[SAtalk] Cannot install SpamAssassin 2.63

2004-01-30 Thread Philip Mak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-SpamAssassin-2.63]# perl Makefile.PL What email address or URL should be used in the suspected-spam report text for users who want more information on your filter installation? (In particular, ISPs should change this to a local Postmaster contact) default text: [the administr

[SAtalk] Is this thing trying to assassinate my CPU?

2004-01-17 Thread Philip Mak
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 616 pmak 15 0 719M 247M 928 R 3.3 24.6 7:42 spamassassin Any idea why SpamAssassin is using such a huge amount of memory? I'm running version 2.60 and this seems to happen a lot. -

[SAtalk] Razor connection times out

2003-11-14 Thread Philip Mak
Razor doesn't seem to be working. This is the output I get with spamassassin -D: Nov 14 08:56:05.758908 report[31327]: [ 8] Checking with Razor Discovery Server 216.52.3.2 Nov 14 08:56:05.758989 report[31327]: [ 6] No port specified, using 2703 Nov 14 08:56:05.759036 report[31327]: [ 5] Connectin

[SAtalk] Catching stripped viruses

2003-09-23 Thread Philip Mak
I broke down and installed ClamAV, after being deluged by hundreds of Microsoft virus e-mails per day that SpamAssassin didn't catch. It works great, catching all those viruses and keeping them out of my inbox. (I'm not particularly worried about viruses themselves since I read my e-mail using mutt

[SAtalk] Virus checkers v.s. spam filters

2003-09-22 Thread Philip Mak
> 1.15. Does SpamAssassin filter email-borne viruses as well as spam? > > No. SpamAssassin is focussed on identifying spam, and not viruses. > The mechanism of scanning for viruses is different, and software > tailored for virus scanning is much much better at this task. Well, I wouldn't expect Sp

[SAtalk] Best virus scanner?

2003-09-22 Thread Philip Mak
I'm receiving a flood of Microsoft viruses recently. I went to sleep for 7 hours, and I came up with 145 new messages, almost all of them Microsoft viruses. SpamAssassin isn't catching these. I fed about 20 of them through "spamassassin --report", but the Bayes filter still doesn't seem to recogni

[SAtalk] All these Microsoft patch spams

2003-09-21 Thread Philip Mak
Can SpamAssassin do something about these messages? There's been a big flood of them recently, and they're all slipping through the filter. 143 N Sep 19 Inet Mail Deliv (140K) returned message returned to mailer 144 N Sep 19 Mail Storage Sy (141K) undeliverable message: returned to sender 1

Re: [SAtalk] Maildrop spamassassin per user

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:04:28AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote: > > if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/) > > { > > exception { > > to Mail/killed > > } > > } > > > > Why do you have the move to the folder as an exception, and not a direct > action of the if? > > I use: > > if ( /X-Spam-Sta

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Spammer forums?

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 08:11:11PM -0500, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:59:28PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote: > > There are many mail senders out there that send ligitimate mail > > that often gets flagged as spam, and finding ways to avoid being > > tripped up by these types of f

Re: [SAtalk] An interesting way to get around filters

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:02:59PM -0800, Bob Amen wrote: > Slightly off topic but... I got the attached piece of spam today > with two blank header lines. The first one gets tagged by SA but the > second one doesn't and apparently Mozilla doesn't check all Subject: > headers, only the last one, to

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Spammer forums?

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0800, David Masterson wrote: > H. If it was truly "opt-in", why would they need to avoid > filters? They could simply have their customers white-list them. If the ISP sets up some spam filtering program that deletes everything suspected to be spam and does

Re: [SAtalk] Kmail & spamassassin.

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:23:46PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > Is it necessary to run procmail, and if so why is it necessary ?. > > Yes. SpamAssassin can only tag messages as spam, but it can't do > anything about the messages that are tagged as spam; you'd need to

Re: [SAtalk] Kmail & spamassassin.

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:53:10PM +0100, Erik Jakobsen wrote: > These days I'm trying to set up a spamassassin. > > Is it necessary to run procmail, and if so why is it necessary ?. Yes. SpamAssassin can only tag messages as spam, but it can't do anything about the messages that are tagged as sp

[SAtalk] Re: Maildrop spamassassin per user

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:24:09PM -0500, devel wrote: > What I have is spamassassin is invoked via maildrop on my setup.. > > Do I need to have maildrop invoke this? No, I think .qmail could invoke spamassassin directly. It wouldn't be very useful though, because spamassassin can't trash spam

[SAtalk] Re: Maildrop spamassassin per user

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 03:04:09PM -0500, devel wrote: > >in ~/.qmail I have: > > > >|/var/qmail/bin/preline /usr/local/bin/maildrop > > > >And in ~/.mailfilter (the maildrop configuration file), I have: > > > >exception { > > xfilter "/usr/bin/spamassassin" > >} > >if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/)

Re: [SAtalk] Maildrop spamassassin per user

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 02:33:53PM -0500, devel wrote: > I have spam assassin and maildrop setup with vpopmail but I do not > want to enable for the entire domain. How could I add filters per a > user basis? > > I want to filter my email and a few others but not the entire 500+ > email accounts.

Re: [SAtalk] Trouble with paths

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:45:46PM +0100, Kim Leandersson wrote: > Can't locate loadable object for module Time::HiRes in @INC (@INC This might work for you: perl -MCPAN -eshell install Time::HiRes That's the most reliable way to install modules. If you install it that way, it *should* automatic

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin munges the Content-Type?

2002-11-18 Thread Philip Mak
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:03:17AM +0100, Claudio Clemens wrote: > I used the option some time, than changed it back. If I see > html-code in the mail I just pipe it through | unhtml | less, and > can read it. The problem with leting the ContentType alone, is that > the SA-Report will be in the beg

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin munges the Content-Type?

2002-11-17 Thread Philip Mak
Is there a way to make SpamAssassin not munge the Content-Type of messages suspected to be spam? (Is there a configuration option for this, or would I have to edit the source code?) I use mutt to read my e-mail, so I'm not worried about HTML mail and other active content that could "call back" to

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin -r is slow

2002-11-17 Thread Philip Mak
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 06:03:45PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 05:17:04PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > > Is there a way to make spamassassin -r run faster? > > > > I use the "mutt" terminal-based e-mail client. I have a macro for >

[SAtalk] spamassassin -r is slow

2002-11-17 Thread Philip Mak
Is there a way to make spamassassin -r run faster? I use the "mutt" terminal-based e-mail client. I have a macro for reporting spam messages (it runs spamassassin -r on the message), but every time I use it, I have to wait a few seconds for it to finish. -

[SAtalk] Reporting a message as non-spam?

2002-11-16 Thread Philip Mak
If I receive a message that SpamAssassin incorrectly classifies as spam, is there a way to add it to a database for the people who design SpamAssassin's rules to review? P.S. What happened to the mailing list archives? The link "Spamassassin-talk Archives" on http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/lis