Re: [SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Bell
Kinda hard to say. Most of it IS spammy and valid MIME as far as I could tell. I did catch a few clearly-non-spam (evite) things in the corpus. The lack of Received lines does mess up quite a few DNS related tests (RBL, MX records) but I wouldn't think that alone made a 23% difference (83% on Jus

Re: [SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-11-29 Thread Matthew Davis
* Michael Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I will note that they are poorly organized, with the headers hand > edited, and useful things like the RECEIVED headers removed. Hence > all DNS stuff wasn't worth running. Plus I'm dubious about what > they've done to the formattting,etc. If what y

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and Procmail

2002-11-29 Thread Andrew
That's ok, I have compiled procmail on another machine and it works perfectly. But sendmail will only run procmail if the message is destined for a local mailbox. I have a local mailbox that is aliased to my primary mailbox in another domain. Or if I send a message to another domain, sendmail does

[SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Bell
has 5 test corpuses. (f,etp.spamarchive.org/archives) I will note that they are poorly organized, with the headers hand edited, and useful things like the RECEIVED headers removed. Hence all DNS stuff wasn't worth running. Plus I'm dubious about what they've done to the formattting,etc. That b

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and Procmail

2002-11-29 Thread Andrew
> So, it's a permission problem? Does it work as root? Nup, it only worked when I moved the procmailrc to the /tmp dir.. > And what do you see when you > ls -ld / /etc /etc/procmailrc drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 1024 Nov 20 17:21 / drwxr-xr-x 16 root wheel 2048 Nov 29 15:23 /etc -rwxrwxrwx

Re: [SAtalk] [PATCH] whitelists and auto-whitelists

2002-11-29 Thread Rudy Rucker
Justin Mason wrote: Rudy Rucker said: I saw something about auto_learn... (It will be used to auto-train the Bayesian learner from mails that are "definitely spam" or "definitely nonspam", but isn't fully implemented yet.) As long as this feature is 'in the works' , let me put in my

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and Procmail

2002-11-29 Thread Andrew
> Just for kicks, perhaps you can force /etc/procmailrc for a test: > cat sample-spam.txt | procmail /etc/procmailrc That's it.. Procmail can't read /etc/procmailrc, or at least /etc is not readable by the user. I got the following error with 'cat sample-spam.txt | procmail /etc/procmailrc' -- pro

[SAtalk] Feature request (maybe)

2002-11-29 Thread Rob MacGregor
I'd really like to see a blacklist_to option somewhere, or some other way of automatically tagging a given destination as indicating 99.99% probable spam. Basically, I've got an email address that I have to have to host some web pages on my ISP. The email address is linked directly to the name

Re: [SAtalk] No AWL with uucp?

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-11-29 15:04:29 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > Hi - I do not know much about your exact setup, but I have all my mail > delivered by uucp, processed consequently by sendmail and procmail after > which SA filters it with AWL... Yes, same here. But I'm sure your mail has travelled to som

Re: [SAtalk] blacklisting ipadress

2002-11-29 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 09:52 AM 11.29.2002 +0100, Thomas Nyman wrote: >Hi, > >Can anyone tell me if its possible to blacklist an ip adress..this is so I >can stop certain mailservers from sending me mail. > >Thomas > You didn't say what MTA you were using. Sendmail's "access" file is used for blocking: For an IP: 20

Re: [SAtalk] No AWL with uucp?

2002-11-29 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:58:05AM +0100, Martin Schroeder wrote: > [SA 2.43] > Hi, > it seems AWL doesn't work with mails delivered only by uucp. Hi - I do not know much about your exact setup, but I have all my mail delivered by uucp, processed consequently by sendmail and procmail after which

Re: [SAtalk] whitelists and auto-whitelists

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-11-29 11:36:19 +, Justin Mason wrote: >those doco pages are generated from the > CVS version, rather than 2.43. Could that be changed please? It's irritating. :-) Best regards Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de/calendar/2003/

Re: [SAtalk] whitelists and auto-whitelists

2002-11-29 Thread Justin Mason
Rudy Rucker said: > I saw something about auto_learn here: > http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html > but could not find 'auto_learn' in any of the source files. What does > autolearn do, I wonder? It's not ready for use just yet -- those doco pages are generated from the

[SAtalk] No AWL with uucp?

2002-11-29 Thread Martin Schroeder
[SA 2.43] Hi, it seems AWL doesn't work with mails delivered only by uucp. -- Nov 29 11:48:11 artcom8 spamd[16513]: debug: failed to find originating IP in 'from artcom7 by artcom8.artcom-gmbh.de with uucp (Smail3.2 #1) id m18Hifx-001WuFa; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:47:13 +0100 (CET) fr

[SAtalk] BAYES_10 SpamAssassin test error

2002-11-29 Thread Glynn S. Condez
Hi all, I got this in my maillog on my Redhat 7.2 machine. I would like to know how to fix this problem, help would be appricated. snip Nov 29 19:02:00 renegade spamd[14346]: Failed to run BAYES_10 SpamAssassin test, skipping: ^I(mkdir file://.spamassassin: Permission denie

Re: [SAtalk] whitelists and auto-whitelists

2002-11-29 Thread Rudy Rucker
I saw something about auto_learn here: http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html but could not find 'auto_learn' in any of the source files. What does autolearn do, I wonder? oh, I tried setting auto_learn to 0 and 1 but that did not stop to LARGE scores from creaping into t

Re: [SAtalk] blacklisting ipadress

2002-11-29 Thread Rudy Rucker
This is more of an access control level thing than a spam/rbl lookup. You could hack it by running your own RBL DNS system and add IPs as you see fit. or you could use the blacklist_from if you can block on a domain name basis. I prefer to have hostname and IP based access control in the SMTP

Re: [SAtalk] Mailbox parsing by spamassassin

2002-11-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:06:56PM +0530, Atul Gosain wrote: > I have a requirement in which i have a very big mailbox stored > in the /var/log/mail which i want to scan for spams through > spamassassin. You can use formail, which comes with the procmail package: formail -s spamassassin < $ma

Re: [SAtalk] Mailbox parsing by spamassassin

2002-11-29 Thread Simon Lyall
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Atul Gosain wrote: > I have a requirement in which i have a very big mailbox stored in the > /var/log/mail which i want to scan for spams through spamassassin. I > tried the man page of spamassassin and couldnt figure out any method by > which spamassassin can scan the entire m

[SAtalk] New spam messages.

2002-11-29 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Hi. How can I make new messages to be activated as spam ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards. Erik Jakobsen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE Linux 8.1 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get t

Re: [SAtalk] Sendmail and Procmail

2002-11-29 Thread Vince Hoang
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:24:23PM +1000, Andrew wrote: > > /etc/procmailrc world readable? > > I set agu+rwx to be sure .. Yikes. I believe you want world readable and not world writeable. > > Try setting LOGFILE=/tmp/testing and VERBOSE=YES in > > /etc/procmailrc. (Remove after you are done) >

[SAtalk] whitelists and auto-whitelists

2002-11-29 Thread Rudy Rucker
I noticed I was starting to get more and more spam. Here is what happened: [1] I have a couple of email addresses I have manually whitelisted, eg: all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2] Now, when john.doe gets a spam, the final socre is something like: -90 [3] The auto-whitelist adjusts the s

[SAtalk] blacklisting ipadress

2002-11-29 Thread Thomas Nyman
Hi, Can anyone tell me if its possible to blacklist an ip adress..this is so I can stop certain mailservers from sending me mail. Thomas --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compa

[SAtalk] Mailbox parsing by spamassassin

2002-11-29 Thread Atul Gosain
Hi I have a requirement in which i have a very big mailbox stored in the /var/log/mail which i want to scan for spams through spamassassin. I tried the man page of spamassassin and couldnt figure out any method by which spamassassin can scan the entire mailbox. I guess that it can scan a singl