[SAtalk] DCC reporting busted

2002-06-27 Thread Rose, Bobby
Anyone using 2.40 CVS? If so can you confirm that dcc reporting is broken? --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Caffeinated soap. No kidding. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] procmailrc entry is wrong

2002-06-27 Thread Bryan Hoover
Steve Wingate wrote: > # Added for SpamAssassin > :0fw > | spamassassin -P > > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > caughtspam > > The above entry was taken directly from the documentation. This is kind of a procmail question, but... I think the documentation - the README at least - specifies a path.

[SAtalk] Spamd- will not add ****SPAM***** in subject

2002-06-27 Thread Yaniv Fine
Title: Spamd- will not add SPAM* in subject Hi all I am using running a test server on debian with qmail and spam assassin Spamd is running with these flags -F 0 -d It seems that spamd recorgnize that a smap is beening send to the test mailbox (I am using qmail maildir) And it

[SAtalk] procmailrc entry is wrong

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Wingate
Hello, I'm using the p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.30 port on FreeBSD along with procmail 3.22. I'm having a few problems. I have this in my ~/.procmailrc file (procmail has been working fine for a long while) # Added for SpamAssassin :0fw | spamassassin -P :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes caughtspam The

[SAtalk] Why no message-id in debug log

2002-06-27 Thread Harry Putnam
I still see no evidence of a message-id being inserted into debug logs to allow tracking. Or any evidence of time stamping. This bug was supposed to have been subsumed and corrected by another one, but these two factors have never appeared in my logs as of cvs yesterday (2.40). Maybe I don't un

Re: [SAtalk] Local rules page

2002-06-27 Thread Bryan Hoover
Weyland wrote: > but it's nice to have things like this to get my set-up > at least slightly customized while I spend the time to learn. I'm just a user, but I'd say, you'd have a hard time finding or writing any spam filter better than SA. Bryan -- [Insert Maxwell Smart accent] ==>> Reply-To m

[SAtalk] Problem redirecting spam to spamassassin-sightings list

2002-06-27 Thread Robert Abatecola
When I redirect mail (using "Redirect" from Eudora on a Mac) to the spamassassin-sightings list it always bounce back to me with complaints about envelope sender verification. I suspect that I am not submitting to the list correctly but don't know how to proceed. Below is an example of the bounc

Re: [SAtalk] Local rules page

2002-06-27 Thread Weyland
Hey guys, As a completely new SA user who doesn't know anything about programming yet, I'd like to thank you for posting these. I'm planning on buying some books as soon as I can this weekend, but it's nice to have things like this to get my set-up at least slightly customized while I spend t

Re: [SAtalk] Intermittent Error

2002-06-27 Thread Bryan Hoover
Mike Scott wrote: > I've set up SpamAssassin 1.20 on my account on a shared FreeBSD server > > (i.e. I don't have root access), and it generally works perfectly, but > > about one email in ten generates the following error (taken from my > procmail log, with the address the email forwards to dele

Re: [SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 10:46:55AM -0500, Dallas Engelken wrote: > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ > Are you guys fucking serious!! > > That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. > 64.216.0.0 - 64.219.255.255 You're wrong. Firstly, we aren't "blocking" those hosts, we are assi

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 09:20:35AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: > I had a look though the README file in masses dir. You end up sending in > files with lines like: > > . 3 /home/jm/Mail/MissedSpam/36 SUBJ_HAS_Q_MARK,WANTS_CREDIT_CARD,SUPERLONG_LIN > > > I would guess you could easily convert you

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist vs. mime_defang

2002-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > shows that whitelist is applied, bumping the score down to change > is as non-spam-status. But it is still getting mangled by > mime_defang to a somewhat-unreadable form (straight HTML code). I am not sure mime-defang option applies to spam only, I think that is a general option that SA ap

Re: [SAtalk] For field, not To Field

2002-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > I'm getting allot of problems with > SA marking mail as spam that's being sent to a group/list, even when the > recipient has been whitelisted. When sending to a group/list, who is THE recipient? If I am not wrong, a message send to a list of recipients on a single destination machine, is

[SAtalk] Re: Autounsubscibe capability for SA

2002-06-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Robert Strickler wrote: > How does everyone feel about building the logic to create and maintain a > database of unsubscribe/removes that actually remove an address. This sounds like a worthwhile endeavor. A bit of a digression: On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson w

Re: [SAtalk] Local rules page

2002-06-27 Thread Matt Kettler
Excellent page. Here's some of my own local rules if anyone on the list wants em. I think most of these are pretty decent for general consumption, but who knows, I could be wrong :) In several cases (ie: PORN_LOCAL_5 and EMAIL_PURCHASED_LIST) the syntax of the regexp could be more efficient,

[SAtalk] Re: Autounsubscibe capability for SA

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:53:06PM -0500, Robert Strickler wrote: | How does everyone feel about building the logic to create and maintain a | database of unsubscribe/removes that actually remove an address. I realize | that a significant majority of these are simply traps to validate email | addr

[SAtalk] Autounsubscibe capability for SA

2002-06-27 Thread Robert Strickler
How does everyone feel about building the logic to create and maintain a database of unsubscribe/removes that actually remove an address. I realize that a significant majority of these are simply traps to validate email addresses, but I am wondering if there is not some value in actually getting o

Re: [SAtalk] Razor

2002-06-27 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:36:18PM -0700, Steve Evans wrote: > How can you tell if you've installed Razor properly and SpamAssasin is using it? If you run a message through "spamassassin -D -P" you should see something like "Razor is available". :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "To win, you mu

[SAtalk] Local rules page

2002-06-27 Thread Simon Lyall
I've put up a little page of various local rules people have posted recently: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/2002/0628.html Please lete me know if there are corrections, changes, updates. -- Simon Lyall.| Newsmaster | Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Network/System Admin | Postma

[SAtalk] Spamdemic Map by CluelessMailers.org

2002-06-27 Thread Matthew Cline
A *huge* map showing the relationship between spammers. http://www.cluelessmailers.org/spamdemic/mapfullsize.html -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ICQ: 132152059 ---

[SAtalk] Spamd- will not add ****SPAM***** in subject

2002-06-27 Thread Yaniv Fine
Title: Spamd- will not add SPAM* in subject Hi all I am using running a test server on debian with qmail and spam assassin Spamd is running with these flags -F 0 -d It seems that spamd recorgnize that a smap is beening send to the test mailbox (I am using qmail maildir) And it ha

[SAtalk] Razor

2002-06-27 Thread Steve Evans
How can you tell if you've installed Razor properly and SpamAssasin is using it?   Steve Evans Computing Services (619) 594-0653    

[SAtalk] more rules for uncaught spam

2002-06-27 Thread SpamTalk
I created 7 new local.cf rules from just ONE spam that scored only 3.0 on v2.20: body BADCREDIT1 /bad credit/i describe BADCREDIT1 talks about bad credit body BETTERCREDIT1 /better credit/i describe BETTERCREDIT1 talks about better credit body CANHELPYOU1/can help you/i

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Simon Lyall
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | Has anyone tried GA on the various RBL tests? > > No. The GA and DNSBLs don't mix very well. DNSBLs (theoretically) > can change at any moment, so a DNSBL check is really only meaningful > for messages received at the time the check is made.

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist vs. mime_defang

2002-06-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Kevin G. J. Freels wrote: > The whitelist_to section of the doc: > > whitelist_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If the given address appears in the `To:' or `Cc:' > headers, mail will be whitelisted. > > As I read this, it says that the whitelist_from is for exte

Re: [SAtalk] What version of Perl is required for SpamAssassin?

2002-06-27 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:29:24PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, tang wrote: > > > Just installed SpamAssassin on our Sun's Ultra10 running Solaris 7, > > but it doesn't work: > > > > tang@bionmr3:~/bin/SpamAssassin 124>./spamassassin < sample-nonspam.txt > > Can't locate Ti

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Intermittent Error

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Scott
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:09:41 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >1.20 is really really old. It was old before I started using SA. Try >upgrading to 2.31 first. Sorry, typo. It's 2.20. -- Mike Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[Fwd: Re[2]: [SAtalk] SA doesn't do anything...]

2002-06-27 Thread Kevin Gagel
I need to ask for some support for the windows platform. Is there anyone that can help me or point me in the right direction? What is happening is that a message gets the headers added to it from SA but then the mail readers can not read the headers properly. For example the subject line vanishes

[SAtalk] Re: Intermittent Error

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 08:11:01PM +0100, Mike Scott wrote: | I've set up SpamAssassin 1.20 1.20 is really really old. It was old before I started using SA. Try upgrading to 2.31 first. -D -- The truly righteous man attains life, but he who pursues evil goes to his death. Proverbs 1

RE: [SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Dallas Engelken
> Dallas Engelken wrote: > > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ > > Are you guys fucking serious!! > > > > That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. > > 64.216.0.0 - 64.219.255.255 > > This has nothing to do with SpamAssassin. I'd rather not have to see > this sort of abuse on

[SAtalk] Intermittent Error

2002-06-27 Thread Mike Scott
I've set up SpamAssassin 1.20 on my account on a shared FreeBSD server (i.e. I don't have root access), and it generally works perfectly, but about one email in ten generates the following error (taken from my procmail log, with the address the email forwards to deleted): procmail: Program failur

[SAtalk] SA + qmail + vpopmail + qmail-scanner-queue.pl

2002-06-27 Thread Jeremy A. Oddo \(APIXELS\)
Hey All-- I know this has probably been covered before, but I'm a newbie so I thought I'd ask anyway I'm setting up an e-mail server, and MOST of it seems to be working :) I'm trying to add in SpamAssassin support, but I need a little help. I have tested spamc by doing: /usr/bin/sp

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: > > | (I'm a bit sensitive about this right now as I just discovered that the > | entire block of IPs that my new DSL provider uses, are in the DUL. > > Nevertheless, the DUL isn't

[SAtalk] SA + qmail + vpopmail + qmail-scanner-queue.pl

2002-06-27 Thread Jeremy A. Oddo \(APIXELS\)
Hey All-- I know this has probably been covered before, but I'm a newbie so I thought I'd ask anyway I'm setting up an e-mail server, and MOST of it seems to be working :) I'm trying to add in SpamAssassin support, but I need a little help. I have tested spamc by doing: /usr/bin/sp

[SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 04:51:22AM +1200, Simon Lyall wrote: | On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: | > Dallas Engelken wrote: | > > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ | > > Are you guys serious!! | > > | > > That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. | > > 64.216.0.0 - 64.219

[SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: | (I'm a bit sensitive about this right now as I just discovered that the | entire block of IPs that my new DSL provider uses, are in the DUL. And | there is no other DSL provider in this area, the last alternative is in | bankruptcy

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist vs. mime_defang

2002-06-27 Thread Kevin G. J. Freels
No, this is mail from outside to a user inside; it's not mail we're sending out. Accordning to the SA Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.txt docs: whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Used to specify addresses which send mail that is often tagged (incorrectly) as spam; The whitelist_to section

Re: [SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Simon Lyall
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Dallas Engelken wrote: > > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ > > Are you guys fucking serious!! > > > > That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. > > 64.216.0.0 - 64.219.255.255 > > This has nothing to do with SpamAssassin. I'd rather n

Re: [SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Dallas Engelken wrote: > There can never be justification for blocking the entire netblock that > is that large. There's frequently not justification for blocking any other netblock, either. You have to choose which blacklists have sane administrators, and hope that others

Re: [SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
Dallas Engelken wrote: > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ > Are you guys fucking serious!! > > That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. > 64.216.0.0 - 64.219.255.255 This has nothing to do with SpamAssassin. I'd rather not have to see this sort of abuse on our list. Matt.

[SAtalk] Re: 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Derek Balling
The contact listing for that /14 is in error. That's the justification. If SBIS cared, they'd fix it. We've certainly pointed enough people in their direction to tell them to do so. Still not fixed. They obviously don't care if their customers have problems because of it. D At 10:46 AM -05

Re: [SAtalk] Restarting spamd

2002-06-27 Thread Justin R. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Said Ron Smith on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:59:53AM -0400: > Does anyone know of a way to restart spamd to pick up a changed > local.cf preferences file WITHOUT killing spamd and restarting it? > > It seems like that should be built in functionality.

Re: [SAtalk] For field, not To

2002-06-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BO" == Bill Omer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BO> been whitelisted, but the To: field contains the group address, not the BO> actual recipient (which is in the 'for' field)). BO> Example: BO> by www (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g5QLv1gJ027650 BO> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 26

[SAtalk] whitelist vs. mime_defang

2002-06-27 Thread Kevin G. J. Freels
Quick question, I haven't seen any answer to this on the list or in the docs I have set mime_defang (actually, set by default, I believe) in the local.cf to disarm viruii, but this buggers up any HTML-based email, even legitimate stuff. So I started to add the sites (like Amazon, Travelocity,

[SAtalk] 64.216.0.0/14 (Listed)

2002-06-27 Thread Dallas Engelken
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ Are you guys fucking serious!! That's blocking over 250,000 hosts!!! The entire SBIS netblock. 64.216.0.0 - 64.219.255.255 There can never be justification for blocking the entire netblock that is that large. Dallas ---

RE: [SAtalk] For field, not To

2002-06-27 Thread Bill Omer
Sorry about the two messages. I thought I sent the first one through a different mail account and didn't think it was going to go through. Sorry about that. Bill Omer > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill > Omer > Sent: Thursday,

[SAtalk] no whitelist defined, but a spam passed the USER_IN_WHITELIST check?

2002-06-27 Thread Jason
howdy I'm using SA with Mailscanner. my whitelist file is the mailscanner default with 3 addresses in it. I have auto-whitelist turned on. I got an email that scored -97.6, and listed USER_IN_WHITELIST among the checks in the header. the sender does appear in the auto-whitelist, but is not e

[SAtalk] Re: User_prefs ignored?

2002-06-27 Thread Bob Sully
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Ron Smith wrote: Ron: Yes, I definitely did kill the process first, then restarted it. -- Bob -- > > I'm running 2.30 under RedHat 7.2 (with security updates) and 2.4.9 > > (custom-compiled). I have the RBL and Vipul's Razor options enabled, > > otherwise completely stoc

[SAtalk] SA for Outlook Website

2002-06-27 Thread Jason Reusch
SA for Outlook is available for download http://sa.reusch.net Version 0.01.01 is an 874KB download. Follow instructions in INSTALL.txt to get up and running. I've been running it on Outlook for about a week and it's surprisingly stable. I'm running Outlook XP (10.0) and would appreciate fe

Re: [SAtalk] FreeBSD Install Problem

2002-06-27 Thread Jonathan Duncan
Vivek, You rock!! That worked perfectly!! Thank you ever so much!! Jonathan Duncan Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > "JD" == Jonathan Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the "cc -fno-strict-aliasing... " line needs to be run manually. run > "make" then when it fails with th

[SAtalk] For field, not To

2002-06-27 Thread Bill Omer
Is there a way to make SA base it's rules on the For field rather than the To field if it exists? I'm having lots of problems with SA marking mail as spam that's being sent to a group or a list, even if the recipient has been whitelisted (it's looking for the To: field for the address to check if

[SAtalk] For field, not To Field

2002-06-27 Thread Bill Omer
I'm running SA/spamass-milter on a mail gateway, which forwards all mail (via esmtp) to an other mail server. I'm getting allot of problems with SA marking mail as spam that's being sent to a group/list, even when the recipient has been whitelisted. My question is, how can I make SA (preferably

[SAtalk] Restarting spamd

2002-06-27 Thread Ron Smith
Does anyone know of a way to restart spamd to pick up a changed local.cf preferences file WITHOUT killing spamd and restarting it? It seems like that should be built in functionality. I'm using OS X. Ron --- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http:

Re: [SAtalk] FreeBSD Install Problem

2002-06-27 Thread Jonathan Duncan
Vivek, Thank you for your comments. I am not sure exactly how to do what you suggest. Would you be willing to elaborate for me? Regards, Jonathan Duncan Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > "DF" == Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DF> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:31:5

Re: [SAtalk] FreeBSD Install Problem

2002-06-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "DF" == Duncan Findlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DF> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 04:31:59PM -, Jonathan Duncan wrote: >> Both processes game me this error message: >> >> cc -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -O spamd/spamc.c -o >> spamd/spamc -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -lg dbm -lm

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin idea?

2002-06-27 Thread Danita Zanre
> Now I see no reason why in real life one should accept such case. I'd > say that in real life I only accept connection from machine with valid > DNS and reverse DNS. While it would be "nice" in the real world to do this, many email servers can ALREADY reject mail that does not have a reverse DN

Re: [SAtalk] how does one accomplish prefix=dir

2002-06-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
Harry Putnam wrote: > David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>...and then Harry Putnam said... >>% >>% I'm a little lost in installing spamassassin without using the >>% ./configure approach. For example: How does one instruct the >>% `make install' to use /usr/local instead of /usr? >>

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM: notes regarding netware 2.x,3.x.4.x (fwd)

2002-06-27 Thread Michael Moncur
> I received the attached message today. I've gotten a very few like it so > far this year, but that's more than I used to :-) > > I don't know that SA can trap it; it got 0.0 hits and looks, except for a > manual analysis of the content, entirely benign. Maybe a rule for short > messages which

[SAtalk] SPAM: notes regarding netware 2.x,3.x.4.x (fwd)

2002-06-27 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- I received the attached message today. I've gotten a very few like it so far this year, but that's more than I used to :-) I don't know that SA can trap it; it got 0.0 hits and looks, except for a manual analysis of the content, entirely benign. Maybe a rule for short messages which

Re: [SAtalk] how does one accomplish prefix=dir

2002-06-27 Thread David T-G
Harry -- ...and then Harry Putnam said... % % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % ... % > simply % > % > perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local ... % > esoteric VENDORARCHLIB-type dirs -- but it's the same format and you just % > string 'em along the command line. % % Thanks David, I have a

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin idea?

2002-06-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > >>>Now I see no reason why in real life one should accept such case. I'd >>>say that in real life I only accept connection from machine with valid >>>DNS and reverse DNS. >> >>Sadly ISP's aren't as on-the-ball as you are. I've been trying for >>months to get my I

[SAtalk] Re: Free VoIP and wireless tactics: can you hear me now? (fwd)

2002-06-27 Thread Jim.George
Folks, can you explain to me why spamassassin wouldn't have picked this up? Jim -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Networking Decisions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: TechTarget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Free VoIP and wireless tacti

[SAtalk] CVS razor bug

2002-06-27 Thread Rose, Bobby
Duncan Theo Van Dinter posted a patch about a week ago to get rid of the razor debug going to stdout. Can you add it? If the debug is getting spit out, then it breaks Mailscanner. So everytime I download CVS, I have to add it in. my %opt = ( debug => $Mail::SpamAssass