[SAtalk] Help with spamd/spamc and "failed sanity check"?

2004-01-27 Thread Chris M. Miller
Good morning, I have just upgraded my mail server from Solaris 8 to Solaris 9, and am using spamd/spamc v2.63 with default compile (only PREFIX=/usr/local). spamd is set to communicate over a socket, /var/run/spamd.socket. Since my upgrade this morning, ALL mail sent to spamd from spamc re

[SAtalk] SA with locale-enabled tests

2004-01-21 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hi. I started using SA a year ago. I use it in a site-wide confuguration- spamd + milter + sendmail. Now I noticed that the amount of spam written in russian increased, and from this time I need to filter it. Since 90% of the mail on my relay is in russian (cp1251/koi8-r) I can't simply say in

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin checks on Received headers (and RBL's such as RCVD_IN_SORBS)

2004-01-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
en if trusting the IP of the relaying server works I'd still have to track all of them down - yes? Or am I missing something? m/ Please don't top post. No, you're not missing anything. This is a known bug in SA 2.6X. People saying to add your IP to trusted_networks are not

Re: [SAtalk] Ann: "Rules De Jour": An automated way to keep up with the latest rulesets

2004-01-18 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
I ussuaky will download the file to another file name in the SA config directory, than cat them all together and run lint on them *just in case*. If lint fails I do not switch to the new file. Steve Chris Petersen wrote: MAN, that's a lot of code for such a simple task. mine is just: #!/bin

RE: [SAtalk] RE: New Ruleset Available!!! TRIPWIRE! You don't want to miss this o ne!

2004-01-14 Thread Clary, Patrick M.
Chris, Could you add a |MESSAGE to the PGP signature lines in tripwire so that it does not trigger on PGP encrypted messages? I believe someone else has suggested this earlier in the thread but it wasn't in version 1.13. I made this change after receiving multiple false positives on PGP encrypted

Re: [SAtalk] Noob help

2004-01-06 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Chris Maher wrote: Hello all, Here's my scenario: I've got a RH9 server with SA2.61-1 installed. The server is a gateway for a number of different email domains. company1.com, company2.net, company3.org. I've got the three companies in /etc/mail/access and the forwarding/relaying is working fi

Re: [SAtalk] Amavisd-new/SpamAssassin problem

2004-01-06 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Michael Smith wrote: Hey all, I recently started experiencing a weird issue. Upon upgrading to SA 2.61 and amavisd-new-20030616-p7, SA is no longer checking my mail. I am using a sendmail-milter setup. My log files simple shows: Jan 6 13:44:35 gozer amavis[4809]: (XXWs89uW) spam_scan: h

RE: [SAtalk] whitelist question

2004-01-01 Thread S. M. C. Butler
ent: Monday, December 29, 2003 5:39 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] whitelist question > > At 02:08 PM 12/28/03 -0800, S. M. C. Butler wrote: > >whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], root, > >Super-User > > &g

RE: [SAtalk] new razor issue

2003-12-31 Thread S. M. C. Butler
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] new razor issue > > At Wed Dec 31 20:48:12 2003, S. M. C. Butler wrote: > > > debug: Razor2 is available > > debug: entering helper-app run mode > > razor2 check skipped: No such file or directory Insecure dependency in > >

[SAtalk] new razor issue

2003-12-31 Thread S. M. C. Butler
/sun4-solaris/Razor2/Client/Config.p m line 414, line 1. In my procmail.log Anyone else noticed this? Is it a real problem?? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign u

RE: [SAtalk] remove markup question and bayes question

2003-12-28 Thread S. M. C. Butler
> > No. You *do* need a minimum of 200 hams. The reason behind this is > that for Bayes to work, it needs to know *both* what spam looks like > *and* what ham looks like so it can tell the difference. > > But yes, it is best to have a vaguely equal number of both ham and > spam (but you can ea

[SAtalk] whitelist question

2003-12-28 Thread S. M. C. Butler
Hi, Another question on SA, sorry for bombarding you all.. I have the following in my ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs file whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], root, Super-User but unix system messages like the one below still get trapped as spam. I thought that the whitelist_from

[SAtalk] remove markup question and bayes question

2003-12-28 Thread S. M. C. Butler
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..) Also, I've got passed the 200 spams breakpoint for bayes but now it seems that I need

Re: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Frank M. Cook
ld check the temp file to see if it has X-Spam in the header and if not dump it.  Testing for a proper To: header might also work.  What's your test?   Frank M. CookAssociation Computer Services, Inc.http://www.acsplus.com  

Re: [SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Frank M. Cook
h message to be scanned. spamd is actually on a separate linux box. if a second message came in before the first was totally processed, a second scanning request could be made. would that cause a problem? Frank M. Cook Association Computer Services, Inc. http://www.ac

[SAtalk] When not to call SA

2003-12-23 Thread Frank M. Cook
that is tagged X-Spam: Yes before calling spamassassin?    I don't suppose it's safe to skip testing anything tagged X-Spam: No as the spammers could just put that in their messages.  Is there something some header line to look for to skip SA testing?   Frank M. CookAssociati

RE: [SAtalk] bayes stopped working

2003-12-22 Thread S. M. C. Butler
>> Can anyone give me a clue as to how to resolve this? > Looks like you need to Install BerkeleyDB first... DB::File requires it. > Once you get those two loaded, bayes should work for ya. Yep, the problem was that SA was looking for /usr/local/BerkeleyDB and the sun "addpkg" was creating it

[SAtalk] amavisd-new + spamassassin question

2003-12-22 Thread Joao Alberto M. dos Reis
Hi, I get the following message when amavisd-new try to scan a spam mail for spam with SA: Dec 22 10:04:50 socrates amavis[12387]: (12387-04) SA TIMED OUT, backtrace: at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 1489\n\teval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/site_per

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.61 and DYNABLOCK/SORBS

2003-12-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Peter SJF Bance wrote: All, [Hoping this gets through, and isn't blocked by SpamAssassin on another server!!] I've been trying to work this one out for a few days now - I run various mailman lists, and recently all my mail has been rejected when I've attempted to post to them. I use Sendmail, Am

[SAtalk] bayes stopped working

2003-12-19 Thread S. M. C. Butler
to resolve this? Rgds, Simon. ___ For mp3's, gigs, transcriptions, photos and more check out www.SiButler.com -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 1

RE: [SAtalk] *.cf question

2003-12-19 Thread S. M. C. Butler
age- > From: S. M. C. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thx for the info larry. Can I place a blacklists.cf file in > /etc/mail/spamassassin and will it be read in conjunction to > any blacklist information I place in my ~/.spamassassin/local.cf > file? Yes, SA

RE: [SAtalk] *.cf question

2003-12-19 Thread S. M. C. Butler
make sense. The rules will not be seen in ~/.spamassassin/. Review the "Priveleged Settings" section of http://useast.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html --Larry -Original Message- From: S. M. C. Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003

[SAtalk] *.cf question

2003-12-19 Thread S. M. C. Butler
  Hi all, I have downloaded the latest versions from http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/sa_rules.htm and placed them in ~/.spamassassin/*.cf   Can someone confirm that SA will find all the *.cf files in this dir and run them?   Rgds, Simon  

Re: [SAtalk] bayes not being used

2003-12-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Alexei Moulton wrote: I am running exim 4.12 with exiscan and spamassassin 6.1 The list of TESTS in X-Spam-Report header never includes BAYES and also the bayes score from _BAYES_ is always 0.5000. From this i gather that the bayes database is not being used? not sure exactly what spamassassin

[SAtalk] bad html not caught

2003-12-18 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
Hello, I am running SA 2.55 with the bigevil and backhair rules. I have been getting hit with seom spam lately by this one guy and he is relentless. The spam has an image that won't load, and the image is in an tag, but the interesting thing is it is FULL of bad html tags: Banned CD Governmen

Re: [SAtalk] Remove OSIRUSOFT RBL?

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
set its score to in your local.cf 0: score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY 0 score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 Steve James Van Sickle wrote: Hey everyone I installed SpamAssassin on my Linux box a few months ago, and I am now getting all my incoming emails tagged as coming from an Open Relay Mail server accord

Re: [SAtalk] Bulk rule creation tools

2003-12-16 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
I have some php scripts that are almost ready to release. I will notify the list whne it's done. Steve David Hooton wrote: Hi All, I have a rather large list of domains that I've collected that I am wanting to block. Does anyone have a "bulk admin tool" of sorts that I could use to make SA ru

[SAtalk] Preserving Mail Format

2003-12-13 Thread Frank M. Cook
essage rules.  I've read the documentation for local.cf and don't see anything other than report_safe to change. What am I missing?   Frank M. CookAssociation Computer Services, Inc.http://www.acsplus.com

[SAtalk] regarding spamassassin configuration

2003-12-12 Thread Hanumantharaju M
/mail/mbox so that i can process. thanks and regards M H Raju --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything fro

Re: [SAtalk] rule match counting

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
ame has expired. This however isn't as accurate in some ways, because the domain wouldn't get removed for a year. However if the domain is expired it defiantly doesn't belong as a rule. Steve Matt Kettler wrote: At 10:09 AM 12/10/03 -0500, Stephen M. Przepiora wrote: Hello, I h

[SAtalk] rule match counting

2003-12-10 Thread Stephen M. Przepiora
Hello, I have constructed a huge list of rules and wish to detect how good they are. Is there a way to log the count of rule matches somewhere? Steve --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just

Re: [SAtalk] Disable a User who does not want SA

2003-12-02 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Obantec Support wrote: Hi All RH8.0 with SA2.60 installed as sitewide. Procmailrc is handling spam for all users and creates ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs ok. Now 1 customer has decided he does not like spam filtered emails (cannot please all). tried |/usr/bin/spamassasin -x in procmailrc since i r

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn question

2003-11-28 Thread S. M. C. Butler
    -Original Message- From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 7:27 PM To: S. M. C. Butler Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn question Hello S., Thursday, November 27, 2003, 3:49:46 PM, you wrote: SMCB> * sa-learn --show

[SAtalk] sa-learn question

2003-11-27 Thread S. M. C. Butler
  Hi, I ran the following     Ø   sa-learn --showdots --spam ./Mail/spam_new   and got   . Learned from 0 message(s) (37 message(s) examined).     Did this work? Seems like it didn’t..   FYI. This spam_new dir is an MH folder of spam tha

Re: [SAtalk] An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Frederick M Avolio
A custom rule, or a builtin rule? built-in. I looked back through one of the archives (the other seemed to be a little broken), but didn't see any messages from you around Nov 14. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=spamassassin-talk&m=106883816809749&w=2 The error was: Nov 14 11:0

RE: [SAtalk] An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Frederick M Avolio
At 05:55 PM 11/25/2003 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why ?? I installed SA on RH 7.3 without any problem at all.. With (almost) just two commands : perl -MCPAN -e shell install /Mail:SpamAssassin/ My guess is that the problems arise from some package being missing that is required, and the CPA

Re: [SAtalk] An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Frederick M Avolio
At 06:39 AM 11/25/2003 -0800, Brook Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2003 05:18 am, Frederick M Avolio wrote: > Yesterday I again tried to install 2.60 on RedHat Linux 7.3. This is your problem^^ I undersntad that that is the only thing that s

Re: [SAtalk] An Open Letter to the SA-talk forum

2003-11-25 Thread Frederick M Avolio
At 06:13 AM 11/25/2003 +0100, Mark wrote: Is SA hard to install? Not harder than any other program based on Perl. Perl is the underlying engine, which, in and by itself, has nothing to do with SA. It is good to keep that in mind; Perhaps this is *my* problem. November 14 I mentioned having problems

[SAtalk] install problem

2003-11-24 Thread Frederick M Avolio
Trying to build SA on a RedHat Linux system via CPAN. In the install I get this: t/spamd_allow_user_rulesok t/spamd_hup.NOK 5 Not found: flag = X-Spam-Flag: YES t/spamd_hup.FAILED tests 3-5, 8 Failed 4/8 tests, 50.00% okay t/spamd_maxchildren

[SAtalk]

2003-11-17 Thread M.
Folks:   Has anybody created rule to "score" the obscuration technique that is "tunneling" through bayes? What were your results (more false positives for SPAM)?   Mark M.

RE: [SAtalk] Runtime problem SA 2.60 on RH 7.3

2003-11-15 Thread Frederick M Avolio
At 08:19 AM 11/15/2003 -0500, Frederick M Avolio wrote: ... X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Should have mentioned when

RE: [SAtalk] Runtime problem SA 2.60 on RH 7.3

2003-11-15 Thread Frederick M Avolio
At 01:31 PM 11/14/2003 -0800, ian douglas wrote: > Anyway, I downloaded the sources, built it, and installed it with no > problems. I rebuilt the Bayes db. When I started it (in debug mode) it > logged this and then exited: My first install (2.55) was via CPAN, and upgraded (also via CPAN) to 2.60

[SAtalk] Runtime problem SA 2.60 on RH 7.3

2003-11-14 Thread Frederick M Avolio
I decided to upgrade SA from 2.55 to 2.60. Some things I read lead me to believe that there are additional tools to deal with obfuscated HTML tags hiding text. Anyway, I downloaded the sources, built it, and installed it with no problems. I rebuilt the Bayes db. When I started it (in debug mode

Re: [SAtalk] What Dynamic IPs rbl list?

2003-11-11 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
I use dialups.visi.com and dynablock.easynet.nl. - Original Message - From: "Marcio Merlone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SA List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:30 AM Subject: [SAtalk] What Dynamic IPs rbl list? > Hello! > > I was wondering what rbl lists you guys

[SAtalk] Ignore_user setting ?

2003-11-06 Thread Paul M
We have spam assassin running, some users didnt get spam before hand and I wanted to know if there is a ignore_usr option to completely ignore specified email addresses? Thanks

[SAtalk] spam header not getting written sometimes

2003-11-04 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
(with 2.60) Occasionally (about 1 in 5000) SA recognizes a spam (according to all the other headers), but fails to add the *SPAM* header. As this is so rare, I'm willing to write it off as "just weird", but I'm wondering if anyone else has had this problem. I can reproduce this by sendin

[SAtalk] false positive for MS Remote Assisstance invites

2003-11-01 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
Microsoft Windows XP's "Remote Assistance" invitations trigger a false positive for me. Relevant headers: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: YOU HAVE RECEIVED A REMOTE ASSISTANCE INVITATION FROM: Nikki MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=_NextPart_000_000

[SAtalk] File of mail for sa-learn

2003-10-30 Thread Stanier, Alan M
Title: Message What is the format of the files of ham/spam fed to sa-learn? Can I use Outlook .pst files?   Thanks   Alan Stanier Essex University Computing Service  

[SAtalk] Bayesian autolearning not following thresholds

2003-10-25 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
to occasionally intervene (something as simple as a hot-key in their MUA) to move and relearn anything SA got wrong. Any info on the behavior I'm seeing would be appreciated. -- Jeremy M. Dolan <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jmd.us/> PGP: 1024D/3C

[SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> Have you tried starting spamd with the "-m" flag to limit > the number of copies? Yes, I have -m 10. It doesn't seem to have any effect. > How much RAM are you using? Unfortunately, I wasn't keeping track. Now I am: http://3e.org/perf/ I'm hoping this'

[SAtalk] child spamds sitting around forever

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
(Running 2.60) I'm having a problem where sometimes I end up with dozens of spamds taking 100% CPU, driving my load average up to 50 or so. Anyone else see this? -- Daniel Drucker / [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enter

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
>> I wasn't even aware that this notfirsthop argument existed; as far as I can >> tell in a few minutes of testing, the argument has no effect. >> I've had to disable all dynamic-IP RBLs because of this problem... > Out of curiosity, what method do you use to feed your email into > SpamAssassin? D

[SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> Yes, the situation I'm talking about is lots of spamd processes running at > once using lots of memory. (Not to mention the local delivery processes > running at the same time as well) > > Spamd using 800MB of ram is a bug, and one which I've never encountered > yet in months of using spamd, so i

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> On 2003-10-16, Brian Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you check the rule itself in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf you'll notice the > > -notfirsthop part of the argument to check_rbl_txt(). This tells > > SpamAssassin to check all hops except the first one for this match. As a > > I wasn't even

Re: [SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-18 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
> At 03:10 PM 10/16/2003, Daniel M. Drucker wrote: > >I wasn't even aware that this notfirsthop argument existed; as far as > >I can tell in a few minutes of testing, the argument has no effect. > >I've had to disable all dynamic-IP RBLs because of this proble

[SAtalk] Re: RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK

2003-10-17 Thread Daniel M. Drucker
On 2003-10-16, Brian Sneddon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you check the rule itself in 20_dnsbl_tests.cf you'll notice the > -notfirsthop part of the argument to check_rbl_txt(). This tells > SpamAssassin to check all hops except the first one for this match. As a I wasn't even aware that thi

[SAtalk] AWL not being generated

2003-10-09 Thread Andrew M
All the documentation for version 2.60 says that autowhitelist is turned on by default and that by default the autowhitelist is stored in each users config directory (e.g. ~/.spamassassin/autowhitelist) When I installed spamassissin, it installed with no problem and is doing a great job of filt

Re: [SAtalk] Good for 50%??

2003-10-07 Thread David M. Carney
el Quinlan wrote: > David M. Carney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I installed Spamassassin version 2.60 a few days ago. I don't get a lot of > > spam, but I do get some. > > > > So far, Spamassassin has only caught half the spam hitting my mailbox. I

[SAtalk] Errorcode 74 from spamassassin?

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew M
When spamassissin gets invoked by procmail, I get the following in the procmail log file: . . procmail: Locking "/home/footoo/spamassassin.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/usr/local/perl/bin/spamassassin" procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data failed procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data faile

[SAtalk] Re: [Razor-users] Problem with Spamassassin using Razor (razor-check and razor-report)

2003-10-06 Thread Aurangzeb M. Agha
Hi Scott -- When going through the SpamAssassin installation instructions here: http://au.spamassassin.org/full/2.6x/dist/INSTALL Are you absolutely sure you installed all the necessary CPAN packages mentioned? AMA On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Scott Kennedy wrote: :For some reason razo

[SAtalk] Good for 50%??

2003-10-06 Thread David M. Carney
I installed Spamassassin version 2.60 a few days ago. I don't get a lot of spam, but I do get some. So far, Spamassassin has only caught half the spam hitting my mailbox. I have saved the spam that has gotten through and did a "sa-learn --spam " on the saved spam. Is 50% normal, or is there somet

[SAtalk] 50% Spam Reduction Rate

2003-10-06 Thread David M. Carney
I've only had spamassassin installed and operating for about 2 days. I don't normally get a lot of spam, but it only seems to be stopping about half of all the spams that hit my mailbox. My ~/.procmailrc file is pretty much the sample that comes with the docs. I am doing sa-learn on all the spam

[SAtalk] sa-learn

2003-10-05 Thread David M. Carney
Hello all. I'm a real spamassassin newbie. I'm using spamassassin version 2.60. My mail is stored in /var/mail/david. I recently received three non-spams. So I thought I give sa-learn a tryout. This is what I did: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sa-learn --ham --mbox /var/mail/david Learned from 0 message

[SAtalk] Forgot the script

2003-10-04 Thread David M. Carney
Ooops. I got interrupted and forgot the script in my last post. Here it is: # SpamAssassin sample procmailrc # # Pipe the mail through spamassassin (replace 'spamassassin' with 'spamc' # if you use the spamc/spamd combination) # # The condition line ensures that only messages smaller than 250 kB #

[SAtalk] Does it Work?

2003-10-04 Thread David M. Carney
Hello all. I just installed spamassassin. I used the sample ~/.procmailrc file. I see the lines spamassassin adds to each received email header. Si I thought I'd give it a little test and turn off the spam filters on one of the pop3 servers I use to get my email. This server usually gets a medio

Re: [SAtalk] Ignoring first hop in RBL lookups

2003-10-03 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> At 12:42 AM 10/3/03 -0400, Christopher M. Iarocci wrote: > >Hi, I'm using SpamAssassin 2.60 being called through Amavisd-new. Dynablock > >(along with a few others) is scoring on lots of messages that it shouldn't > >because the first hop is a dial up. I put t

[SAtalk] Ignoring first hop in RBL lookups

2003-10-02 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
need to use the "eval:check_rbl_txt" option instead for this particular RBL? I'm a little confused, any help would be appreciated, thanks. Christopher M. Iarocci --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.5

[SAtalk] Procmail/Spamc Problem

2003-09-25 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I know this is probably more of a procmail issue but I'll ask anyway as it involves Spamassassin. This is how I call it from my main server for system wide use DROPPRIVS=yes :0 * ! ? test -f $HOME/.sabypass { :0fw * < 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f -U /var/spool/spamassassin/spamd.sock :0: * ^X-S

[SAtalk] Bayesian auto-learning? (and a test idea)

2003-09-25 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
test ideas: Presently the uppercase and HTML-tag percentage of a message is checked, but has anyone tried a rule to detect the HTML comment percentage? And how about an HTML_FONT_COLOR_WHITE? I've seen a lot of spams hiding non-spammy words in a block. Please be so kind as to Cc me on any r

[SAtalk] Timelog in 2.60 or lack thereof

2003-09-24 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I tried to check time timelog to look at performance and check hit rates for dcc, pyzor, razor, etc. Only to find it has disappeared on me since I last used it. It is still in the man page though And the config options page was broken at SA.org debug: Failed to parse line in SpamAssassin confi

[SAtalk] HTML has images with 600-800 bytes of words

2003-09-22 Thread Tory M Blue
First post, tried to find the answer I had a rich text document come thru and was flagged with "HTML has images with 600-800 bytes of words" The document had no images. What is being picked up? Thanks Tory <|[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This

RE: [SAtalk] spamd performance

2003-09-15 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > If performance is an issue, how about an option like... > > > > HIT_AND_RUN 1 > > > > ...that would cause spamd to stop processing once your threshhold had > > been met? IOW why keep scanning text once the message has been > > identified as spam? I'm sure that I'm missing something here but I'

RE: [SAtalk] osirusoft gone mad?

2003-09-03 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > Martin Radford schrieb: > [...] > >>4) I am new to spamassassin. What parameter should I use in my > >>configuration to cause spamassassin to stop using osirusoft open relay? > > > > See the news article at http://news.spamassassin.org/ > > The instructions given there can't work, IMHO, be

RE: [SAtalk] help with spam report

2003-08-22 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I use expire_mail.pl I sort spam into users spam folders so they don't have to download via pop They can access with a web interface (or imap) to see the spam folder and then every week I run a cron job to expire mail from every users spam folders It gives a summary of what was erased, showing t

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> >>this latest server I'm building > >>requires blocking of email, not just filtering > > > >I used [1] for exim3 but there is also a help for exim4 [2]. > > > >[1] http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html > >[2] http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim4_spamassassin.htm

[SAtalk] "This mail is probably spam." (-105 points)

2003-08-20 Thread Richard M. Myers
think that it would only attach the above text only if it was likely that the email was spam. Thanks for listening, Dick -- Richard M. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This SF.net email is sponsored by Dice.com. Did you know that Dice

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Chris, Will Postfix block email at the SMTP level if the email reaches a score I specify, or at least block it from being delivered to the POP server that sits behind it? Chris - Original Message - From: "Covington, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Christophe

Re: [SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Will Postfix block email at the SMTP level if the email reaches a score I specify, or at least block it from being delivered to the POP server that sits behind it? Chris --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.507 / Viru

[SAtalk] Exim 4.22 and SA 2.55

2003-08-19 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
Anybody have Exim and SA running as a SPAM filtering/blocking gateway that would want to share their configs with me, and knowledge for that matter? I'm a qmail person myself, but this latest server I'm building requires blocking of email, not just filtering, and I was advised that EXIM was the rig

RE: [SAtalk] Web Front-end

2003-07-31 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
You can also look at the module at www.horde.org I use the horde project progs to supply webmail to my customers.. They have a nice sa module > > > > Does anyone know of a good web based front-end for spamassassin? > ... and does anybody know if there's some sort of "WebMin module" > to config

RE: [SAtalk] dcc

2003-07-31 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
I prefer fairly easy method of turning on timelog and then I grep for DCC from those files. -Original Message- From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 9:54 AM To: Sanjay K. Patel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] dcc At 07:28 AM 7/31/03 -0400, Sa

[SAtalk] Recommendations

2003-07-23 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
, the MTA needs to be able to block totally email that scores above a certain amount in SpamAssassin. Thanks for your suggestions. Christopher M. Iarocci --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database

[SAtalk] Using SA for "Bayes/Whitelist" only?

2003-07-18 Thread Gwen M. Morse
Is there any simple config option to shut off all the assorted SA filtering options, except Bayes and whitelisting by collecting 'outgoing' e-mail addresses? Something along the lines of "OptionsToTurnOn" rather than shutting down each filtering option I don't want? These are the two features

Re: [SAdev] Re: [SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-13 Thread Olivier M.
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:37:38PM -0400, Greg Cirino wrote: > bayes is only system wide when using a database you mean it would be possible already now, if I use a DB instead of the bayes_ files ? Sounds good, would also be fine... I'll have a look and try to find some more docs about that, th

[SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-13 Thread Olivier M.
hello, I'm using SA with a mysql database for a few months, and I wanted to test the bayes system. Unfortunately, the spamd is reporting that: Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: retrieving prefs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from SQL server Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: Failed to

Re: [SAtalk] Adding Perl 5.6.1 to RH Linux 9 that already has Perl 5.8 installed.

2003-07-10 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> I have a Red Hat Linux 9 machine that has Perl 5.8 installed on it, and Perl > 5.8 on this machine looks deeply embedded to the core of the OS, based on > the ton of dependencies when I do "rpm -e perl". I need to run SpamAssassin > on this machine, but the SpamAssassin docs highly recommends

[SAtalk] bayes_path & bayes_file_mode with SA + sql mode enabled ?

2003-07-03 Thread Olivier M.
'bonjour, I'm using SA with a mysql database for a few months, and I wanted to test the bayes system. Unfortunately, the spamd is reporting that: Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: retrieving prefs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] from SQL server Jul 3 01:24:30 omega spamd[21676]: debug: Failed

[SAtalk] Reloading SpamAssassin's Preferences?

2003-06-30 Thread Daniel M. Zimmerman
Perl 5.6.1, it varies a bit by platform and Perl version) every time I try to get rid of the old Mail::SpamAssassin and create a new one. Anybody have any suggestions? -Dan -- Daniel M. Zimmerman

[SAtalk] Why was this marked as SPAM?

2003-06-27 Thread Stanier, Alan M
I sent myself a number of  innocuous test messages, each containing just the text   1 2 3 4 5 7 8   Ones from my hotmail account were marked as SPAM.  The full header set of one such is below.     Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0Received: from serlinux14.essex.ac.uk ([155.245.48

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin server

2003-06-24 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> > In my work, we have a lot of mail servers. My idea is put a spamassassin > server where any mail server in my domain can connect to the server to > analize spams. > > It is posible?? > > Bye! Yes. Chris --- This SF.Net email is spon

RE: [SAtalk] OT- "greylisting" - opinions from the SA community?

2003-06-23 Thread Ben M. VanWagner
> > > This method proposes to delay EVERY SINGLE MESSAGE until a > database match > > is found for sending IP, FROM, and TO. > > > > So...we punish everyone in the world, and hope that a delay > of one or more > > hours is considered "acceptable"? > > I have to agree. I know for a fact tha

Re: [SAtalk] Blocking a Domain

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Hi, > I am using the sam module in Horde/IMP CVS version for spamassasin > to work with the webinterface. > > It works great > > I just wanted to ask , can I blacklist an entire domain for a particular > user in his spam settings (Web iterface) > blacklist_f

[SAtalk] Bayes Learning Error

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
I'm running a Mandrake 9.0 machine, with qmail (as installed by LWQ.org) and SA 2.55 site wide, using Bayes with auto learning enabled. The server is just a gateway server, which then routes it's filtered email (Thank you VERY much SpamAssassin!) to a POP server sitting behind it. The server behi

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes + Autolearn Question

2003-06-21 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> I need help figuring something out. > > I'm managing email on a server in an inhouse, company > environment. Many users on system, but all are using the > system for company business, so basically we will have very > similar spam vs. ham issues. > > I was frustrated because the autolearn Bayes

Re: [SAtalk] Spam profiting from auto_whitelist -- how to avoid?

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> I've been using Bayes and auto whitelisting for several weeks > only, but on a site wide basis (i.e. spamc/spamd triggered from > procmail from sendmail). > > I've been very happy with the bayes learner, but today got a > pretty bad spam into one of the mailing lists I manage, here are > some

[SAtalk] Bayes learning error

2003-06-20 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
I'm running a Mandrake 9.0 machine, with qmail (as installed by LWQ.org) and SA 2.55 site wide, using Bayes with auto learning enabled. The server is just a gateway server, which then routes it's filtered email (Thank you VERY much SpamAssassin!) to a POP server sitting behind it. The server behi

Re: [SAtalk] Max children

2003-06-18 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
> Jack, > > based on what you wrote, I added a "-m 2" option to my call of spamd, to > limit the number of children to 2. > This should solve at least my problem, since the default obviously was > "unlimited". If that's wrong, could one of the devel

[SAtalk] auto_learn with manual blacklist ?

2003-06-18 Thread M . Muenz
Hi ML, I always read about AWL and auto_learn. But will SA auto_learn from the manual blacklist settings in local.cf ? THX - Michael --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hostin

AW: [SAtalk] auto_learn without "sa-learn"-feeding ?

2003-06-13 Thread M . Muenz
>It is completely automatic, you may want to change the threshholds, spam is ok but >you dont get much ham by default. >An easier way to seed the bayes is to whitelist some of your clients. sounds good ... and where is all information stored ? in "bayes_path" ? when i don't use the sa-learn comm

Re: [SAtalk] Need some help with per user settings

2003-06-13 Thread Karthik M
y not to get rid of the headers for the specific user ? TIA karthik --- "Christopher M. Iarocci" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I am a newbie to spamassassin but managed to > install > > it and am successfully runni

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