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

2004-01-28 Thread JR
the stuff we have plugged into it. So I get the joy of tearing my hair out trying to upgrade SA now that the dude who was doing it before has become not-so-dearly-departed. Someone send me some magic dust and a chicken... --JR --- Th

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

2004-01-28 Thread JR
into logrotate and I have a zillion gigabyte logfile. :-P Hey cool! he did not ask how to get spamassassin to delete the email. :-) Yeah, right, then I'd get nothing but phone calls whining that SA ate their email when really what happened is the dorks got over quota and a

Re: [SAtalk] Forward mail to a specific mailbox

2004-01-26 Thread Bob McClure Jr
ail, then you don't need the first stanza. Cheers, -- Bob McClure, Jr. Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bobcatos.com It's easier to debate the Bible than obey it. --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by

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

2004-01-23 Thread JR
d been told the last dude had made SA run "all that extra stuff", but from the looks of it Razor, DCC, and Pyzor are all borked. What flaming hoops do I need to jump through to un-bork them? TIA and all that jazz. --JR ---

[SAtalk] Questions about Bayes training

2004-01-09 Thread JR
s ham? Finally, if I am writing my own custom rules, how do I determine what score to give them? I see mentions of "running against the corpus" like the one above, but how do you DO that, and once you do what exactly is it TELLING

[SAtalk] Can SpamAssassin do a weighted scoring count?

2003-09-23 Thread W. James Showalter, Jr.
Hello, I have checked various pods and archives as well as the distributed filters but can't determine if this is possible. I am running SpamAssassin on Unix Solaris 9. I have been using procmail and perl for years and until I installed SA I had rudimentary spam detection with procmail's weighte

[SAtalk] Re: Spamassassin and qmail?

2003-09-21 Thread william f guyton jr
you will also need something like qmail-scanner, and need to patch and recompile qmail to support calling another queue... http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/ http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/857/ http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-03/potm_01.html wfg john writes: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003

[SAtalk] Re: Install qmailscanner, spamassassin and clamav... but now does it work?

2003-08-27 Thread william f guyton jr
what do you see in /var/spool/qmailscanner/qmail-queue.log Jennifer Fountain writes: in the articles I am reading, you should see this in your /var/log/maillog: Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: info: setuid to qmailq succeeded Jun 8 05:08:00 myhost spamd[11636]: checking message <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [SAtalk] Newbie

2003-08-14 Thread william f guyton jr
dway Suite 503   New York, NY 10012   Phone:212-941-5300 xt 36   Fax:    212-941-5563   Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- william f guyton jr senior network engineer informs 334.277.0372x133 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [SAtalk] newbie question

2003-08-14 Thread william f guyton jr
+, william f guyton jr wrote: >Is their a configuration that allows SA to use unique local.cf for >each domain passing thru a SA gateway? This is really a function of the tool that calls SA, and not SA itself. So you'd have to specify which tool you're using for that. As an o

[SAtalk] newbie question

2003-08-09 Thread william f guyton jr
Is their a configuration that allows SA to use unique local.cf for each domain passing thru a SA gateway? --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now.

[SAtalk] Re: image only spam question/help (fwd)

2003-07-23 Thread william f guyton jr
On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 18:25, william f guyton jr wrote: A good point, I have attached the two image spams I have been testing the gateway with. > At 05:46 PM 7/23/2003 -0500, william f guyton jr wrote: > > > I am trying to up the score site wide using the local.cf file,

[SAtalk] image only spam question/help

2003-07-23 Thread william f guyton jr
ntry codes will not be marked # as being possibly spam in a foreign language. ok_languages    all # Mail using locales used in these country codes will not be marked # as being possibly spam in a foreign language. ok_locales  en -- william f guyton jr senior network engine

[SAtalk] Re: 98% spam gone

2003-07-05 Thread william f guyton jr
Much thanks. Rick Macdougall writes: Hi, The main home page is http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/#qmail-smtpd And Bill has a modified patch to work with his large qmail patch at http://www.shupp.org/ Regards, Rick william f guyton jr wrote: Where might one fine this "chkusr&q

[SAtalk] Re: 98% spam gone

2003-07-05 Thread william f guyton jr
Where might one fine this "chkusr" patch for vpopmail? Rick Macdougall writes: Hi, Not sure what you mean by a problem. You can see some of our stats at the following locations (Just added the chkusr patch - thanks tonix! - to qmail this morning for vpopmail so that explains the drop in spa

[SAtalk] Whitlisted but not

2003-07-02 Thread John McCoy, Jr
The attached message got white listed but the listed from address is not in the global config file and we do not allow user configs. Thanks. -- * John McCoy, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Systems Administrator Central Systems, Mills College Oakland, CA 94613

RE: [SAtalk] OT: Exchange / Outlook Rule Deployment

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Poserina Jr.
Thanks for all the good info guys, will investigate the feasability on my end. -Original Message- From: Tom Meunier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 8:45 AM To: Stewart, John; Ron Poserina Jr.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] OT: Exchange / Outlook Rule

[SAtalk] OT: Exchange / Outlook Rule Deployment

2003-05-31 Thread Ron Poserina Jr.
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to deploy an Outlook rule created to Outlook clients without manually having to create it for each user? I need to push out a rule for a SpamAssassin deployment that looks for a spam tag in the header, then moves the spam tagged email into a "spam" folder in t

[SAtalk] newbie question: subject line not being tagged.....

2002-10-17 Thread william f guyton jr
with this local.cf file: rewrite_subject 1 subject_tag ***SPAM*** report_header 1 defang_mime 0 SA is not rewriting the subject line of the message. :( spamd is running with the following switches: /usr/bin/spamd -d -c -a -- william f guyton jr senior network engineer informs

Re: [SAtalk] newbie question, I am not getting any scores whenrunning test messages thru SA v1.42

2002-10-15 Thread william f guyton jr
this is what I have got: -rw-r--r--1 root root 291 Oct 15 14:20 local.cf [root@projects spamassassin]# pwd /etc/mail/spamassassin On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 14:55, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:46:38PM -0500, william f guyton jr wrote: > > I mu

[SAtalk] newbie question, I am not getting any scores when running testmessages thru SA v1.42

2002-10-15 Thread william f guyton jr
):. Processed in 0.129528 secs); 15 Oct 2002 19:26:41 - X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=0 I must have a switch set wrong, but I cant seem to find it. thanks -- william f guyton jr senior network engineer informs 334.277.0372x133 --- This

RE: [SAtalk] SPAM message tricked SA???

2002-10-11 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
Behalf Of matt Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:49 PM To: John McCoy, Jr.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SPAM message tricked SA??? Is it just me, or did you forget to include the message that tricked SA? I seem to have gotten a set of full headers, but no message. My suggestion

[SAtalk] How to generate X-Spam-Report for all messages

2002-10-11 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
perly. Hmmm I guess * ^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\** would work for this in procmail, any other/better ideas. Thanks all. John McCoy, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Systems Administrator Mills College Oakland, CA Voice: 510-430

[SAtalk] SPAM message tricked SA???

2002-10-11 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
D]?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mx.thehostmasters.com/pipermail/newsletter/> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:03:47 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 John McCoy, Jr [EMAIL

[SAtalk] spamd and syslog new line issue

2002-10-08 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
:33:03 koko.mills.edu spamd[24092]: identified spam (6.0/5.0) for qmailq:72 in 5.0 seconds, 39909 bytes.\n Thanks all, trials here are going very well, we should be in production before Christmas. John McCoy, Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Systems Administrator

Re: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted?

2002-10-02 Thread John McCoy, Jr
stems Administrator Mills College, Oakland CA 510-430-3321 - Original Message - From: "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Malte S. Stretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John McCoy, Jr" <[EMA

Re: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted?

2002-10-01 Thread John McCoy, Jr
t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:44 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted? > On Monday 30 September 2002 22:06 CET John McCoy, Jr. wrote: > > I'm not sure why but the line numbers very from the so

RE: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted?

2002-09-30 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
D]] On Behalf Of Malte S. Stretz Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted? On Monday 30 September 2002 18:49 CET John McCoy, Jr. wrote: > Larry Rosenman wrote: > > I put the 2.42 tarball up yesterday, and now I&#x

RE: [SAtalk] 2.42-cvs: spamd: Accept interupted?

2002-09-30 Thread John McCoy, Jr.
I'm getting this too with 2.42 perl 5.6.1 Sol 7 using qmail-scanner 1.14 Spamd started with: /usr/local/bin/spamd -d -x -s local3 Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Larry Rosenman Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 9:17 AM To: [EM

[SAtalk] AWL adjustment flags SA-talk email as spam

2002-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I was surprised to see that the "AWL: Auto-whitelist adjustment" rule added 31.1 (thirty-one point one!) to the score of the following email from this very list server. That was easily enough to mis-flag it as spam. I'd appreciate it if someone would explain how an AWL adjustment is supposed

Re: [SAtalk] Why aren't ALL scores genetically evolved?

2002-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Good point. I hadn't considered the transient nature of blacklists. Having said that, it seems to me that the content of spam also changes over time, yet the GA seems to cope with that. Perhaps it's just a matter of degree If the content spam is consistent _enough_ to permit GA scoring,

Re: [SAtalk] large numbers of tiny scores = SPAM!

2002-05-30 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Thu:10:01, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > > Good point. Combinations of some rules may be more > > indicative of spam than others. > > > > It would be great if the GA could infer the boolean > > logic, as well as the scores. > >

Re: [SAtalk] Why aren't ALL scores genetically evolved?

2002-05-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
How about sampling the network checks, so that instead of 400,000, only doing, say 500? It seems to me that sampling a few hundred network checks would arrive at a better score for them than hand coding. My two cents, Kingsley Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed:17:57, Craig R Hug

Re: [SAtalk] large numbers of tiny scores = SPAM!

2002-05-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Good point. Combinations of some rules may be more indicative of spam than others. It would be great if the GA could infer the boolean logic, as well as the scores. Thanks, Kingsley On Wed:20:45, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002 the voices made Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wr

Re: [SAtalk] large numbers of tiny scores = SPAM!

2002-05-29 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
On Wed:11:43, Rob Winters wrote: [...] > SA does not give any credit to the cumulative effect [...] It seems to me that properly weighted scores would avoid this problem. I'd like to think that a good optimization algorithm, such as a genetic algorithm, could do the job. Thanks, Kingsley __

[SAtalk] DCC and razor doc (Was: Why aren't ALL scores genetically evolved?)

2002-05-28 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Hi Craig, Thanks for explaining why some scores aren't evolved. I'm an old GA and optimization programmer, so I naturally find SA's use of a GA pretty interesting. You suggested using all network tests. I've installed razor and made sure spamassassin isn't called with the -L option. However,

[SAtalk] Why aren't ALL scores genetically evolved?

2002-05-24 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
I installed SA 2.20 a few days ago and it's mis-categorizing more emails than I'd like. I'll *guess* that it's missing 10% of spams and mislabelling 1% of my legitimate email as spam. The obvious explanation is that I'm doing something wrong, like not using razor or spamd. However, I noticed th

Re: [SAtalk] date difference testing

2002-05-21 Thread Kingsley G. Morse Jr.
Daniel, Being an old AI/GA programmer who just started using SA, your post fascinates me. Thanks for the update on your research. On Mon:22:07, Daniel Quinlan wrote: [...] > My only gripe is that having so many rules is somewhat clumsy in the > scores file, even using arguments. What if spamass

[SAtalk] Extracting flagged content

2002-04-03 Thread Kenneth Garreau Jr.
This is probably a simple stupid question: I want to be able to extract words that were flagged by SA and include them in the SA report email, along with the score and test that was performed. Ie, "Hit! Word: BODY: Uses words and phrases which indicate porn." This is most specific for the "por

Re: [SAtalk] Let battle commence

2002-03-30 Thread Donald L. Greer Jr.
> > People in the US are... well... somewhat "limited" when it comes to > > understanding the world... Treat them like childern, and hope that they one day > > will grow up. };-) Hey! Don't screw up our illusions! We're the greatest country in the world! Our President said so! ;^) Hones

RE: [SAtalk] SA-milter on AIX?

2002-03-14 Thread Kenneth Garreau Jr.
Gcc 3.0.4: --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix Thread model: single -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bob Plankers Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:34 PM To: Kenneth Garreau Jr. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] SA-milter on

[SAtalk] SA-milter on AIX?

2002-03-13 Thread Kenneth Garreau Jr.
Has anyone here been able to compile SA-milter on AIX? I'm riddled with a billion compile errors, including the following: c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -O2 -Wall -c spamass-milter.cpp In file included from spamass-milter.cpp:98: spamass-milter.h:9: parse error before `&' token spamass-mil

Re: [SAtalk] Sightings Problem

2002-03-05 Thread Donald L. Greer, Jr.
>I mean, I can _always_ add another "From:" tag to fool SF, but I > > don't want my "abuse@" address to get spamphrased ;^). > >Thanks! > >Don > > > > -- > > > > Donald L. Greer, Jr [EMAIL PROTE