On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Mike,
>
> | Do you know whether or not 20020630 gives the option of not running razor
> | from within amavisd? Or will it support the use of Razor2?
>
> No option to disable it, but commenting-out the call would
> be a quick-and-dirty solution.
>
>
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:01:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> While I have absolutely no intentions of dropping/deleting anyone's mail
> based on score, is there an easy way to modify Spam Assassin to log the
> IP address of a "hit" individually?
You could modify PerMessageStatus.pm and in
I run a mail server that accepts mail for a couple hundred domains, and we
utilize qmail heavily. We are using qmail-scanner to virus scan some of
the domains, as well as spam assassin. I'm in the process of integrating
SA via qmail-admin (right now it's being run out of .qmail-default).
I've b
Hi there, how would one go about testing RBLs? ie, I have a spamassassin install on
win32, configured just nice, only thing missing is razor/pyzor/dcc (sucks but eh...),
and have added the pop3proxy component, and fudged it to do RBL (it does only local
tests by default), and now I want to verif
Mike,
| Do you know whether or not 20020630 gives the option of not running razor
| from within amavisd? Or will it support the use of Razor2?
No option to disable it, but commenting-out the call would
be a quick-and-dirty solution.
The comming release will no longer call Razor,
and SA and vir
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002, Mark Martinec wrote:
> Eric,
>
> | ... is there an easy way to stop the amavisd-new from
> | sending the mail to SA? or are there some changes
> | i can make to the configs? from what i have read,
> | amavisd-new sends the mail to SA without the
> | spamc/spamd running.
>
I took the first message in this, removed the spammotel banner HTML and the
SpamAssassin markups and ran in through 2.43. Are you running SpamAssassin
with all the DNSBLs turned off? I get a lot of points hit for the DNSBLs
alone and spamassassin does work without DNSBLs, but not nearly as well.
Eric,
| ... is there an easy way to stop the amavisd-new from
| sending the mail to SA? or are there some changes
| i can make to the configs? from what i have read,
| amavisd-new sends the mail to SA without the
| spamc/spamd running.
Either use the next-to-last version amavisd-new-20020517
(
Question for you fine folks this evening..
I know fully understand SA and how it works, but I do have one question...
Most of the SPAM is being tagged but for those addresses which do not
exist are still being tagged and then utilmately sent to the adm
account.. When do I need to modify it so t
Thanks for all the help.
/usr/bin is in my path
I have tried /usr/bin/spamc as well, just for kicks -
same results - no tags.
'spamassassin -P' works! spamc doesn't
I am doing some searching on the newsgroups and I was
wondering if my problem has anything to do with spamd
not loading the correct
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Daniel Liston wrote:
> Could iptables, ipchains, ipfw, or rcf firewall be getting in the way?
> Does `netstat -an | grep LISTEN` show anything on port 783? Or worse,
> something else already on 783? Does telnet'ing to localhost 783 give
> a SPAMD/1.0 message when you quit?
What about your procmail ENVironment? Redhat 8.0 has
spamc in /usr/bin/spamc. Have you tried fully qualifying
the pipe to spamc?
Just trying to be helpful.
Dan Liston
Kaushik Mallick wrote:
I am trying to filter all my emails thru SpamAssassin.
I have 'spamd' start as a daemon service during
Could iptables, ipchains, ipfw, or rcf firewall be getting in the way?
Does `netstat -an | grep LISTEN` show anything on port 783? Or worse,
something else already on 783? Does telnet'ing to localhost 783 give
a SPAMD/1.0 message when you quit?
Sorry if these questions have been asked/answered.
hello,
sorry about the cross post.
this is what im using:
amavisd-new-20020517
postfix-1.1.11
spamassassin-2.42
rh 7.3
mysql-3.23.49-3
php-sa-mysql-0.5-KAM-0.2.3
im using postfix with amavisd-new. i compiled the
amavisd-new to use spamassassin. after a lot
of work i got the php-sa-mysql-0.5-K
Robert Carsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've read through the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf and did not
> find any option which will allow me to tell Spamassassin "hey, I don't
> want any X-Spam-Status" headers in my message.
>
> My boss doesn't want that line (and all of the test=
The first isn't in Razor, but the second one is:
X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=9.4 required=5.0
tests=BIG_FONT,CLICK_BELOW,CLICK_HERE_LINK,CTYPE_JUST_HTML,HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_2,RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET,RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,RCVD_IN_SBL,SPAM_PHRASE_13_21,UNSUB_PAGE,UNSUB_SCRIPT,WEB_BU
Larry Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry if this is a faq, but I'm not finding anything in the documentation
> about this.
>
> Is there a way to tell spamd to not run ANY dns rbl checks, but to do the
> regular scoring etc.
Check the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf manual page again. Look for
"d
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 01:44:13PM -0700, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
> What is recommended these days?
MIMEdefang is, IMHO beautiful. When used with mimedefang-multiplexor it can
handle lots of mail in a very efficient fashion.
And, as a bonus, you can virus scan through it.
Dan.
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:37:47AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> yep, spamass-milter seems to be a bit flaky, from reports.
> Not recommended anymore.
What is recommended these days?
When I originally installed SA, MimeDefang looked like it was
more than we wanted. There was another one I looked
On Friday, Oct 25, 2002, at 13:06 Canada/Mountain, Robert Carsey wrote:
I've read through the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf and did not
find any option which will allow me to tell Spamassassin "hey, I don't
want any X-Spam-Status" headers in my message.
My boss doesn't want that line (and
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hi,
I installed SA on Debian woody to filter my POP3 email. Therefore
fetchmail is used, forwarding fetched mail to localhost:smtp. Thus, exim
will be run through inetd. Exim will then find .procmailrc in my home
directory and run procmail. Procmail wi
Sorry if this is a faq, but I'm not finding anything in the documentation
about this.
Is there a way to tell spamd to not run ANY dns rbl checks, but to do the
regular scoring etc.
Or is this going to involve major surgery on the tests themselves?
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:04:04 -0700, you wrote:
>C'est un international mondial, Monsieur Pineau. ;-)
Not in *my* neck of the woods. Darn foreigners. :-)
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C'est un international mondial, Monsieur Pineau. ;-)
>What's the deal with http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html
being half
>english/half french?
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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:55:12PM -0500, Daniel Liston wrote:
> Maybe I missed part of this thread, but shouldn't the process list
> be checked for a daemon first? `ps -ef | grep spamd`? If it is
> not running, you need to start it.
> `spamd -d -c` seems safe enough.
Yes, but he said he did a ps
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:56:25PM -0500, Frank Pineau wrote:
> * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*+
>
> Otherwise it'll match ONLY 5 stars, not 5 or more (likewise add a + to the
> 20-star rule).
>
> Or am I misunderstanding?
yes. ;)
It's not a complete string match (it would have a '$' at the end), j
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:42:52 -0500, you wrote:
>Be very careful with a procmail recipe, and the answer is yes.
>
>#start by deleting the highest spamtag value
>:0
>* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
>/dev/null
>
>#flag everything else, but deliver it (this happens without an
Maybe I missed part of this thread, but shouldn't the process list
be checked for a daemon first? `ps -ef | grep spamd`? If it is
not running, you need to start it.
`spamd -d -c` seems safe enough.
If it is running, but spamc is not talking to it, try using
`spamassassin -P` instead of spamc just
These pages are autogenerated from the rules files, and some rules have
descriptions available in multiple languages, some do not. I'm guessing
that the french language is the last on included and winds up over-writing
the english descriptions when the page is auto-generated.
Oops :)
At 02:20
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 03:57:53AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I want to block all messages with VIAGRA, FREE, SEX, PORN, etc in the subject of a
>message. I would set the score to a very high value.
>
> How would I define the syntax in the local.cf file? Would the score also be in the
>lo
Be very careful with a procmail recipe, and the answer is yes.
#start by deleting the highest spamtag value
:0
* ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
/dev/null
#flag everything else, but deliver it (this happens without any rules)
#to deliver 5.0-19.9 to a special spam folder
S
What's the deal with http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html being half
english/half french?
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I've read through the man page for Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf and did not
find any option which will allow me to tell Spamassassin "hey, I don't
want any X-Spam-Status" headers in my message.
My boss doesn't want that line (and all of the test= lines which come
after it) to appear in our e-mails.
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:48:18AM -0400, Andrew wrote:
> Scott Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a similar number of accounts on my mail server. I have a P4 1.5GHz
> > 1G RAM Dell workstation running spamd. The box coasts most of the day and
> > works hard during a spam storm.
> >
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:00:07AM -0700, Kaushik Mallick wrote:
> The log shows that spamc is being called but none of
> the checks for spamassassin tests are taking place. In
> other words, spamc is just not checking anything.
Well, syslog would only show messages from spamd. Typically somethin
> Could someone please explain to me how the scoring works for the spam
> phrases rule? For example, why does the phrase "orders more" have a score
> of 330, while the phrase "from our" has a score of 8294? What do those
> scores signify, and how does one know what score to set for a new phrase?
Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated!
>>Do the logs say anything?
The log shows that spamc is being called but none of
the checks for spamassassin tests are taking place. In
other words, spamc is just not checking anything.
>>Can you run spamd with a -D option and see
what comes out from the
Saw this in an autoreply I just got:
> PS: if you are a spammer, forward this to 10 other spammers, then kill
> yourself.
Hehehe. ;-)
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Advanced SPAM filtering software: ht
Or better:
# A score of 20 or more will wind up in the bit bucket:
:0
* ^X-Spam-level:.*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
The advantage is that scores greater than 99 will also get dumped. (Hey,
I've seen 'em with scores that high!)
Bob
Steve Thomas wrote:
It's done through your MD
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Gustave Eiffel wrote:
> Tried that. Load still went up to over 10.0
>
> Any other ideas on reducing the load put on by spamassassin?
Question.. Do you have razor-checks turned on (and razor agents
installed..)? If so, what version?
I see random razor1 related slowdowns
This will come up alot on RedHat 8.0 users and high volume users.
After much trouble shooting and trial.
All users running perl 5.8 and spamassassin will find this:
I am running RedHat 8.0 with spamassassin ( was 2.32 that comes with RedHat 8.0
) 2.43 and the default Perl 5.8.
I receive
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 07:16:10PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Would I add the rule to the local.cf file or spamassassin.cf file and put the score
>as well in the local.cf file?
I've seen recently where there seems to be some confusion on how SA
deals with config files:
- Read all
Posté par Damian Mendoza le 25/10.
What if I wanted to block specific subject keywords that are not already defined as a
spamassassin rule?
>> you can specify your own rule ... that is what rox in SA. its user configurable!
Would I add the rule to the local.cf file or spamassassin.cf file and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
My goal today is to get this filtering working on my 4 mail servers.
Just a summary of my situation. I dont know if anyone is using this is a heavy
production environment ( I assume so ) but I am running 4 Quad Xeon servers (1
Gig RAM) and Spamassassin (spam
Hi,
Could someone please explain to me how the scoring works for the spam
phrases rule? For example, why does the phrase "orders more" have a score
of 330, while the phrase "from our" has a score of 8294? What do those
scores signify, and how does one know what score to set for a new phrase?
Tha
On 3341 September 1993, Gustave Eiffel wrote:
> What directive can I put in local.cf to stop SA from scanning messages over a
> certain size? Does anyone use this? I am trying to reduce system load.
Run spamc with the option -s:
-s size: specify max message size, any bigger and it will be
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:56:42AM -0600, Gustave Eiffel wrote:
> What directive can I put in local.cf to stop SA from scanning messages over a
> certain size? Does anyone use this? I am trying to reduce system load.
There is none for a config file. Do your logic outside of SA and don't
call sp
What directive can I put in local.cf to stop SA from scanning messages over a
certain size? Does anyone use this? I am trying to reduce system load.
Thanks
Mark
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> I have a similar number of accounts on my mail server. I have a P4 1.5GHz
> 1G RAM Dell workstation running spamd. The box coasts most of the day and
> works hard during a spam storm.
>
> We process an average of just over 50,000 messages per day. We call
> spamc from the global procmailr
It's done through your MDA, most likely procmail.
In your ~/.procmailrc, put this recipe after calling SA:
:0
* x-spam-status: yes, hits=[2-9][0-9]
/dev/null
HTH,
Steve
| -Original Message-
| From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| [mailto:spamassassin-talk-admin@;lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:02:54AM -0700, Kaushik Mallick wrote:
> But none of the spams are getting tagged and they all
> land up in my Inbox. When I replace 'spamc' with
> 'spamassassin -P', spams are getting tagged right and
> they show up in 'spam' mailbox as directed to.
Do the logs say anyth
Hello All,
I wanted to install SpamAssassin for myself only, as I don't have root
privilages. Anyways,I followed the instructions of the part where it
says if I want to install it as non-root.
Doing $perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~/sallawa/ SYSCONFDIR=~/sallawa/etc/
yeilds:
Warning: prerequisite HTML::
I am trying to filter all my emails thru SpamAssassin.
I have 'spamd' start as a daemon service during boot.
I have issued 'ps -auxw | grep spamd' and spamd seems
to be running fine after boot. I am calling SA in my
~/.procmailrc by
:0fw
| spamc
But none of the spams are getting tagged and they a
Brad,
I block about 80% of the spam from five k-12 school districts - 35% of their mail is
SPAM - approx 1350 messages per day for each district is SPAM.
I'm using the default score of "5" with no local.cf file at this time.
Regards,
Damian
-Original Message-
From: Brad Reichert [mail
I'm pretty sure I've seen it before, but cannot for the life of me find it
now... can spamassassin tag an email as spam if it's over a certain
threshold, but under another, and if its over that threshold, just nuke it
as obvious spam?
Like if it's 0-4.9 it's ok.
5-19.9 it's Spam, but delivered
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> *plonk*
>
> Can you say glutens for punishment?
What?
oh, right, somebody spammed SpamAssassin-talk.
I didn't notice -- I haven't checked my "Spam" folder yet ;)
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I've balanced mine by setting required_hits to 4, and using
whitelist_from to make sure I get mail from others that might be
generating a false positive.
Paul
Brad Reichert wrote:
Would anyone with a well defined local.cf file be willing to share with me? I'm just getting started with Spam Ass
I use SpamAssassin in a site wide setup using A
standard Postfix filter setup.
I accept mail for a number of mail servers
as the lowest MX I scan the mail to see if
it is spam. Then use a transport rule to
forward them on to the destination mail
servers.
All well and good. I was asked if I could
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 22:48, Michael Moncur wrote:
> > I don't know how they manage it but MS seems determined to do the
> > strangest things. A customer using MS Outlook 2002 sends himself a
> > message with no subject and only the words "Hi there" and it manages a
> > score of 5.084:
>
> As som
*plonk*
Can you say glutens for punishment?
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Would anyone with a well defined local.cf file be willing to share with me? I'm just
getting started with Spam Assassin and only blocking about 6% of my messages. I'm
sure the percentage that is spam is higher. I tried lowering the score required but
then started blocking mail that wasn't spam
Chris Fortune said:
> Version 2.41 running on Win2000, worked perfectly until I installed =
> Net::DNS, now it hangs indefinately. Renaming Net::DNS fixes the =
> problem. I have a home-made RBL checker working well, using the perl =
> Mail::RBL module. So what's breaking? Are the RBL servers
SpamTalk said the following on 24/10/02 19:44:
Would the delivery time of day be a useful value for nudging the score for
spam. Is there an easy way to test this in the GA?
It's been tested. Basically spam arrives fairly consistently throughout
the day, whereas your regular email tends to be du
Justin Mason said the following on 24/10/02 21:12:
(cc'ed to ILUG)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On RedHat 8.0, perl 5.8, SA 2.43 I get this error message often in my logs:
Oct 24 13:37:09 blacktip spamd[24511]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected
continuation byte 0xa0, with no preceding start b
I have been messing around with SA fro a few weeks now on a Postfix
system. I was calling SA from filter.sh. I have been trying to call
spamc/spamd instead of spamassassin directly, but I either get the
filter missing spam assassin completley or I get an errror in the mail
log saying incorrect
Spamassassin where it looks for whitelist ? except for home directories.
Where it stores whitelist data if spamassin is used in /etc/procmailrc?
Thanks
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