Re: [SAtalk] [SAtalk]Change points of preset rules

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 03:10, Thorsten Schacht wrote: > How can I change the points of the rules included in spamassassin? > I'm trying to increase the points from the HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_02 BODY rule. Add this to your local.cf or user_prefs file. sco

Re: [SAtalk] Help! (Dumb noob questions about upgrading and other stuff)

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 10:18, JR wrote: > So I inherited sysadmining our Spam Assassin install that runs as an > external filter to our Communigate Pro server (using CGPSA). > > I've managed (thanks mostly to this list) to figure out how to train

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin on Qmail Relay

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 January 2004 08:48, Atif Faruqui wrote: > I am running Qmail-1.03 running qmail-scanner-1.16 which calls SpamAssassin-2.61. > This is running on a Solaris 9 box. This is a relay configuration in which relay server > accepts mail, do sp

Re: [SAtalk] Forward mail to a specific mailbox

2004-01-27 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 08:22, Eric Friedlingstein wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using qmail with spam assassin. > > I was wondering if it was possible to forward all mails detected as spam > to a specific email address instead of sending it to the or

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil; chicknpox; weeds...

2004-01-26 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 January 2004 07:28, Thorsten Schacht wrote: > Hey, > > What is your opinion to that cf's? > Does it make sence to take them all, or maybe only parts of them? > Is it a good solution to install them whithout realy knowing how the rules > a

Re: [SAtalk] SA-2.6x causing server crash/reboots

2004-01-22 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 22 January 2004 07:53, Jack L. Stone wrote: > Perhaps this question needs to be directed to Theo Van Dinter who most > likely knows the answer I need. My server is going down frequently and has > been traced to SA. > > Yesterday I posted a

Re: [SAtalk] procmailrc and bayes

2004-01-22 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:51, Andres Tello Abrego wrote: > If I use a global procmailrc, bayes is used by only one user (spam). > > So, statistically, is better to have one bayes database per user, so, > how to make a single procmailrc to have

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes database per Domain

2004-01-21 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:59, Jesse Regier wrote: > Is there a way to have Spamassassin use a seperate bayes database for > each local domain or group of domains? > > It would be nice to have something like... > > bayes_path = /var/spool/$DOMA

Re: [SAtalk] Turning off Habeas?

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:29, David B Funk wrote: > One quick rule hack that has worked wonders for me for this issue: > > uri L_FAKE_MED_SITE //\b(?:valuepointmeds\.biz|pharmacourt\.biz|pharmawharehouse\.biz|mypillsource\.com|gowebrx\.com|r

Re: [SAtalk] Turning off Habeas?

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 07:45, Alan Munday wrote: > Does this not boil down to the globally effective legal footprint for > Habeas? > > That is if you are a spammer and originate from outside this footprint you > won't have any problems abusing the

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 05:06, Marc Morgan wrote: > Hi There, > > I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail is > installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest version, > but had errors wh

Re: [SAtalk] [Fwd: failure notice]

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > here is a mystery... > > Both my wife and I use spamassassin from within evolution by piping > emails to "spamc -c" and checking for the return value to classify as > spam or not, as written up by others. > > When running evolution and spamassas

Re: [SAtalk] New Ruleset: EvilNumbers

2004-01-19 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 January 2004 13:36, Sylvain Robitaille wrote: > I changed all occurrences (in my own copy, of course) of '(\s|-|\.)' to > '[\s\-\.]+', in an effort to ensure that any number of any combination > of those characters could not be used to obf

Re: [SAtalk] RE: New User

2004-01-18 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 18 January 2004 16:37, Kevin Hoffer wrote: > I just started using spam assassin today. I think everythings working > good, but I have a question. It is set to 5.0 to say spam or no spam and > I have gotten messages that are at like 12.3 and s

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: [SAtalk] common patterns / improving bigevil

2004-01-18 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yep it sounds like a great idea. One problem when you list so many evil domains and some code is you get caught as spam. Douglas On Sunday 18 January 2004 08:41, PieterB wrote: > Spam detection software, running on the system "", has > identified

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie queries, install and configuration

2004-01-17 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 17 January 2004 05:44, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: > Hi all, > > My SPAM has reached an unprecedented level ie up to 50% SPAM and so I > have decided to install and investigate SA. I have been a member of the > mailing list for a littl

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin Check

2004-01-15 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 20:33, Rahul Baweja wrote: > How can i check if the Spam Assassin is working or not? What haved you tried? Did you look at the header info of the email? How are you getting the email to SpamAssassin? Douglas -BEGIN

Re: [SAtalk] Delete vs tagging spam

2004-01-15 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 13:21, Andrew Cranson wrote: > I've read the archives, and I've seen numerous answers to posts saying > that it's not supported. My question was to the developers - would they > (you) consider adding it to a future version o

Re: [SAtalk] rewriting subject lines.

2004-01-15 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 12:09, marc jackson wrote: > > Thanks for responding. In my local.cf file, I have: > "rewrite_subject 0"  that *should* tell SA to rewrite the header shouldn't it? yes > Just for kicks, I toggled it b/n 0 & 1.  Neither wo

Re: [SAtalk] HABEAS_SWE

2004-01-15 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:34, Jeff Fulmer wrote: > Why does HABEAS_SWE score -8.0? EVERYmessage that I recieve that matches > that criteria is spam. I've since added 16 point to HABEAS_SWE. > I set mine to 0, because some non-spammer do use the

Re: [SAtalk] Scoring the Habeas header ...

2004-01-13 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:39, Brian May wrote: > Habeas is around to make sure email reaches its destination. SA uses > Habeas to push the score down, much like whitelisting. IF spammers use the > Habeas headers, and the message is in fact sp

Re: [SAtalk] Your threshold score

2004-01-12 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 12 January 2004 07:32, Carl Chipman wrote: > What do most people who write new SA rules set their threshold too? I had > set it around 3.0 for our company, but the false positive rate was very > high. I was looking at some of the big-evil s

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie: delete only spam from server

2004-01-11 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 January 2004 07:35, Geoffrey Lane wrote: > I've setup my kmail to keep the mail on my isp's server, so that I can download them from my windows side or have the email on their webmail service to view at work. > my question, is there a wa

Re: [SAtalk] problem getting full email to spamd with --virtual-config-dir

2004-01-11 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 10 January 2004 09:22, oj wrote: > hello, > Im using 2.61, sendmail,e spamass-milter, spamc and spamd. I have a 2 machine > setup sendmail on one and spamd on the other. > > No matter what i do i can't get the full mail/user info to spam

[SAtalk] rule set order?

2004-01-09 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have added some more rules sets like BigEvil.cf, popcornonly.cf, weedsonly.cf, backhair.cf. I want to make sure that my local.cf is read last. If I understand how SA works it is the last rule set that set the score. So how do I make sure th

Re: [SAtalk] newbie: windows binary as auto spam

2004-01-08 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:05, Geoffrey Lane wrote: > score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 0.100 Try setting this to 10 or more. score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 10.00 Douglas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE//cHYSpWn8R0

Re: [SAtalk] Simple newbie question

2004-01-08 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:25, Steve Thomas wrote: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:07:59PM -0500, John Fleming is rumored to have said: > > > > I want to specify a text string in the Subject header such that if it > > exists, the msg will NOT be con

Re: [SAtalk] send mail and spamassasin must be on the same machime

2004-01-08 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 January 2004 09:32, Ceva wrote: > hi everybody, > does sendmail and spamassassin must be on the same machine, or they can be on diferent machines? They can be on different machines. You will have to call spamassassin with spamc to ge

Re: [SAtalk] Silly spam

2004-01-07 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 January 2004 16:08, ian sison (mailing list) wrote: > Hi, i'm a newbie to the list, is there are URL which has the rules > for the above custom rules you mentioned above? > Here is link to some of the stuff. http://www.merchantsovers

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin by domain

2004-01-03 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 03 January 2004 16:08, Danny Aldham wrote: > I run a mail hosting/relay box for a number of domains. I would like to > offer spamassassin as a service, but some clients may not want to see > the subject changed, etc. Is there a way to have

Re: [SAtalk] procmail

2004-01-02 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 January 2004 18:59, Jack Gostl wrote: > > On Friday 02 January 2004 17:26, Jack Gostl wrote: > > > This is really more of a procmail question, but its part of the process. > > > > > > If I spot a certain string in the subject line, I'd li

Re: [SAtalk] procmail

2004-01-02 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 January 2004 17:26, Jack Gostl wrote: > This is really more of a procmail question, but its part of the process. > > If I spot a certain string in the subject line, I'd like to stop the > process and let the mail through without invoking

Re: [SAtalk] Questions about Blocking Domains

2004-01-02 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 January 2004 12:28, Rick Duncan wrote: > Anyone tell me how to block whole domains (like anything from .de or > .ch)? If you are talk about blocking those domains then you will need to work with MTA. If you are talking about having the

Re: [SAtalk] SA - flag some, delete some

2004-01-02 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 January 2004 09:56, Evan Platt wrote: > At 09:14 AM 1/2/2004, you wrote: > >I have an interest in flagging email as spam at a certain threshold and > >deleting at another threshold. > >Has anyone done this? > > I'd never consider automat

Re: [SAtalk] Re: spamd --auth-ident

2003-12-30 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 15:45, Hans Gerber wrote: > Hi Douglas, > > Douglas Kirkland schrieb : > > > Why does it matter if one of your users uses some other user's > > user_prefs file. As far as I am concern

Re: [SAtalk] spamd --auth-ident

2003-12-30 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 December 2003 23:49, Hans Gerber wrote: > Hello to everyone, > > We are running a server with some dozens of users with shell > access. Up to now everyone has the ability to call spamassassin from > within .procamilrc. This gives us quite

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-26 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 15:00, Wendel, Jesse wrote: > I finally figured out what was going on. Don't have it solved, but have a better question at least. > > First though, I tried Carl's suggestion - no joy. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling

Re: [SAtalk] user_prefs and many custom rules sets

2003-12-25 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 December 2003 12:41, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'd like to try some of the custom rules sets such as bigevil but not > commit them to /etc/mail/spamassassin until I've tested them personally. > Must I copy all the files into ~/.spamassas

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-24 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 December 2003 11:06, Shane Wegner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:47:53PM -0800, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: > > > I currently have spamd set up to

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-24 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 23:31, Wendel, Jesse wrote: > >Also check out the -i option. > > > > -i ipaddress, --listen-ip=ipaddress, --ip-address=ipad- > > dress > > Tells spamd to listen

Re: [SAtalk] spamd virtual homes and user_prefs

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 14:50, Shane Wegner wrote: > I currently have spamd set up to maintain separate > configuration data for each [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the system via > spamd running as its own user with the following options. > -d -u spamd -x -

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 19:00, Wendel, Jesse wrote: > Yes - except that when I look at the logs from my production server, which you can see in my original email, they're also serving up emails from 127.0.0.1 - but the email is coming from extern

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin only working on 127.0.0.1 & not on external mail

2003-12-23 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 December 2003 17:26, Wendel, Jesse wrote: > And then today, when I went back through all of my maillog's on the test box, spamd has never worked except for mail coming from the test box itself. Anything coming from outside is NOT analy

Re: [SAtalk] Mailing lists and compliance verbage

2003-12-19 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 11:01, Scott Harris wrote: > *** > > This message is sent in compliance of the new email bill section 301. Under > Bill S. 1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th US Congress. This

Re: [SAtalk] Desperate Plea

2003-12-17 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 December 2003 19:08, Dan Spray wrote: > By default what does spamassassin do with bounces? Nothing! The bigger question is how are you getting the mail to spamassassin and what are you doing with the output? Douglas -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: [SAtalk] making my own Evil rule list

2003-12-11 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 10:53, Bret Miller wrote: > > I am pulling my example off the following url. > > > > http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf > > > > I have setup the following rule in my user_prefs file. > > > > uri

[SAtalk] making my own Evil rule list

2003-12-10 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am pulling my example off the following url. http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/bigevil.cf I have setup the following rule in my user_prefs file. uri EVILLIST_2 /\b(?:dubnh\.us)\b/i describe EVILLIST_2 Generated EvilList_2 score EVI

Re: [SAtalk] Changing user spamd runs as

2003-12-05 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 05 December 2003 09:42, Nichols, William wrote: > I figured that part out, > > Now one quicj question again in my maillog file I see the identifier > that it was marked as SPAM. > > I also see that it is not able to update the bayes databas

Re: [SAtalk] spamc -d setting

2003-12-01 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 December 2003 12:54, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 02:26 PM 12/1/2003, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > >I am confused about how the -d setting works in spamc. Can I set two > >different domains for the domain setting in spamc withou

Re: [SAtalk] How to config Spam Assassin to reject spam > x.xx

2003-12-01 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 December 2003 09:53, Matt Kettler wrote: > to quote and trim a bit from Rich H's post on Sat, 29 Nov 2003 "Re: > [SAtalk] Delete Spam" he suggests this procmailrc: > > :0fw: spamc.lock > * < 256000 > | spamc > > # Alternatively to delet

[SAtalk] spamc -d setting

2003-12-01 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am confused about how the -d setting works in spamc. Can I set two different domains for the domain setting in spamc without using DNS for the two spamd servers? I was think I could have the setting like: spamc -d primary.spamd.com, secondary.sp

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a spamd config file?

2003-11-25 Thread Douglas Kirkland
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 10:55, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 12:37 PM 11/25/2003, Douglas Kirkland wrote: > >I am looking to have a spamd config file and been unable to find one. I may > >have missed it. Otherwise I will have to have a very long line to configure > >spamd

[SAtalk] Is there a spamd config file?

2003-11-25 Thread Douglas Kirkland
I am looking to have a spamd config file and been unable to find one. I may have missed it. Otherwise I will have to have a very long line to configure spamd the way I want it to run. The reason is because there is over 200 IP addresses that i want to restrict spamd to listen to. These IP ad