Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-28 Thread Rick Beebe
Todd Seeleman wrote: I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all causes other than the spamd process. I've throttled i

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Ex change

2004-01-21 Thread Matt Van Gordon
I recommend you follow one of these guides, they both use SpamAssassin     CREATING A SPAMFILTER RELAY SERVER http://www.geocities.com/scottlhenderson/spamfilter.html  Fairly-Secure Anti-SPAM Gateway Using OpenBSD, Postfix, Amavisd-new, SpamAssassin, Razor and DCC http://www.flakshack.com/a

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange

2004-01-21 Thread Mike Kercher
ECTED] On > Behalf Of Dan Kennedy > Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:03 AM > To: Dustin O Williams; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward > Mail to MS Exchange > > Try MailScanner. That's what we use. It works well for jus

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Exchange

2004-01-21 Thread Dan Kennedy
Try MailScanner. That's what we use. It works well for just relaying mail onto an exchange server. Spamassassin ties into it, and it's pretty easy to configure. http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/ -Original Message- From: Dustin O Williams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesd

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin as a Filter then Forward Mail to MS Ex change

2004-01-21 Thread Paul Hutchings
http://postfix.cnc.bc.ca/twiki/bin/view/Main/SpamAssassinTaggingOnly is what I use with Postfix to do pretty much the same thing. Very simple and it works. regards, Paul -- Paul Hutchings Network Administrator, MIRA Ltd. Tel: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Douglas Kirkland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 20 January 2004 05:06, Marc Morgan wrote: > Hi There, > > I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail is > installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest version, > but had errors wh

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Problems

2004-01-20 Thread Bob Apthorpe
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:28:00 +0200 Marc Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > I have been trying to install spam assassin on my OpenBSD3.1 machine. Qmail > is installed and has been patch with QMAILQUEUE. I installed the latest > version, but had errors when starting spamd or spamas

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin and Outlook Exchange Server

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 14:13:27 2004, Sally Denhart wrote: [Apologies to the list if this has been anwswered already -- I've checked in the archives and can't see a reply to this. I'm a couple of days behind with my mail.] > I just installed Spam Assassin 2.61 on my Solaris 7 box. It > interfaces with

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin - tru64 unix

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Radford
At Wed Jan 14 17:54:19 2004, Todd Seeleman wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm running spamd/spamc v 2.55 on a Compaq DS20 running Tru64 UNIX v > 5.1b. It processes ~ 5,500 pieces of email per day. Every week or so the > system slows to a point where I must reboot. I believe I've eliminated all

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-02 Thread Barry Porter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/10/2003 08:21 Paul Hutchings wrote: > I played with the howto on openandhome, it seems really simple to get > spamassassin up and running on windows, the problem seems to be finding a > Windows MTA that can take an email, pipe it out then re-inj

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-02 Thread Paul Hutchings
: 44 (0)24 7635 5378, Fax: 44 (0)24 7635 8378 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Matt Andreko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 October 2003 19:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32 I'd be very much for this. As much as I like unix, I

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-01 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2003-10-01 13:26:52 -0500, Your Own ISP .com wrote: > Since there seems to be a ton of activity on this list and near zero to do > with SA on Windows, I have created list specific to SpamAssassin on W32 > platforms. Good! Now please all of you who use Outlook, can't quote and send HTML mails pl

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-01 Thread Steve Murphy
Not trying to pick fights, this is not a flame just an IMO. I'm not sure how I feel about Spamassassin porting to Windows. SA is a great example of why Open Source is a superior method of programming. Porting a free binary for Windows seems a little against the spirit of the OS philosophy. However

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-01 Thread Matt Andreko
I'd be very much for this. As much as I like unix, I think that there is a need for this type of technology on the Windows platform as well. Some companies don't use linux because they're not used to it. However they still want anti-spam, and like the spamassassin name, since they have read abo

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-01 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Frank Pineau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32 > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:26, Your Own ISP .com wrote: > > Si

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin for w32

2003-10-01 Thread Frank Pineau
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:26, Your Own ISP .com wrote: > Since there seems to be a ton of activity on this list and near zero > to do with SA on Windows, I have created list specific to SpamAssassin > on W32 platforms. > > > > I searched for this first but did not find anything. I would love to

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin helps make spam

2003-08-27 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BS" == Brian Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> I notice that many recent viruses are using faked return email BS> addresses. BS> Consequently, when one of these infected emails is detected by spam BS> assassin, many systems appear to reply to the fake email address with BS> an "exact"

Re: [SAtalk] Spam assassin rules wiki.

2003-07-27 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello AltGrendel, Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 11:41:34 AM, you wrote: A> Ok, I've seen lots of requests and no responce for a SpamAssassin A> rules wiki. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall any responses saying A> "I have one here". I didn't have one

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin increases a server load and gets it down

2003-07-08 Thread Tony Earnshaw
Alexander Prohorenko wrote: [...] Normally, everything works just fine, though, testing every message gets the server load high, but it's still okay. However, when the link of the server goes down, and mail spool gets 50 or more messages this cause server to stop answering any connectio

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin backed up after weekend

2003-06-16 Thread Tony Earnshaw
s Justin Mason wrote: log cycling. Restart spamd after the logs are cycled. Interesting. This could explain a very recent anomaly with Postfix 2.0.12/amavisd-new 20030314 (for those who don't know, amavisd-new uses SpamAssassin's Perl library instead of spamd.) Whereas I'd never ever had any p

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin backed up after weekend

2003-06-16 Thread Thomas Cameron
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 Subje

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin backed up after weekend

2003-06-16 Thread Justin Mason
Carmine DiMascio said: > Hi everyone > > We've been using spam assassin in production now for 2 weeks. > > Monday morning after both weekends we cease to get mail. > > The only way to get it is to shut down spam assassin, have everyone > download there mail, the once most mail has been downloa

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-18 Thread McClung, Darren W.
lto:johnny@;mail.booksys.com] Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:06 To: Chris Santerre Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer Fine, see if I contribute anymore to the list. The reason I don't want to install it sitewide is not only the concerns I listed about false

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-18 Thread Johnny L. Wales
Fine, see if I contribute anymore to the list. The reason I don't want to install it sitewide is not only the concerns I listed about false-positives, but also because we're a tiny company who can't afford licensing fees for Razor, etc. Anyway, script is hereby public domain. If you don't like it

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-17 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 15:22, Jeremy Turner wrote: > I have been working on installing SpamAssassin site-wide, but wanted to > constrain it to a test group before launching it. I'm also using exim > as my MTA. I created a system filter in exim that said basically if > $recipients contains "[EMAIL

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-17 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 17:49, Colm MacCárthaigh wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:03:18PM -0500, Johnny L. Wales wrote: > > Anyhoo, I wrote a little perl script that takes the name of a user and > > automagically installs SpamAssassin for them. It's not quite ready for > > primetime, but I thought

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-17 Thread Chris Santerre
I was excited, then I saw the script. :) This will install many instances of SA on the system. While it will work, it just doesn't seem right. It would be better to install sitewide and then just customize the calling of SA in users local procmail file. This way you just have to copy the procmail

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin Installer

2002-10-16 Thread Colm MacCárthaigh
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 05:03:18PM -0500, Johnny L. Wales wrote: > Anyhoo, I wrote a little perl script that takes the name of a user and > automagically installs SpamAssassin for them. It's not quite ready for > primetime, but I thought I'd send in what I had and maybe get some > comments on it.

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Weiner
> That's interesting, because I don't use the seekable patch... > > and, my vpopmail v5.2.1 configure settings are simply > ./configure \ > --enable-defaultquota=10485760 \ > --enable-many-domains=n \ > --enable-logging=v > > I'm not quite sure what the seakable patch does, but information found a

RE: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Jeremy Kister
ehalf Of Dave Weiner Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto > With so many people asking how to use spamassassin for Individual users when > you're using qmail and vpopmail, i decided to implement it, and

Re: [SAtalk] spam assassin with vpopmail howto

2002-09-18 Thread Dave Weiner
> With so many people asking how to use spamassassin for Individual users when > you're using qmail and vpopmail, i decided to implement it, and here are the > results: > > # add a user to the domain > > ~vpopmail/bin/vadduser [EMAIL PROTECTED] passwd > > > then you have to decide if you want to d

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-09 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Olivier Nicole wrote: > > > Describe PURE_PROFIT Profit is dirty, not pure. > > I avoid such jokes in French translation, becaus eI am not sure it > would be perceived well by all French speaking communities. Not to mention the impact the joke had here: http://www.talkbiz.com/assassin.html>. -

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi > Describe PURE_PROFIT Profit is dirty, not pure. I avoid such jokes in French translation, becaus eI am not sure it would be perceived well by all French speaking communities. I think that those describe could change when SA become more mature. > However, I do agree that many tests descri

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-06 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On 6 Apr 2002 the voices made Craig Hughes write: > On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 05:21, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > > Easier... h... I dunno, I think most people would find any working non > > CVS-solution easier than having to panic while trying to figure out what the > > heck CVS is. :-) > Well,

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-06 Thread Craig Hughes
Well, ETA for 2.2 is ASAP, so soon you won't have to know what CVS is to get this stuff. C On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 05:21, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote: > Easier... h... I dunno, I think most people would find any working non > CVS-solution easier than having to panic while trying to figure out wha

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-06 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 the voices made Robert Fleming write: > --On Friday, April 5, 2002 6:49 PM +0200 "Tony L. Svanstrom" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumoured to have written: > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 the voices made Chris MacLeod write: > > > >> I want to do something along the lines of dropping ever

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-05 Thread Robert Fleming
--On Friday, April 5, 2002 6:49 PM +0200 "Tony L. Svanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumoured to have written: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 the voices made Chris MacLeod write: > >> I want to do something along the lines of dropping everything over a >> certain score (ex >20) then anything less than that

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Craig Hughes
Well, I don't know about despicable, but certainly it would have been polite for him to contact me before publically badmouthing me and encouraging wide distribution of his misrepresentations about my character and my work. C On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 22:29, Duncan Findlay wrote: > Furthermore, his

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Duncan Findlay
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:27:37PM -0500, Wandrer wrote: > FYI: > > The Mail Killer > In this case the culprit was an alleged spam filter system called "Spam > Assassin." > Any person that recommends this software should be required to re-take > their IQ test, to see if they still have one. > A

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Casimir Couvillion
I'm probably one of those email admins he hates. A couple months ago, our company's execs decided they were tired of getting offers for "vi*gra" and "h*t ho*ny te*ns". I set up spam-assassin to mark and deliver emails. I told the users what we were doing and told them to tell me when email was

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Jay Hodges
Here is a solution to people against spam assassin - rename it to: Mail Analysis Protection Scanner for Kids email Contaminated with Unsolicited Filth People cannot argue against protecting kids from porn and unsolicited mail. (And have lots of fun with the initials) Tongue in Cheekily, Jay Hod

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Smith, Rick
Same here. SA RULES. > -Original Message- > From: Tyler Hardison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:13 PM > To: Nick Fisher; Rose, Bobby; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin > > > On 4/

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-05 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 the voices made Craig R Hughes write: > NB it is possible to have scores >100, in theory. Quite likely in fact if you > use blacklists. > > In theory, communism works, in theory. In theory, anyone using my "code" should be able to copy&paste his way into a solutions if he fi

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Nick Fisher
what to > do with it. > > Tyler. > -Original Message- > From: Tyler Hardison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:13 PM > To: Nick Fisher; Rose, Bobby; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin > > >

Re: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Tyler Hardison
On 4/5/02 12:00 PM, "Nick Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think his rant is realy directed at people who setup SA to automatically > reject/delete mail that hits the threshold score. He doesn't seem to realise > that's not the way your supposed to do it. I might point out that I am the > p

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Nick Fisher
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rose, > Bobby > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin > > > One work... Uninformed. Based on the content of the

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Nick Fisher
Oh dear. Annother so called expert blaming the tools rather than the workmen. If someone has installed SA without propper whitelists and consideration real mail does get blocked. Duh! Don't blame SA for something that an admin did. When I first installed SA all sorts of things were incorrectly tag

RE: [SAtalk] Spam Assassin

2002-04-05 Thread Rose, Bobby
One work... Uninformed. Based on the content of the e-rag, he has issues far beyond SA. My impression is that the various spam software being used by systems is either outright refusing his e-rag or in SA's case tagging it. Maybe his email address should become a spamtroll address ;-) -O

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-05 Thread Craig R Hughes
ECTED] > To: Chris MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 the voices made Chris MacLeod write: > > > I want to do something along

Re: [SAtalk] spam-assassin & procmail

2002-04-05 Thread Tony L. Svanstrom
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002 the voices made Chris MacLeod write: > I want to do something along the lines of dropping everything over a > certain score (ex >20) then anything less than that but still over my spam > threshold putting it into a separate folder to go through later. (Consider this pseudo-co