Re: [SAtalk] Can someone explain this?

2004-01-30 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 30, 2004 10:42 AM -0600 Chris Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm confused. A spam message got through and had this in the header: > > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=5.0 required=5.0 > tests=HTML_60_70,HTML_IMAGE_ONLY_04, > HTML_MESSAGE,HTML_WEB_BUGS,LOCAL_PERLMX_TAG_80,MSG

Re: [SAtalk] list working

2004-01-28 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:44 PM -0500 Adam Denenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is this list working today? Usually the list takes Wednesdays off. However today it is working 9-5. ??? Evan --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by Ecli

Re: [SAtalk] Ping

2004-01-27 Thread Evan Platt
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Re: [SAtalk] Problem upgrading SA

2004-01-27 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:46 PM -0800 John Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had SA 2.60 and just installed 2.63 via CPAN. spamassassin -V tells > me I have 2.63 now, but the headers of my emails still say 2.60 How can > I make certain that mail is being scanned by 2.63? I'm no SA gu

Re: [SAtalk] some spam not getting scored

2004-01-26 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 23, 2004 6:15 PM + Technical Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm receiving some spam through my spamassassin with > X-Spam-Status: hits=? required=? > > Whats the cause of this, does any one know? Does it say '?' or another number, like 0? Can you post the full he

Re: [SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:26 PM 1/22/2004, Chris Thielen wrote: > Where would I add, say big_evil.cf? Are there any other recommended files I > download and install? Maybe this helps: http://lists.altn.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee9117d/1 Don't I want to avoid adding to the local.cf? That's overwritten during an upgrade,

[SAtalk] Help: How to add files of tests?

2004-01-22 Thread Evan Platt
Ok, I'm running SA under Alt-N Mdaemon. AFAICT, it's a standard install, albeit Windows. It's got a Spamassassin.dll file - Is there anywhere to update this? I did a yahoo /google but turned up blank. I'd like to add some of the rules that appear here from time to time, bigevil.cf, etc. Looking

Re: [SAtalk] How to stop this kind of stuff?

2004-01-21 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 2:52 PM -0800 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one got through, yet it's obvious. > > I'm including two different versions of the message, both saved from our > Exchange 5.5 server. > > Any thoughts appreciated - we're running the new consolidated >

RE: [SAtalk] Subjects not marked as spam anymore

2004-01-20 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:02 PM -0800 Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had SpamAssassin running with my Qmail for about a week now, and > have yet to see any mail come through marked with "*SPAM*" -- > even after I set the level to "3"! It appears to be running, but do

[SAtalk] Configure Alt-N Mdaemon's SpamAssassin?

2004-01-20 Thread Evan Platt
I've talked to a few people running Alt-N Mdaemon, and I'd like to run it at home... It appears it uses SpamAssassin (version 2.55 according to the headers). And while I like it that it's integrated, I'd rather have more control over it. Does anyone know if it's possible to configure the SA in Alt-

Re: [SAtalk] Incoming messages only?

2004-01-20 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 20, 2004 12:39 PM -0500 Ben Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This seems like one of those questions that probably resurfaces > regularly, and for which the answer is probably buried somewhere obvious, > but nonetheless, I have been unable to find out how to easily limit >

Re: [SAtalk] Awfully OT but entertaining nontheless: Interesting Job Posting

2004-01-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 3:30 PM -0800 Jonathan Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh. > > If computers ever drive you nuts, there's always GOAT HERDING! > > http://www.craigslist.org/nby/etc/22688691.html > > I'd apply, but I lack the experience. :P Aren't there newsgroups that person

RE: [SAtalk] Three that got through yesterday

2004-01-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 3:09 PM -0500 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahahahahahahah I can see him at the keyboard now, with a cig hanging from > his mouth and a bottle of JD in one hand! OH man.I need to photoshop a > pic like that! Too late.

Re: [SAtalk] Three that got through yesterday

2004-01-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 10:51 AM -0500 "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Example - one had a subject: > Subject: mail Real brutal other porn with see young girls most Yoda has turned to the dark side and started spamming. :) Evan ---

Re: [SAtalk] Acronym Update

2004-01-16 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 16, 2004 12:13 PM -0600 Carl Chipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the new people on the list, I was wondering what the following > acronyms mean: > > LART LART = Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool. It can be used as a noun (in which case it's something that hopefully

Re: [SAtalk] unsubscribed

2004-01-16 Thread Evan Platt
"unsubscribed"? No, you're not (yet). What is it? In the past week, the ratio of 'unsubscribe' messages to normal traffic has been like 1:1. --On Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:11 AM +0800 Tony Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- > Sincerely yours. > > E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SAtalk] Delete vs tagging spam

2004-01-15 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:21 PM + Andrew Cranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 of spamassassin?

Re: [SAtalk] unsubscribe giochi@telvia.it

2004-01-14 Thread Evan Platt
> There were problems with the email commands you sent to Mailman via >> the administrative address >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Evan Platt A-Link Network Services Technical Support Engineer Support: 408-720-6162 [EMAIL PRO

Re: [SAtalk] DNS issues

2004-01-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 2:00 PM -0800 Mark Squire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Some of you were kind enough to give this new-B some advice before > regarding this issue, but I am a little baffled by something. I set up > a mail server as a test server, and put it on it's own ne

Re: [SAtalk] Checking for spelling errors

2004-01-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:50 AM -0800 Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > funny, I was just thinking the same thing. However, you run into issues > with non-english email (no way to guarantee that if a server is in the > US that all of its users send english-only email), and here

Re: [SAtalk] Why SPAM looks the way it does O/T

2004-01-13 Thread Evan Platt
-Original Message- From: "Gerry Doris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:14:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [SAtalk] Why SPAM looks the way it does O/T > All this time I thought that there were evil minds at work finding ways > to > generate bayes busting spam...

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] at last the reason for all those oddly spelled spams

2004-01-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:12 PM + Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > very unpolitically correct, but humourous non the less > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34840.html CLASSIC! Good score! :) Evan --- This

Re: [SAtalk] Low score for so many hits?

2004-01-12 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 12, 2004 3:47 PM -0800 Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> But how would I get SpamAssassin to delete any messages where >> HABEAS_SWE is matched? ;) >> > > Why not use procmail to remove anything with that header? I was kidding. I was commenting to the poster w

RE: [SAtalk] Low score for so many hits?

2004-01-12 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 12, 2004 5:50 PM -0500 Chris Santerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *sigh* > HABEAS_SWE > > Do people read this list or just post questions? Sorry, not meant to lash > out, but this Habeas topic has been all the rage today. Don't know how > anyone could miss it. I know, tell

[SAtalk] O/T Help: Anyone use / familiar with MDaemon mail server?

2004-01-11 Thread Evan Platt
I have Alt-N's mdameon, and what I'm looking to do is I have a few addresses that are spam fodder - harvested from newsgroups, they get ~30 spams a day. I'd like to somehow add them to the Bayesian database or any other 'spam fodder' database. Any suggestions on a 'automatic' way to do it in Md

Re: [SAtalk] OT: My REALY REALY Crazy idea!! ahahahahahah

2004-01-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 09, 2004 3:17 PM -0800 Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't forget well-endowed in both male and female aspects! I got spam this morning entitled "Do you want bigger breasts?" >From KFC, yes. On me? HECK NO! :) Evan ---

Re: [SAtalk] Delete SPAM

2004-01-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 09, 2004 9:27 PM + Andrew Cranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a mySQL preference can be used to force spamassassin to > drop/delete all emails above a certain score? Nope. SA cannot delete e-mails. Perhaps how you're calling SA (Procmail?) can delete

Re: [SAtalk] Yahoo, etc

2004-01-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, January 09, 2004 2:24 PM -0600 "Michael H. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorta off topic, mebby, but: > > As good as SA is working here I have users that are constantly reminding > me that they get "absolutely no spam" on their yahoo, hotmail etc. > accounts. I don't like th

Re: [SAtalk] questions about how bayes scores...

2004-01-08 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:29 PM -0800 Chris Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And if they are NOT assigned more weight, they should be. "if a message > is fed to the bayes db as spam, the URL's should have additional weight, > such that if they're found in future messages, the URL ind

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Question about spam box

2004-01-05 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 05, 2004 3:55 PM -0800 Robert Menschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EP> Contact your ISP. SpamAssassin is a Unix based mail program, which > cannot EP> do anything other than mark a mail as SPAM (it cannot move it, > delete it, EP> etc). > > EP> If your ISP has configured Spa

Re: [SAtalk] Question about spam box

2004-01-05 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 05, 2004 10:00 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would like to ask a question about spam assassin. I have enabled spam > assassin on my mail box, and i have also enabled the spam box (by the > way, i use Horde mail system). However, i can't view the spam box in my > mai

RE: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2004-01-05 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, January 05, 2004 8:55 AM -0500 Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps a good first step would be to not use an open relay for your mail And second to put a subject line on your messages. :) --- This SF.net email is sponsored b

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

2004-01-02 Thread Evan Platt
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 automatically deleting messages, perhaps a few folders, i.e. 'Possibly spam' (Spam under a score of 7) 'Definitely spam'

Re: [SAtalk] E-mail client set-up help request

2004-01-01 Thread Evan Platt
At 08:47 AM 1/1/2004, you wrote: Hi! I've been using spamassassin at my ISP for a while and am very happy with it. Now, I've had to change my ISP, and want to run spamassassin at home with my e-mail client. I set everything up as I believe that it should be, but it does not work. More to the

[SAtalk] el1t3 h@ck0rz dictionary needed..

2003-12-29 Thread Evan Platt
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Re: [SAtalk] False positives

2003-12-29 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, December 29, 2003 1:53 PM -0600 John Beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > He's gone, folks. He had no interest in getting real assistance, and he > never came back. I thought he replied with.. > I did not know spamassassin is home-brew. I thought I was dealing with > one of dozens

RE: [SAtalk] False positives

2003-12-29 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, December 29, 2003 12:43 PM -0500 "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As someone who owns his own ISP and frequently does support, I can tell > you that rude messages go to the BOTTOM of the queue. Especially if they > are from people who aren't paying customers. (A

Re: [SAtalk] Fwd: Rude Rape actions

2003-12-29 Thread Evan Platt
--On Sunday, December 28, 2003 10:40 AM -0800 Raquel Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Being a woman talking with other women about non-computer things, > often. Ahh.. Good thinking outside the box there Evan. :( Sorry, my bad. Perhaps something with the domain names involved then adding a h

Re: [SAtalk] remove markup question and bayes question

2003-12-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:25 PM 12/28/2003, you wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to use the --remove-markup command in SA? I have a whole folder of spam and I'd like to remove the SA markups so that I can use this with sa-learn (next time my bayes DB goes awol..) Can't help you there, but... Also, I've got passed

Re: [SAtalk] False positives

2003-12-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:00 PM 12/25/2003, you wrote: My publication is double-opted in by 15,000 families with children with autism. We are routinely victimized by incompetent software like spamassassin because of false positives. This is just as intolerable as spam. It is worse than spam because it victimizes th

Re: [SAtalk] Fwd: Rude Rape actions

2003-12-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:37 PM 12/26/2003, you wrote: Yow, how am I supposed to stop spam like this? There isn't anything to filter on except the word 'adult'. I guess 'rape' works as well.. But I'm not really inclined to filter messages with the word rape in them, nor give them a 3+ score. When's the last legit

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Ebay spoof?

2003-12-26 Thread Evan Platt
At 03:45 PM 12/26/2003, you wrote: Interesting. The message body appeared as plain text. However, the similar spam that we received here (see attached) was thick with HTML that obscured its purpose. Do you have something in your mail delivery pipeline that converts HTML to text? I think you can ha

Re: [SAtalk] Ebay spoof?

2003-12-26 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:59 PM 12/26/2003, Bryan Hoover wrote: Does anyone know if the following mail is an ebay spoof? I think I've got an account with them, but it's been so long since I used it... And the site requires you to sign in in order to make a report, or request info -- apparently ebay does not provide

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn from Exchange 2000

2003-12-23 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:56 PM -0500 Rubin Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jennifer's Backhair rules. That sentence could be taken the wrong way... :) Evan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an

Re: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 10:52 AM -0500 "Frank M. Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having a problem with blank messages. Sometimes the source only > shows a return path. I think it may be a spamassassin issue. I'm using > winspamc and the guys on their forum suggested the proble

Re: [SAtalk] Amuseing hidden text in spam

2003-12-22 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, December 22, 2003 11:00 AM -0500 "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got a bunch of these over the weekend, mailing list archvies didn't turn > up any mention. What do these phrases look like to you ? It was covered - IIRC, the random text is an attempt to thr

Re: [SAtalk] To: you Cc: friend -- New spammer trick?

2003-12-21 Thread Evan Platt
--On Sunday, December 21, 2003 3:13 PM -0700 Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the last month my girlfriend and I have been getting a number of spams which have been addressed To: me and Cc: to her. This seems to be a new spammer trick. Use not just a database of email addresses but a da

Re: [SAtalk] Mailing lists and compliance verbage

2003-12-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, December 19, 2003 11:01 AM -0800 Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a user who subscribes to a few mailing lists and they have > recently started adding the following disclosure to the emails they > send: > > *** > > This

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM Identifer on Subject Line Question

2003-12-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, December 19, 2003 11:35 AM -0800 "R. Alan McFarland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would like to simply tune my ScoringThreshold and DeleteTheshold, but I > first need to get a sense of the numbers. For me getting each number > requires about seven clicks and some visual scanning

Re: [SAtalk] retrieving filtered email

2003-12-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, December 19, 2003 10:37 AM -0500 Roberto Fulgado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using SpamAssassin with MailScanner and Sendmail. > I was wondering how can I retrieve mail that was deemed as spam. I tried > to append the filtered email in the quaratine directory to the

Re: [SAtalk] send all spam to my email

2003-12-18 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 18, 2003 5:38 PM -0800 "XLNC Studios (Bill Pogue)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running SA version 2.6 with sendmail, on a debian Linux system. All > is working well except I would like all messages labeled as Spam to be > sent to my email address. Sounds funny I kno

Re: [SAtalk] Blacklist bounce problem

2003-12-18 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:55 AM -0700 Brian Horncastle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been getting hit by allot of spam from a few spammers, so I set up a > blacklist with SpamAssassin to explicitly block their messages. The > problem I now have is that Postfix / SpamAssassin

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin and SendMail

2003-12-17 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:52 PM -0500 "Billy A. Pumphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I too love this combo and have a question for the group. I was thinking > of documenting my configuration over the holiday break. Do people > generally > feel this would be useful? Basically, I

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin and SendMail

2003-12-17 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:47 AM -0800 Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too love this combo and have a question for the group. I was thinking > of documenting my configuration over the holiday break. Do people > generally feel this would be useful? Basically, I don't want t

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] Spammers won't like XP SP2

2003-12-16 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:10 PM -0500 Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now if only we could get everyone to apply updates when they come out ;) Or better yet, use REAL clients. :) Evan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linu

Re: [SAtalk] SA report on an email ?

2003-12-12 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, December 12, 2003 1:35 PM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I see a spamassassin report of an email ? I'd like to do > something like pipe the email through a command. spamassassin < filename1 > filename2 filename1 is the input, filename2 is the output. Or alternately, spa

Re: [SAtalk] SA for IM?

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone think of trying to do this yet? Hijacking ims and routing them > through SA... I get way too many spam ims every day. Yahoo IM? AOL IM? ICQ IM? MSN IM? I haven't seen a IM spam in.. MONTHS. A

Re: [SAtalk] new user of spamassassin

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 2:46 PM -0300 Ceva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your help. One last doubt. As I understod, sendmail ( > procmail )calls spamassassin, but this is done automatic whem a start > spamassassin? Or I must make some configuration on sendmail? Nope, you need

Re: [SAtalk] Problem getting mail from earthlink

2003-12-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:22 AM -0500 "Billy A. Pumphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any help on this is appreciated. I know its blocking it there because > when I took it down it came through. I do not know how to look at > anything on spamassassin either, I'm new to it. So some t

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin procmail

2003-12-10 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:44 AM -0700 Daniel Kaliel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I read through the readme and made a config change to the way procmail > and spamassassin work together, however I now get the error: > > couldn't create or rename temp file. "/var/spool/mail/il -

Re: [SAtalk] Wacky postmaster whitelist questions

2003-12-10 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:54 AM -0500 Josh Endries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get a lot of postmaster emails, and I'm trying to whitelist them so > they aren't marked as spam. Even though many are bounces due to spam, I > would like to whitelist them so I don't miss any legit emails

Re: [SAtalk] unsubcribe

2003-12-09 Thread Evan Platt
>-Original Message- >From: "Oktavia, Evelyn" >Sent: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:20:43 +1100 >Subject: [SAtalk] unsubcribe List-Unsubscribe: , -

Re: [SAtalk] OT Help: Mail form CGI script?

2003-12-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:32 PM + Martin Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use bcc instead? Did I not mention this CGI I use doesn't support BCC? I guess not.. :) Evan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorial

[SAtalk] OT Help: Mail form CGI script?

2003-12-09 Thread Evan Platt
I'm in need of a decent CGI script, easily implementable by a somewhat rookie web designer.. What I'm looking for is a web site that has a form, someone fills out the form, and it e-mails the contents of the form to a list of e-mail addresses. Essentially, it's for a volunteer fire department, we g

Re: [SAtalk] Sender of email receive a copy of email sent in his/her Inbox!

2003-12-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:06 PM -0500 Kooi Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are running running SA 2.6 with Postfix. in Mandrake 9.2. This server > acts as a spam filter that forwards mail to an actual mail server. > Everything works well (filtering, tagging and forwarding) except fo

RE: [SAtalk] Content Analysis

2003-12-09 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:33 PM -0500 "Thomas Shoaf (PromoStep)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking more of a web-based utility that our staff can use internally > where most of our staff does not have access to the server, much less > command-line access. Which would be useless,

Re: [SAtalk] a new Sendmail Filter

2003-12-04 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, December 04, 2003 12:13 PM -0800 kula Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a new Sendmail Filter developed by Mailshell > that is utilizing a very powerful engine to catch > spam, Mailshell SpamCatcher. New? I don't know if new is good. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1278-210-647

[SAtalk] I'm starting to have flashback nightmares..

2003-12-03 Thread Evan Platt
Reported on the Spam-L anti-spam list.. Someone asking if this is a legit bounce or something else. Look familiar? - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Return-path: <> Received: from mx10.comingsoon.namescout.com ([199.85.4.241]) by s-rogue.tsc.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.

Re: [SAtalk] SA Learn question

2003-12-03 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:24 PM -0500 Vee Persaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I received an email on one of my systems that is not running SA and I > decided to forward it to my SA system to see if it would get rejected. > The subject was "Have amazing s\ex up to 20 times per day lu

RE: [SAtalk] WhiteListing and newbie

2003-12-02 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:36 AM -0800 Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depends on how your mail system is configured. Spamassassin by default > only checks incoming mail. As Matt pointed out to me in e-mail.. by default, spamassassin does nothing (or as I put it - b

RE: [SAtalk] WhiteListing and newbie

2003-12-02 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:44 PM -0500 "Billy A. Pumphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is beyond my knowledge. If you give me the commands to put into > the console, I would be happy to do it. :) Spamassassin is 'called' somehow, most often via a procmail script. If SpamAssassin is

RE: [SAtalk] WhiteListing and newbie

2003-12-02 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 2:17 PM -0500 "Billy A. Pumphrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome thanks for the answer, for the second part. Does that one entry > make it so that people can send to earthlink address also? Depends on how your mail system is configured. Spamassassin by defau

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

2003-12-02 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:35 AM -0500 Vee Persaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You wouldn't believe how many "FAQ"s, archives and links are out there > and sometimes it's just not what you want or it just doesn't quite suit > your purpose. Someone's previous live experience gives you tha

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

2003-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, December 01, 2003 5:06 PM + Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well this is not the best place to post this message to but ;-) > > I'm using qmail-scanner to call SA > SA works beautifully > > Now I would like to reject or at least delete SPAM taged at > 15 > > Real

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

2003-12-01 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, December 01, 2003 4:30 PM + Robert Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Lots of helpful people say this can be done by configuring SA to do it. Really? Where? > However these same people don't mention how this can be done, Because it can't. > so do any of you ni

Re: [SAtalk] earn money

2003-11-28 Thread Evan Platt
>-Original Message- >From: "maximo lopez" >Sent: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:40:50 -0600 >Subject: [SAtalk] earn money >does some one what to earn some money helping me >to start and configure and make work the spamassassin software ??? >because i laready instaled , and can;t find the problem >if

Re: [SAtalk] How do I confirm functioning of SA

2003-11-26 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:40 PM +0530 Mail Monitor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed SA on FreeBSD 4.7, I have started spamd > and spamassassin (both are in /usr/bin directory); i donot > know how to confirm functionality of spmassassin, there is > no extra header information

Re: [SAtalk] SpamScore check

2003-11-25 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 5:12 PM + Nick Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear community, > > > > I send out email news letters each week for my clients but I want to > offer them the ability to see if there emails will be blocked due to > there email containing a large amount o

RE: [SAtalk] RE: Re[2]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?s=tc

2003-11-24 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, November 24, 2003 4:24 PM -0800 Logan Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The point of using the old version of SpamAssassin was to show how much > the technology has changed in the last few years. That was stated in my > original article but edited out of the final version. (I lo

Re: [SAtalk] RE: Re[2]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?s=tc

2003-11-24 Thread Evan Platt
--On Sunday, November 23, 2003 4:19 PM -0800 Logan Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The article as I originally wrote it wasn't intended to be > anti-SpamAssassin, but I'd still have to say that even if the performance > at catching spam and false positives were comparable to the other > pa

[SAtalk] Your infoworld Article

2003-11-24 Thread Evan Platt
Logan: I read with great displeasure your InfoWorld article on Fighting Spam, and felt the need to make a few corrections, which unfortunately will never be updated on your article, but perhaps point you in the direction of doing a bit more homework next time. Your article may look 'good' to a end

Re: [SAtalk] How to mark spam for certain users and still deliver it?

2003-11-20 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, November 20, 2003 11:05 AM -0800 spamassassin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have one client who wants to receive any emails they get, irrespective > of SPAM (they suspect that there are legitimate emails being eliminated > as spam). What they want is that anything tha

Re: [SAtalk] subject line not being tagged as spam

2003-11-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:46 PM -0500 Michal Wellum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still no joy. The spam being found is not being tagged in the subject > line. Any help would be appreciated. How about the headers from one of the meesage, mainly the SA headers - X-Spam-Status, etc.?

Re: [SAtalk] Need help with a simple custom rule

2003-11-19 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 5:22 PM +1100 Robert Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I set up a SpamAssassin system for a company but they alerted me to a > problem today. > > They have content filtering rules to stop people from abusing their > employees. Basicall

Re: [SAtalk] Proposal for a delete option to spamc

2003-11-18 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:44 AM +0100 Øystein Halvorsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to allow spam messages to be blocked/deleted instead of being > marked by spamassassin I propose to introduce a simple delete option (-D) > to spamc. This would be very useful for email accoun

Re: [SAtalk] Validate Sender Users

2003-11-17 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, November 17, 2003 1:08 AM +0100 Eduardo Alfonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to configure SpamAssasin to check for the existence of > the user on the local machine that is trying to send the message and I > couldn't find how to do this. I'm not sure I understand w

Re: [SAtalk] cant stop sa from scanning outgoing messages!! please help!

2003-11-14 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, November 14, 2003 3:52 PM -0800 Mike Varre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, ive spent the better part of the day in the > tcprules, obviously with no luck... > > no matter what i do, it still scans it. As someone else mentioned, you may get better luck in a qmailscanner group. Spa

Re: [SAtalk] instalation problems

2003-11-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:34 PM -0600 maximo lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in my last email I sent my procmail file , I am sending again > > I follow the install file step by step, the only think I can't install was > the pyzor , all the other steps for system wide was successf

Re: [SAtalk] instalation problems

2003-11-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:16 AM -0600 maximo lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know how to do that , that is why I can't > > please help me Not to be rude, but unless I'm misunderstanding you.. if you don't know how to copy and paste your procmail to a e-mail, installing SpamA

Re: [SAtalk] help

2003-11-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:27 PM -0500 "Mueller, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please remove me from the mailing list... > Thanks in advance. In the headers of every message... List-Unsubscribe: ,

Re: [SAtalk] instalation problems

2003-11-13 Thread Evan Platt
--On Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:36 AM -0600 maximo lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i dont know where is the problem , but i install the spam assassing , > instal the razor , the config file , but is like is was not there i think > my problem resides on the link with procmail > > an

Re: [SAtalk] management GUI

2003-11-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 4:51 PM -0800 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can add some better management > around spam that we have blocked, that we need to forward onto the users? > > a.) I have been given the direction that we are going to be tr

Re: [SAtalk] Okay, this one makes me mad.. anybody see or stop this one yet? How did this get through!!!!! ?????

2003-11-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:51 PM -0800 Robert Leonard III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > X-Spam-Level: *** > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=7.1 required=9.5 tests=BAYES_50,FVGT_u_ODD_PORT, > OACYS_CONS_6,OPTO_HEADER,OPT_HEADER,RCVD_IN_NJABL,RCVD_IN_SORBS, > WEIRD_PORT version=2.60 > X-Spam-Bay

Re: [SAtalk] new to spamassassin

2003-11-11 Thread Evan Platt
--On Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:58 AM -0800 Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I know spamassassin works on a point system, but does it learn as time > goes by? See the topics on SpamAssassin's Learn Feature. You'll need to feed it ham and spam for it to learn. > 2. My compnay wants to block

Re: [SAtalk] How to make SA store SPAM in special mailbox?

2003-11-10 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, November 10, 2003 7:05 PM +0100 Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment spam is "only" tagged! How can I define that those > tagges spam messages are delivered to one of my other mail boxes? Then I > could check out that POP only at the weekend or so! Not with SpamAssassin

Re: [SAtalk] Is punctuation really needed? (fwd)

2003-11-10 Thread Evan Platt
--On Monday, November 10, 2003 10:52 AM -0500 Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had one spammer who just puts a random period in the message and it > doesn't get tagged. Taking out all the periods in the message and it > scored a 10.6 just from the body of the message. I think the keyword

Re: [SAtalk] training...

2003-11-07 Thread Evan Platt
--On Friday, November 07, 2003 12:06 PM -0800 Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since my original training a few weeks ago I've gotten 563 spams in my > "spamuncaught" folder for further bayes training. > > What I don't have, is 500 or so ham emails that haven't been run through > befo

Re: [SAtalk] Delete spam mails

2003-11-07 Thread Evan Platt
SpamAssassin drinking game: sips for "How can I get SpamAssassin to delete spams? sips for "Unsubscribe me please" sips for "Subscribe me please" sips for "Quit reading my e-mail!" I'll work on a guestbook application to allow people to add their suggestions. :) Evan --

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn doesn't work!

2003-11-06 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:29 PM -0500 Bill Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I received 3 identical spams from the same e-mail address that did not > get classified as spam. I tried to do a sa-learn --spam on the message, > and it said it learned from 1 message, but when I tried to

RE: [SAtalk] Anti-SA article: "ISP Assassin"

2003-11-05 Thread Evan Platt
--On Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:07 PM + Darren Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The funny thing about that article is that he claims his "private email" > was altered, when in fact the email in question was a wide-copy > unsolicited press release. I normally call the latter spam. >

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