[SAtalk] Problems upgrading to 2.60

2003-10-24 Thread Stuart Gall
Hello , I have a system running Exim, SA 2.55 with Razor 2.34 I tried to upgrade to 2.6 as foillows I still have the Razor source tree, so I cd to the razor directory applied the patch to the source tree, seemed to go ok I then did make make install in the razor 2.34 directory Next I did mak

[SAtalk] Problems upgrading to 2.60

2003-10-23 Thread Stuart Gall
Hello , I have a system running Exim, SA 2.55 with Razor 2.34 I tried to upgrade to 2.6 as foillows I still have the Razor source tree, so I cd to the razor directory applied the patch to the source tree, seemed to go ok I then did make make install in the razor 2.34 directory Next I did mak

Re: [SAtalk] auto_learn without "sa-learn"-feeding ?

2003-06-13 Thread Stuart Gall
matic ? And when yes, I an initial bayes db >build required ? >Thx It is completely automatic, you may want to change the threshholds, spam is ok but you dont get much ham by default. An easier way to seed the

Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email

2003-06-13 Thread Stuart Gall
- Original Message - From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email > Stuart Gall wrote on Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:10:27 +0300: > > > ok_languages it en >

[SAtalk] Eval tests

2003-06-12 Thread Stuart Gall
custom eval tests such that they will survive upgrades. I was thinking we might have a local.pl file, with some functions we define, the function returns the score to be added. There is some mechanism for accessing the header and body of the message (obviously) Stuart Gall Systems

Re: [SAtalk] A couple of custom rules

2003-06-12 Thread Stuart Gall
t company name? That is realy sad. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [y]: ---

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

2003-06-12 Thread Stuart Gall
but GPL (the now lesser GNU) does. SA is licensed under the perl artistic license. or GNU It is a bit of a paradox because the GNU is quite strict on what can be done commercially, but perl artistic is very lax. I conclude that SCO definitely violated GNU but not perl artistic and hence not

Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email

2003-06-12 Thread Stuart Gall
- Original Message - From: "Kai Schaetzl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email > Stuart Gall wrote on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:11:14 +0300: > > > So I always though ok_

Re: [SAtalk] Bugzilla and New Function Request

2003-06-12 Thread Stuart Gall
e words and all the spaces would be removed from the text. also if a rule was written without the substitution in mind you may increase your false positive rate > > Can some point me to whoever is running the Bugzilla so I can

Re: [SAtalk] Bugzilla and New Function Request

2003-06-11 Thread Stuart Gall
ader EXAMPLE subject =~ /t?h?i?s?i?s?a?n?e?x?a?m?p?l?e/i Is functionally equivalent Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [

Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email

2003-06-11 Thread Stuart Gall
> Just the kind of help I need - thanks. Would the following settings > be right to handle English and Italian mail ? > > ok_languages en it > ok_locales en > Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ---

Re: [SAtalk] Rewrite subject of probably-spam

2003-06-11 Thread Stuart Gall
$tag = "[Almost Certianly Spam]"; } #Code modification ends $subject =~ s/^(?:\Q${tag}\E |)/${tag} /g; $subject =~ s/\n*$/\n/s; $self->{msg}->replace_header("Subject", $subject); You could be more flashy and read

Re: [SAtalk] Non English Email

2003-06-11 Thread Stuart Gall
out. Feel free to send me some of your false positives with the report if you have any trouble figuring out which rules are the ones to tweak. Bayes is another way to go, but I think it is more correct to fix the scores that do not apply to your language first, it is certianly quick

Re: [SAtalk] SAproxy

2003-06-08 Thread Stuart Gall
- Original Message - From: "Jack Gostl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dan McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stuart Gall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SpamAssassin listserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 11:00 PM

Re: [SAtalk] SA not catching spam obscured with character codes and tags

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
ht of. Hopefully by the time I do I will already have figured out a rule to deal with it. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/

Re: [SAtalk] .spammassin

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
> > How can I force it to go back to using /.spamassasin > Thats the bayes directory right ? in user_prefs bayes_path /.spamassassin/bayes Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ---

[SAtalk] Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SAtalk] Rép. : Re: [SAtalk] Installation onSolaris 8

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
and binutils from www.gnu.org (In that order) Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [y]: ---

Re: [SAtalk] SAproxy

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
oxy very successfully with windoze clients. You should not have to change anything except the pop3 server on OE If it is more than one mail account you need to allocate a different port for each account. CF http://mcd.perlmonk.org/pop3proxy/ Stuart Gall Systems Administrator

Re: [SAtalk] Could stripping bad HTML comments be abused by spammers?

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
OK It did look alright on OE6 but on the palm it is jaberwocky with the slythe toves Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [y]

[SAtalk] Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SAtalk] Re: [SAtalk] Rép. : Re: [SAtalk] Installation onSolaris 8

2003-06-06 Thread Stuart Gall
he location of the .h files If there is no stdio.h then perhaps you do not have the development subsystem installed, you would need to go back to the sun installation CD and install the development libraries. I dont remember exactly what they are call

Re: [SAtalk] Improving my Spamassassin

2003-06-05 Thread Stuart Gall
I best populate the bayes DB? > Whitelist a decent number of the domains who send mail to your organisation, and just leave SA to do the work. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator -

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

2003-06-05 Thread Stuart Gall
ecking, all ultimately doomed of course. I Imagine they must check their spam against SA and others. Therefore it is logical to conclude that a good number of the lurkers in this list are spammers. As they see there inevitable demise no doubt they feel the urge to bait the list.

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Best way to whitelist mailing list msgs?

2003-06-03 Thread Stuart Gall
minate all spam while letting almost all real ham through. > What about putting a hidden link on the company website one pixel (transparent) image with a link to a completely bogus account that only you know about. The spam-spiders will pick up the email address soon enough. Stuart Gall Syst

Re: [SAtalk] Advice Please

2003-06-01 Thread Stuart Gall
. It *is* a strong indicator of spam. However, if the content > type is say, image/jpeg (or application/ms-excel), then I'd expect it > to be base64 encoded. > There is a good reason if the text is not English and needs an 8 bit body. I fi

Re: [SAtalk] Getting spamd to start on boot.

2003-06-01 Thread Stuart Gall
cd /etc/rc2.d ln -s /etc/init.d/spamd S79spamd the S79 bit might not be quite right, you should look to see what number sendmail has and go one less. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ---

Re: [SAtalk] Advice Please

2003-05-30 Thread Stuart Gall
fact that 50% of the mail is html suggests also that the sender used an odd program to compose their email (eg ms word) Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ---

Re: [SAtalk] Worried about RBLs

2003-05-30 Thread Stuart Gall
eas? > killall spamd spamd -D >> spamd.log count to 10 ctrl-C spamd -d more spamd.log Should say where it is looking for the config files Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - C

Re: [SAtalk] 2.53 vs 2.55 - how is RBL timeout handled ?

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
it works now however > That is what the docs say they do :-) BTW the docs say the default rbl_timeout is 30 I see in this thread a mention of 5 Has the default been changed ? It would explain a lot. Stuart Gall System

Re: [SAtalk] Worried about RBLs

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
omain as the sender, that way your DSNs will be delivered but to the wrong person. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator - Critical Error: REALITY.SYS Corrupted! Reboot universe? (y/n) [y]: --

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
- Original Message - From: "Stewart, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Stuart Gall'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Per Björklund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: RE: [SAt

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
to SpamAssassin discussion mailing list" mailto hyperlink. > Just a guess. 3 clicks and 0 reading the actual page text gives > Perhaps it would be a good idea to remove the links and the SA logo from the top of that page, s

Re: [SAtalk] SPAM

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
rather crash of your sysadmins to just install spamassassin and filter the "Department of Nursing's" email without making special provision. I think you should complain to them Stuart Gall Systems Administrator ---

Re: [SAtalk] 2.53 vs 2.55

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
| 100% It is just impossible. I have come across a few users that actually like some of the spam they get, go figure. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator --

Re: [SAtalk] sa-learn on messages from outlook/exchange

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
o "forward as attachment", then use mlh or something to extract the email before handing over to sa-learn. Stuart Gall Systems Administrator --

Re: [SAtalk] Strange spamc problem with SA 2.54 and qmail

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
mail-queue with the > following content: > > spamc -s1 | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue.orig > (the latter, as the name says, is the original program ) > Sorry but I have to ask, the mail in question is not bigger than 10 k

Re: [SAtalk] 2.53 vs 2.55

2003-05-29 Thread Stuart Gall
est rule RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM ==> got hit debug: Ran run_rbl_eval_test rule RCVD_IN_RELAYS_ORDB_ORG ==> got hit debug: Ran run_rbl_eval_test rule RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL ==> got hit o