RE: [SAtalk] DCC Or Razor2?

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Moncur
> The processing time is a little higher than I like it though.. I would > like it to be < 1 second for most messages. So, I want to drop one of > those tests. Which one is least beneficial? I find Razor2 to be the most beneficial when it works. Sometimes the servers don't work for a day or two.

Re: [SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Adrian Ho
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 01:10:59PM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote: > Does all the mail that originates inside your network have to be relayed > through your mail servers? If so, consider setting up a separate > mail relay that doesn't run SpamAssassin and is only accessible from > within your network, the

Re: [SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Adrian Ho
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:16:32PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > I want to protect mail that originates inside our network. Such > mail carries return addresses from many different domains. In > addition, there is no requirement that mail with a panix.com return > address must originate inside ou

Re: [SAtalk] SQL Database of Scores

2002-11-06 Thread Dallas Engelken
Andrew Brooker wrote: I am running a sitewide config of SpamAssassin with Sendmail + MIMEDefang. I was wondering if it's possible to use a SQL database with this configuration? I was hoping to be able to pass the e-mail address to the SQL database, if the user's e-mail address is not in the d

[SAtalk] Prob with firsthop tests

2002-11-06 Thread Simon Lyall
I'm having a little problem getting the firsthop tests to work with the RBL+, I have: header IHUG_RCVD_IN_RBL_PLUS rbleval:check_rbl('ihugrblplus', 'rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org.') header IHUG_X_DULrbleval:check_rbl_results_for('ihugrblplus', '127.1.0.2') header IHUG_X_DUL_FH rbleval:check_rbl_

[SAtalk] ****Business Proposal****

2002-11-06 Thread jmusa4
NATIONAL ELECTRIC POWER AUTHORITY NIGERIAN WATER WAYS APAPA, LAGOS.NIGERIA CELL PHONE:234-804-213-8559 REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEAR FRIEND, YOUR COMPANY'S NAME AND ADDRESS WAS GOTTEN FROM A BUSINESS DIRECTORY IN MY SEARCH FOR A WELL KNOWN BUSINESSMAN WHO HAS NO QUESTIONABLE CHARACTER AND

Re: [SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Burger
You can whitelist anything from *@panix.com, etc. I wouldn't recommend doing so, though. This would allow spammers to fake the @panix.com in their From: lines, allowing the spam to get in more easily. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Ben Rosengart wrote: > Hello spam assassins, > Panix is about to deplo

Re: [SAtalk] SQL Database of Scores

2002-11-06 Thread Andrew Brooker
> > > > I am running a sitewide config of SpamAssassin with Sendmail + MIMEDefang. > > I was wondering if it's possible to use a SQL database with this > > configuration? > > I was hoping to be able to pass the e-mail address to the SQL database, > > if the user's e-mail address is not in the datab

Re: [SAtalk] SQL Database of Scores

2002-11-06 Thread Dallas Engelken
Andrew Brooker wrote: Hiya All, I am running a sitewide config of SpamAssassin with Sendmail + MIMEDefang. I was wondering if it's possible to use a SQL database with this configuration? I was hoping to be able to pass the e-mail address to the SQL database, if the user's e-mail address is not in

Re: [SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 11:05:56PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Why not just whitelist *@panix.com? That should handle exactly what you > want. I want to protect mail that originates inside our network. Such mail carries return addresses from many different domains. In addition, there is

Re: [SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:47:59PM -0500, Ben Rosengart wrote: > Hello spam assassins, > Panix is about to deploy spamassassin on a fairly wide scale. [snip] Why not just whitelist *@panix.com? That should handle exactly what you want. -- Ross Vandegrift [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Pope has a Water

[SAtalk] protecting email from SpamAssassin

2002-11-06 Thread Ben Rosengart
Hello spam assassins, Panix is about to deploy spamassassin on a fairly wide scale. We'd like to find a way to protect mail originated inside Panix from being flagged by SA, without the sender having to do anything special. My approach to this so far has focused on the Received header: header O

Re: [SAtalk] Error in procmail

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Burger
My experience, really, has been the procmail already being configured as the default LDA, and the .forward being in place. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Dave Young wrote: > this is an MTA error. > > try creating a symlink /usr/adm/sm.bin which points to /etc/smrsh > > I've noticed that some incarnations

[SAtalk] SQL Database of Scores

2002-11-06 Thread Andrew Brooker
Hiya All, I am running a sitewide config of SpamAssassin with Sendmail + MIMEDefang. I was wondering if it's possible to use a SQL database with this configuration? I was hoping to be able to pass the e-mail address to the SQL database, if the user's e-mail address is not in the database then a gl

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and SA

2002-11-06 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin J. Steil spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > I have been looking for a good install faq for using sendmail and SA > together on a SMTP Gateway server...anyone know of one..? http://www.linux-sxs.org/sendmail_antispam.html - -- Dou

Re: [SAtalk] CPU load reduction efforts. local.cf - what can I addto it?

2002-11-06 Thread Simon Lyall
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have this in my local.cf > I am still getting huge CPU spiked from spamd > I am trying to disable external lookups that may be taking CPU > This does not seem to have much effect. > I also have a dedicated and very fast DNS server for these 4 mail se

[SAtalk] SA I18N: German body rules

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I don't see any German language rules in SA's default configuration and most of my German spam (about 1 message a day) does not get tagged by SA. Is someone working a on German ruleset already, collecting German spam or anything related? Jan -

Re: [SAtalk] Error in procmail

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Young
this is an MTA error. try creating a symlink /usr/adm/sm.bin which points to /etc/smrsh I've noticed that some incarnations of smrsh actually look in /usr/adm/sm.bin instead of /etc/smrsh. hth, Dave On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:36 pm, Mike Burger wrote: > First, and foremost, try rena

Re: [SAtalk] X-spam-status

2002-11-06 Thread Peter M. Nielsen
Well, after further investigations it looks like it actually is spamassassin which is giving the problems. It checks the message in 0.00112 seconds with razor! The problem is when the message has big attachments! - Peter > On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:40:34 +0100 > "Peter M. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [SAtalk] Odd intermittent failure, (RH8, SA 2.42, Perl 5.8) - Memory Leak?

2002-11-06 Thread James Bly
Nope. The only parameters I'm passing are -u and a username, and -p and an alternate port. Coincindentally I've downgraded the system to perl 5.6.1 and it's been running without issue for 24 hours. I'll monitor it for a few more days and determine that the "fix" for the moment until I find more i

Re: [SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Burger
Set up a procmail recipe that forwards anything "X-Spam-Status: Yes" to the single account...you can do that in the domain's users' accounts, or you can do it in the global procmail.rc with a * ^TO.*@domain.com check. On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, James Sizemore wrote: > I use Spamassassin site wide (us

Re: [SAtalk] Error in procmail

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Burger
First, and foremost, try renaming your .forward to soemthing else, and then try sending mail to that account, again. In *most* default installs, procmail is already set up as the local delivery agent. Putting a call in .forward to procmail will then confuse the issue. On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, [Win

RE: [SAtalk] DCC Or Razor2?

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Fries
Thanks Matt. Yeah I am noticing a much higher processing time with Razor2 than with DCC. I think I will just remove the Razor test. The SA score for the DCC test is low enough to keep legit messages from exceeding my threshold (6) for the most part, so I think I can keep that one. :) Thanks for

Re: [SAtalk] DCC Or Razor2?

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Kettler
For what it's worth, here's a summary of what I've gleaned from my experience and the various lists: DCC isn't really concerned with a message being spam or not, they only are concerned with it being "bulk". So they intend to match non-spam newsletters, etc. Razor is intending to only list mes

RE: [SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread Chris Santerre
This is done easily in procmail, by checking for the spam status. Check the procmail example that came with SA. But this may NOT be a good idea. Suppose some worker's wife sends him an email like, "When you get home I'm going to RAPE you like the little love monkey you are!" and ect SHould t

RE: [SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread Tony Hoyle
> -Original Message- > From: James Sizemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 06 November 2002 05:50 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] There has to be a way. > > > I use Spamassassin site wide (using Postfix and transports) > This works great, I had a request from one of the

RE: [SAtalk] Sendmail and SA

2002-11-06 Thread Quentin Krengel
If you're setting up a check and forward box using sendmail on Linux, check out the README in spamass-milter at www.milter.org Quentin Krengel \ \ ! / / ( @@ ) ___o000--000o ___][__][___][___ ___][__][__][___][

RE: [SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread Quentin Krengel
I use sendmail spamass-milter from www.milter.org and spamassassin to tag spam on mail that my server forwards. My server is the highest priority server for my client's domain (their server is the lowest prority so that if mine goes down they still get mail) My server is set to forward all mai

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rule STILL being ignored

2002-11-06 Thread David Brossard
This is indeed the problem. Looks like it will take more work to set up the rules (ie one header and score for every server I want blacklisted). I will continue to play with this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Matt Kettler Sent

Re: [SAtalk] 60_whitelist.cf

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, John Schutz wrote: > Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 11:31:46 -0600 > From: John Schutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jan Korger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: SpamAssassin ML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] 60_whitelist.cf > > I'll abst

[SAtalk] DCC Or Razor2?

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Fries
Right now I am running both DCC and Razor2... The processing time is a little higher than I like it though.. I would like it to be < 1 second for most messages. So, I want to drop one of those tests. Which one is least beneficial? Thanks! -Paul -

[SAtalk] -S option

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Fries
Greetings, I am running Spamd/DCC/Razor2 with qmail/qmail-scanner/sophos on a fairly high volume mail server. I noticed that after adding the Razor2 test, my messages take about 1.2 seconds on average to be processed. So I thought that if I used the old -S option to spamd, it would stop processin

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rule STILL being ignored

2002-11-06 Thread Matt Kettler
Wait, are you trying to blacklist a subject or a received? The last time you posted this rule it was a received header rule. Your rule for MY_BLACKLISTED_RCVD is changing quite drastically. Do you have multiple rules with this name? Each of your own custom rules need to have their own distinct

RE: [SAtalk] Custom Rule STILL being ignored

2002-11-06 Thread David Brossard
Running the debug output shows no surprises. It is using my rules directory and razor just fine. I can also test this because directly about one of my custom rules another one is checked and found when tested. header FFL_FOR_FREDsubject=~/FFL*/ score FFL_FOR_FRED-20 works but header

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie alert. What is What is X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding

2002-11-06 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:18:30PM -0500, Mike Schrauder wrote: > Where can I find docs on what this is, how it is generated, etc > X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 It's a defanged header. It used to be the same without the X-Spam-Prev bit on it. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: I kn

Re: [SAtalk] 60_whitelist.cf

2002-11-06 Thread John Schutz
I'll abstain on the debate as to whether places like amazon should be whitelisted (I can see both sides), but: If some people want to receive them, they can always whitelist them in their personal configuration files but as long as this in the /usr/share/spamassassin config files I cannot undo th

[SAtalk] 60_whitelist.cf

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Korger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's the point of this configuration file? Why should some sites generally be allowed to send spamy looking messages. Take amazon for example. They send a lot of commercial emails, people did never ask for. They tell you you could opt out (as just ab

[SAtalk] Newbie alert. What is What is X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding

2002-11-06 Thread Mike Schrauder
Where can I find docs on what this is, how it is generated, etc X-Spam-Prev-Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 TIA Mike S SBI --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://a

Re: [SAtalk] Spamming through returned mail

2002-11-06 Thread John Schutz
I went ahead and upgraded to 2.43 yesterday afternoon, deleted the whitelist, and let it start rebuilding. As for the Joe-Jobs...has anyone had luck actually getting these caught by SA, or coming up with local rules for these? The poor guy here is getting pounded with them. It actually caught

[SAtalk] There has to be a way.

2002-11-06 Thread James Sizemore
I use Spamassassin site wide (using Postfix and transports) This works great, I had a request from one of the domains that go through my mail server to have all tagged mail go to a single account. I have look around and could not find a way to make postfix do this. So using anything anywhere.

[SAtalk] Sendmail and SA

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin J. Steil
I have been looking for a good install faq for using sendmail and SA together on a SMTP Gateway server...anyone know of one..? Thank you, Kevin -- This e-mail transmission contains information intended only for the use of the recipient(s) n

[SAtalk] Error in procmail

2002-11-06 Thread Fernando Barajas Díaz_Lozano
I'm trying to install spamassassin for "personal use" as stated in your INSTALL page. When I try to send mail to the "protected" account, I get the following: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/bin/procmail -f- || exit 75 #user" (reason: 55

Re: [SAtalk] X-spam-status

2002-11-06 Thread Lars Hansson
On Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:40:34 +0100 "Peter M. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After upgrading to qmail-scanner 1.15 I suddenly get some x-spam-status > Yes even though spamassassin is not even run. Further it is not spam. I > just snip' ing one of the mailheaders. I'm running spamassasin 2

Re: [SAtalk] man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf

2002-11-06 Thread Jan Schreckenbach
Hi, I added these lines to my spec file: mkdir $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man5 ln -sf %{_mandir}/man3/Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf.* \ RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_mandir}/man5/spamassassin.5 > man -k spam Mail::SpamAssassin (3pm) - Mail::Audit spam detector plugin spamassassin (5) - SpamAssassin configura