Re: [SAtalk] DCC, Razor rbl checks only when necessary?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Robert, Sunday, December 14, 2003, 11:25:06 PM, you wrote: RN> ie. is there a way to conditionally do those offsite checks only if RN> they are necessary? RN> ie. my current score is less than required_hits? You might want a variation on my mechanism. I'm stuck with user_prefs here, and d

Re: [SAdev] Re: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Michael Parker
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:00:19PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: > > There's definitely a lot of odd stuff in the SQL code, and we need > someone who would be willing to take it over and add the new things > we need (like known-good ordering of user/GLOBAL/@GLOBAL blocks, > and Bayes/AWL-in-SQL integ

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
There must be something else I'm missing - does spamd have to be started as a non-root user? There must be some reason it's not checking the SQL - I'm working backwards through the calls, but there must be a reason - eh? Thanks. m/ --- This

Re: [SAtalk] Some help with spam filtering.

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Menschel
Hello Ryan, Monday, December 15, 2003, 12:03:34 AM, you wrote: RL> I have been assined the job to delete all incoming mail before it reaches the RL> mailboxes. ... Are you using procmail or something similar? Should be fairly simple to code a procmail script entry that sends everything to /dev/n

[SAtalk] Error when TLD not specified?

2003-12-15 Thread Wendell Dingus
I've got spamd running with "-s local3" and "-D" to log to syslog and produce debug info as a poor-mans _verbose_ option. Anyway, parsing through the logs I noticed something which made me wonder if it's a bug in SA. Here's the FROM, TO, and SPAM score from these logs for an email: Dec 15 22:42:33

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn not "learning?"

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 10:06 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm confused here. I have just installed Spamassassin on the server. I had a folder with a few spams I'd recieved and wanted to feed them to sa-learn so it would recognise these types of email as spam. But when I run sa-learn --spam --mbox spamdump

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bayes database stats

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander Litvinov
> Plus, Alexander may have been just counting up the total Bayes directory > size, which could very likely bring it at least to 44. > LANG=C ls -lah ~/.spamassassin/ total 68M drwx--2 lan users 288 Dec 16 09:21 . drwx-- 73 lan users4.5k Dec 15 19:27 .. -rw--

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Bayes database stats

2003-12-15 Thread Alexander Litvinov
> How did you calculate those statistics -- does sa-learn do this, or did > you code up something for sa-learn's output? I have written small perl script for this. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in

Re: [SAtalk] Interesting service...

2003-12-15 Thread Fred
Tim B wrote: > Hey I stumbled over this little gem of a marketeer, looks like they > claim they can bypass any spamfilter. Anyone familiar with this group? > > onlinemarketingpros.net > That's funny, their website says in business since 1997, but their whois shows different (10 days ago ;): rs.

[SAtalk] sa-learn not "learning?"

2003-12-15 Thread dan
I'm confused here. I have just installed Spamassassin on the server. I had a folder with a few spams I'd recieved and wanted to feed them to sa-learn so it would recognise these types of email as spam. But when I run sa-learn --spam --mbox spamdump it says learned from 0 messages (3 messages s

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Stevens, John
You can find the patch at www.tusc.com.au/Conf.pm.diff. Note it is for 2.54 only, but should be easily adapted to suit any version. I needed to do this for a couple of reasons, mostly because these machines are gateways for an MS Exchange Server, and operate in our DMZ. Each user has several a

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Hmmm... under "man 3 Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf" I see: user_scores_sql_field_scope field_scope The 'scope' field. In Horde this makes the preference a single- module preference or a global preference. There's no real need to change it in other systems. Defa

RE: [SAtalk] Another sneaky spam; anyone got a filter to snag this one?

2003-12-15 Thread jennifer
> Actually, it looks like I've got a config problem: When I saved this > email to disk and ran it as my username on the mailserver, it scored > 15.3 points. When I ran it through spamc as root, it got 9.6. Yet, the > first time it came through, it scored a measley 3.7 points! What > gives? Hav

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
I'm using the latest 2.61 here... Would be interested in seeing your patch if it's posted somewhere... I imagine the sql_field entries are also useless on an unpatched SA. Are there any silly field size limits? like 6 character passwords or 10 character table names? If I had an error message I m

RE: [SAtalk] Bulk rule creation tools

2003-12-15 Thread Yackley, Matt
Hi David, Check out this page from Chris "Hockey is my life" Santerre: http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/evilrules.htm He talks about how he used the "REG2RULE.PL" script to automate writing some awesome uri rules. And here is the page for reg2rule (Many thanks to Dave Stead): htt

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Well SQL knowlege I have, my PERL is quite rusty though... Certainly can test / give feedback on design concepts though. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Justin Mason Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:51 PM To: Jeremy Zawodny Cc: Just

Re: [SAtalk] Another sneaky spam; anyone got a filter to snag this one?

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 06:48 PM 12/15/2003, Rubin Bennett wrote: When I saved this email to disk and ran it as my username on the mailserver, it scored 15.3 points. When I ran it through spamc as root, it got 9.6. Yet, the first time it came through, it scored a measley 3.7 points! What gives? Have I managed to zo

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Stevens, John
Hi All, I am not exactly sure of what the problem is here. It looks like you are using MySQL only for scores. I am using it for all user preferences, and had submitted a change I made to allow SA to use a Query (ie multiple joined tables). Scores and everything else have worked flawlessly sin

[SAtalk] spamd error: uninitialized value

2003-12-15 Thread diederik lascaris
Hi, When I run "spamd -a --vpopmail" I get this message every time an email is handelend by qmail (in and out): Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/bin/spamd line 1101, line 2. Use of uninitialized value in numeric gt (>) at /usr/bin/spamd line 1123, line 2. Use of uninitialized val

[SAtalk] Interesting service...

2003-12-15 Thread Tim B
Hey I stumbled over this little gem of a marketeer, looks like they claim they can bypass any spamfilter. Anyone familiar with this group? onlinemarketingpros.net --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert

Re: [SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread foo
Christopher Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having a somewhat similar problem. On our qmail/vpopmail setup, we > are running Spam Assassin via spamd/spamc, and a short maildrop script > is used for the SA-enabled domains to tag and deliver mail. > > This works great, so far, but our mail log

[SAtalk] Bayes/AWL in MySQL

2003-12-15 Thread cami
Hi All.. Are there any plans to store all bayes/awl related tokens etc inside a mysql database? Currently i have a server farm with 10 SA dedicated servers which are handling just over 350 000 mailboxes.. Wouldnt it be better to have everything updating one central place? (having it inside a mysql

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Zawodny writes: >On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:00:19PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: >> Mitch (WebCob) writes: >> > Not sure if I should be posting this here or sending to jengland... I >> > already did that though... >> > >> > Thanks in advance for

[SAtalk] Another sneaky spam; anyone got a filter to snag this one?

2003-12-15 Thread Rubin Bennett
Actually, it looks like I've got a config problem: When I saved this email to disk and ran it as my username on the mailserver, it scored 15.3 points. When I ran it through spamc as root, it got 9.6. Yet, the first time it came through, it scored a measley 3.7 points! What gives? Have I manage

Re: [SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread Christopher Kunz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been running SA for about a year on this particular server, and I've never noticed it until today, but when using the -a flag with -c, SA is trying to create user preference files for users that don't exist. I'm using qmail, vpopmail, and SA, and I've got a cat

[SAtalk] Bulk rule creation tools

2003-12-15 Thread David Hooton
Hi All, I have a rather large list of domains that I've collected that I am wanting to block. Does anyone have a "bulk admin tool" of sorts that I could use to make SA rules? I only want to block based on URI's with these domains in them and have a standard score that I would like to assign to a

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:00:19PM -0800, Justin Mason wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Mitch (WebCob) writes: > > Not sure if I should be posting this here or sending to jengland... I > > already did that though... > > > > Thanks in advance for looking at this... >

RE: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
I've recently heard people say it works... not that it's perfect, but for anyone to take over it sure would help if getting started according to the docs was possible ;-) So that said, I await someone to show me what I missed. I really did read it. I would think that a connection error would be a

Re: [SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Justin Mason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitch (WebCob) writes: > Not sure if I should be posting this here or sending to jengland... I > already did that though... > > Thanks in advance for looking at this... There's definitely a lot of odd stuff in the SQL code, and we need someone who w

Re: [SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 05:49 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you don't specify a user for spamd to run as, does it run as nobody? I'm not specifying a user. Well, spamd will start as root, and if spamc doesn't have a user specified AND spamc is run as root, spamd will fall back to nobody. In general, wi

[SAtalk] Re: Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread Scott A Crosby
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:38:59 -0600, Brad Koehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any spammer worth his salt runs his message through SA and other > popular anti-spam tools as best he can. Most of SA is relatively > static and slow to respond to changes in message content. The problem > comes in a few

[SAtalk] MySQL not working? No indication of error when running spamd -D

2003-12-15 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
Not sure if I should be posting this here or sending to jengland... I already did that though... Thanks in advance for looking at this... Any idea what I'm missing? The DBI tests did show success... I've also tried with a 127.0.0.1:3306 fir the dsn - now luck there either... I intentionally made

Re: [SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread foo
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:57 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm using qmail, vpopmail, and SA, and I've got a catchall setup. >> When sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], SA is creating >> directories in /, as "/no such user [EMAIL PROTECTED]". > > sounds like th

Re: [SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 04:57 PM 12/15/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using qmail, vpopmail, and SA, and I've got a catchall setup. When sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], SA is creating directories in /, as "/no such user [EMAIL PROTECTED]". sounds like the user_prefs directory is all screwed up... SA is prob

[SAtalk] "no such user" directories

2003-12-15 Thread foo
Hello, I've been running SA for about a year on this particular server, and I've never noticed it until today, but when using the -a flag with -c, SA is trying to create user preference files for users that don't exist. I'm using qmail, vpopmail, and SA, and I've got a catchall setup. When sendin

Re: [SAtalk] auto whitelist config question

2003-12-15 Thread J. S. Greenfield
I just downloaded it a few weeks ago (perhaps I just missed 2.61?). The tarball expanded to a directory called "Mail-SpamAssassin-2.60" and spamassassin -V returns "SpamAssassin version 2.60" Matt Kettler wrote: At 03:52 PM 12/15/2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote: The documentation suggests that t

Re: [SAtalk] auto whitelist config question

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 03:52 PM 12/15/2003, J. S. Greenfield wrote: The documentation suggests that this feature is turned on by default, with a factor of 0.5 -- however, in my installation, I see absolutely no sign of an auto-whitelist file anywhere (let alone where it is supposed to be). I tried setting use_auto

[SAtalk] auto whitelist config question

2003-12-15 Thread J. S. Greenfield
I'm playing with a rceent installation, trying to understand the practical effects of various configuration options -- and have just turned my eye to auto whitelists. The documentation suggests that this feature is turned on by default, with a factor of 0.5 -- however, in my installation, I see

Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
Any spammer worth his salt runs his message through SA and other popular anti-spam tools as best he can. Most of SA is relatively static and slow to respond to changes in message content. The problem comes in a few areas like checks against Received headers (since the spammer may be using tho

Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread Martin Radford
At Mon Dec 15 15:12:42 2003, Gary Smith wrote: > > Rubin, > > About a week ago a guy asked how to use SA to check the emails > before he sent them for some mail list (or some private promo > thing). I think that problem is that spammers themselves are > starting to use product like SA to valida

RE: [SAtalk] Re: [RD] raw/rare/folded/plain/alphed body/subject r endering streams

2003-12-15 Thread SpamTalk
> It would seem to me that, for purposes of rule simplification, that the subject and body of messages to be scanned should be available in pre-processed flavors, some of which is currently available. Assume the spam key is some thing like that Vuhee drug, V=P i=o e=a n=g s=r u=a (i.e. Poensu) > >

RE: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Gary Funck
With Larry's help, and a quick read of "perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf", I determined that I need to add the following to local.cf to get the behavior that I'm looking for: report_safe_copy_headers Received > -Original Message- > From: Larry Rosenman > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Virginia Busts Spammers

2003-12-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, December 15, 2003 12:32:51 -0600 Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bryan Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was just thinking, I know spam is a big problem, and all that, but reading the article, I don't know. I hate to sound schizophrenic, but I mean, surely these guys are

[SAtalk] Re: Virginia Busts Spammers

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Barnes
Bryan Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just thinking, I know spam is a big problem, and all that, but > reading the article, I don't know. I hate to sound schizophrenic, > but I mean, surely these guys are not "hardened criminals". Bullcrap. It takes someone who is very determined to im

[SAtalk] Re: False positive

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Barnes
Ryan Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Their database isn't wrong, as the IP is listed as being in a dialup > range, which would appear to be accurate by my guess. I would think > that the default rulesets are setup in such a way that it wouldn't > catch that sort of hit, since they did relay thro

Re: [SAtalk] DCC, Razor rbl checks only when necessary?

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 02:25 AM 12/15/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote: I'm just curious in what order does eval_tests execute the tests? Specifically are the offsite clearing houses only contacted whenever my current score is less than required_hits? no, they are always run whenever they are enabled ie. is there a way

Re: [SAtalk] always_add_report?

2003-12-15 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:01 AM 12/15/2003, Robert Nicholson wrote: I think in this case the spammer has found a way to fool SA because SA 2.61 simply won't process this message. My copy of SA 2.61 processes it fine spamassassin X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=5.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_99,HTML_MESSAGE, LOCAL_LO

[SAtalk] For the lists info

2003-12-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
I lied. the 2.6x DEFAULT config does *NOT* copy the received headers in. I forgot (I did it so long ago) that I added the following line to my local.cf: report_safe_copy_headers Received -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-M

[SAtalk] A couple more BigEvil false positives

2003-12-15 Thread Kelson Vibber
Welcome back from vacation, Chris! Here are a few FPs I've noticed in the 1.60 version of bigevil.cf BigEvilList_34 bbspot.com A humor site similar to The Onion in content BigEvilList_37 biz.yahoo.com Various places, including some legal newsletters BigEvilList_153 snopes.com An ur

[SAtalk] Re: RD: "justified" HTML

2003-12-15 Thread Scott A Crosby
On 15 Dec 2003 11:57:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:35:18 -0800 (PST), Regis Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > > I read some articles that urge against the {} notation. Can > > someone enlighten me? > > It's a Perl efficiency thing. If yo

RE: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Monday, December 15, 2003 09:42:48 -0800 Gary Funck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -Original Message- From: Brad Koehn Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...? Oh boy am I dumb! Never mind, the Received hea

RE: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Gary Funck
> -Original Message- > From: Brad Koehn > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:26 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...? > > > Oh boy am I dumb! > > Never mind, the Received headers are correct, it's the attached spam > message that shows the ful

Re: [SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
Oh boy am I dumb! Never mind, the Received headers are correct, it's the attached spam message that shows the full chain of headers back to the originating server. That whole Received... with Spamassassin thing through me for a loop. My bad, sorry for the waste of bandwidth. Brad Brad Koehn

[SAtalk] Received headers disappearing...?

2003-12-15 Thread Brad Koehn
I've noticed that my Received: headers seem to have disappeared, at least in messages that are marked as spam. For example, my subscription to this list came in with the following Received headers: Received: from mail.koehn.com ([unix socket]) by mail.koehn.com (Cyrus v2.1.15) with LMTP;

Re: [SAtalk] Looking at Bayes details?

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Thielen
Sean McCrohan said: > > Is there a way to get SA to return a list of the Bayes tokens a message > matched (and ideally, the score of each)? I wasn't able to spot anything > in the docs that would get me there. I'm tossing those messages back for > training, of course, but I'm curious where they wer

[SAtalk] Looking at Bayes details?

2003-12-15 Thread Sean McCrohan
In the past week or so, I've had a string of spam messages that were flagged as BAYES_00. At a glance, I haven't been able to see anything obvious that would have earned that rating, but I don't really want to go through all of the tokens in the database by hand. A simple Bayes-poisoned message I'

RE: Custom Rules (was Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...))

2003-12-15 Thread jennifer
Hi Raquel > I'm new to SA, and so far am pretty confused. I've been to your > (Jennifer) site, but don't know what to do with the rules that can > be downloaded. Are they added verbatim to local.cf? I'm sorry for > asking such an elementary question. Yes, pick the sets you want to use. Put t

Re: [SAtalk] DCC ? Vipul's Razor? skip_rbl_checks?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeff Lasman
On Monday 15 December 2003 12:06 am, Bill Landry wrote: > Did you install the Razor, DCC, and Pyzor modules? I actually didn't install anything; the install came from DirectAdmin. I'll be in touch with them to see if there's any reason why they did it the way they did and/or if I can install t

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil false positive

2003-12-15 Thread Chris Santerre
LOL WOW!!! I will fix these hopefully this afternoon! Thanks for the input. I'm catching up on 1500+ emails :) Vaca was great, you all should try it someday! --Chris (Shoveling more snow) Santerre > -Original Message- > From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, De

[SAtalk] Setting up SpamAssassin with Postfix on RedHat

2003-12-15 Thread Dan Spray
Hello, I am going to try setting up SpamAssassin with RedHat 7.3 and Postfix. I was wandering if anyone has any good how-to's or personal notes on doing this that would be great. I want to use the MySQL function as well. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance, Dan -- Dan Spray, D

Re: [SAtalk] always_add_report?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I think in this case the spammer has found a way to fool SA because SA 2.61 simply won't process this message. On Dec 15, 2003, at 9:56 AM, Robert Nicholson wrote: I'm confused how this is suppose to work. I've got this message that I think SA is ignoring. I'm not getting any X-Spam headers at

[SAtalk] always_add_report?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm confused how this is suppose to work. I've got this message that I think SA is ignoring. I'm not getting any X-Spam headers at all over putting this message thru SA. >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 15 00:51:53 2003 Received: (qmail 10603 invoked from network); 15 Dec 2003 06:51:41 - Recei

RE: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread Jon Gerdes
Gary Fine, let them use SA to test their filth out. However, they can only get at the stock SA. They can't have "my" SA and that has *my* rules in it, ie rules designed specifically by me for my mail feed (or at least the company I work for) Also, they can't fool BigEvil either then there is

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.61 released!

2003-12-15 Thread Mike Vanecek
On 15 Dec 2003 12:19:38 +0200, era wrote > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:01:10 -0600, Mike Vanecek >> I ran into this installing 2.61. I just did a --force to get around >> it, but wondered if that was a safe approach? What is the purpose >> of perllocal.pod and why does perl-Mail-SpamAssassin have a

RE: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread Gary Smith
Rubin, About a week ago a guy asked how to use SA to check the emails before he sent them for some mail list (or some private promo thing). I think that problem is that spammers themselves are starting to use product like SA to validate if an email is spam or not so they can fool the system.

Re: [SAtalk] SA + Openldap problem

2003-12-15 Thread Keith Olmstead
Has anyone gotten spamassassin to work with users in OpenLdap?? If so, can you msg me and tell me what you did. I can not. Thanks, Keith Olmstead On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Keith Olmstead wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:32:56 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Olmstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SAtalk] RD: "justified" HTML

2003-12-15 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Regis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > full JUSTIFIED_HTML /(\n.{74}=){3,}/ > describe JUSTIFIED_HTML Body uses 74 char wide, justified HTML code > score JUSTIFIED_HTML2.0 > > I read some articles that urge against the {} notation. Can someone enlighten > me? In your case, you should

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-15 Thread Marcio Merlone
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:25:38 -0500 Terry Milnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tried dropping the comma after [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see > the comma included in the spamassassin.conf man page. > > Marcio Merlone wrote: > > whitelist_to[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes,

Re: [SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-15 Thread Terry Milnes
Have you tried dropping the comma after [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't see the comma included in the spamassassin.conf man page. Marcio Merlone wrote: Hello all, I think my whitelist_to is not working, can someone help me? On /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]# grep [EMAIL PR

[SAtalk] Help with whitelist_to

2003-12-15 Thread Marcio Merlone
Hello all, I think my whitelist_to is not working, can someone help me? On /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]# grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf whitelist_to[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam]# And, on a spam report: [EM

[SAtalk] Re: Bayes Corpus Project

2003-12-15 Thread era
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:45:00 +, Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > (If you're paranoid, you could make sure that you don't have > confidential single tokens in there: bank account numbers and > important --- i.e., non-Mailman --- passwords). Right. I'm sure those who cou

[SAtalk] Re: Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...)

2003-12-15 Thread era
On 14 Dec 2003 17:25:23 -0600, Scott A Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > On 14 Dec 2003 12:47:58 -0500, Rubin Bennett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And, has anyone given any thought to working the SA engine up in C or >> something faster than Perl? I've seen many iss

[SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.61 released!

2003-12-15 Thread era
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 17:01:10 -0600, Mike Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:30:09 -0800, Justin Mason wrote >> >http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2569 >> Missed that one; I've just set it to be fixed for 2.62. It seems pretty >> com

[SAtalk] Re: DB_File problem prevents Bayes working

2003-12-15 Thread era
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:53:41 -0800, Fred Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > version.c:30:16: db.h: No such file or directory Looks like it (predictably) needs some Berkeley library to be installed in order to link with it. If you're on Debian, this typically means you need

[SAtalk] Re: daily / weekly reports

2003-12-15 Thread era
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:40:07 - (GMT), JohnT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > i'd like to have a report sent to me with a breakdown of SA's activity, > either daily or weekly or whatever. > ideally, for it to list Sender, Recipient, Subject and Spam Score for all > mails th

[SAtalk] Re: RD: "justified" HTML

2003-12-15 Thread era
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:35:18 -0800 (PST), Regis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to spamassassin-talk: > I read some articles that urge against the {} notation. Can > someone enlighten me? It's a Perl efficiency thing. If you are confident that your rule works OK, you may want to change it sli

Re: [SAtalk] Some help with spam filtering.

2003-12-15 Thread William Stearns
Good day, Ryan, On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Ryan Lumsden wrote: > I have been assined the job to delete all incoming mail before it reaches the > mailboxes. Now I understand this is not recommend as "some" mail can be HAM. > > So what I would like to do is filter the labeled mail to a SPAM folder in

Re: [SAtalk] DCC ? Vipul's Razor? skip_rbl_checks?

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
Did you install the Razor, DCC, and Pyzor modules? If you enable them in local.cf without actually installing the modules, spamassassin will simply ignore those settings. You can test by running: spamassassin -D --lint to see if it reports any errors or finds the necessary modules. Bil

[SAtalk] Score reduction test

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
Is there a way to retrieve the MX/A record info from spamassassin via a .cf based test? I would like to be able to build a score reduction test that will help legit messages get delivered. Here are my thoughts: HELO & "A" record & rDNS domain match -1 HELO & "A" record & rDNS & MAILFROM domain

[SAtalk] Some help with spam filtering.

2003-12-15 Thread Ryan Lumsden
HI I have been assined the job to delete all incoming mail before it reaches the mailboxes. Now I understand this is not recommend as "some" mail can be HAM. So what I would like to do is filter the labeled mail to a SPAM folder in the users mailbox, all mailboxes are MDIR so this is not a pro

Re: Custom Rules (was Re: [SAtalk] Clever spam (first of many, I'm afraid...))

2003-12-15 Thread Bill Landry
You can add them to your local.cf file, if you want. However, I would simply drop them into the same location of your local.cf file, typically located at /etc/mail/spamassassin, and just make sure you use a .cf extension. Spamassassin will read all files in that directory that end in .cf. If you

[SAtalk] Very clever spam

2003-12-15 Thread Don Steiny
I have started to get spam whose body consists of something like a discussion of Collrige's poetry, in other words, the body of the message is text that could be from a history book or literature book. There will be one URL in it that is for the site they are advertising. -Don -- Don St

[SAtalk] DCC, Razor rbl checks only when necessary?

2003-12-15 Thread Robert Nicholson
I'm just curious in what order does eval_tests execute the tests? Specifically are the offsite clearing houses only contacted whenever my current score is less than required_hits? ie. is there a way to conditionally do those offsite checks only if they are necessary? ie. my current score is less

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with qmail and dotqmails sending blank messages

2003-12-15 Thread Asif Iqbal
Hi Dave Have you ever got any answer on this ? I am trying to use spamc/spamd with qmail as well On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, David wrote: > Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:10:14 -0700 > From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Spamassassin with qmail and dotqmails sending bl

[SAtalk] DCC ? Vipul's Razor? skip_rbl_checks?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeff Lasman
I'm using spamassassin version 2.55 with Exim version 4.24, as supplied by the hosting control panel people at DirectAdmin (http://www.directadmin.com/). My spamassassin config file at /etc/mail/local.cf has these lines: # Enable or disable network checks skip_rbl_checks 0 use_razor2

[SAtalk] problem training bayes?

2003-12-15 Thread Jeff Lasman
I'm using spamassassin because it's included in the DirectAdmin hosting panel we use (http://www.directadmin.com/). We use version 2.55, implemented with Exim 4.24. I haven't noticed any improvement after training using sa-learn on hundreds of messages and I noticed what may be an interesting a