[SAtalk] spamd -d from the command line or the spamassassin script?

2003-08-23 Thread Greg Ennis
Everyone, I have been trying to tweak my spamassassin 2.31 that came with Red Hat 8.0 and noticed that it was not filtering the mail sometimes. I have activated spamd/spamc with the spamassassin script that comes with RED HAT. The observation I have made is that when I boot the system spamd is

Re: [SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-23 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Ron Gilbert wrote: That message hit with BAYES_80, that's a +5 for my rules. Anything over BAYES_50 is a +5 and it works like a charm. Although the other rules are still in effect, the BAYES filter does all the real work. I added this to local.cf a little while ago, after another 4.9'er slipped

[SAtalk] Re: SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 23 August 2003 23:36 CET Justin Mason wrote: > Malte S. Stretz writes: > > On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:35 CET Steve Thomas wrote: > > > Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable > > > for a while and now I'm getting this: > > > > > > Not Found > > > The reque

[SAtalk] Re: SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Justin Mason
Malte S. Stretz writes: > On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:35 CET Steve Thomas wrote: > > Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable for a > > while and now I'm getting this: > > > > Not Found > > The requested URL / was not found on this server. > > Seems there's something

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Jim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 03:31:30PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > FYI: Just because the problem I found was SHA1 doesn't mean all the > problems are SHA1. You have to run that perl commandline to change > "use lib" then try "use"ing the Razor2 modules, and see what it says. Thank you gentlemen v

[SAtalk] Re: spam assassin helps make spam

2003-08-23 Thread Shane Williams
I suspect a number of people have already responded to you (probably a few in a rather rude fashion), but just in case... On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Brian Scott wrote: > I notice that many recent viruses are using faked return email > addresses. > > Consequently, when one of these infected emails is

[SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 23 August 2003 21:31 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:00:14PM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > > The version doesn't really matter, just two versions of SHA1 break the > > module. You don't get nay messages like this when you run spamassassin > > in debug mode? > >

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:00:14PM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > The version doesn't really matter, just two versions of SHA1 break the > module. You don't get nay messages like this when you run spamassassin in > debug mode? FYI: Just because the problem I found was SHA1 doesn't mean all the

Re: [SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-23 Thread jvanasco
whenever i see my email address in a spam url, i visit that url with all the whois contact info for the domain in question. On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 07:31 PM, Jonathan Nichols wrote: ARGH I want to SHOOT this spammer. Repeatedly. These ALWAYS pop in at 4.9, always using "jnichols@(faked.co

Re: [SAtalk] SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 09:35:30AM -0700, Steve Thomas wrote: > Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable for a while and > now I'm getting this: The main SA site is hosted by sourceforge, and they seem to be having issues, like usual... I'm submiting a support request

[SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:43 CET Jim wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:39:00AM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:26 CET Jim wrote: > > > In SA 2.55, it was working fine. DCC still works in this version. > > > > This might be a symptom of bug 2314 [1]. Please che

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

2003-08-23 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 23 August 2003 11:00 CET Simon Byrnand wrote: > > I notice that the spam test message is some new standard GTUBE > > and includes a 'Precedence: junk' header. > > The header is normal. The effect you're describing isn't. > > > spam tends not to have this header and thus this is not a go

[SAtalk] Re: SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Malte S. Stretz
On Saturday 23 August 2003 18:35 CET Steve Thomas wrote: > Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable for a > while and now I'm getting this: > > Not Found > The requested URL / was not found on this server. Seems there's something heavily borked on the distribution site,

[SAtalk] SA Website?

2003-08-23 Thread Steve Thomas
Something is horribly wrong with the SA website. It was unreachable for a while and now I'm getting this: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.26 Server at spamassassin.org Port

[SAtalk] spam assassin helps make spam

2003-08-23 Thread Brian Scott
I notice that many recent viruses are using faked return email addresses. Consequently, when one of these infected emails is detected by spam assassin, many systems appear to reply to the fake email address with an "exact" copy of the original email - virus included and very much dangerous. N

[SAtalk] This mailing list triggering CLICK_BELOW and FREE_TRIAL

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
Hi Everyone, developers in particular I notice that all messages that are comming through this mailing list trigger the CLICK_BELOW and FREE_TRIAL rules in 2.60-rc2 (havn't checked 2.55) due to the following section of ad banner added by sourceforge to each message: Free trial click here:http

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:38:35PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> Ok, I'll probably get thumped by someone for not RTFM but I'm just >> trying >> out 2.60-rc2 on a test machine, and for whatever reason it is not adding >> the X-Spam-Report header on messages that are detected as spam. >> >> Is th

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 12:26:49AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > But the report doesn't look anything like the old full reports... (which I As I said, no more full reports in the header. > You suggested using _REPORT_ (which I will try instead of _SUMMARY_) am I > right in thinking that will show

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 10:38:35PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Ok, I'll probably get thumped by someone for not RTFM but I'm just trying > out 2.60-rc2 on a test machine, and for whatever reason it is not adding > the X-Spam-Report header on messages that are detected as spam. > > Is there a new

Re: [SAtalk] Does SA uses Bayesian classifier

2003-08-23 Thread Martin Bretschneider
"Jim Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jim, > Look for a file called check_bayes_db in the tools directory of > Mail-SpamAssassin. There is not a file with that name on my hd, I even checked all the spamassassin directories. I use spamassassin 2.55-2 from Debian Unstable. > Run it and pipe

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60-rc2 released!

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
> OK, this is 2.60 release candidate 2; it should work pretty excellently, > but we want to give it a day or two before it gets an official thumbs-up. > You can download it from http://SpamAssassin.org/released/ -- note: > the release candidates are not listed on the SA Download page and will > not

Re: [SAtalk] Repost: how does auto-learn work?

2003-08-23 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Thanks for the explanation! Is the auto-learning automatic, or do I need to configure something in local.cf? Ricardo - Original Message Follows - > At 09:02 PM 8/20/2003 -0700, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > > >I posted this but didn't see any replies... Can someone > help >me understand it

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60rc1 and resource usage

2003-08-23 Thread Martin Bretschneider
ODHIAMBO Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi ODHIAMBO, > * Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030822 09:33]: wrote: > > OK, this is 2.60 release candidate 1; it should work pretty > > excellently, but we want to give it a day or two before it gets an > > official thumbs-up. Download it from

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

2003-08-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
>> OK, this is 2.60 release candidate 1; > > I notice that the spam test message is some new standard GTUBE > and includes a 'Precedence: junk' header. > > I call Spamassassin from Amavisd-new, and this header affects > the notification system, supressing it. Huh ? > I think that normal (?) The

[SAtalk] spamc/spamd question on a qmail gateway

2003-08-23 Thread Joe Cave
Dear list, I'm having some problems getting spamc/spamd working on a qmail gateway. I'm wondering what is the most lightweight way to get mail scanned and then re-injected back into the qmail-queue? I have qmail patched to work with the QMAILQUEUE variable. If I point my QMAILQUEUE to spamc noth

[SAtalk] Errors in procmail log after upgrade to 2.60rc1

2003-08-23 Thread Ainsley Pereira
Hi all, I just upgraded to 2.60rc1 from 2.55, and found I now get the following errors in my procmail logs occasionally (not every time, but it's happened a few times since the upgrade). When I get the errors, the mail seems to pass through without having any spamassassin headers added. 'make tes

RE: [SAtalk] LOL (fwd)

2003-08-23 Thread Ron Gilbert
That message hit with BAYES_80, that's a +5 for my rules. Anything over BAYES_50 is a +5 and it works like a charm. Although the other rules are still in effect, the BAYES filter does all the real work. Ron -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf O

Re: [SAtalk] How To generate a spammers domain list

2003-08-23 Thread myname
On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 11:41, Hannu Liljemark wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:56:00AM +0300, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > Is there a way I can generate a list of domains of senders which are > marked as spam by spamassassin Sure, create a file in e.g. /usr/share/spamassassin/ dir that h

Re: [SAtalk] Re: 2.60 rc1 broke my Razor2?

2003-08-23 Thread Jim
On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:39:00AM +0200, Malte S. Stretz wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 21:26 CET Jim wrote: > > In SA 2.55, it was working fine. DCC still works in this version. > > This might be a symptom of bug 2314 [1]. Please check out if you have an old > version of Digest::SHA1 dang

Re: [SAtalk] Does SA-learn learn where email is comi ng from and give higherscores?

2003-08-23 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:18:00PM +0300, Angel Gabriel wrote: > Does SA-lean learn where an email originates, and give that > domain a higher score? Not really. Auto-whitelist is email-address specific and spammers don't really like to use same sender address. Your best bet is probably to use th

Re: [SAtalk] How To generate a spammers domain list

2003-08-23 Thread Hannu Liljemark
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 11:56:00AM +0300, Ramprasad A Padmanabhan wrote: > Is there a way I can generate a list of domains of senders which are > marked as spam by spamassassin Sure, create a file in e.g. /usr/share/spamassassin/ dir that has blacklist_from lines. Restart spamd or kill HUP (if us

RE: [SAtalk] How To generate a spammers domain list

2003-08-23 Thread myname
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 22:36, Chris Santerre wrote: Ok, I grabbed the script I wrote. Quick and dirty but seems to save a LOT of time. The idea is simple. Basically grep your spamtrap for all lines that have 'http://' in them. You lose a small percent because of line breaks but they repeat so