Re: [SAtalk] catching Nigerian scam?

2002-05-23 Thread Charlie Watts
Skills required" - seen on chi.jobs > > ___ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > ___

Re: [SAtalk] SMTPD32

2002-05-22 Thread Charlie Watts
aracteristics but are *not* spam, either disable the SMTPD32 test on your SA installation or whitelist that sender in some other way. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer&#

Re: Blind-copy (Re: [SAtalk] Postfix snapshot 1.1.8-20020505 available)

2002-05-12 Thread Charlie Watts
needs to be a manually-scored rule. But it probably needs to be manually-scored and enabled anyway, because everyone has different support for this header. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _

[SAtalk] Postfix snapshot 1.1.8-20020505 available

2002-05-06 Thread Charlie Watts
means, and find it *very* good. As this header becomes more and more common, could a generalized test for this make it into the SA distribution? Perhaps with a config-file item to tell which header to look at? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://w

Re: [SAtalk] Some mails not being scanned

2002-05-06 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Sean Rima wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 5 May 2002, Charlie Watts stated: > > > On Sun, 5 May 2002, Sean Rima wrote: > > > >> I have found recently that every so often mails are not being scanned

Re: [SAtalk] Some mails not being scanned

2002-05-05 Thread Charlie Watts
se messages aren't being scanned (no SA headers?) ? Are these messages over 256K ? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mi

Re: [SAtalk] Fwd'ed spam

2002-05-03 Thread Charlie Watts
mic and distributed URI-blacklisting mechanism. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the

Re: [SAtalk] Re: OT Apple discussion

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
earlier - Apple has a policy that if they upgrade right after you order, they'll let you pay the difference to upgrade to current hardware. By all accounts so far the difference in price is *well* worth it. Or get the current 667 and it might be cheaper. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTE

[SAtalk] Re: OT Apple discussion

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Craig R Hughes wrote: > Charlie Watts wrote: > > CW> Lemme guess: PBG4 ? > CW> > CW> I have a 550 ... very happy with it. Much more fragile than the iceBook, > CW> but also much more usable - the screen real estate is nice, and yours will > C

Re: [SAtalk] AWL verses early-terminate

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
nalty. The > auto-blacklist isn't super useful most of the time, because most spammers don't > re-user From addresses in the same way that "real" correspondents do. > > C > > Charlie Watts wrote: > > CW> I've been running with the site-wide AWL an

Re: [SAtalk] Another false positive

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
the Apple Store to > help the stock, but I think today's $4k will have to be enough for a > while ;-) Lemme guess: PBG4 ? I have a 550 ... very happy with it. Much more fragile than the iceBook, but also much more usable - the screen real estate is nice, and yours will be even better.

Re: [SAtalk] spamd hangs

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
s -after- 2.11, though. You might grab from CVS and see if it is fixed there. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We s

Re: [SAtalk] What is the cleanest mail server to use with SA ?

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
7;s instructions (check the archives here), is a couple > of minutes work, total. I was already using Postfix + Maildrop as local delivery agent. Configuring this for spamassassin took this single line in /etc/maildroprc: xfilter "/usr/bin/spamc -f" Top t

Re: [SAtalk] More SA site-wide stuff

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
fix system will be affected, indeed. If fetchmail delivers straight to your mailbox, no, postfix might not be consulted. Perhaps fetchmail supports "filtering" each message? Or perhaps you should have fetchmail feed to postfix instead o

Re: [SAtalk] i've got so many questions :-)

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
scenario? Has anyone come up with a > HOWTO or DOCUMENT that discusses the procedures or steps in configuring > SA and Postfix as a relay server? Look at spamproxy. It can be used as a postfix content_filter. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net

Re: [SAtalk] Turning on logging with spamd?

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
rking accounts, or is it *missing* on the non-working accounts? If it is missing, the messages aren't going through SA. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Have big pipes? Sourc

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassing Lists and the Whitelist

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
ed way for spammers to get things through the system. And the last thing we need is for spammers to start getting messages through by forging a "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" header. :-) -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fron

[SAtalk] AWL verses early-terminate

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
t than an Auto-WHITE & BLACK-list. Just musing out loud ... or perhaps an adjustment to the AWL math when -S is enabled would be in order. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Have bi

Re: [SAtalk] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
9 required=5.0 > it would have been correct. If the header tells me the hit count was 5.0, > then the comparison should be using the same number. I'd like both: round to two decimal places, compare on those two decimal places, and display two decimal places. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Early DCC results

2002-05-02 Thread Charlie Watts
while, hopefully one of them being that > ISPs will be able to run local servers to prevent lag. I got that call too. Seemed like they are headed in some intriguing directions. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier I

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassing performance and memory usage

2002-04-25 Thread Charlie Watts
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:31:08AM -0600, Charlie Watts wrote: > > Is there anything that can be done to -avoid- this? > > > > Perhaps wrapping the regex portion of SA in an alarm() timer so that > > long-running regexes

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassing performance and memory usage

2002-04-25 Thread Charlie Watts
interesting. I wonder if it's constructed specifically to make SA > hang... I guess we need to redo the body test parser to grep out blank lines. > *sigh* Is there anything that can be done to -avoid- this? Perhaps wrapping the regex portion of SA in an alarm() timer so that lon

Re: [SAtalk] http://http://... Obfuscated URLs

2002-04-24 Thread Charlie Watts
Response rate is going to be pretty low on mal-formed URL's anyway. "http://http://"; ? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Ignoring MAILER-DAEMON messages

2002-04-16 Thread Charlie Watts
here a way to stop this. You say it was whitelisted - why didn't that keep them from being tagged? Does the whitelisting appear in your X-Spam-Status header? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list

Re: [SAtalk] Magnitude of problem

2002-04-11 Thread Charlie Watts
nservative about what I outright reject vs. let go through the tagger. Needless to say, I think SpamAssassin is the Bee's Knees. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] Re: [SAdev] [Bug 202] New: A text/html message isn't whitelisted ifspamd has -S

2002-04-10 Thread Charlie Watts
.html > -43.4/5.0 > bash# spamc -p -c < weird.plain > -45.7/5.0 > > > > --- You are receiving this mail because: --- > You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. > > ___ > Spamassassin-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists

[SAtalk] AWL as loophole

2002-04-09 Thread Charlie Watts
ther way to catch these things. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] "Broken CGI script message" specifics?

2002-04-06 Thread Charlie Watts
You might look at his patched version: ftp://ftp.monkeys.com/pub/formmail/1.9s/ -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Freedom of Press / Speech / Junk Mail (yah right)

2002-03-28 Thread Charlie Watts
; in the body tag. > (3) Change "block similar unwanted mail" to "filter similar mail" in the > body tag. What is this? Block similar unwanted mail? I don't recognize that option. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/

RE: [SAtalk] Freedom of Press / Speech / Junk Mail (yah right)

2002-03-28 Thread Charlie Watts
s for the whole kit-n-kaboodle of spam/mers Lots of times the rules use eval checks. This could be easily avoided. And sometimes rules move between regex and eval. That's a little bit harder. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. htt

Re: [SAtalk] Split list into user and developer lists?

2002-03-26 Thread Charlie Watts
nough for users to mix'n'match then. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] If they're going to advertise it ...

2002-03-26 Thread Charlie Watts
e Email Sender V4.0, > > Oooh, it so *cuute*! Who's a widdle cuttie pie? Who's a > widdle cutie pie? You are! Oh yes you are! I think I'm going to go throw up now. Yick. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ __

Re: [SAtalk] Patches and updates

2002-03-22 Thread Charlie Watts
ly make it in. ORBS checks have just > >now been disabled in CVS. > > > What about ORBZ tests? Don't want to speak for Craig, but I imagine he just typoed - and intended to write ORBZ. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-03-21 Thread Charlie Watts
IX operating system may create real file blocks for these > holes when touched. These files cannot be copied by normal > means ( cp(1), cat(1), tar(1), ar(1)) without filling in the > holes." Interesting thought - but mine isn't a DBM ... $ ls -k -s auto-whitelis

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-03-19 Thread Charlie Watts
On 19 Mar 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 01:34, Charlie Watts wrote: > > I've been using the AWL with no problems for a little over a week now. I > > just wanted to mention this in reply to my earlier "it's broken" message. > > I dunno w

[SAtalk] content-type html validity?

2002-03-19 Thread Charlie Watts
I'm noticing some spam which is text/html but does not have the tags. Anybody else seeing this? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-03-18 Thread Charlie Watts
On 19 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:57, Charlie Watts wrote: > > And I'm actually playing with Razor again. It isn't nearly as broken as it > > was for a while. But I've got some spare CPU cycles to throw at Razor > > right now.

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-03-18 Thread Charlie Watts
ou run tools/check_whitelist? > > C > > on 2/20/02 11:25 AM, Charlie Watts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On 19 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > > > >> Ok, it's done. That was the last thing on the list to get done before a > >> 2.1 release, so now I

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > > > Does anybody get legit mail with no body? > > > > > > Yep, and I send a lot too (just mailing each other files in the office > > > would be one example, an

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > In my spam collection, they're all already caught by the DNS blacklists - > > but some of y'all aren't using the blacklists. > > > > I'm seeing more an

RE: [SAtalk] spamd and Solaris syslog

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
> > > > my $log_facility = 'mail'; > > openlog('test_logger','foo,bar',$log_facility); > > syslog('info',"Test log entry"); > > > > -- > > Charlie Watts > > > I did some poking aroung on my system a

[SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
and grep my mailboxes for the -lack- of a body. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Spamming via sound files, and other intersting techniques

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Matthew Cline wrote: > On Monday 11 March 2002 06:46 pm, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > Did you play it? (or at least look at it more closely) > > Ah. It's file type *is* "MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows", so I > guess it's

Re: [SAtalk] Spamming via sound files, and other intersting techniques

2002-03-12 Thread Charlie Watts
Did I see mention of: uri HTTP_CTRL_CHARS_HOST/^https\:\/\/[^\/]*[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f]/ the other day? That should probably be: uri HTTP_CTRL_CHARS_HOST/^https?\:\/\/[^\/]*[\x00-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f]/ -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.fronti

Re: [SAtalk] spamd and Solaris syslog

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Watts
erl5/bin/spamd -a -d -s local0 -u qmailq -x -L -F 0 It works for me. I think I'd be looking at syslog. Perhaps your Perl syslog interface? #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock); my $log_facility = 'mail'; openlog('test_logger','fo

Re: [SAtalk] Spamming via sound files, and other intersting techniques

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Watts
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Matthew Cline wrote: > cid:V34tfyBO41605h49r height=0 width=0> > > > Since "V34tfyBO41605h49r" is the sound file, a mail reader with better HTML > rendering would have created a frame with the sound file as it's source, thus > automatically playing it. No need to click an a

Re: [SAtalk] report_header and use_terse_report not working for me

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Watts
Check /etc/spamassassin, ~/.spamassassin/ -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Watts
ke sure it doesn't backtrack horribly (I > don't think it will, but I could be wrong). What does *? do? (It doesn't blow up on the string that was choking it before ...) -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ _

Re: [SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-11 Thread Charlie Watts
hat the other test has. Does that matter? I'm not sure. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SA] Tired of those speeding tickets?

2002-03-10 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 09:31:45PM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > (I've blocked em5000.net entirely in my MTA; I've blocked many tens of > > thousands of messages from them, and haven't gotten a single complaint >

Re: [SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-10 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Sidney Markowitz wrote: > The following program did not take long to run. What am I doing wrong? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > $string="AAA foofoo"; > if ($string=~/^[^a-z]*([A-Z][^a-z]*){3,}[^a-z]*$/) { > print "passed\n"; > } else { > print "failed\n

Re: [SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Rob McMillin wrote: > > s/b > > return $subject cmp uc($subject); > > 's OK, I'll share my prize with you. Everybody goes home a winner here at "The Regex is Right!" -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier

Re: [SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Rob McMillin wrote: > Charlie Watts wrote: > > >The current SUBJ_ALL_CAPS is broken. > > > >(The one from CVS - this: > >header SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject =~ /^[^a-z]*([A-Z][^a-z]*){3,}[^a-z]*$/ > >) > > > Congratulations, Charlie!

[SAtalk] Re: [SA] Tired of those speeding tickets?

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
http://em5000.net/unsub.php?client=superhotoffers&msgid=9030200042 > and enter your email address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

[SAtalk] SUBJ_ALL_CAPS regex broken

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
The current SUBJ_ALL_CAPS is broken. (The one from CVS - this: header SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject =~ /^[^a-z]*([A-Z][^a-z]*){3,}[^a-z]*$/ ) Scanning this message takes 10 seconds: From: Charlie Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A foofoo token body This takes 20 seconds

Re: [SAtalk] new spamd doesn't reap children

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > > > > > spamd from last night sometimes do

Re: [SAtalk] BUG: Documentation wrong about sitewide/etc/mail/spamassassin/user_prefs.template

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
l: /etc/mail > > Point taken. > > By default, however, Debian comes with exim, not sendmail. Sendmail (and > only sendmail) seems to use /etc/mail. FreeBSD also has /etc/mail/mailer.conf, which controls the "mailwrapper" abstraction to sendmail. (mailwrapper is usually a sy

Re: [SAtalk] new spamd doesn't reap children

2002-03-09 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:18:25PM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > > > spamd from last night sometimes doesn't always reap its children; This is > > > with the -S set

Re: [SAtalk] new spamd doesn't reap children

2002-03-08 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > spamd from last night sometimes doesn't always reap its children; This is > with the -S setting on or off, with auto-whitelist on or off. > > They sit there sucking up CPU like there is no tomorrow. > > Went back to an older spamd

[SAtalk] new spamd doesn't reap children

2002-03-08 Thread Charlie Watts
I'm using FreeBSD 4.5-stable. Can somebody think of another socket-serving perl daemon that spawns children and is reasonably portable? I'm just surprised that this continues to be a problem ... -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. htt

Re: [SAtalk] Misc. rule ideas

2002-03-07 Thread Charlie Watts
am box have 'https' in them. Lots of those rules look worth experimenting with. Nice contribution, thanks. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SAtalk] suggestion don't put * * * S P A M * * * in subject

2002-03-01 Thread Charlie Watts
X-Spam-Status header. "X-Spam-Status: Yes" means it is spam. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-02-21 Thread Charlie Watts
ages become new entries in the database. None > of this is rocket science of course ;-) Because those are both too slow. Part of the point is to get stuff into the database -fast- so that an in-process spam run can get thwarted. They're looking for a system where you trust -submitters- (eh, roug

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-02-20 Thread Charlie Watts
ptp 123 PTP # Performance Transparency Protocol isis124 ISIS# ISIS over IPv4 fire125 FIRE But I don't see how the code could have done that. So obviously the stack got broken. Perhaps some locking interaction? Perhaps it'

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-02-20 Thread Charlie Watts
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > And I'm actually playing with Razor again. It isn't nearly as broken as it > > was for a while. But I've got some spare CPU cycles to throw at Razor > > right n

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-02-19 Thread Charlie Watts
many limitations at pop3 side, and needs special pop3 > daemon (which at first time of mail checking checks and move new mails > to a new folder where the user can download from). This would be pretty easy. Don't change your pop3 daemon, just write a wrapper/proxy for it. At first glance I think IMAP would be a bit harder. Would probably help for Razor tests, too. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] 2.1 compile error...

2002-02-19 Thread Charlie Watts
I love getting credit for that sort of thing. Glad to help. Even if I was just regurgitating things folks have told me before. On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Uwe Willenbacher wrote: > Again, thanks to Charlie Watts, I was able to compile spamc and it is > happily working on my Solaris box -- I

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin in 100% C

2002-02-19 Thread Charlie Watts
pros and cons. > Are you interested in such thing in CVS ? I'd love to see it. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] 2.1 compile error...

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
S=64 -O Hi all, > spamd/spamc.c \ > -o spamd/spamc > Undefined first referenced > symbol in file > socket /var/tmp/ccyc54jJ.o You probably need "-lnsl" or "-lsocket&

Re: [SAtalk] Tagged messages sent to specific mailbox...

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
And if so, how can this be implemented? Thanks. Use a filter in your local delivery agent (procmail, for most folks.) Indeed, the procmail example on http://www.spamassassin.org/faq.html shows how to do just this. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, I

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problems

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
ivery agents running at any given time. My system is OK with 10 concurrent ... Perhaps you can do the same thing with sendmail? Hrm. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMA

Re: [SAtalk] Re: BLOCK: ISPs allowing numeric IDs (fwd)

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:53:08AM -0700, Charlie Watts wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > > > Some interesting discussion here. Apparently many freemail providers > > > require the first ch

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Another MX test?

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
up on the From address of messages to figure out where to send it. This test wouldn't hurt you ... the From addresses in your messages aren't changed. And those are what the test looks at - it looks up the MX records of the From: address. Fetchmail doesn't care about the MX o

[SAtalk] Re: BLOCK: ISPs allowing numeric IDs (fwd)

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Charlie Watts wrote: > Some interesting discussion here. Apparently many freemail providers > require the first character of your username to begin with a letter, not a > number. > header FROM_INVALID_FREEMAIL_USER From =~ >/^\d.*([hg]otmail|yahoo|n

[SAtalk] Re: BLOCK: ISPs allowing numeric IDs (fwd)

2002-02-18 Thread Charlie Watts
reame|tan|turbo|cara)mail)\.(com|net)/ describe FROM_INVALID_FREEMAIL_USER From invalid freemail address I don't know how accurate that list is, or even if it is true. :-) -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ -- Forwarded message

Re: [SAtalk] Another MX test?

2002-02-17 Thread Charlie Watts
alhost.localdomain" or are they pointing to "bogusmx.ispam.com" which resolves to 127.0.0.1? It wouldn't be hard to add that ... -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ spamassassin.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [SAtalk] Test if user is listed recipient ...

2002-02-17 Thread Charlie Watts
switch it to just use Delivered-To. But, using Postfix, I can't get an Envelope-To header. So ... perhaps we should support both. Envelope-To (which can have multiple addresses in it, remember) for folks who can use it, and Delivered-

[SAtalk] Test if user is listed recipient ...

2002-02-17 Thread Charlie Watts
o far, I'm really happy with this. And it was way easier to stuff the envelope recipient into the headers than it would be to teach spamc/spamd to pass those on the command line. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ __

Re: [SAtalk] Non-essential feature request: spamd reload rules onSIGHUP

2002-02-16 Thread Charlie Watts
spamd on a new port; Change the spamc config to point to that new port. Kill the old spamd. Start a new spamd on the normal port; Change spamc to point to the normal port. Kill the alternate-port spamd. Silly, but functional. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Interne

Re: [SAtalk] New SpamAssassin user

2002-02-16 Thread Charlie Watts
On 16 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 13:51, Charlie Watts wrote: > > Then again, tools like the DNS blacklists and Razor can bring that number > > up a bit. > > These do push false negatives, but they also increase false-positives, > depending on wh

Re: [SAtalk] New SpamAssassin user

2002-02-16 Thread Charlie Watts
user? I run with -x and put my preferences into /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. Can't answer your auto-whitelist question because I don't use it. I don't think that a site-wide auto-whitelist is recommended yet. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://ww

Re: [SAtalk] Mangled messages

2002-02-16 Thread Charlie Watts
spamassassin running at the same time could both be simulatneously > redirecting to your "kid" mailbox, interleaving their contents. Change > the first line to: > > :0: > > and you should be fixed. > > On Sat, 2002-02-16 at 13:10, Kevin Dangoor wrote: > > Fro

Re: [SAtalk] Mangled messages

2002-02-16 Thread Charlie Watts
cribe how SpamAssassin is integrated into your system ... Procmail? You must be using mbox delivery for messages to get split up like that. Turn off SpamAssassin for a day - does the problem go away? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier In

Re: [SAtalk] Multiple Thresholds

2002-02-15 Thread Charlie Watts
If it is spam, with an invalid return address - you're putting more load on the mail system, because you'll generate a double bounce. SA is accurate enough, particularly at a threshold of 9, that everything is spam. Build a way to hook SA directly into the SMTP session; Use milte

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-09 Thread Charlie Watts
> distro... If someone has written one I'd happily roll it in. > > C > > On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:37, Charlie Watts wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Donald Greer wrote: > > > > >Ok, since this has been a _very_ unpopular suggestion :^), how about > &

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Donald Greer wrote: > Charlie Watts wrote: > > That sounds like blocking that would be better done outside of > > SpamAssassin. > >Maybe I wasn't clear. What I was trying to describe was a system > where by the "Auto Whitelist" w

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Watts
are rejecting mail, you're better off doing it during the SMTP session. You might use the whitelist to seed a system that created user-editable lists for your MTA, that makes sense. And there is a per-user whitelist that works for users without logins - the sql system apparently works fine

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Charlie Watts
ge to goes against the grain. If you want to code it, be sure I > > can turn it off very easily! > > Amen. I know a very few individuals who use this sort of system and > I've never responded to them. I'm sure that they receive very little spam ... it all depends on wher

Re: [SAtalk] Bug#132733: X-RBL-Warning

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Watts
gt; describe RBL_WARNINGIncludes X-RBL-Warning > score RBL_WARNING 3 > > Arguably this is too much of a guesswork... it could do the same parsing on > the header as it does in its own internal RBL tests, perhaps? I think Exim > includes the string the RBL servers return in

Re: [SAtalk] NoMailAudit->get_header now case-insensitive

2002-02-07 Thread Charlie Watts
Consider it a platonic sort of love. :-) On 7 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > FYI, my babies are spoken for. > > C > > On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 00:07, Charlie Watts wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > > > > > Ok folks, I just made get_he

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log messages...

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Watts
mend paying attention to the list and grabbing CVS when things seem stable. Obviously you should test it before you install on a busy system ... -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk m

Re: [SAtalk] NoMailAudit->get_header now case-insensitive

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Watts
On 6 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > Ok folks, I just made get_header in NoMailAudit case-insensitive, > meaning that while capitalization of header names is preserved, rules > will match case insensitively, so a rule like Oooh, I love you. Looks OK so far. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log messages...

2002-02-06 Thread Charlie Watts
gt; add that if it's easy. Eh, don't do that. Including the To: address is useless. Which To: address do you include? What about To:-less messages? Envelope recipients are nice ... a portable way to get the envelope recipient into spamd would be -great-, because we could include a &qu

[SAtalk] Re: Fw: [SA] Daniel, bcyukonhotsy.com

2002-02-04 Thread Charlie Watts
If you are getting spam with spamassassin-sightings in the headers, it's probably because lots of folks forward spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin isn't "doing something" to the messages. Trying to move this to -talk, please remove -sightings from the CC list. On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Landy Roma

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin corrupts date headers in email...

2002-02-04 Thread Charlie Watts
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, peter green wrote: > * Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020203 14:18]: > > Most messages that I get, these days, matches the "missing date" test, > > and ends up with something like: > > > > X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 >14:3

Re: [SAtalk] spamc locks up.

2002-01-31 Thread Charlie Watts
? It gives some debug info. Does it help if you turn off the network tests? (run spamd with -L) If you ktrace a "hung" spamc is it doing anything, or just stuck? -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ __

Re: [SAtalk] Looking to just delete ...

2002-01-31 Thread Charlie Watts
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Nels Lindquist wrote: > On 31 Jan 2002 at 1:39, Charlie Watts wrote: > > > Messages are already tagged with numbers indicating spammishness. Is > > adding "Maybe" and "Probably" just helpful because it makes filtering > > ea

Re: [SAtalk] Looking to just delete ...

2002-01-31 Thread Charlie Watts
hree folders for false positives wouldn't be any faster than checking one is now ... >From my point of view (I know others use SA differently) SA should just be a filter. Pass messages through it for labeling. It shouldn't be auto-reporting things or doing delivery. There are alread

Re: [SAtalk] 5 < 5?

2002-01-28 Thread Charlie Watts
ith only one part. -- Charlie Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frontier Internet http://www.frontier.net/ ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

2002-01-26 Thread Charlie Watts
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: > Charlie Watts wrote: > > Use letters for the second part. > > 2.a.7. > > 2.b.12 > > Just to be different. Everybody already uses numbers ... so mundane. > > And so standard and usable by a large audience of people and >

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