Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin not scanning...

2003-10-17 Thread Jean-Sébastien Guay
Hi again, After a bit more investigation, it really does seem to be a problem with my SpamAssassin installation. I ran a spam mail through spamassassin from the command line like this: 'spamassassin -D < msg1.txt'. Here's what looked weird: > debug: is spam? score=5.567 required=5 tests=HTML_FONT

Re: [SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Bill Polhemus wrote: This one got through. Can we figure out how and why? With just the body of the message and no headers, probably not. That really not enough to work with. --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conf

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:21 PM 10/17/03 +0200, Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\) wrote: Bayes tages it worth 5.4 points. My limit is 5. How does Byes tag it this much? What should I do to solve the issue? Raise the limit to 7.5 or something would probably help on this one, but not all. A whitelist service is already created

Re: [SAtalk] Hanging problems . . .

2003-10-17 Thread Scott Lambert
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:30:19AM -0500, Jeff Funk wrote: > We were having issues with SA slowing to a crawl and messages backing up > in the queue so I decided to try cgpsa and see if the problem would go > away. After getting it set up yesterday, everything performed perfectly > for about 16 ho

[SAtalk] Re: add_header for AWL??

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Schaap
On 17-Oct-2003 23:44, Robert Leonard III wrote: I'm seeing the test in my results now.. not seeing what score is applied though.. seems as if it is not scoring, but simply acknowledging the test.. is there a tag I can put in my local.cf file that will force the awl score to display? Something alon

[SAtalk] infinite-monkeys

2003-10-17 Thread ian douglas
Anyone have any information on infinite-monkeys on how to contact them regarding getting removed from their systems? When I enable IM in my MailScanner setup for SpamAssassin, all outgoing mail from my servers gets kicked into la-la land - I scan all outgoing Email - because it's matching on Infin

Re: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Justin Mason
Bill Polhemus writes: > I have wanted to set up a "spam trap" for some time. First, I created an > account, called "spamtest," on my system. Then, I went to Usenet and posted > a ton of "test" messages to every newsgroup I could think of (mostly the > pr0n ones) where the address would be harveste

RE: [SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
Okay, someone already responded that it is “SMRSH” that’s the culprit. So I got to learn a bit more about how smrsh operates. Seems as though it will only allow Sendmail to run a very few shell commands, and only those programs that are explicitly in the /etc/smrsh subdirectory.   The typ

[SAtalk] integration for SortMonster MessageSniffer

2003-10-17 Thread Vivek Khera
For anyone interested, I've just posted some patches against SA 2.60 to add support for SortMonster's MessageSniffer product (another spam detecting tool). By combining these tools, all of those "4.9 point" FN's get whacked pretty effectively. I'm debating adding a rule to subtract 3.0 points if

[SAtalk] HELP: Can't Invoke SA From Sendmail Alias

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
I have wanted to set up a “spam trap” for some time. First, I created an account, called “spamtest,” on my system. Then, I went to Usenet and posted a ton of “test” messages to every newsgroup I could think of (mostly the pr0n ones) where the address would be harvested, and  tried using the

[SAtalk] add_header for AWL??

2003-10-17 Thread Robert Leonard III
I'm seeing the test in my results now.. not seeing what score is applied though.. seems as if it is not scoring, but simply acknowledging the test.. is there a tag I can put in my local.cf file that will force the awl score to display? Something along the lines of: add_header all AWL _AWL_ ?? T

RE: [SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Bill Polhemus
This one got through. Can we figure out how and why? Notice purposeful misspellings as obfuscations. William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Begin Included Message- 16121g11n4m06a8a53594548b10126vx 291uqs7rz3xo63jl8w5ie14f3q3c3770The stoicism which she

Re: [0.0] [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Charles Gregory
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Diego Puppin wrote: > is it possible to add the spamassassin "hits" score to the spam mails, > so that I can sort my spam box and find the "spammest" emails? > I would like to have my spam emails tagged as: > **SPAM** (score) Subject > so I can sort and find which has 30 hits a

Re: [SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Justin Mason
Dominik Ruf writes: > * Lewis Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-17 22:41]: > > I see messages receiving points for FAKE_HELO_AOL yet when I look in the > > logs the SMTP server that sent the message is indeed listed in as an ip > > address as an AOL mail server. I think that the helo name is inc

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\)
Dear Colin, Thanks for your reply. I've used SA with MIME defang for a while now, and it hasn't gotten me into any trouble before. SA has acutally been quite amazing! It's filtrating most mails as spam, and I'm satisfied with it this far. But when I added this domain, it cought WAY too much. I'v

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Welcome to SourceForge... Happens all the time with their lists. Colin A. Bartlett wrote: Moderately Off Topic: Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in a timely fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to 45 minutes for my message to appear. By the time

Re: [SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Dominik Ruf
* Lewis Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-17 22:41]: > I see messages receiving points for FAKE_HELO_AOL yet when I look in the > logs the SMTP server that sent the message is indeed listed in as an ip > address as an AOL mail server. I think that the helo name is incorrect but > I doubt that aol

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes location setting?

2003-10-17 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:54:46PM -0600, Dave Bartmess wrote: > Thanks... makes sense... Maybe that should be in the FAQ, though, cause > I couldn't find any information anywhere on it.. Instead of an FAQ, we just put the info in the actual documentation: bayes_path /path/to/file (default

[SAtalk] AUTOLOAD errors in SA 2.60 are OK?

2003-10-17 Thread David A . Roth
(I'm new to spamassassin). I continue to get this error message from spamassassin, but it appears to be working according to the sample tests. Is this having any effect on the operation of spamassassin I'm not aware of? (see below) spamassassin --lint Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method S

[SAtalk] FAKE_HELO_AOL

2003-10-17 Thread Lewis Watson
I see messages receiving points for FAKE_HELO_AOL yet when I look in the logs the SMTP server that sent the message is indeed listed in as an ip address as an AOL mail server. I think that the helo name is incorrect but I doubt that aol is going to fix this. How can I fix this to where it works cor

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes location setting?

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Bartmess
Thanks... makes sense... Maybe that should be in the FAQ, though, cause I couldn't find any information anywhere on it.. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:12, Tom Meunier wrote: > That's right. It seems weird, doesn't it? But basically, that setting > tells SA that the filenames are /usr/local/share/baye

[SAtalk] Bayes location setting?

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Bartmess
In my local.cf, I've got # Enable the Bayes system use_bayes 1 bayes_path /usr/local/share/bayes bayes_file_mode 0666 But it seems to put the bayes_journal, etc in /usr/local/share instead. How is this supposed to look? I don't want to open up the /usr/local/sh

RE: [SAtalk] Bayes location setting?

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Meunier
That's right. It seems weird, doesn't it? But basically, that setting tells SA that the filenames are /usr/local/share/bayes_* To achieve what you think it should be, you'd want to do bayes_path /usr/local/share/bayes/bayes - funny as that sounds. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] Many headers

2003-10-17 Thread Fred I-IS.COM
I too have seen these, Use the following rule, it works for me: header __FVGT_h_XNUMBER0 ALL =~ /x-transfer-number/ header __FVGT_h_XNUMBER1 ALL =~ /X-transfer-number/ header __FVGT_h_XNUMBER2 ALL =~ /X-TRANSFER-NUMBER/ header __FVGT_h_XSTAMP0 ALL =~ /x-transfer-stamp/ header __FVGT_h_XSTAMP1

Re: [SAtalk] SA and Mailscanner

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:29 PM 10/17/03 -0400, Jon Fraley wrote: >From looking at some posts, it looks like Mailscanner just looks for a score from SA. Does this mean that the message does not get re-written as an attachment with the report if it is spam? Or does Mailscanner do this? I can not find exactly how it

Re: [SAtalk] One Message 2 results...

2003-10-17 Thread Bob Apthorpe
Hi, On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: [...] > > The partiuclar message you were testing against is a common virus email.. > SA isn't designed to catch viruses, and has no rules to catch this one.. if > you really want to catch them, search in the archives of this list for SWEN > and you sh

[SAtalk] SA and Mailscanner

2003-10-17 Thread Jon Fraley
I am looking at a possilbe Mailscanner installation. We already use SA 2.60 and are extremely pleased with the results. >From looking at some posts, it looks like Mailscanner just looks for a score from SA. Does this mean that the message does not get re-written as an attachment with the repor

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes (again) (again)

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Gostl
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Chr. von Stuckrad wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:36:30PM -0400, Jack Gostl wrote: > > ... I ran out of space in the file system while doing an > > sa-learn, and that was that. > > I got rid of that by creating a cronjob which does > the sa-learn often enough to let the

RE: [SAtalk] discarding mail

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Jeffrey Schilperoord Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:54 PM > How do i setup spamasassin to delete all mail tagged as spam? Or move it to a > dir? SA simply tags an email, doesn't dispose of it. Check out the bottom of the howto at: http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/INSTALL You

[SAtalk] Bayes (again) (again)

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Gostl
Well, it happened again, my Bayes files got trashed. I ran out of space in the file system while doing an sa-learn, and that was that. Then I wiped out the Bayes files, and started over, and I got an unlock error. Now I'm into my second attempt at rebuilding. There has to be an easier way than

RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
I was not complaining and I did not perceive anyone else to be either. I perceived the original question as just that, a question. Call it baseline if you will. Today, for me at least, the queue is about a half hour. Nothing more, nothing less. --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Mat

[SAtalk] Default settings?

2003-10-17 Thread Chris
I noticed on: http://au.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html   That.. use_dcc ( 0 | 1 ) (default: 1) Whether to use DCC, if it is available.   But it's not defined whether 0 or 1 is ON? I'm assuming 1 is ON, but I'm concerned I may be wrong.   This is also true of: use_pyzor ( 0

RE: RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Thanks for the header iteration Dan but I was *not* complaining. If I want a speedy response I do what Matt does which is to include the author as well as the list when sending. --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Dan Wilder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes (again) (again)

2003-10-17 Thread Chr. von Stuckrad
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:36:30PM -0400, Jack Gostl wrote: > ... I ran out of space in the file system while doing an > sa-learn, and that was that. I got rid of that by creating a cronjob which does the sa-learn often enough to let the journal grow only for a while. So it no more flooded the d

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Kelson Vibber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the problem lies somewhere else, though. As I wrote in a previous mail, 'spamassassin -t < testmail' tags all mails as 'Probably mail' even though the hits don't even reach 1 (req 5)! spamassassin -t outputs the standard report regardless of whether an item ha

RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Matthew McGehrin Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:40 PM > I think you are expecting too much from a 'Free' List Server. Just to set the record straight, It wasn't my intent to complain... only see if others had the same issues. If other people feel stupid because of redundant posting, well than

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Van Gordon
Because I installed SpamAssassin through cpan, does that mean I have all that is included in spamassassin-tools-2.60-1.i386.rpm ? -Original Message- From: Larry Gilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:01 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Matthew McGehrin
I think you are expecting too much from a 'Free' List Server. I would think delivery times up to an hour are expected. My messages arrive in 15 to 20 minutes. I'm on some security lists that the delay is closer to 2 hours. -- Matthew - Original Message - From: "Colin A. Bartlett" <[EMAIL

[SAtalk] discarding mail

2003-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Schilperoord
How do i setup spamasassin to delete all mail tagged as spam? Or move it to a dir?   greetings Jeffrey Schilperoord

[SAtalk] Hanging problems . . .

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Funk
We were having issues with SA slowing to a crawl and messages backing up in the queue so I decided to try cgpsa and see if the problem would go away.  After getting it set up yesterday, everything performed perfectly for about 16 hours and 55000 messages.  Then, all of a sudden, at around 9

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Gary Carr
I see the same thing. In fact my messages hardly make it to the list. - Original Message - From: "Colin A. Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:37 AM Subject: [SAtalk] slow list > Moderately Off Topic: > > Does anyone else have trouble g

Re: [SAtalk] AWL not running... Or is it?? Please help.

2003-10-17 Thread Robert Leonard III
I restarted Spamd with the following.. spamd -d -x -a And I don't see any indication that the AWL is being either created or used... does the --lint -D output indicate the presence of the AWL database? should the /auto-whitelist directory I created contain any files? Thanks! - Orig

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:10 PM 10/16/2003, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: I wasn't even aware that this notfirsthop argument existed; as far as I can tell in a few minutes of testing, the argument has no effect. I've had to disable all dynamic-IP RBLs because of this problem... Dan.. Are you using an internal mailserver wi

Re: [SAtalk] Not reading local.cf?

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Bartmess
OK... Hmmm Wish that'd been highlighted in the changes... I'll try that, and let you know Thanks, Matt! On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:55, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 11:22 AM 10/17/2003, Dave Bartmess wrote: > >I put this on the command line, and immediately after restarting spamd, > >it gave me the fo

[SAtalk] Hanging Problem . . .

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Funk
We were having issues with SA slowing to a crawl and messages backing up in the queue so I decided to try cgpsa and see if the problem would go away. After getting it set up yesterday, everything performed perfectly for about 16 hours and 55000 messages. Then, all of a sudden, at around 9am CDT,

Re: [SAtalk] Not reading local.cf?

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:22 AM 10/17/2003, Dave Bartmess wrote: I put this on the command line, and immediately after restarting spamd, it gave me the following messages in /var/log/mail/errors: Oct 13 21:45:46 Dingo spamc[5596]: connect(AF_INET) to spamd at 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#3 of 3): Connection refused Ah

fwd: RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Dan Wilder
Larry Gilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd be lucky to see the post in a half hour. >From the Received headers on my copy, edited down to what pertains to this question: > Received: from sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net > by mail.ssc.com > Fri, 17 Oct 2003 08:46:12 -0700 (PDT) abo

Re: [SAtalk] Auto Learning Thresholds for Bayes

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 12:07 PM 10/13/2003, Robert Leonard III wrote: Anybody have any advice on what to set these thresholds at? Currently I run SA's Spam Threshold at 5.5, the default Bayes numbers are .1 for HAM, and 12 for SPAM.. I put mine to 1.0 for HAM and 6.5 for SPAM.. is that reasonable? That depends a bit

Re: [SAtalk] One Message 2 results...

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:36 AM 10/5/2003, Hendrik wrote: First Question: Why does SA prints out "autolean=no" when the /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf says: # Enable Bayes auto-learning auto_learn 1 the "autolearn=no" means it didn't auto-learn THIS message because it didn't score high or low enough t

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Dan Wilder
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:37:53AM -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Moderately Off Topic: > > Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in a timely > fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to 45 minutes for my > message to appear. By the time my reply shows

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
Hi Chris, > -Original Message- > From: Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:49 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates > > > > rpmbuild -ta Mail-Spamassassin-2.60.tar.gz > > Thanks for that tip. Running it produced: > > per

RE: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
I'd be lucky to see the post in a half hour. --Larry > -Original Message- > From: Colin A. Bartlett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] slow list > > > Moderately Off Topic: > > Does anyone else have trouble

[SAtalk] Redirect and AWL ?

2003-10-17 Thread guenther
[ Modified the subject, as I originally forgot a topic. ] On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:19, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 08:53 AM 10/17/2003, guenther wrote: > > >I just wondered about redirecting mail to learn as Spam, as mentioned in > >FAQ 5.1. > > > >This will add extra headers (especially Received he

Re: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Yevgeniy Miretskiy wrote: On [10/17/03 09:54], Colin A. Bartlett wrote: Diego Puppin Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:55 AM is it possible to add the spamassassin "hits" score to the spam mails, so that I can sort my spam box and find the "spammest" emails? Yep, it's in the Docs at

Re: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Yevgeniy Miretskiy
On [10/17/03 09:54], Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Diego Puppin Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:55 AM > > > is it possible to add the spamassassin "hits" score to the spam mails, > > so that I can sort my spam box and find the "spammest" emails? > > Yep, it's in the Docs at: > http://au.spamassassi

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:37 AM 10/17/2003, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in a timely fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to 45 minutes for my message to appear. By the time my reply shows up, 3 other people have replied and I look like a d

RE: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-17 Thread Brian Sneddon
Out of curiosity, what method do you use to feed your email into SpamAssassin? Do you use a milter with Sendmail, procmail, et al.? Brian -Original Message- From: Daniel M. Drucker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk]

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Jeff Howie (GROG!)
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:37:53AM -0400, Colin A. Bartlett wrote: > Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in > a timely fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to > 45 minutes for my message to appear. By the time my reply shows up, > 3 other people have r

RE: [SAtalk] New Box

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Carlson
Great, which files do I need to copy? --Mike From: Patrick Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 10/17/2003 10:03 AM To: Mike Carlson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] New Box Assuming you've got all the Perl modules installed on the new box,

Re: [SAtalk] Not reading local.cf?

2003-10-17 Thread Dave Bartmess
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:46, Matt Kettler wrote: > Well, as someone else on SA-talk pointed out, you were incorrectly > specifying parameters. > > spamd -d -c -a -m5 -H -u root > > Is not going to be parsed the way you think. > > Drop the -H.. it's absolutely invalid to tell snort that the hom

Re: [SAtalk] Redirect ?

2003-10-17 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:53 AM 10/17/2003, guenther wrote: I just wondered about redirecting mail to learn as Spam, as mentioned in FAQ 5.1. This will add extra headers (especially Received headers). Won't these headers poison the Bayesian database? This varies a lot from mail client to mail client. With some mail cl

Re: [SAtalk] New Box

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Everything in /etc/mail/spamassassin, and all the files from wherever your Bayes stuff is stored. I'll admit I'm a bit fuzzy on how to pull off the AWL transfer -- maybe someone else could pipe in on that. This is, of course, assuming you've installed SA on the new box, and weren't planning on

RE: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's?

2003-10-17 Thread Larry Gilson
> -Original Message- > From: Michael W.Cocke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's? --snip-- > And, to bring this post back toward the stated subject, I was never > able to successfully install S

RE: [SAtalk] New User question

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Balamuth
Grasshopper hangs head in shame for not testing spamc standalone first. Changed qmail-scanner-queue.pl to remove -c on options line for spamc launch and ALL works as expected. Many Many Thanks to all Michael Balamuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jason Staudenmayer [mailto:[E

Re: [SAtalk] New Box

2003-10-17 Thread Patrick Morris
Assuming you've got all the Perl modules installed on the new box, and the same version of the Berkeley DB libs, a direct copy should work fine. Mike Carlson wrote: After a hugely successful test of spamassassin, I now need to move it to a bigger badder production box. Can I just copy file from

[SAtalk] New Box

2003-10-17 Thread Mike Carlson
After a hugely successful test of spamassassin, I now need to move it to a bigger badder production box. Can I just copy file from the old system to the new system so that I don't have to retrain it or start the AWL/Bayes stuff over again? If so, what files do I need to copy so that I don't have to

[SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Moderately Off Topic: Does anyone else have trouble getting their messages on the list in a timely fashion? It seems when I reply to the list it takes 15 to 45 minutes for my message to appear. By the time my reply shows up, 3 other people have replied and I look like a dufus for posting redundant

[SAtalk] Many headers

2003-10-17 Thread David Watson
Our site has just received a spam with approx 19kb of headers of the form shown at the end. The message gets marked as spam but the MUA (tested outlook and Eudora) fails to filter based on the mark (presumably it gives up scaning the headers before reaching my spam flag at the end). Clearly s

RE: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS) Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 9:39 AM > So how can this happen over night without any interference? > PS: It even tags the mails that are whitelisted as spam, with -100.0 > hits Can you paste in the tests that it matched so that we can see the scoring of each? cheer

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\)
Yes, that's what I'm doing. But it's not very intelligent in the long run, and I can't spend my whole day on whitelisting domains and email addresses... Best regards, Haakon Nilsen - Original Message - From: "Amnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;

RE: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Colin A. Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should probably start by retraining Bayes with the Hams that > were false positives. You'll need to save the messages to your > server and then run sa-learn --ham on them. You could also use > user_prefs files or database to set much lower Bayes s

Re: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Diego Puppin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to have my spam emails tagged as: > > **SPAM** (score) Subject Look at the "tagging" section in the Conf documentation. I use subject_tag *SPAM(_HITS_)* The score even has a leading 0, so I can sort by subject and look more carefully at

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\)
Dear Tom, Thanks for your reply. I've done this now, and I'm thankfull for your information. I trained it with many mails, so I hope it will help. I think that the problem lies somewhere else, though. As I wrote in a previous mail, 'spamassassin -t < testmail' tags all mails as 'Probably mail' e

[SAtalk] autolearn=no, no awl, no syslog entries

2003-10-17 Thread John Kelly
Hi all, (this might be quite long) I use RH9, spamass-milter, SA 2.60, sendmail and fetchmail as a front end server for my Win2000/Exchange network. The principal reason for placing a linux box at the edge of the network was to filter all incoming mail with Spamassassin. It works very well (thou

RE: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Diego Puppin Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:55 AM > is it possible to add the spamassassin "hits" score to the spam mails, > so that I can sort my spam box and find the "spammest" emails? Yep, it's in the Docs at: http://au.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html Add a line to local.c

[SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-17 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
On 2003-10-16, Brian Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you check the rule itself in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf you'll notice the > -notfirsthop part of the argument to check_rbl_txt(). This tells > SpamAssassin to check all hops except the first one for this match. As a I wasn't even aware that thi

RE: [SAtalk] New User question

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Balamuth
I apologize for not giving more detail. Being new to this list, I wasn't sure how much "stuff" people want to see on an initial question. We are running qmail with qmail-scanner 1.20rc3 (latest?) with qmail-scanner now running under its own uid of qscand. qmail-scanner is launched via qmail-queu

RE: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Colin A. Bartlett
Håkon Nilsen Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 7:21 AM > Bayes tages it worth 5.4 points. My limit is 5. How does Byes tag it this > much? What should I do to solve the issue? Raise the limit to 7.5 or > something would probably help on this one, but not all. A whitelist service > is already created,

Re: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's?

2003-10-17 Thread Michael W . Cocke
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:33:09 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Jeff Lasman wrote: >> They announced the phase out at least a year ago; perhaps longer. > >I just spoke to Red Hat, and none of their front line people could name a >date, though they 'guessed' that it must have been later

RE: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
YES you can subject_tag '[SA Says: _HITS_] SPAM' -Original Message- From: Diego Puppin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers Dear all, is it possible to add the spamassassin

RE: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Upwood, Jim
Yes: **SPAM** _HITS_ -Jim Jim Upwood System Administrator Bond, Schoeneck, and King Syracuse, NY -Original Message- From: Diego Puppin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:55 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers Dear all

[SAtalk] adding SPAM hits score to headers

2003-10-17 Thread Diego Puppin
Dear all, is it possible to add the spamassassin "hits" score to the spam mails, so that I can sort my spam box and find the "spammest" emails? I would like to have my spam emails tagged as: **SPAM** (score) Subject so I can sort and find which has 30 hits and which has only 5.5, and manage the

Re: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Amnon
"whitelist_to" maybe - Original Message - From: "Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 7:21 AM Subject: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong > Hi, > > This is a cross-message for MIMEdefang an

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin updates

2003-10-17 Thread Chris
> rpmbuild -ta Mail-Spamassassin-2.60.tar.gz Thanks for that tip. Running it produced: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60-1.i386.rpm spamassassin-tools-2.60-1.i386.rpm spamassassin-2.60-1.i386.rpm What does perl-Mai do? I assume all three need to be installed? --

[SAtalk] Redirect ?

2003-10-17 Thread guenther
I just wondered about redirecting mail to learn as Spam, as mentioned in FAQ 5.1. This will add extra headers (especially Received headers). Won't these headers poison the Bayesian database? btw: I upgraded to 2.60 yesterday and even spoiled SA with Razor and DCC (well, Pyzor cowardly refuses to

[SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Håkon Nilsen \(Exinet AS\)
Hi, This is a cross-message for MIMEdefang and SpamAssassin mailing lists. System: RH 7.3, Sendmail 8.12.10, SA 2.60, MIMEdefang 2.37 I just added new domain relaying through my mailserver. The users are ship brokers, and receive a _lot_ of mail from around the world. The problem is that lots an

RE: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Meunier
Train Bayes with sa-learn --ham using a sizable representative sample of the shipping company's "known good" email. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Håkon Nilsen (Exinet AS) > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 6:21 AM > To: [EMAIL P

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin 2.60 with Linux and Ensim Pro]

2003-10-17 Thread Diye Wariebi
Thanks Sergio I've got it working fine now for my virtual domains. Justing testing and fine tuning now. -- Regards Diye Wariebi Quoting Sergio Pires Albuquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin 2.60 with Linux and E