[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] amavisd-new + spamassassin question

2003-12-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Joao Reis, | 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_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line | 1489\n\tMail::SpamAssas

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] how to change config path of SA ?

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Martinec
Stephen, | RH9, amavisd-new (p6), spamassassin 2.6 : | | I believe the config path that spamassassin is using is | /usr/share/spamassassin. | However, I want it to use my chrooted amavis directory of | /var/amavisd/usr/share/spamassassin. | | How and where can I change this ? You need to change

Re: [AMaViS-user] Re: [SAtalk] Can't locate AAAA.pm

2003-12-12 Thread Mark Martinec
Per, | I'm having trouble with a newly installed server. | OpenBSD 3.4 GENERIC#0 i386 | amavisd-new latest stable | amavisd is running chroot'ed | | /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd/Net/DNS/RR/.pm | exists on the system. | Not all mails will trigger the following error, I'm c

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] A "Out of memory" case

2003-12-09 Thread Mark Martinec
Claude, | RedHat Linux 9.0, all available patches applied | amavisd-new-20030616-p6, SpamAssassin version 2.60 You are not telling which MTA are you using. | The problem becomes known as the system was not more operable because of | nearly infinite swapping activities. "Out of memory" messages r

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] Amavisd-new and logging untrusted relays...

2003-10-25 Thread Mark Martinec
John, | - The "action" routine would run through the hashes and compute the average | spam levels for each IP, ... |... | I guess I need to sort out what a good criteria would be for action. Would | average spam level be an adequate way to determine a "bad" IP? ... Don't use 'average' on datasets

Re: [SAtalk] SA and Amavisd-new RE template

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Martinec
Neil, | I don't know where I should post this. amavis-user mailing list would be more appropriate. | But maybe someone here can share the | variables that I can use in /var/amavisd/notify_spam_sender.txt so that Spam | Assassins report will be included when the mail is sent back to the sender.

Re: [SAtalk] Re: MTAs and whitelists - an API exists

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Martinec
>From Justin Mason: | yeah. I would probably add a new arg for "metadata headers", e.g. | (data => [EMAIL PROTECTED], add_From_line => 0, |metadata => { 'X-Envelope-To' => '<[EMAIL PROTECTED]', ... }); | which SpamAssassin just mixes in with the real headers internally. Merging 'met

[SAtalk] Re: MTAs and whitelists - an API exists

2003-06-09 Thread Mark Martinec
| Oh -- BTW -- something occurred to me. There *IS* an API that | milter/MTA-plugin developers can use to specify this info to SpamAssassin, | after all. It's just implicit and hadn't occurred to me before. | | Our all_spam_to, etc. black/whitelisting code will check the following | headers, s

Re: [SAtalk] Best way to whitelist mailing list msgs?

2003-05-30 Thread Mark Martinec
| Could somebody please advise the best method of whitelisting messages | from a given mailing list? | | 'whitelist_from' doesn't work because (a) the messages come 'From:' | individual posters, and (2) the 'Sender:' address (which does reflect | the mailing list) isn't in the set of headers chec

Re: [SAtalk] controlling expiry for site-wide bayes dbs

2003-05-30 Thread Mark Martinec
| BTW, good news for large site-wide bayes dbs: Theo has implemented a way | to avoid auto-expiry in 2.60. The plan is that expiry can be disabled by | setting bayes_expiry_max_db_size to 0. | | Then folks who wish to do an expiry from cron, can control this by using | a config file which uses e

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin timed out

2003-05-29 Thread Mark Martinec
From: Simon Byrnand | Unfortunately no, sendmail, at least up to version 8.11.x doesn't have any | inbuilt way to throttle the local delivery rate. | You have: | QueueLA ... MaxDaemonChildren ... ConnectionRateThrottle ... | | None of these address the issue. Perhaps Sendmail 8.12.x has something

Re: FIXED! (was: Re: [SAtalk] UTF-8 revisted)

2003-02-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Mark, | I solved it. :) This was UTF-8 related, alright; but simply setting LC_ALL | to "en_US" would, alas, not make the errors go away. For one because my | perllocale (FreeBSD 4.7R, Perl 5.8.0) does not have "en_US". It has all | kinds of flavors, like "en_US.ISO_8859-1", "en_US.US-ASCII" and s

Re: [SAtalk] Feature suggestion - whitelist_from_to and whitelist_...

2003-02-12 Thread Mark Martinec
| This is interesting, I never even considered the benefits of running SA | at the MTA level. Where can I find more information on this? I'd | really like to look into having SA run system-wide before procmail ever | sees the message. Check http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ Several large

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] SA 2.50 and AWL

2002-12-21 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, (and Hamish), (thanks for your private mail, sounde very useful, I'll reply to it separately) | I use HEADER and not Envelope. There is always one FROM address | in either case and that is what you are really looking for when | you are whitelisting/blacklisting. Just a quick side remark

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] SA 2.50 and AWL

2002-12-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, | > Turning on SA auto whitelists is presently not useful | > with amavisd-new. There is a fundamental problem in that | > SpamAssassin is geared to work fine with one-recipient- | > -at-a-time messages, and amavisd-new tries to process | > multi-recipient messages in one go if at all possibl

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] SA 2.50 and AWL

2002-12-20 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, | I'm trying to get SA 2.50 working under the amavisd-new release. | It's working, I think. At least according to the logs. | Between the two, there is a marked increase in performance. | Very nice! | But there is no WhiteList. | Any suggestions on how to get this turned on? Turning on SA

Re: [SAtalk] SA Bugs

2002-12-17 Thread Mark Martinec
| From: Stephane Lentz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Ronan should have provided more information : I guess he's | talking about some problem found by amavisd-new's author. | The bug and patch is listed on http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ on | Tips and FAQ -- spam scanners (Mail::SpamAssassin) sect

Re: [SAtalk] spamproxyd / amavisd

2002-12-06 Thread Mark Martinec
Tom, | I was looking around for something that would work as an advanced | filter under postfix. I've had recommendations for amavisd and | found some "stuff" on spamproxyd. | | How is this related to SpamAssassin? spamproxyd and a lot of | people here have mentioned amavis so I'll guess this

[SAtalk] Re: Help with postfix / amavisd-new / spamassassin gateway

2002-12-05 Thread Mark Martinec
John, Thanks for providing your settings. They are ok. I asked for it because Postfix logs don't show port numbers, so checking the most obvious was my first guess. Actually your problem is more tricky, and I have seen similar situations during testing. The telltale log entry is: Dec 3 14:48:03

Re: [SAtalk] Help with postfix / amavisd-new / spamassassin gateway

2002-12-04 Thread Mark Martinec
John, | Perhaps this is a bit outside the scope of this group, but I'd appreciate | any assistance in digging through my mail logs. | | I'm trying to follow Scott Henderson's Spamfilter relay server "Howto" | http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html as applied to | RedHat 8.0 alo

[SAtalk] Re: amavisd-new && SA w/mysql

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Martinec
Eric, | im using the php-sa-mysql as an interface | for the users to set their prefrences. so, i need | the amavisd-new to either not send the mail to | SA so i can set the SA to use the sql lookup or | have the amavisd-new to send the mail to SA | With the sql lookups enabled. ... | ok. i reread

[SAtalk] Re: amavisd-new && SA w/mysql

2002-10-28 Thread Mark Martinec
Eric, | ok. i thought that would be the right | route to go with. ill recompile the amavisd-new | without the SA option. then ill have amavisd-new | send it to procmail then have the procmail send it to | the spamassassin with the mysql option. | | i was already using the amavisd-new-20020517 | s

[SAtalk] Re: amavisd-new && SA w/mysql

2002-10-26 Thread Mark Martinec
Mike, | If 20020630 won't call Razor, directly, then that answers my question, | quite nicely, actually. I was talking about the upcomming November release. Both the May and June versions only know how to use Razor 1.20. | ... Given the advancements in Razor2 over Razor1, There really isn't | a

[SAtalk] Re: amavisd-new && SA w/mysql

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Martinec
Mike, | Do you know whether or not 20020630 gives the option of not running razor | from within amavisd? Or will it support the use of Razor2? No option to disable it, but commenting-out the call would be a quick-and-dirty solution. The comming release will no longer call Razor, and SA and vir

[SAtalk] Re: [AMaViS-user] amavisd-new && SA w/mysql

2002-10-25 Thread Mark Martinec
Eric, | ... is there an easy way to stop the amavisd-new from | sending the mail to SA? or are there some changes | i can make to the configs? from what i have read, | amavisd-new sends the mail to SA without the | spamc/spamd running. Either use the next-to-last version amavisd-new-20020517 (

[SAtalk] Re: Bug#160628: amavis-postfix fails to upgrade or install

2002-09-17 Thread Mark Martinec
- due to popular demand, but wasn't in the distant past) Regards Mark -- !!!!!! !! Mark Martinec (system manager) tel +386 1 4773-575 !! !! J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39 fax +386 1 2519-385 !!

Re: [SAtalk] spamd proxy + Postfix

2002-06-01 Thread Mark Martinec
Justin, | I installed successfully SA with amavisd through the spamproxy module. | I understand that this is a new script and is not quite stable, so my | question is: Can I setup SA without the spamproxy and be on the safe side | in terms of stability and security? Yes, you can use amavisd-new

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin + Postfix

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Martinec
> I'm very interested in running SpamAssassin site-wide on a few of my > machines. Currently I'm Running Postfix for an MTA. Can anyone point me > to some good documentation on setting up SpamAssassin With Postfix? Try: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ and in particular: http://www.ijs.si/

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist

2002-05-25 Thread Mark Martinec
dman, > | |> it is a requirement for a MTA that it removes 'Bcc:' addresses from > | |> the header! > | | NO. It is a requirement that the MTA *NOT* do anything to the data ... > | Not necessarily - depends on how MUA passes message to MTA. > | MUA can pass envelope addresses separately, otherwi

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist

2002-05-24 Thread Mark Martinec
D-man, (and others), |On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:36:41PM +0200, Mark Martinec wrote: |> The SMTP envelope address (sender and recipients) is quite |> a different thing than the RFC822 addresses inside the mail header. | Yes. | |> it is a requirement for a MTA that it removes 'B

Re: [SAtalk] Razor checks from SA (was: Spam Tracking)

2002-05-23 Thread Mark Martinec
s(), and get_required_hits() ), avoiding the need for application using SA to have to parse SA config files or hard-wire numbers. Regards Mark -- !!!!!! !! Mark Martinec (system manager) tel +386 1 4773-575 !! !! J. Stefan

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist

2002-05-21 Thread Mark Martinec
s otherwise this information is (partly) lost - can be available in the 'Received:' headers, but there is no guarantee and no simple way to parse them. There is probably an extra benefit of having envelope addresses available to SA rules. Regards Mark -- !

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Tracking

2002-05-20 Thread Mark Martinec
call SA, but quite cheap and useful to only call Razor Regards Mark (btw, amavis-new home is at: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ ) -- !!!!!! !! Mark Martinec (system manager) tel +386 1 4773-575 !! !! J. Stefan Instit

[SAtalk] Amavisd-new-20020517, the SpamAssassin edition

2002-05-17 Thread Mark Martinec
usual location at: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/ where also the most up-to-date version or FAQ and certain other fresh documentation files live. Mark Martinec -- !! !! Mark Martinec (system manager)