Re: [SAtalk] moving sa-talk to apache?

2004-01-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Top Post, sue me. Fine with me. Rick Justin Mason wrote: Folks -- given the *massive* numbers of issues with this list in its current home, I suggest we may be better off moving it to Apache.org sooner rather than later. Currently, our status in Apache is that we are in the Incubator there, wh

Re: [SAtalk] Set up

2004-01-21 Thread Rick Macdougall
George Matos wrote: I just got my domain name and am trying to setup spam assassin. I have never used it before so I was looking for some setup instructions etc. Wife won't switch emails till I have it setup. Hi, MTA, MTU, and any other information would be helpful. Regards, Rick

Re: [SAtalk] RFC822ness of a message

2004-01-21 Thread Rick Macdougall
Justin Mason wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Macdougall writes: Please learn to set your email client to wrap your messages. SA does not add a thread-index or X-Mail-Format-Warning header to any email it process's. I'd check on any other programs t

Re: [SAtalk] RFC822ness of a message

2004-01-21 Thread Rick Macdougall
Steven Manross wrote: I use a tool called "Outlook Redemption" (http://www.dimastr.com/Redemption ) to: -save an Outlook message as an RFC822 file -then run that file through SA, -then reimport that message file back to Outlook (my mailbox only). I am having issues where SA reports incorrect

Re: [SAtalk] More on: user_prefs on a gateway machine

2004-01-21 Thread Rick Macdougall
Jonathan Nichols wrote: Here's my original post, to which I got some great replies (thanks!) but I've run into a bit of an odd snag, detailed below. Ok, so I set up the web interface, the database, and everything that I could think of, but spamd isn't talking to the database. :( I'm callin

Re: [SAtalk] Per-user exceptions

2004-01-20 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Run it through spamassassin -d just for that user afterwards via procmail, maildrop or .qmail files ? Regards, Rick Fred Bennett wrote: I have SA 2.61 running spamd on a Mandrake server with Postfix. It sends mail to our Exchange 2000 server on the LAN. All is ok, except for one user th

Re: [SAtalk] user_prefs on a gateway machine

2004-01-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Since you are already using MySQL, why not use MySQL user prefs? You lose per user bays filtering but other that that it works great. Regards, Rick Jonathan Nichols wrote: Hey all, I'm working on a spamassassin gateway machine, and I'm a bit confused on how to set up the machine so

Re: [SAtalk] A cron job to delete old spam?

2004-01-02 Thread Rick Macdougall
Dave Weiner wrote: On Friday 02 January 2004 14:24, Rick Macdougall wrote: Hi, I don't have one in use right now but something similar to find . -path "*Maildir/.SPAM*" -ctime +14 -type f | xargs rm Be aware that this is very qmail specific unless you've configured you

Re: [SAtalk] A cron job to delete old spam?

2004-01-02 Thread Rick Macdougall
Liu Shuai wrote: Hi all, I want to set up a system wide cron job that deletes old (2 weeks maybe) tagged spam from each user's spam folder, but I am not sure how. Does anybody here has a script that does similar job that I can use as a reference? If not, can some one give me some direction? I ass

Re: [SAtalk] Odd Behaviour

2003-12-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Owen Becker wrote: This is somewhat interesting. A fair number of mails are getting through with: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-89.6 required=6.0 tests=BAYES_99,BIZ_TLD, CASHCASHCASH,DATE_IN_PAST_06_12,HTML_70_80,HTML_FONTCOLOR_BLUE, HTML_FONT_BIG,HTML_FONT_INVISIBLE,HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_

Re: [SAtalk] BIG HUGE EVIL RULE NEWS!!!!

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Macdougall
Peter P. Benac wrote: I have been using Emacs for almost 20 years. Is there any other editor :) :s/old stuff/newstuff/g only works if you only have one instance of "old stuff" per line!! H? What you talking about Willis? :s/old stuff/newstuff/g will replace ALL instances of old stuff wi

Re: [SAtalk] Bigevil domain hat-check help

2003-12-03 Thread Rick Macdougall
Chris Santerre wrote: I've got a domain listed in Bigevil that could be legit. I need a hatcheck on this one. It is not that obvious. Can someone give me info on: as1.emv2.com or the emv2.com domain in general? (not WHOIS, I can do that!) Hi, http://www.openrbl.org and pop in the domain. Th

Re: [SAtalk] SA and MySQL

2003-11-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Vitor Renato Alves de Brito wrote: Hi, I would like to use SA and MySQL to have the userpref in database. I already created the DB and the table and put following lines on local.cf: I call spamd with -D option (spamd -D) and call spamc with -u option (spamc -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] < spamfile.msg) bu

Re: [SAtalk] [OT] Switching OS for Gateway

2003-11-17 Thread Rick Macdougall
Flame wars abound!!! Seriously, both Slackware (with Swaert) and FreeBSD (with ports) will give you a very stable system that is easily update able. I personally would stay away from Debian, which has probably the best update system, just because they are slow to update to recent versions of s

Re: [SAtalk] This may be completely impossible but Its worth a shot.

2003-11-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Paul Hirschorn wrote: I just completed my full blown install of spam assassasin and was very happy with the results. I am using it as a mail gateway in front of my exchange 5.5 server. My problem is that I have a user who absolutely needs/wants the ability to maintain his own whitelists. Is

Re: [SAtalk] spamd -m stable?

2003-10-25 Thread Rick Macdougall
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:41:11PM -0700, Cheryl L. Southard wrote: Normally, spamd takes about 30 seconds to complete, but when it's in swapping-hell it takes approximately 550 seconds, and since each one takes 20MB of memory, quite a few (up to MAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN, I suppose) can start up and

Re: [SAtalk] The Verisign folly

2003-09-16 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an appalling unilateral abuse of VeriSign's power. Forget about the negative consequences. They are simply abusing their control over these TLDs to direct users who make typos to their site. Anyone know appropriate VeriSign, ICANN, or other e-mail addresses

[SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-09-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
pam please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --45454443234ggh Content-Disposition: attachment Content-Description: Attached message Content-Type: message/rfc822 Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:42:27 -0400 (EDT) Date-warning: Date header was inserted by nsuite.glenraven.com From: Rick Macdougall <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[SAtalk] One that slipped through 2.60 rc4

2003-09-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Here's a copy of one I just got with no mark up doing cat file | spamc -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't add any markup either. A spamassassin -t does mark it up though. Regards, Rick --- Begin Message --- fdifjhbbzv ltd xehvqs s lwrqtgrwyf ynjl eaq ey dsvhv djbqou nzwur jholq j cjg

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.60 was hit-and-miss for me

2003-09-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
Creede Lambard wrote: Hello all, new to the list, so apologies if this has already been covered. I upgraded my version of SpamAssassin from 2.55 to 2.6 this morning, turned it on, and started watching the mail log when obvious spams started appearing in my mailbox. At first I thought it was onl

Re: [SAtalk] Install problem

2003-09-10 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Alastair Battrick wrote: I'm having a problem installing SA 2.55 The server is running Redhat 7.2 (I think) has 256Mb RAM and plenty of spare disk space. When I go to cpan, I can get and make Mail::SpamAssassin no problems, but when I 'make test' I get this: -- Running ma

Re: [SAtalk] How to create a public folder on imap server for use with sa-learn

2003-09-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I just created /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc/maildirshared and put SpamSetting /home/vpopmail/shared in it. Regards Rick Nigel Wilkinson wrote: On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 11:00:36 -0400 Scott Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks Scott I'll give it a try Cheers Nigel Nigel Wilkinson wr

Re: [SAtalk] odd question

2003-09-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I can CC you on my spam, about 600 a day, if you want :) Regards, Rick Alan Fullmer wrote: I have an odd question. Does anyone know of a website, or some sort of thing to SIGN MYSELF UP FOR SPAM? Or get on some lists? I am going to test my spam filter, and this is the best way I can thin

Re: [SAtalk] FW: Best Child Pornography Site

2003-08-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Patrick Morris wrote: That has got to be the single funniest piece of spam I've seen in a long time. :) jherschel wrote: -Original Message- *From:* Tyler Madison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:05 PM *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Subject:* Best Child Pornogra

Re: [SAtalk] Re: [Exim] listed at relays.osirusoft.com (fwd)

2003-08-26 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Anyone who would like to is welcome to use rbl.axess.com as well, it's our manual list of IP's that have sent spam directly to my personal account. Please read rbllist.axess.com before using if you are in BT space, .br, .cl, .mx or .kr space though because your dynamic IP's are probably lis

Re: [SAtalk] OSIRUSOFT -- should they be used any more?

2003-08-26 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, James Miller wrote: With all the trouble OSIRUSOFT is having, is it time to stop using them? As of 12:40 this afternoon our mail server stopped accepting mail from our main web server because it was listed on osirusoft. How I don't know since it doesn't run an SMTP server -- it's protected

Re: [SAtalk] Question

2003-08-22 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Thomas Skaret Larsen wrote: anyone know how to enable spamassassin PER domain. in an easy way. and how can i use spamassassin without using qmail-scanner and not need to recompile my qmail install with the qmailqueue patch., Add the followng to the .qmail-default file if you are using vpopm

Re:[OT] [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

2003-08-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
John Rudd wrote: And you pay taxes to a country that is participating in international organizations whose agenda ends up degrading foreign cultures and bombing foreign houses. Even if you're against it, you're supporting it. So, does that make it ok for agents of those foreign groups to b

Re: [SAtalk] Spam scored above threshhold but is not tagged.

2003-07-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-17.6 required=5.0 That's -17.6, not 17.6 :) Regards, Rick John Schneider wrote: I received a spam email this morning that looks like it scored high enough to be tagged spam but was not. Here is the header info/score analysis: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-17.6 requi

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian filtering and forwards

2003-07-26 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Yuval Kojman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another way to manage all this would be to create a web form that accepts mbox files, which most MUAs can export. But i doubt there will ever be an MUA which can't forward as an attachment properly. Outlook can not forward as a

Re: [SAtalk] Per recipient black/whitelist

2003-07-17 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, whitelist_from and blacklist_from in the users pref's file, either a flat file or in MySQL Regards, Rick Ernest W. Lessenger wrote: Does SpamAssassin already have, or has somebody created that I can use, a per-recipient black/whitelist. What I need to do is allow customers to add addres

Re: [SAtalk] Advice

2003-07-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Marek Dohojda wrote: I need to make sure that I mark one e-mail box as being able to receive spams (it seems a lot of resumes are marked spam!). I don't see option in that since whitelist_from isn't right, it be more like whitelist_to (option that I don't see). What would be best thing to do

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes overhead?

2003-07-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Dave Goodrich wrote: Hello, I have an interest in setting up Bayes testing. I am concerned about the consistent mention of increased resource usage when running Bayes. Can I get some idea of how much Bayes will increase my servers load? Thanks, We run a setup similar to yours but with eve

Re: [SAtalk] (OT) DSL/DIALUP manual BL Catch 22

2003-07-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, My list does exactly that... but... I am very selective about what ISP's get the dialup/dsl block. rr.com, sympatico.ca, earthlink.net doesn't, the just get /32 blocks .br,.kr,.cn,.mx, btopenworld, ono.com, .ar, .jp, and hongkong do get full /24 or greater blocks. I just base this on the

Re: [SAtalk] The best ANTl-SPAM software for you, Kc8hr! Ibr gUHQLfFpfDl...? (fwd)

2003-07-14 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Osirusoft and bl.spamcop.net are back up here. Regards. Rick Tony Earnshaw wrote: Tim wrote: P.s: your score was much to low, considering your 2.60. You need to start using RBL and DCC checks at the least (avoiding anything to do with OSIRUS, at the moment - DoS death, namely.) Sorry,

Re: [SAtalk] spam with no body...

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Macdougall
VonEssen, John wrote: I have been seeing this sort of spam come up on several different mail servers I work on. The email is definitely spam and it tests positive for a few RBL, but not enough to raise its score significantly. The one I got the other day only scored 2.9. I know that on my system

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-virus suggestions requested

2003-07-10 Thread Rick Macdougall
Steve Thomas wrote: Doh! I misread the original mail. I thought he was looking for a scanning mechanism, not the scanner itself. Revised recommendation: MailScanner and Sophos. :) I replied to him off list cause I thought it was OT, but I'll repost my recommendation here just for fun. Since h

Re: [SAtalk] Anti-virus suggestions requested

2003-07-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Ummm, except for the fact that MailScanner in and of itself is not a virus scanner. Points for trying though. PS. This is said with a light heart, not meant as a flame. Regards, Rick Steve Thomas wrote: On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:27:26PM -0500, Thomas Cameron is rumored to have said: C

Re: [SAtalk] Is this taking too long?

2003-07-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Robin Lynn Frank wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jul 9 06:46:55 alpha13 spamd[3206]: identified spam (14.0/5.0) for rlfrank:501 in 32.3 seconds, 1836 bytes. Hi, DNS timeout on something. Could be an RBL or could be one of the the dcc, razor or phyzor services. Mo

Re: [SAtalk] Re: FILTER THIS VIRUS ALREADY!!!

2003-07-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, But the hardware to run the software is not free- and handling really large volumes of email takes *big* hardware. Think "cluster of 4-way Xeon-2GHz/16Gmem". Or whatever. I've been pushing ~1.5GB+ (~30K+ messages) inbound and "outbound relay" mail per week through a PII/400 (recently upgrade

[SAtalk] Re: 98% spam gone

2003-07-05 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, The main home page is http://www.interazioni.it/qmail/#qmail-smtpd And Bill has a modified patch to work with his large qmail patch at http://www.shupp.org/ Regards, Rick william f guyton jr wrote: Where might one fine this "chkusr" patch for vpopmail? Rick Macdougall writes

Re: [SAtalk] 98% spam gone

2003-07-04 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Not sure what you mean by a problem. You can see some of our stats at the following locations (Just added the chkusr patch - thanks tonix! - to qmail this morning for vpopmail so that explains the drop in spam on newmail) http://newmail.axess.com/qmailmrtg/ Last three graphs http://mail.

Re: [SAtalk] 98% spam gone

2003-07-03 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, We implemented it for 10K+ users at our ISP with a default required_hits of 15 and we allow the users to modify their settings. No false positives and the users are happy with the level of control they have. I've also installed a similar setup for about 30 clients over the last 3 month's

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin WEB interface

2003-07-02 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, There are some on Freshmeat and I have one at StandAlone - http://mail.limelyte.net/downloads/standalone.tgz Squirell Plugin - http://mail.limelyte.net/downloads/squirrel-plugin.tgz Regards, Rick Jose M.Herrera wrote: Where I can found spamassassin in web interface??... I read once in th

Re: [SAtalk] how much work to install and maintain

2003-06-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Could be if he's never experienced it before. We do something similar for company's based on qmail/vpopmail $400 (CAD) Qmail / Vpopmail Installation Clamd Anti-virus Qmail-Scanner SA QmailAdmin SquirrelMail MySQL (for user prefs for SA) dnscache Usually takes me about 4 hours to set it all

Re: [SAtalk] Setting local values for rbl checks

2003-06-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, You want score RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 ^ Regards, Rick Lucas Albers wrote: I am trying to set the values for rbl checks. I add the following entries to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf RCVD_IN_ORBS 0 #no longer in service RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 4.0 RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 4.0 RCVD_IN_RELAYS_O

Re: [SAtalk] spammers aren't the only ones who can teach. (was WeTEACH you how to ...)

2003-06-17 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I usually take it one step further and call most spammers who list a 1-800 number, thanking them for suppling further tests we can integrate into SA. If everyone did that once a day, they might get the clue that the majority of their email isn't getting through (especially those clueless

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes with SQL preferences?

2003-06-13 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Works globally without any hacks, but per user is a little more difficult to implement. I had promised a few month's ago to work on something to allow this but time seems to have a way of vanishing before I can make any really headway on it. Regards, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This

Re: SA in Mailshield by Lyris / (was) Re: [SAtalk] OT: SCO may haveviolated GNU

2003-06-12 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Just heard from a client of mine and apparently MDaemon is using it as well. Regards, Rick Duncan Findlay wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:59:36AM -0700, Greg A wrote: The way I read the license was that you can not sell SA software. You can only charge for duplication fees, installati

Re: [SAtalk] web interface update?

2003-06-05 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I've updated a version of a previous one. http://mail.limelyte.com/downloads/standalone.tgz or http://mail.limelyte.com/downloads/squirrel-plugin.tgz Regards, Rick Jonathan Nichols wrote: Anybody know where I can find a current version of the SA web interface? The one I'm using now calls

Re: [SAtalk] looking for feedback on Wanadoo

2003-05-30 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I can't speak for anyone else on the list but... We problably have most of, if not all, wannado dialup and DSL ip's in our personal RBL. We do not block their actual email servers, but I do have a personal blacklist for anything coming from them that dumps them into /dev/null. Being that

Re: [SAtalk] Spam nstallingassasin

2003-05-29 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, It has? That's news to my dns... @40003ed514501c91686c rblsmtpd: 200.171.247.234 pid 21909: 553 BLOCKED: See http://www.monkeys.com/upl/listed-ip-0.cgi?ip=200.171.247.234 Regards, Rick Joseph Noonan wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 at 12:36pm Bob Apthorpe wrote: *.relays.monkeys.com hav

Re: [SAtalk] vmailmgr and SA

2003-05-28 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, You can do it in the .qmail-defaul |preline /usr/bin/spamc -f | /usr/bin/filepipe /usr/local/bin/vdeliver Filepipe is by Bruce Guenter (sorry for the spelling Bruce), but I keep a copy at http://www.nougen.com/test/filepipe.tgz Regards, Rick Jon Reynolds wrote: I am using vmailmgr and I

Re: [SAtalk] Converting away from site-wide

2003-05-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Can you create a user_prefs file for that user and set the corresponding options not to do anything to the message ? Regards, Rick Greg Webster wrote: Hi all, I've got a user that needs to bow -completely- out of SA. This means no headers added, his mail must not be altered in any way b

Re: [SAtalk] How do I activate bayes rules in 2.50

2003-02-25 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I suspect it's due to the fact that I'm using -q and -v on the spamd command line. I haven't had a chance to more than browse through the source, but when I have a bit more time I'm going to look into why that happens. I'm also going to try and make the Bayesian filters work with the -q swit

Re: [SAtalk] mail with ONLY html

2003-01-14 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Can you name me one legitimate email client that sends HTML 'ONLY' emails? I can not for the life of me think of one. Mozilla, Outlook, Eudora etc all send text and HTML versions of email. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Robert J. Accettura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EM

Re: [SAtalk] Another install problem

2003-01-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, If you are using spamd/spamc then you need to restart spamd for any changes to take affect. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Brook Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:22 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Another install problem Okay,

Re: [SAtalk] web interface for regular users configuration

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Yes there is. It exists for MySQL based users, squirrelmail regular users and squirrelmail MySQL users. Check the archives for complete information. If you have a specific need and you can't find it, email me off list and I'll point you in the right direction. Regards, Rick - Origina

Re: [SAtalk] 2 Questions: RBL and IP/domain blocking

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, 1) Turn on debuging for awhile and watch the logs. I personally don't use RBL lookups in SpamAssassin but rather do it at the smtp level. 2) Ever looked at rbldns by DJB ? I use it here for rbl.axess.com and all spam I get gets their IP address added to it (excluding actual ISP mail serve

Re: [SAtalk] spamc and homedir

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, spamc has no such restriction. All that needs to be done is increase the size of the field in the MySQL database. We use it here with great success. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003

Re: [SAtalk] 2.43 - too many false negatives

2002-12-05 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, dailypromotions and our HiSpeed friends (hispeed, h-s-m, hispeed-media, etc) are all in my qmail badmailfrom. If anyone would like it, feel free to drop me a line. Most of them are also in rbl.axess.com along with most dsl.x.x.x.x.br address's. (http://rbllist.axess.com) Rick - Origina

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin per user (MySQL)

2002-11-16 Thread Rick Macdougall
ySQL) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Rick Macdougall wrote: > Quick look through the spamd code looks like this would be quite easy to > implement and it maintains the same standard of not processing Rules if the > value is 0. Not processing a rule as

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin per user (MySQL)

2002-11-16 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Moved over to satalk from vchkpw since this is really an satalk issue not vpopmail... I think the most interesting way to handle it is... Set required_hits to a default value of 0 Call spamd with the parameters to lookup the user in MySQL If the user has no required_hits set, stop processing

[SAtalk] Re: [vchkpw] Spamassassin per user (MySQL)

2002-11-16 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Interesting idea... but since to see if spamassassin is supposed to run you'd have to run spamassassin, maybe a little front end to check to see if the user has a required_hits set in the database and if they do, then pass the email along to spamassassin. Interesting.. I like it. I'll look

Re: [SAtalk] MailDir and spam

2002-11-13 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I use maildrop for that. In my personal directory I have a .qmail file with | preline /usr/local/bin/maildrop /home/vpopmail/domains/axess.com/rickm/mailfilter and in my mailfilter file I have (among other things) if (/^X-Spam-Flag: *YES/) { to "Maildir/.SPAM/" } Regards, Rick

Re: [SAtalk] Web Config

2002-11-13 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, phpsa.php is included with spamassassin and only requires fixing a few typos. http://test.axessmail.com user [EMAIL PROTECTED], pass test Click on Spam inside squirrelmail to get an idea of what it can look like... work in progress. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Nath

[SAtalk] A patent on Bayesian (and other methods) ?

2002-11-09 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi All, Saw this on one of the grc newsgroups... Does this Microsoft patent cause trouble? Here's the link to the document. http://makeashorterlink.com/?V27615462 And here's the abstract from the top of it: Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automat

Re: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Macdougall
tersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users > Why not use an SQL database instead? That's what we do with vpopmail >

Re: [SAtalk] spamd and virtual users

2002-10-28 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Why not use an SQL database instead? That's what we do with vpopmail (although I'd love for qmail-scanner to have support for virtual users, oh well) and it works just dandy. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Chris Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [SAtalk] delivering of spam into maildir other then inbox

2002-10-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Not SA itself, but procmail or maildrop will do it for you. I believe there may even be a procmail recipie on the SA site. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "alexus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 3:18 PM Subject: [SAtalk] deliveri

Re: [SAtalk] Tagged Spam

2002-10-02 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Really NOT recommended but you could write a maildrop or procmail script to do that. That's what I do for our users who want that, we move all Spam marked email to a seperate IMAP folder that they can check every so often via a Web mail interface or via an IMAP client. Regards, Rick -

Re: [SAtalk] SA performance info

2002-09-24 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, AMD 1.2 Ghz with 256 meg ram Approx 200K messages a day No network tests except a local DCC server Average time is 1.13 seconds, probably due to the odd spam that times out on the MX lookup which I've changed to a default of 2 instead of 3. I'm not running without Network tests, I just set

Re: [SAtalk] RE: eNom Inc. $6.95 Domain Pricing (fwd)

2002-09-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I had a sort of conversation with Matt Stern, their VP, after spamming one of my personal domains asking if I wanted to move. I replied rather abruptly (slimey, bast*rd, etc were used) and he personnally replied back asking what the problem was. I then replied in a very business-like manner

Re: [SAtalk] MX Values

2002-07-18 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Yes I get that all the time myself. Instead of hitting the main (lower mx) value, they always hit the higher MX value. Not much you can do about it really, since the second mail server needs to accept the mail in case the primary server is down. I've also seen my primary mail server refuse

Re: [SAtalk] The Spamming Bureau

2002-07-14 Thread Rick Macdougall
://spammingbureau.com/ Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spamassassin-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] The Spamming Bureau Hi, Interesting but almost posi

Re: [SAtalk] The Spamming Bureau

2002-07-13 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Interesting but almost positively the work of a spammer. A quick google search on the whois address brings up some interesting commentary on the address and ZIP code used, as well as the area code of the supposed phone number. I created a dummy address on one of my domains used only by me a

Re: [SAtalk] Strange Headers...

2002-05-31 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, To clarify, I searched 50K messages for -i stormpost, not the regex below. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Daniel Quinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 7:34 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Strange Head

Re: [SAtalk] Apologies for absence/slowness this week

2002-05-23 Thread Rick Macdougall
Ho! Congrats! I'm doing the same the last Saturday in June. Hope you have a lovely wedding! Rick - Original Message - From: "Craig R Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:00 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Apologies for absence/slowness this week I

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd from daemontools

2002-05-22 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I use exec /usr/bin/spamd -q -x -D -L -u vpopmail 2>&1 | /usr/local/bin/multilog t s100 /var/log/spamd Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Dallas Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:35 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Spamd from dae

Re: [SAtalk] SA config based on recipient domain (spamd/spamc)

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, For what smtp daemon and system are you trying to do this for? Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Mark Lowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SATalk List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 5:16 AM Subject: [SAtalk] SA config based on recipient domain (spamd/spamc) M

Re: [SAtalk] qmail-scanner-1.12 not calling spamc please help

2002-05-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, What does your @scanner_array contain? Mine would be my @scanner_array=("avp_scanner","spamassassin"); except that I'm running just avp_scanner and spamassassin per domain. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "AD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [SAtalk] ok_languages addition

2002-04-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, True, true... but :) QT, Apache, mod_ssl et al can all be considered 'modules' that run on Linux which is GPL'd :) Isn't Inodb for MySQL not GPL'd but still an optional part of MySQL (which is now GPL'd) ? Either way a quick letter the the FSF or RMS would clear it up and this is probably

Re: [SAtalk] ok_languages addition

2002-04-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Again, IANAL but there are GPL'd perl modules, BSD perl modules etc etc, are Net::DNS, Mail::Mime etc, all gpl'd? Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Macdougall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [SAtalk] ok_languages addition

2002-04-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, As always, IANAL but If I interpret the GPL correctly then any and all changes made by someone to the module that ARE released to the general public or sold to a 3rd party must be released in source form to the general public or 3rd party. An add on module to Spam Assassin (IMHO) would n

Re: [SAtalk] In need of very basic HELP

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi Sarah, To save you some time and grief, spamassassin is not meant to run on Windows at the enduser point. It is supposed to be run by your ISP on their Unix mail server, although I'm sure some smart Windows admin's have it running on Windows mail servers as well. Regards, Rick - Origi

Re: [SAtalk] Let battle commence

2002-03-29 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hey! I resemble that remark! Rick - Original Message - From: "Craig Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Duncan Findlay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Let battle commence Ok, any socialist country will do. C On Fr

Re: [SAtalk] newbie question

2002-03-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I could be wrong but I think you need a delivery program like maildrop or safecat to complete the delivery. Something like | /usr/bin/spamc -f | safecat ./Maildir/tmp ./Maildir/new Are you using vpopmail or vmailmgr? If so I have scripts for both of those. Regards, Rick - Original

Re: [SAtalk] spamassassin and qmail.

2002-03-05 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, What are you using as your backend? Straight qmail or vmailmgr or vpopmail? qmail expects a seekable pipe from any program output so you may need filepipe (www.nougen.com/test/filepipe.tgz) or the seekable patch to vpopmail's vdeliver (www.gallowglass.com or something similar). With vmailm

Re: GA coming up with wacky scores? was Re: [SAtalk] Announcing 2.1 release

2002-02-27 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, Just my 2 cents I receive on the order of 500 emails per day. I get aliased on support, dns, webmaster and a few others, as well as having my email address archived for all spammers to harvest since 1994. Plus various mailing lists etc... Approx 100 of those a day are spam, some days m

[SAtalk] Idea

2002-02-19 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I don't know if this is already in the current version but maybe if a piece of mail already matches a set threshhold (say 10 points) then the RBL and razor checks are not performed. The majority of spam I see getting caught are already caught because of the regxeps and the additional time to

Re: [SAtalk] Web Based Front End

2002-02-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, What happened? It appears to be gone now. Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:29 AM Subject: [SAtalk] Web Based Front End I finally finished a web based front end for SpamAssassin with S

Re: [SAtalk] negative hit total?

2002-02-14 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, USER_IN_WHITELIST is probably set to -100 Regards, Rick - Original Message - From: "Scott Nolde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 6:06 PM Subject: [SAtalk] negative hit total? I received a mail from a yahoo.com address with the followi

Re: [SAtalk] MailScanner and Spamd

2002-01-26 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi, I haven't fully worked it out yet but 1 - Forward as Attachement (right click on the message in Outlook, I'm sure others can do it too) to a reporting address 2 - procmail the reporting address with something along the lines of formail -ds razor-report. Problem right now is the first m

Re: [SAtalk] spamc/vpopmail virtual user patch

2002-01-15 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hi Justin, Along the sames lines, do you mind if I modify the source for the mysql lookups to include a larger username and submit it back to you? 1) A lot of systems have user names longer than 8 chars 2) A lot of us are running qmail with vpopmail or vmailmgr (I run both) and the user name is