Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.61 released!

2003-12-16 Thread Scott Rothgaber
-Original Message- Yep, it got me this time around too! The test ran very fast, but in actual operation I'm running around 10 secs per message. Does anyone know the string to create a virtual ram drive using FreeBSD? I'm Just my $0.02 on tmpfs... I stopped using them years ago because th

[SAtalk] Virginia Busts Spammers

2003-12-12 Thread Scott Rothgaber
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/12/spam.charges/index.html --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything fr

Re: [SAtalk] RE: *.easynet.nl DNSBL's ceasing on Dec 1, 2003 [OT]

2003-11-24 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Gary Carr wrote: This is a shame. The guy should do it for a fee and make it a small business. They are the most affective RBLs we have used to date. Ditto. DynaBlock is my most effective list. I would be glad to pay an annual fee. --- This S

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK FP?

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Justin Mason wrote: Should be -- I would guess it may be that SpamAssassin can't parse the "good" received line, so misses it. I have moved DynaBlock to the SMTP level and I have yet to see any trouble. Although I cannot tell you why, it seems to be most effective on our off-site backup mail ser

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAss is tagging my own emails

2003-10-27 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Matt Kettler wrote: disable this rule. kill it. Couldn't he just whitelist his Web server? Or maybe a custom rule that tacks some negative points onto the score? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like

Re: [SAtalk] spamass-milter

2003-10-25 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Hannu Liljemark wrote: now, the spamass-milter daemon seems to stop running every few minutes. Run this every minute from cron until you find the problem. Nutscrape has wrapped a couple of these lines. #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin PID=`ps -ax | grep spamass-milter | grep -v grep | cut -c 1-5 | t

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes always 99%

2003-10-22 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Tom Meunier wrote: > Even on good mail? Duh! Sorry for that half-baed description. Spams are marked 99%. It is not falsely classifying good messages. Actually, I saw two 90% scores today. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer re

[SAtalk] Bayes always 99%

2003-10-22 Thread Scott Rothgaber
My Bayes database finally got its 200 spams and hams and kicked in. I've noticed, however, that it *always* says that the probability is 99%. Is this normal? Thanks! Scott --- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer relations Here's

Re: [SAtalk] Deleting mail detected as spam

2003-10-07 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Nick Jenkin wrote: What would i need to stick in the user_prefs file, to delete all emails detected as spam? I would not do this if I were you. What happens if a legitimate message gets deleted? Better to let the end-user make this call, IMHO. OTOH, you may consider deleting spams with scores o

Re: [SAtalk] If you use DCC w/SA please read

2003-10-06 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Dave Lugo wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jeff Lasman wrote: I'm hopeful that a "do firewall $foo for DCC" in the SA docs Definitely. $IPCHAINS -A input -p udp -i $EXT_IFACE -d $EXT_IP 1024: -s 0.0.0.0/0 6277 -j ACCEPT I'm using ET gear (broken here for readability)... bwmgr fxp1 -fw -x 398 -o -ippr

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Pyzor in 2.60?

2003-10-05 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Here is what I see when I run spamassassin --lint -D Speaking of which, I've been meaning to post this for quite some time... debug: executable for pyzor was found at /usr/local/bin/pyzor debug: Pyzor is available: /usr/local/bin/pyzor debug: entering helper-app run mode debug: Pyzor: got response

Re: [SAtalk] Highest Score

2003-10-03 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Mike Carlson wrote: what is the highest scoring anyone has seen SA give a message? I had one come through at 37.54 the other day. Sorry to bust your bubble, but I see those several times per day. ;-) I have even seen a few with scores in the low 40s. --

Re: [SAtalk] options for spamassassin

2003-10-02 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Jill U'Ren wrote: Would it be possible to immediately "flush" anything that scores 8.0 (and higher) It is possible, but are you sure that you *want* to do that? What if a legitimate message is discarded? IMHO, it's best to simply tag the messages and let the end-user make these decisions. ---

Re: [SAtalk] Razor Patch

2003-10-02 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Robert Krüger wrote: Where is the 'patch' executable supposed to come from? Most likely in a directory that's not in your PATH. ;-) find /usr -name patch -print --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://t

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Restart Spamd

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Malte S. Stretz wrote: kill -HUP should work with SpamAssassin 2.60 under Perl 5.6.1 and up. I heard that it doesn't work for some people though. Just have a try. Let me clarify: When I made a change to `local.cf' and typed... kill -1 `cat /var/run/spamd.pid` ...nothing showed up in the log to

[SAtalk] CORRECTION [Was: Restart Spamd]

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Whatever was going on when I ran 2.55 (most likely my failing eyesight or memory), 2.60 *does* log a restart... Sep 30 16:09:34 s2 spamd[97092]: server hit by SIGHUP, restarting --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to gee

[SAtalk] WEIRD Razor2 Error

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rothgaber
[2.60 on FreeBSD 5.0] Watching the mail log go by and I noticed this... razor2 check skipped: Bad file descriptor Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/mach/Razor2/Client/Config.pm line 404, line 1. Razor *has* been running just fine.

Re: [SAtalk] Restart Spamd

2003-09-30 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Mike Carlson wrote: What is the best way to kill spamassassin and restart it again after making a change to the local.cf file? `/usr/local/etc/rc.d/spamd.sh restart' on FreeBSD. IIRC, this just kills and restarts the daemon. I seem to remember that `kill -1` does not work. ---

Re: [SAtalk] spamd performance

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Sorry for jumping in. If performance is an issue, how about an option like... HIT_AND_RUN 1 ...that would cause spamd to stop processing once your threshhold had been met? IOW why keep scanning text once the message has been identified as spam? I'm sure that I'm missing something here but I'd

Re: [SAtalk] Rule for no reverse DNS

2003-09-12 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Covington, Chris wrote: I've noticed that Columbia University has an SA rule for no reverse DNS: Have you used this technique before? For me, it was an incessant pain in the ass. You will be bombarded with complaints. The very reason that I'm using SA is that host-based blocking, with the except

Re: [SAtalk] Getting slammed with virri and spam

2003-09-10 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Debbie D wrote: server running very high loads One of my servers, which normally receives 10,000 messages per day, has seen 25,000+ in the last few days. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek

[SAtalk] Bayes Not Functioning

2003-08-20 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Good Morning! For some reason, Bayes does not appear to be functioning on our site-wide SA box. `spamassassin -D --lint` complained that it could not open the files so I ran `sa-learn -rebuild`. Now it sees the files but after two weeks it still claims that there is no information... debug: ba

[SAtalk] Configuration Errors

2003-06-26 Thread Scott Rothgaber
[SA 2.55 on FreeBSD 5.0] Good Morning! `spamassassin -D --lint' shows the following errors. I re-read the INSTALL file on the Web site and I *believe* that I followed all of the instructions correctly. I could not find the USAGE file to which INSTALL referred. bayes: no dbs present, cannot sc

[SAtalk] DCC Source

2003-06-25 Thread Scott Rothgaber
For some reason, I am unable to connect to `calcite.rhyolite.com' via HTTP. Is there a way to fetch the DCC tarball via FTP? Is there an alternate site? Thanks! Scott --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Con

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

2003-06-19 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Stephen Bannasch wrote: -- Time estimates for an open source solution: -- 60+ hours to setup and test sendmail/anti-virus/RBL/anti-spam software from source. -- 8 hours every month to verify that things are working and up to date -- 8 hours every month to upgrade software (sendmail/RBL/virus/spam,

Re: [SAtalk] something funny

2003-06-11 Thread Scott Rothgaber
"Benjamin A. Shelton" wrote: > > I always wanted to start an anti-chain e-mail chain e-mail but never got > around to it. Besides, I think someone beat me to the punch... I cannot remember where I found this... http://www.easley.net/help/faq/chain_letter.html -

[SAtalk] Upgrade to 2.5?

2003-06-09 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Good Morning! After hearing about SpamAssassin on the BSDI-Users list I decided to build a box and check it out. Most impressive! I'm running v2.43 from the FreeBSD 5.0 ports collection. Questions: 1) This version seems to be doing the trick for me. I'm still tweaking some of the values but I'm