Re: [SAtalk] Postfix +mysql spamproxyd anyone?

2002-03-09 Thread Donald Greer
Keith, Look through the archives. Somebody posted an answer to this before. Basically, what they did, was follow the "simple" configuration described in the README.filter and in the shell script they used "spamc". I don't know that anyone has used spamproxyd, but the trick is that yo

[SAtalk] Sightings Problem

2002-03-04 Thread Donald Greer
Folks, I'm trying to make a webpage where my users can submit SPAM, click a button, and it's automagically router to sightings and spamcop. Well, when I test this with a recent spam that slipped through, I found that SF is reject mail based on bogus "From:" headers. Generally, that's

Re: [SAtalk] Envelope from

2002-02-14 Thread Donald Greer
Mark wrote: > Dear people, > > I have been trying to put mail from *groups.yahoo.com to the white_list. I > added an entry like this: > > whitelist_from *groups.yahoo.com > > But mail coming from those groups are still flagged as spam. Naturally > groups.yahoo.com is not in the sender From: a

Re: [SAtalk] Re: New Check Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
Daniel Pittman wrote: [...] > It's not reliable enough in the face of: > > * NAT > * Any MTA that fails to insert a received line. > * fetchmail > > The last will screw up, too, because it has a hop to the ISP SMTP > listener, then a pickup from the ISP POP3 host and delivery to the local > ma

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
Charlie Watts wrote: > 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 des

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
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" would _suggest_ address to be added to a user's whitelist, but _NOT_ automagically add them a

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
Charlie Watts wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Shane Williams wrote: > > >>On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, dman wrote: >> >> >>>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:13:29PM -0600, Donald Greer wrote: >>>[...] >>>| Basically, the first time email is recieved from

[SAtalk] New Check Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
One potential new check would be for "Received:" sequences. E.G. that there's no message with a "Received: from XXX by YYY" followed by "Received: from WWW by ZZZ". If ZZZ received the message, then ZZZ should have sent it on the next hop ( or atleast something with the same IP address a

[SAtalk] Auto Whitelisting Suggestion

2002-02-08 Thread Donald Greer
Folks, Take a look at "http://www.paganini.net/ask/";. This is a discription of how "Active Spam Killer" works. Could be useful as an option for auto whitelisting. Basically, the first time email is recieved from somebody, they are sent a message asking them to confirm their identity

[SAtalk] Quick Patch for Usernames on Non /etc/passwd systems

2002-02-06 Thread Donald Greer
Need to add the following to spamd to make the usernames appear correctly in the logs and perform SQL lookups when using the -x option and/or when the userids aren't in /etc/password: --- spamd.orig Tue Jan 29 11:19:17 2002 +++ spamd Tue Jan 29 11:19:24 2002 @@ -517,8 +517,9 @@ sub

[SAtalk] Scoring of "HTML only mail..."

2002-02-04 Thread Donald Greer
Folks, The current scoring for HTML_Only mail may be just a little high. I've recieved reports that some newsletters (which are html-only) are being rejected as spam. Specifically I allow my users to signup to news letters from "cluebie.com" (see "http://austintx.cluebie.com"; if you wa

[SAtalk] Suggestion: Automated Word/Phase Discovery

2002-02-01 Thread Donald Greer
Folks, I don't know if it's possible (I sure don't know how to do it myseld ;^) but perhaps one could take a known spam database and a known non-spam database and use these to automatically build a list of possible "spammish" words (sorta like the GA, but actually finding the words and p

Re: [SAtalk] sitewide auto_whitelist db

2002-01-31 Thread Donald Greer
CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson wrote: > I have been testing the auto_whitelist (AWL) feature sitewide in a single > database and have come to realize that it does have a downside - namely that > if false negatives get thru then eventually their address is added to the > AWL and then SA will never c

[SAtalk] Suggestion for AutoWhitelisting

2002-01-29 Thread Donald Greer
Quick suggestion: Rather than having to modify SpamAssassin.PM to use Dir/DB Based AWL, why not make it an option and, depending on how the option is set, eval the appropriate statements to get the module installed? I've seen this done on a few things before, just don't remember where. H

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

2002-01-29 Thread Donald Greer
Bob Proulx wrote: >>You seem to believe that RPMs and other package tools require versions of >>the form x.y.z. Although I know nothing about RPMs, I know Debian finds >>2.01 as a perfectly acceptable version number. >> > > Yes a perfectly acceptable version number. But which version is the >

[SAtalk] Patch for Log Reporting

2002-01-29 Thread Donald Greer
Quick patch so that user is reported correctly for SQL-only configs. Without this, if you use "-q -x" and your user doesn't exist in /etc/passwd, you get "unknown"... not very helpful ;^). Don --- spamd.orig Tue Jan 29 11:19:17 2002 +++ spamd Tue Jan 29 11:19:24 2002 @@ -517,8 +5

Re: [SAtalk] Stable 2.0 vs. fixes

2002-01-24 Thread Donald Greer
Duncan Findlay wrote: [...] > > The only thing is that we tend to have new features ready for release much > faster, rather than waiting for hundreds of them, so this would be a > problem, new features that are quite stable don't get to the users fast > enough. > > Uh, based on Justin's n

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

2002-01-24 Thread Donald Greer
Matt Sergeant wrote: [...] >>Um, 2.2.* is older than 2.14.* >> >>It's MAJOR.MINOR., not a decimal number. 2 is less than 14, >>hence it's older. >> > > No, this is Perl. Version numbers are floating point numbers. (yes I know > it's a crap situation, but that's just how it works). > > Note:

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
line in place, because updating cyrus won't fix that (cyrus is down-stream of SA). All's well that ends well. Don Donald Greer wrote: [...] > As I said, at this point, I think my problem is my flakey Cyrus > installation. I think that, once I get a current backup o

Re: [SAtalk] Subject munging bug?

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Justin Mason wrote: [...] > yep, I've just added that for 2.1devel. *just* missed the 2.0 > release ;) > > I've also fixed it to strip ^Ms from headers; it's valid, but as (someone) > pointed out, it confuses Pine etc. > > --j. > > It's ok, you can release it in "2.00.01" ;^). Don

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Justin, That was my thought too, but they don't showup in vim and usually they do. Also, deleting the header-seperating line and recreating it doesn't fix it, and make the thing search for "^[:cntrl:]*$" doesn't fix it, and _that_ should do it. Or atleast, that's what the manual says

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Charlie Watts wrote: [...] > LOL ... yeah, yeah. I'm having a braino sorta day. Getting over a 103 > degree fever. Influenza is no fun. LOL. Bummer. Hope you're feeling better soon! [...] > Can you show your procmail recipes? Both the "pass-through" ones that work > and the ones that se

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Charlie Watts wrote: [...] > > I've never used courier. Me neither :^). I use Posfix & Cyrus. > > I'm still surprised that you had to make that change to begin with. > > Is this your mail flow? > > mta (which?) -> procmail -> cyrus "deliver" Postfix->procmail->cyrus "deliver" > >

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Well, I found a work-around. I don't know that it's the best way to fix it, but... If anyone wants to tell me if this is not an acceptable solution (e.g. it'll reject valid headers or accept invalid headers) please let me know. Otherwise, it seams to work, so onward and upward! Her

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Ok, I've been banging my head against this thing, and it looks like the line 94 in NoMailAudit.pm is not doing it's job for some reason. The line is as follows: if (/^$/) { last; } Well, that seams straight forward enough! What's puzzling is that it works FINE on the samp

Re: [SAtalk] X-Mail-Format-Warning: Bad RFC822 header formatting in ...

2002-01-23 Thread Donald Greer
Nope. I had tried that before, but I tried it again with the same result. Here's what I've removed: /usr/lib/perl5/siteperl/5.6.1/spamassassin.* /usr/lib/perl5/siteperl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin* /usr/share/spamassassin /etc/spamassassin* /etc/mail/spamassassin /root/.spamassassin* /usr/bin/