Re: [SAtalk] check_for_mime_excessive_qp

2002-06-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this was supposedly well-tested, but it generates warnings if the > message body is empty: > > Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at > lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1331. > Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at > li

[SAtalk] check_for_mime_excessive_qp

2002-06-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
I know this was supposedly well-tested, but it generates warnings if the message body is empty: Use of uninitialized value in division (/) at lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1331. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at lib/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1331. __

[SAtalk] Time::HiRes

2002-06-11 Thread Bart Schaefer
In SpamAssassin.pm I see: # Let's not make this required -- Marc #eval { require Time::HiRes }; #Time::HiRes->import( qw(time) ) unless $@; # Unfortunately, the above doesn't work, please FIXME use Time::HiRes qw ( time ); I just wanted to report that the "eval ... unless $@;" stuff works fine

[SAtalk] Asian language spam not in Razor and DCC?

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Cline
>From my (limited) experience, it seems that the Asian language spam I get isn't listed in Razor or DCC when I get it. Is this just chance, or could there be a reason for it? I don't think that I'd be among the first to get every copy of Asian spam. Maybe most of the people who are first-repo

Re: [SAtalk] Newbee's question: seem long to check an email, and spamd

2002-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, If you are interested in seeing some statistics about CPU, processing time, message size and spam level, you can get a look at: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/laboratory/monitor/mail/ Machine is a P166, with some 64MB ram and SCSI disks. Disregard virus and client connection that may not be givin

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
>Ummm... yeah... I just couldn't figure out how to add in the >accents. And my shift button got stuck when I hit L! ^q 3 4 0 in emacs :) Olivier ___ Multimillion Dollar Computer Inventory Live Webcast Auctions Thru Aug. 2002 - http://

[SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SA 2.20

2002-06-11 Thread Richard J . Sears
A few people asked for this so I thoughI would just post it to the list since it is so small. Anyone that needs more info, or any help with the configs, there is a README in the tar file. If you need help beyond that, don't hesitate to ask! You will need to edit the config.inc.php for your serve

[SAtalk] Re: Newbee's question: seem long to check an email, and spamd

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:03:07PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:36:06PM -0400, Weidong Wang wrote: | > Linux 6.2. There is no Linux 6.2. Linus is still working on 2.5. Oh, you meant *RedHat* Linux 6.2. (the distinction may seem subtle, but really it isn't) | >

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Cline
On Tuesday 11 June 2002 08:28 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > or famous martial aritists > > Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, etc. > How about famous "real" martial artists as against media hyped ones? Or even fictional ones. * Grasshopper (Kung Fu) * Samurai

RE: [SAtalk] New install help - Win2K, activeperl, nmake error

2002-06-11 Thread Nick Fisher
> I'm new to perl. New to spamassassin. Been there ;) > I do have perl running ok on the server. In the spamassassin docs > it gives me > the following commands to install. Sadly SA has never realy been ported to the Win32 platform. If your realy intrested in getting the main SpamAssassin script

[SAtalk] New install help - Win2K, activeperl, nmake error

2002-06-11 Thread Kevin Gagel
I'm new to perl. New to spamassassin. I do have perl running ok on the server. In the spamassassin docs it gives me the following commands to install. perl -MCPAN -e shell o conf prerequisites_policy ask install Mail::SpamAssassin This works well but nmake gives me errors.

Re: [SAtalk] Newbee's question: seem long to check an email, and spamd

2002-06-11 Thread Dr. Weidong Wang
> > 1. is 1 min normal? Of all the tests, is there a subset that takes most of > > the time? > > It depends ... Can you define "low end server"? What CPU, how much RAM, > what's the normal load on the box ...? On my P200, RH 7.2, 256MB RAM, > low load, messages typically take 2-5 seconds. > I w

[SAtalk] spamassasin: working great, but I broke it.

2002-06-11 Thread John Abella
Not sure how either in my home dir, I've got a link to the spamassasin binary If I go to the directory that it's in, and run tests it works If I run tests from my home directory, I get this in the output: SPAM: (no report template found) I'm sure it's something simple that I broke.

Re: [SAtalk] Newbee's question: seem long to check an email, and spamd

2002-06-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:36:06PM -0400, Weidong Wang wrote: > Also, it seems that using spamd only have very marginal gain. I am using a > dell server (low end server) machine with Linux 6.2. > > 1. is 1 min normal? Of all the tests, is there a subset that takes most of > the time? It depends

[SAtalk] Newbee's question: seem long to check an email, and spamd

2002-06-11 Thread Weidong Wang
Hi, I just installed spamassassin, as it looks very promising. One thing I noticed is that checking a mail (the sample-spam.txt one, 4K) one takes over 1 minute. At first I thought it is razor, as I noticed during "make test" that razor test took a long time. But after disabling razor (setting RA

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On 11 Jun 2002 the voices made Daniel Quinlan write: > Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > How about:- > > John Wilkes Booth > > [...] > > I'd rather not name our work after literal murderers. Swedish pornstars? ;-) /Tony -- # Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Thro

Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Craig R Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, if anyone is about to submit a patch, it's time to do it. I'd > like to get 2.30 out by wednesday, which is pretty aggressive, but > things are pretty stable right now. Please don't anyone check > anything in (those of you with commit privs). Oo

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Nigel Metheringham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How about:- > John Wilkes Booth > [...] I'd rather not name our work after literal murderers. Dan ___ Multimillion Dollar Computer Inventory Live Webcast Auctions Thru Aug. 2002 -

[SAtalk] Driver license spam

2002-06-11 Thread Bill D
Greetings. This is my first time posting to this list. Apologies if this isn't the right forum for this; in that case, could you direct me to the right place? Does anyone else think there should be a rule for "International Driver's Licenses"? That's a frequent subject and/or body phrase that p

Re: [SAtalk] Installation problem, stopping at 'make test'

2002-06-11 Thread emery . guevremont
I installed the RPM instead and everything seems to work. I tested it real quick, and SA was able to pick up on SPAM. Thanks for the help, but it still bothers me that I wasn't able to install it from CPAN. -- Emery Guévremont, Systems administrator and Customer Support Administrateur des systè

Re: [SAtalk] Installation problem, stopping at 'make test'

2002-06-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:17:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having problems installing SA on my RH 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10 on my > computer. I tried installing SA from CPAN and manually with make, but I > stop at the same place. What am I missing? I installed every required > modules wit

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

2002-06-11 Thread Nick Fisher
> Any chance someone is willing to share some code to put together > a nice web > inteface for end users to configure personal settings for SpamAssassin on > Redhat 7.x with MySQL and PHP or perhaps even just a perl script? I've made a basic Perl module that can load, save and edit user config fil

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

2002-06-11 Thread rODbegbie
Jim Scott wrote: > Any chance someone is willing to share some code to put together a > nice web inteface for end users to configure personal settings for > SpamAssassin on Redhat 7.x with MySQL and PHP or perhaps even just a > perl script? The lovely chaps at Horde (www.horde.org) are working on

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

2002-06-11 Thread Richard J . Sears
Hi Jim, We are using Postfix, IMAP (for webmail), QPopper for POP3, SA 2.20, PHP4 and MySQL with a web interface for our test customers. I would be more than happy to send you the PHP code for this if you like. Each customer's white_list & black_list as well as their point setting are the only

[SAtalk] Installation problem, stopping at 'make test'

2002-06-11 Thread emery . guevremont
I'm having problems installing SA on my RH 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10 on my computer. I tried installing SA from CPAN and manually with make, but I stop at the same place. What am I missing? I installed every required modules with CPAN. Here's the output of make test: Running make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=

Re: [SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:02:51AM -0700, Jim Scott wrote: > So if RAZOR_CHECK is set to 0 spamd will not even go out and check Razor? Or > by setting it to zero even if it matches RAZOR as spam it is given a score > of zero? If a test has a score of 0 it doesn't get run. > needed. I am guessing

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re: Re: C version

2002-06-11 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Derrick Hudson stated: >| I have currently got the mail box at 3.5 with a queue delivery of 10 >| minutes, this I am increasing to 20 minutes as it hits inbounds >| anyway. Sometimes it can take me upto 30 minutes just to bring t

[SAtalk] Re: Re: Re: spamc message size limits

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:27:40AM -0800, Pete Hanson wrote: | Hi Derrick, | | At 06/10/2002 13:04, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | >On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:51:07AM -0800, Pete Hanson wrote: | >| Not true. We're starting to see spam mail with huge attachments. | > | >What sort of attachments?

[SAtalk] MySQL/PHP Interface to SpamAssassin

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
Any chance someone is willing to share some code to put together a nice web inteface for end users to configure personal settings for SpamAssassin on Redhat 7.x with MySQL and PHP or perhaps even just a perl script? I know there is some stuff included with SpamAssassin but they dont seem to meet

[SAtalk] Re: SA with Exim

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:31:17AM -0500, Saul Guttman wrote: | Hi, | | I have Exim with SA running at SMTP time. If you mean the same thing the rest of us do, then you're using exim 4 with Marc's local_scan() function, right? | I am testing this to see if I can reduce spam sent to my Exchange

[SAtalk] Re: Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:28:55AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | > or famous martial aritists | > Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, etc. | | How about famous "real" martial artists as against media hyped ones? Chuck Norris had the world title for several ye

[SAtalk] Re: executable attachments should be filtered

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 06:19:20AM +0200, A. Schirmacher wrote: | II think any email containing an executable is spam. It's certainly junk, unless you asked for it (in which case a smart sender will (g)zip it first). | Windows executables can have extensions other than | *.exe, for example *.bat

Re: [SAtalk] problem with SA and Mail::Audit

2002-06-11 Thread Jake Edge
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:32:53PM -0600, Jake Edge wrote: > > It looks like this has been reported a couple of times, but I could find > no resolution in the archives ... version 2.20 of SA, version 2.1 of > Mail::Audit. When I call rewrite_mail(), I get the following error message > (some of t

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:29:50PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Spamassassin 2.30 (a L'orange) would be a pretty good name. > > If I may... that hould be Spamassassin 2.30 (à l'orange) > > Lets be orthographically correct :) > Ummm... yeah... I just couldn't figure out how to add in the ac

[SAtalk] additional rules

2002-06-11 Thread SpamTalk
We have added the following local.cf rules to cover spam that has slipped through the v2.20 ruleset body SPONSORED1 /brought to you by/i describe SPONSORED1 spam with embedded commercials, SHEESH body REMOVE1/REMOVE/ describe SPECIAL1 REMOVE in caps body SPECIAL1

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin on mac os x with CGP

2002-06-11 Thread Craig R Hughes
OSX startup stuff happens by running scripts called /Library/StartupItems/ProductName/ProductName -- sniff around in /Library/StartupItems/ and you'll see what I mean. If I get bored I might try making an OSX SpamAssassin package. C Ian Vännman wrote: IV> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:29:22 +020

Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Craig R Hughes
Excellent, thank Olivier! Great work on keeping up with the translations. C Olivier Nicole wrote: ON> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 19:39:47 +0700 (ICT) ON> From: Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ON> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ON> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ON> Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for

Re: [SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
So if RAZOR_CHECK is set to 0 spamd will not even go out and check Razor? Or by setting it to zero even if it matches RAZOR as spam it is given a score of zero? It seems in some cases it is taking a long time to check RAZOR and so I would like to know what the best way is to disable RAZOR complet

Re: [SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:39:53AM -0700, Jim Scott wrote: > Does DCC work with version 2.20? Not directly (you'd have to patch 2.20 to add the support). It should be available in 2.30 as I understand it. > Also what would need to be done if I ever wanted to disable one or the > other? Is there

[SAtalk] DCC and Razor usage

2002-06-11 Thread Jim Scott
I am using versin 2.20 and installed Razor and I see spamassassin is now using it. I would like to also use DCC however after installing it per Readme I do not see any indication that it spamassassin is using it as well? Does DCC work with version 2.20? Also what would need to be done if I ever w

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > or famous martial aritists > Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, etc. How about famous "real" martial artists as against media hyped ones? Mas Oyama Gichin Funikoshi Chojun Miyagi Sensei Oneisi Claude Von Damme ... <= Wait, how'd he get on this list... hehe. _

[SAtalk] problem with procmail

2002-06-11 Thread Aaron J Mackey
When I run mailstat, I almost always see a few of these: 0 1 ## /bin/sh: /usr/local/bin/spamassassin: not found 0 1 ## procmail: Program failure (127) of "/usr/local/bin/spamassassin" 0 1 ## procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded Although SA is cle

Re: [SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Nigel Metheringham
How about:- John Wilkes Booth Charles J. Guiteau Leon Czolgosz Lee Harvey Oswald Lynette Alice (Squeaky) Fromme Sara Jane Moore John W. Hinckley, Jr. as a start... Hint - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0194022.html [This particular sick scheme is all down to me currently backsta

[SAtalk] spamassassin on mac os x with CGP

2002-06-11 Thread Ian Vännman
I'm attempting to install SpamAssassin using the instructions on www.communigatefaq.com. The instructions are for Redhat systems and I'm running Mac OS X. So when I get to point 5 I get stuck: Copy the spamd init.d startup script to /etc/init.d, make it executable, and make it start when the syst

[SAtalk] Cool release name for 2.30

2002-06-11 Thread Dan . Smart
Matt Sergeant wrote: > >Craig R Hughes wrote: >> Anyone have any thoughts for a cool release name for 2.30? > >Soylent Green. I don't think we need to start eating our own, yet. I think we are missing the key part of SA, not the Spam part but the assassin part. Since Ninjas are the mascot, us

[SAtalk] SA with Exim

2002-06-11 Thread Saul Guttman
Hi, I have Exim with SA running at SMTP time. I am testing this to see if I can reduce spam sent to my Exchange server (I know, I know, but some people have to make a living). So I have setup .forward files so that messages get forwarded to the Exchange server for the time being. It seems to b

RE: [SAtalk] executable attachments should be filtered

2002-06-11 Thread Tony Hoyle
> -Original Message- > From: A. Schirmacher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 11 June 2002 05:19 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] executable attachments should be filtered > > > II think any email containing an executable is spam. > Windows executables can have extensions o

Re: [SAtalk] executable attachments should be filtered

2002-06-11 Thread Michael Leone
On 11 Jun 2002 at 6:19, A. Schirmacher wrote: > II think any email containing an executable is spam. > Windows executables can have extensions other than > *.exe, for example *.bat, *.scr, and whatnot. Those > executables are very dangerous because the reader > might not recognize them as an ex

Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Craig, I rsync a mass-check and posted bug #421 that has the rule description in French corresponding to the 2.30 coming tomorrow. Olivier ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re: spamc message size limits

2002-06-11 Thread Pete Hanson
Hi Derrick, At 06/10/2002 13:04, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: >On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:51:07AM -0800, Pete Hanson wrote: >| Not true. We're starting to see spam mail with huge attachments. > >What sort of attachments? What are the main identifying marks on the >messages? Here's a nice examp

Re: [SAtalk] Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
Craig R Hughes wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts for a cool release name for 2.30? Soylent Green. ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/inde

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Freeze for 2.30, call for nonspam.log submissions

2002-06-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Spamassassin 2.30 (a L'orange) would be a pretty good name. If I may... that hould be Spamassassin 2.30 (à l'orange) Lets be orthographically correct :) Olivier ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference