[SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> Yes, the situation I'm talking about is lots of spamd processes running at > once using lots of memory. (Not to mention the local delivery processes > running at the same time as well) > > Spamd using 800MB of ram is a bug, and one which I've never encountered > yet in months of using spamd, so i

Re: [SAtalk] New dnsbl to use?

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Landry
- Original Message - From: "Jonathan Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hey all, > http://www.au.sorbs.net/ <---looks kind of neat. Is there any way to > write a rule to have SpamAssassin peek at it? I'm guessing that the > answer is "yes" but the obvious fact is that I have no idea how to do

Re: [SAtalk] bayes learning "To" and "Received" headers?

2003-10-18 Thread Satya
On Oct 18, 2003 at 16:20, Arlo Gilbert wrote: >it would appear from the data im seeing that bayes is learning the to >and received headers on mails... obviously this seems a bit redundant >and will only add to the size of the bayes db, without contributing >anything (maybe even harming the learnin

[SAtalk] New dnsbl to use?

2003-10-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Hey all, http://www.au.sorbs.net/ <---looks kind of neat. Is there any way to write a rule to have SpamAssassin peek at it? I'm guessing that the answer is "yes" but the obvious fact is that I have no idea how to do it. :) -Jonathan --- Thi

[SAtalk] How to filter this?

2003-10-18 Thread Jonathan Nichols
I've had 5 variants of this slip through, all of them have "ournames.com" in the source but varying "from" addresses. Thank you! :) Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mailgate.pbp.net (mailgate.pbp.net [192.168.10.87]) by mail.pbp.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D453317A0B

[SAtalk] bayes learning "To" and "Received" headers?

2003-10-18 Thread Arlo Gilbert
it would appear from the data im seeing that bayes is learning the to and received headers on mails... obviously this seems a bit redundant and will only add to the size of the bayes db, without contributing anything (maybe even harming the learning?) of the bayes engine. any thoughts on this?

Re: [SAtalk] Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand wrote on Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:41:35 +1300: > >> 128MB is not enough in my experience. I found that with 128MB of ram >> that I >> had to limit concurant scanning to no more than 5 spamd processes at >> once >> or a burst of incomming traffic would push the machine into swap >> render

Re: [-3.6] [SAtalk] Using SPAMD ?

2003-10-18 Thread Charles Gregory
spamassassin calls a directly executed perl script - NO spamd involved. And this carries the resource loads of loading/compiling the code for every piece of mail. spamc (which you should use in place of 'spamassassin' in your procmailrc) needs to have spamd running as a daemon process. - Charle

RE: [SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Polhemus
Thanks for the response. Yes, I do run Razor2, and yes I did the patch. Could the patch not have "taken," though? William L. Polhemus, Jr. P.E. Polhemus Engineering Company Katy, Texas USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick Morris S

Re: [SAtalk] Using SPAMD ?

2003-10-18 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Quick question. > > I have the usual line in my .procmailrc file of > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock > * < 256000 > | spamassassin > > Which I *think* calls spamc? I don't have spamd running on my system and > SA is working so I assume it's either calling spamc or on demand calling > spamd. Hmm, Loo

[SAtalk] Re: Problem with expirying bayes db

2003-10-18 Thread Bernd Kuhls
On Sa 18 Okt 2003 02:21:34p Soeren Gerlach wrote: > debug: bayes: something fishy, calculating atime (first pass) > debug: bayes: couldn't find a good delta atime, need more token > difference, skipping expire. Hi, I am having exactly the same problems here since some time. I also upgraded from

Re: [SAtalk] Using SPAMD ?

2003-10-18 Thread Dan Wilder
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:58:04PM -0400, Chris wrote: > Quick question. > > I have the usual line in my .procmailrc file of > > :0fw: spamassassin.lock * < 256000 | spamassassin > > Which I *think* calls spamc? I don't have spamd running on my system and SA > is working so I assume it's either

Re: [SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"

2003-10-18 Thread Patrick Morris
Bill Polhemus wrote: I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me diagnose this? I know next to NOTHING about Perl. The following is an error message I get when attempting to run SA from an email alias under Sendmail: - Transcript of session follows - Insecure

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin not active - troubleshooting help request

2003-10-18 Thread kevin
I have an account with Lunarpages.com, a web hosting company. They provide SpamAssassin 2.55, enabled through cPanel 8.2.0-RELEASE 28. Their mailer is Exim 4.23. A few days back, SpamAssassin stopped working -- it stopped adding X-spam-status (etc.) headers to incoming emails. I contacted Lunar

[SAtalk] "Insecure dependency in sysopen"

2003-10-18 Thread Bill Polhemus
I realize this is a Perl problem, but can anyone help me diagnose this? I know next to NOTHING about Perl.   The following is an error message I get when attempting to run SA from an email alias under Sendmail:        - Transcript of session follows - Insecure dependency in sy

[SAtalk] Brazilian antispam rules (new developer group)

2003-10-18 Thread Ernesto Baschny
Hi! A new mailing list SpamAssassin-Devel-BR (Brazilian portuguese) has been created. More info here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-devel-br The list is supposed to work in a similar fashin as already existant German list (spamassassin-devel-de), and we already have

[SAtalk] Using SPAMD ?

2003-10-18 Thread Chris
Quick question.   I have the usual line in my .procmailrc file of   :0fw: spamassassin.lock* < 256000| spamassassin Which I *think* calls spamc? I don't have spamd running on my system and SA is working so I assume it's either calling spamc or on demand calling spamd.   Can anyone clarify wh

[SAtalk] Bayes not seeming to learn?

2003-10-18 Thread Chris
I switched over to RPM's from CPAN (i'll send a not later on what I did and what I found by doing it) but now I notice that bayes doesn't seem to learn.   sa-learn --dumpUse of uninitialized value in numeric lt (<) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore.pm line 1

[SAtalk] Spamassassin and pre-filtering in .procmailrc

2003-10-18 Thread Rob Tow
I am trying to pre-filter a bit in .promailrc, to catch some addressed names within my domain and totally get rid of them (for test purposes I'm sending them to a file, but really want them to go to /dev/null). However, I'm seeing them go to the files, and then get handed off to Spam Assassin,

Re: [SAtalk] Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simon Byrnand wrote on Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:41:35 +1300: > 128MB is not enough in my experience. I found that with 128MB of ram that I > had to limit concurant scanning to no more than 5 spamd processes at once > or a burst of incomming traffic would push the machine into swap rendering > it unu

Re: [SAtalk] infinite-monkeys

2003-10-18 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:00:30 -0700 "ian douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any information on infinite-monkeys on how to contact them regarding > getting removed from their systems? Spammers DDoS'd them off the net. Stop checking their DNSBL and tell others to stop using it too. mo

RE: [SAtalk] infinite-monkeys

2003-10-18 Thread ian douglas
> Spammers DDoS'd them off the net. Stop checking their DNSBL and tell > others to stop using it too. monkeys.com is dead. Okay, thanks. -id --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Data

RE: [SAtalk] LOTS of mail being tagged wrong

2003-10-18 Thread Mike Carlson
I had a similar problem where a lot of email was being tagged as spam. I just upped the requirement to 5.5 and that helped immensely. I have yet to get a false positive for reasons other than acceptable languages. I only have a couple users that still get more than one or two unmarked spams a day i

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> 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

Re: [SAtalk] slow list

2003-10-18 Thread Justin Mason
"Colin A. Bartlett" writes: >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 becau

[SAtalk] Problem with expirying bayes db

2003-10-18 Thread Soeren Gerlach
Hi, I'm using SA 2.60 and have trained with about ~5.000 spams over the last weeks and months. I've started with 2.50 and switched to 2.60 a few weeks ago. Currently there are some ~300K tokens in the database which I'd like to expire with the following settings: bayes_expiry_max_db_size 30

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Dominik Ruf
* Daniel M. Drucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-18 09:38]: > Is there a way to discover what SA currently treats as trusted? Yes, running with debug (-D) switch turn on. Received.pm: dbg ("received-header: relay ".$relay->{ip}." trusted? ". ($in_trusted ? "yes" : "no"))

RE: [SAtalk] strange behavior of Bayesian analyzer in SA 2.6

2003-10-18 Thread Brian Sneddon
For the record I also began noticing many more 100% Bayesian matches after upgrading from 2.55 to 2.6. So far it hasn't resulted in any false positives that I'm aware of, but it has left me feeling slightly uneasy. Brian -Original Message- From: Ben Wing [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

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

2003-10-18 Thread Shane Williams
I think you may be misinterpreting the auto_whitelist_path option. For instance, if you have a line in local.cf like: auto_whitelist_path/var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist then /var/spool/spamassassin/auto-whitelist is not a directory. Instead, it means that SA will create a file in /var/

[SAtalk] correction: re strange behavior of Bayesian analyzer in SA 2.6

2003-10-18 Thread Ben Wing
the test message that got flagged by the Bayesian analyzer as 100% spam actually had a bit more than just "test" in the body since i sent it from a yahoo account: -- test. --

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> 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 interna

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] SA 2.60 and amavisd-new - more bayes issues?

2003-10-18 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Stewart, John schrieb am Mittwoch, 15. Oktober 2003 um 14:02:31 -0500: > > I finally got around to installing 2.60 today in my system, running it with > amavisd-new (which I also bumped up to the latest, 20030616. > > I'm very happy that the bayes opportunistic expiration is now configurable > wi

[SAtalk] lint difference in 2.60

2003-10-18 Thread Robert Menschel
I manage three domains which are hosted on three different servers by the same hosting company, all of which use SpamAssassin. Last night, one of the servers was migrated from SA 2.55 to SA 2.60 I am using the same user_prefs file on all three systems. > spamassassin --lint returns with no errors

[SAtalk] strange behavior of Bayesian analyzer in SA 2.6

2003-10-18 Thread Ben Wing
hi. i just upgraded from 2.53 to 2.6 and i'm seeing something rather odd about the Bayesian results: nearly every one is almost exactly 0%, 50%, or 100%! it's almost as if it's applying an extreme rounding function to the actual result. now, these are turning out so far to be accurate, but i'm st

Re: [SAtalk] CPAN or RPM's?

2003-10-18 Thread Michael W . Cocke
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:13:27 -0400, you wrote: > > >> -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 s