicely ... but as soon as
> you have 2+ recipients, it breaks ...
I don't use postfix, but it
> header USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNT /?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i
> describe USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNTTo: mail sent to usenet spam accounts
> score USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNT 5
I think header rule should read something like
header USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNT To =~ /?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i
specifying the header
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Vivek Khera wrote:
>> "DP" == Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DP> If you want to get the filtering per-individual correct, dump the
> DP> first "user" argument entirely, then use the script to iterate
> DP> through the recipient addresses and call SA for ea
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Bart> body TONER /(?:toner|ink|fax|copier)\scartridge/i
>
> May I suggest one slight change to that re?
>
> /(?:toner|ink(?:jet)?|fax|copier)\scartridge/i
Yes, in fact,
/(?:toner|ink(?:\s*jet)?|fax|copier)\s+cartridge/i
i
> "DP" == Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DP> If you want to get the filtering per-individual correct, dump the first
DP> "user" argument entirely, then use the script to iterate through the
DP> recipient addresses and call SA for each of them.
Or you could just tell postfix that
Bart> body TONER /(?:toner|ink|fax|copier)\scartridge/i
May I suggest one slight change to that re?
/(?:toner|ink(?:jet)?|fax|copier)\scartridge/i
--
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"Excellant Written and Communications Skills required" - seen on c
Jason Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My company is both in Korea and in Canada, so we tend to get a lot of
> collateral spam from Korean spamhouses AND legitimate mail.
>
> One point I haven't seen yet in the ruleset is that there's a law in
> Korea that UCE (or perhaps even UBE) must have
The current SA tests don't seem to catch the very common Nigerian scam. You
know "The assets of dictator So And So are frozen. We need your help. Send
us your bank account number and we'll transfer a bunch of money there" (or
something like that). Have others developed better tests to catch th
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> If you're using spamd, you can't put rules in user_prefs, for security reasons,
> unless you turn on the option which lets you do that. But the option creates
> security holes. You can, however, put extra rules in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf an
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> Ugh, looks like SourceForge installed a lame text filter that attempts
> to do virus protection (incorrectly, brokenly)... So my email didn't get
> through.
Just in case you are curious, it's the "standard" exim mime filter, and
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>The last place I looked was the first place I should have ...
>
>Craig, if its okay with James, would it be possible to take
>contrib/spamcheck.py and move it to lmtpproxy/lmtpproxy.py? So that it
>stands out a bit more? I'm going to work on moving to this righ tnow, bu
After going through all of this, I've finally found what I've been looking
for sitting right in front of my eyes ... spamassasin itself, in its
contrib directory, has a python program called spamcheck.py ... it was so
obviously named I don't know how I missed it *grin* but it works like a
charm
On Thu, 23 May 2002, John Weissberg wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a clear and simply explanation of how to set-up
> SA with Postfix using either spamd or spamproxy?
Mail from me, in the archive, in the last week covers this in reasonable
detail. A posting a few minutes ago, in fact, also does.
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Nope, this doesn't work ...
...in all situations.
> try sending yourself a CC'd mail message, and you'll see what I mean
> ... I sent an email to a friend on my server, CC'd it to myself, from
> a remote server, and here is the result that I've rec
Its up to you, but I was thinking of adding in code to Makefile.PL to
check for Python and, if it exists, install it similar to spamproxyd ...
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> How about contrib/lmtpproxy.py?
>
> C
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> MGF>
> MGF> The last place I looked w
Hmmm, adding it to local.cf didn't seem to work either.
This is using a debian apt-get install of spamassasin if it matters?
--On Thursday, 23 May 2002 6:53 p.m. -0400 Andrew Kohlsmith
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It is also possible to add the test in the local.cf but use the sql
> preference
I'm just calling spamassasin directly from my .procmailrc file. I'll move
the rule to the local.cf anyway for good measure.
Mark
--On Thursday, 23 May 2002 2:19 p.m. -0700 Craig R Hughes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you're using spamd, you can't put rules in user_prefs, for security
> rea
> If you're using spamd, you can't put rules in user_prefs, for security
> reasons, unless you turn on the option which lets you do that. But the
> option creates security holes. You can, however, put extra rules in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and they will be used for everyone.
>
> Be sur
If you're using spamd, you can't put rules in user_prefs, for security reasons,
unless you turn on the option which lets you do that. But the option creates
security holes. You can, however, put extra rules in
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and they will be used for everyone.
Be sure to restar
Hi, new to spamassasin so this is probably a really simple question, but
how does one create there own localised rules?
In my ~/.spamassasin/user_prefs file I've added the following:
header USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNT /?:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/i
describe USENET_SPAM_ACCOUNTTo: mail sent to usenet s
body TONER /(?:toner|ink|fax|copier)\scartridge/i
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On Thu, 23 May 2002, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> Has anyone toyed with this to create a lmtp-spam proxy? I believe
> there was mentioned *some* reason why lmtpproxyd in Cyrus wouldn't do for
> this at this time, but I might have missed something ... ?
lmtpproxyd is designed for use with the
>> It is, after all, a sort of MTA.
Theo> Well, actually it's not an MTA...
I know that. That's why I said "sort of". It passes a message from its
stdin to its stdout, making a transformation along the way.
Theo> But why don't you add a header yourself? Something like:
T
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:18:21AM -0700, Daniel Rogers wrote:
| On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:49:59PM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote:
| > Well, the trouble is that SA isn't on the outbound path, and it's often a lot
| > more difficult to insert ourselves into the outbound stream than to insert into
| >
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:23:27AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> :0H
> * ! ^X-Spam-Status:
> {
> :0fw
> | spamc
> }
>
> :0:spam.lock
> * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
> $SPAM
>
> If I have a problem I sometimes can't easily tell where SA ran. It would be
> nice if
Craig,
| MM> This is one of the three reasons why amavisd-new (a MTA-to-virus scanner
| MM> interface, which can call SA as well) prefers to call Razor by itself
| MM> and not letting SA do it:
|
| Note that doing it this way instead of inside SA means that razor is being
| used as a black/white
How about contrib/lmtpproxy.py?
C
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
MGF>
MGF> The last place I looked was the first place I should have ...
MGF>
MGF> Craig, if its okay with James, would it be possible to take
MGF> contrib/spamcheck.py and move it to lmtpproxy/lmtpproxy.py? So that it
MGF> stands out a
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Corwin Grey wrote:
> I'm guessing that exim is still running as root at the time it calls
> spamc (i.e. it hasn't gone into it's 'local delivery' mode yet). Can you
> configure Exim to call the spamc later in the delivery process?
Oh have exim pass the username to "spamc -u
Probably would be a good idea to install the latest fink first -- that generally
solves all kinds of problems with OSX. After fink, try SA again.
C
Sarwat Khan wrote:
SK> > Looks like all your network tests are breaking. Did you
SK> > install a firewall or
SK> > something? 2.20 works fine fo
Daniel Pittman wrote:
DP> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Paul Bauer wrote:
DP> > I have been poking through the list and through google and haven't had
DP> > any luck with configureing SpamAssassin to work with sieve and cyrus.
DP>
DP> I think you are trying to hook SA in far too late in the process if
DP>
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:13:57PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> >> No, we run spamc from the Exim MTA, however I think your statements are
> >> still applicable in as much as the MTA will run as root.
> >
> > I'm not very familiar with Exim. Does Exim function as both MTA and MDA?
> >
> I'll say
Could someone point me to a reference on getting this to work with exchange
2000, or confirm for me that it wont?
Thanks much,
Carsten Erickson
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Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:26 AM
To: [E
On 23/05/02 at 17:56, John Weissberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote :
> Can anyone point me to a clear and simply explanation of how
> to set-up SA with Postfix using either spamd or spamproxy?
>
> I tried 4 or 5 months ago back when bleeding edge was V2.0 and
> was unsuccessful then. Perhaps someone
The last place I looked was the first place I should have ...
Craig, if its okay with James, would it be possible to take
contrib/spamcheck.py and move it to lmtpproxy/lmtpproxy.py? So that it
stands out a bit more? I'm going to work on moving to this righ tnow, but
it looks like I've finally
On 23-May-2002 at 16:40:46 Corwin Grey wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:26:26PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
>> On 23-May-2002 at 15:38:32 Corwin Grey wrote:
>
>> No, we run spamc from the Exim MTA, however I think your statements are
>> still applicable in as much as the MTA will run as root.
>
Hey all ...
After I sent out my last email, I spent some more time scouring
the web looking for some way of doing this, and came across:
http://www.btinternet.com/~davecridland/sanifilter-HOWTO/t1.html
Its a Virus scanner that works at the LMTP level, which, from what
I
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 05:26:26PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
> On 23-May-2002 at 15:38:32 Corwin Grey wrote:
> No, we run spamc from the Exim MTA, however I think your statements are
> still applicable in as much as the MTA will run as root.
I'm not very familiar with Exim. Does Exim function as
On 23-May-2002 at 15:38:32 Corwin Grey wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:05:57PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
>> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[29334]: connection from
>> localhost [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 32922
>> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[5]: Still running
A piece of spam made it through our filters this morning. It was
almost a prototypical spam; I was surprised it hadn't been
bit-bucketed. Then I noticed the X-Spam-Status had an -81 rating.
Anyone seen anything like this?
From: MyPoints Member Values <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROT
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:49:59PM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> Well, the trouble is that SA isn't on the outbound path, and it's often a lot
> more difficult to insert ourselves into the outbound stream than to insert into
> the inbound stream. What if you're reading your office email from you
Getting a lot of spam recently with text like this:
> We have visited www.zanshin.com and found it a thoughtfully-designed one
> with much helpful information but poorly listed in many search engines.
> It's time to do something. Find a most effective way of advertising,
> find FULLPROMOTE=21 Bes
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:00:34AM -0700, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> If I've been somewhat unresponsive this week both to list mail and direct mail,
> it's only because I'm getting married this Sunday, and with all the family in
> town, etc. things are pretty hectic. Not to mention the hyper fiancee
Craig --
...and then Craig R Hughes said...
%
% If I've been somewhat unresponsive this week both to list mail and direct mail,
We've managed, though :-)
% it's only because I'm getting married this Sunday, and with all the family in
Yay for you! Congratulations!
Be sure to post the link t
Ho!
Congrats! I'm doing the same the last Saturday in June.
Hope you have a lovely wedding!
Rick
- Original Message -
From: "Craig R Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: [SAtalk] Apologies for absence/slowness this week
I
Looks great Daniel -- go ahead and check it in. Probably skip the iterations
stuff for now.
C
Daniel Quinlan wrote:
DQ> Based on these results, my inclination is to add all of the above rules
DQ> and let the GA sort it out. They all look pretty good to me except for
DQ> DATE_IN_FUTURE_03_06 (
If I've been somewhat unresponsive this week both to list mail and direct mail,
it's only because I'm getting married this Sunday, and with all the family in
town, etc. things are pretty hectic. Not to mention the hyper fiancee who keeps
thinking everything's going wrong, and worrying the cake wo
John,
I am setting up the same thing at the moment actually. I haven't fully
released it to our customer base, but I am testing it and it is working
fine. Any comments from others would be great though.
I've installed Procmail v3.22 and SpamAssassin 2.20. I am running spamd
with the flags -d (da
> "JW" == John Weissberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JW> Can anyone point me to a clear and simply explanation of how to set-up
JW> SA with Postfix using either spamd or spamproxy?
spamproxyd can lose your mail, so don't use it.
what I'm using is amavisd-new without any antivirus checker.
b
On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 10:58 PM, Paul Bauer wrote:
> I have been poking through the list and through google and haven't had
> any luck with configureing SpamAssassin to work with sieve and cyrus.
Sieve is specifically designed for use in a black box mail server like
Cyrus IMAPd. From
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 02:05:57PM +0100, John Horne wrote:
>
> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[29334]: connection from
> localhost [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 32922
> May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[5]: Still running as root:
> user not specified, not found,
Can anyone point me to a clear and simply explanation of how to set-up
SA with Postfix using either spamd or spamproxy?
I tried 4 or 5 months ago back when bleeding edge was V2.0 and was
unsuccessful then. Perhaps someone has developed a good solution now.
--
John Weissberg
PerfectProof
www.per
Yes it would overwite - you could always make a backup copy and just update
it everytime you upgrade...
Justin
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Stephen Bader
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:48 AM
To: Justin Robinson
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday, May 23, 2002, at 09:05 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2002, dman wrote:
>
>> Sieve is defined in an RFC, actually (but I don't know the number
>> off-hand). I don't know if cyrus' implementation follows the RFC or
>> not.
>
> As far as I know, the cyrus developers are
> "MGF" == Marc G Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MGF> For instance, from a remote machine, I just sent an email to two addresses
MGF> on my machine, both on the To: line ... if you look at how the spam
MGF> scoring worked, the first 'valid address' that it found is the one that it
MGF>
I want to make it copy over a more user friendly defaults file so if one
of our users wants to ftp in and modify the file, the comments make are
easier to understand and explain what we do system-wide by default. We
will define system wide rules, but we want users to be able to override
them, and
On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:18:23 -0300 (ADT)
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I need to setup a mail server, using the above software ... the key
> requirement is that each user on the server has to have the ability to use
> the "per user" settings that are available in Spamassassin
On Wed, 22 May 2002 the voices made Craig R Hughes write:
> Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>
> TLS> I know it's GA-evolved, but isn't the score (2.741) for SUBJ_HAS_SPACES
> TLS> uncalled for when we're just talking about "linebreakingspaces", indenting the
> TLS> continued subject-line...?
>
> TLS> X
Why do you want to modify that one anyway? Just use the global config file
and leave the user_prefs.template blank... That way if you ever want to
change global user options you don't have to replace everyone's user_prefs
file...
Justin
-Original Message-
From: Stephen Bader [ma
After pounding my head against a wall for a very long time now, I'm
starting to believe what I'm trying to do here is just not possible, but
I'm hoping someone wiser out there can think of a way past this impasse
...
I need to setup a mail server, using the above software ... the key
requirement
But if I modify the templates in this directory, they will be over written
if I upgrade, right?
-Steve
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Justin Robinson wrote:
> I believe mine are located in:
>
> (on machine #1):
>/usr/share/spamassassin
>
> (on machine #2):
>/usr/local/share/spamassa
Nope, this doesn't work ... try sending yourself a CC'd mail message, and
you'll see what I mean ... I sent an email to a friend on my server, CC'd
it to myself, from a remote server, and here is the result that I've
received:
==
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.
> >> I have been poking through the list and through google and haven't
> >> had any luck with configureing SpamAssassin to work with sieve and
> >> cyrus.
>
> Daniel> I think you are trying to hook SA in far too late in the process
> Daniel> if either Cyrus or Sieve are invo
Hello,
Using spamassassin 2.20, and running spamd as root, I am getting the
following messages in our log file:
May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[29334]: connection from
localhost [ 127.0.0.1 ] at port 32922
May 23 14:02:55 tracy.csd.plymouth.ac.uk spamd[5]: Still running as
On Thu, 23 May 2002, dman wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:30:44AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> | On Thu, 23 May 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> ...
> | > What are Cyrus and Sieve? They seem a bit too generic to feed to a search
> | > engine with much success.
>
> | Sieve is a filtering ext
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:30:44AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
| On Thu, 23 May 2002, Skip Montanaro wrote:
...
| > What are Cyrus and Sieve? They seem a bit too generic to feed to a search
| > engine with much success.
| Sieve is a filtering extension to Cyrus that, again, is designed for a
Cyrus IMAPd is a 'black box/secure' IMAP/POP3 server developed by Carnegie
Mellon University ... go to Google, type 'cyrus' and its the first two
entries that come up ...
Sieve is a filtering extension to Cyrus that, again, is designed for a
'black box/secure' environment ... go to Google, type
Dan, et al --
...and then Daniel Quinlan said...
%
...
% Also, it seems like we're lacking a good way to whitelist addresses
% found in our own outgoing email in addition to incoming email. One
% could Cc: oneself and have procmail pipe to "spamassassin -W" option,
% but I only want messages in
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:44:22AM -0500, Jim Hale wrote:
| Is the White List strictly for the users side or can it be used to allow
| mail, from certain sites, to actually make it thru without being
| SpamScanned?
The white list can be used at any level -- per-user or system-wide.
It doesn't pr
Craig R Hughes said:
>
> Install perl properly, and/or make sure pod2text is in your path.
Feedback: I compiled and installed the latest perl (5.6.1) from CPAN
and the 'make' worked, thanks.
Whinge: the installation steps and the 'make install' are significantly
out of step - the README f
Is the White List strictly for the users side or can it be used to allow
mail, from certain sites, to actually make it thru without being
SpamScanned?
My wife subscribes to some stuff that she would like to actually get and
sometimes there are ads in it, but she still wants to receive those
part
> Looks like all your network tests are breaking. Did you
> install a firewall or
> something? 2.20 works fine for me on 10.1.4, as does current CVS.
I just tried, through CPAN, 'install Mail::SpamAssassin' with
the firewall off and I got the same problems (spamd, spamd_port,
spamd_stop test
Don't know if anyone is interested in commercial solutions using
SpamAssassin or not, but in doing some research into our competitors, I
discovered that SpamAssassin is what ActiveState have used as the basis
for PerlMx's anti-spam engine.
More details for those interested in commercially supp
Craig R Hughes wrote:
> Bugzilla #317 and #18 refer to this. #317 includes a patch which needs some
> work to integrate it into CVS. Matt, do you want to take this one?
I'll take it with the premise that we're weeks away from releasing our
new anti-spam solution (based on spamassassin of cours
Great news for those like me annoyed by the ever changing nigerian scam...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25394.html
Or maybe they didn't get everyone, as I got the following this morning:
From: "me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: from canada
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:52:23 +0100
GOOD
Daniel> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Paul Bauer wrote:
>> I have been poking through the list and through google and haven't
>> had any luck with configureing SpamAssassin to work with sieve and
>> cyrus.
Daniel> I think you are trying to hook SA in far too late in the process
Dan
> > I have been poking through the list and through google and haven't had
> > any luck with configureing SpamAssassin to work with sieve and cyrus.
>
> I think you are trying to hook SA in far too late in the process if
> either Cyrus or Sieve are involved...
>
> > Is there a how-to or a page
I run SA on a couple machines (my mail server and my laptop). Sometimes
SA-processed mail from the mail server winds its way to my laptop where I
avoid double processing with:
:0H
* ! ^X-Spam-Status:
{
:0fw
| spamc
}
:0:spam.lock
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
$SP
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