Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Ward
On 11 July 2002, Ryan Cleary said: > I'm using it with perl 5.005: > > [tryanc@steward tryanc]$ perl --version > > This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux > > There were a number of prerequisites that needed to be installed, but it > does work just fine. Yeah, I did get it working

[SAtalk] SA 2.31 and Perl 5.005?

2002-07-11 Thread Greg Ward
Does SpamAssassin 2.31 now require Perl 5.6? I'm trying to build it on a Red Hat 6.2 box that only has Perl 5.005 installed and running into all sorts of problems: the spamassassin script now requires Pod::Usage, which requires File::Spec 0.8 or later, etc. Thanks -- Greg

Re: [SAtalk] Improvement to NVALID_MSGID

2002-03-21 Thread Greg Ward
On 21 March 2002, Theo Van Dinter said: > What I'm arguing is: don't replace the regexp of INVALID_MSGID with one > that isn't actually checking for invalid message-ids. Right, understood. Makes sense to me. > Adding a new test that looks for ".+@.+\..+" would be fine by me, since it's > a new

Re: [SAtalk] Improvement to NVALID_MSGID

2002-03-21 Thread Greg Ward
On 20 March 2002, Theo Van Dinter said: > But that is a valid Message-Id according to RFC 2822. Unless you really > want to get into the RFC and do a regex check by the strict standards, all > you can really check is that the Message-Id is of the form /^<.+@.+>$/. > That can probably be made a li

Re: [SAtalk] spamproxyd : 'sending spam to a spamtrap box & the intended recip ient'

2002-03-20 Thread Greg Ward
ccept it anyways, then use your regular SMTP daemon, pipe messages through SA at delivery time, and save a copy. I'm sure this is easy to do with procmail or maildrop. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Skipping multipart/related is bad

2002-03-19 Thread Greg Ward
On 19 March 2002, Craig Hughes said: > I think this is a more substantial problem than that which requires a > bit more work. Thanks for the patch though. I've made a note in > bugzilla #115 about my intention to incorporate MIME::Tools for doing a > lot of the hard work for us. We should be ab

Re: [SAtalk] Help with rules

2002-03-19 Thread Greg Ward
but not all sites can. And of course, not everyone uses Exim. Furthermore, I recently got a spam with a syntactically correct "undisclosed-recipients"-style "To" header. I never get that kind of mail legitimately, and even if I did, so what if it scores 0.5 o

Re: [SAtalk] Proxys, Win32, RFCs and other nonsense...

2002-03-19 Thread Greg Ward
On 18 March 2002, Nick Fisher said: > 1) SA Doesn't work Win32 > Line 649 of SpamAssassin.pm (2.11) has getpwuid on it. This appears to be > getting the user's home directory but I don't know why. I've hacked it to > return something but I'd love to know why it's doing this so I can write a > prop

Re: [SAtalk] Help with rules

2002-03-19 Thread Greg Ward
d and probably the Right Thing to do, so if a rule like this gets added to SA by default, it should probably score < 1.0. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org

Re: [SAtalk] getting spamd to work with sendmail

2002-03-18 Thread Greg Ward
server, would you expect all email to be filtered through it? You'll have to read the docs for your MTA to find out how it works. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Messed emails

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
On 15 March 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson said: > In my case I use maildrop and deliver to Maildirs. I assume that maildrop > handles the file locking properly. But on occasion I do see the messed up > messages like I posted yesterday. I am using maildrop v1.3.6. If you're using Maildir, y

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
be built with "-lgdbm", and 2) SpamAssassin uses Perl's idea of how to build Perl extensions to build spamc, which is a standalone C program that has nothing to do with Perl. That does it -- I'm filing a bug report on this one. Sick of typing the same thing again and again and

Re: [SAtalk] Can anyone help with this?

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
rint socket.gethostname()" or this (requires a relatively recent Python -- 2.0 or later, maybe?): python -c "import socket; print socket.getfqdn()" ? Also, you haven't said which version of which OS you're using. Greg -- Greg Ward - software devel

Re: [SAtalk] What header to add to disable SA

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
On 15 March 2002, Olivier Nicole said: > I am writting a small script that will send email to my users. > > I want the email message not to be checked by SA. > > I am wondering if there is any way to do so. I am using > procmail/spamc/spamd. You could tweak your procmail instructions so that me

Re: [SAtalk] spamc

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
ject "libgdbm.so.2" not found Rebuild spamc without linking in that library. It probably came from Perl's standard-set-of-libraries-for-building-Perl-extensions, which isn't relevant for spamc. (You can either edit the Makefile, or run some variation on cc -o spamc spamc.c man

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Messed emails

2002-03-15 Thread Greg Ward
;s locking syntax. Like everything procmail, it's cryptic and non-obvious. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-t

Re: [SAtalk] Messed emails

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
t; is seeing this on occasion? Or is this a known problem with 2.11? It seems > to be a random event and not neccessarily from the same sender. Might conceivably be a locking problem. How are you delivering messages, and to what sort of message store (mbox, maildir, etc.)? Gre

Re: [SAtalk] Some more rule ideas

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 March 2002, Kerry Nice said: > Very cool. But it only worked when I changed it from body to rawbody. > I assume that is because it is at the very end of the message. > > rawbody UNIQUE_BODY_ID/^(?:(?:[\w\d]{7,}-)+)[\w\d]{7,}$/ ^^

Re: [SAtalk] Re: More complex customizations (MIME, etc)

2002-03-14 Thread Greg Ward
uoted too much spammy material. *None* of my false positives have been mail that would be worth responding to so that some stranger who happens to be on the same mailing list as me can send me mail. But that's just my experience. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Help the ignorant

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 March 2002, Rob McMillin said: > -p only reads user scores. Did you try > > :0fw: > | spamassassin -P -c https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] using SA in /etc/aliases

2002-03-13 Thread Greg Ward
u do with that stdout is up to you and your MTA configuration to decide. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk ma

Re: [SAtalk] Continuing to help the ignorant

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
ome control. Pipe your message through "spamassassin -t" to see a full report regardless of how spammy it is. If you're using spamc/spamd (and you should be, for efficiency reasons!), note that spamd doesn't always see your user_prefs file. It usually boils down to a permissi

Re: [SAtalk] facility for reporting false matches

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
lize this, but that's not (yet) a priority for me. I'll probably put these scripts on my web page at some point. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org _

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 13 March 2002, Olivier Nicole said: > To test the validity of an email address, one does not need to send an > empty message. As long as no DATA is sent, the SMTP transaction is > aborted. And you have already checked that the RCPT was ok. > > I implemented something like that long time ago to

Re: [SAtalk] Error during SpamAssassin build - ld: fatal: library -ldb: not found

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
extensions, even though spamc is a standalone C program and not a Perl extension. It should be safe to edit your Makefile and remove the "-ldb" reference, although this is a kludge. There's something wrong either with your Perl build or with SA's Makefile.PL. Greg -

Re: [SAtalk] Spamc Not Tagging E-mail

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
sed to go through spamc, and again watch spamd's output. Any help? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassas

Re: [SAtalk] Freebsd build problem

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
ot find -liconv > *** Error code 1 Did you build your own Perl, or did it come with the OS? If you built it, did you build it on this version of the OS, or an older version? Have you ever successfully built any Perl extensions on this machine, with the current Perl build and OS installation? Wha

Re: [SAtalk] Messages with empty bodies?

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
On 12 March 2002, Charlie Watts said: > 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 and more of a strange phenomenon - spam with no body. What? You mean after the last header, there's a blank line

Re: [SAtalk] Help the ignorant

2002-03-12 Thread Greg Ward
izing the scores, under SA 2.0 and later you need to edit ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Matching on attribution lines (was Re: Misc. rule ideas)

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
ced by setting the group score for the anti-false-positive rule group to -1. Hmmm: putting a rule into two groups, one with a group score < 0 and another with a group score > 0, could be confusing. Should probably warn about that case. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Misc. rule ideas

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
st of email addresses there as "your addresses", and use them to look for things like Subject: kerry_nice or, my pet peeve: To: gward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is also a pretty sure spam marker for me. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SAtalk] FWD: SPAM: 213.50 [!CrackMonkey!] SpamAssassin this, MOFO!!! ADV: Your Membership Exchange order -- Question to eBay seller g.r.a.p.e?

2002-03-11 Thread Greg Ward
). Was that gem manually crafted, or has someone fed a zillion spams into Dissociated Press (or something similar)? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.m

Re: [SAtalk] alternate configs through spamc

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
e the same as user > nobody or something, and then just use the standard user_prefs location. That sounds like almost as much fun as selecting, installing, maintaining, and updating a relational database. No thanks. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEM

Re: [SAtalk] "make install" clobbers user_prefs

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
clobbered my user_prefs? confused-and-slightly-embarassed, Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Razor settings

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
; just submit a message (spam, please!) using spamassassin -Dr. Wait a minute or so, then run the message through spamassassin -P, and the Razor test should score. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-08 Thread Greg Ward
yesterday, the exact same thing happened to five messages in succession. As soon as I fixed local.cf, my mail was fine again. So it's not some random, timing-sensitive lock-related race condition. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
On 07 March 2002, Bart Schaefer said: > What version of procmail? The procmail-3.21-0.62 RPM from Red Hat 6.2. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.

[SAtalk] FROM_AND_TO_SAME case sensitive

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
Just got this in a spam: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The FROM_AND_TO_SAME rule didn't match because it doesn't normalize case. Perhaps the last line of the function should be changed to (lc($from) eq lc($to)); ? Greg -- Greg Ward - software

Re: [SAtalk] Killing spamc

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
ust crashed and that's that [1]. I don't see why it would have consumed one character of my message and not the rest. Greg [1] although it would be nice if it didn't crash on a syntax error in local.cf ... ;-) -- G

[SAtalk] Malformed address?

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
I just got a spam with this "To" header: To: ...is that malformed? (No, I still haven't memorized RFC 2822, sorry.) The TO_MALFORMED test does *not* catch it. (In fact, *no* tests caught this spam -- not a single one! But that's another issue...) Greg --

[SAtalk] "make install" clobbers user_prefs

2002-03-07 Thread Greg Ward
Ooh, this is bad: it looks like "make install" in SA 2.11 clobbers your ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file. *Very* annoying -- I had a lot of stuff in mine! Waahhh!! Greg ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourcef

Re: [SAtalk] alternate configs through spamc

2002-03-06 Thread Greg Ward
hon script that launches spamc) will figure out which config file to use, and tell spamc. Presumably, spamc will then tell spamc to use that config file instead of ~user/.spamassassin/user_prefs, which will be irrelevant most of the time. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Conf.pm RFC

2002-03-05 Thread Greg Ward
n't see an easy way to do this. If I could specify the exact config file to use for checking any particular piece of email, then SA doesn't need to get much more complex -- I can put my config files wherever I please, and update them however I like. Greg -- Greg Ward - s

Re: [SAtalk] Sightings Problem

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
ct mail based on bogus "From:" headers. Apparently, the preferred way to use spamassassin-sightings now is to submit the spam as an attachment. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
obably these are the ones spamming thousands-to-tens-of- thousands of people, not millions-to-hundreds-of-millions. Anyways, if you're going to go to the trouble to put "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in spam for me, you might as well add "Dear: gward". It just seems like som

Re: [SAtalk] Wierd Spam Message

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
yone > else has seen this. All the time. 3 years ago, 99+% of spam had a completely bogus "To" header. Nowadays it's maybe 50%. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchan

Re: [SAtalk] Idea: ignore self for auto-whitelist and identifcal to/from

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
org (or whatever) through some other protocol. Hell, make the database of received email addresses accessible through a CGI script and make it HTTP. The database then says what the address of the current user is. While writing this completely crazy idea up, I've already tho

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Ward
ought to be worth a point or so. But I don't see a good way to do *that* with a regex. That sort of thing really should be done by fully parsing the message header, pulling out the local-part of the "To" address, and then looking in the body for that. Greg -- Greg

Re: [SAtalk] rule SUBJ_ALL_CAPS not working right

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
On 01 March 2002, Craig R Hughes said: > Just changed it in CVS to: > > header SUBJ_ALL_CAPS Subject =~ /^[^a-z]*$/ But that'll match an empty subject. (No comments on whether that's a spam discriminator, but it probably happens more often in non-spam than an "ALL CAPS" subject does

Re: [SAtalk] rule SUBJ_ALL_CAPS not working right

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
g to be? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Filter idea: non-spammish mail agents

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
t;non-spam" MUAs, because as soon as the smart spammers notice that rule, guess what they'll add to their headers... Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangeht

Re: [SAtalk] Nigerian scam filter improvements

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
: I have seen several "Nigerian" scams that are actually about Zimbabwe or Sierra Leone or some other African country. (They sound like the same scam, though.) Does this collection include any of those? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-03-01 Thread Greg Ward
es SA strip whitespace after the colon before feeding headers to rules? And do I need to modify any other file to make the GA pay attention to this rule and evolve its score? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehtt

Re: [SAtalk] Slightly OT: preventing spamers from Masquerading private domains.

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
On 28 February 2002, Mike Loiterman said: > But now I have another question. How can those of us with private > domains prevent spammers from using our domains as the reply to > address or bouncing their crap off our servers? You can't. The Internet just doesn't work that way. Be thankful your

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
[I suggest a new rule] > Here's a quick and dirty attempt: > > header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i > describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part > score TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART 2.5 [Craig responds] > Sounds like a good rule -- e

Re: [SAtalk] Administrivia: list organization question

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
it figures out what the list reply address (this is how mutt works, AFAICT). Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spama

Re: [SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
to think that you're the unusual case here. Most people's names are different from their email addresses. > BTW, You would also have to handle headers formatted as > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (gward) S'pose so, but I don't recall seeing much spam that looks l

[SAtalk] Experiments with SA 2.1

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
s to which scores are spam markers and which are not, so it can keep spam markers out of negative territory. Maybe it should warn about spam-marker tests that want to be negative: that indicates that there's something wrong either with the test or with the corpus. Greg -- Greg

[SAtalk] Rule idea: "real name" == local part

2002-02-28 Thread Greg Ward
nsitive and handle RFC 822 address quoting, of course. Here's a quick and dirty attempt: header TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPARTTo =~ /\"?(\w+)\"?\s+<\1\@[^<>]+>/i describe TO_REALNAME_EQ_LOCALPART Real name in "To:" equals local part score TO_REALNAME_

Re: GA coming up with wacky scores? was Re: [SAtalk] Announcing 2.1 release

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 February 2002, Craig R Hughes said: >181 98 83 RATWARE That's interesting. I wonder if the RATWARE regex is too broad -- perhaps if it were toned down a bit, it would be better focussed on spam. This ought to be a well-focused rule; how many people use spamware

Re: [SAtalk] Help: getpwuid function is unimplemented?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 February 2002, Nick Fisher said: > Hi folks, > I'm rusty on Perl and I'm working on Win32... Is there is a Win32 FAQ > somewhere I'd love a link! > The main problem I'm tackling now is that I get the following error when > running spamassassin: > > "The getpwuid function is unimplemen

Re: [SAtalk] SA doesn't see everything in local.cf

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 February 2002, Woodworth, Eric said: > On 2 of my boxes, when I edit local.cf and change required_hits to 7, it > doesn't take. When I check my spam reports it still tells me that the > required hits is only 5. Is this running as spamassassin or spamc/spamd? If the latter, what user does

Re: [SAtalk] Latest SUBJ_ALL_CAPS rule in CVS

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
rkstations. I'm currently maintaining SA on two Linux machines, soon to be three; two are running Red Hat 6.x and one is Debian 2.2 -- all of which have Perl 5.005 installed. I know Perl 5.6 has been out for quite a while now, but I would like to see SA maintain compatibility with 5.005.

Re: [SAtalk] forward alaises not working?

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
On 27 February 2002, Mike Loiterman said: > Just discovered that my aliases as defined in /etc/mail/aliases don't > work anymore. Is this because I swithed my MDA from /usr/bin/mail to > /usr/local/sbin/procmail or does this have something to do with > SpamAssassin? Depends on your MTA. I know

Re: [SAtalk] problems with SpamAssassin's Razor-integration

2002-02-27 Thread Greg Ward
if Razor is there when you build/install SA. You might try rebuilding/ reinstalling SA. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassass

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Terse Header Report with Evolution

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
efeeds vs carriage > returns, and is there anyway to fix it? Unlikely, since mutt is -- for the first time ever -- in the same camp as Outhouse Express, and displays the terse header report just fine. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS E

Re: [SAtalk] Blacklist on return-path ?

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
rely on the MTA supplying. Some MTAs put the envelope sender in an environment variable, sometimes "Return-path" has it, but there's nothing standard. So I think you'll probably have to write your own test that looks at "Return-path" for this one (assuming you can

Re: [SAtalk] One big graphic?

2002-02-25 Thread Greg Ward
On 22 February 2002, Michael Moncur said: > I think virtually any message sent as one big graphic would be spam, > but I can't think of a good way to detect it using a regular > expression. Perhaps you could look for number greater than x (300?). I don't think a regex is the right tool to use he

Re: [SAtalk] testing spam

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
On 22 February 2002, Craig R Hughes said: > Were you using spamassassin or spamc/spamd greg? I believe > spamassassin allows you to have user rules, spamd does not. I was using spamassassin; you are correct, user-defined rules are obeyed by spamassassin but not spamc/spamd. I just filed bug #49

Re: [SAtalk] Another newbie

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
might be doable, even easy, but it's scope creep. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] testing spam

2002-02-22 Thread Greg Ward
easant surprise, it worked! IMHO this ought to be a configuable option for /etc/spamassassin/local_prefs -- on some systems, it's perfectly reasonable to let users write their own rules. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] slooooow rules

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Ward
when it's not needed. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourc

Re: Re: Re: [SAtalk] slooooow rules

2002-02-21 Thread Greg Ward
"&&" should be recognized by the rule parser instead.) Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAI

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie question... sorry

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Ward
OS it happens to be running * plunk down the money for Philip Hazel's Exim book -- I have to admit I have't actually looked at it myself, but I bet it's a good way to learn how to run a Unix mail server Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAI

Re: [SAtalk] New AWL implementation now done

2002-02-20 Thread Greg Ward
I assume that second snippet is from your /etc/services. Filesystem corruption, perhaps? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

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

2002-02-19 Thread Greg Ward
ing procmail, it will look *something* like this: # send spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] :0 * ^X-Spam-Flag: YES ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] # save everything else to ~/Maildir :0 Maildir/ (I might be missing some vital piece of punctuation here; I am not a procmail expert and do not ever want to be on

[SAtalk] New variation on Nigeria scam?

2002-02-18 Thread Greg Ward
gards. Barrister Anthony Dozie PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT __ FREE voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com - End forwarded message - -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread Greg Ward
On 14 February 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson said: > I have been seeing alot more Spam get thru (false negatives) in v2.01 than > with v1.5. I have been comparing the scores of 1.5 with 2.01 to see why. > Here is an interesting discovery: there are several scores in the > 50_scores.cf file

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-02-13 Thread Greg Ward
:26:31 2002 @@ -110,4 +110,3 @@ spamd/spamc: spamd/spamc.c - $(CFCC) $(CFCCFLAGS) $(CFOPTIMIZE) spamd/spamc.c \ - -o $@ $(CFLDFLAGS) $(CFLIBS) + $(CFCC) $(CFCCFLAGS) $(CFOPTIMIZE) spamd/spamc.c -o $@ Craig, if you haven't already changed Makefile.PL like this, you mig

Re: [SAtalk] Installation breaks

2002-02-12 Thread Greg Ward
ne in my life... Hmmm, everyone's going on about libndbm, but nobody's asking about Perl. It might be Perl's fault that -lndbm is included in the link command for spamc. Which Perl version are you using? Is it the Debian package, or did you build it yourself? What does "pe

[SAtalk] Variations on To/From headers

2002-02-12 Thread Greg Ward
hat 1) there's no real name in "From", but SA doesn't catch this because of the quoting 2) the real name in "To" is the same as the address, but SA doesn't catch this because of the quoting Anyone notice a consistent theme here? ;-) I'll post

Re: [SAtalk] Okay. No Response on SpamProxy Question.... Now another

2002-02-01 Thread Greg Ward
ted in /etc/exim/spamcheck_users). And it relies on Exim's highly configurable and flexible nature. Dunno if postfix is quite as configurable. Hope this helps -- Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://

Re: [SAtalk] missed Spam in v2.01

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
On 31 January 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson said: > Thanks for the reply. I am not so good interpreting the tests. Does anyone > know of a good reference that would help me to interpret what the test is > doing? Randall Schwartz, *Learning Perl* Larry Wall et. al., *Programming Perl* Jef

Re: [SAtalk] missed Spam in v2.01

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
On 31 January 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson said: > What puzzles me is that this one should have gotten a LINE OF YELLING and > UNSUBSCRIBE. Something appears broken. The LINE_OF_YELLING test is (IMHO) too picky in SA 2.0 (and, I presume, 2.01). See the archive for details. Bottom line, t

[SAtalk] Proposed rule: many recipients with the same local-part

2002-01-31 Thread Greg Ward
recipient headers. Seems like a good spam flag to me, but I don't recall seeing a rule like this when browsing SA's current ruleset. Is it there? If not, should it be added? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchange

Re: [SAtalk] Updating ponderations given by the GA

2002-01-30 Thread Greg Ward
s and come up with our own score sets. But why bother? Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL P

Re: [SAtalk] auto whitelist behavior with spamassassin -t

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Ward
nor implementation oversight. I think his suggestion was right on: don't update the auto-whitelist in testing mode. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org __

Re: [SAtalk] Automatic way to report spam

2002-01-29 Thread Greg Ward
ut should be automatic. If you want multiple reports, you'd probably have to write a custom script. Something like: if SA's RAZOR_CHECK didn't match: pipe through spamassassin -r if SA didn't flag it as spam: send to spamassassing-sightings ... etc ... Doesn&#x

Re: [SAtalk] Some rule bugs and improvements needed

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Ward
{40,} -- or whatever minimum length works. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk

Re: [SAtalk] Some rule bugs and improvements needed

2002-01-28 Thread Greg Ward
have to be coded as an "eval"? Here's a slightly subtler variation: /^[A-Z0-9\$\.,\'\!\?\s]+$/ && /\b[A-Z]+\b/ Same as above except the line must contain a complete uppercase word. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exc

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

2002-01-24 Thread Greg Ward
On 24 January 2002, Matt Sergeant said: > 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). I think that rule was broken when the next version after Perl 5.005 became Perl 5.6. Didn't they even introduce a new type e

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-24 Thread Greg Ward
at any such header) For the record, that's exactly what I did -- check my shell code again. Greg -- Greg Ward - software developer[EMAIL PROTECTED] MEMS Exchangehttp://www.mems-exchange.org ___

Re: [SAtalk] Questionable "To" headers

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
t; * mail to any /(hotmail|msn|yahoo|...).com/ address should earn a > point or so I think the above idea were properly fleshed out, this one would be unnecessary. Greg -- Greg Ward - Python bigot[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://starship.python.net/~gward/ K

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
for Content-length and Lines and munge them too. (IMHO.) Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://starship.python.net/~gward/ "He's dead, Jim. You get his tricorder and I'll grab his wallet." ___

[SAtalk] Questionable "To" headers

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
e positives, eg. you'd have to populate your recipient whitelist before using SA, and if you are a hotmail/msn/yahoo user you might not want to add a point to every message addressed to you. Greg -- Greg Ward - just another Python hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
t place; this maildir started life as an mbox, and I just converted it so I could access one message at a time more easily.) Perhaps SpamAssassin should munge the Content-Length and/or Lines headers when it adds a header or footer? Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix nerd

[SAtalk] SA 2.0 flags sample-nonspam.txt

2002-01-23 Thread Greg Ward
ts - Anyone else seen anything like this? Note again that SA 2.0 seems to handle sample-spam.txt just fine, even with my unusual installation and explicit "-c ~/share/spamassassin" stuff. Greg -- Greg Ward - Linux geek [EMAIL