Re: [SAtalk] who's using SpamAssassin for all virtuals in Qmail/Vpopmail?

2002-04-26 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 06:35 26/04/2002, you wrote: >Is Qmail-Scanner the way to go? http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ >ifspamh? http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/qmail/ifspamh > >Any tips/URLs/FAQs appreciated. >I'm pretty new to it, on the brink of understanding, >but could use any pointers from people who'

Re: [SAtalk] Digest of junk mail

2002-04-22 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 11:29 22/04/2002, you wrote: >There apparently used to be a script or something called "digestify" >that did exactly that. There are a lot of references on deja about it >from a few years ago; it seems to have disappeared, though. Perhaps >someone has a copy of it laying around. > >--Yan dige

Re: [SAtalk] Digest of junk mail

2002-04-21 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 22:56 21/04/2002, you wrote: >I'd like to get my junk mail in a daily digest. Right now it all gets >stuffed into a file called ~/Junk. > >Does anyone have a routine that will take this file and generate a >single email in digest form, complete with index? I was thinking this. I'm intending t

Re: [SAtalk] Scores on the Doors

2002-04-04 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 12:14 04/04/2002, you wrote: >As a totally frivolous query, what's the highest score anyone's seen on >[legitimate] incoming SPAM [using the default SA scores]? > >I've seen scores in the low 30's. 41.8 is the record here - used to be 38.x something. Heavy use of RBL (I think flagged by five

Re: [SAtalk] Using SpamAssassin if you don't own the mail server ?

2002-04-03 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 18:04 03/04/2002, you wrote: >Just another tool in the fight against spam. Search google for javascript >email encryption or something similar, or write your own. Even better for those who don't like a javascript solution is HTML special character ASCII codes: staff@mpex.net is a real nigh

Re: [SAtalk] Strangely bad call

2002-04-03 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 06:49 03/04/2002, you wrote: >Also, this is the second legitimate e-mail that came to me in the last >couple of days through osirusoft and was rejected. This is because of the RBL checking mechanism. It checks the last two relay stages, the last is probably dialup and gets flagged by osiru..

Re: [SAtalk] What does spamassassin -r actually do?

2002-04-02 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 23:33 02/04/2002, you wrote: >I wrote a fairly decent script that automates the handling of spam >messages (reports to razor, does the open relay check and reports to as >many openrelay sites as you want, reports to spam cop, spits out entries >for a sendmail accessdb, etc.): > http://w

Re: SpamAssassin for Hire - was RE: [SAtalk] In need of very basic HELP

2002-04-02 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
>I've actually been planning to set up a service like this on my server. I've >run into lots of people who think that SA is a good idea, but installing it >themselves or convincing an ISP to do so is beyond them. > >Unlike other spam-filtering services, this one would admit up front that it >runs

Re: [SAtalk] Razor::Client

2002-04-02 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 13:39 02/04/2002, you wrote: >Can someone please explain the razor 1.20 issue? spamassassin is >convinced that its not installed even though it is. > >The FAQ mentions this is a problem but not how to fix it. OK maybe I shouldn't post to this because I'm not a 100% certain - but I'll try an

Re: [SAtalk] In need of very basic HELP

2002-04-02 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 11:59 02/04/2002, you wrote: >http://www.messagelabs.com/ :-) > Well, if they were $5 a month (maybe they are but they don't say so anywhere) they'd be interesting to recommend to people who're looking for a good email solution. It seems to me that they're targeted at medium to large busin

Re: [SAtalk] How does SA decide which IPs to check against DULs?

2002-04-02 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 20:31 01/04/2002, you wrote: >However, from time to time, I still get SA flagging mails that originated >from a dialup IP and were relayed through the ISP (the way it should have >been) > >Will SA penalize a mail if any IP in the received headers is in a DUL or >only if the first line (seen

Re: [SAtalk] In need of very basic HELP

2002-04-01 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 18:31 01/04/2002, you wrote: >Help!? I successfully downloaded Spamassasin 2.11 in zip format, but >when I go to open it, I don't know what application program to look for, >and it's not automatically finding one itself > >How do I get this started so I can start using it with my e-mail? >

[SAtalk] check_rbl - don't check originator on multistage

2002-03-30 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
Hi List... my first post - hopefully something worthwhile: in SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm: the original sub check_rbl if ($#ips > 1) { @ips = @ips[$#ips-1 .. $#ips];# only check the originating 2 } is not such a good idea when the RBL also checks for dialups such as relays.osir