[SAtalk] ANN: SAConf 1.2 for Windows

2003-11-26 Thread Michael Bell
Has been released. It's a free GUI for configuring SA. running on any Win32 system. New features - 2.6 compatibility (1.1 was compatible but missed many features) - tons of new stuff added (sql configuration, spamreportheaders configuration, many more bayes parameters, etc) SAConf now supports

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 release

2003-09-22 Thread Michael Bell
Is there any difference in code between the final and the RC6 release? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com --- This sf.net email is spons

[SAtalk] NO_DNS_FOR_FROM now useless? Rule needs crit fix?

2003-09-16 Thread Michael Bell
At least I think so. Tell me I'm wrong and I'll slink into the corner. According to SlashDot, Verisign is now as of 9/15 evening wildcarding all .com and .net domains that aren't registered to go to a advertising page! Now, admittedly that doesn't affect other TLDs. And if the advertising page IP

[SAtalk] Re: CYGWIN spamc/spamd

2003-09-15 Thread Michael Bell
"I have this running on my computer. It works without problem. I need cygwin to run spamc only. SpamD and sa-learn runs with the activestate perl. I changed spamD to run in "serial" mode. The threading does not work with the windows perl. I do not know about the cygwin perl and threading." Not t

[SAtalk] 2 issues with Win32 install of SA 2.60

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Bell
Sorry about accidental send of last Anyway 1. Sys:Syslog warning when doing perl makefile.pl. Remember Win32 doesn't use SpamD [nor does Sys::Syslog exist for Win32], hence this warning shouldn't appear. 2 At very end of running spamassassin -D < sample-spam.txt output debug: RBL: success for 3

[SAtalk] 2 issues with

2003-08-22 Thread Michael Bell
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[SAtalk] Re: application

2003-06-27 Thread Michael Bell
This is a human being speaking Note that RE: Application, containing your_details.zip contains SoBig.E __ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --- This SF.Net ema

[SAtalk] Base-64 encoded HTML and text spam

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Bell
Abigail - No. Sorry. You are incorrect. It's understandable that you are, but let me explain Base64 is used quite legitimately by Outlook, Notes, and GW, in international settings. Clearly you don't do much business with Eastern Europe or Asia - their mail is riddled with it (not just the spam yo

[SAtalk] Mind if I ask a question re: 2.50 vs older versions?

2002-12-05 Thread Michael Bell
Ok, here it is. And please, be gentle! 1. SA 2.50 drops the SpamPhrases frequency table, which seems from limited playing on my part to comprise something like 10% of the detection in favor of Bayes. It's stated that Bayes does it better. 2. And I have faith that will be true, given the kind of t

Re: [SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Bell
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Re: [SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-12-01 Thread Michael Bell
--- Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't looked yet, but > > (a) if they're not well-cleaned (ie if there is valid nonspam in > there), > it's going to seriously impact the archive's usefulness. It's not well-cleaned. In a random survey of 5 spam files, one was clearly a va

Re: [SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Bell
3% on Justin's sample) in success. Remember - I ran SA 2.43 in both cases with -L so most of the stuff relying on that isn't relevant. but you can check it out yourself at ftp://ftp.spamarchive.org/archives. --- Matthew Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michael Bell (

[SAtalk] spamarchive.org corpuses have quite low success rates with SA

2002-11-29 Thread Michael Bell
has 5 test corpuses. (f,etp.spamarchive.org/archives) I will note that they are poorly organized, with the headers hand edited, and useful things like the RECEIVED headers removed. Hence all DNS stuff wasn't worth running. Plus I'm dubious about what they've done to the formattting,etc. That b

[SAtalk] Problems running SA-LEARN-SPAM?

2002-10-23 Thread Michael Bell
Well, first I should say I am running this on Win32, so y'all can tell me Win32 != Unix Anyway, I run SA-LEARN-SPAM on a single message in a single folder like this sa-learn-spam -D c:\test (C:\test contains sample-spam.txt) The program gets stuck, probably because the UID, UNAME, and DATE com

[SAtalk] Quick and (theoretically easy) question

2002-07-06 Thread Michael Bell
I want to stop SA from marking up headers with a warning of X-BAD-FORMAT-WARNING: RFC 2822 or some such, and leave the headers unaltered. I found the area in NoMailAudit.PM where this is implemented, but clearly my limited Perl skills are kicking my butt, as I can't seem to find a way to modify it

Re: [SAtalk] Some problems with Win32 Perl and SA 2.30

2002-06-16 Thread Michael Bell
t, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:33:15PM -0700, Michael Bell wrote: > > These are all new: > > > > 1. Time::Hires required (or at least reported to be required when > I > > run Perl makefile.pl) > > Yeah, we're still trying to make it optional. > The code is designed

[SAtalk] More on broken SA 2.30

2002-06-15 Thread Michael Bell
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[SAtalk] Some problems with Win32 Perl and SA 2.30

2002-06-15 Thread Michael Bell
These are all new: 1. Time::Hires required (or at least reported to be required when I run Perl makefile.pl) 2. All of the following errors reported in -D mode (I've shown the full output but there are many errors reported below that never showed up before.) All of this was installed according

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-22 Thread Michael Bell
I've updated the HOWTO on http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html Besides a few more terminology fixes, etc, there's a new part added on how to get SpamProxyd running on Win32 as well! Yay! I haven't tested it much, but it looks like it works. It does look like SpamProxyd has a BUG, though I'm

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-22 Thread Michael Bell
Well, the usefulness is for people to judge. I had my own venial reasons; I want to integrate it with MY product. However, I point out that one POP3 proxy has been posted previously on this list by a fellow Win32 fellow > Unless I'm missing something, it appears it _works_ but I'm > doubtful

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-22 Thread Michael Bell
I've posted the HOWTO (a few more changes, but more or less the same as the last post) on http://www.openhandhome.com/howtosa.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ ___

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Bell
This is draft 4 of the HOWTO-WIN32-SpamAssassin The main changes - lotsa syntax corrections - AutoWhiteList FIXED! - EventLog options for Spamd included The remaining issues (but not so big as before) - Whether the maintainers of SpamAssasin want to integrate this (with appropriate checks for

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-16 Thread Michael Bell
I believe this code, merged into SPAMD, will do the event logging. Haven't had a chance to test, because I'm Win9x impaired today # insert at beginning of spamd use Win32::EventLog; # Remember to # a) remove current lines referring to Use SYS:SYSlog, GetLogSock # b) change my $uid = getpwnam('no

[SAtalk] Win32 port of SA

2002-04-16 Thread Michael Bell
There's a little more work to be done before it's completely ready. I now have SPAMD working as well (non-daemonized). Note you must remove the SYSLOG references (syslog doesn't work on win32 AFAIK), and change the logmsg to Print "\r\n", Print "$info" (lame screen workaround). Of course if someo

[SAtalk] Re: Using CYGWIN to port to Win32

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
This probably would be cleaner; but my goal so far has been a "reasonably easy", transparent install, that even an experienced windows-but-not-unix-admin could sort of get going and CYGWIN looks like it adds a buncha stuff in. OTOH, I will be the first to admit that my knowledge of Unix function

[SAtalk] Further proof I'm a dope

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
1. I pasted the RFC twice. Sorry guys! Yeesh, it's like my brain don't work (see point 2 for evidence) 2. There's a mistake in the instructions in that it says pm_to_blib: spamassassin doc/.made Change it to pm_to_blib: spamassassin doc/.made Of course, the second line should be pm_to_blib:

[SAtalk] 2 more quick comments

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
1. Sorry for the blank e-mails - I hit send once by accident on yahoo. Sigh 2. The builds were performed on these systems ActivePerl Build 631 (1/2/02) SpamAssassin 2.11 Razor Agents 1.19 Win98SE Win2000 __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center -

[SAtalk] RFC: Running SpamAssassin on Win32

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
Ok, I've put together my findings on porting SpamAssassin to Win32. I plan to post this as a HOWTO on an HTML web page at some point if it passes muster with you guys. A few notes: - I'm not a perl expert - heck I barely know perl. So be gentle in your comments, please! - The sections which may

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2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
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2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
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2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
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2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
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2002-04-15 Thread Michael Bell
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