RE: [SAtalk] filtering spam tagged email before hitting exchange 2000

2003-12-12 Thread Erick Calder
Gentian, to help alleviate mail processing do also try any of a number of RBLs out there.  these tend to be IP-based so your server will never actually receive mail.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of JRileySent: Wednesday, December 10,

RE: [SAtalk] Detecting strings of Gibberish

2003-12-12 Thread Erick Calder
the site says one can enter an e-mail address OR a domain name, but if I enter a domain name (unchecking the Username and FullAddress checkboxes) it complains: : The input was not a valid email address as defined by RFC822. Please go : back and enter an address which conforms to RFC822 I want to

[SAtalk] /tmp/sa.*

2003-12-12 Thread Erick Calder
I had a problem earlier where SA was hanging up incoming messages. the spamd process would spawn but never finish till my box was 100% busy. apparently the problem had to do with an upgrade of 2.44 to 2.60. I removed the old whitelist and bayes files for all my users and spamd recreated them and

RE: [SAtalk] Adding another RBL

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
if you're running RH you can use the RPM. see http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/#prebuilt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Bewley Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 5:50 PM To: 'David B Funk' Cc: 'Matt Kettler'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'El Mariposa

RE: [SAtalk] Re: spamd piling up - just killing me

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
2003 3:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: spamd piling up - just killing me On Sunday 07 December 2003 22:56 CET Erick Calder wrote: > ok. I'm now running 2.60 but with same results. curiously, as with > Cheryl's problem, I mostly seem to have one user with the pro

RE: [SAtalk] Re: spamd piling up - just killing me

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
-- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Malte S. Stretz Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 4:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SAtalk] Re: spamd piling up - just killing me On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:13 CET Erick Calder wrote: > I have a problem that's makin

RE: [SAtalk] report_safe ?

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
things are not immediately evident)? -Original Message- From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:46 PM To: Erick Calder Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] report_safe ? On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:24:16PM -0800, Erick Calder wrote: >

RE: [SAtalk] spamds that don't finish

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
Cheryl, I'm having the same problem (see posting "spamd piling up - just killing me") on a Shriek (RH9) box running 2.44. 2.44 is the latest available from RH but it's been suggested to me that I should upgrade to 2.60 (unfortunately I can't do that at present since Theo Van Dinter's site is not m

[SAtalk] report_safe ?

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
I've recently upgraded to Shriek which comes with 2.44. my user_prefs used to include a line like: report_safe 0 but now I get an error like this: > Dec 3 23:40:45 beowulf spamd[13358]: debug: Failed to parse line in > SpamAssassin configuration, skipping: report_safe 0 in the current

RE: [SAtalk] SA, Razor and unkempt perl

2003-12-07 Thread Erick Calder
Mark, sounds like you need Razor2::Client::Agent installed.  you can either install it as a perl module via the CPAN module or if you prefer to keep things in RPM format you can use the cpan2rpm tool to make the module before installing.   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

[SAtalk] spamd piling up - just killing me

2003-12-05 Thread Erick Calder
hello everyone, I have a problem that's making me miserable. I'm running spamassassin-2.44-11.8.x on a shriek (RH9) box and am having a problem: spamd processes get spawned whenever a mail arrives but for a particular user, they never seem to finish. therefore I end up with a bunch of spamd inst

RE: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-22 Thread Erick Calder
th forged from score BAD_BOUNCE 20.0 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Proulx Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone? Erick Calder wrote: > I'm getting a bunch of mails fr

[SAtalk] joe-jobs anyone?

2003-08-20 Thread Erick Calder
I'm getting a bunch of mails from MAILER-DAEMONs around the world complaining mostly that [EMAIL PROTECTED] does not exist. these are generated by dictionary spammers who are using my e-mail address for the reply-to header. the complaints are legit so SA and even the Bayesian filter let them throu

[SAtalk] delivery failure notifications

2003-08-14 Thread Erick Calder
ok, some dictionary spammer tries to send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but there is no such account. he puts my address in the return-to field... so all of a sudden I'm getting buried in notices from postmasters around the world that my e-mails did not reach their intended recipients... any rules

RE: [SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs

2003-08-06 Thread Erick Calder
lcome! -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:10 PM To: Erick Calder; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs Yes, it did make it to the list before.. you might not have gotten it back yet (the list can be un

[SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs

2003-08-06 Thread Erick Calder
this didn't make it to the list before... -Original Message- From: Erick Calder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: new DNS-based RBLs hei everyone, I've put together another RBL - this one conta

[SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs

2003-08-05 Thread Erick Calder
hei everyone, I've put together another RBL - this one contains the ip addresses of all spammers who've managed to slip a message to me past the SpamAssassin filters. these are confirmed spammers and as with the other lists, it comes in fresh (used within the last 30 days) and stale (> 30 days &&

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Creating rule for time accepted

2003-08-04 Thread Erick Calder
> Instead, I'd probably write an eval function where do I find docs on how to do that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kai MacTane Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] [RD] Creating rule for time a

RE: [SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs

2003-08-01 Thread Erick Calder
ED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:30 AM To: Erick Calder; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs "Erick Calder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hei all, just wanted to announce I'm now publishing two dns-based lists of >ip addresses that can be used fo

[SAtalk] new DNS-based RBLs

2003-07-30 Thread Erick Calder
hei all, just wanted to announce I'm now publishing two dns-based lists of ip addresses that can be used for scoring. these lists comprise addresses of spammers doing dictionary attacks on my server. read about it at: http://nospam.arix.com/dns.php regards - erick