Re: [SAtalk] Whitelisting SpamCop messages?

2002-10-07 Thread rODbegbie
Per Goetterup wrote: > I've tried whitelisting the sender address '###@reports.spamcop.net' but > it still tags all the reports with a pretty hefty hit-score. you should whitelist_to ###@reports.spamcop.net, not whitelist_from. rOD. -- "It's a feeling that I can't get through, I'll just bing

[SAtalk] spamd dying unexpectedly

2002-10-07 Thread Chadwick Sorrell
Can anyone tell me why spamd just exits without any msg? My spamd dies..randomly..so I decided to fire up a non-daemonized instance and watch it with debug info coming across, hoping to catch the problem. -snip- debug: leaving helper-app run mode debug: DCC: Listed! BODY: 4 of 99 FUZ1: 4 o

[SAtalk] Get SpamAssassin for your Woody!

2002-10-07 Thread Duncan Findlay
Spamassassin 2.42 packages for Debian GNU/Linux "woody" are now available! Add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://people.debian.org/~duncf/debian/ woody main Now, apt-get update, and apt-get upgrade. You will have the latest version of spamassassin for woody. Ideally I will

RE: [SAtalk] Probably trivial & unimportant but driving me crazy

2002-10-07 Thread Lars Hansson
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:57, McClung, Darren W. wrote: > I've noticed this too. The version you are seeing first is being reported > by qmail-scanner, the version you are seeing below is what SA is actually > reporting. Apparently when you build the qmail-scanner-queue.pl file, it > embeds the c

Re: [SAtalk] Global destruction problem

2002-10-07 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Theo Van Dinter outgrape: > [1 ] > On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Sean Rima wrote: >> Oct 7 18:31:13 bsod spamd[8690]: Attempt to free non-existent >> shared string during global destruction. >> >> Wondering what thi

RE: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Michael Moncur
Justin Mason Wrote: > That's exactly what is intended; the idea is that legit senders who > habitually score just > 5, will eventually get out of "AWL hell" after > 6-10 messages. Whoa. This sounds very wrong to me. What's the difference between a legit sender who always scores 6.0 and a spammer

Re: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Klaus Heinz
Justin Mason wrote: > That's exactly what is intended; the idea is that legit senders who > habitually score just > 5, will eventually get out of "AWL hell" after > 6-10 messages. And how does SA distinguish 'legit senders who habitually score just > 5' from 'spammers who habitually score just >

RE: [SAtalk] Pyzor not loading

2002-10-07 Thread Smart, Dan
Got the dist from python.org http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.2.1/rpms/rh7.2/python2-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm Surprised its not in there. Will get the TAR and load that way. <> |-Original Message- |From: Nix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] |Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 2:52 PM |To: Smart, Dan |

RE: [SAtalk] Spamc/spamd setup with Postfix

2002-10-07 Thread Mike Schrauder
I have it working here, but I am not a linux person and can not speak to if this is good/bad config. I welcome any sugestions that might help nail down some issues. Can anyone tell me why I get this in the mail.log file? spamd[2724]: Still running as root: user not specified, not found, or set

Re: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Rob Mangiafico
Hmmm: So the AWL has completely changed from stopping repeat spammers from getting through and allowing a person who normally sends good email who sends you that 1 spam email to still get through TO a system where a spammer who sends consistent spam emails will eventually *break through* and

Re: [SAtalk] Pyzor not loading

2002-10-07 Thread Nix
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Dan Smart said: > ImportError: No module named distutils.core > > I've loaded a current copy of python 2 (Python 1 is still loaded) > > [root@lewis pyzor-0.4.0]# rpm -q python2 > python2-2.2.1-1 > [root@lewis pyzor-0.4.0]# rpm -q python2-tools > python2-tools-2.2.1-1 > [root@

[SAtalk] SA 1.135 - double messages / quarantine warning

2002-10-07 Thread Anne M. Hammond
Sample email header: X-Security: MIME headers sanitized on lcd See http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/sanitizer-intro.html for details. $Revision: 1.135 $Date: 2002-05-26 21:19:33-07 X-Security: MIME headers sanitized on lcd See http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/sanitizer-intro.html

Re: [SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Justin Mason
Kenneth Nerhood said: > I too am seeing very weird things with 2.42 and AWL. I installed a > fresh system, and then ran a bunch of test spam through it (all from the > same user). All messages should have scored over 15. The AWL kept > adjusting them down so that after about 10 message I had

Re: [SAtalk] auto-whitelist files

2002-10-07 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:48:35AM -0700, Jorg B. wrote: > After doing a `perl -MCPAN -e shell` install I have noticed that 2 of my > servers use auto-whitelist.dir & auto-white.pag files and the other 2 > servers use just one file called auto-whitelist. > > Why is that ? > > How can I make su

[SAtalk] Re: AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Kenneth Nerhood
I too am seeing very weird things with 2.42 and AWL. I installed a fresh system, and then ran a bunch of test spam through it (all from the same user). All messages should have scored over 15. The AWL kept adjusting them down so that after about 10 message I had a negative score. I'm using sp

[SAtalk] auto-whitelist files

2002-10-07 Thread Jorg B.
Hello, I have 4 Linux mail servers here, all running Perl v5.8.0 and SpamAssassin 2.41. After doing a `perl -MCPAN -e shell` install I have noticed that 2 of my servers use auto-whitelist.dir & auto-white.pag files and the other 2 servers use just one file called auto-whitelist. Why is that ?

Re: [SAtalk] Global destruction problem

2002-10-07 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Sean Rima wrote: > Oct 7 18:31:13 bsod spamd[8690]: Attempt to free non-existent shared > string during global destruction. > > Wondering what this is. Using the current release. H... It looks like spamd is attempting to exit, and perl spits out a

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MS" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> That's a bug in your CPAN.pm. If you upgrade CPAN.pm first that should MS> go away. MS> Or use CPANPLUS, which is better/nicer/faster. I just tried out CPANPLUS. It failed to notice some out-of-date modules, but otherwise seems to do

[SAtalk] Pyzor not loading

2002-10-07 Thread Smart, Dan
I'm trying to load Pyzor. I get an error: [root@lewis pyzor-0.4.0]# python setup.py build Traceback (innermost last): File "setup.py", line 2, in ? import distutils.core ImportError: No module named distutils.core I've loaded a current copy of python 2 (Python 1 is still loaded) [root@le

Re: [SAtalk] White/Black lists not working

2002-10-07 Thread Don Stafford
This was done because of ENORMOUS amounts of SPAM coming from specific mail servers. And it was only done after contacting the specific domains multiple times without any resolve to the problem. Since SA is working (to some degree) I will unblock your particular domain. - Original Message -

[SAtalk] Global destruction problem

2002-10-07 Thread Sean Rima
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Seeing the following in my log: Oct 7 18:31:13 bsod spamd[8690]: Attempt to free non-existent shared string during global destruction. Wondering what this is. Using the current release. Sean - -- Sean Rima

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Justin Mason
Chris Santerre said: > I've already upgrades from SA 2.31 to 2.40. I'm now going to 2.42 and > figured I'd ask a simple question. What is the easiest method of upgrading? > CPAN or straight .tar? I can't remember if CPAN will keep my config files > intact. I saw no upgrade info on the FAQ. Is th

Re: [SAtalk] White/Black lists not working

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Kettler
Perhaps I shouldn't be so ready to assist Don Stafford in the future, since his mailserver is so politely configured to block entire ISPs at the MTA level. At 12:08 PM 10/7/2002 -0400, you wrote: >The original message was received at Mon, 7 Oct 2002 12:05:02 -0400 >from tcp-4-021.evi-inc.com [

[SAtalk] AWL bug in 2.42?

2002-10-07 Thread Rob.Remus
Since upgrading from 2.40 to 2.42 we have been seeing some strange stuff with the AWL. We're getting obvious spam matching numerous rules, including the AWL, which results in negative scores, some < -90. X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-57.2, required 5, AWL, C

[SAtalk] Whitelisting SpamCop messages?

2002-10-07 Thread Per Goetterup
Hi everybody! I'm using SpamAssassin and I'm also handling our abuse-mails, which is a somewhat bad combination because all complaint messages from SpamCop also gets tagged as spam, which in a way is correct but very unfortunate because then I won't see them - and that's pretty bad. I've tried w

Re: [SAtalk] White/Black lists not working

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Kettler
Well, you've not said what you've tried so far, but the following should be the proper procedure. Note: It is strongly advised that you not edit the files in /usr/share/spamassassin unless you absolutely have to (ie: if unwhitelist is broken) Edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf if you want

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > >>Probably easiest to go via the CPAN shell, as that way your dependencies >>get met automatically. Also make sure you're not using SpamAssassin for >>email delivery, as that will break things with 2.4x. > > > I'm having a m

RE: [SAtalk] Probably trivial & unimportant but driving me crazy

2002-10-07 Thread McClung, Darren W.
I've noticed this too. The version you are seeing first is being reported by qmail-scanner, the version you are seeing below is what SA is actually reporting. Apparently when you build the qmail-scanner-queue.pl file, it embeds the current SA version into the code. When you upgrade, this doesn'

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BS" == Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: >> Probably easiest to go via the CPAN shell, as that way your dependencies >> get met automatically. Also make sure you're not using SpamAssassin for >> email delivery, as that will break thing

Re: [SAtalk] Probably trivial & unimportant but driving me crazy

2002-10-07 Thread Yevgeniy Miretskiy
Modify /var/spool/qmail-scanner/qmail-scanner-queue-version.txt On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:30:41AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's my relevant system info > freebsd-4.7 RC#0/qmail 1.03+ldap patch /ezmlm0.53+idx patch > qmail-scanner modification 1.14/spamassassin 2.42 (upgraded from 2.4

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Vivek Khera
> "CS" == Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CS> I'll prbly continue with the .tar as I feel more in control. Just wondering CS> what others do. There's zero difference from the .tar and the CPAN install. All CPAN does is automate the fetch, extract, make, make test, make install o

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Probably easiest to go via the CPAN shell, as that way your dependencies > get met automatically. Also make sure you're not using SpamAssassin for > email delivery, as that will break things with 2.4x. I'm having a minor struggle with that, at this ve

[SAtalk] Probably trivial & unimportant but driving me crazy

2002-10-07 Thread joe-dated-1034609318 . a6d470
Here's my relevant system info freebsd-4.7 RC#0/qmail 1.03+ldap patch /ezmlm0.53+idx patch qmail-scanner modification 1.14/spamassassin 2.42 (upgraded from 2.41) tmda 0.62 After upgrading to 2.42 I'm seeing the following headers in the mail message. You'll notice it reports v2.41 when reportin

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
Chris Santerre wrote: > I've already upgrades from SA 2.31 to 2.40. I'm now going to 2.42 and > figured I'd ask a simple question. What is the easiest method of upgrading? > CPAN or straight .tar? I can't remember if CPAN will keep my config files > intact. I saw no upgrade info on the FAQ. Is thi

Re: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Robin Lynn Frank
On Monday 07 October 2002 08:04, Chris Santerre wrote: > I've already upgrades from SA 2.31 to 2.40. I'm now going to 2.42 and > figured I'd ask a simple question. What is the easiest method of upgrading? > CPAN or straight .tar? I can't remember if CPAN will keep my config files > intact. I saw n

RE: [SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Terry Poperszky
I just upgraded (2.40 - 2.42)using the .tar and it was dead simple. Three commands, then restarted spamd. Life is happy and no errors showing in my log file. Terry Poperszky -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Santerre Sent: Monday,

[SAtalk] Spamc/spamd setup with Postfix

2002-10-07 Thread Nicolai Strøm Gylling
Hi I want to setup a Postfix-server with Spamassassin, but so far I havn't had much luck, by reading the docs, this mailinglist(including archives) and searching the net. Could anyone provide a working example configuration of postfix and spamassassin (using spamc/spamd), or link to a howto on

[SAtalk] Best upgrade practice or method?

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Santerre
I've already upgrades from SA 2.31 to 2.40. I'm now going to 2.42 and figured I'd ask a simple question. What is the easiest method of upgrading? CPAN or straight .tar? I can't remember if CPAN will keep my config files intact. I saw no upgrade info on the FAQ. Is this worth adding to it? I'll pr

Re: [SAtalk] razor2 auth?

2002-10-07 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JM" == Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JM> Randy Bush said: >> freebsd -stable >> spamassassin 2.41 >> spamasassin -r >> results in >> razor2 report failed: No such file or directory Razor2 reporting requires aut >> hentication at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAss

[SAtalk] White/Black lists not working

2002-10-07 Thread Don Stafford
SpamAssassin is working great! BUT - - - - - I cannot get my whitelist or blacklist file to work. The almost-certainly-spam and probably-spam files (being created in /var/spool/mqueue) does have some valid emails The local.cf has the path to the lists, but SA is ignoring them. Could someo

[SAtalk] emacs rmail How to sort subject lines and headers.

2002-10-07 Thread Don Saklad
In emacs rmail what varieties of different techniques are there for sorting your favorite correspondents from the mix?... leaving the hundreds of spam commercials. A filter for the campus computer system puts subject lines and headers on many of the hundreds of spam commercials with http://spamass

[SAtalk] which version?

2002-10-07 Thread spamassasin
I use spamassassin found on CVS. It works well for me. The new scores in 2.42 are the same with CVS or it's better to use 2.42 instead of 2.50 ? Thanks -- http://www.fastmail.gr --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to ge