RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil.cf 2.06f problems

2004-01-09 Thread Kurt Buff
That's why I love Putty! I just use the paste function in vi to update the .cf files - works like a charm. |-Original Message- |From: Chris Santerre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 07:06 |To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subje

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil.cf 2.06f problems

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell Mann wrote: >> I did a lynx -dump > >> /etc/mail/spamassassin/bigevil.cf. Hrmm...are there any special >> requirements above and beyond what SA requires? >> >> - -- >> Mike Loiterman >

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil.cf 2.06f problems

2004-01-09 Thread Russell Mann
> I did a lynx -dump > > /etc/mail/spamassassin/bigevil.cf. Hrmm...are there any special > requirements above and beyond what SA requires? > > - -- > Mike Loiterman Do a wget on the file, because lynx wraps lines on you. -Russell ---

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil.cf 2.06f problems

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Loiterman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Santerre wrote: > How did you download the file? Did you go from a windows machine to > a *nix server? If there was a problem with this file, I would have > heard about it real fast :) I did a lynx -dump > /etc/mail

RE: [SAtalk] Bigevil.cf 2.06f problems

2004-01-09 Thread Chris Santerre
How did you download the file? Did you go from a windows machine to a *nix server? If there was a problem with this file, I would have heard about it real fast :) You might have PC characters in it if you d/l'd it from a PC. Try using TextPad to save it in unix format. HTH, --Chris > -Orig

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf working or not

2004-01-06 Thread Gary Smith
Brian, I thought we already answered that question... Mail headers will look something like: X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on vjo-lxutil-07.primeexalia.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=8.6 required=4.0 tests=BigEvilList_1

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Ed Kasky
At 4:01pm -0600 1/5/04, David B Funk wrote: On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ed Kasky wrote: > Any other way to monitor the file's effectiveness? Ed Create a simple test mail message that contains a URL fabricated using any one of the hosts listed in BigEvil.cf. Feed the test message to "spamc -R" and look

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread David B Funk
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Ed Kasky wrote: > At 08:56 AM Monday, 1/5/2004, Tom Meunier wrote -=> > > With bigevil.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin, all I see that remotely relates > to the file is the following: > > spamd[22495]: debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir > spamd[22495]

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Ed Kasky
Found a few... 3.0 BigEvilList_192URI: Generated BigEvilList_192 Thanks! Ed . . . . . . . . "We made too many wrong mistakes." -- Yogi Berra, 1960 At 10:46 AM Monday, 1/5/2004, Gary Smith wrote -=> Wait for a while to get some spams. Then check the log file. Also, check the h

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Gary Smith
Generated BigEvilList_192 * 3.0 BigEvilList_187 URI: Generated BigEvilList_187 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ed Kasky Sent: Mon 1/5/2004 10:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [SAtalk]

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Ed Kasky
At 08:56 AM Monday, 1/5/2004, Tom Meunier wrote -=> With bigevil.cf in /etc/mail/spamassassin, all I see that remotely relates to the file is the following: spamd[22495]: debug: using "/usr/share/spamassassin" for default rules dir spamd[22495]: debug: using "/etc/mail/spamassassin" for site r

RE: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Tom Meunier
Start spamd with -D debug options and then tail -f /var/log/maillog |grep -i bigevil > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of SAtalk Mail User > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 11:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] BigEvil.c

Re: [SAtalk] BigEvil.cf

2004-01-05 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:03:45AM -0600, SAtalk Mail User wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to this list and have a question in regards to bigevil.cf and > other .cf files. From the reading I noticed that all you need to do > is to put the bigevil.cf in the /etc/mail/spamassassin directory and t

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf

2003-12-22 Thread Rubin Bennett
That's correct. Rubin On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 17:59, Eric Six wrote: > According to what I have read, all you have to do is drop bigevil.cf into > /etc/mail/spamassassin and restart spamd. Is that correct or do I need to make any > configuration changes to tell SA to use this cf file? > > TIA > E

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-08 Thread Kurt Buff
00:14 |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of | | |-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |Hash: SHA1 | |On 07/12/2003 02:01, Gary Smith wrote: | |> There are some freeware dll's that you can use to do the FTP/wget so |you don't have to

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-07 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi, > Peter, if your still listening what character set are you running? Sorry, been away for the weekend. I was using my SquirrelMail at the time for posting so not sure. It should have just been plain text! -- Regards, +-+-+ | Pete

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-07 Thread Chris Thielen
Chris Thielen said: > Barry, > http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html > should link you to > ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/windows/ > where you can snag win32 binaries for wget Just ignore me... I shouldn't have jumped in and posted without reading the whole thread. Sorry! -- Chris Thielen

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-07 Thread Chris Thielen
Barry Porter said: > I have done a google for both recode and wget as dll's but have come up > with nothing other than a virus warning about wget.dll being used in an > irc flood virus. Barry, http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html should link you to ftp://sunsite.dk/projects/wget/windows/ whe

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-07 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/12/2003 02:01, Gary Smith wrote: > There are some freeware dll's that you can use to do the FTP/wget so you don't have to do the shell. I don't see where you restart/reload the service??? I have done a google for both recode and wget as dll's

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-06 Thread Gary Smith
ent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of All this unix/linux stuff is great and one day I might get round to setting up a mail server on linux. At the moment I am running Mercury/32 on Windows

Re: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? - Windows version - sort of

2003-12-06 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/2003 00:50, Gary Smith wrote: > I'm actually a windows guy who has been converting to linux for some time so my scripting is rusty and primitive (cause that's what I know) but it works. > > This came from my /etc/cron.hourly/bigevil.sh file.

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-06 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 10:19 AM 12/5/2003, Chris Santerre wrote: All of Gary's posts read: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" And the digest is sent just as "text/plain" (is the default for email ASCII or ISO-8859-1?). AFAIK, simply recasting UTF-8 as ASCII should only cause problems for two-byte ch

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Gary Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? > > > Thanks for the script Gary/Peter. I've cleaned things up and > here is what I > put t

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Santerre
Nice! It should be said that this script contains a restart function that ONLY works with SA 2.60 and up! :) --Chris > -Original Message- > From: Smart,Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAt

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Smart,Dan
How would you run a spamassassin --lint to check if the file is ok before sending the mail and restarting? Ideas? <> | -Original Message- | From: Smart,Dan | Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 3:21 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? | | Than

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Smart,Dan
Thanks for the script Gary/Peter. I've cleaned things up and here is what I put together: #!/bin/sh ## This file updates the big evil policy file for spam assassin DATE=`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"` [ -f /tmp/bigevil.cf ] && rm -f /tmp/bigevil.cf wget -N http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
OK, I can confirm that switching from the plain-text digest to the MIME digest appears to have solved the problem. Gary, your last post was legible in the latest digest. Kelson Vibber SpeedGate Communications --- This SF.net email is spon

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 10:27 AM 12/5/2003, Gary Smith wrote: I use outlook web access at work and that has been set to default to plain unless it comes in encoded. When I get home at home I use outlook and if it comes in using anything other than plain text it has a tendency to mangle. The copy of this I got direct

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Gary Smith
2/5/2003 10:19 AM To: 'Kelson Vibber'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? All of Gary's posts read: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Chris Santerre
All of Gary's posts read: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" ?? --Chris Santerre > -Original Message- > From: Kelson Vibber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: R

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-05 Thread Kelson Vibber
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RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Gary Smith
5:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync? So how are you getting this cf to be included with local.cf without combining? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Smith Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:50

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Rose, Bobby
So how are you getting this cf to be included with local.cf without combining? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Smith Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 7:50 PM To: Peter Kiem; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Peter Kiem
> Thanks, > > I learn something new every day. That's what mailing lists are about. And thank you for your script. Very helpful :) -- Regards, +-+-+ | Peter Kiem.^. | E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Zordah IT

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Gary Smith
Thanks, I learn something new every day. Gary -Original Message- From: Peter Kiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 12/4/2003 5:02 PM To: Gary Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Gary, > I'm actually a windows guy who has been converting to linux for some time > so my scripting is rusty and primitive (cause that's what I know) but it > works. I have similar scripts but with rsync. Forgot all about wget :) D'oh! Hope you don't mind some scripting tips? > if [ -f big

RE: [SAtalk] bigevil.cf + rsync?

2003-12-04 Thread Gary Smith
I'm actually a windows guy who has been converting to linux for some time so my scripting is rusty and primitive (cause that's what I know) but it works. This came from my /etc/cron.hourly/bigevil.sh file. #!/bin/sh # This file updates the big evil policy file for spam assassin DATE=`date +"%Y