[SAtalk] pyzor errors with spamassassin

2003-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Greetings all, I was playing with pyzor again. It's giving me some errors that aren't listed anywhere in Google that I can find, nor the pyzor users mailing list. Here's a snip from the spamd debug output: Jan 8 23:19:36 mail spamd[4084]: debug: Razor1 is not available Jan 8 23:19:36 mai

Re: [SAtalk] Error during install

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 19:51:25 -0800 (PST) Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am a newbie here to all this, so please forgive my ignorance. > > I have tried installing via the RPMs and good old make, and I get this error > > both ways. I am running Redhat 7.1 with perl v5.6.0

[SAtalk] Missing spamass.sock

2003-01-08 Thread Ian Thomas Dale
Title: Missing spamass.sock I'm trying to get spamassassin running on my Redhat Linux 7.2 server (DEC Alpha version). I've configured sendmail, spamassassin and the spammilter according to the instructions provided on www.peregrinehw.com. When I try to start the spammilter and sendmail daemo

Re: [SAtalk] Did the acquisition kill the lists?

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Levine
Where else are the lists archived online? I've always just read the list on the SourceForge archives, which truly don't have any messages to any of the SA lists since 1/7/03 in the morning; I just signed up for sa-talk today so that I could ask if the list was still active. Oh, and I'm glad to se

[SAtalk] !SpamAssassin

2003-01-08 Thread JP Kelly
On 1/7/03 3:45 PM, "Robert J. Accettura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good points. The only thing lost is some developers. Though hopefully > the SA community will work to make up. I am currently learning Perl, > and have been observing the project for weeks. Hopefully soon I can > start kicki

[SAtalk] Problem with Razor2 reporting...

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Breuer
I'm running 2.43... I've been trying to get Razor working... lookup works OK... but when I report (spamassassin -r) I get: razor2 report failed: Bad file descriptor Died at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/Reporter.pm line 77, line 1. Any thoughts? TIA

Re: [SAtalk] blacklists, razor2, dcc or none?

2003-01-08 Thread mis
i gather you are looking to reduce the cost of spam filtering, by cutting out inefficient or costly tests. my impression (not from measuring, just from looking at spam) is that the checksum databases are relatively inefficient because spammers have started to routinely introduce random components

Re: [SAtalk] what's with my whitelist?

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:39:23PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Wait a sec... What's the difference between static and auto whitelists? > Is that -a (or -aW) versus --add-to-whitelist? "-a" says "use the autowhitelist". "--add-to-whitelist" says "add addresses to the autowhitelist". > I'm not sure

Re: [SAtalk] grr..slipped through!

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:06:37PM -0800, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > This one slipped through twice this week. The first tmie, I just deleted > it, thinking that someone would have reported it to Razor or something by > now. But no.. it came through again. > > I think "toner" needs a higher score.

Re: [SAtalk] Error during install

2003-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
> > I am a newbie here to all this, so please forgive my ignorance. > I have tried installing via the RPMs and good old make, and I get this error > both ways. I am running Redhat 7.1 with perl v5.6.0, and spamassassin 2.43. > If someone can shed any light on this I would be most thankful, I am at

Re: [SAtalk] what's with my whitelist?

2003-01-08 Thread David T-G
Matt, et al -- ...and then Matt Kettler said... % % You need to call spamassassin -a in your procmail script if you wish to use % the auto-whitelist feature. Ahhh... I get it. Wait a sec... What's the difference between static and auto whitelists? Is that -a (or -aW) versus --add-to-whitelis

[SAtalk] grr..slipped through!

2003-01-08 Thread Jonathan Nichols
This one slipped through twice this week. The first tmie, I just deleted it, thinking that someone would have reported it to Razor or something by now. But no.. it came through again. I think "toner" needs a higher score. ;) -Jonathan Anyway, I hope that NAI's purchase of Deersoft doesn't affect

RE: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-08 Thread James D. Stallings
I got this to work, but my question is the ownerships. My webserver runs under apache, so the process will only work if I set the permissions to the .spamassassin directory and the user-perfs to apache. But then the spamassassin blows because it runs under the users name (pop account name). Do I

[SAtalk] Error during install

2003-01-08 Thread Brook Stevens
Title: Error during install I am a newbie here to all this, so please forgive my ignorance.  I have tried installing via the RPMs and good old make, and I get this error both ways.  I am running Redhat 7.1 with perl v5.6.0, and spamassassin 2.43.  If someone can shed any light on this I would

Re: [SAtalk] Did the acquisition kill the lists?

2003-01-08 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 the voices made Jason Levine write: JL> I'm just wondering if the NAI acquisition of Deersoft killed the mailing JL> lists; there hasn't been a post to any of the lists mirrored on JL> SourceForge since 9:34 AM on 1/7/2003. Nope, it's business as usual nowadays. =) --

[SAtalk] Re: How to unsubscribe

2003-01-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 10:33 am, info wrote: > Im trying to get off this list I cant seem to find a way? https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk -- Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. A

Re: [SAtalk] blacklists, razor2, dcc or none?

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:31:51AM +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > seems to imply that just setting to 0 disables the test. Does it > really *disable* the test, so that it's not done at all or just stop > it from scoring? Of course, it doesn't make sense to me to carry out Yes, a score of 0 disabl

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Matthew Cline
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:23 am, Scot Wilcoxon wrote: > > * Contains images and has a low number of bytes in the text part of > > the message. > > * A low ratio of text to image area. > > I guess I'll have to add narration to my vacation pictures... *Just* having all images shouldn't push

Re: [SAtalk] Did the acquisition kill the lists?

2003-01-08 Thread Justin Mason
Jason Levine said: > I'm just wondering if the NAI acquisition of Deersoft killed the mailing > lists; there hasn't been a post to any of the lists mirrored on > SourceForge since 9:34 AM on 1/7/2003. eh? what lists are you on? ;) There's been lots of traffic... sounds like there might be some

Re: [SAtalk] Did the acquisition kill the lists?

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:13:12PM -0500, Jason Levine wrote: > I'm just wondering if the NAI acquisition of Deersoft killed the mailing > lists; there hasn't been a post to any of the lists mirrored on > SourceForge since 9:34 AM on 1/7/2003. You've just been looking in the wrong place, I've gott

[SAtalk] blacklists, razor2, dcc or none?

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I set up a spamd for testing about a week ago and would like to fine-tune it now. Especially, I want to get rid of unnecessary network tests. Currently, it uses dns bls as with the default config, no checksum tests like razor and dcc. Looking at the scores in 50_scores.cf and taking them of some

[SAtalk] don't scan own outgoing emails sent by local MTA

2003-01-08 Thread Marcus Schopen
Hi, I have running sendmail as MTA (192.168.1.2) in my local, privat network. I get my mails via fetchmail from several POP3 accounts in the internet. Question: Is it possible to say spassassin not to scan mail, which are sent from my privat subnet (192.168.1.x), so my own outgoing(!) mails wi

[SAtalk] Did the acquisition kill the lists?

2003-01-08 Thread Jason Levine
I'm just wondering if the NAI acquisition of Deersoft killed the mailing lists; there hasn't been a post to any of the lists mirrored on SourceForge since 9:34 AM on 1/7/2003. In addition, is there still going to be a 2.50 release, or is the current 2.50-cvs version the latest that we'll see as an

[SAtalk] How to leave (was: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content)

2003-01-08 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2003-01-08 13:33:55 -0500, info wrote: > Im trying to get off this list I cant seem to find a way? It's in the headers AND at the bottom of every mail you get from the list. :-{ HTH. HAND. Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de/calendar/2003/ ---

Re: [SAtalk] what's with my whitelist?

2003-01-08 Thread Matt Kettler
You need to call spamassassin -a in your procmail script if you wish to use the auto-whitelist feature. Spamassassin -aW does not update the static whitelists, just the AWL database, so it has no affect on spamassassin unless you later use spamassassin -a. At 02:49 PM 1/8/2003 -0500, David

Re: [SAtalk] Training Bayes on SA filtered spam

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:16:09PM +0100, Stefan Seiz wrote: > My guess is that sa-learnspam will filter out and ignore the spamassassin > specific header and subject prefix, but i am not sure about it (haven't > found anything in the docs either). From a quick look at the code, cleaning will happ

Re: RE: [SAtalk] re: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Burger
/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, James D. Stallings wrote: > Stupid question.. But what file are you placing this in? > > > > Thanks > Jim > > > > > > Get your own "800" number > Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more > ht

[SAtalk] Training Bayes on SA filtered spam

2003-01-08 Thread Stefan Seiz
Hi, Are there any issues training the bayes corpus on spam which already went through SA and has a modified subject and includes the SA report in the header? My guess is that sa-learnspam will filter out and ignore the spamassassin specific header and subject prefix, but i am not sure about it (ha

[SAtalk] what's with my whitelist?

2003-01-08 Thread David T-G
Hi, all -- I have installed SA 2.43 on my new server and it's doing a good job of marking spam; it's good to have it back :-) I can't seem to get my whitelist to work, though. I subscribe to some mailing lists which look like spam, and SA understandably marks them as such. When I try piping the

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Michael Moncur wrote on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 01:17:19 -0700: > Below are my 4 current HSM (a.k.a. DailyPromotions) rules - these catch all > of their spam. You'll want to adjust the scores according to your > preference, but none of them has ever had a false positive for me. > Thanks, I'm going to tes

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Matthew Cline wrote on Tue, 7 Jan 2003 16:36:18 -0800: > The devel version has some improvements that will (hopefully) take care > of this. The code that determines what perecent of the message is HTML > markup had a bug fixed, so it will now correctly determine that such a > message is 100% m

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 01:33:55PM -0500, info wrote: > Im trying to get off this list I cant seem to find a way? Look at the link at the bottom of every message? > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk I believe there

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Ray Dzek
By default, I think it is /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content James D. Stallings wrote on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:33:37

RE: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread info
Im trying to get off this list I cant seem to find a way? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content Jame

Re: [SAtalk] Rewriting Subjects with report_safe 0 not possiblein 2.5?!

2003-01-08 Thread Stefan Seiz
On 7.1.2003 17:30 Uhr, Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now since i did set report-safe to 0, SUBJECTS of tagged messages are no >> longer prefixed with "[Possible SPAM]". >> Is this done on purpose? >> >> How can i get back the behaviour of 2.43 which prefixed the subjects, put >> t

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-08 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> http://news.spamassassin.zawodny.com/ > > that should be the first stop for folks looking for SpamAssassin support > tools like this. I was hoping it would be mentioned in the FAQ or Documentation. The spamassassin front page doesn't give any indication that the "News" link should be used for

[SAtalk] Too quick to delete...

2003-01-08 Thread Steve Thomas
Can someone forward me the message with the new mass-check instructions? I seem to be a bit too quick with the delete key this morning and the archives aren't working... TIA -- Steve Thomas Network Administrator APEX Voice Communications, Inc. --

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James D. Stallings wrote on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 09:33:37 -0500: > Stupid question.. But what file are you placing this in? > Put a file "rules.cf" (or any *.cf) in your system spamassassin directory (/etc/mail/spamassassin by default) and restart spamd. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-08 Thread Justin Mason
Rick Macdougall said: > Yes there is. It exists for MySQL based users, squirrelmail regular users > and squirrelmail MySQL users. Check the archives for complete information. > > If you have a specific need and you can't find it, email me off list and > I'll point you in the right direction. B

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Questions: RBL and IP/domain blocking

2003-01-08 Thread Jonathan Duncan
Mike, I tried your command but got an ambiguous output redirect. I am not running bash as you suggested. So I tried the command like this and got: *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* prompt% spamassassin -D < mailfilename > logfile debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir debug: using

[SAtalk] Custom Rules

2003-01-08 Thread Doug Eubanks
Is it possible to create a custom rule and have it applied only for certain users?  We are using a MySQL database for the preferences and would like to write a rule that filters out common pornographic terms and assigns them a VERY high score to start with.  Then we want to give the user the

[SAtalk] Enabling/adding DNSBLs and local.cf possibilities

2003-01-08 Thread listuser
Howdy all. Could someone give me some insight on how to add additional DNSBLs? I see the DNSBL lines in 20_head_tests.cf and would like to add to that but I don't want my changes to be overwritten upon upgrade. IIRC this is where /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf comes in. However let me through

Re: [SAtalk] re: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:26:57AM -0500, Andrew wrote: > Stupid question. What are you using to generate these stats? mass-check -- it's a tool used to batch run messages through SA to test rules and give input to the GA for score generation. :) It's in the "masses" directory of the source distr

RE: [SAtalk] re: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Andrew
On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 03:17, Michael Moncur wrote: > > If you think that's an easy solution, you're not getting as much HSM spam as > I am. That rule only matched 23 HSM spam out of over 300 from the last 30 > days in my corpus. > > OVERALL% SPAM% NONSPAM% S/ORANK SCORE NAME >834

[SAtalk] NOTICE: mass-check has changed in CVS

2003-01-08 Thread Daniel Quinlan
If you don't use mass-check or don't know what it is, you can ignore this message. Okay, we have a new mass-check. Many things are the same, but there are lots of new features and how you use it has significantly changed. Before, the model of mass check was to run separate mass-checks, one for s

Re: Re: [SAtalk] 2 Questions: RBL and IP/domain blocking

2003-01-08 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:32:04AM -0500, James D. Stallings wrote: > You can enter these into access_db and place a DENY after each It may depend on your choice of MTA, but in sendmail at least, it's "REJECT" not deny. > of the dns names. I know you can enter partials for the DNS > you want t

Re: Re: [SAtalk] 2 Questions: RBL and IP/domain blocking

2003-01-08 Thread James D. Stallings
You can enter these into access_db and place a DENY after each of the dns names. I know you can enter partials for the DNS you want to block (like: .ni and .jp, etc..) but I do not think you can do that with the access_db. I think all entires in the access_db have to be fully qualified. Any

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin usage for vitual domain user

2003-01-08 Thread Rudy Rucker
Read about the MySQL support for SA. The userpref info can be stored in a database. Rudy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List Sorry if this is NewBie question. I have 2 domain user@mydomain account.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both want customise there spamassassin level. Since ./spassassin/us

Re: RE: [SAtalk] re: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread James D. Stallings
Stupid question.. But what file are you placing this in? Thanks Jim Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Michael Moncur ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > There

Re: [SAtalk] Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Scot Wilcoxon
* Contains images and has a low number of bytes in the text part of the message. * A low ratio of text to image area. I guess I'll have to add narration to my vacation pictures... --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterpri

[SAtalk] Where do I put spamassassin?

2003-01-08 Thread Fredrik Hellström
Hello, I use qmail with vmailmgr and courier-imap. I want to filter all incoming mail POP/IMAP with spamassassin. I don't know how to implement the spamassassin excecutable. I use Maildirs. For example /home/dom/my.domain/.qmail-default looks like this: | /usr/local/bin/vdeliver ...and my qmail

Re: [SPAM] [SAtalk] a very smart spammer. (score only 1.6)

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Steve Thomas wrote on Tue, 7 Jan 2003 15:35:53 -0800: > all_spam_to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ah, yes, that's better than using the Sender header, my sendmail milter will just use that as well and don't even bother SA with the message. Thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Questions: RBL and IP/domain blocking

2003-01-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Jonathan Duncan wrote on Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:36:01 -: > 2) I have a file that is 1240 lines long of IP addresses and > domain/machine names that I have been wanting to blacklist. > I think you can do this with access_db if you are using sendmail, no need for SA. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berl

[SAtalk] spamassassin usage for vitual domain user

2003-01-08 Thread andy
Hi List Sorry if this is NewBie question. I have 2 domain user@mydomain account.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Both want customise there spamassassin level. Since ./spassassin/userpref.cf only stay in the /home/user level. Which my e-mail server do NOT require a system account for e-mail use

Re: [SAtalk] What does spamd -F 0 do?

2003-01-08 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Wednesday 08 January 2003 08:24 CET Rolan Yang wrote: > I've seen examples cited where /usr/bin/spamd -F 0 > > What does the -F 0 do? It doesn't say in the man page. This switch was necessary in older versions of SA (2.3x). It's not necessary and supported anymore. If you know the one who wrot

[SAtalk] execute "privileged" rules via mysql user_prefs ?

2003-01-08 Thread Rolan Yang
Is there a way to get spamd to process "privileged" rules which reside in the mysql based user_prefs? I'm trying to have spamd process Header and Body regex searches which are listed in the user's preferences (mysql table). I've been trying all night with no success. I do understand that it may b

RE: [SAtalk] re: Hispeedmedia: spam with images as content

2003-01-08 Thread Michael Moncur
> There's an easy solution to the hispeedmedia problem: > header HISPEEDMEDIA Reply-To =~ /hispeedmedia.com/ If you think that's an easy solution, you're not getting as much HSM spam as I am. That rule only matched 23 HSM spam out of over 300 from the last 30 days in my corpus. OVER

[SAtalk] What does spamd -F 0 do?

2003-01-08 Thread Rolan Yang
I've seen examples cited where /usr/bin/spamd -F 0 What does the -F 0 do? It doesn't say in the man page. ~Rolan --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware