Re: [SAtalk] Possible spam signature

* Martin Radford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What's interesting about their externally visible servers is that they > don't do ESMTP; they don't advertise that they do it, and they give > "500 Unknown or unimplemented command" when you send "EHLO" commands. > I doubt this is Exim's behaviour (but

Re: [SAtalk] Possible spam signature

* Justin Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Martin Radford said: > > > These are Message-IDs generated by my ISP's incoming mail server for > > mails that don't already have a message id. And that would explain > > why no one else is seeing these, while I've got a fair number. > aha. Yep, we ha

Re: [SAtalk] spamd log to mrtg

* Jonathan Nichols ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Rich's idea is pretty cool, and I have it running > here: http://dumpster.pbp.net/~mrtg/spam/ > > However, the count just keeps growing.. I'm not quite sure what to make of > the graphs. :-) Remove 'guage' from the mrtg config. guage is for "curren

Re: [SAtalk] Whitelist for Charlie Root

* Mike Loiterman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My weekly reports from my server are getting tagged as SPAM. How > can I effectively whitelist this without opening up a hole in my > defenses..?? Unless you're using SpamAssassin to do delivery, filter them out before you pass through spamassassin.

Re: [SAtalk] suggestion don't put * * * S P A M * * * in subject

* Rob McMillin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I think he meant that he didn't want to see the *** SPAM *** tag > appear in the Subject: line. What he needs to do is add > > rewrite_subject 0 > > in his user preferences, or the global prefs if he wants this change > system-wide (which I gather is th

Re: [SAtalk] HOWTO Setup Outlook To Work With Spamassassin

* Jeffrey Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've written some documentation > on how to setup Outlook to automatically filter email that's been > identified and marked up by Spamassassin. Can Outlook match on arbitrary headers, such as X-Spam-Status? -

[SAtalk] Small change to NoMailAudit

FreeBSD defaults to /var/mail, and apparantly $MAIL doesn't get set in .forward, so spamassassin fails in delivery mode from there. Oh, and can you please watch your whitespace usage. If you must use spaces (evil), please stick to them. I see stuff like: if (defined $prevhdr) { »···$

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

* Matt Sergeant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Thomas Hurst" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Um, 2.2.* is older than 2.14.* > > > > It's MAJOR.MINOR., not a decimal number. 2 is less than > > 14, hence it's o

Re: [SAtalk] Version Numbering

* Ged Haywood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Donald Greer wrote: > > >So, perhaps the release posted this morning would be "2.0.0"? > > and the devel release "2.1.0"? (or maybe "2.1.2023 -- 2.1.[4-digit Ugh, please no Microsoftish version numbers. One

Re: [SAtalk] Counting the spam filtered

* Charlie Watts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If you're using standard mbox format, you -CAN'T- have lines > beginning with '^From ' in the body - because that is the message > delimiter. Lines that begin with '^From ' in the body of a message > must be escaped by the MDA (typically they are conve

Re: [SAtalk] detecting faked headers pretending to be from Hotmail

* Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > # Hotmail messages have Originating-IP, except mail from abuse/policy. > > :0 Hf > > * ^From:.*@hotmail\.com\> > > * ! ^From:.*\<(postmaster|abuse|policy)@hotmail\.com\> > > * ! ^X-Originating-IP: \[[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\] > > | for

Re: [SAtalk] Scaling problem FreeBSD 4.4

* Justin Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I get on an average 350 open procmail processes at any one time. 'ps ax > > |grep proc | wc -l" > > I need to figure out how to scale this. The machine is a PIII with 512 > > megs in Raid 5 configuration. Ugh. Just a thought, but a more effecient s

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd question

* brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > you mention "up to date" are you inquiring if I run mergemaster and > then add the new users into the master.passwd file? The change to use mailnull for sendmail in FreeBSD was fairly recent, and since not everybody obsessively tracks -STABLE (like me, ahem :)

Re: [SAtalk] Spamd question

* brad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Still running as root: user not specified, not found, or set to root. > Fall back to nobody. > > on a freebsd system should I run it as spamd -u nobody -d ? No, since spamd creates files for autowhitelisting, and nobody shouldn't own files. Assuming you're u