RE: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 2:05 AM > To: SpamAssassin list > Subject: [SAtalk] My rules don't work. > > > Hello, > > Below I include a spam email I got. I have a series of rules > that should > have been act

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-14 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Vivek Khera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: ml.spamassassin-talk To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work. > I was just thinking about PersistentPerl (see CPAN)...

RE: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Gary Funck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 11:27 AM > To: Chris Santerre > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] My rules don't work. > > > > > > > > The Base64 trick that spammers use will NOT look

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-14 Thread Patrick Morris
You can't define rules in user prefs unless you also define the allow_user_rules variable. See the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf man page for reasons why this my not be a good idea. Daniel Carrera wrote: Hello, Below I include a spam email I got. I have a series of rules that should have been ac

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-07 Thread Daniel Carrera
> Send yourself a simple message to test the rules. > > The Base64 trick that spammers use will NOT look at body rules! You may have > recieved one with this trick. Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I've done that already. -- Daniel Carrera | PGP: 6643 8C8B 3522 66CB D16C D779 2FDD 7DAC 9AF7 7A8

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-07 Thread Vivek Khera
> "M" == Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> you'd get the benefit of your own private instance of an SA "daemon" >> which would automagically disappear after a while of no activity. M> If you want to run SA as daemon, run the SA daemon. :) It seems silliness to M> try and daemonize spamassa

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-06 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:27:43PM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > You can't define rules in user prefs unless you also define the > allow_user_rules variable. See the Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf man page > for reasons why this my not be a good idea. HHmm... that's inconvenient. This is what the m

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-06 Thread Vivek Khera
> "TVD" == Theo Van Dinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What is the difference between spamc and spamassassin? Is this the only >> difference? Can I safely replace 'spamc' by 'spamassassin' in my >> .procmailrc? TVD> See "man spamd". But basically, spamc/spamd is much more efficient th

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-05 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:14:25AM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > > So does that mean I'm stuck and there's nothing I can do to configure SA? > > If it's a security hole, I have no expectation that I will be allowed to > > do make

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > So does that mean I'm stuck and there's nothing I can do to configure SA? > If it's a security hole, I have no expectation that I will be allowed to > do make my own rules. So what am I supposed to do? if you run "spamassassin", i

Re: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-05 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:38:11AM -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Aha! So if I modify my .procmailrc file so it uses spamassassin instead of > spamc then it WILL read my rules, right? Yes. > What is the difference between spamc and spamassassin? Is this the only > difference? Can I safely rep

RE: [SAtalk] My rules don't work.

2003-08-05 Thread Gary Funck
Maybe there was a rule parse error on an earlier rule. Try running spamassassin --lint to check the rules, and see it turns up anything. A couple of suggestions: 1. Don't use .* -- it is unbounded and cen be really slow on a long message. Use something line .{0,16}, where the choice of 16 is