Re: [SAtalk] Reporting to Razor

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 09:10:23PM -0800, Jerry Gaiser wrote: > Currently all my spam messages are being dumped into a single file. Can > I report spam to razor by passing the whole spam file - i.e. > 'spamassassin -r < wholefile' or do I need to break out each spam email? It only accepts a single

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:07:24PM -0500, Michael wrote: > Where could I look for that. Like I said I checked in > /etc/default/spamassassin & in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and they > look ok. I also looked in my startup script and it looks ok. I will > include them though in case you can

Re: [SAtalk] Reporting to Razor

2002-12-17 Thread Jerry Gaiser
Additional question on 'spamassassin -r' Currently all my spam messages are being dumped into a single file. Can I report spam to razor by passing the whole spam file - i.e. 'spamassassin -r < wholefile' or do I need to break out each spam email? -- Jerry Gaiser in North Plains, Oregon USA (Zone

Re: [SAtalk] Reporting to Razor

2002-12-17 Thread Mike Burger
I actually asked the same question a while ago. I got an answer, but decided it was not really a good idea. The problem is that you might wind up reporting false positives, instead. The best idea is to send any found spam to a separate file, go through it to delete any false positives, and the

Re: [SAtalk] Reporting to Razor

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:19:48AM +0100, Johan Barelds wrote: > I want to *automaticly* report every spam message found with razor. > As i understood the way to do it is by the command "spamassassin -r < > spammail". Please please please, DON'T DO THIS! There've been very lengthy threads about

[SAtalk] Reporting to Razor

2002-12-17 Thread Johan Barelds
Hi all, I want to *automaticly* report every spam message found with razor. As i understood the way to do it is by the command "spamassassin -r < spammail". How do i put hat in my .procmailrc ? Just: -- :0fw * < 256000 | spamassassin :0: * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | spam assa

Re: [SAtalk] Problems with using razor

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:52:19AM +0100, Johan Barelds wrote: > I do experience some difficulties in using spamassassing with razor. > When is try to report spam to razor with the command: "spamassassin -rD > -- > debug: Razor is not available > -- > Which is strange because i do have razor inst

[SAtalk] Problems with using razor

2002-12-17 Thread Johan Barelds
hi all, I do experience some difficulties in using spamassassing with razor. When is try to report spam to razor with the command: "spamassassin -rD http://hpc.devchannel.org/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforg

Re[2]: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Kurt Andersen
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, could you explain? If there's no "blacklist_from_rcvd" what > purpose would "unblacklist_from_rcvd" fill? I had submitted a patch into the bugzilla for SA that implemented a similar concept (if I understand it correctly). Effectively it allowed a ne

[SAtalk] spamc/spamd oddities

2002-12-17 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello,     I have Spamassassin 2.43 running on a FreeBSD 4.7-pl2   I had spamc/spamd working flawlessly on the machine.  However,  I recently upgraded to SA 2.43 and since then, spamassassin reports a spam score of 0.0/$user-setting  (where $usersetting is retrieved from an SQL databas

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Rich Puhek
Administration Dept. wrote: We have 512 MB of RAM, 2.5 GB Swap running Solaris 8 x86. It should be plenty. I will try spamd on a separate server if I can't figure anything out. Thank you for the input. -ed How much free RAM do you have? I count about 26 spamd processes at about 8M residen

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Ok, that clears up any chance of DNS/razor backlogs, and of "old version" issues. Hmm, here's something to try: Disable the TRACKER_ID rule. There's been a recent fix to CVS that deals with some problems with this rule causing run-away processes. score TRACKER_ID 0 --

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:55:03PM -0500, Michael wrote: > Do you have any other thoughts then as to why this would not be loading? Not really. the error message looks 100% like something not able to parse an option. I would try running spamd from the commandline with the specified options. If

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Michael
Do you have any other thoughts then as to why this would not be loading? - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 01:11:37PM -0500, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $PNAME \ > > --startas $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS $DOPTIONS > > Well, my first comment is that the '--' tells spamd to stop reading > commandline options. Since it

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Administration Dept.
We have 512 MB of RAM, 2.5 GB Swap running Solaris 8 x86. It should be plenty. I will try spamd on a separate server if I can't figure anything out. Thank you for the input. -ed - Original Message - From: "Rich Puhek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Administration Dept." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Administration Dept.
Thanks for the quick reply and interest; your help is appreciated. Below is the information you requested. SpamAssassin Version: 2.43 NOT using razor, pyzor, or DCC We have out own Nameserver ns.shadow.net and ns2.shadow.net. We did not add these to the SpamAssassin files. Here is the output o

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Rich Puhek
How much RAM do you have? If spamc starts swapping, you'll have a major thrashing problem very quickly. Use the -m parameter to ensure that you don't swap, or at least don't swap too heavily. Queuing up the messages for spam processing should work fine during peaks (unless your system is extrem

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Michael
Could you point me to an example of how it should read then? I really appreciate your help. Michael - Original Message - From: "Theo Van Dinter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 1:11 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] In

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Hmm, There's a lot of useful info missing from your question... What version of SpamAssassin are you using? (this helps identify if it's a known bug in an old version of SA) Are you using razor, pyzor, or DCC? Do you have good DNS access (ie: an on-site or on the same-server DNS server)? How l

[SAtalk] Spamd load problem

2002-12-17 Thread Administration Dept.
Hello, We are running SpamAssassin server wide via procmail and sendmail through /etc/procmailrc . We are having a serious load problem even using the spamc/spamd. The spamd processes completely hog the CPU to the point sendmail panics and reports load problems in the syslog. Below is the load

Re: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Hmm, could you explain? If there's no "blacklist_from_rcvd" what purpose would "unblacklist_from_rcvd" fill? Unless you want to change the semantics of how the "un" commands work and what they mean, so you could do: blacklist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] unblacklist_from_rcvd [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:11 PM 12/16/2002 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-16 16:24:21 -0500]: Therefore I assume this is only available in versions newer than 2.31 somewhere. Is that correct? Yes, the current release version of SA is 2.43, and I think that feature was added wi

[SAtalk] sa and exim problems

2002-12-17 Thread Rossz Vamos-Wentworth
I majorly screwed up with my exim configuration and somehow got it into a repeating loop. As such, I've pretty much lost all email for today. That means any suggestions regarding exim and sa that were recently posted were unseen. damn. Thank goodness this is a private mail server so I don't

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:07:24PM -0500, Michael wrote: > Where could I look for that. Like I said I checked in > /etc/default/spamassassin & in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and they > look ok. I also looked in my startup script and it looks ok. I will > include them though in case you can

RE: [SAtalk] How to test whitelist_from_rcvd?

2002-12-17 Thread Dallas Engelken
> -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:13 AM > To: Dallas Engelken; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] How to test whitelist_from_rcvd? > > > Well, if you want to test a specific whitelist_from_rcvd, > you'll have

Re: [SAtalk] How to test whitelist_from_rcvd?

2002-12-17 Thread Matt Kettler
Well, if you want to test a specific whitelist_from_rcvd, you'll have to either 1) get an email that really matches and one that is forged -or- 2) save an email in mbox format and hand-edit the headers to create 2 new emails, one that looks like a real mail and one

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Michael
Where could I look for that. Like I said I checked in /etc/default/spamassassin & in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf and they look ok. I also looked in my startup script and it looks ok. I will include them though in case you can see something that I do not. ***

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 10:47:42AM -0500, Michael wrote: > *** > > mini:/home/mweber# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start > Starting SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: Unknown option: - > > Spamd version 2.43 > > **

Re: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Jonathan Duncan
Nope, this is my manual list and I have version 2.43 Jonathan Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Jonathan Duncan said: > > I have gotten a couple of vile spams that came through with NO problem > > whatsoever because of the test "USER_IN_WHITELIST". It seems that the > > spammer use

Re: [SAtalk] Exim/SA help

2002-12-17 Thread Daniel Bird
We run SA with Exim, using the sa-patch compiled in to Exim4. It was VERY easy. Just apply the patch, and compile exim and sa as normal. (spamd must be running as well as exim) see http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html for details. Our gateways serve over 1 accounts and '000's of mails

[SAtalk] Installation Problem

2002-12-17 Thread Michael
I am trying to load spamd and it is not working properly. I have successfully configured spamd on multiple machines, but on this one server in particular it is just not loading. This is the error that I am getting: *** mini:/home/mweber# /etc/init

Re: [SAtalk] Can you switch Razor checking off?

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:16:56PM +, Drav Sloan wrote: >Is there a way to switch razor checking off? Is it as simple as > setting the timeout to 0? timeout, no, score, yes. :) -- Randomly Generated Tagline: I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(

[SAtalk] How to test whitelist_from_rcvd?

2002-12-17 Thread Dallas Engelken
Can anyone give me a recommendation on how I can test a whitelist_from_rcvd rule? Thx --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http:/

Re: [SAtalk] Exim/SA help

2002-12-17 Thread Drav Sloan
Hutchins, Mike wrote: > Ok, I am not a complete newbie, but the documentation for exim/sa is > kinda causing me fits. Can anyone just give me the order in which I need > to compile stuff? See the Spamassassin INSTALL file for reference of the order (including dependancies) for spamassassin. Exim

[SAtalk] Can you switch Razor checking off?

2002-12-17 Thread Drav Sloan
Hello All, Is there a way to switch razor checking off? Is it as simple as setting the timeout to 0? Regards D. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Pe

Re: [SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:28:16PM +0100, Stephane Lentz wrote: > Is this problem fixed on the CVS version - and hopefully next release ? Well, the problem from 2.31 was partially fixed in 2.40. There was another bug in there that went unnoticed for a while (it looks like it would do the right t

Re: [SAtalk] SPAMD Rules for Scoring

2002-12-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:52:47AM -0500, James D. Stallings wrote: > Is there a way to update the SPAMD Scoring Rules without > loading a new version of the product? If so, I was unable to > find the rules and if I found them... I am not sure I would > know where to put them. No. Rules/score

Re: [SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Mark Martinec
| From: Stephane Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Ronan should have provided more information : I guess he's | talking about some problem found by amavisd-new's author. | The bug and patch is listed on http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ on | Tips and FAQ -- spam scanners (Mail::SpamAssassin) sect

Re: [SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Justin Mason
> There is a bug in Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm in routine > check_for_faraway_charset_in_body (at least in all version between 2.31 > and 2.43). It causes Perl to go in a CPU loop, and amavisd fails to > continue service, or reports timeouts. Either apply the patch, or > disable CHARSET_FARAWAY

[SAtalk] Exim/SA help

2002-12-17 Thread Hutchins, Mike
Ok, I am not a complete newbie, but the documentation for exim/sa is kinda causing me fits. Can anyone just give me the order in which I need to compile stuff? I am going to have approximately 5000 users behind this thing, and it will be the incoming smtp gateway. Anyone think I am gonna have an

Re: [SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Stephane Lentz
Hi, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 11:27:43AM -0200, Ronan Lucio wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed SA in my server and I'm very happy with this. > > Lately I have seem many people (like me) having trouble > making it work because some bugs already discovered and > solved but, why SA is still avaliabl

[SAtalk] SpamAssasin and Time::HiRes

2002-12-17 Thread michael . bartlett
Hi all, I installed all of the razor stuff - one of the tests in the razor install was having problems with my version of Time::HiRes, so I upgraded it to the latest from CPAN and all the problems went away. When running make test in the Spam Assassin extract dir, I get stuff like this: [root@sh

[SAtalk] SPAMD Rules for Scoring

2002-12-17 Thread James D. Stallings
I put this question in before, but messed up the Subject... so here I go again Is there a way to update the SPAMD Scoring Rules without loading a new version of the product? If so, I was unable to find the rules and if I found them... I am not sure I would know where to put them. Thanks

[SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Ronan Lucio
Hello, I've installed SA in my server and I'm very happy with this. Lately I have seem many people (like me) having trouble making it work because some bugs already discovered and solved but, why SA is still avaliable to download with such bug and we need to go to amavisd homepage to apply the pa

RE: [SAtalk] SA installation problems

2002-12-17 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
My mistake, sorry. The actual is below. my $l = 1; foreach () { # Conditional compiling if ($modules{'conditional'}) { # Comment out lines carrying the REMOVEFORINST tag if(/\bREMOVEFORINST\b/) { s/^(\s*)/$1#/; s/REMOVEFORINST/REMOVEDBYINST/; } } # Variable rep

Re: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Justin Mason
Jonathan Duncan said: > I have gotten a couple of vile spams that came through with NO problem > whatsoever because of the test "USER_IN_WHITELIST". It seems that the > spammer used my email address in the To: field as well as the From: field. > If all spammers did that, with my current confi

Re: SOLVED (Re: [SAtalk] Upgrade)

2002-12-17 Thread Justin Mason
Mark said: > Perhaps useful to know for others: Perl 5.005_03 needs "Errno.pm" in spamd > 2.43. This does not show up on needed dependencies, nor in the "make test" > run. The test just fails to start spamd (and you do not get to see why, cuz > it redirects STDERR to /dev/null). that's wierd --

[SAtalk] SA installation problems

2002-12-17 Thread Thomas Kinghorn
Good day. I am having an installation problem. I followed the instructions in the INSTALL file But when I run make install, i get the following error. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at build/preprocessor line 47, line 29273. I have edited the Makefile. Line 47 looks like

Re: [SAtalk] Unable to configure filtering with SpamAssassin and Procmail

2002-12-17 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-12-16 16:37:41 -0800, Somik Raha wrote: ># isn't bigger than a few k and working with big messages can bring ># SpamAssassin to its knees. >:0fw Make that :0fw: spamc.lock otherwise for each spam procmail and spamassassin are started. Makes for a nice DOS when you get more

Re: [SAtalk] What if a Spammer uses my email address in the From?

2002-12-17 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-12-16 18:36:47 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > You're right, there's no blacklist_from_rcvd.. but do you really need/want > such precautions there? But unblacklist_from_rcvd would make sense. Please? Best regards Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de/calendar/2003/ ---

Re: [SAtalk] GENUINE_EBAY_RCVD

2002-12-17 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-12-17 04:17:15 +0100, Klaus Heinz wrote: > Martin Schroeder wrote: > > eval:check_for_from_domain_in_received_headers('ebay.de', 'true') doesn't > > work (with --local). :-( > > Did you search for 'ebay.de' in your mail? This string only occurred in > the 'From:' line. Try 'ebay.com'. Tha