[SAtalk] Re: bad prorocol header

2003-06-07 Thread Patrick Morris
That's what I get for not double-checking before I put my foot in my mouth. S=inet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] is right. It looks like you've got a 10-second timeout, and it's taking longer than that. Are you doing RBL checks? If so, you may be timing out on ORBS, which recently went offline. I was s

Re: [SAtalk] SAproxy

2003-06-07 Thread Jack Gostl
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Dan McDonald wrote: > Stuart Gall writes: > > > Is SA Proxy different to pop3proxy ? I use pop3proxy very > > successfully with windoze clients. > > SAProxy is the new name for pop3proxy. It's available as a binary > build, and the source is now in CVS. > > Jack Gostl writ

Re: [SAtalk] I hate Mandatory Mail Filtering!!!! - speakeasy.netbites the dust. (was "I hate SpamAsssassin")

2003-06-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Saturday, June 07, 2003 1:10 PM -0700 "L. Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Remember when I was looking for why my email filters had broken...well turns out fetchmail occasionally gets confused by the extra 10-15 lines (depends on message) that their "email guardian" inserts into the header:

[SAtalk] Multiple Local.cf files

2003-06-07 Thread Damian Mendoza
Hi, I manage a couple of SA site servers at multiple locations. Is it possible to have a second local.cf file? The primary local.cf is used by the local users at each site. Any ideas? Thanks, Damian --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[SAtalk] re: bad prorocol header

2003-06-07 Thread Gerald Raynor
You did help me notice a mistake I did make. I changed to sendmail.mc to: "S=inet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and don't get any startup errors anymore. But now get the following in the logs when a message is received: Jun 7 21:30:24 homer spamd[47769]: connection from localhost.spacelynx.com [127.0.0.1] a

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-07 Thread Gerald Raynor
Per the sendmail doc it's [EMAIL PROTECTED], although for kicks I tried what you suggested and got the error: 51 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1257: Xspamassassin: unknown socket type localhost: Protocol not supported --- Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "S=unix:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-07 Thread Patrick Morris
"S=unix:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doesn't really make much sense for a socket name. You probably want "S=localhost:12000" Gerald Raynor wrote: I seem to have everything configured properly but I think I'm missing a small step somewhere in starting/running spamassassin. The process seems to be running b

[SAtalk] Razor error...

2003-06-07 Thread Upwood, James
Has anyone come across this error, in syslog? I'm running the latest Spamassassin and Razor, almost looks like the perl net::dns isn't installed but as far as I can tell, it is... Thanks, spamd[13409]: razor2 check skipped: Transport endpoint is not connected Died at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5

[SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-07 Thread Gerald Raynor
I seem to have everything configured properly but I think I'm missing a small step somewhere in starting/running spamassassin. The process seems to be running but sendmail either doesn't like it or doesn't see it. However, when I run the sample.pl against sendmail.cf it test fine. Below are the st

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Trap

2003-06-07 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Give this one a look: > > http://www.stearns.org/doc/spamassassin-setup.current.html#autoreporting > > I've got an inexplicable problem with that. One one machine it works > just fine, on my other box, i get in ~spamtrap/.procmail/proclog: > > From

Re: [SAtalk] spams that get through

2003-06-07 Thread Justin Mason
Nix said: > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003, Kai Schaetzl uttered the following: > > Jonathan Vanasco wrote on Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:21:43 -0400: > > > >> what about the random stuff? > > > > I think this is specifically included for confusing Bayes. > > No, spams with piles of ordinary email pasted onto the

Re: [SAtalk] spams that get through

2003-06-07 Thread Nix
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003, Kai Schaetzl uttered the following: > Jonathan Vanasco wrote on Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:21:43 -0400: > >> what about the random stuff? > > I think this is specifically included for confusing Bayes. No, spams with piles of ordinary email pasted onto the bottom are for that. The ra

Re: [SAtalk] mail-abuse.org registration

2003-06-07 Thread Jerry Bell
You'll get about 99%, maybe more, of what mail-abuse.org catches by using wirehub -- er easynet. We use both at the office and on the average day we get about 50,000 emails, wirehub blocks about 15000 of those, and maps rbl get about another 300 and maps rss gets about another 5 after that. 300 s

[SAtalk] I hate Mandatory Mail Filtering!!!! - speakeasy.net bites the dust. (was "I hate SpamAsssassin")

2003-06-07 Thread L. Walsh
Along the lines of the previous user's complaints, regarding filtering. My ISP instituted a spam filter Amika-Guardian(?). Before they rolled it out they said we'd be able to turn off the filtering -- what they didn't tell you was that you could only turn off spam filtering, not all filtering. It

Re: [SAtalk] SAproxy

2003-06-07 Thread Jack Gostl
> Yup - download the source and perform a manual install, just like you > did with pop3proxy. Better documentation on how to do this is needed. Where do I get that? Thanks. -- Jack Gostl [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sp

Re: [SAtalk] Fwd: Offshore person to needed to host blind SMTPserver

2003-06-07 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, June 06, 2003 11:40 PM -0400 Weyland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll pay a hundred dollars a month for hosting if I get good results and speed (I need to send millions of emails a day) from the machine. Wow, what a deal. --- This

Re: [SAtalk] mail-abuse.org registration

2003-06-07 Thread Ed Kasky
It's the legal hoops they have been forced to jump through. It really only take a few minutes to fill out and the dns lookups stop a lot of spam On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Jim Ford wrote: > I've contacted mail-abuse.org with the intention of registering as a > hobbyist/individual user. The registr

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Re: [SAtalk] Sugarplum spam poison?

2003-06-07 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Jim Ford wrote: > Now I've got SA working well (thanks NG!), I'd really like to do > something to hit or at least cause some inconvenience to spammers, > rather than just passively dump spam. Devin Carraway's Sugarplum spam > poisoner look an interesting option, does anyone use

Re: [SAtalk] Rules to check out

2003-06-07 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jerry, Friday, June 6, 2003, 6:59:39 PM, you wrote: JB> I've come up with lots of custom rules as of late, ... Please give me JB> comments as to whether you find them to be accurate/useful. Running them against my personal corpus of 3k spam an

Re: [SAtalk] mail-abuse.org registration

2003-06-07 Thread Chuck Mize
On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:09, Jim Ford wrote: > Hi, > > I've contacted mail-abuse.org with the intention of registering as a > hobbyist/individual user. The registration requires that you download and > print off two copies of a pdf file to fill in and send off by snail-mail - > 22 sheets of A4 t

[SAtalk] mail-abuse.org registration

2003-06-07 Thread Jim Ford
Hi, I've contacted mail-abuse.org with the intention of registering as a hobbyist/individual user. The registration requires that you download and print off two copies of a pdf file to fill in and send off by snail-mail - 22 sheets of A4 total! Nice of them to provide the service free to amatuers

Re: [SAtalk] errors in the logs and RBL not working

2003-06-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
wrote on Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:14:55 -0400 (EDT): > Hi list > Hi, your posting is more or less unreadable because of the weird formatting, please consider using a decent mail program and remailing your questions and please consider not to use HTML. You may also want to put a name in the appropr

[SAtalk] Invalid Account

2003-06-07 Thread theVSP.com, Inc.
Sir or Madam, With the recent change of business names from theVSP.com, Inc. to Virtual Solution Partners, LLC, we have removed all previous email accounts bearing the "thevsp.com" extension. DO NOT WORRY... If you are using an existing email address bearing the "thevsp.com" extension, your me

Re: [SAtalk] SAproxy

2003-06-07 Thread Dan McDonald
Stuart Gall writes: > Is SA Proxy different to pop3proxy ? I use pop3proxy very > successfully with windoze clients. SAProxy is the new name for pop3proxy. It's available as a binary build, and the source is now in CVS. Jack Gostl writes: > I installed SAProxy have it working, and its not bad

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a rule for "username" in Subject line?

2003-06-07 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:06:37AM -0400, Michael Clark wrote: > Interesting. you're right, email with mclark in the subject get > caught. But it does not seem to be catching virtual names as the > alternate To:. for example, webmaster@ comes into my regular > username, but that rule does not se

[SAtalk] Sugarplum spam poison?

2003-06-07 Thread Jim Ford
Hi, Now I've got SA working well (thanks NG!), I'd really like to do something to hit or at least cause some inconvenience to spammers, rather than just passively dump spam. Devin Carraway's Sugarplum spam poisoner look an interesting option, does anyone use it or have opinions on it, please? Reg

Re: [SAtalk] Spamtrap account?

2003-06-07 Thread Jim Ford
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:13:08PM -0400, Matt Kettler wrote: > I think it was either Theo Van Dinter or Tony Svanstrom that once pointed > out that any spamtrap listed on a website needs to be closely monitored, as > some mailviruses for some reason will wind up extracting email addresses > fr

Re: [SAtalk] SA List (fwd)

2003-06-07 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Fuzzy Fox wrote on Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:34:44 -0500: > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This, however, is a header that your mailer is supposed to use for > replying to mail. But... where did it come from? Clever clients put it in. This is a mailing list, replies should usually go to it, not t

Re: [SAtalk] problem with spamassassin, bmf and procmail

2003-06-07 Thread sandolo
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 07:49:56 -0700 "Gary Funck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question: what are the advantages of using bmf over using SA's > built-in Bayes support? Because bmf, as it do only bayesian filtering, is faster than SA, but the main reason is that I'm looking for a good configuration =