Re: [SAtalk] Razor server timeout problems ?

2004-01-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 04:33 29/01/2004, Matt Kettler wrote: At 02:00 AM 1/28/2004, Simon Byrnand wrote: Has anyone else noticed frequent timeouts with Razor2 ? I disabled it Friday due to timeouts. Ah... Yes I just disabled it myself last night after about half an hour of debugging to make sure it wasn't a sof

[SAtalk] Razor server timeout problems ?

2004-01-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
uldn't see anything about it over on the razor homepage or mailing list archives Regards, Simon --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of E

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Having trouble coding a local rule

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
ip address of the server immediately prior to it. Once you realise this, you can see how whitelisting is easy to fool...(and why spammers have a field day including bogus headers...) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM

Re: [SAtalk] Relay trusted when it should not be?

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Matthews
Matt, On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 02:50 PM 12/29/2003, Simon Matthews wrote: > >Your comment made me look into the issue a little more and I see that a > >mail server is listed as "trusted" when I don't think it should be. In the > >email

[SAtalk] Relay trusted when it should not be?

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Matthews
Matt, At 02:28 PM 12/29/03 -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: At 12:17 PM 12/28/2003, Simon Matthews wrote: Specifically, the RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK check. Note that 192.168.10.250 is a local (within the LAN) relay. If you're going to use 192.168.*.* networks, add them to your trusted_networks statemen

Re: [SAtalk] False Positive, possible bug?

2003-12-29 Thread Simon Matthews
Matt, Thanks for the suggestion. I checked in the logfiles and it looks like the 192.168.10 domain is already treated as trusted (ie. spamassassin infers automatically that it is trusted). I see lines in the logfile such as: debug: received-header: relay 192.168.10.250 trusted? yes Simon At

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes_99 causing many false positives.

2003-12-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 15:11 28/12/2003 -0500, David A. Roth wrote: On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 01:40 PM, Simon Byrnand wrote: I upgraded from 2.60 to 2.61 and I am getting many false positives. It seems that Bayes is pushing it with a score of 5.4. What are people to do to get around this? Do you set Bayes

Re: [SAtalk] False positives

2003-12-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
attitude a lot. SpamAssassin is not a commercial company which you have paid money to for support, it is the efforts of a large group of individuals, most of them working on their free time. Of all the open source software that I use, SpamAssassin has by far the best mailing list and most respons

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes_99 causing many false positives.

2003-12-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
another false positive with 4.9. Err, BAYES_00 is *minus* 4.9 :) And is correct if the message is ham. If it still got flagged as spam, it must have had many other tests that fired...without seeing the headers, we can only speculate... Regards, Simon

[SAtalk] False Positive, possible bug?

2003-12-28 Thread Simon Matthews
d from network); 20 Dec 2003 00:02:34 - Received: from unknown (HELO Arnold) (:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 205-158-62-78.outblaze.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2003 00:02:34 - Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Arnold Matthews" From: "Arnold Matthews" To: "Ed Mat

[SAtalk] Invalid RBL checks triggered

2003-12-24 Thread Simon Matthews
send HTML in this format The IP address 192.168.10.250 refers to a local relay. It should not however have shown the email as directly received from 81.152.14.12, which is the check "RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK". Thanks! Simon -- Forwarded message -- Return-Path: X-Original-

[SAtalk] Scanning bounce message attachments ?

2003-12-21 Thread Simon Byrnand
tely, but that means calling spamc twice, something I can't really afford to do when our server is under seige already. Anyone else have any thoughts ? Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become a

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Virginia Busts Spammers

2003-12-12 Thread Simon Byrnand
it without consequences they will. If there is a strong risk of being caught and hauled off to jail, many others will think twice. I think that day is not far away now... Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials.

Re: [SAtalk] /tmp/sa.*

2003-12-12 Thread Simon Byrnand
reduce disk activity, which would be just as useful) by somehow getting spamd to create these files on a specified ram filesystem of some kind ? (Without having to have all of /tmp as a ramfs) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by

Re: [SAtalk] Re: DCC incidence

2003-12-10 Thread Simon Byrnand
hit on only 23% of Spam. I didn't check the overlap between the two. (Since it requires more than a simple search/grep and I can't be bothered ;) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian 100% on all my mail

2003-11-26 Thread Simon Byrnand
eems to be the case with 2.60. The main problem I notice with them is despite repeated manual and automatic training on them, nigerian spams still frequently get either a neutral bayes score (giving 0 points) and quite often a very hammy bayes score giving them enough negative points to offset the po

Re: [SAtalk] A faster and more scalable matching engine.

2003-11-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
messages come in...(any server can be brought to its knees with enough messages arriving simultaneously if you don't have sensible limits on SA concurancy) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does

Re: [SAtalk] What level to delete at?

2003-11-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
ately deleted. Without the immediate delete above 15 there are just too many messages in the spam folder to look through, with delete above 15, there are only a handfull and I can be 99% confident nothing important scored over 15. Regards, Simon --

Re: [SAtalk] v0 Bayes expiry run (Was: sa-learn crash and coredump)

2003-11-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 14:49 24/11/2003 -0800, Ted Cabeen wrote: Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could be wrong, but I'd say that "bus error" means your system > either ran right out of memory (including virtual memory) during the > execution of sa-learn (and sa-learn us

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn crash and coredump

2003-11-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
A bus error can't be a SpamAssassin bug per se, or even a perl bug. Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better

RE: [SAtalk] Re[2]: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/14/45FEspam_1.html?s=tc

2003-11-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
if they do, they're more likely to scoff at the "review" and see it for what it is, rather than be swayed by it... Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help y

RE: [SAtalk] Score

2003-11-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 23:01 23/11/2003 +, Alan Munday wrote: Thanks Simon I am using stars as I used the Advosys how-to as my starting point. I've started playing with the scripts and wondered if SA left any variables set e.g. hit value, that I could use rather than re-reading the file as I thought this

Re: [SAtalk] Score

2003-11-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
: YES is the correct way to tell if a message has exceeded the threshold...while counting the stars is also ok for seeing if a message exceeded an arbitary threshold. (Remember though that since 2.60 it will never add more than 50 stars regardless of the score being higher than that) Regards,

Re: [SAtalk] spamd not recognizing %d or %l

2003-11-22 Thread Simon Byrnand
it can't work it out from email headers...) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and hel

Re: [SAtalk] Problem with Bayes

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
ount. In fact if you search the archives for messages from me you should find a procmail script I posted that lets you limit the local delivery concurancy to a manageable level. Also if you're using spamc, (and you probably should be) look at the -m op

Re: [SAtalk] Pyzor trouble

2003-11-19 Thread Simon Byrnand
d or suffering from a DoS attack. Anyone else have any ideas ? The pyzor client itself is quite buggy too, nearly a quarter of the sample messages I've tried manually running through it cause it to segfault, so until they bring out a new version I think I'll probably leave it off and stic

Re: [SAtalk] Tracking down thewizard.net forwarder

2003-11-19 Thread Simon Byrnand
suspect a few others have done the same :) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help

RE: [SAtalk] more spam since installing 2.60

2003-11-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
nths ago - 50% spam 1 month ago - 60% spam last week - 63% spam :-( Regards, Simon --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, My

Re: [SAtalk] SA-LEARN Actually Crashes System!

2003-10-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
garding problems with AMD's as well. (I stay clear of AMD CPU's on mission critical servers exactly for this reason) Good luck. Regards, Simon

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Re: [OT] What is next step?

2003-10-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
that contain any > of these strings: > > spam > abuse > postmaster > .gov > ftc Some perhaps, but certainly not all. I regularly receive spam to abuse@ and postmaster@ which unfortunately I have to have listed in all_spam_to in case someone

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 20:43 20/10/2003 -0500, David B Funk wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Since I use sendmail, which unfortunately doesn't have a proper way to > limit local delivery concurancy, I'm now using a combination approach - I > use -m 15, and return EX_TEMPFA

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
u can't get hundreds of local delivery processes queued. (At most, 40) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer relations Here's your chance to show off your extensive product knowledge We want to know what

RE: [SAtalk] child spamds sitting around forever

2003-10-20 Thread Simon Byrnand
n. When you say you "disabled" bayes locking, are you refering to using 'bayes_learn_to_journal 1' ? Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN developer relations Here's your chance to show off your exten

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Swap Space

2003-10-19 Thread Simon Byrnand
game over. This general problem has been discussed *many* times on the list... Are you using the -m option for spamd ? Are you limiting local delivery concurancy at the MTA level ? *ANY* server, no matter how grunty can be overwhelmed and pushed into swapping if the incomming conne

Re: [SAtalk] Swap Space

2003-10-18 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand wrote on Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:41:35 +1300: > >> 128MB is not enough in my experience. I found that with 128MB of ram >> that I >> had to limit concurant scanning to no more than 5 spamd processes at >> once >> or a burst of incomming traf

Re: [SAtalk] Using SPAMD ?

2003-10-18 Thread Simon Byrnand
call spamc instead of spamassassin. (It's faster to include the full path to spamc by the way) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email sponsored by: Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo The Event For Linux Datacenter Solutions & St

RE: [SAtalk] Swap Space

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Byrnand
place to do this is in your MTA's configuration... Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better servi

Re: [SAtalk] Swap Space

2003-10-15 Thread Simon Byrnand
robably need to do: * Add more physical ram * Limit the maximum number of spamassassin processes that can run at once to a value that doesn't use too much memory Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Prog

Re: [SAtalk] Fan Mail!!! LOL We shut one down!

2003-10-14 Thread Simon Byrnand
ple on other lists got them, too. Mostly spamfighters, but > not all. Awww I didn't get one not fair ;-) Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 O

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:55 13/10/2003 -0400, landy wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:54, Simon Byrnand wrote: > > > > We run around 50%. And that's by count. With the MS worms flying in we > > have noticably more spam by volume than real mail. > > Our current stats are 57% Spam, 43

Re: [SAtalk] bad day

2003-10-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
e the world is heading when more email is junk than legitimate :/ Regards, Simon --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide b

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Autodeleting spam based on score without deleting all spam

2003-10-02 Thread Simon Byrnand
intermediate relay server will then have to bounce it. Usually to some innocent third-party. (Like me. I receive a few thousand such bounces per week.) This can be solved by running SpamAssassin on the backup MX's as well of course(with some kind of mirr

Re: [SAtalk] BAYES broken from 2.55 to 2.6

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
way with various software is always read the INSTALL file :) On a lot of software I find the INSTALL file more informative than the README file...(which usually just tells you what the program does, and not much about how to implement it..) Regards, Simon --

Re: [SAtalk] More Bayes (again)

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
0 non-token data: last expiry atime > 0.000 0 43200 0 non-token data: last expire atime > delta > 0.000 0 94019 0 non-token data: last expire > reduction count > > Which is saying that 281989 spam's are learn't and 9

Re: [SAtalk] More Bayes (again)

2003-10-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
n-token data: last expire reduction count Which is saying that 281989 spam's are learn't and 99372 hams.. Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _

Re: [SAtalk] BAYES broken from 2.55 to 2.6

2003-09-30 Thread Simon Byrnand
lot of open source type software, you get as much out of it as you put into it, and one of the things that needs to be put into open source software is the time to read all the docs thoroughly before installing it, rather than closing your eyes, typing "make install", and hoping for the

[SAtalk] sending SIGHUP to spamd 2.60 crashes it

2003-09-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
st ancient versions...) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: [SAtalk] Re: Mail isn't spam, but subject line getting rewritten

2003-09-26 Thread Simon Byrnand
AM** for example) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourc

Re: [SAtalk] Extremely expensive SA calls

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
do that, both razor and pyzor specifically ask that only spam verified by a human being as spam is submitted, they specifically don't want automated tools like SpamAssassin submitting messages without human intervention... Regards, Simon

Re: [SAtalk] Extremely expensive SA calls

2003-09-25 Thread Simon Byrnand
at stripping headers than SpamAssassin's markup removing mode. (C vs Perl) That only leaves the header change to figure out(perhaps sed, or you could use procmails $MATCH builtin to extract the subject minus the spamassassin change, and use the same invocation of formmail thats stripping o

Re: [SAtalk] RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK problem

2003-09-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
scores based on a threshold of 5. Having said that *our* sitewide default is 7 because even with 2.55 I notice too many false positives with 5. (Not on the kind of mail that *I* receive, but many of our customers....) Regards, Simon --- This

[SAtalk] autolearning too much ?

2003-09-24 Thread Simon Byrnand
e new default of 0.1 Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] why is sa not catching the microsoft emails ?

2003-09-23 Thread Simon Byrnand
y that teaching the message to BAYES using sa-learn in 2.60 should be very effective, as BAYES_99 in 2.60 has a high enough score to tag as spam without any other tests... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Load throttling with Procmail/Sendmail. [Was: Getting slammed with virri and spam]

2003-09-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 04:32:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> Anybody running spamc from procmail with sendmail is vulnerable to >> having >> their server overloaded because of uncontrolled concurancy of local >> deliveries - despite the options mentioned above, se

Re: [SAtalk] 2.60 RC4 deletes local.cf

2003-09-13 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Just for a data point, rc4 did not overwrite local.cf on my linux > machine. "perl Makefile.PL; make; make install" Nor mine... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http

[SAtalk] Load throttling with Procmail/Sendmail. [Was: Getting slammed with virri and spam]

2003-09-11 Thread Simon Byrnand
imum. YMMV. * Using this in combination with the spamd -m option may improve throughput slightly by doing a limited amount of stacking of waiting procmail processes. For example setting spamd's -m option to 10 and setting SPAMCMAX to 15. (Untested) * Use at your own r

RE: [SAtalk] [RD] MSGID_GOOD_EXCHANGE

2003-09-10 Thread Simon Byrnand
e to figure out how to fool a simple regex in a publically available program ? Besides, whos to say no-one ever spams through Microsoft Exchange ;-) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net ema

Re: [SAtalk] Rbl checks

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Byrnand
without making a donation. Spamcop can be turned on just by setting the score to something that's not 0. Which brings up a good question that I've been meaning to ask. If spamcop is not free to use, why does 2.60-rc3 enable it by default ? score RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 0 2.

Re: [SAtalk] Performance optimization for bigger setups

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Byrnand
Essentially this would be off-by-default extra information/debugging information. Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___

Re: [SAtalk] Spam with score of 0.0

2003-09-07 Thread Simon Byrnand
unctioning properly, and that it could be an integration problem... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk ma

Re: [SAtalk] Performance optimization for bigger setups

2003-09-05 Thread Simon Byrnand
is reduce the initial communication setup latency between spamc and spamd, and also allow large messages to be transfered through to spamd and back again faster, but the actual scanning of the message would be the same as before. As this is likely to be the bulk of the scanning time I

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-05 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand wrote: > >> At 20:43 4/09/2003 +0200, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: >> >>> Jim Porter wrote: >>> >>>> score RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM 0 >>>> score X_OSIRU_DUL 0 >>>> score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH0

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft still working?

2003-09-04 Thread Simon Byrnand
the score of an RBL check to zero *does* disable the test itself, and has be confirmed by the developers on previous occasions Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Documentation: autolearn cutoff values in 2.60-rc3

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
es not to be learnt. There are quite a number of reason for autolearning not to learn something, its not just a matter of if its greater than 15 learn it Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 14:20 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:02:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > Well don't forget that the auto_learn_spam threshold is 15 in 2.55 and 12 > in 2.60, and its very rare that a spam pasted into the *body* of a message > will be autolearnt,

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
ay to find this out from spamd directly rather than using ps ?) and if its over a set limit, exit with EX_TEMPFAIL. A workaround like that could be used by anyone calling spamc from procmail... I might have a tutu around later and see if I can work out a procmail recipie to d

Re: [SAtalk] System goes down

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
a limit on concurant scanning, however it will also cause connections to be rejected when this limit is reached. (As well as that, 24 simultaneous spamassassin processes is enough to bring most machines to their knees) Regards, Simon --- This sf.ne

RE: [SAtalk] bayes feedback

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
What you say is true of course...(as well as funny) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing l

Re: [SAtalk] spamassasing consuming lot of memory

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Byrnand
te normal for example for spamd to use close to 20MB of ram. Also, how are you calling spamassassin. (spamc, spamassassin, or a direct filter plugin etc) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-02 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 06:02 2/09/2003 +0100, Justin Mason wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:02:47PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > At 02:24 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:56:54AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I don't whitelist this mailing list and I know at

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-02 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 02:24 2/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:56:54AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > On the other hand, there is nothing to stop the message being autolearnt if > its score before the whitelisting value is added, so for example if a spam > would normally score

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 17:50 1/09/2003 +0200, Carlo Wood wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:31:34PM +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > whitelisted mails should not be auto learned. > > That is just what Simon said and SA does. Oh... sorry. He said S> Please check the docs, Bayes auto_learn does not t

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes and whitelisting

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
s with tflags set to 'userconf' (user white/black-listing rules, etc) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamass

Re: [SAtalk] Documentation: autolearn cutoff values in 2.60-rc3

2003-09-01 Thread Simon Byrnand
la ticket in about it just in case it gets forgotten :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing li

Re: [SAtalk] Min Score

2003-08-31 Thread Simon Byrnand
otherwise it won't learn ham. > > --Luke Hi, Did you actually check what the default is for 2.60 ? In rc2 and rc3 the default is 0.1 for ham and 12 for spam... (we should give the developers some credit ;-) Regards, Simon > > > As >"Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Friday 29 August 2003 04:34 CET Theo Van Dinter wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:57:27PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> > Fixed now, but the second part of Theo's fix (assuming he did it :) >> > doesn't seem to be in there - using any \n's to add

Re: [SAtalk] [SA-Announce] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Installed fine, upgraded fine from cvs of three weeks ago or so. Can't > comment on effectiveness yet. One thing I note is that it again needs more > RAM, it's now at almost 25 MB. Not for me it size, Size of 19996, and RSS of 17M after running for a while... the same as 2.

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
sin or /usr/local/etc/mail/spamassassin), and use that > one. Or, ask, like it does for Razor2. > > Simply switching between versions however is a bad idea. I agree wholeheartedly... There are enough surprises for the unwary between 2.55 and 2.60 alr

Re: [SAtalk] Re: SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
l/etc to > /etc). > See also bug 2374 [1]. Argh, more traps... So what is the behaviour when running perl Makefile.PL with no command line arguments ? Will it be looking for /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf ?? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
> Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> So umm, how does the rbl_timeout setting work in 2.60 then ? I didn't >> quite >> follow the logic of what you said :) I would have previously assumed >> that >> it was just a cutoff where if an ind

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 22:38 28/08/2003 -0700, Daniel Quinlan wrote: Simon Byrnand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Although I don't have the answer to your question, I suggest you look at > using the following options to reduce the various timeouts to minimize the > chance of a "train wreck&qu

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin 2.60 rc3 released

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
ables automatic header folding causing long lines... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [

Re: [SAtalk] DNS Timeout Issues

2003-08-29 Thread Simon Byrnand
iling when they shouldn't... Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:31:50PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: >> RBL checks are on by default, but you have to have the Net::DNS perl >> module installed for them to work. > > Woah! > > I DON'T have that installed! And I never got a warning anywhere?! >

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
is through CPAN. perl -MCPAN -e shell install Net::DNS quit After that you want to try running a message through SpamAssassin manually from the command prompt in debugging mode and look at the debugging output for mention of DNS and RBL che

Re: [SAtalk] Scores for OSIRU Tests

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
rusoft tests for 2.60-rc3, so by the time 2.60 comes out the tests will be gone. It's also on the news page of the website how to disable the tests for 2.55, and its been discussed at least 4 or 5 times already in the mailing list, so theres not much more that can be done... Regards, Simon

Re: [SAtalk] heads-up: 2.60 will drop support for bayes dbs in non-DB_File formats

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
ll be a bit of short term pain (for some people) for longterm gain :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Sp

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 18:41 27/08/2003 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Simon Byrnand writes: >Just got a sales pitch today by phone followed up by email from these guys: > >http://www.death2spam.net.nz/ > >Anybody else heard of them ? Their system claims to be based on Bayesian >filtering and claim

Re: [SAtalk] RBL

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
tm) adds a whole host of new RBL checks. Unless you have a specific RBL you're interested in that isn't currently supported by SpamAssassin, then it is *already* using a selection of RBL lists... Regards, Simon Selon Bob Apthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 27 Aug 200

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 18:41 27/08/2003 -0700, Justin Mason wrote: Simon Byrnand writes: >Just got a sales pitch today by phone followed up by email from these guys: > >http://www.death2spam.net.nz/ > >Anybody else heard of them ? Their system claims to be based on Bayesian >filtering and claim

Re: [SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
At 20:51 27/08/2003 -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:40:12PM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > I don't think I'll be switching away from SpamAssassin any time soon... > > Comments anyone ? 98% of all statistics are lies. :) Heheheh... I don't think I

Re: [SAtalk] different notification emails depending on domain

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
should ignore it. Well duh! Spam anyone ? :) (And yes, their bogus virus reports are detected by both DCC and Razor now) Regards Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

[SAtalk] Anyone head of these guys ? (Death2Spam)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
s... Oh yeah, it claims to be written in Java too.. :) I don't think I'll be switching away from SpamAssassin any time soon... Comments anyone ? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored

[SAtalk] SpamAssassin pretending to be a virus scanner ;-)

2003-08-28 Thread Simon Byrnand
razor and DCC :) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourc

Re: [SAtalk] Weird behavior with SA 2.60 rc1

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
d showed > no SA checks. I too reverted back to 2.55. Have you tried rc2 ? I read that it was a bug in the DNS lookups that caused the message to fail to be scanned if one of the DNS requests timed out... Aparently fixed in rc2. (I havn't seen that problem o

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

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
> By all means do it! :) ... but it won't help that there are still > servers > that use the rbl directly from sendmail or postfix and the like.. :( And they will soon discover that they've been rejecting nearlly all mail because of it, and remove relays.osirusoft.com.

Re: [SAtalk] Question about the GA...

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
> > Simon Byrnand writes: >> I was just thinking about the GA process and although I havn't looked at >> it to see exactly how it works, I was wondering the following >> >> Presumably it starts with a certain scoreset, runs the spam through, >> sees &g

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

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
Good reason to get 2.60rc3 out ASAP ;) So are the scores just zero'ed out for rc3 then ? I suppose its not worth the effort and time of another GA run...:) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome

Re: [SAtalk] osirusoft RBL's are TOAST......

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
ore X_OSIRU_DUL 0 score X_OSIRU_DUL_FH 0 score X_OSIRU_OPEN_RELAY 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAMWARE_SITE 0 score X_OSIRU_SPAM_SRC 0 (Hope I didn't miss any) Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkG

[SAtalk] Question about the GA...(part 2)

2003-08-27 Thread Simon Byrnand
s for, I think there would be a defintate improvement in FN/FP rate of an independant corpus using the 6/4 threshold instead of 5/5. Anybody able to blow holes in my theory or suggest a way of proving it ? Regards, Simon --- This sf.net email is spon

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