RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin on Suse 9.0?

e a little digging and I think i need perl-PDL which I'm now downloading using Yast.. wondered if anyone's come across this problem before.. tempted just to use CPAN :-) rgds, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hutchings > Sent: 21 January 2004 15:06 > To: '

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Ex change

http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly is what I use with Postfix to do pretty much the same thing. Very simple and it works. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[SAtalk] Spamassassin on Suse 9.0?

knowing what to look for.. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin for SMTP gateway

dmail because I've never used it but as a newbie I found the above fairly simple to follow. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Chris Maher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SAtalk] Useful to compare sender domain with relay?

I know you can do this with postfix, i wouldn't do it for all domains as it would cause way too many problems IMHO, but it may be worth testing on frequently forged domains like aol, yahoo, msn etc.. regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Scott Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent:

RE: [SAtalk] Postfix and Spamassasin

Looks like the site's down right now but if you want to do it for all email this is about as easy as it gets - http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome I use a combination of that, and the stuff at http://www.advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html on a box in my DMZ to ha

RE: [SAtalk] SA on windows??

ave a little time it's easy enough (IMHO) to stick a postfix box in front of your mail server and run SA on that, it's what I did and so far i've not looked back. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mai

RE: [SAtalk] SA on windows??

Do you want to use it with an email client, or with an email server? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Nick Tong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

RE: [SAtalk] spamassassin and Exchange 2000

the users! > > (I needed some initial help from Unix-expert friends to set it up and > there was a learning curve for me...but once past that, no probs!) > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesda

RE: [SAtalk] spamassassin and Exchange 2000

I do just that (with Exchange 5.5) and it works great.   I went with Redhat 9, Postfix and Spamassassin, mostly as per this little guide - http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly regards,Paul--Paul HutchingsNetwork Administrator, MIRA Ltd.Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378,

RE: [SAtalk] Upgrade or Stay?

It's hard to quantify as we didn't have a great deal get through with 2.5x, but I would have to say that in the short (6 months or so) that I've been using SA, 2.60 is the best version so far.. still staggered that it's all free! regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Adm

RE: [SAtalk] SMTP gateway/filter

/view/Main/SpamAssassinAndPostFix there is a simple script that will hook it into spamassassin. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Robban [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [SAtalk] A black listing question

just the obious answer, if someone who has a legitimate account there tries to send you email it will get flagged as spam.. > -Original Message- > From: Peter P. Benac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 November 2003 18:17 > To: 'SpamAssassin' > Subject: [SAtalk] A black listing question

RE: [SAtalk] Comments on CBL DNSBL (cbl.abuseat.org)

Seems well regarded. I'm currently logging any hits to see if it's worth adding to my per user DNSBLs that I use to reject mail to the people who get the most spam. The ones at http://abuse.easynet.nl are also well worth a look. regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Robert James Ka

RE: [SAtalk] OT: examples of "email blocked due to spam, contact us here" webp age?

of a halfway house but it's better than nothing. Paul > -Original Message- > From: Matt Kettler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 November 2003 18:08 > To: Paul Hutchings > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] OT: examples of "email blocked due to spam, > contact us here&qu

[SAtalk] OT: examples of "email blocked due to spam, contact us here" webp age?

us fill in this form and we might whitelist you". Guess i'd like to see what sort of wording people are using - since these people might be customers some sugar-coating would be nice! regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)2

RE: [SAtalk] Sole scanner?

Take a look at http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly I'm using it here with spamd/spamc and it works a charm - I'm assuming you already have postfix setup as an inbound relay? regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Angel Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: [SAtalk] Need advice on new SA setup.. Which delivery agent is best??

I guess "best" is all relative, but personally I use Postfix on Redhat 9. I was new to linux so I wanted something secure and simple, which Postfix was (compared to sendmail), but it's also powerful enough to allow some real flexability once you get going. I have it configured to filter and pass

RE: [SAtalk] Totally whitelisting someone?

> 1) this issue should be fixed in 2.60.. it has a change to > the AWL so that > it ignores GTUBE. hmm.. I'm running 2.60, upgraded from 2.55 via CPAN > 2) do a --remove-addr-from-whitelist, instead of an add... this will > completely reset the AWL for the address passes. add will > only give

[SAtalk] Totally whitelisting someone?

I've stuffed up :-) I was playing with filtering only inbound email and to cut a long story short before I got it setup quite right I sent some test messages out and back in using the GTUBE string, of course it flagged these as spam and (I guess) because of the horribly high score blacklisted my a

RE: [SAtalk] Mistake-based training

Simplest thing I've found is to have users move the entire item to a Public Folder, you can then use something like mozilla/netscape to get the folder in mbox format which can be learned quite easily. regards, Paul > -Original Message- > From: Dan Kohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19

RE: [SAtalk] Filtering envelope to (was: Info about blacklist_to)

I think that's more of an MTA function than spamassassin - AIUI spamassassin won't delete/reject mail by itself. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- Fr

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

I played with the howto on openandhome, it seems really simple to get spamassassin up and running on windows, the problem seems to be finding a Windows MTA that can take an email, pipe it out then re-inject it and deal with it. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel

RE: [SAtalk] Microsoft Outlook and saving spams for learning..

I wouldn't mind a copy if possible. FWIW I use Outlook/Exchange at work, I get my users to drag spam into a public folder (so the headers go as well) then synchronise with Netscape/Mozilla mail as it produces an mbox file which sa-learn can handle. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Ne

RE: [SAtalk] Silly question about whitelist to a certain mailbox

t some spammish mails blocked, but users in all_spam_to should never get mail blocked. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jennifer Fountain [mailto:[EMAIL PROT

Re: [SAtalk] Sa-learn not learning

I had the same problem on my Redhat box and needed to install the db4-devel rpms to be able to install the db_file CPAN module. regards, Paul - Original Message - From: "Trevor Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:50 PM Subject: Re: [SAt

RE: [SAtalk] RBL, any need for them to be REAL TIME?

depends on the RBL I guess, there might be an argument for doing that with something like spews, or cc specific ones as they probably don't change that much hour to hour, but with something like spamcop you'd have no chance as it changes all the time. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchin

[SAtalk] auto-whitelist problem

bayes files - it looks like it's not changed since the upgrade. Any pointers on how to test this out and check it is working properly (mail is still getting scored and tagged). regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8

RE: [SAtalk] Rule for no reverse DNS

> Pardon me while I expose my ignorance. What's a smarthost, and given > me by which provider? All I get from my so-called ISP is a wire with > an IP address, or do you mean dyndns? It's your ISPs outbound smtp server. The idea is you can set your MTA to forward all outbound mail to it and it'

Re: [SAtalk] Spamassassin and Mail Relay

I use postfix, I think general opinion is that it's a little simpler than sendmail for a beginner (which I certainly was), plus it's had fewer security issues that I've been able to find. I do the same thing you want to do, but with Exchange behind it on a box running Redhat 9.0, Postfix and Spama

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

Gotcha - thanks for the clarification. Paul - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Hutchings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 4:02 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 r

RE: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc 1 released

Excellent! Any idea roughly how long until it's on CPAN? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

RE: [SAtalk] User who receives load of spam and blacklist_to

Thanks - I'm about to head off for the day, but I shall take a look on your emporium and see what I can do! regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- >

[SAtalk] User who receives load of spam and blacklist_to

Any ideas? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerc

RE: [SAtalk] sa-learn on mbox files exported from Exchange?

slip through? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Martin Radford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 August 2003 15:04 > To: Paul Hutchings >

[SAtalk] Hardware Spec Question

First off, I appreciate this is _very_ much a "piece of string" question, I'm really after advice on whether I'm totally wasting my time from the start... I setup a Redhat box running Postfix (usually the latest 2.x) and daemonized Spamassassin to act as an inbound only smtp relay. It's running o

[SAtalk] sa-learn on mbox files exported from Exchange?

I use spamassassin on a relay that forwards to an Exchange 5.5 box. Users stick any spam that made it undetected into a public folder. I've connected to the exchange box using Netscapes mail client, so now I have the contents of the public folder in mbox format. I'd like to use sa-learn to train

Re: [SAtalk] implementation

I'm not familiar with iPlanet, but we use a linux/postfix relay in front of our exchange boxes. I set mine up as per http://www.advosys.ca/papers/printable/postfix-filtering.html and it works like a charm. regards, Paul - Original Message - From: "Jon Fraley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[E

RE: [SAtalk] OT - spamassassin - mailserver recommendations - passthru to exchange after scan

e use postfix just to tag spam. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Tim Litwiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 July 2003 14:46 > To:

RE: [SAtalk] Very happy with SA 2.55 - 99% success rate!

Did you work those out yourself, or using some third party util - if so, might I enquire what? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bayes range Total score > > 1-10%3.7 (Just a few

RE: [SAtalk] Spamassassin Tag

On my system it's /etc/mail/spamassassin/10_misc.cf, not sure if that will be the same everywhere. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Simon Crowther [ma

[SAtalk] Razor/DCC Effectiveness?

x27;ve looked on the respective sites, and I'm still not overly clear how well they work, and what sort of bandwidth penalty they may impose (the sizes vary, but we receive something like 4000 inbound messages on an average day). regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024

[SAtalk] What's bad about X_LIST_UNSUBSCRIBE?

As subject really, one of my users had something tagged falsely, this alone gave it 4.3 and I'm not sure exactly what it is/does? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [SAtalk] Cannot open bayes_path?

he changes :-) regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Theo Van Dinter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 May 2003 15:07 > To: Paul Hutchings > Cc: '[EMAIL PROT

[SAtalk] Cannot open bayes_path?

, 8346 bytes. Any ideas? Looks like the message is still being scanned/tagged, just not sure what it's trying to tell me. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROT

RE: [SAtalk] Report points vs. header points discrepancy??

anyone? regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 024 7635 5378, Fax: 024 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Paul Hutchings > Sent: 29 March 2003 18:10 > To: Spamassassin-Talk (E-mail) > Subject: [SAtalk] Report po