[SAtalk] "Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /usr/bin/spamd line 660"

Hi all - I am getting the error in the subject line on my RH 9 machine with SA 2.60 and milter-spamc. Everything appears to be working fine, so I am assuming this is a non-issue. Am I right? Thomas --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:Thin

Re: [SAtalk] Installation Problem with 2.60

On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:51, Greg Ennis wrote: > Help! > > Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, > your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make' > This is discussed extensively in the archives. Try: unset LANG and then start again. Tho

[SAtalk] "Microsoft Patch" mail.

literally thousands of them which we have received to sa-lean and now SA is happily tagging them as junk mail with a BAYES_99. So for those like me who don't mind using SA in this non-standard way, have faith - Bayes will come to the rescue if you help it out a bit. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE,

Re: [SAtalk] Outlook Issues

Please don't post to the list in HTML. I dumped that rule by adding this line to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: score FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK 0 -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message -

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

- Original Message - From: "Matt Tencati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

Re: [SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:47, Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:59 AM 9/4/2003 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > >All - > > > >I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in > >front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes developer >

[SAtalk] Can base64 encoded messages learnable by sa-learn?

All - I have a client with a Red hat 9 + SA 2.55 + spamass-milter server in front of a Lotus Notes server. The client has hired a Notes developer to give their users an extra button in Notes to forward false negatives to a spam account the Linux server so I can run sa-learn --spam on the messages

Re: [SAtalk] hardware recomendations

eral 10's of thousands of messages a day on a dual P-II 266. It got really bogged down until we maxed out the memory to 512MB, then it ran OK. If you are going to use a low end machine, at least make sure that it hass lots of memory. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Se

Re: [SAtalk] FreeBSD + Sendmail

d? > > Thanks, > -Mike > > For a relaying sendmail server, look at spamass-milter. Trivial to install and works really well. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200

Re: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer

- Original Message - From: "Abigail Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Yorkshire Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "spamassassin list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:49 PM Subject: Re[2]: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > > Which is why Spews is such a joke.

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

- Original Message - From: "Simon Byrnand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 3:24 AM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > > - Original Me

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

- Original Message - From: "Alan Hodgson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Moved into the ex-ip of a spammer > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:02:45PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > Goo

Re: [SAtalk] Problems with whitelist_to

VCF > > > Shouldn't this have made the email come through? How come it didn't? > The headers don't show WHITELIST_TO anywhere. What happened? > > Any help would be most appreciated. Shouldn't that be whitelist_from, not whitelist_to? -- Thomas Cameron, RHC

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

do in any way, shape or form with a spammer, then screw you - you've gotten what you deserve." That kind of militant attitude does not help the anti-spam movement. I cannot tell you how unimpressed I was, and am, with the people in that group. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Ca

Re: [SAtalk] implementation

- Original Message - From: "Jon Fraley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 12:52 PM Subject: [SAtalk] implementation > We use iPlanet for our email system and SA doesn't integrate well with > it. I want to know if I can have a box in front of our

Re: [SAtalk] Re: Newbie

Chris - RH9 installs 2.43, and should be upgraded. Gig 'em! -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET site

Re: [SAtalk] De-spamming one domain only

-- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: "Abel Rauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tu

Re: [SAtalk] getting spam to goto a users spam folder.

way, but it works just as you'd expect. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: "Rob Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 04,

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes ratios?

Thanks! I am thinking I will scp /var/spool/mail/thomas.cameron to my relay server and "sa-learn --ham" it once a week or so. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: "

[SAtalk] Bayes ratios?

the ham:spam ratio even or anything like that? -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com (512) 454-3200 --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data

Re: [SAtalk] Question about filtering

Procmail will do it, but you can also use spamass-milter (if you use Sendmail) to bounce spam to a catchall address. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com (512) 454-3200 --- This

[SAtalk] FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK hitting with Outlook XP???

problems with that? I have looked through the list archives and do not see anyone else with this problem, but I thought I remembered a thread on this not too long ago. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT I don't need no one to tell me about heaven/I look at my daughter and I believe --

Re: [SAtalk] Configure Sendmail to not bounce messages that have been marked a s spam?

; Matt > It surprises me that the messages are bouncing - SA does not bounce mail. What mechanism is bouncing the messages? Do you have a milter installed? -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 -

Re: [SAtalk] How To Have SA Change Headers In Evolution?

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 09:02, John P Verel wrote: > Can't figure out now to get SA to re-write headers using Evoluton (my > wife's MUA), where I'm using the Evolution to pop the mail from my ISP. > I have it set up in the filters section, where I simply give > /usr/bin/spamc. SA identifies spam fin

Re: [SAtalk] Adding Perl 5.6.1 to RH Linux 9 that already has Perl 5.8 installed.

if the defined langage is utf? > Should it refuse to run? > Complain on the compile script? > Have loud no-no's in the README file? > Or is it reasonable to have spamassassin define the language to LANG=C or > similar? I just added: LANG=C; export LANG to the beginning of t

Re: [SAtalk] Adding Perl 5.6.1 to RH Linux 9 that already has Perl 5.8 installed.

Joe - I've been running it on RH 9 since 2.53, and it has been rock solid. I just made sure I unset the LANG environment variable before running the installation. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontec

[SAtalk] Anti-virus suggestions requested

minutes. I would love an AV solution that is this easy to set up. Can anyone make a recommendation as to an AV package, preferably one which can be built into an (S)RPM without too terribly much work and which will play nice with Sendmail? -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical

[SAtalk] Unlearning a spam learned as ham?

All - There was a spam message in my inbox when I ran sa-learn --ham on it. What is the best way to unlearn it as ham and learn it as spam? Can I just stick it in my spam mbox and run sa-learn --spam on it, or do I need to do more? -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical

Re: [SAtalk] Bayes learning

If you have one message in the caught-spam folder and run sa-learn on it, it will report it learned from one message. If you leave that message in there and add a second, sa-learn will only learn from the second, since it's already read ther first one. I think. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE,

Re: [SAtalk] Auto Whitelist strangeness

Thanks for the clarification. You are right, I didn't understand the way the AWL worked. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTE

[SAtalk] Auto Whitelist strangeness

do so. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forum

[SAtalk] Bayesian filter question

the sample of spams that sa-learn can use, how will I affect the Bayes database? Since the spams in my spam mailbox will have a lower average score than before, will that hurt or help Bayesian learning? Thanks! -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512

Re: [SAtalk] How to do? Linux/Spam Assasin running as a gateway spam filter f or another mail server.

sendmail.cf. Modify your /etc/mail/access file and rou're pretty much done at that point. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SAtalk] Spammers using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails?

using SpamAssassin to tailor their emails? > > The problem I'm seeing is that I'm getting messages with a Bayes of 90% > but it still slips through with 4.5-5. I've changed user_prefs so that BAYES_90 gets 5 points. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT C

Re: [SAtalk] Stop Spam Loggin.

In your sendmail.mc, add the line: define(`confMILTER_LOG_LEVEL',`0')dnl and rebuild sendmail.cf using m4. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Leo Huang&quo

Re: [SAtalk] Relay help

IIRC spamass-milter checks all mail, relayed or local delivery. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Gary Lopez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [SAtalk] Spam User Folders

Procmail is your friend. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Patrick Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 7:

Re: RE: [SAtalk] Only 1.3 score by spamassassin

endering core of Mozilla and extract the text as the viewer would see. This > would eliminate all the attempts to obscure the message. And any message > with screwed up text after rendering can be checked easily enough. Can you submit a patch with that functionality, please? -- Thomas Cam

Re: [SAtalk] How to call SA in Sendmail?

Everywhere your milter calls spamassassin, replace it with spamc. I dunno about mimedefang's config files, but there has to be somewhere where it calls spamassassin. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontec

Re: [SAtalk] How to call SA in Sendmail?

Oops, I stand corrected, and will now shut up. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Patrick Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark Emerle" <[

Re: [SAtalk] How to call SA in Sendmail?

You need a milter. I like spamass-milter. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Leo Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [SAtalk] New Domain spam

Or in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: "Steve Phariss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 29, 20

Re: [SAtalk] [Fwd: FWD: national opt-out directory]

I looked at the site and it looks like a scam - join for "only" $9.95/year and they will pull your name from "1000's" of mailing lists. Of course, this pre-supposes that the spammers are cooperating with remove.org - not likely. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT C

Re: [SAtalk] SA-Learn and dos , finding files with spaces in names

Try wrapping the long file name in double quotes: sa-learn --spam --mbox "c:\documents and settings\my name\application data\mozilla\profiles\default\g403zfhl.slt\Mail\mail2.eircom.net" Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200

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

I own several domain names. I stopped using an e-mail address on one of those domain names back in 1998. I *still* get spam to that address. So that address made one of the lists which apparently gets resold over and over again. I don't think that they ever clean up their lists. -- T

Re: [SAtalk] Installing SA on a redhat 9.0 box?

Try unset LANG or export LANG=C and then try the install. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: [SAtalk] Problem trying to install on new server

unset LANG or set LANG=C and then start again. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Jody Cleveland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "spamassassin_list"

Re: [SAtalk] Is there a way to filter mail that's forwarded?

Use the spamass-milter rpm and sendmail.mc mod at ftp://mail.camerontech.com/pub/spam -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Dragoncrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &

Re: [SAtalk] RH 9.0 & Spamassassin 2.55

Check out ftp://mail.camerontech.com/pub/spam - I have posted SRPMs for the latest SA and the latest spamass-milter. They rpm --rebuild just ducky on a RH 9 box. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 - Original

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin backed up after weekend

Any log entries, error messages or  the like? --Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCTCameron Technical Services, Inc.http://www.camerontech.com/(512) 454-3200 - Original Message - From: Carmine DiMascio To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 7:44 AM

RE: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

Thanks for clarifying for me! TC On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 15:15, Shayne Lebrun wrote: > In local.cf: > > score BASE64_ENC_TEXT 3.9 > > > If you do it to the actual rule, your changes will be lost, should you > choose to upgrade. --- This SF.

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassin anonymous CVS out of date

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 17:34, Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > P.S. If you have any projects on SourceForge, it seems like it's time to > get the hell out of Dodge. I've seen comments like that on a couple of lists - what is going on with SourceForge? Is it a temporary problem, or are they folding? TC

Re: [SAtalk] a few suggestions

On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 09:18, Dan Baker wrote: > > I changed the BASE64_ENC_TEXT score to 3.9 in my rules file, and as you > can see, that was the only test that triggered. Would you mind terribly showing me how you did that? Is it in local.cf? Can you show me what you wrote in which config fi

Re: [SAtalk] whitelist file?

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:00, Tony Earnshaw wrote: > Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > > Is there a way to have a "whitelist_from" file instead of individual > > entries in local.cf? > > /etc/mail/spamassassin/whitelist_from.cf > > In as much as any .cf file in that directory will be read in whenever

Re: [SAtalk] How to delete or move spammessages?

Have a look at http://www.advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html, especially the extra filters at the bottom of the page - the sideline.sh filter will do what you want, I think. - Original Message - From: MisterM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

Interestingly enough, as a test I sent an e-mail to "Marge Golomb" with a read receipt request. I got the receipt, and it appears whoever "marge" is is using OE6. TC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

- Original Message - On Tuesday 03 June 2003 08:40 pm, Ryan Bingham wrote: >Or have I watched too many conspiracy movies lately? No, I think you're right on track - I was just talking to Elvis about this kind of thing the other day on the Mother Ship. -- Thomas Cameron, R

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

ddress. No human handles > the list. Welcome to the internet! > > -hint- check the header of EVERY email you got from SATALK list. Jeez, you don't even have to be bright enough to check the headers - just look at the last line of *every* message from the list! -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE

DOH! (was Re: [SAtalk] Patch #411)

OK, I'm a dope - I sent this to the wrong list, sorry. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:34 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Patch #411 > All - > > I applied this patch b

Re: [SAtalk] Which version of Red Hat?

I am using RH9 and it is nice. Upside is, you get a long update cycle with RH9, RH8 is only supported through December 31, 2003, where 9.0 is supported through April 30, 2004. Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. - Original Message - From: <[EM

[SAtalk] Patch #411

LED -- saving rejects to file spamass-milter.cpp.rej patching file spamass-milter.h What am I doing wrong? -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. http://www.camerontech.com/ (512) 454-3200 --- This SF.net email

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

ticed much more lately how some people are just outright mean and insulting when someone makes a mistake. I had hoped to not be one of those people, and maybe give a good impression of this community, that's all. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454

Re: [SAtalk] (no subject)

service. Regards, Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "Keoki Kalune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:59 AM Subject

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

check # email messages for SPAM. It is normally called by spamc # from a MDA. The chkconfig and description lines are required. -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message

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

Maybe try chkconfig spamd reset and see if it works... -- Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT Cameron Technical Services, Inc. (512) 454-3200 Main http://www.camerontech.com - Original Message - From: "John Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [SAtalk] Attaboy

And a big "Amen!" from the choir! TC - Original Message - From: "Jack Gostl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SpamAssassin listserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: [SAtalk] Attaboy > > Someone posted a message here saying that SA "really kicks ass". I know it

Re: [SAtalk] Procmail

From http://web.bilkent.edu.tr/mirrors/Sendmail/www.wolfenet.com/%257Ejhardin/procmail-security.html: Note that the DROPPRIVS at the beginning means the log file must be writable by the recipient. Thomas - Original Message - From: "Jose M.Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE